LeadSloth

AUGUST 11, 2010

While doing research for my upcoming webinar on creating content that converts , I found many great articles on B2B Content Marketing. Joe Pulizzi, What is Content Marketing? Michele Linn, A 7-Step Plan for Getting Started with Content Marketing. Doug Kessler, The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. Content Planning.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Almost 30 people showed up for the first two Marketing Automation Monday meetups in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The topics for these meetings was drip campaigns and lead nurturing. Segmentation on Lead Source and Search Keywords. Also, lead source can give valuable clues to the desired length of the nurturing process.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Monday and Tuesday I’m attending the Boston MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit. In this post some thoughts about the program… First of all, the best thing about this event is that the speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors. Lead Management. The Marketing Automation Vendors. Lead Management.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 30, 2009

As a response to my posts 7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail and Marketing Automation ROI , several people mentioned that the benefits of Marketing Automation are not just increased sales. Marketing Automation Increases Revenue. Marketing influenced pipeline. Marketing Automation & Efficiency.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Would you like to meet up with fellow Marketing Automation professionals to exchange tips and best practices? Join us at Marketing Automation Monday for an informal panel discussion on using drip marketing to find more qualified leads and for networking with other like-minded marketers. Lead Nurturing.

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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

On Saturday I presented a session about B2B Marketing Analytics at AnalyticsCamp in Chapel Hill ( slides here ). My specialty is Marketing Automation, but Analytics and Reporting come up in pretty much any project I do. So it’s no wonder that marketers who believe in automation also want to see reports on marketing performance.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 26, 2010

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. I asked myself: Does Marketing Automation Get Social? How can Social Media be integrated with Marketing Automation? Lead Intelligence. Lead Intelligence. Collaboration.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2009

Needless to say, Marketing Automation software is very popular today. It can be used for email campaigns, drip marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, landing page management and for brewing coffee. It is often positioned as something that will solve all your marketing problems for a couple of thousand dollars per month.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

is the question I get asked most by attendees of the MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit in San Francisco. Marketing Automation is still very new for many companies, and it’s not immediately obvious how you can get started step-by-step. For example, focus on a particular product or market segment with a high value.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 17, 2010

This Tuesday (June 22nd) I’m presenting a webinar on the 7 steps to finding untapped revenue in your marketing database. Do you have many leads in your database who have never been followed up on? Attend this webinar to learn how to generate additional revenue from your existing leads. gotomeeting.com/register/594743683.

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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

This is the first of three posts for the Silverpop B2B Marketing University , March 3rd in Washington DC. I will be speaking about Marketing Automation features, the marketing technology ecosystem, and the impact of Social Media. Lead Generation. Lead Nurturing. Lead Intelligence. Customer Support.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 23, 2010

Just like last year, I will be a blogging partner for MarketingSherpa's B2B Marketing Summit. Again, they have created a great program for B2B Marketers, covering both lead generation and lead nurturing strategies. What is nice about this summit is that most speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors.

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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

What are the key events to attend when you’d like to learn more about B2B Marketing, Marketing Automation, Lead Management? I’ve compiled a list of the events that matter: B2B Marketing Events for 2010. Some featured events: Silverpop B2B Marketing University. Sales & Marketing 2.0

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are certainly a lot of capabilities within marketing automation. Below are some of the best practices we have found within our customer base that helped drive success with marketing automation. Improve Lead Interaction with Good Segmentation. Optimize Lead Nurturing Through Personalized and Relevant Communications.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 18, 2010

I’ve recorded an introductory video on lead nurturing and how it can turn more raw leads into qualified leads. Effective lead nurturing will prevent prospects from falling out of the funnel before they are ready to talk to a sales person. If you’d like to attend the webinar, please register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/594743683.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 22, 2009

I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. In the early days it was used to sift through hundreds of new B2B leads per day to identify the valuable leads. Smart or foolish?

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 10, 2010

Today Genius.com announced a free version of their Marketing Automation system. Only about a month ago, Loopfuse also started offering a free version of their Marketing Automation system. What does this mean for companies interested in adopting Marketing Automation? But the overall impact on the market will be limited.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The past two days I attended the Pardot User Conference , and also presented a session on Lead Nurturing. The sessions were about lead management, lead nurturing, content marketing, social media and Pardot product sessions. Marketing Automation User Conferences. And that’s impressive. Pardot’s Secret.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 24, 2009

Please send me your favorite blogs, because there must be lots of great Marketing Automation blogs that I haven’t found yet! BTW 1: Some of these blogs are more about lead generation, demand generation or inbound marketing, so maybe the title of this blog post is not ideal. Like no other he understands B2B lead generation.

