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Why Marketing Best Practices May Sabotage Your Results

NuSpark Consulting

In 2005, HubSpot gave birth to the concept of inbound marketing , which was all about attracting people to your company with informative content, search-engine-optimization and social media marketing. The goal was to fill the sales funnel with many leads, then filter them down to the golden nuggets — the sales qualified opportunities.

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9 of the Best Video Marketing Examples From B2B in 2019

Vidyard

The CEO of HubSpot, Brian Halligan, told them to geek out on video so they geeked out. So, they integrated their video content with their HubSpot marketing automation and CRM, and focused on promoting their videos through all their channels including their sales development team, throughout every stage of the funnel. The result?

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Why Sales Needs Social Media Engagement Insight

Oktopost

“No matter what you do, don’t pass your leads directly to the sales team’ – Jon Miller, Marketo. It’s fantastic when marketing gets a good number of leads and passes them over to sales to ultimately convert into Sales Qualified Opportunities and finally closing a sale.

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Making the Most of Your Webinars

The Effective Marketer

Take for instance the following: The average webcasts captures 441 registrants Attendee participation is usually 50-60% of registrations 15-30% of registrants are sales-qualified opportunities The numbers above should be enough for you to go back to your own metrics and see how you compare. United States License.

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Why You Should Invest In Inbound Marketing Before CRM Implementation

Hubspot

Increasing lead velocity and generating more sales qualified opportunities for the organization. Here too, there are lots of reasons you’d want to embark on an inbound marketing effort, with the primary purposes being: Generating greater awareness and engagement with your desired markets. That is Inbound Marketing.

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

SnapApp

This answers the question: "Is the opportunity pipeline increasing or decreasing in size?". . This answers the question: "What percentage of leads are sales-qualified?". . Opportunities by Lead Source. This answers the question: "Which lead source drives the most amount of opportunities?". . Kyle G Bradley.