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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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Act-On

JUNE 13, 2018

Check out these 12 proven website lead generation strategies to get more and better leads. Demand & Lead Generation Digital Marketing Forms & Landing Pages Lead Generation lead gen lead generation lead generation strategy website optimization

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Act-On

MARCH 22, 2019

On the Rethink Marketing podcast, Tom Schwab outlines how podcasts can be a great lead gen tactic, even converting 25 times bettter than a blog. Demand & Lead Generation

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B2B Lead Generation

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Tweet To be successful at lead generation, marketers can’t rely on one specific tactic. A while ago, I created a mind map of lead generation channels for my book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Build your lead generation calendar.

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B2B Lead Generation

DECEMBER 22, 2014

My dad taught me many lessons growing up, and one that stands out as relevant to lead generation went something like this: He said, “Choose your friends carefully because we become like the people we spend most of our time with, and [like it or not] we’re judged by the company we keep.”

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B2B Lead Generation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Tweet According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , 24% of marketers ask a timeline-to-purchase question on their lead capture forms. Q: Please select the most important fields that you need to collect from your leads on the lead generation form.

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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.

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B2B Lead Generation

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). You and your company could also be sales lead referral source for them as well.

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B2B Lead Generation

OCTOBER 6, 2014

How does your sales team perceive the leads Marketing produces? They complain about lead quality. They complain about lead volume. The say leads, what leads? Marketing gives us leads? Centralize the lead qualification process.

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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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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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B2B Lead Generation

AUGUST 11, 2014

Tweet Putting customers first in lead generation. Unfortunately, empathy is often ignored or lost when we start to become overly clever and complex with lead generation. At its core, lead generation is really about relationships.

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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.

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B2B Lead Generation

JUNE 30, 2014

Tweet For her first week on the job, Debbie Pryer, Program Manager, Siemens Healthcare, arrived ready to accept an intimidating challenge: Bring Marketing and Sales together for one common cause – generating quality leads.

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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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B2B Lead Generation

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.

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B2B Lead Generation

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Tweet Lead generation is somewhat like a tightrope act. Generate too many leads, and the rope between Sales and Marketing breaks. If you don’t generate enough leads that turn into sales, your ROI plummets.

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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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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. Per Hubspot, companies that publish content 16 times per month generate 4.5x Then, that piece of content would have 65 leads influenced.

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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. It can be helpful to have a reliable plan for generating leads when challenges loom (just like it can be helpful to have an evacuation plan before the building is on fire).

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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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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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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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B2B Lead Generation

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Tweet Generating leads organically can ease the qualifying process, throwing “bad” leads out that are simply not worth pursuing. According to the Salesforce 2015 State of Marketing report, lead quality is the No. Change the way leads are purchased.

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NetLine

JUNE 12, 2019

Is your ABM approach disconnected from your lead gen goal? The parade for account-based marketing seems to be a never-ending celebration, often leading to misguided trust in whatever strategy most people are doing. Myth: ABM helps you identify only the most relevant leads.

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Unbounce

APRIL 23, 2019

Lead generation is the number one challenge for marketers today. And it’s only going to get harder now that most Google search results pages have become saturated with promotional lead magnets masquerading as “great” content. Jump to a Creative Lead Gen Example.

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B2B Lead Generation

APRIL 6, 2015

Tweet Ask most executives and marketers what salespeople need to sell in this economy, and they will say one thing: more leads. That’s why many marketing and lead generation programs tend to focus on quantity. Second, it must manage all the incoming leads effectively.

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B2B Lead Generation

JUNE 16, 2014

Tweet Getting to the heart of lead cost is not easy. In today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, I wanted to explore cost per lead by sharing a few tips and insights from the panel of industry experts that spoke on the subject at MarketingSherpa Lead Gen Summit 2013.

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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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B2B PR Sense

JUNE 9, 2018

A lot of hard work and thought goes into converting someone into a lead -- from an irresistible offer , to an enticing CTA , and a killer landing page. The Relationship Between Lead Gen and B2B Content Marketing. Your content is what starts your lead generation ball rolling.

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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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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.

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B2B Lead Generation

APRIL 7, 2014

In today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, we’ll take a look at how a one small tweak to the copy on a lead generation page increased conversion and what we can learn from the results. Objective: To increase leads from quote requests. Tweet Words matter.

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B2B Lead Generation

JUNE 13, 2017

So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. Companies don’t typically call what salespeople do “lead generation” or “demand generation.” Even with the increase of content marketing and inbound marketing, I find salespeople get stuck carrying the load of prospecting for their leads.

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