Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with most business functions, technology is drastically changing the way we market our products and services. We’ve long since understood the power of one-to-one marketing, but without modern technology, it wasn’t always feasible, scalable, or affordable. So, how can we market to customers who are sick and tired of marketing?

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Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s a new idea for marketers. We tend to get caught up focusing on more: More sales, more traffic, more leads. Here’s why: Doing more and more marketing work is not better. But doing more effective (and thus better) marketing tasks? And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads?

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markempa

JULY 6, 2017

And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals. Source: Forrester US and Europe B2B Marketing Tactics and Benchmarks Online Survey. Also, marketers see generating high-quality leads as their number one business challenge according to The 2017 State of Digital Marketing Report published by DemandWave.

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markempa

MAY 13, 2012

Tweet B2B marketers, stop focusing on generating leads. By sending them only qualified leads. Most leads aren’t qualified. Leads are only qualified when they fit your universal lead definition (ULD). Leads are only qualified when they fit your universal lead definition (ULD).

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Valasys

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The process of filtering through these opportunities in order to find the best ones is called lead qualification. Qualified Lead. Generation of high-quality leads is considered the biggest challenge by 61% of B2B marketers. The problem lies in the definition of a qualified lead for each organization.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers. But what happens after that initial spark of interest?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate leads.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 30, 2021

Tracking B2B lead generation metrics is important for B2B marketing – of course. There’s a pillar concept in marketing that proves the value of clarity: Confused people don’t take action. But it applies to B2B marketers’ decision-making, too. So clarity about marketing metrics matters. But so is clarity.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent conversation on marketing approaches, friend and colleague Elizabeth Fairleigh, thE Connection , shared an interesting comment: “I was thinking about outbound telephone calls and why they are relevant today. Successful marketers know when it’s time to emerge from behind the digital wall and connect with their voices.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the words of Viviana Fargo, Operating Partner at venture capital firm Emcap, “ one of the biggest reasons that many startups fail: Founders launch companies with great ideas, but with no go-to-market expertise.” ” Insufficient go-to-market (GTM) expertise has a crippling effect on growth. They are different.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

As marketers are asked to move ever faster, it’s easy to abandon anything that’s not active doing. These benefits extend to the management of marketing projects in a big way. Now, let’s delve deeper into how exactly each of these stages manifests in our daily marketing work. Plan-do-check-act in Agile Marketing.

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markempa

JULY 6, 2009

A common lead generation practice using B2B inbound marketing includes offering whitepapers, demos, trial software, or other content assets in exchange for registration information. The problem is that many marketers immediately turn these form registrations (aka web inquiries) over to the sales team as "leads."

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markempa

MARCH 17, 2014

Tweet I was recently reading your blog “ Lead Generation: Who knows the customer better – Marketing or Sales? It’s been really fascinating to me to try and figure all this sales and qualifying a lead thing out. I’ll focus on some fundamental questions you should answer as you craft your lead gen program.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate. What can marketing do better?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By definition , inside sales teams should be skilled at remote selling, easier to scale, and cost less than field sales, but that’s not always reality. Align Teams to Common Definitions and Responsibilities. Inside sales teams serve as the bridge between marketing and sales, which makes alignment between all teams critical for success.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

If so, this blog post will give you 6 tips to optimize your lead handoff process by getting your marketing and sales teams working together more efficiently. We’ll also share how you can use AI technology and exegraphic data to find the best-fit leads at the top of the funnel. Let’s begin! You see the issue?

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Here are five lead generation benchmarks that every marketing team should track month over month: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

Many companies today have turned to innovative marketing automation software to analyze a prospect’s digital engagement behavior and determine whether they’re qualified enough to move on to the next step in the sales cycle. But successfully qualifying leads for sales means having three key fundamentals in place: 1. What’s a lead?

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markempa

APRIL 15, 2012

Tweet Confession: I wish I could flash this across every marketer’s computer screen the moment it powered up: A universal lead definition (ULD) clarifies what a lead is to everyone in your organization. Spells out the responsibilities and accountabilities of Sales and Marketing. Are these truly leads?

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Outreach

APRIL 19, 2019

It is fueled by sales and marketing activities that generate awareness, drive demand, educate potential buyers, build trust, and make a compelling case for a product or service. A B2B sales funnel is important because it provides visibility into the effectiveness of your sales approaches and marketing efforts. What Is a Sales Funnel?

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Today, we know that across the B2B sales cycle, the key to driving home a sale is the quality of the leads in your pipeline. Yet, lead qualification seems to be a particularly troublesome pain point for marketers and salespeople alike. How we as marketers define what makes a lead marketing qualified.

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MKT1

APRIL 6, 2023

Marketing at a B2B company with a self-serve motion compared to a sales-led motion is a different job–almost as different as B2C and B2B. Given this, y our marketing strategy, tactics, and team need to be 100% aligned with your GTM motion. You have more SDRs than marketers with a predominantly self-serve motion.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The goal of conversational marketing is simple: help encourage a dialogue with customers quickly, seamlessly, and on a large scale. In fact, companies automating conversational marketing witness a 10 percent increase in revenue after a 6-9 month period. What Is Conversational Marketing?

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MKT1

MARCH 14, 2024

Broad and horizontal approaches to marketing no longer work. With modern martech (AI, automation, no code tools), your audience now expects personalized, high-value marketing that feels custom built for them. If you want to see demos from a handful of startups changing how marketers market, come to our 2nd AI showcase on 3/21.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team. Seems like a simple definition, right?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Over the past two weeks, we have covered the definition of strategic demand marketing and introduced you to the first phase in our process, the insights phase. It is at this stage that we define the critical customer journey and begin to build the Strategic Demand Marketing Plan. . The Strategy Phase.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Tweet In my post earlier this week , I outlined the challenge presented by SiriusDecisions’ Demand Waterfall taxonomy, specifically with the phrase “Marketing-Qualified Leads” (MQLs). Another problematic phrase is “sales-accepted leads.”. Often, funnels leak the most during the handoff between sales and marketing.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We believe there are five main reasons that marketing teams are generating “bad” leads. Explore the five reasons below to identify areas of improvement in your lead management process: . Your Marketing and Sales Teams Are Misaligned. You Don’t Understand Your Customer’s Journey.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A broken lead generation strategy could mean trouble for your sales and marketing team, but not just because of the fundamental misalignment between the two departments. Have marketing and sales decided on a shared definition for a qualified sales lead? Do your marketing and sales teams trust each other?

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B (Business-to-Business) sales and marketing, two critical strategies stand out as linchpins in driving growth and success: B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Generation. B2B Appointment Setting is the natural progression of effective Lead Generation.

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