Lead Generation: fueling the Revenue Engine

The marketing funnel – the model that represents how leads become sales – has changed. It’s far more sophisticated than it once was, with more lead sources, paths through the funnel, and metrics to track it all. While marketers do much more than just manage the funnel, when it comes to its relationship with sales, the focus is generally about delivering enough qualified leads to keep the revenue engine going. Almost every organization has a lead generation process (just 11 percent in this study claimed not to have one), but excellence in lead generation is hard to come by, with just nine percent of this study’s participants reporting that their process is highly effective. The process is in the critical path to revenue, accounting for a significant chunk of budget money and marketing resource. The performance of the lead generation process is also quite often the greatest point of friction between the sales and marketing team. For most organizations, there is clearly room for improvement.

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5 Areas That CMOs Struggle in Measuring ROI and Where to Focus

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Gartner has predicted that by next year (2022), profitability will overtake customer experience (CX) as a top strategic priority. This change is part of a longer-term trend. CFOs want rigorous measurement of marketing activities. Metrics like cost per acquisition are at a premium. These metrics are linear and atomic, much like accounting and financial data. This conundrum has led to a plethora of methods and tools to measure marketing effectiveness, and ultimately to optimize the marketing mix. But now this confusing landscape cries out for a more clear-eyed answer of “what’s really working and what’s not?” when it comes to marketing measurement and optimization. The answers are not simple or easy.

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Boost sales with B2B lead generation from your website

whitePaper | February 6, 2023

This white paper provides an overview on how a B2B company can use website traffic to generate up to 100% more leads from their website by monitoring the visitors in a structured way. In addition, the monotoring of the website can give B2B companies valuable insight on how their existing and potential customers are engaging on the website.

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8 Ways Teams Use Data-as-a-Service to Drive Go-ToMarket Success

whitePaper | December 10, 2022

Almost a decade ago, McKinsey Global Institute found that data-driven organizations are not only 23 times more likely to acquire customers, but also six times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times more profitable than their competitors. Yet in 2021, NewVantage Partners found that “only 24% of organizations are data-driven.” With the velocity, volume, and variety of data, it is not easy to go from data to insights to action. Organizations struggle with bad data, siloed data, and multiple versions of the truth. No longer is it about having enough data, the focus is on having the right data and knowing what to do with it once you do.

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How Content Distribution Enhances Data Clean-Up Efforts

whitePaper | May 14, 2021

A lead generation campaign presents exciting opportunities for a company pursuing growth, but erroneous data can produce disappointing results or worse: high cost with little to no return on investment. Cleansing your data is a necessary phase step, but is not a “one and done” activity. Read the whitepaper to learn how leveraging a data provider and your own content distribution efforts can help you not only reach your audience but keep your data accurate at the same time.

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How Does Your Sales Development Program Measure Up?

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

As technology markets have become increasingly competitive over the last several years, companies have had to increase their prospecting capabilities to deliver new growth. Marketing-led demand generation has not done nearly enough to provide necessary pipeline coverage. New technology has massively increased the outreach capabilities of sales development teams and along with it, increased pressure from investors has been exerted on these teams to make up the difference with ever-increasing activity levels.

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Why Account Insights are the Missing Link in ABM Success

whitePaper | January 27, 2022

ABM focuses on targeting the right accounts at the right time and treating your prospect as a market of one. But an often-overlooked component within targeting campaigns is understanding the customer — generating insights into account activities are the missing link. The challenge lies in figuring out which points of information are most relevant to your prospect and crafting a plan to fully leverage them to drive engagement. Enterprise buyers are increasingly protective of their time, while a potential vendor that still expects the luxury of a lengthy introduction and a recounting of what challenges stand in the way of the organization’s progress is unlikely to move the relationship forward.

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