Act-On

MAY 23, 2018

You knew that social media is a very affordable lead generation tool, but did you know that it’s rated third in effectiveness after email and your website?

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TaylorMadeIn KEW

OCTOBER 7, 2018

In this last post of the series, I turn my attention to the 3 rd and final of my 3 enduring fallacies of B2B marketing – that the purpose of B2B marketing is lead generation. And not all leads are good leads. Not all leads are created equal either.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI? The post B2B Reads: AIDA, Fraudulent Lead Gen, and Sales & Marketing Secrecy appeared first on Heinz Marketing. B2B Reads Demand Generation ABM abm strategy AIDA b2b purchases demand feedback lead gen praise ROI sales enablement tools word-of-mouth

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Naturally, not every lead gen program will be a success. Lead Generation Marketing ROI

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Need more leads? Need better leads? Which is just one of the reasons why it’s so excellent for generating conversions – and leads. We’ve written about them as a lead generation tactic before. Bonus tip: You can also use quizzes for lead nurturing, of course.

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Act-On

MAY 29, 2017

That’s the challenge for today’s businesses and the marketers tasked with making them gloriously conspicuous by establishing brand presence, generating demand, and enticing leads to come hither. If you can do this, you’ll increase your site’s lead-gen magnetism. Lead Generation

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Valasys

OCTOBER 5, 2018

For the minority who are not aware of what Eloqua is, Eloqua is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for marketing automation that is offered by Oracle and that manages marketing campaigns and sales lead generation for B2B marketers and organizations.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Last week we published a piece on Lead Ads and why B2B marketers should harness them into their campaign strategy. This time, we’re zooming in on LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms, which unlike their predecessor, take a mobile-first approach to help marketers capture more quality leads using pre-filled forms. B2B Marketing B2B Marketing Tips Lead Generation LinkedIn

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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. The “2018 B2B Marketing Mix Report” from the SageFrog Marketing Group discovered that the majority of B2B marketers (67 percent) have made generating leads for their sales teams a “high priority” for the coming year. Converting leads into customers (47 percent) is also a “high priority” for 2018.

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Contently

APRIL 13, 2017

If you’re hoping that your content is going to directly lead to sales on a consistent basis, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Leads influenced: The number of people who engaged with a piece of content and converted into a lead within the next 90 days.

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The top priorities for B2B marketers this year are generating more high-quality leads and. increasing brand awareness—hardly surprising, as these two objectives lead in studies year-after- year. were cited by respondents more frequently than even lead generation challenges.

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Modern Marketing

MARCH 18, 2014

by contributor | Tweet this Editor’s Note : Today’s post comes courtesy of Josh Haynam , the co-founder of Interact, a platform for creating lead capture quizzes. In an ideal world, your content marketing efforts would yield droves of leads that stream in endlessly.

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Lead Liaison

JANUARY 5, 2017

Besides the expensive traditional channels for generating leads, there is an innovative, often-overlooked approach to filling the top of your sales funnel: formal business referral program. If you follow the above 4 steps, you will have a consistent pipeline with relevant leads.

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B2B Lead Generation

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. For this B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, I want to offer four of those case studies published over the last couple of years addressing that very topic. Case Study #1 – Local B2B Marketing: 150% boost in lead generation.

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KEO Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Any company today faces the all-important question of how do we generate high quality leads to fill our business pipeline? To answer this question, we can take a variety of approaches.

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The Point

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Just look at the sudden influx of companies boasting so-called “predictive analytics” solutions – software that allows marketers to better score leads, acquire new names, target market sectors, and even refine message and content, based on highly sophisticated algorithms.

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Speaker: Dawn Colossi, CMO, FocusVision

We were measured by the number of leads we generate. Over time, we’ve become much better at measuring conversion rates and lead quality. Where does lead gen and lead quality fit in? How to spend less time and gather higher quality leads.

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B2B Lead Generation

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).

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Biznology

MARCH 27, 2015

As a marketer, I’m always looking for new ways to engage prospects and drive leads for my sales team. That’s why webinars become interesting as a lead generation tactic. That’s why you see webinars rated as one of the top lead-gen tactics today (source: Placester ).

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B2B Lead Generation

DECEMBER 16, 2013

People look to me as an expert at lead generation because I wrote a book and speak about it. This is more complex than standard lead generation – we’re not trying to sell. Learn more about our experience with that here: “ Lead Generation: How using science increased teleprospecting sales handoffs 304%.”. As I continually learn new methods to improve my own lead generation, I understand the process better. What lead gen and life lessons did you learn in 2013?

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 2, 2017

discovered that lead generation/nurturing (55 percent) is considered to be the most useful metric for gauging content marketing success. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 46 percent claim lead generation is an important objective, and 55 percent receive useful metrics on this tactic. Marketers are still trying to create the perfect content marketing strategy, and research shows they are using a wide array of metrics to gauge their success.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 20, 2016

So what may have started out as a simple campaign to generate leads now turns into a whole lead-nurturing process with value-added content that shepherds them through the process until they’re sales-ready. It’s time to face some hard truths about B2B sales.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Marketing Strategy Amazon Supply b2b customer experience b2b lead generation b2b purchasing b2b sales Chief Experience Office complex products consumerization of b2b marketing consumerization of IT David Edelman Elon Musk hyperloopThis post originally appeared on MarketingProfs.

