Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having worked with B2B marketers for many years, it's typically a no-brainer when someone asks me "should we implement lead scoring?". Lead scoring, which is the process of automating the qualification of leads that you generate, is a key stepping stone to get marketers to the next level.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 18, 2007

Automation of Direct Mail is the Key If you're a smaller business and you get minimal leads, this is typically a non-issue. You are typically happy to get the leads and you can do this fulfillment yourself. Chad H Tags: direct mail for lead generation. You can also manually decide if the order is worth fulfilling.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 26, 2007

Lead qualification: There are two benefits here. In order to leave comments, you could add some additional lead qualification questions to the registration process. In addition, if your organization gets its share of leads, you can use newsletter comments to help in the lead qualification process.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

This doesn’t just mean the pipeline influenced from a lead nurturing program but also can mean the effectiveness of lead scoring to the sales team. EE09 #Eloqua JenPumpItUp : Session tip: How good is your lead scoring program? EE09 rhonda : #EE09 marketers shld work w/ the sales team to help define a qualified lead for scoring.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2009

While some marketing teams are facing cut backs and spending freezes or reductions, they still need to hit their goals which may include generating X number of leads, Y amount of influenced pipeline and/or Z amount of influenced sales. While many may label this as “lead nurturing”, it goes well beyond lead nurturing.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

It's been proven that archived webinars can generate more leads then the actual live event. Reuse all of your marketing materials in your lead nurturing efforts. Having the right content for automated lead nurturing programs can be the most difficult part of a lead nurturing campaign. Reuse (and abuse) your whole company.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2008

It lets you know if these "inactive" contacts are still alive if you get a response and you can use the opportunity to ask these people additional lead qualification questions to round out their profiles. This does a few things. With this additional information, you can target these people accordingly.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

See the full article at BtoBOnline Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers report that Search continues to lead that growth, accounting for 40% of total online advertising revenue in the first half. I've also seen others use search queries as part of an automated lead qualification process. You Searched.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2007

This article may give you some additional information that you didn't have but it's not going to make your sales team start using the CRM properly or get marketing to only pass on qualified leads to sales. I highly recommend Brian's Lead Generation Blog. It's time to get a grip and at least know that you are not alone.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2006

You can do any one of the following things (and some of my own): Send a special offer for new subscribers Send a request for additional contact information for a mail-in offer Ask for additional lead qualification questions - eg: age, sex, purchase time frame, annual revenue (depends on whether it's B2B or B2C).

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

This type of personalization leads to a much stronger and smoother hand-0ff process between the marketing and sales teams which I described in my last post " Lead Management and Football ". Using this technique demonstrates that marketing is at the top of their game. What is important is to provide content that is relevant.

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