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. If your nurturing email is forwarded to a friend or colleague, and that colleague accesses your (ungated) content, you won’t know the difference. Here’s why: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The marketing team develops content to educate leads and identifies the leads who show buying intent by implementing a behavioral lead scoring model. They also spin up campaigns aimed at accelerating leads, such as limited-time offers, product trial campaigns, and case studies. How did you fix it?

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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 sends first follow-up email. Marketo sends second follow-up email.

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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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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

In my last post , I talked about creative campaign ideas for when you have no content to offer. 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?

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The Point

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In an exclusive online event, discover how to get the most from your lead nurturing program, and how to plan for success if you’re just getting started. Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “ Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success ,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

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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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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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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

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process. Click To Tweet.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2012

You know that monthly newsletter you blast to your entire database under the guise of “lead nurturing”? And those Webinar invitations that you broadcast to every trade show lead you’ve generated since 2005? There was a time when lead nurturing was synonymous with simply staying in front of prospects.

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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. Here are 5 ways to consider segmenting your campaign: 1.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Explicit data is provided intentionally by your lead, such as company, location, industry, and job title. Implicit data is observed behavioral information, such as webpages visited, email engagement, content downloads, or form completions. Lead scoring helps your sales team spend their valuable hours more efficiently.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I’m still getting the hang of holding my 2 month old son while I check my emails or read a book. There are many similarities between the concepts that Jim Collins discussed in his book and lead nurturing. Lead nurturing can mean many different things to may different people. Are any of you out there new fathers?

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

There are multiple, legitimate reasons to suspend or even delete non-responsive leads from your mailing lists or CRM database: * Non-responsive leads can weigh down engagement rates and create a distorted view of campaign metrics. Even then, success with email programs can often be a long-term proposition.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

MAPs help businesses identify potential customers and automate the process of nurturing the leads to sales readiness using channels like email, social media, webpages and display ads to bring customers and prospects to customized landing pages and through other experiences designed to move them down the purchase funnel.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Here are the most important B2B lead generation statistics to inform and evolve your B2B lead generation strategy: B2B Lead Generation Statistics: The Current State of Lead Generation. Strategic landing pages are used by 68% of B2B businesses to acquire leads ( source ).

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lead Management is the process of generating, converting, qualifying, and closing sales leads. Lost in the shuffle of all of those marketing tactics you are trying to get a handle on for your business (Twitter, Facebook, Pay-per-click, SEO, email campaigns, website design) is the concept of Lead Management.

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

By allocating resources to nurture qualified leads, businesses can target individuals who are more likely to convert into paying customers. This highlights the benefits of lead management and the financial wisdom of investing in lead generation.

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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. Better Lead Nurturing.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

This process helps marketing automate repetitive tasks like email campaigns, social media posting, and even ad campaigns. 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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

The classic demand generation cycle starts with an outbound email campaign, captures replies on a landing page, scores the responses, and then sends qualified leads to a sales automation system and keeps the others for more nurturing. Leads can enter from channels other than email.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2016

Simply look at the search difference between “lead generation” and “lead nurturing” and you’ll quickly see what I’m talking about. So, while lead generation is certainly important, investing in generating more leads without building an effective lead management process is simply, well, foolish.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. In most cases only a relatively small percentage of your inbound leads will be ready to make an immediate purchase, leaving upwards of 90% of your inbound leads on the table.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 13, 2012

Lead nurturing is a fundamental must-have for great inbound marketing. According to Gleanster Research , 50% of qualified leads aren't ready to buy. This means lead nurturing campaigns are necessary to help move these 50% of leads through the sales cycle to make them better ready to make a purchasing decision.

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SendinBlue

APRIL 19, 2021

Marketing automation is a way for companies to keep in regular contact with leads and customers. Marketing automation for B2B shares the same principle as B2C marketing automation : triggering an automated message or series of messages in response to email subscriber activity. Lead nurturing. Lead scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 16, 2012

Generating new leads, qualifying and nurturing them until they turn into a RFQ is too much work for them. For a real-life example of this lead generation disconnect, read my post, Manufacturers: Don’t Start a Lead Generation Campaign without Sales. Your RFQ can be easily derailed without this critical step.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 15, 2020

There are countless opportunities to streamline processes and communication to existing database contacts through lead nurturing and other automations. Keeping this data in mind can help you be more successful with future lead and demand generation efforts. Develop an SLA to Streamline Lead Management.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A way to leverage global marketing campaigns and a faster, easier way to create and change landing pages and capture leads. Target profiling and lead scoring. Nurturing for those leads that are not yet ready to buy or were stuck. The Final Score: >700 emails campaigns. 74 landing pages created.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 3, 2010

While lead nurturing generally takes place after you have gathered this information, there are times when qualified prospects are coming to you before you know who they are and how to reach them through, social media. It’s about nurturing them the right way in real-time to stay top of mind with qualified prospects.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. 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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Lead management is the ability to capture, respond, and manage incoming leads. When spending so much time and money on creating the perfect campaign, you want to make sure you have numerous best practices in place to manage your leads throughout the entire lifecycle.

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2015

The survey asked marketing operations managers and other B2B marketing executives to rank their current deployment of marketing automation software in 33 separate categories relating to either key software functionality or generally accepted best practice. The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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