Tag Archives: Lead generation

The Real Benefit of Lead Scoring

Lead Scoring

Picture it: An anonymous website visitor spends two minutes on a website. Later, an identified website visitor spends five minutes on that same website and downloads an infographic. Would you communicate with both contacts the same way? Hopefully, the identified visitor will receive a more personalized follow up because more is known about their profile […]

How Can Lead Segmentation Improve Campaign Success?

How Can Lead Segmentation Improve Campaign Success

When you’re first starting out in the lead generation game, attracting the right types of prospects can be quite difficult. Depending on the nature of your business, you might find yourself casting a really large net (Ex: Targeting businesses in a particular region you focus on) or casting a smaller net (Ex: Targeting businesses in […]

17 Reasons to Use an Email Marketing Automation Tool

There are hundreds upon hundreds of companies in the marketing technology landscape (see for yourself). Of the many categories, marketing automation is expected to be a 1.9 billion dollar industry by 2020. However, some of you may still be asking if it’s truly worthwhile to invest in an email marketing automation tool. On the other hand, perhaps you […]

Top 3: How Content Marketing is Changing the Game

content marketing is changing the game

Measure. Track. Calculate. Prove. Evaluate. Return on investment. Closed loop report. Marketing as an industry has been slow to adopt these words. According to Will Davis, CMTO at Right Source Marketing, “Measurement is absolutely critical to the success of a content marketing program.” One of the only ways that traditional marketing has been measured was […]

Six Customer Retention Tips for Lifelong Relationships

Customer Retention Tips

Like a sheepherder that feeds, tends, and guards his flock, businesses must take care of their customers in order to avoid predator threat and destruction. Only then can the herd expand and grow.   It’s just as important to retain customers as it is to attain new ones. As Shiv Sing, Senior Vice President of Global […]

Creating Lifelong Customers

Creating Lifelong Customers

A newer version of your 7-month-old tablet or iPad is coming out in a week and you have to have it. You go to the store, find your new toy, and eventually the older version is collecting dust on a shelf. – Do not “shelve” your existing customers – Novelty is exciting but it is […]

Big Data Increases the ROI of Lead Generation and Engagement Initiatives

Big data has opened up a world of possibilities and among them is identifying the ideal buyer profile. Marketers can compare prospects to an ideal profile to prioritize engagement and increase conversion rates. Modeling an ideal buyer profile is not a new practice; however, it contains a large element of guesswork, with the marketer going more by instinct and […]

The Inherent Pitfalls in Social Media Data

social media sentiment

Many marketers are focusing their efforts on big data analytics. Big data entails the gathering and analysis of data from all possible sources, including social media data. Unlike other sources, data from social media can be tricky. While the basic premise of big data analytics is to gather as much valuable data as possible, including all social […]

How Marketing Automation improves customer retention

Customer Experience Marketing

If you do a Google search for “lead management software,” chances are you’ll find results with ties to marketing automation. It’s no secret many growing organizations move to a marketing automation platform due to the overwhelming volume of inquiries, or leads, they receive on a daily basis. However, can marketing automation do more than manage leads […]

Marketing success doesn’t come with glitter

Step right up folks and witness an all-new, never before seen, brand-spanking new digital marketing technology that is easy-to-use, designed with the marketer in a mind and guaranteed to bring you marketing success or your money back! Said no one. Ever. But, like a moth to a flame, marketers flock to the new, shiny object […]