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Customer Intelligence: The Hidden Power of Interactive Content

The ROI Guy

You download that white paper, and because it’s gated, you’re required to fill out a lead capture form – your name, email address, Company, title, location, phone number, name of first born…Worse, you know you’re immediately going to get that lame phone call or email follow-up: “I see you downloaded our white paper, want to talk?”.

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Lead Nurturing for Higher Education: Best Practices

NuSpark Consulting

Marketing automation is a strategy often associated and aligned with a variety of software platforms that aim to aid in the process of developing leads at the top part of your funnel. Drip campaigns are another type of automated marketing effort that provides a predictable means of marketing automation and lead maturation.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.