Oktopost

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At its core, lead nurturing is rooted in data. The more data you have on leads, the better you can craft engaging content and messaging. But it’s not enough to base your conversations on your audience’s website and email activity only – what about social media? Resources mentioned: In any B2B sales cycle, knowledge equals power.

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SnapApp

MAY 28, 2019

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that lead generation is a frequent topic of discussion. At SnapApp, we live by a very simple motto: More leads aren’t better—better leads are better. Both our sales and marketing teams live and breathe this ideology. Why Generating Sales-Ready Leads Is a Challenge.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. Fair enough. Virtually none.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. The more personalised and relevant the experience, the higher the conversion rate will be. . Measuring the success of your actions.

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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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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Generating More Qualified Leads with MQLs: A Pathway to B2B Success What Is Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)?

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. The result?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

It’s very clear that marketers can now generate, score and nurture leads to a level that was not possible just a few years ago. Lead scoring and nurturing tools ensure that a company can manage the top of the funnel through to marketing qualified leads (MQL).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Author: Jon Miller Google AdWords is one of the most important marketing channels for almost every company, and the ability to measure and optimize for conversions is one of its most powerful capabilities. Marketo Integration. Here are four examples of how this can work: Demographic scoring to qualify leads. Why This Matters.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel via @spearmktg. times higher.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Are they engaged, or are they bouncing off quicker than you can say “lead conversion”? Lead Generation Metrics : Here’s where the rubber meets the road. Conversion rates and lead quality metrics assess your content’s ability to not just attract, but also to convert audiences into potential leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 What's ultimately more important than the uniqueness of Marketo's philosophy is how they have built it into their software.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The more quickly you can convert leads into paying customers, the more successful your business. Yet, the sales metric that reveals the most about both time and money—sales velocity—is commonly overlooked. What is Sales Velocity? Sales velocity is a measurement of how fast you’re making money. Average Deal Size.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Not only is ABM success not measured by clicks, conversions, and leads, but the KPIs may vary according to campaign stage.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

by Carol Fox As Dylan wrote, “The times, they are a-changing,&# and B2B sales cycles are no exception. But regardless of the factors at play, it stands to reason that learning more about what’s happening to sales cycles can help sales and marketing departments figure out how to shorten them.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. Today, sales is driven by insights. Why Do You Need a Sales Engagement Platform? Why Do You Need a Sales Engagement Platform?

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Even the landing page itself has more work to do before we can start giving ourselves a high-five for scoring a conversion. And what about the leads that don’t convert? As data-driven marketers, we’re keenly aware that most visitors won’t ever convert to a lead or sale. Store Visit Conversions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

When it comes to marketing and sales, the more precise and specific you can get with every customer, the better. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Unlike traditional marketing that relies on lead-based marketing automation and ad tech designed for B2C, B2B account-based marketing and selling drives efficiency with the accounts that matter, resulting in additional pipeline from targeted accounts, higher win rates from ABM accounts, and improved ROI over traditional marketing.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. They deployed the software very rapidly using only out-of-the-box templates, lead scoring, and overall structure.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

Here’s a list of 10 leading platforms to consider for your platform: HubSpot : This tool excels in lead generation and allows businesses to create and automate detailed, personalized workflows. Pardot : A Salesforce product, Pardot provides a B2B marketing automation tool excellent in lead management and ROI reporting.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Author: David Svigel Buyer behavior has changed; contact with your prospects occurs later in the sales cycle, and your leads come armed with more information than ever before about your products and services. It’s up to you to create and guide the conversation throughout the customer lifecycle.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Use the following questions to help you decide: Explore marketing automation solutions from vendors like Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on marketing automation platforms. Do your sales reps need real-time access to marketing data? Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process?

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a summary of our latest webinar “From the Experts: The Power of Social Engagement”, hosted with our good friend and partner, Jamie Lewis, Director of Business Development at Marketo Engage , an Adobe Company. Let’s take lead nurturing , for example. Where did my leads originate from?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

So, how can you tap into different aspects of marketing automation to increase sales? Pass Over Sales-Ready Leads Using Lead Scoring. Tired of hearing sales complain about marketing’s unqualified leads? It can also shorten overall sales cycles. Check out these seven tips: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

In a way, sales reps are like nurses or doctors. Sales reps would get a good sense of how interested someone was in their company’s products or services by spending some time with them. Qualified leads would ultimately receive more attention—the sales rep might play 18 holes with them to help close the deal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The rise of statistics like “impressions” and “ mindshare ” that do not truly get at the actions driving sales further muddies the waters of what makes an important marketing statistic. A small improvement is the increasing emphasis on pipeline, but that does not always convert into sales. Aligning with sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

With the Golden Ratio, aligning channels across conversion rate, win rate, and velocity will give you the full picture of channel performance. Example: If a lead came in as a result of attending a webinar, regardless of all subsequent touch points, all credit gets attributed to that webinar. What Is the Golden Ratio?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Like most companies, our team at Adobe executes ABM campaigns to larger companies where our deal sizes are a bit bigger and the sales cycles are a bit longer. Because of the bigger deal sizes and longer sales cycle, we have found that a focused, ABM approach leads to better performance of our marketing department.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 30, 2020

Businesses of all shapes, sizes, scope, and industries are trying to turbocharge their lead generation efforts. Generating more leads might just require a few changes to your current sales and marketing strategy, however, generating quality leads and at scale is quite another challenge. What is a lead generation tool?

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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? Sounds good, right?

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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? Sounds good, right?

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Vidyard

MARCH 5, 2021

Video for Sales 1.3 Are you searching for a platform that allows your sales team to create personalized videos or network at virtual events ? Marketers can use interactive video elements (or CTAs) and video personalization to boost viewer engagement, accelerate the buyer journey, and convert viewers into the sales pipeline.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Live chat has a few different use cases, some companies might use it for customer service, others will use it to drive sales. Easy to integrate with other software and we’ve noticed an increase in sales since our customer team is actively talking to customer on our website. Shorten your sales cycle with real-time conversations.

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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. It enables you to deploy lead nurturing programs that are more timely, relevant, and, ultimately, effective.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 26, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. Staple Yourself to a Lead. This practice will return detailed insight into ways to improve the company''s processes and additionally help lessen the number of leads that could be dropped in the hand-off from marketing to sales.

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