The Point

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

How is it that a quality white paper on a hot topic can still generate bad leads? Even a well-written white paper, by a respected author, on a hot topic of vital interest to your target audience, can still generate leads your salespeople will consider “junk.” It’s got to be the media, right? It’s the offer.

Paper 100

Paper Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

The Point

JULY 18, 2011

Dollar for dollar, white papers continue to be some of the most effective offers for most high-technology marketers. Prospects are usually more likely to download or otherwise register for a white paper vs. a Webinar, free trial, etc. Benefits/Applications/ROI (including case studies, if possible).

Paper 100

Paper Lead Generation Sample Lead Ranking 100

NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Well, your firm has written and produced a white paper. A quality white paper can one of the most important content marketing vehicles to generate leads within your internet marketing plan. Your ultimate goals with white papers are typically the following: . . Now what? How do you promote it? Newsletter.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Paper Lead Generation Promotion 100

WriteSpark

MARCH 17, 2009

Many companies use white papers at the beginning of the sales cycle to attract prospects. A white paper can set the agenda for a purchase decision by convincing the reader that the areas where your product is better than its competition are the most important to consider.

Paper 120

Paper Purchase Sales Cycle Copywriting 120

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

Sales Qualified Leads 71

Sales Qualified Leads Intent Data Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 71

Writing on the Web

APRIL 4, 2011

It doesn’t matter what you call your information (white paper/eBook, microsite/landing page), what matters is using information wisely to get found, get known and get clients. Is Your White Paper a Sales Pitch in Disguise? Guest Post by Lauren Carlson, SoftwareAdvice.com. So, now what? Below is a summary.

Paper 100

Paper Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Microsite 100

Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

White papers are powerful sources of lead generation. We asked our panel of white paper experts "What are the top 2 components of a white paper that is most effective to generate leads?" He is also the author of the White Paper Pundit blog. " Read on to get their insights.

Paper 100

Paper Lead Generation Enterprise Management Generation 100

Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? Email nurture campaigns help you build affinity with both customers and prospects. If so, that’s a great first step.

Lead Nurturing 197

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 197

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you know your white paper audience? Are those concerns being addressed in your white papers? We asked white paper experts " How should a white paper that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from a white paper that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker?

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 100

WriteSpark

AUGUST 12, 2009

Every time I see a long-form, copy-heavy sales document these days, my first reaction is "Why do marketers still think prospects will read this?" Does this mean I think white papers are no longer effective as marketing documents? No, not at all. But they do need to change in length, content, and presentation.

Paper 120

Paper Copywriting Marketing Prospects Effectiveness 120

Marketing Craftmanship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s why: Most firms still don’t understand that marketing content is NOT about sales. Blog posts or press releases extolling the features and benefits of your firm’s whiz-bang new product or service are more likely to be read by competitors than by prospects.

Marketing AI 147

Marketing AI Paid Search Agency Copywriting Thought Leadership 147

Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

What impact does this have on the readers of our white papers? How do we ensure that our white paper is not only read but also acted upon? Jonathan Kantor addresses this question and more in his new book Crafting White Paper 2.0: Crafting White Paper 2.0 Tell us about The White Paper Company.

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 100

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 31, 2022

You’ve moved prospects through the sales funnel and they’re finally ready to buy or maybe book a demo. . That can include purchases, of course, but also white paper downloads, filling out a form, or reading a specific number of pages. . But GA4 uses conversions a little differently. . So, what’s next?

Marketing Analytics Tools 245

Marketing Analytics Tools Conversion B2B Marketing B2B 245

Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

Sales Cycle 233

Sales Cycle Practices Marketing Automation Services Buyer Personas 233

Ambal's Amusings

MAY 6, 2010

We asked white paper experts: " How should 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)? He is also the author of the White Paper Pundit blog.

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 100

SnapApp

JULY 28, 2015

Say you’ve created an amazing white paper that’s jam-packed with important information for your audience. Maybe it’s time to make your white paper interactive. At a basic level, an interactive white paper is a dialogue , whereas static long-form content is a monologue. What Is an Interactive White Paper?

Paper 48

Paper Interactive Marketing B2B Marketing Peer-to-peer 48

Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 11, 2010

Many companies are producing video white papers as online presentations based on information that would normally go into a printed white paper. We asked our panel of white paper experts "In what scenarios should video white papers be used? What are components of a good video white paper?

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Case Study Case Studies 100

The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Add in the fact that B2B sales cycles are typically long and complex (meaning that advertisers may not see ROI for weeks or months), and it becomes clear that thriving in today’s SEM landscape requires getting a lot of things right. Not Doing Everything Possible to Pre-Qualify Prospects. Most B2B sales cycles are long and complex.

