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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, TheDefinitive 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. ResizedImage389253 dog with laptop lead generation You’ll learn how to: Define a lead and understand his or her buying journey Build a robust lead generation strategy t

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If you’re a small-to-midsized business (SMB), you know that you’re operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing business environment. Customers want their demands met instantly, and increasing competition multiplies the pressure you’re under. If you can’t deliver, you can be sure somebody else will. Fortunately, the technology landscape is changing the way you do business. Mobility, social media, and Big Data are leveling the playing field and making it possible for companies like yours to access more sophisticated technology, reach bigger audiences, target their messages, and innovate in their offerings. Yet nothing has changed the landscape so much as the cloud.

Advertisers have made great strides in understanding consumers’ digital journeys. But in order to truly map the steps of the consumer – including bridging the journeys between digital and physical worlds – you need advanced location-enabled intelligence. Find out how precise real-world geometry gives you the context you require to create personalized consumer experiences with the HERE and Location-Based Marketing Association (LBMA) white paper. HERE Technologies gives you the location context you need to make sense of your dynamic user data. Mapping consumer movements to real-world elements such as points of interest, retailers and their building shapes allows you to observe consumer journeys to within meters, and deliver more timely, accurate campaign messages.

If you’re wondering whether you should really prioritize email in your marketing—especially when new channels continually emerge—consider this: 91 percent of marketing executives agree that email is their most effective channel.1 Clearly, email isn’t just here to stay, it’s the mainstay. And with the ability to personalize and contextualize messages, upgrade mobile campaigns, and better understand customer needs, email marketing has evolved into a stronger and smarter version of its former self.

Every day we use location apps on smartphone devices to get us where we need to go, and to find services and products we’re looking for. However, smartphone location apps aren’t just helping individuals navigate their way around. Forward-thinking businesses are using these apps to help them get their messages straight to the right audience, at the right time, too. It’s why the connected car and in-map location marketing is a growing area of opportunity—helping companies to meet KPIs whilst transforming the landscape of marketing at the same time. This on-demand webinar with experts from HERE and eMarketer discusses how to improve location-based audience segmentation and build a more accurate consumer profiles, as well as how real-time location targeting enables hyper-targeted marketing campaigns.

To successfully meet customer demands for more immediate, personalized attention, companies are leveraging new technologies that go beyond traditional voice and email. By implementing such channels as live chat, social media, mobile apps, SMS/text messages, self-help solutions, and more, companies can now be ready wherever and however the customer wants. The following report, sponsored by Zendesk, is based on an online survey of 1,044 U.S. consumers who have received online or phone customer service. The research goal was to better understand present customer expectations and to quantify the impact of customer service on business results. Questions were asked about past experiences with customer service, as well as preferences and opinions. Certain questions were repeated from a similar 2013 survey to enable trend analysis.

This report lays out the opportunities to use mobile messaging as well as how to use the IDEA cycle to identify the most important moments and tactics so you can use messaging to its full potential.

BEC attacks are a growing threat to businesses because they prey on vulnerabilities that can’t be patched: people. That’s why employee training, financial controls, and especially technology are the keys to a strong defense and timely response. You need need a solution that does not solely depend on reputation and basic email filtering. With granular controls, advanced email solutions can identify and quarantine impostor emails before they reach an employee’s inbox.

De nos jours, les auteurs d'attaques, toujours plus inspirés, utilisent des outils automatisés pour puiser des informations sur leurs cibles dans les profils — souvent publics — disponibles sur les médias sociaux. Ils savent donc où vous travaillez. De même, le poste que vous occupez, vos centres d'intérêt, vos loisirs, votre situation matrimoniale ou encore vos précédents emplois n'ont plus aucun secret pour eux. Ils se servent de ces informations pour élaborer des messages convaincants qui vous incitent à cliquer sur une pièce jointe ou une URL malveillante. Si vous tombez dans le piège, une charge active malveillante est injectée dans votre système.

Automated application quality assurance and testing are fundamental to the delivery of the service levels and managed risks that are essential to delivering business outcomes you can depend on. In this context, CA’s mainframe Application Quality Management and Testing Tools send very strong messages: the tools are being actively developed and, where appropriate, integrated with equivalent tools on the distributed platforms, to help companies deliver holistic, automated, business services.

