Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. Score those strong purchase indicators highly and send these white-hot leads to sales.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For a long time, “ lead nurturing ” was thought of as something you did with the leads that sales didn’t want. The theory was: leads come in, the sales team gets the hot ones, and the rest go to lead nurturing. Today, of course, a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy is much more than that.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The importance of lead generation is ingrained in the mind of every modern marketer— the more high-quality leads you bring in, the better. But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. What is lead management?

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The Point

JANUARY 27, 2016

Demand Gen Report just published “ Top B2B Marketers Measure Lead Nurturing Effectiveness to Boost Performance ,” a special report in which they address the whys, whats, and how tos of measuring lead nurturing’s true impact. the company is generating the wrong type of leads.

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Conversica

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is lead nurturing? Lead nurturing is the process of developing and reinforcing relationships with buyers at every stage of the sales funnel —from prospects to existing customers. In practice, lead nurturing can range from targeted email marketing and blog posts to product updates and news.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And while it is important for the company as a whole to be unified, there is no more important task than sales and marketing alignment , particularly when it comes to nurturing leads and increasing conversions. Misalignment negatively impacts lead generation. Alignment results in lead return.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Regardless of your industry, finding and nurturing the right leads is crucial. Therefore, it makes sense to sharpen the focus on your lead management and optimize it at every stage. In fact, research shows that automating your lead management process can increase sales revenue by 10% in just six months.

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine.

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The Point

JUNE 8, 2016

Email may still be the workhorse in how B2B companies build relationships, maintain awareness, qualify leads and nudge prospects along the sales cycle, but these days, it pays to think about “lead nurturing” as more just an email campaign. That’s not because email is going away any time soon.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

This means sending emails, posting on social media, and even sorting through leads can be done automatically (though a human should still be monitoring the output). Efficient lead management: Leads are scored and segmented automatically, ensuring timely follow-ups and higher conversion rates.

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The Point

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms? By forcing someone to comply with your process, you’re not making them more interested in doing business with your company (or talking to sales); more likely, the result is the exact opposite. B2B marketers seem divided on the question.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. It’s why click-to-lead conversion rates are never 100%, no matter how good your landing page. Why is that necessary when we already know who these people are? Here’s why: 1.

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The Point

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A client asks: “I know the answer is probably “it depends” but curious if you think there’s a best practice for how many follow-up nurture emails to send TOFU content syndication leads before you stop due to non-engagement?”. When Should I Stop Nurturing a Lead? Click To Tweet. Photo by Who’s Denilo ?

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales. Marketo creates task in CRM to remind BDR to call lead 1 week later. Wait 2 weeks.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Once your team has captured hot leads at an event, you should be prepared to follow up with those leads quickly and effectively. We are often asked for examples of how a business can (and should) nurture leads post-event. Below is an infographic that examines a tried-and-true post-event lead nurturing strategy. .

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Millions of companies crowd the B2B universe, vying for the same share of business. As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss?

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

One strategy has proven to be a game-changer – lead generation. This blog explores the significant benefits of lead generation, highlighting its importance and role in modern business. Understanding the significance of lead generation in B2B Lead generation is the backbone of any successful marketing strategy.

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Where Are Your Leads Going? It’s a little troubling that so many companies don’t have an optimal lead management process, and thus are losing quality sales-ready leads to their competition. Tags: Lead Nurturing Marketing Strategy Retention Lead nurturing marketing.

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The Point

JUNE 5, 2018

for lead management to 3.35 However, when you consider that, in our model, a 5 represents the most advanced state of practice from a business theory perspective, and a 1 represents basic control and management of a process, you recognize how difficult the transition from 1 to 5 really is. for organization.

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The Point

JANUARY 24, 2013

Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. That means more intricate lead nurturing towards more stakeholders.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. That means more intricate lead nurturing towards more stakeholders.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

Millions of companies crowd the B2B universe, vying for the same share of business. As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. Keep reading.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? I have my concerns, however, about extending it to lead nurturing and the email medium.

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license. . How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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The Point

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

A couple of months ago, in a respected marketing Webzine, there appeared a case study detailing a software company that had gone to impressive lengths to make the most of their investment in marketing automation. nurturing and cultivating contacts over time so those contacts remember the client’s brand when the need arises. Not really.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If your organization is generating plenty of leads but those initial inquiries aren’t converting to sales qualified leads, meetings, or pipeline, a myriad of things could be at fault: 1) sales follow-up may be sub-standard in either cadence, frequency, or message. 2) lead nurturing. 2) lead nurturing.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Nonexistent lead management processes.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2010

On Thursday I’m presenting a webinar with Treehouse Interactive , called “Lead Nurturing 101″ One of the registrants sent me the following question: How much of this webinar will be about content, i.e. exactly what to say in each subsequent email in a series designed to move someone from prospect stage to buying stage?

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The Point

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Relevancy is one of the key factors in generating a consistent response from your lead nurturing emails: the more relevant your message to the reader’s job function, industry, interests, and stage in the selling cycle, the more likely he/she will be to respond. Lead source. Take advantage of it. Job function.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 7, 2010

This week there are a couple of interesting Lead Management events, so I thought I’d share them with you in a short blog post: Hubspot Show & Tell , new features including lead management, June 8th (tomorrow). MarketingSherpa Lead Management webinar , June 10th (sponsored by Eloqua).

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 2010

To help you start the New Year, I’d like to wrap up my Lead Generation Checklist Series with the secret to successful lead generation – and, for that matter, marketing in today’s B2B space: lead nurturing. At it's core, B2B lead generation is about building relationships.

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