Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

B2B marketers understand the importance of qualifying a lead before it goes to a sales person, but sometimes the qualification process can get tricky. Today, most established companies assign the qualification role to an SDR, or sales development rep, a dedicated function that has one foot in sales and one in marketing.

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Biznology

JANUARY 15, 2018

Here’s your briefings on how to use this to take the lead: the briefings below guide you in acquiring customers and markets from slower competitors. Then you can scale proven advances to capture the first mass markets. Briefings on how to accelerate and take the lead. When do you want to make yourself the leader?

Digital Transformation 178

Digital Transformation Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 178

Biznology

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

It is no longer possible to project yesterday’s trends to lead markets tomorrow. To take the lead, publishers can now change tech’s paradigm: People come first, and their lives and businesses are advanced everywhere. A global advance: Lead markets with a people-first Digital Economy.

Marketing Management 149

Marketing Management Lead Ranking Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency 149

Biznology

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Indeed, sales people looking to reconnect with an old lead, prospect, or client need to understand the delicate art of second engagement. To that end, here’s a look at how professionals can make the second time the charm when they encounter an old lead: Don’t “Disconnect” in the First Place. Personalize. Compare and Contrast.

Marketing Qualified Leads 142

Marketing Qualified Leads Leads Lead B2B Sales 142

Biznology

MARCH 2, 2021

As if the e-commerce market wasn’t growing fast enough in recent years, during the pandemic it has reached unprecedented heights. The current momentum will see e-commerce continue to grow and build market value rapidly in 2021 and the years to come. Without a doubt, the pandemic is reshaping the business sector in a very big way. .

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The smartest paradigm: the “visible hand of the market”. The market value of each gap is estimated, and used to rank each investment opportunity. The purple turns these into products and services that are marketed using an active knowledge marketing channel that is embedded inside of tasks and steps as users do them.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Leads Lead 196

Biznology

MARCH 13, 2017

The world has become increasingly busy leading to an explosion in demand for content that can be consumed quickly and efficiently. Couple this with the growing popularity of photo-sharing platforms such as Instagram and the result is a lead generation process that has undergone a fundamental shift. Images which demonstrate benefit.

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Biznology

JULY 9, 2019

Collecting information about website visitors, a standard practice in B2B marketing, is now becoming available to consumer marketers. Using VIG, site owners can now capture the contact information of as much as 45% of their visitors, for analysis and ongoing marketing communications. KVD: Yes, this data is really valuable.

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Marketing Websites Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 149

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Number One rule in B2B marketing: Never, ever, pass an unqualified lead to your sales force. Because they’ll hate you in the morning… But seriously, if the role of B2B marketing is to provide leverage to sales, then burdening a sales rep with a prospect who is not a realistic potential buyer is no help.

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Biznology

MAY 18, 2017

Here’s some reality: you’re not going to generate many leads this way , and you’re missing a big opportunity–especially on LinkedIn. Why brand maintenance doesn’t generate leads. In most cases, unless you already have an enormous following and probably don’t need a social media lead generation program, this just isn’t true.

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Social Media Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 143

Biznology

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Dominance: reduce Google ’s surveillance and personal targeting of everyone, reduce Amazon’ s capture of customer relationships from leading companies. It adds an invisible embedded marketing channel. Entire new markets and types of businesses will open: Companies will want all their employees to be the best they can be.

Marketing AI 163

Marketing AI Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 163

Biznology

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When these fundamental technologies change, that can change the leading companies. The 20th century was governed by mass market products. Mass market communication was used to sell these to everyone. Their new digital infrastructure is replacing leading companies in industries like publishing, media, retailing and products.

Marketing Automation Services 156

Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 156

Biznology

AUGUST 2, 2021

The yawning gulf between sales and marketing is a fact of life in B2B companies. We grab onto new strategies like account based marketing (ABM) in the hope that this will be, at last, where the two functions will finally work together in harmony. Sales without marketing… marketing without sales… the truth is that B2B firms need both.

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B2B Sales Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing Cost per Lead 197

Biznology

OCTOBER 2, 2017

I fancy myself a pretty good marketer and I know that I have a lot to teach. But I couldn’t survive without working with millennial marketers who are teaching me. And that leads me to my best piece of advice for dealing with millennials. I need to understand new technologies and how people are using them. Like this post?

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Biznology

JULY 12, 2017

In the Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business , Chet Holmes mentions that only 3% of your target market is ready to buy, 7% of your target market is open to buying but not looking, 30% of your market is comfortable with the status quo and 30% of your market believes they aren’t interested.

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Sales Management Linkedin Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 145

Biznology

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Always on the lookout for new ways to identify prospects and generate leads in business markets? This year I’ve come across a handful of services and tools that demonstrate and welcome creativity and innovative by using digital marketing. Full-service lead gen and qualification agencies are abound, but here’s a new twist.

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Marketing Prospects B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 189

Biznology

JULY 7, 2021

Which is exactly what B2B marketers need: zero waste and clear accountability. Many B2B marketers have historically avoided broadcast advertising, due to the big buys required, and the enormous waste. As work-from-home has grown, B2B marketers understand that they need to be wherever their prospects and customers are.

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Advertisements Advertising Multi-Touch Attribution B2B Marketing 171

Biznology

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I really do think you’ll find my thoughts below to be incredibly valuable to making your marketing more successful. Marketing Is About Them, Not You. You may think that the secret to successful marketing is making it clear how great you are and how incredible whatever you’re o? Marketing Must Relate to You.