Benefits engagement is low. But employees are already overwhelmed with emails, texts, instant messages and more. Castlight Health can help to break through the noise. Their health benefits platform engages employees in their benefits, provides the right information at the right time and helps employees make better healthcare decisions.

Real-time marketing is one of those buzzwords that sounds good. But, when you ask someone what it means, you get a pretty fuzzy answer. So, we decided to clarify that answer with exclusive research, produced in association with Econsultancy, that provides a snapshot of the real-time marketing landscape in 2014. Inside this report, you’ll learn how to leverage best real-time marketing practices to drive better customer experiences and increased revenue.

From social selling to personalized sales messages, the tips on the following pages will help your sales reps prioritize the automation features that they’ll find the most useful. Understand the benefits for the different types of sales team members, including Business Development Reps (or cold-callers), Account Executives, and Sales Managers — then get ready to put what you’ve learned into practice!

AFTER DECADES IN THE LIMELIGHT, email remains the most powerful channel for eCommerce marketers. And this success continues even as many eCommerce marketing teams rely heavily on batch and blast emails that go to their entire list without any customization. While such efforts clearly bring in revenue, they also leave money — a lot of money — on the table. Recognizing that largely untapped opportunity, top eCommerce marketers have started to take a more strategic approach to email. In addition to traditional batch and blast campaigns, these marketers now tailor messages based on both their customers’ behaviors and changes to their product data in order to send more customized and timely messages.

Today’s tech savvy consumers are continually driving organizations to deliver a modernized shopping experience. To achieve this, retailers are pushing the edge on developing non-traditional ways in delivering sales messages. One of the best ways to engage shoppers with an in-store digital presence is through modern adaptive signages. Modern signages enable two-way interaction between customers and businesses, tapping onto cutting-edge technologies such as sensors and analytics to respond to customer behavior—helping retailers customize content on the fly. Find out how Giada Technology leveraged on Intel® processors to power up their cloud terminals to pre-process signage, sensor, and mobile data to efficiently exchange information with the cloud. Retailers are better positioned to present contextual promotions to the shoppers, delivering benefits of lesser wait-time and increased customer satisfaction.

Aberdeen’s Content Marketing survey revealed that while 95% of marketers are using or considering using a content marketing strategy, there are some distinct differences between those using content well and those just using content. The Best-in-Class are not only creating content at volume, they are taking a much more data-driven approach to their content marketing strategy — and it’s paying off. Find out how.

Aberdeen’s research shows that 90% of Best-in-Class marketers report fueling lead generation efforts with content marketing. What do you need to know to follow this best practice of the Best-in-Class? That’s exactly what this Knowledge Brief is intended to uncover.

This report examines the pressing need to break down data silos due to the damage they cause to analytical initiatives and user engagement. Read this report to find out more.

Advertisers have made great strides in understanding consumers’ digital journeys. But in order to truly map the steps of the consumer – including bridging the journeys between digital and physical worlds – you need advanced location-enabled intelligence. Find out how precise real-world geometry gives you the context you require to create personalized consumer experiences with the HERE and Location-Based Marketing Association (LBMA) white paper. HERE Technologies gives you the location context you need to make sense of your dynamic user data. Mapping consumer movements to real-world elements such as points of interest, retailers and their building shapes allows you to observe consumer journeys to within meters, and deliver more timely, accurate campaign messages.

Unlike email, instant messages (IMs) do not allow group communication; nor do they persist -- you can't hold on to them for as long as you wish. Persistent group chat, however, allows businesses to organize persistent dialogue around business-critical topics, and keep them for easy retrieval later.

A millisecond of downtime can mean millions of dollars. Maintaining compliance while ensuring your firm has the required speed and uptime can be daunting. Learn what you can do with your email and instant messages to prepare for your next regulatory audit.

This report examines the challenges associated with the practice of contextual marketing. It is based on a series of interviews with experts and practitioners.

According to the Pew Research Center, 97% of Americans who own a smartphone use them to send or receive text messages*, demonstrating that mobile messaging is one of the most widely used features. Download now to learn how texting exposes your company to massive risk.