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What Exactly Is a Nurture Campaign?

Leadspace

Just the other day I found myself defining for a co-worker what exactly a nurture campaign is and isn’t, and in doing so I ran across some great content that helps to clarify things a bit and wanted to share. Lead Nurturing Is…. It’s one that encompasses email, direct mail, telemarketing, and social media.

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Prospect Experience Marketing: Find the Gold in Your Lead Generation Program

Biznology

In my opinion, too much of the prospecting is being handled by a black box. Prospects today are called by pushy appointment setters, or being read tedious scripts by low-level telemarketers, or being barraged with email. The secret is in mixing up the media. You can’t depend entirely on email. You need balance.

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OneSource Survey: Salespeople Accept Value of Leads from Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

Most of my interactions are with marketers, so it was interesting to see the opinions of 136 salespeople reported in a recent survey from data vendor OneSource. By far the leader was “outbound prospecting”, which is a bit frightening given the high cost of such leads.

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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

Contacts from companies that are qualified as leads but not yet passed to sales can end up landing in the target list for an email blast or an event invitation. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process. Marketing automation might be used to help setup triggers and automated touch points.

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Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales

Industrial Marketing Today

Brien, VP of Sales Enablement at Bulldog Solutions , summarized the problem very well in his recent article where he wrote, “In general, salespeople don’t like leads. I know how strange that might sound, but for most companies, leads mean more work and very little to show for it. Instead, salespeople want opportunities. ”.

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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Sales cycles are longer in a down economy: Marketing automation supports drip marketing campaigns for lead nurturing to maintain top of mind awareness over a longer sales process. Lead nurturing of a vast majority (up to 70% according to some studies) of site visitors and prospects who are not “sales ready” right now.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead Generation via Industry Experts

markempa

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Four steps to garner expert referrals: Map out the key players, experts, opinion molders in your industry.