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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

Biznology

Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. There are scads of ways performance marketing is being applied across the B-to-B go-to-market spectrum. Pay per lead. Photo credit: Wikipedia. What a treasure trove! But there are some potholes to consider.

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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

Biznology

There’s a spirited debate in B-to-B marketing about whether it’s best to give away information (aka “content,” like white papers and research reports) to all comers, versus requiring web visitors to provide some information in exchange for a content download. So that’s my argument for gating content in B-to-B marketing.

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Chalk Talks: Generate More Leads with Video

Vidyard

Online video content has become the best way to tell your story, but it’s also become the most effective way to generate new leads and to qualify your prospects. So let’s look at how video can help you in each one of these stages of the lead generation life cycle, to generate better results for your demand gen programs.

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Let your B2B content run free–the case against gating

Biznology

Yesterday, in this very space, my friend Ruth Stevens made the case against “gating content” –placing your best stuff behind a registration or contact form so that you mine your Web visitors for those precious e-mail addresses and hand them off to your CRM system so they can be worked as “leads.”

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The Recession is Here - Time to Become an Eco-Marketer

Anything Goes Marketing

During my research, I stumbled upon a great article by the Canadian Marketing Blog called " 2009 B-to-B Demand Creation Trends " eh (Canadian joke). It's been proven that archived webinars can generate more leads then the actual live event. Reuse all of your marketing materials in your lead nurturing efforts.

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A B2B Marketing Fail With Positive ROI

MLT Creative

New business wins including two that were helped by collaborations with strategic partners I first met via Twitter and another with new client who found our agency through organic search and another that began as lead converted and nurtured by one of our inbound marketing campaigns. My failure came with good fortune because I learned from it.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. In later stages of the sales cycle, analyst reports and peer referrals reign supreme.