lead generation

Being first in mind with leads, prospects, and customers means maximizing your sales and marketing resources and your revenue. Many of us think that interacting early with a lead is enough. But the reality is nurturing leads can create more sales than the initial lead generation itself. It's also about nurturing your customer base. Being first in mind has a tremendous impact on business...

Online Marketing Pioneer Larry Chase Offers His Best on Getting a White Paper to the Right B2B Prospects - and Getting Them to Read It. White papers have been one of the most popular and productive marketing tools for generating B2B sales leads. And Larry, publisher of Web Marketing Digest, has been developing white papers for over two decades now.

LinkedIn has evolved into a powerful lead generation tool for many businesses. Its features, like Publisher and Groups, lend themselves well to connecting businesses with prospects. With so many great features, it can be quite challenging to figure out how to use the ones that best fit your needs. To help you navigate your way through LinkedIn, we’ve put together 10 things you should be doing today to make the most of LinkedIn.

Discover how to get maximum response from your next e-mail Webinar invitation. Learn how to make your event stand out from the crowd, and how to avoid the common mistakes that doom most Webinars to mediocrity.

Download B2B search marketing tips from over 140 top B2B search marketing agencies and the experts at Business.com. This whitepaper offers key insights and tips to help B2B marketing professionals quickly deliver better search marketing ROI.

59% of marketers are using webinars in their B2B content marketing strategy. While they require a significant level of effort to produce, webinars can provide a great return on investment. Fill your content pipeline by repurposing webinar assets into other pieces of content and extending the topic into other formats. Here are 19 pieces of content that can be created from every webinar.

Recently, ReadyTalk, a leading provider of conferencing and webinar services, answered 20 content marketing and webinar questions. The questions came directly from webinar participants; marketers just like you who wanted practical, actionable advice.

This whitepaper is about taking the small business digital marketing products back to the drawing board to deliver a product set that help small businesses easily, cost-effectively, and efficiently address three fundamental needs: 1. lead generation; 2. online presence and reputation management, and; 3. relationship management.

Have you received your quota for 2011 yet? Wondering how you are going to hit it?as

This whitepaper is about taking the small business digital marketing products back to the drawing board to deliver a product set that help small businesses easily, cost-effectively, and efficiently address three fundamental needs: 1. lead generation; 2. online presence and reputation management, and; 3. relationship management.

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

B2B marketers have specific needs when it comes to email campaigns. Learn how implementing  an email system designed for B2B can bring together all of your lead generation efforts to create an integrated campaign with automated messaging personalized from your sales reps, CRM syncing and triggered nurturing emails.   

The rise of big data provides Modern Marketers with an unprecedented level of insights. But too often, it's easy to get buried by the data. We put together 40 Must-See Charts for Modern Marketers, offering analysis and intelligence today's marketers need to know across a range of disciplines from email marketing and lead management to social media and events.

In this book we describe best practices honed through 13 years of experience and partnership with some of the leading technology companies in the world. These best practices will give you insight into three key areas: • Data management & renewal opportunity generation • Sales strategy & execution • Continuing the renewal cycle We hope you enjoy this book!

This report outlines five important "insider" secrets for measuring the effectiveness of your Website, along with tips on how to turn it into a lead generation machine.

Want to create a lead scoring program of your own? Our 5-step workbook gives you everything you need to get started.

Learn how to maximize traffic and leads from your SEO efforts by choosing strategic keywords that align with your business goals and target audiences.

Learn how to use marketing automation tools to streamline your process and push leads quickly through the pipeline without increasing your spend. Marketing automation suites offer an integrated option for generating and managing leads with landing page and email marketing tools, automated scoring and grading, drip nurturing emails, micro-level analytics and anonymous visitor identification.

Learn how to turn your leads from lukewarm to red hot with Pardot's 5 Steps to Double Your Web Marketing Value Without Increasing Your Spend.

Many marketers shy away from Web analytics because it sounds more like a logarithmic equation than a marketing solution. But after you strip away the multi-syllabic veneer, Web analytics is really nothing more than an incredibly effective tool to help you grow your business.

More than ever, marketers are being held accountable for demonstrating how marketing investments directly translate into sales. That’s why Modern Marketing is fueled by intelligent data analytics and reporting. Implementing the proper analytics systems can help you make critical decisions regarding which parts of your marketing efforts are working or not, and provide the reporting tools necessary to justify those decisions by connecting them directly with pipeline and revenue. By implementing systems for reporting and intelligence, you can better understand the impact that sales and marketing efforts are having on overall business. You then can refine strategies and develop repeatable processes for success.

More than ever, marketers are being held accountable for demonstrating how marketing investments directly translate into sales. That’s why Modern Marketing is fueled by intelligent data analytics and reporting. Implementing the proper analytics systems can help you make critical decisions regarding which parts of your marketing efforts are working or not, and provide the reporting tools necessary to justify those decisions by connecting them directly with pipeline and revenue. By implementing systems for reporting and intelligence, you can better understand the impact that sales and marketing efforts are having on overall business. You then can refine strategies and develop repeatable processes for success.

More than ever, marketers are being held accountable for demonstrating how marketing investments directly translate into sales. That’s why Modern Marketing is fueled by intelligent data analytics and reporting. Implementing the proper analytics systems can help you make critical decisions regarding which parts of your marketing efforts are working or not, and provide the reporting tools necessary to justify those decisions by connecting them directly with pipeline and revenue. By implementing systems for reporting and intelligence, you can better understand the impact that sales and marketing efforts are having on overall business. You then can refine strategies and develop repeatable processes for success.

Because the majority of B2B buying decisions are made before a sales person even gets involved, the role of marketing has changed. This evolution in buying behavior demands a radical shift in how companies are aligning marketing and sales to maximize conversion rates.