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Lead Nurturing Explained: 3 Tips to Increase Qualified Leads

Hubspot

" Lead Nurturing " sometimes goes by other names: marketing automation, drip marketing, auto-responders, etc. Simply put, lead nurturing is a system that allows you to send an automated series of emails to an early stage lead in order to pre-qualify them before handing them over to your sales team.

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Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads

Industrial Marketing Today

I’ve also read articles by other industrial marketers where they recommend using free content to generate new leads. That is good advice and it is a proven tactic for inbound marketing. However, I do have a problem with classifying these new subscribers as leads.

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How to Tackle Your 5 Toughest Email Marketing Challenges

Hubspot

In its 2012 Email Marketing Benchmark Report , MarketingSherpa surveyed 2,735 companies and asked them to rank the significance of 12 common email marketing challenges. The best inbound marketers like to amass valuable data across their different channels. Solution: Nurture Your Leads.