Lead Ranking 160

Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Prospects Lead Scoring 160

Biznology

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On the marketing privacy and security front in 2022, things are going to get worse – and better. Progress isn’t always positive, but it is relentless and there are always people and organizations pushing to make that progress beneficial to consumers and marketers alike. That’s just the way technology seems to march forward.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are there any bad marketing metrics? The real question is how to identify good marketing metrics from bad. The visits to your website from your coding team aren’t moving the marketing needle … We’ll revisit the idea of bad data in a later article, but let’s get back to the metrics and telling good metrics from bad for now.

Advertising Agencies 197

Advertising Agencies Vendors Marketing Lead Scoring 197

Biznology

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A couple of years ago, a client told me he was having some lead quality problems. The company had contracted with a major IT publisher for a webcast that guaranteed 150 leads. But the leads weren’t panning out; the quality was terrible and salespeople were pointing the finger at marketing. Ninety-nine percent.

Lead Generation 80

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 80

Biznology

JULY 31, 2015

Lead qualification is one of the primary jobs for B2B marketers, and a great deal of time and money is spent on this step of the sales cycle. Now that I’ve stated the obvious, I see both good and bad lead qualification processes in the market. Which leads me to 5 Do’s and Don’ts of B2B lead qualification.

Lead Qualification 80

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 80

Biznology

JULY 5, 2018

If you are in marketing, you are used to handing off your leads to the sales team and hearing two complaints back: First, the leads are no good. Such is the relationship between sales and marketing. The truth is that marketing sometimes can seem useless. Second, there aren’t enough of them. More is better.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads MQL 156

Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification. Speed Kills The Competition.

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Trade Show Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 80

Biznology

JUNE 3, 2020

I reached out to my longtime colleague and friend Roger McDonald , a seasoned sales and marketing executive and thoughtful observer of things B2B, to gather up his views on what’s going on and how we B2B marketers should be thinking. How do you see Covid-19 changing the nature of B2B sales and marketing going forward?

B2B Marketing 166

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership B2B Marketing Management 166

Biznology

MAY 6, 2020

We B2B marketers had our plans all worked out. We knew exactly what tactics we were going to use and even had an idea of how many leads they would bring in. If you do somehow scrounge up a genuine lead, your face-to-face salesforce cannot go on site to glad-hand the potential new customer. We need to reach those customers.

B2B Marketing 186

B2B Marketing Planning B2B Trade Show 186

Biznology

OCTOBER 27, 2017

There are so many great new techniques in B2B marketing today, it’s hard to keep up. A technique unavailable to consumer marketers, this one’s extremely valuable for B2B. And its cost is going down, as more marketing automation systems bake the functionality into their systems. Upgrade your lead qualification.

Account Based Marketing 207

Account Based Marketing Tactics B2B Marketing Lead Qualification 207

Biznology

MARCH 21, 2022

And that gets right to the heart of the problem with privacy issues in marketing. A lead gen specialist I knew left the field and bought a motel. That creates problems even for those marketers who try to stay on the right side of privacy laws. Interestingly, I’ve had marketers tell me they’re OK with this.

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Transparency Trust Marketing Privacy Terms and Conditions 163

Biznology

MARCH 23, 2018

I’ve been noticing some ironies in the world of B2B marketing lately; you know what I mean. Hubspot preaches inbound marketing as a mantra, right? The result: you get higher quality prospects, with higher conversion rates and at lower cost than traditional outbound marketing. But guess what? Kudos to them. Like this post?

B2B Marketing 190

B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Opt-out 190

Biznology

AUGUST 25, 2017

The post 4 leading edge business technologies every business needs to be successful appeared first on Biznology. While none of the above business technologies are magic wands or silver bullets, they can certainly help you enjoy many profitable days and sleep-filled nights! Like this post? Sign up for our emails here.

Enterprise Management 144

Enterprise Management CMS Development Work Management Marketing Management 144

Biznology

MAY 17, 2021

Oh, to live in the world of B2C marketing, where you can easily draw a line directly from your marketing work to the revenue generated. Sure, it’s helpful that there’s a “buy” button at the end of the marketing process much more often in B2C sales than in B2B. I’m kidding, of course. Here are a few to consider.

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Top of Funnel Effectiveness Content Marketing Planning 104

Biznology

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Email marketing automation is when you set up for your business automated emails and drip campaigns that will go out to your clients when they take certain actions in regards to your business. This makes sure that day and night you can follow up on any lead to increase conversions to paying customers. The Lead Nurturing Email.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Email Marketing Automation 171

Biznology

OCTOBER 28, 2015

When planning a B2B lead generation program, you need to deliver leads to your sales team at an affordable price. A neat way to determine in advance how much you can spend on a lead is to calculate the Allowable Cost per Lead for your campaign. Then, estimate the costs associated with qualifying a lead.

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Sales Qualified Leads Cost per Lead Sales Leads Leads 80

Biznology

JUNE 30, 2021

The role that marketing plays in a company has evolved significantly in recent years, and has led to a significant shift in the role of the chief marketing officer as well. A CMO takes care of your company’s customer-centricity, which leads to measurable business results. Empower your CMO to do the job.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a B2B digital marketing forum hosted by The Conference Board and led by Mike Moran and Tim Peter. The lively discussion covered a lot of ground, reflecting the needs of marketing executives striving to do digital well. Digital is a different animal from traditional marketing.

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Advertising Agencies 187

Biznology

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As marketers, it should go without saying, we have to assure our clients and prospects that we are not one of the bad guys, that our practices are on the up-and-up. The post Protecting Marketing Data and Audience Trust appeared first on Biznology. Those decisions flow from the top down.

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Trust Marketing Planning Privacy Paid Search Agency 104

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

For years businesses have been dividing their marketing strategies based on a number of factors. However, the most effective content marketers understand how to link their various efforts to form one, cohesive strategy. Experienced professionals recognize that when you reach a lead is often as important as how you engage with them.

Marketing & Strategy 126

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