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Using E-mail Marketing for Lead Generation

Industrial Marketing Today

It has been my experience within the industrial sector that these companies rarely use email marketing proactively for lead generation. To me, those contacts are prospects and not leads. For more on that, refer to my post, “Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads.”. There is a difference. How about free?

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More Than Just Email Marketing: What Is Marketing Automation?

TrustRadius Marketing

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? Automated marketing began with the “email”.

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How to Market Your Business on a Zero (or Small) Marketing Budget

GreenRope

Blogs are great for SEO , thought leadership, lead generation, lead nurturing, and your internal linking strategy. However, don’t think that just scribbling something down and posting it on your blog is going to generate the results you want. Email marketing takes on many forms. Auto-responders.

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CRM and marketing automation: The challenges and benefits of integration

Martech

Customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAPs) are two of the foundational elements of modern martech stacks. Marketing automation platforms help operationalize data on prospects and customers.

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Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads

Industrial Marketing Today

Visitors who sign up to download your white papers, eBooks and other free content definitely grow your list of contacts but calling them leads without taking the next step is premature at best if not a costly mistake. Developing an effective scoring system requires marketing to work closely with sales. Timeframe.

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10 Best Email Apps for Small Business Owners

Webbiquity

Drip is a fantastic, smart email marketing platform used by eCommerce vendors, bloggers, and marketers. Drip offers many powerful tools for intelligent marketing automation, email list segmenting, list groups, and specific audience targeting. It’s great for managing auto-responders and marketing automation.

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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.