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LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of Marketing Automation. Deduplication.

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LeadSloth

JULY 8, 2009

Many posts on this blog are fairly in-depth, so it was fun to write an introduction to Marketing Automation on the Genius.com blog. For easy digestion, I split up the marketing automation process in four steps: Getting more visitors to your website. Lead nurturing and scoring. Marketing & Sales Collaboration.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? What if you prefer Microsoft CRM, but you also want to have a choice of Marketing Automation systems?

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

LeadSloth Marketing Automation Blog – Survey Results. Marketing Automation Best Practices. Lead Nurturing / Drip campaigns. And the last topic “Social Media” confirmed my gut feeling that Social Media is hotter than Inbound Marketing and Search Marketing (which were hardly mentioned by the respondents).

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Even though some vendors have been around for almost 10 years, Marketing Automation is still relatively new. According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Increasingly, B2B companies realize that Marketing Automation software requires skilled operators. Email Marketing.

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LeadSloth

JULY 22, 2009

The newest term on the block is “Inbound Marketing&#. I’ve already written several posts about Inbound Marketing, but I wondered if the average B2B marketing manager has any idea what it means. So I created a non-scientific poll on LinkedIn asking: “Do you use Inbound Marketing for B2B Lead Generation?&#.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 7, 2010

This week there are a couple of interesting Lead Management events, so I thought I’d share them with you in a short blog post: Hubspot Show & Tell , new features including lead management, June 8th (tomorrow). MarketingSherpa Lead Management webinar , June 10th (sponsored by Eloqua). MarketingSherpa Lead Management Webinar.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

At this week’s Marketo Summit , I realized we’re right in the middle of B2B Marketing Event Season. MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit was last week, Pardot’s user conference was 2 weeks ago, and the Eloqua Experience is coming up next week. Forrester Lead Management Overview. Global Marketo Roll-Out.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 5, 2010

DemandBase has just announced a webinar series called B2B Marketing Best Practices that Need to Die (I will present one of the sessions). Today, I’m working on my presentation for Monday’s lead nurturing webinar 7 steps to finding untapped revenue in your marketing database , where I’m presenting real best practices.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 4, 2009

Lead Source Measurement Needs Improvement. There are two big limitations for using this in B2B marketing: You can only see conversions, not opportunities or revenue (because that information is in the CRM system). Marketing Automation to Measure End-to-End ROI. How would you use this lead source tracking tool?

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LeadSloth

JULY 23, 2010

This will dramatically increase the effectiveness of your lead nurturing campaigns. Tags: lead management marketing automation. Segmentation of your database and development of personas allow you to develop the right messages, content and offers. Register Here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/173608818.

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LeadSloth

JULY 12, 2010

UPDATED REVIEW: My earlier review of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing software was more than 1 year old and the software has evolved a lot: time for an update! Marketing departments at mid-size companies. Both groups will use HubSpot to generate more inbound leads, but they have vastly different requirements. Small Businesses.

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LeadSloth

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Most readers of this blog will know that I’m passionate about Marketing Automation and Lead Management. As a consultant, I really enjoy helping organizations optimize their Marketing Automation efforts using the latest techniques and best practices. However, I found that being an independent consultant has its challenges.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 2, 2010

This Wednesday I’m presenting a webinar called “Search and Rescue&# for your lead database , hosted by Loopfuse. It presents a 7-step process to generate revenue from existing leads, who were previously assumed “lost&#. Part of this process is assessing the value of your existing leads.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 31, 2010

Lead Nurturing depends on great content. You really need to understand direct response marketing, but apply it to the email medium. Most copywriters focus on whitepapers and press releases, fewer copywriters are good at direct marketing, and even fewer can apply direct marketing best practices to email marketing.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. It can also integrate with Salesforce Web-to-Lead forms. Email marketing. Marketing & Web Analytics.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 11, 2009

To generate demand for your products, it’s not enough to nurture the existing leads in your database. You also need a steady stream of fresh leads coming in. There are many ways to find these new leads: inbound marketing, search advertising, tradeshows, lead programs, etc.

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