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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

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What is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. Outbound Prospecting. What does a “good lead” look like anyway?

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

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What Is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What does a “good lead” look like anyway?

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How to Bridge the Content Chasm Between Sales and Marketing

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Bridging the Content Chasm Sales is increasingly using strategic content creation and distribution as part of the sales process – from outbound, to advancing pipeline along, to awareness and education on social platforms. Sellers are responsible for educating their buyers digitally through multiple channels. That’s all this week.

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10 Ways to Generate More Quality Leads for Your Logistics Pipeline

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Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. Focus on Inbound Marketing Inbound marketing is a self-sustaining resource for generating a steady flow of quality leads into your sales funnel. Still, overwhelmed?

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

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In the last blog we discussed the importance of driving revenue from all sources (inbound, nurture, outbound). The mix should consist mostly of sales enablement, then demand generation, with less focus on awareness. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue.

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How to Measure the Success of Lead Generation

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You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? How do you define a lead? Glad you asked!).

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Top Lead Generation Statistics for 2018

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85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is their most important content marketing goal ( source ). Outbound leads cost 39% more than inbound leads ( source ). Lead generation outsourcing is 43% more efficient than generating leads in-house because lead generation companies have more expertise ( source ).