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July 12, 2010

Email Marketing Best Practices from MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Summaries of presentaions from MarketingProfs Virtual event, where email marketing is highlighted. Topics range from email segmentation to social media and lead scoring.

July 9, 2010

Perfect Timing – When to Call a Prospect

Posted by Bill Binch

When do you call your prospect for the first time? Within minutes of getting their contact details? Twenty-four hours after getting their details? After you’ve nurtured them a bit? This post will help you decide.

June 3, 2010

Lead Nurturing Through Social Media: Just Do It (Right)

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Lead nurturing via social media, AKA seed nurturing, can help build relationships with qualified prospects. Learn more on the Marketo Best Practices Blog.

May 13, 2010

10 Worst Things to Do With a Qualified Sales Lead

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Marketers spend a lot of time (and money) delivering leads to sales teams. Of course, one big mistake – or even a series of little ones – can be the end of a potential sale.
Ensure you avoid these 10 worst things you can do with a qualified sales lead in your lead nurturing efforts:
1. