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A Marketer’s Guide to APIs

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As online marketing continues to shift and lead gen needs become more and more, an API can serve as one critical survival tool. The following article provides a ground up education on the absolute fundamentals of APIs from conquering the what, why... Read More »

25 Ways to Increase Sales and Lead Generation

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The following post provides an extensive list of great tips on how you can increase website conversions once you've got the traffic through compelling offers, effective calls-to-action, and convincing lead nurturing campaigns. Read on to increase... Read More »

Three Ways to Optimize Sales Demand Creation

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In today's marketing climate where budgets are tighter than ever, every dollar spent MUST achieve maximum ROI-a truth that hits the B2B marketer responsible for sales pipeline performance and revenue growth the hardest. This naturally leads to a... Read More »

More Ways to Connect B2B Sales Team with Social Media

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Social media marketing within the B2B landscape has gained much traction over the past year. Here are 3 tips on how to get your sales team engaging with prospects socially. Read More »

10 ways Dirty Data (Fuel) is Clogging up your Marketing Automation Engine – B2B Marketing and Sales Tip #290

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Database hygiene is critical. The following article provides 10 things your marketing database is likely suffering from, the effects they have on your marketing automation and tips on how to avoid this in the future. Read More »

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7 Reasons You Need to Love Lead Management

Posted by: MarketingProfs on February 9, 2012
A guest post by Sarah Goliger of HubSpot. When it comes to converting your leads into sales, lead management is a crucial and powerful tool. Most of your leads will not be ready to engage with a salesperson after their first conversion, but are potentially qualified and require...

10 Things the FBI Knows About Social Media Monitoring You Can Use to Generate Leads and Close Deals

Posted by: Marketing Pilgrim Blog on February 2, 2012
The following post comes from our Inbound Marketing Channel sponsor HubSpot. The FBI recently posted a Request for Information (RFI) for a “social media application.” But, it was really a request for a social media monitoring application. Why? Because the FBI recognizes what many...

Tying Facebook Leads Directly to Revenue: A Marketo Example

Posted by: Marketo Blog on January 26, 2012
Want to know the ROI of social media? So do we. With our latest Facebook campaign, we are doing just that; tying leads generated by Facebook directly into our revenue pipeline via Marketo. How did we do it? We developed a custom Facebook application that generates a special offer and...

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate and Qualify B2B Leads

Posted by: Marketo Blog on January 19, 2012
Use the popular social network LinkedIn for B2B lead generation and lead qualification.

Increasing Conversion Rates for Newsletter Signups

Posted by: verticalmeasures on December 22, 2011
Whether you’re reaching out to clients, dedicated fans, or just the casually interested, email newsletters are an amazingly effective tool for marketing your business online. Among the benefits: Nurturing leads to stay under potential customers’ noses until they’re ready to buy...

How to Boost LinkedIn Lead Gen With Targeted Company Pages

Posted by: Hubspot Blog on December 22, 2011
One of the most underutilized features of LinkedIn Company Pages is the ability to target your company’s product page based on demographics such as job function, industry, and geographic location. In doing do, visitors to your company page will only get shown the products that...

Marketo’s Demographic Lead Scoring – Some Less Frequently Used Scores

Posted by: Marketo Blog on November 23, 2011
Streamline your lead management and make the most of your lead database by checking out some of the less frequently used scores in demographic lead scoring.

The 1-2-3 of Putting Your Lead Scoring to Work

Posted by: Marketo Blog on November 17, 2011
One of the big benefits of lead scoring is the ability to identify the best Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) based on lead score. Even though scoring is turned on, it may not be sending MQL to Sales right away. If this is the case, ask yourself- am I using lead scores to identify...

Lead Generation On The Go: 5 Ways to Innovate Your Mobile Plan

Posted by: Marketo Blog on November 10, 2011
Mobile is a must in this hand-held device-filled world- even for B2B marketers. Androids, iPhones, iPads, Kindles: Mobile devices are getting more varied and pervasive. Because of this, there are also more and more ways for people to find websites and for brands to realize lead...

Are You Lost In A B2B Sales Lead Paradox?

Posted by: Marketo Blog on November 3, 2011
Your B2B marketing department has done its job.  They’ve filled the funnel with sales leads.  The sales department followed through on the leads provided but somehow your close-ratios are dropping.  What happened? This scenario isn’t unusual, sometimes leads fall through...