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5 do’s & don’ts of B2B lead qualification

Biznology

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. The first level targeting matrix is industry code (SIC or NAICS) and company size.

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6 Content Marketing Tips That Drives Leads

Marketing Insider Group

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. Stay away from arbitrary boundaries like SIC codes and Revenue range or employee size. Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products.

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5 Best practices of trade show lead qualification

Biznology

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. This is particularly true for trade show marketers as the primary reason for exhibiting at shows is lead generation, not qualification. That’s the trade show clutter problem marketers’ face.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Closing the loop to improve lead generation performance

markempa

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Their initial target database was comprised of 2000 product driven companies across 20 unique SIC codes.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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5 B2B data trends

Biznology

This has lead to 5 significant trends in B2B database marketing. In most B2B firms there are at least four data silos – transactional, sales, marketing, and customer service. Take marketing for example; it is common to find lead generation, outbound telemarketing, trade show, and inbound lists all in separate software systems.

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