Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. B2B marketing and lead generation experts point to a lack of lead nurturing as the primary cause of this poor performance. Why is lead nurturing important? What is lead nurturing?

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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 Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns. Good luck with that.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2018

One of our client’s guest blogging objectives is to generate increased organic traffic to their website that will convert into leads. White Papers and E-Books. The goals for white papers and e-books can be to: Generate qualified leads. If your goal is to attract leads, it’s easy to measure.

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The Point

AUGUST 10, 2009

When marketing automation vendor Marketo released their “Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing” last week (see earlier post) they knew pretty quickly they had a hit on their hands. Think about it: that’s 1,000 sales leads (and make no mistake, that’s what they [.].

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We also know that, as marketers and salespeople, we need to understand where our prospects are in the sales process in order to utilize appropriate strategies, and lead scoring helps you make that a reality. What Is Lead Scoring? Lead Scoring Disclaimer. Lead scoring is not a process that can be done by marketing alone.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2012

This can have massive impact on lead generation. Inspired by Galileo, here are five lead generation experimentation ideas for your B2B marketing. For example, if interest is lead generation and you’re in the B2B environment, test free information (a white paper or special report ) against a free initial consultation.

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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. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in August 2009.

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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 a powerful addition to any search engine marketing campaign.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Remember the days when cold calling was one of the primary ways sales reps managed lead generation ? Marketing generates and nurtures leads until they are sales-ready. Lead Generation: Have You Evolved Past Cold Calling? With the new changes in B2B sales, namely Sales 2.0

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2015

One new set of insights published by DemandGen Report and Marketo is the 2015 Demand Gen Report Benchmark Study. Registration required – no they didn’t ask me for a promo, but I respect a good lead capture!). Overall, more than one third (38%) of B2B marketers expect their demand generation budgets to grow by 20% or more in 2015.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Follow these six ways for increasing conversion rates and improving lead generation: 1. Include a mock-up of the white paper or photo of the webinar presenter. Test: Testing is an essential tool for lead generation. Testing the landing page can lead to increased conversion rates of up to 115% or more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 11, 2011

When dissatisfied customers come knocking, do you shy away from the work it takes to not just resolve the situation but to make lemonade from those lemons, or do you look the other way and hope for a bucketful of new leads to even out the playing field? Are you leveraging white papers and webinars?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Employee advocacy allows you to fast forward your social media marketing strategy by empowering employees to share organic content across their personal profiles, in turn, driving brand awareness , engagement, and lead generation. that have been created by your marketing team and are lead generating. Ready, Steady, Go!

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Leadspace

MAY 3, 2017

We gained an insight into some of those pearls of wisdom at Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit earlier this week. Senior marketing thought-leaders from our partners at Marketo, Microsoft and Facebook, joined us for a thought-provoking panel, chaired by Leadspace CEO Doug Bewsher, on how to run killer advertising and demand gen campaigns.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In order of simplest to most advanced, these include: Opportunity lead source. Opportunity Lead Source. Lead source” is a native system drop-down field on lead records. Things get murkier when multiple leads are entered into Salesforce from the same person (email address). UTM tracking. Salesforce campaigns.

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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. Salespeople need leads—right now. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? So marketing tries to feed the pipe.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Fortunately, you can use videos to solicit more information from potential customers when they are most engaged because videos make for great lead generation tools once they’re optimized. Ultimately a generic email gate like this isn’t great for video you might want to share securely with select customers or groups.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

With this plan in hand, no matter where you plan to use your messaging, you can be sure that your story is consistent—adding credibility to your brand—across blogs, tradeshows, webinars, white papers, your website and other distribution points. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

You add in some of your company’s expertise taking a position on the stance of the expert and turn the transcription into a white paper. Feature the white paper on your website and as an email offer. Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Maria Pergolino.

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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? Within a 3-month period of execution for the program, the combination enabled the company to reactivate dormant leads and add $4.5M

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Before you start sending messages at scale, segment the leads in your database to organize them by categories such as lead source, content downloaded, industry, or size of company. 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

AUGUST 27, 2010

Pick two pieces of content(ebook, white paper, flash video, total cost of ownership calculator) that you consider outstanding - 1 example of a B2B Marketing content addressed to a Technical Decision Maker and 1 B2B Marketing content addressed to a Business Decision Maker" Read on to get their insights. Ardath Albee Recommends.

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The whole point of an inbound marketing strategy is to attract targeted and qualified leads and turn them into customers, so your strategy needs to be built around those clear buyer personas and have a plan in place for each stage of the buyer’s journey. So if you’re starting a blog, for example, you need to create a content strategy.

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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. Until the marketing automation system indicates that your lead is qualified and ready for direct sales engagement.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A client asks: “If we’re planning on using a particular white paper as part of a lead generation campaign, or even for lead nurturing , is it a good idea to remove that same content asset from our main Website? I’m concerned about people bypassing the campaign and just downloading the paper from our site.”.

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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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Tomorrow People

MARCH 22, 2018

Wanna know the secret sauce to a great lead generation website and how it feeds into your overall content marketing strategy to deliver leads and ROI? Strategy for lead generation — content marketing’s primary goal — involves looking at what you want your website to do, rather than what it is. Process, not points.

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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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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

Improving email campaign measurement won’t generate more leads or better leads, in and of itself, but it will help accomplish both those goals by providing the data necessary to identify what’s truly working. Leads/Response Rate. Leads are at least a measure of genuine interest. Nothing else really matters.

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

To learn more about this process, read our Seven Steps to Generating ROI with B2B Content white paper. Make your website a lead machine – Your website plays a starring role in ABM and should operate as a lead gen machine. Last, but certainly not least, include a strong call to action (CTA) in every piece.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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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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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

But how will you easily integrate these tools with your Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) so you can effectively capture leads, and nurture these opportunities properly the buyers journey? Feed campaign ID to the tool – It is important to track where specific traffic, leads and opportunities are sourced from.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. How to Choose Your Carrot: Effective Lead Generation Offers for High-Technology Marketers (White Paper).

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? White papers.

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