Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the realm of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), two terms frequently arise that B2B marketers often struggle to comprehend – demand generation and lead generation. Yet, understanding the difference between demand gen and lead gen is crucial to the success of your marketing efforts.

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. While our previous article explores the importance of working out your optimum MQL lead volume to guarantee you hit revenue targets , this article dives into importance of defining B2B lead quality.

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markempa

AUGUST 25, 2014

Tweet Our sister publication, MarketingSherpa, publishes three weekly newsletter case studies, and in the B2B beat in particular, those weekly articles routinely feature a story covering marketers tackling lead generation for the complex sale. Case Study #1 – Local B2B Marketing: 150% boost in lead generation.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. The B2B buyer journey has shifted, with sales reps now only having roughly 5% of a customer’s time.

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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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Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. A remarkable 80% of B2B leads that come from social media originate from just one platform, and that’s LinkedIn. The leads are better.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 7, 2018

In survey after survey, year after year, lead generation is a top priority for B2B brands. No matter how big or small, B2B businesses can’t survive without new leads. Generating high-quality leads is essential to get more sales and more revenue. No leads means no clients and therefore, no sales.

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Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

A higher cost per click matters a lot less if you’re seeing good conversion rates all the way through to closed-won revenue. In this data-backed guide, we’ll cover: The most popular CTAs on LinkedIn The most effective CTAs on LinkedIn Good CTR for LinkedIn ads The average CPC for LinkedIn ads The average conversion rate for LinkedIn.

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markempa

APRIL 6, 2015

Tweet Ask most executives and marketers what salespeople need to sell in this economy, and they will say one thing: more leads. That’s why many marketing and lead generation programs tend to focus on quantity. However, according to MarketingSherpa’s data , generating “high-quality leads” is the B2B marketer’s No.

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline.

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline.

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 19, 2022

One of the most common challenges sales and marketing teams face is generating new leads. So many companies are stuck using their tried-and-true sales tactics, that they haven’t considered what modern channels and strategies consumers use today. Leads: How do You Classify Them? Being Data-Driven.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. CRM holds hostage all of your sales opportunity, pipeline, and order value information and it’s built to track sales reps instead of buyer behavior. Manager, Marketing Automation, Hyperscience.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 24, 2018

Compared to how much time we invest in every other element of a lead generation campaign – the advertising, the content download, the landing page – the opt-in form often just gets slapped in like an afterthought. Thanks to GDPR, many of us have just recently gotten through an emergency primer on data management.

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markempa

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Tweet The ultimate goal of B2B marketing and lead generation is to help the sales team sell. Marketers spend a lot of time and effort creating inbound leads but struggle getting those leads to convert into customers after they hand them off to sales. Does this sound like you or someone you know?

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SendX

MAY 6, 2021

As simple as it sounds, without leads, you don’t have customers, which means you don’t have a viable business. An effective lead gen strategy is the bedrock of any successful enterprise. A proactive approach to customer experience, chatbots initiate conversation when a website visitor hits a certain trigger point.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 16, 2019

One of the biggest reasons there’s a gap between so many sales and marketing teams is that they’re speaking different languages. You’re looking for any way to improve your lead gen capabilities while sales is trying to win accounts. Salespeople talk about accounts, they talk about customers… they don’t talk about leads.

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Televerde

AUGUST 10, 2021

Whether you’re a small startup or large corporation, odds are your company focuses quite a bit on sales metrics. Sales velocity is one of the best ways to truly understand the effectiveness of your marketing and sales efforts as well as the overall health of your company. What is Sales Velocity? Assess Your Sales Process.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Inbound lead generation is critical to organizations looking to build a true pipeline. Keep reading for tips and guidance on creating, assessing, and improving your strategy for lead generation marketing. In general, buyers go through three phases when making a decision: Awareness, Consideration, and Intent.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ready to start or improve your email lead generation strategy? You can use email for generating leads as well as bringing them through your marketing funnel towards closing the sale. This list will go through the top 15 email lead generation techniques to help you bring in more customers.

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Rev

JANUARY 5, 2023

If we had to summarize the modern relationship between marketing and sales, it would sound something like: Generate more and better leads, so we can close more deals more effectively. How can marketing leverage the data it has available to drive more value and get better leads? So square one is all about lead generation.

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Unbounce

JULY 14, 2020

Which means people are wiser to marketing tactics and, understandably, more discerning than ever about who they give their contact information out to. Below, you’ll find eight lead generation landing page examples from Unbounce customers that prove effective lead gen comes in all forms. Vancouver Island University.

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Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

In the B2B world one thing is for sure: the Sales team expects the Marketing team to generate qualified leads that will ideally convert quickly to sales. One metric that is worth considering is the Qualified Leads to Sales Ratio. How the Qualified Leads to Sales Ratio Serves as a Leading Indicator.

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Unbound B2B

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quick Summary: Outsourcing Lead Generation means hiring an external company to help you generate business leads. The cost-per-lead acquisition is different for every business based on size and market competition. Outsourcing lead generation services can save you time and money.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. This means that high-quality leads aren’t just valuable but also cost-effective.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When it comes to generating revenue for an organization, marketers and salespeople alike understand how difficult it can be to find the right leads that convert. In fact, B2B organizations consistently list quality leads as their top challenge. The answer lies in how complex the modern B2B sales cycle can be.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Marketers know all too well about the pressure to drive higher engagement, demand, and leads, but lately more leads are simply not enough. Marketers are tasked with getting higher quality leads, higher conversion rates throughout the entire funnel, and driving greater demand. – Hootsuite.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

Demand generation marketing is often mistaken for lead generation. While lead gen is a core part of a successful demand gen campaign, a more central component of demand generation is the process of converting leads through your marketing funnel. We get it: Lead generation is hard.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

Demand generation marketing is often mistaken for lead generation. While lead gen is a core part of a successful demand gen campaign, a more central component of demand generation is the process of converting leads through your marketing funnel. We get it: Lead generation is hard.

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FunnelEnvy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can reverse engineer a path to higher engagement and conversion rates by mapping out the customer journey and intent across all stages. For example, in high ticket sales, customers rarely intend to purchase the first time they engage with a brand. Lead magnets. What Is Intent in the B2B Customer Journey?

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The number one goal for sales and marketing teams is pretty simple – generate more revenue. The best way to do this is to convert target accounts from the top of the funnel to closed-won more efficiently and effectively.

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Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the most important lead generation tactics you have at your disposal is your website. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Here are some common lead generation mistakes organizations make with their website and how you should fix them.

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Directive Agency

MAY 24, 2017

B2B marketers frequently use the terms “demand generation” and “lead generation” interchangeably. In this post, I will focus on the individual value of each tactic and how striking a balance between them can empower your B2B marketing strategy. Demand Generation Versus Lead Generation.

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