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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. One would think lead nurturing would be very important if marketing is to be held more responsible for revenues but that was not the case, it was seen as the least important role by 14 percent of the respondents ?

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. One would think lead nurturing would be very important if marketing is to be held more responsible for revenues but that was not the case, it was seen as the least important role by 14 percent of the respondents ?

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Desperate and Fearful: Need Pipeline – Want Sales Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. So, they settle for a cheap solution—which is how mediocre sales lead generation firms survive. You can read the blog here. Doing the right something is. I promise to help.

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Introducing Account Based Selling to Your Team

Belkins

The price of badly calculated intrusion into your prospect’s routine is too much to handle, so telemarketing stepped back long ago, making way for account-based marketing and account-based sales development. However, if you’re dabbling in ABSD, there are the following KPIs to track: Connect Rate. Pipeline Rate. <

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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

Contacts from companies that are qualified as leads but not yet passed to sales can end up landing in the target list for an email blast or an event invitation. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process. Marketing automation might be used to help setup triggers and automated touch points.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

And so we have to fall back on metrics that are easy to come by: response rates, clicks, impressions, registrations, attendees. Many of us are guilty of falling into the trap of activity-based reporting: I ran 10 campaigns last year, I sponsored 3 industry events, etc. We are so focused on tactical execution that we lose focus on the results.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Outbound Lead Generation

Valasys

I know what you might think – “Ugh, telemarketers, no thanks!” Outbound lead generation is all about being strategic and personalized in your approach. It’s All About Personalization Did you know personalized emails have a 29% higher open rate and a 41% higher click-through rate than non-personalized ones?