Cost per Acquisition 235

Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Campaigns Cost Per Click 235

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

How do you concisely convey the information you want to present in your white paper? How long should a white paper be to convey information and yet hold readers interest from start to end? We have invited White Paper Experts to shed light on the following question: "What is the ideal length of a white paper?"

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management Case Studies 100

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. How Does Dirty Data Affect Sales?

Data Hygiene 251

Data Hygiene Buyer Personas Churn Rate B2B 251

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 27, 2009

Eloqua yesterday announced Eloqua Prospect Profiler , which makes it easier for salespeople to review prospect behaviors that are captured by the demand generation system. This makes it harder for salespeople to understand prospects and build relationships with them. Back to Eloqua Prospect Profiler.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Paper Profiling Marketing Automation Services 120

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?

Paper 40

Paper Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 40

BOP Design

JANUARY 4, 2022

Sales Pitches Disguised as Blogs. Now, as marketers, we understand that sales and revenue generation are the ultimate objective for the B2B brands we work with. A common misstep that we see companies make is to create a blog post that is really just a sales pitch parading around as a blog post. Has this ever happened to you?

Tactics 105

Tactics B2B Thought Leadership Content Marketing Webinar Metrics 105

Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. However, lead generation and lead qualification are often used interchangeably- they represent distinct yet interconnected stages within the marketing and sales funnel.

Lead Qualification 71

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring 71

Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

To that end, here are nine recommendations for strategies and tactics to get the attention of both search engines and your prospective customers or website visitors. Affiliate sales support independent publishing One of the largest and most effective syndicators is Aggregage. Fresh Content Google loves fresh content. Sites like Inc.,

Paid Content 243

Paid Content Aggregage Marketing Websites Paid Search Agency 243

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Require an email address or contact information for big pieces of content, like ebooks and white papers. Gathering Leads for Sales. Another benefit of exclusive B2B content is lead generation, which is not only helpful to marketers (as it proves their value) but also helps the sales team fill their pipeline with qualified leads.

Sales Qualified Leads 152

Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring 152

Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

White papers come in all shapes and forms. Our Panel of White Paper Experts have written and reviewed thousands of white papers over the years. Which white paper stands out in their mind? Michael Stelzner's Favorite White Paper -- The Expanding Digital Universe. Jonathan Kantor.

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Work Management SME 100

Content Standard

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

A new report suggests that while email maintains several critical features that drive its value, white papers prove two times more effective at driving audience conversions. White paper content is one of three forms of information that more than half of B2B buyers examine when researching a purchase. billion in sales.

Paper 40

Paper Conversion Tools B2B 40

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. And this problem drives a deeper wedge between marketing and sales. The Bottom Line: When marketing gathers up new names from contact forms and dumps them over to sales, no one wins.

Lead Ranking 283

Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads 283

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You’ll also use your customer personas to guide future marketing and sales efforts.

Lead Ranking 246

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Generation 246

The Point

MAY 17, 2021

That’s not simply because prospective customers will engage more readily with content that better aligns with whether they’re researching best practices, actively evaluating potential vendors, or somewhere in between. Use of very short-term metrics will almost certainly devalue those leads and the perceived ROI from the program.

Marketing Management 207

Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Demand Generation Agencies 207

Lead Liaison

JUNE 6, 2019

A successful sale is but the last piece of the puzzle that is the sales process. Sales prospecting is key among these steps and this article will tell you how you can nail it. Sales prospecting is, quite simply, the process of searching for potential customers in order to grow your business.

Sales Qualified Leads 55

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Work Management 55

The Point

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I was left a voicemail earlier this week by a sales rep that I talked to (briefly) about 6 months ago. 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.

Lead Nurturing 224

Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 224

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

Top of Funnel 179

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 179

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Demonstrate That Your Company Has The Answers To be both a successful and highly respected business, your brand must demonstrate its trustworthiness and authority to prospective and current clients. Each of your B2B consumers inevitably has many questions about the products or services available to them.

Tactics 253

Tactics Effectiveness B2B Marketing Management 253

The Point

APRIL 19, 2017

The best demand generation campaigns start with content that your prospects want. Does the topic help to qualify the prospect as someone suffering from a problem or pain point your product/service can solve? Personally, I’ve seen some white papers continue to generate leads year after year with only minor updates.

Top of Funnel 214

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Paper 214

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Personalization Challenges Successful ABM campaigns depend on personalized communication tailored to each prospect’s specific needs. Share examples pertaining to situations and problems your prospects already know. As the pain points are niched several levels deep, challenges occur. Sharing relevant data points and case studies.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95