Identifying potential prospects is easy. It can be done by filtering through industries, geographic regions, business titles and countless other criteria to build a profile of target prospects. Identifying a prospect that is open and receptive to your product or solution at the exact moment when they realize they have a need, is a much more complicated issue.…
The media surrounding social marketing continues to stress the importance of integrating Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and numerous other social marketing tools into your marketing strategy. Further adding to this hype are the constant, if not overbearing, requests from companies to “Like” them on Facebook and Google+, or follow them on Twitter.…
Time is a commodity that is in short supply. For small business owners and managers, finding even a few minutes to focus on and develop lead generation programs can be difficult. Similarly, larger companies are equally pressed to do more with less. This means that even after you’ve identified a need or come up with the idea, finding the time, expertise or resources to make it happen can be challenging.…
The secret to a successful lead generation program is being able to convert more inquiries into qualified sales leads. Doing this requires identifying individuals with a specific need and presenting them with a product or solution that fulfills their need when they have the budget, time and desire to do something about it.…
Marketing automation solutions are a powerful tool for managing and optimizing your B2B lead generation activities. Not only can they help your company save time and resources by automating many of your lead nurturing programs; they can also simplify campaign tracking, enhance prospect targeting and perhaps most importantly, improve the quality of the leads you produce.…
Good data is critical to marketing success. How you manage your data is a major factor in the quality of your data. One way to ensure you get the most out of your data is to prioritize building a centralized marketing database to aggregate information from across all of your marketing programs.…