PureB2B

JANUARY 3, 2022

But among all sales roles, the one most essential to a company’s profitability is the lead generator. This person not only develops strategic methods of attracting in-market buyers; they’re also responsible for nurturing potential customers—warming them up just enough so they’ll continue down the path to conversion.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ready to start or improve your email lead generation strategy? Email marketing is one of the most effective digital marketing strategies around. You can use email for generating leads as well as bringing them through your marketing funnel towards closing the sale. What Is Email 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. Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial.

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Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

Meanwhile, many companies still have a LinkedIn page that’s designed and operated by their HR department, a holdover from the days when a LinkedIn page was more of a recruitment tool than a lead generation channel. It’s not like LinkedIn’s efficacy is a secret— 94% of B2B companies use LinkedIn for marketing.

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Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Marketing as a whole is not a numbers game, but lead generation certainly is. By the same token, our prospects only know what our marketing tells them until they try our products. At the beginning of the marketing process, namely during lead generation, the numbers game is in full swing.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 9, 2019

Want more leads? Maybe… but probably what you really want is better leads. It’s 2019, after all – B2B marketers have evolved past “lead gen 101” They need leads that contribute to pipeline. Leads that become closed deals and real revenue. Only 46% said it was lead quantity.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. If you’re outsourcing your B2B lead generation to an agency, they will need to understand your ideal customer profile in order to run an effective campaign. To ensure high-quality lead generation, you need to understand how your audience thinks.

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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.

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the biggest challenges B2B marketers face is how to generate qualified leads with the most effective marketing channels. But there are a few great tips and tricks to facilitate an effective lead generation process, and I’m here to share them with you. #1 So, what’s the secret? It’s complimentary. #7

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New North

MAY 8, 2023

The primary metric of interest in any meaningful B2B marketing strategy effort will always be generating leads. But many B2B businesses struggle to find their momentum when it comes to successful lead generation via digital marketing. If you’re an MSP in the early stages of defining a lead gen strategy?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. More Lead Generation Tips. It got me thinking.

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markempa

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Tweet To be successful at lead generation, marketers can’t rely on one specific tactic. The best marketers approach their work like a portfolio manager would run a mutual fund. A while ago, I created a mind map of lead generation channels for my book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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markempa

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Marketing gives us leads? Lead generation is an iterative process that requires consistent closed-loop feedback. Sales and Marketing often believe they are working together, but I’ve found collaboration takes more than annual, quarterly or monthly meetings. Centralize the lead qualification process.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 25, 2022

Our marketing team has tried and proven seven easy, cost-effective lead generation hacks that might make a difference when you’re running out of time. For B2B marketers in particular, LinkedIn can be a great audience driver if you know how to use it to your advantage. Hack: These communities are great for 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. Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

While email and social media marketing still yield big ROI for B2B marketers, increasing leads and lead gen tactics remain focal points, according to new research. Converting leads into customers (47 percent) is also a “high priority” for 2018.

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markempa

JUNE 9, 2014

Tweet Content marketing can be an effective tactic for lead generation as customers look to your brand as an authority in the marketplace delivering relevant information that is useful to their needs. Content Marketing: 3 tips for how to get started [More from the blogs]. Develop a highly focused, targeted strategy.

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2019

You’ve been involved in the lead generation world for a long time. The big changes have been in the use of marketing technology. Certainly, technology lets us deliver more leads to sales, faster than ever before. But just as often these are bad leads. What’s working in lead gen and lead development?

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DealSignal

DECEMBER 28, 2021

What Is Demand Generation Marketing? Demand generation marketing is a strategy that marketers use to generate brand awareness and interest in a product or solution at scale, leveraging several disciplines within marketing. Demand Generation Strategy and Tactics. Demand gen strategies.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Chief Marketer recently published results from its “2020 B2B Marketing Outlook Survey,” and statistics showed that email (50%) is the channel that produces the most B2B marketing leads with the highest ROI. This is followed by search engine optimization (43%), content marketing (34%) and live events (32%).

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markempa

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Tweet Proactively building relationships with influencers and industry experts and is a powerful way to generate leads and positive word of mouth (WOM). Most of us know this as influencer marketing , aka influence development. Influence the Influencers: 5 Tactics to Generate Demand [MarketingSherpa how-to article].

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Outgrow

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 Best Lead Generation Tools You Need to Try Out in 2021. Is the drying pipeline of leads giving you stress and anxiety attacks? According to a Hubspot report, most of the midsize and large companies generate less than 5,000 leads per month. Embrace these lead generation software, or should I say, superheroes!

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markempa

MAY 12, 2014

Tweet At Lead Gen Summit 2013, Keith Lincoln, Vice President, SmartBear Software, discussed the importance of speaking the language of your customers, and, more importantly, when to say nothing at all. “If Customer-centric Marketing: Using metaphors in your B2B strategy [More from the blogs]. You may also like.

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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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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Topic #1 — Lead generation is king. Lead generation was a huge topic for 2014 and for good reason. Every lead nurturing campaign, every lead conversion, every sale depends on first generating a lead. But what’s the best way to optimize your lead gen efforts?

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markempa

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Tweet We surveyed 1,915 marketers for the 2012 MarketingSherpa Lead Generation Benchmark Report , and asked them about their most widely used lead gen practices. Which of the following lead generation tactics does your organization currently use? Is email a lead gen tactic?”

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NetLine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A whopping 85% of B2B marketers say that lead generation is their #1 goal. Unfortunately, 61% of those same marketers also list lead generation as their #1 problem. Register for Winning B2B Content Outcomes: The Key to Translating Content into Lead Generation Success Now.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This comprehensive checklist covers: The components of a successful product launch Key tactics to include in the product launch Marketing elements to focus on leading up to the launch Article: B2B Marketing Webinars: How to Create a Lead Gen Webinar Webinars prove to be one of the most successful lead-generating tactics for B2B organizations.

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Lake One

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Or perhaps you are the marketing team and you want to give your sales team some quick tips to help further the lead gen cause. We’ve got you covered, with 6 easy lead gen tips your sales team can implement today. This is one of those easy lead gen tips that too often gets overlooked.

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Brandpoint

JUNE 1, 2018

But you can’t get a customer without capturing them as a lead first. Demand generation and lead generation are marketing activities that help with this process. In this post, we’ll describe the difference between demand and lead generation, and what kind of content to create for each.

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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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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When you search lead generation companies you get over 540 million results! Lead generation can mean a lot of different things. We’ve tried to break down the exact type of lead generation that each of these companies do. . Lead Generation Companies. Appointment Setting Companies.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 24, 2018

If you haven’t implemented LinkedIn’s Lead Generation Forms into your demand generation strategy, then it’s safe to say you’re missing out! In my personal experience, lead gen forms work best with sponsored content when promoting assets, such as a downloadable eBook or guide. The benefit to the marketer?

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Outbrain

JANUARY 13, 2020

For B2C and B2B organizations, a working lead generation process is a must, and when done right, it can become the main driver of new business. That explains why 63% of companies consider generating traffic and leads as their most important challenge. What is the lead generation process?

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markempa

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Most lead-generation marketers are not in crisis, but many could use an orderly process to help combat challenges. I chatted with Jen Doyle, Senior Research Manager at MECLABS, about her work as lead author of the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (coming out this spring). asks Doyle.

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SWZD

JANUARY 19, 2022

For Enterprise-scale B2B marketers, lead generation is critical - but for optimal outcomes, addressing these typical challenges is the first step.

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