ClickDimensions

JANUARY 22, 2024

First, the bad news: 79 percent of marketing leads never convert to customers. It’s lead nurturing, and with the right tools, mindset and content, it can be an easy and powerful way to convert more leads into customers. Get our top tips and insights for lead nurturing in this informative white paper.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

As a sales professional or as a marketer, if you engage with a qualified prospect and that prospect doesn’t convert immediately to an opportunity, there’s every reason to stay in touch with that individual over time. The post Why Lead Nurturing Success Means Not Asking for the Sale appeared first on The Point.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Valasys

MARCH 21, 2023

What is Lead Nurturing? B2B lead nurturing builds relationships with potential customers and guides them through the sales funnel to ultimately become paying customers. However, there can be several bottlenecks that can hinder the lead nurturing process. Such nurturing helps them turn into paying customers.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

There is no magic bullet for conversion, despite the many wild promises you may hear, but lead nurturing can drive huge improvements. In fact: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. Lack of lead nurturing is the common cause for poor performance ( MarketingSherpa ).

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

B2B marketers are still turning to lead nurturing campaigns to drive sales and grow their customer base, but are their efforts paying off? The “2017 Lead Nurturing and Acceleration Survey Report” from DemandGen recently shed light on how lead nurturing strategies are helping marketers achieve their objectives.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Lead nurturing is a powerful tool you can use to ensure your brand stays top of mind with prospects. It allows you to enroll contacts into a series of drip emails and nurture them further along the Buyer’s Journey. But did you know that 65 percent of B2B marketers have not established any lead nurturing?

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 27, 2021

Most of the leads you generate will need to be nurtured before they’ll convert into customers. As such, no inbound marketing campaign is going to be complete if you don’t implement a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy. What Is Lead Nurturing? The Benefits Of Lead Nurturing.

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If your organization is generating plenty of leads but those initial inquiries aren’t converting to sales qualified leads, meetings, or pipeline, a myriad of things could be at fault: 1) sales follow-up may be sub-standard in either cadence, frequency, or message. 2) lead nurturing. Better Lead Nurturing.

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markempa

JUNE 23, 2014

Tweet Marketing automation can help you manage lead nurturing efforts in a complex marketplace. As I mentioned at the start of this post, automation can help you manage lead nurturing, but you can’t automate trust. Lead Gen: 17% lift in lead capture by including more details in email [Case study].

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Act-On

MAY 9, 2018

Wondering what is lead nurturing? Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with your buyers at every stage of their buying process (and your sales funnel). Ready to start lead nurturing? Find out how to engage your B2B buyers throughout their journey in 5 steps.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The lead nurturing process walks a prospect through the stages of the sales funnel and continues through the sale. Proper execution requires knowing what to send when and ensuring that you’re adequately meeting your target market’s needs. The biggest contribution of personalization in lead nurturing is revenue and ROI.

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Ways to Excel Effective Lead Nurturing.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Why persevere with lead nurturing?

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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? Lead nurturing, that is.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How to use intent data in lead generation campaigns. Improving lead quality and scoring. Using intent data for lead nurturing and content syndication. Tracking and collecting intent data. Identifying a prospect's readiness to buy. Listen to the episode below:

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss? Comments welcome.

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Strategic-IC

MAY 29, 2018

A considered lead nurture strategy is important to support your sales and marketing activities and ensure prospects keep moving through the funnel. We explore 5 lead nurture tips to consider for an effective process. Why is Lead Nurturing Important? 5 Lead Nurturing Strategy Considerations.

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As B2B marketers, we are tasked with attracting ideal prospects to our B2B website, educating them to build trust in the products or services we provide, and then getting those prospects to take the first step – make contact with us via a website form, phone call, or email. What happens to your B2B marketing leads after they are qualified?

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? I have my concerns, however, about extending it to lead nurturing and the email medium.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. That means more intricate lead nurturing towards more stakeholders.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. That means more intricate lead nurturing towards more stakeholders.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

But content can do more than generate demand; the right content can also be invaluable to a successful lead nurturing campaign. Relevant content can take marketing automation process to the next level, and it can also help sales and account managers build better relationships with prospects and customers. About Caroline Watts.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

A couple of months ago, in a respected marketing Webzine, there appeared a case study detailing a software company that had gone to impressive lengths to make the most of their investment in marketing automation. Yes, you can tailor emails to fit every possible unique combination of demographic and behavioral criteria. Not really.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2016

That's where lead nurturing comes in : It's a way to stay connected to the leads you collect that aren't ready to buy from you yet, and build up trust until they are ready. If you want to learn more about lead nurturing in general, you can check out this guide. Holiday marketing is a common type of lead nurturing.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In an exclusive online event, discover how to get the most from your lead nurturing program, and how to plan for success if you’re just getting started. Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “ Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success ,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

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The Point

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Relevancy is one of the key factors in generating a consistent response from your lead nurturing emails: the more relevant your message to the reader’s job function, industry, interests, and stage in the selling cycle, the more likely he/she will be to respond. To download your free copy, click here.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Element #2 – Email – the most critical element of a lead nurturing platform is email. But Facebook? Tweet This!

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 5, 2011

The new buyer experience economy has resulted in shifting the economic value of many sales and marketing tactics over the past couple of years.    One approach whose value is on the rise is that of Lead Nurturing.  The approach taken towards lead nurturing could make a huge difference. 

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The Point

AUGUST 15, 2012

You know that monthly newsletter you blast to your entire database under the guise of “lead nurturing”? And those Webinar invitations that you broadcast to every trade show lead you’ve generated since 2005? There was a time when lead nurturing was synonymous with simply staying in front of prospects.

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The Point

MAY 18, 2010

That conclusion was prompted by this question, posed on Focus : “We want to start doing more lead nurturing with our leads, and really aren’t quite sure how to go about it. Do you use a specific software for lead nurturing? If so, what do you use, and how does it help build your pipeline?&#. It won’t.

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The Point

AUGUST 4, 2009

Do a quick Web search on “lead nurturing” these days, and you’ll find plenty of high-level, strategic content on the “whys” – how nurturing can improve demand generation ROI, increase conversion rates, accelerate sales cycles, recycle long-discarded prospects, etc.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 27, 2021

DemandGen recently published its “2021 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Benchmark Survey Report,” and statistics indicated that marketers are achieving their nurture initiatives using webinars (48%), thought leadership articles (41%), email newsletters (40%), and customer content (39%).

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 2010

To help you start the New Year, I’d like to wrap up my Lead Generation Checklist Series with the secret to successful lead generation – and, for that matter, marketing in today’s B2B space: lead nurturing. At it's core, B2B lead generation is about building relationships. Relevancy is the key.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy.

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