Customer Experience Matrix

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OneSource Survey: Salespeople Accept Value of Leads from Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: A survey of business-to-business salespeople finds they (still) consider themselves their best source of qualified leads. But marketing-generated leads are gaining increasing respect and salespeople are increasingly looking for help from outside data vendors. Events and trade shows actually rank below all of these.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Information can come from sources beyond the lead itself. Filling out a Web form may also contribute to lead scoring.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey: Half of Users Deploy Basic Features in One Week

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This suggests that marketers are quickly gaining value from their systems, but also highlights the need for continued training to be sure they take advantage of all system capabilities. lead transfer to CRM 18 5 8 0 2 2 35 0.94 lead scoring 12 7 3 0 10 4 36.89 multi-step lead nurturing campaign 8 10 7 2 5 4 36 0.89

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Marketing Automation User Satisfaction: Clearly, There's Room for Improvement (and maybe a little vodka)

Customer Experience Matrix

The first insights come from G2 Crowd , a research firm that ranks software based on user ratings and social data. Here we see a very different story: marketing automation and lead nurturing (listed separately) are clear outliers in a bad way: among the less effective tactics and the hardest to execute. But I doubt it.

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FlipMyFunnel Conference on Account-Based Marketing Comes to Austin on June 7

Customer Experience Matrix

The most fundamental is an account-based view of your customer and prospect data: while traditional marketing automation systems are organized around individual leads, ABM demands organization around accounts. Account based lead scoring is also a relatively recent improvement that still isn’t universally available.

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The Marketing Funnel Is Dead. Let's Have Dessert.

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s post on lead scoring attracted more positive attention than I expected. This was doubly surprising because first, I didn’t think lead scoring was such a hot topic and second, I don’t really agree with the approaches I described. The approach was using lead scoring as a way to define lead stages.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.