Generating quality leads is – according to some very sensible sources- the #1 priority for marketing and with priorities come expenses! So just how much of your lead generation expense is being tossed out the window when your painfully generated leads don’t get timely follow up? When research shows that 35-50% of the sales go …
Voicemail marketing has evolved since 2001 when I first started working with clients to help them create successful campaigns. Honestly, I miss the way it used to be when all it took was a reasonably natural sounding message, a half decent offer and a list that wasn’t total garbage. We routinely drove double digit response …
How quickly do your inside sales team follow up on web leads? I’ll bet that the answer is “Not fast enough”. According to the B2B Buyer Behavior Report, from Software Advice your chance of qualifying a lead is 29% better if you call within 5 seconds rather than lounging around for 5 minutes before making …
This is about hidden or ignored problems that are killing your results.. Why is our campaign failing? There are lots of reasons why a marketing campaign can fail to deliver the intended responses from a business audience. But over the last ten years, working with B2B companies on literally hundreds of event registration, lead generation …
Unless Your sales team meets all or most of these conditions Is very junior Has nothing better to do Is only paid by salary Is not held to quotas Is actually a customer service group in disguise Your sales team is about as likely to spend their time conscientiously making your event recruitment or other …
When do you start to promote an event? More specifically, when is “too soon” to promote a free event and how long do you have before your unaided conversion of registrants to attendees bottoms out? A few years ago I was working with a publisher who, in addition to their periodicals also offered webinars as …
No one doubts the importance of personalization in both consumer and business to business marketing. In fact, it seems to me that with the use of event triggered emails and entire nurturing programs that are created to provide just the right content for an individual during their B2B buying journey, our ability to customize content …
No one in business is under the illusion that everything runs smoothly, all the time. We do our best, but now and then things go wrong. Sometimes it’s because we’ve messed up and sometimes the client messes up and sometimes everything goes to hell in a handbasket and neither side is at fault. I’ve worked …
Underestimating the damage caused by an out of date and duplicate riddled database is the most frequently made and damaging mistake. If I had ten bucks for every time I’ve heard a client admit that their database is lousy, I probably wouldn’t quite be able to retire yet, but I’d sure have a lot …
The most visible and important measure of success delivered to any company by any B2B marketing campaign is the direct response. It blows awareness out of the water. A direct response is more valuable than any measure of brand preference or image because it opens a dialogue for more marketing, it opens a door to …
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