For many of us B2B marketers, determining how to approach our leads and even figuring out where they are in the sales funnel can be a struggle. And with the responsibility to hand off leads to sales and contribute to the overall ROI of our organization, the pressure to be able to do so becomes […]
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B2B marketers often ask me if they were to create one video, what would it be? My answer is to get yourself a customer testimonial video (also called a case study video, or a success story video). Whatever you call them, they are incredibly effective at converting leads into customers and can be used in
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It’s important to follow through on leads. Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team. Seems like a simple definition,
Traditional database maintenance usually involves some combination of list vendors, professional database cleansing services, email scraping, and good old-fashioned personal outreach. There’s no perfect process. And with B2B data decaying at such a rapid rate—about 70% annually—for many businesses, even employing every strategy doesn’t quite cut it. It’s a daunting task that never goes away.
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Are you old enough to remember the first version of the internet? You’d do an internet search, and about 20,000 items came back as “relevant”? Maybe you searched for “cat videos” and you got website listings of all cities with the letters “c-a-t” in them, or you got a bunch of links to videos of
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Marketing and sales team are active players in the blame game. While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Sound familiar? According to MarketingSherpa, 61% of B2B marketers
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Are you chasing the golden goose, or are you on a wild goose chase? When you’re first starting out and trying to scale your company, it’s hard to know for sure. When we were still a small, scrappy team, we took a piecemeal approach to developing our sales process and didn’t involve anyone who actually
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Lead source is defined as the method by which a prospect found your product or service, and is an essential part of effective lead management. Lead source ensures that your leads remain measurable across the buyer’s journey. As you track the source of your lead through the funnel, you can quickly determine what is working
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With a new year fast approaching, now is the time to re-evaluate what lead gen strategies are worth keeping and which outdated habits should be kicked to the curb fast. Certain strategies, like content marketing and SEO, are enduring no-brainers that will continue to allow you to thrive in 2018. Others are pushing their way
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This transcript has been edited for length. To get the full measure, listen to the podcast. Michelle Huff: Can you tell us and the audience more about yourself and Seas Marketing? Kari Seas: Sure. I started Seas Marketing about a year and a half ago. And we focus on developing content marketing for technology companies,
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