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Quantifying the Value of Lead Nurturing: A Case Study

Sales Engine

So why do sales and marketing departments still work together in a linear fashion? The linear track of anonymous to marketing-qualified lead (MQL) to sales-accepted lead (SAL) to win or loss does not conform to the reality of the way BtoB purchasers shop and buy.

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How Many Leads Does Your Sales Team Need?

Sales Engine

But you can’t fully automate the sales funnel , especially for complex, research-heavy purchases in the BtoB world. It seems that this once-complex process can be distilled to an algorithm. After this digital dialogue however, a sales rep still must fully qualify the lead and close the sale.

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REVENUE: The Golden Opportunity with Big Data and Content Marketing

ViewPoint

But are they perusing your homepage, or downloading a white paper? This is simple behavioral analysis, to better engage with prospects and work toward an eventual sale. Lesson learned: Don’t depend on your chief writer to tell you which piece of content works best. Are they dipping into your features set? Test it, and prove it!

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BtoB Leading Edge: 10 Sharp Tips taken from the Cutting Edge Demand Generation Virtual Conference

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Yesterday’s BtoB Leading Edge, Demand Generation in the Digital Age was a great way to make sure your organization’s demand generation programs are best-in-class.      Incentives can work really well.   But with so much on a marketer’s plate these days, not all 4300 could attend this half day event.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: E-book: Why Naked CRM Doesnt Work

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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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How Many Leads Does Your Sales Team Need?

Sales Engine

But you can’t fully automate the sales funnel, especially for complex, research-heavy purchases in the BtoB world. For example, a prospect who downloads a white paper, visits your website ten times, and perfectly maps to your ideal prospect profile does not necessarily hate his current vendor or have an approved budget to switch vendors.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be. United States License.