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When You’re Focused on Upstream, What do You Measure?

Vision Edge Marketing

Measures such as open and clickthrough rates, website traffic, Marketing generated qualified leads, and qualified lead-to-deal ratio are examples of downstream measures. You can use the SIC database to determine the total number of mid-market companies who meet these criteria, and data for the average run rate for this type of widget.

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What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead. Define what a lead is. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. Who are we selling it to?

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Building Your B2B Marketing Database

Biznology

SIC or NAICS. Qualification questions (from lead qualification processes). Database marketing companies will sell you data elements that may be missing, most important among these being industry (in the form of SIC or NAICs codes), company size (revenue or number of employees, or both) and title or job function of contacts.

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

Everything Technology Marketing

The biggest segmentation error that people make is to start with the "who" or "what" and segmenting the market using criteria such as industry verticals, company size or geography and other dimensions because this data is easy to gather. Let's take a closer look at actual implementation of market segmentation. Regulatory drivers?

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How to Barrel Through the Latest SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall

SWZD

Target the best fitting audience segments through your brand awareness and top-of-funnel lead generation efforts, and you will open great opportunities – and close bigger, better deals – later. SiriusDecisions organizes the Demand Unit Waterfall in multiple vertical stages (see image). Start off on the right foot!

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List Buying: 6 tips for buying the most effective lead list

markempa

Industry vertical, including common keywords that identify the companies and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industrial Classification (NAICS). This doesn’t work well for ongoing lead generation. This information is what you need to paint the picture of your ideal customer. Number of employees.

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Do Psychographics work in B2B Marketing & Sales?

Online Marketing Institute

I see an over-reliance by B2B marketers on industry classifications (SIC, NAICS, NACE, etc.) A CEO/President of a $50m company doesn’t think of his/her business as ‘small’ – they may see the company an innovative market leader in their vertical industry and market.