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. Use Scoring and Grading to Your Advantage. So make sure you know which leads are sales-ready by using lead scoring.

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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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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. As the website proves its link-worthiness, it gradually climbs up in Google’s search engine rankings, making it more likely people will find it and, thus, increasing organic visits. Goal Assessment.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

It can be hard to know if your content is generating leads or boosting brand awareness. Monitor lead generation forms completed by visitors arriving from syndicated content. Essential Tools for Data Collection: Marketing automation platforms like HubSpot and Marketo are invaluable tools for B2B marketers.

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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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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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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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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. Enable sales reps to turn off lead nurturing for specific prospects from within the CRM system.

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Walker Sands

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

After identifying the need for a more sophisticated tracking and integration, Sendbird also looked to Walker Sands to play a key role in its Marketo standup, which included optimizing lead scoring, establishing integrations for paid campaign tracking, and advancing data enrichment and integrity.

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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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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 )? How often do you publish new content ?

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SnapApp

MAY 4, 2017

You might remember it as the week that both Marketo and Oracle/Eloqua hosted their massive marketing conferences, one in San Francisco and one in Las Vegas. . Lead-gated white papers may not be dead, but they are on life support. We gave away 300 Mimosas in about 90 minutes at Marketo. Mimosas for the win.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

Nothing says, “I’m not listening” like getting an automated email about a free trial that a lead already signed up for with a sales rep. These AI-powered marketing programs can crawl your site for blog articles, case studies, white papers, ebooks, videos, etc. Agree on Qualified Leads and Accounts from the Beginning.

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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 considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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PathFactory

JUNE 29, 2020

To achieve this, I want to introduce you to a tactic that will garner more repeat engagement from the leads you’ve generated from any channel. Using this method, we were able to encourage our most engaged leads to come back to our content for an additional 183% more engagement. How to make it happen in PathFactory + Marketo.

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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% Great question.

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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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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Launching lead scoring too soon. Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. For example, Marketo users might see links that reference something that looks like: mkto-af53353.com.) Lack of segmentation.

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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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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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SmartBug Media

APRIL 4, 2022

As marketers, our job is to help our sales teams find high-quality leads. You may use outbound marketing to try and catch your audience’s attention, or you might use inbound marketing to attract leads to your website. These leads are perfect for your sales team because they’re already hot! What Is Intent Data?

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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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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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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. Asking viewers to enter their email address before gaining access to a video allows you to create a new lead as soon as a prospect expresses interest.

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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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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? Begin With the End in Mind.

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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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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. For example, tracking leads, cost per lead, and closed deals will help you identify the program’s true ROI.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 20, 2015

To get the ebook, you have to fill out a lead form on a landing page — no big deal. You balance the need for rich data and quality prospects with high numbers and low cost per lead. Advantages of Shorter Lead Forms . As you may have guessed, shorter lead forms improve conversions. Are you still interested?

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Conversica

JUNE 22, 2022

Marketing automation allows Marketers to disseminate information through blog posts, white papers, social media, email, and a variety of other avenues. The value of technology to the company has grown exponentially because there’s clear evidence that the output of marketing collateral converts prospects and leads to customers.

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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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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

Vendors like Demandbase and Marketo website personalization leverage this information to personalize the content displayed. Marketing Automation Platforms like Marketo and Eloqua then track each page view associated with this person’s email. The value – and challenges – of 3rd party behavioral data.

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The Point

MARCH 25, 2016

A Webinar invitation should sell the value of the event, period. An effective registration page, one that maximizes conversion rates, reinforces the value of the event – perhaps by providing additional, more detailed information like speaker bios or an agenda. Marketo, Pardot) with your Webinar platform (e.g. Citrix, Webex.)

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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. Improving lead quality requires a commitment from sales and marketing to focus on both quality and quantity, not just one or the other.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

If you suspected that my last two blog posts were a way to avoid writing a post that ranks vendors on usability, you’re probably right. offering a white paper or promoting a Webinar) and the larger process of managing the flow of treatments. You must also consider how a system moves leads from one campaign to another.

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