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Demand Generation Strategies & Lead Management Processes First

Pointclear

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Not enough of the right content.

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How Much Leads Cost

Pointclear

I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost. For example: “The average cost per lead across all the companies surveyed is almost $200 ($198.44).Admittedly, see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ). per gross lead).

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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 2 - The How

Pointclear

In part one , I provided insight into the why and what of a lead-to-revenue assessment. I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making any decisions for next year. In my world, there are four distinct steps in conducting a lead-to-revenue assessment.

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Five Reasons Your Lead Generation Campaigns May Not Be Working

Pointclear

For the past 11 years, I have been advising organizations on how to plan and execute their b2b lead generation campaigns. B2B lead generation is complex, and there is always work to be done. As a matter of fact, successful lead generation processes rarely run what we know as "campaigns."

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 1 - The Why & What

Pointclear

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Proper alignment is the result of a documented, effective, efficient and measurable process for capturing, engaging, nurturing, managing and converting leads into customers. Increased spending on lead generation. Hired a social media marketer.

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

Pointclear

Organizations targeting large enterprises are already familiar with the potential clients that exist in this saturated space, so it’s difficult for marketing to source new leads. Marketing spend as a percentage of revenue is often fairly small, usually less than 5 percent. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts.

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