Why Lead Generation is the Life-blood of any Business

Without strong sales leads, any business will struggle to attract vital new customers, ultimately leading to stagnation and lack of growth. Lead generation creates fresh prospects with a strategy for establishing interest among a target market, through more than one channel. Most lead generation techniques involve some form of nurturing, and, just as there are several levels of interest, from uninterested to being ready to buy, there are several steps to generating leads. It’s about building trust rather than cold calling people from a long, untargeted list. Over 60% of marketers reported in an IDG study that generation of the right quality of leads was a problem for their organisation. Professional calling campaigns use critical data to create leads and market research to identify opportunities with the potential to boost profits. Lead generation has changed rapidly in recent years, and now uses digital channels and online and social techniques. Equally, new techniques are around to develop and qualify prospective leads before they are passed on to sales teams.