lead generation

In this free IDC analyst report, discover why coordinating the activities of marketing and sales—from day one of the revenue cycle—is essential for profitability. Learn how to stop the revenue loss that occurs during a prospect handoff; how to give sales the freedom to target more efficiently, while enabling marketing to build better prospect relationships; and how to choose software that tightens the marketing/sales alignment. Download your copy of this insightful report now.

This new Quantum Leap Marketing white paper explores how to effectively market and sell services with Webinars so that you get even more mileage out of your services marketing budget.

Marketing professionals continue to rate Webinars as one of the top tools for lead generation. Yet, many marketing departments still do not have a process in place to maximize Webinar results.

Setting the tone for your Webinars is crucial, from initial promotion efforts all the way through delivery of content and post event follow-up. How you interact with your prospects will determine whether they advance along the sales cycle or lose interest.

Presenting online is a completely different ballgame from presenting in person. Sure, you don't have to fret about what to wear or if you're going to trip on stage, but you do have to worry about how to engage, interact, involve and understand your audience; all while you cannot even see them!

Struggling to determine the impact of your lead-generation efforts? Making blind marketing decisions and hoping for the best? Cross your fingers no more!

As an industry, our ability to seize the potential for social media for lead generation is stifled by one thing: an outdated mindset. We still think advertising is advertising and social media is something else. In fact, advertising and social media are the same thing: they're content. The moment we realize that all marketing is content, we can break through the campaign mindset and find new ways to fuel powerful brand interactions-the kind that fuel transactions. In this white paper, you'll learn about several ways to transform your Web site into a lead generation machine with distributed content marketing.

As the approach to strategic business decision making becomes more and more data driven, a method for consolidating our various data sets, which are often spread across multiple systems becomes exceedingly important. Two of the biggest players in data driven decision making are website analytics platforms and customer relationship management systems. The former includes accumulating data on top of the funnel behavior such as site traffic origins, lead generation, content consumption tracking, device usage, and overall site behavior. While the latter has a focus more on bottom of the funnel activity such as lead nurturing, customer status, lifetime value, etc. Lastly, without communication between these two essential platforms, a complete understanding of your customers, from lead to longtime client, may never be possible. A web analytics (Google Analytics) and CRM integration provides you with a 360 degree view of your customer base, so that you can understand not just what PPC efforts

A recent MarketingSherpa Webinar on the topic of high-conversion content uncovered five burning questions from participants about specific types of content. This brief explores these questions and offers advice and strategies for content creation and distribution.

Marketers, managers and technologists all need real-time performance insights at their fingertips. Webtrends invites you to experience the award-winning Analytics 10, unified analytics uniquely made for digital marketing professionals in this webinar featuring Logitech and 3M.

The way companies use and pay for customer relationship management (CRM) software has changed significantly over the past decade. Moving from a predominantly perpetual license-based system, where companies paid a large up-front sum and then smaller annual maintenance fees, CRM software providers are now moving towards monthly or annual subscription fees to access CRM software on the Internet.

orrester believes that CMOs who personally participate in social media will be better at leading the new brand experience, and leading a new generation of cross-functional marketing organizations.

Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization. Be among the first to get complimentary access to this new report now! Silver Peak is leading the way into a new era of software-defined WAN optimization. Now more than ever, organizations like yours depend on the wide area network to connect their data centers, branch offices and the cloud. They see that better network performance means better bottom-line results, and Silver Peak gives them the most comprehensive and flexible options for network acceleration, and the most innovative approach to the next-generation WAN.

The proliferation of file sync and share (FSS) products and other cloud services designed for consumers, along with mobile devices, leads to improper sharing of corporate data. Information that leaves your firewalls can live forever, and without adequate protection, can end up in the wrong hands. So what’s the solution? Protect your information with next-generation information rights management (IRM) technology. You can email, copy, upload or share any IRM-secured document — and the protection travels with it. Key topics include: The threat posed by Dropbox and other consumer-grade FSS providers The need for lifetime control of information and content The ability to perform audits, and locate files, anywhere, and who accessed them How next generation IRM technology is available to add a new layer of security to every file Information technology professionals interested in using IRM for secure collaboration don’t want to miss this important report.

You need an answer fast. You searched online and almost got the answer, but require a little more information without having to call someone. What do you do? Fortunately, in today's customer service world, there are options. Download this White Paper for more information.

According to Forrester, 72% of customers prefer using a company’s Website to answer their questions. But only 52.4% find the information they need online. Customers want to solve their issues quickly and easily on the Web. When they can, they are likely to buy more, with 88% saying they will increase their spending. Download this White Paper for more information.

Today customers look to engage with organizations through an increasing number of channels – and expect more from every customer service and support experience. As a result, connecting customers quickly and efficiently with the information they need has become doubly important: both as a means to reduce service costs in a harsh economic climate, and as a key battleground in the drive to establish competitive differentiation and edge.

You need an answer fast. You searched online and almost got the answer, but require a little more information without having to call someone. What do you do? Fortunately, in today's customer service world, there are options. Download this White Paper for more information.

According to Forrester, 72% of customers prefer using a company’s Website to answer their questions. But only 52.4% find the information they need online. Customers want to solve their issues quickly and easily on the Web. When they can, they are likely to buy more, with 88% saying they will increase their spending. Download this White Paper for more information.

Social-enabled customer service requires three primary capabilities. The capability to: 1. Listen and Respond: Treat Social Media as an Integrated Interaction Channel Most social-enabled contact centers are at the early adopter stage, attempting to “bolt on” social media as a side process. Many are experiencing inconsistent customer experiences, higher costs and negligible return on investments. Download this White Paper for more info.

You need an answer fast. You searched online and almost got the answer, but require a little more information without having to call someone. What do you do?

You need an answer fast. You searched online and almost got the answer, but require a little more information without having to call someone. What do you do?

You need an answer fast. You searched online and almost got the answer, but require a little more information without having to call someone. What do you do?

Lead generation has become an important strategy for modern marketers, as they strive to create demand and get their messages heard by increasingly sophisticated, multi-channel buyers. In today’s complex world, marketers should use lead generation to build brand awareness, nurture prospects and customers, qualify leads, and ultimately generate measurable revenue. In this comprehensive, 160 page guide, we cover topics ranging from content marketing and website SEO to telesales and content syndication — all through the lens of lead generation. Packed full of checklists, charts, and thought leadership from the leading experts in marketing today, The Definitive Guide to Lead Generation will teach you how to collect information from prospects across every channel, and deliver the highest quality leads to your sales team.

Enterprise marketers have larger sends and bigger budgets, which increases their need to A/B test new techniques, layouts, and messaging for lead generation campaigns. Optimizing and improving conversion rates can make a big difference in marketing ROI, and lead to proven tactics and techniques organizations can adopt over time.