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MindFire

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Dave and I are super excited to be back in the studio recording new Episodes of Pixels & Ink where we’ll bring you the best tips, tricks, and strategies on using multi-channel marketing to… The post [Podcast #40] This Weird Lead Gen Strategy Could Save Your Company appeared first on MindFire Studio Blog Boy did we miss you all!

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2010

Ask open ended questions -- leading questions. If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else: " What is your goal of your lead gen activity? Are you trying to do qualified lead gen ? What other quotes can you tie to lead gen tips

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B2B Lead Generation

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Tweet Recently, we ran a live test for our audience at MarketingSherpa Lead Gen Summit 2013 and as I discovered, this isn’t the easiest thing to do. For example, the design process forced us to examine two important questions: what is a quality lead, and how do we measure it?

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Contently

JULY 12, 2016

Most lead generation training programs start with discovery, one of the most basic tenets of sales. Asking too many questions in a gated form before a prospective partner shows interest in your product is a lead gen mistake—just one of the many that marketers consistently make.

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Hubspot

JULY 10, 2018

Lead generation for B2B is not about chasing a “secret method” that results in a ton of leads. A disciplined B2B marketer should understand the different dynamics, budgets, and expectations typical of each lead generation channel. Facebook Lead Ad. Facebook Lead Ads.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When it comes to generating revenue for an organization, marketers and salespeople alike understand how difficult it can be to find the right leads that convert. In fact, B2B organizations consistently list quality leads as their top challenge.

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B2B Lead Generation

DECEMBER 3, 2012

So it is with generating leads – yet, when the funnel needs to be fed now, we toss in more leads, turn up the pressure, and voila! Master the essentials of lead generation. ( Universal Lead Definition: Why 61% of B2B marketers are wasting resources and how they can stop ).

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. You may have considered the following challenges when evaluating the choice to improve results by outsourcing your teleprospecting lead generation: Our business is different.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This past week a prospect commented that she wanted to explore a third-party lead gen program because their sales reps were spending too much time prospecting and not selling. She said that if they had enough leads they would be SELLING and CLOSING -- not having to do lead gen.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 1, 2010

Measuring the effectiveness of lead gen programs is always at the top of a demand gen expert's list of priorities. One of the gating factors happens to be out of their control -- what does the sales team do with a lead once they start working it?

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Modern Marketing

MAY 4, 2015

Using cross channel marketing and multi touch campaigns, Oracle Marketing Cloud helped ARC Document Solutions achieve astonishing results including a 2,000% increase in lead generation in the first year alone. Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Marketing Automation Process (MAP

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Kapost

MAY 3, 2016

When it comes to lead generation, you may be unknowingly sabotaging your sales pipeline with these seven common lead generation mistakes. However, lead conversions suffer when tactics aren’t anchored into a bigger, long-term and purpose-driven marketing strategy. .

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Reachforce

OCTOBER 22, 2009

As we run across cool companies that are trying to add value to today’s B2B sales and marketing teams we want to be sure and share them with our B2B Lead readers. Here's another great idea. Have you heard of Gist? If not, you should check it out. It might just

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Navigate the Channel

MARCH 13, 2018

Marketing as a whole is not a numbers game, but lead generation certainly is. At the beginning of the marketing process, namely during lead generation, the numbers game is in full swing. We’re all blind going in.

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Vidyard

APRIL 6, 2016

Lead gen is the lifeblood of marketing. But most lead gen activities are … well, kinda sucky. Good thing Jay Baer has the reverse vacuum to unsuck your lead gen. He’ll be sharing those secrets in the webinar 7 Ways to Unsuck your Lead Gen on April 20th.

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NetLine

AUGUST 21, 2018

Whether it’s satisfying internal stakeholders or impressing a client with regular updates on their lead gen campaigns, our reports are an interactive dive into campaign data. Or, create your free account to kickstart lead gen success.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 9, 2017

Building an effective, end-to-end lead generation strategy is far from simple. But if there’s anything I’ve learned in more than a decade leading B2B sales teams, it’s that lead generation strategies live and die by the quality of the data they are built upon.

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NetLine

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To help you sort through the options and make sense of the logo-lunacy, here are a few tips for how to choose a lead gen vendor. According to a recent Demand Gen Report survey, “45% of buyers are spending more time researching purchases compared to last year.”.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 10, 2011

They just don't work any longer and they're not helping anybody succeed at generating quality b2b leads. It had everything you needed to pass a lead or book an appointment with your targeted prospecting base. There are a lot of great sources for telemarketing and teleprospecting calling tips out there, and just several weeks ago we brought you some great outbound calling tips from the best BDR's our management team has ever worked with.

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