The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. Buyers’ needs, not yours, drive the purchase process. Use Scoring and Grading to Your Advantage. Were you at the Marketo Summit?

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Marketo Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Marketing Automation 63

Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Account Based Marketing, often called ABM, is a strategy employed by B2B companies focused on targeting a precise list of high-value accounts. By personalizing the approach to specific accounts, companies using ABM show their prospects that they understand the challenges they’re facing, which increases engagement and leads to more sales.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Full Circle Insights Ideal Customer Profiles 98

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. For one, I can report that no companies are coming to our firm asking us to help them align sales and marketing. Enable sales reps to turn off lead nurturing for specific prospects from within the CRM system.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Frequently, this is due to a backlog of campaigns and other tactical needs – as soon as the platform is deployed, the company moves immediately into “campaign mode” to address that backlog, and never has the time thereafter to hit “pause” and address the big picture. Launching lead scoring too soon. Sending too many emails.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. What content do you have at your disposal (white paper, thought leadership , demo videos, etc )?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2013

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Your current white papers just don’t have the same impact as they once had … but why?

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Paper Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 40

NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 23, 2017

Facebook’s foray into Lead Ads has been around for 18 months now, but new developments occur frequently. Now, companies using the platform’s lead ads option can create promos that automatically populate their contact forms with users’ Facebook profile information. Using Lead Ads for B2B Lead Generation.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. If you send the prospect directly to the content (say, a white paper) upon him or her clicking in the email, how confident can you be that the individual is expressing an active interest in your topic?

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Landing Pages 100

Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Ideally, you are using this intent data, among other things, as an input to your lead scoring model. . Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on.

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Conversica

JUNE 22, 2022

Shifting perspectives from the former to the latter could improve the relevance of your Marketing team and improve outcomes for the Sales team. Marketing automation allows Marketers to disseminate information through blog posts, white papers, social media, email, and a variety of other avenues. Marketing as a Cost Center.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge – particularly in driving revenue for their business. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Without knowing which of your campaigns are driving sales, you don’t know which marketing channels you should be adding budget to or subtracting budget from.

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Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking Marketing Attribution Full Circle Insights 105

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

You’ve invested in interactive content and marketing tools for your website, helping prospects and customers assess their needs, size and price the right solution, and understand the business value and differentiating cost advantages of recommended solutions.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Interactive Marketing 45

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

To succeed in this new climate, you must adapt your tactics and shift your brand to become more human and digital native-friendly. For example, tracking leads, cost per lead, and closed deals will help you identify the program’s true ROI. that have been created by your marketing team and are lead generating.

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Webinar Metrics Ad Building B2B Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer 133

Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Marketing qualified leads. Everyone loves hearing about an increase in leads. More leads mean more people you can contact, nurture and convert into customers. But how do you know which leads are worth following up on? This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, there are only 8% of companies that have created a strong alignment between their sales and marketing departments. A company’s inability to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs them more than 10% in revenue per year.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Marketing qualified leads. Everyone loves hearing about an increase in leads. More leads mean more people you can contact, nurture and convert into customers. But how do you know which leads are worth following up on? This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 59

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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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads. To put this in perspective, conversion metrics ranked only #8 a year ago, rising from 32.6%

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!"

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights. Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Lead Management Features.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

At my previous company my success was measured by number of leads. If the total lead count was high, I was awesome. If I was short of my lead goal, I had some explaining to do. More leads equals more won deals. Management could understand these metrics. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Marketing qualified leads. Everyone loves hearing about an increase in leads. More leads mean more people you can contact, nurture and convert into customers. But how do you know which leads are worth following up on? This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution.

Lead Ranking 48

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 48

SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. The modern B2B buyer does a huge amount of research during their purchase process. is perfect top-of-funnel content. Unconvinced? Stay with me.

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Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 59

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Emarketing Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Management 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Many marketers understand the power of implementing automated drip campaigns to turn leads into customers by moving them through the sales cycle. Smart marketers know that it’s easier and more cost effective to sell to existing customers than it is to cultivate new leads. How much easier and more effective? Welcome Email.

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Campaigns Thought Leadership Marketing Automation Services CAN-SPAM 215

Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! Salespeople need leads—right now.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Leads 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. Q: What marketing metric(s) should I use to capture lead nurturing effectiveness? from those we do not.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Bringing your solution to life is one of the most important hurdles for a successful sales conversation. is a common spoken and unspoken question from prospects, and sales organizations that can tell the right story or demonstrate value through content get to that “a-ha” moment much faster. What does this mean for me ?”

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Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Content 48

Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. If someone downloaded a specific white paper or viewed a video, reference that action in your messages to them. Always be testing.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

" Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A great addition to Marketo’s Resources has been the Spear Marketing Group white paper, Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success , written by Howard Sewell. Not only is it a helpful resource when starting your lead nurturing , it also embodies and reinforces so many Marketo best practices.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 48

Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 17, 2011

by Carol Fox If your sales leads aren’t receiving lead nurturing efforts from marketing to convert them quickly into business, they ultimately aren’t going to benefit your bottom line. If your team excels in quantity but lacks in quality, try these three methods to improve the quality of your leads.

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Sales Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 48