The Definitive Guide to Lead Generation

Lead generation describes the marketing process of stimulating and capturing interest in a product or service for the purpose of developing sales pipeline. In today’s complex marketing climate, lead generation has become a popular strategy to help create demand and get your marketing messages heard across multiple channels. Lead generation helps your company increase brand awareness, build relationships, generate qualified leads, and ultimately close deals. Through the various lead generation tactics mentioned in this guide, a company can collect the contact information of potential targets in order to nurture them to eventually become customers. Lead generation is useful for all types of businesses, both small and large, and in both B2B and B2C companies—such as financial services, healthcare, and automotive organizations.

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Athena SWC, LLC is an outsourced provider of new business development, demand generation and management, marketing and sales support process services (combination of people, process methodology and tools) focused on B2B, complex sales environments. We have designed a highly customizable, repeatable and measurable (ROI-based) marketing process called Synchronized Relationship Acquisition and Management (RAMP). Our expertise is focused on partnering with clients, operating as an integrated extension of their sales and marketing team, to generate high volumes of qualified relationships, improve sales rep productivity and compress sales cycles, develop, manage and nurture relationships until they are ready to engage in an active sales cycle, increase market intelligence and awareness in the market for your company and your products/services. Our true decisive competitive edge is in our ability to quantify your marketing investments and track those activities back to bottom line sales retu

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