As each quarter winds down, you and your team no doubt review your marketing lead-to-sales pipeline conversion rates. How are you doing? If the funnel conversion metrics are lower than expected or you just want to increase them, you may want to consider adding peer-to-peer tele-qualification to your touch sequence. Research indicates that peer to … Continued
Recently, industry leader and mentor, Jim Obermayer of the Sales Lead Management Association asked for thoughts about marketing myths. So my staff and I put our collective heads together and came up with our Top 16 Marketing Myths (or shall we say self-deceptions!). The SLMA, in turn, offered its opinion on reasons behind each myth. … Continued
Recently, industry leader and mentor, Jim Obermayer of the Sales Lead Management Association asked for thoughts about marketing myths. So my staff and I put our collective heads together and came up with our Top 16 Marketing Myths (or shall we say self-deceptions!). The SLMA, in turn, offered its opinion on reasons behind each myth. … Continued
Recently, industry leader and mentor, Jim Obermayer of the Sales Lead Management Association asked for thoughts about marketing myths. So my staff and I put our collective heads together and came up with our Top 16 Marketing Myths (or shall we say self-deceptions!). The SLMA, in turn, offered its opinion on reasons behind each myth. … Continued
If you are a venture capitalist, you no doubt want to see your start-up investments achieve their potential as quickly as possible. How can you ensure that a new company follows a proven path and gains immediate traction in its marketplace? Using outside resources can significantly improve your investment track record. In fact, outsourcing tele-channel … Continued
If you’ve been following our Lead Gen Blog, you know that DMP advocates a multi-touch process and webinars, when done right, are very effective demand generation tactics. Our guest blogger is DMP partner Mike Agron, President & CEO of WebAttract. Below, he outlines 7 ways to best measure a webinar’s success. As you read it, … Continued
If you’ve been following our blogs or reading our whitepapers, you know how we feel about multi-touch campaigns: they are an absolute necessity to generating qualified, sales-ready leads in the B2B arena. And if you have read the Direct Marketing Association’ Response Rate Study, you will concur that “A single touch simply will not get … Continued
Assess prospect data accuracy The fact is, your prospect database is only as good as the accuracy of the data, and it is a never-ending task keeping the data clean and current. People move around from job to job and company to company; companies are acquired or merge. Often your prospect database is inherited from … Continued
It’s a fact: in today’s business climate, it takes much longer to reach decision makers. It seems that our best efforts at creating content and value, as well as our ability to broadcast vast amounts of information to well targeted titles does not seem to be generating the response we expected. The decision makers who … Continued
Once you have defined your ideal sales-ready qualified lead and determined the number needed to hit your annual sales revenue goal, the next step is to create plans to get the lead gen machine producing them.