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Why Marketing Best Practices May Sabotage Your Results

NuSpark Consulting

The goal was to fill the sales funnel with many leads, then filter them down to the golden nuggets — the sales qualified opportunities. So the idea was to create the content that attracted these buyers, start educating them and build a virtual relationship in the early part of the buying cycle.

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

The Effective Marketer

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume.His His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you?

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

The Effective Marketer

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume. His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you?

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

Think of inbound marketing as building a relationship with customers—a consultative relationship that continues even after they decide to make a purchase. Consideration: leads are officially converted to sales qualified opportunities and are viewed as prospective customers.

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

Think of inbound marketing as building a relationship with customers—a consultative relationship that continues even after they decide to make a purchase. Consideration: leads are officially converted to sales qualified opportunities and are viewed as prospective customers.

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The Gap Between Google and Results: Here’s What You Can Do About It [VIDEO]

Directive Agency

Because I’ve got about, I’d say, 15% of the portfolio wanting to experiment with paid social but the majority has already experimented and found they couldn’t generate sales qualified opportunities from it. So it’s not that you can’t generate conversions. Have a great day!

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

SnapApp

This answers the question: "Is the opportunity pipeline increasing or decreasing in size?". . This answers the question: "What percentage of leads are sales-qualified?". . Opportunities by Lead Source. This answers the question: "Which lead source drives the most amount of opportunities?". .