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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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Create a lead-scoring algorithm

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Scenario If a company generates hundreds or thousands of leads per month, trying to determine which leads are high quality and how to route them can be time-consuming, especially if you rely too much on “gut feel.” For example, imagine you have 100 qualified leads from a product webinar.

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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. Whereas, other examples are just hints; mind you, though, when combined, these hints could be enough for you to speed things up and ask the person out.

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

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For example, if a prospect downloads a whitepaper and six months later sales runs an outbound motion to re-engage them — who gets the credit? For example, lead-to-close conversion rate measures the average percentage of leads that end up becoming customers. So, what metrics should marketers report on ? Everyone’s happy.”

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How Much Leads Cost

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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” ). This table compares the cost per lead on outbound (PointClear Prospecting/Nurturing) to several other sources of inbound leads.

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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. For example, we estimate that inbound marketing efforts will produce about 35% of the gap revenue.

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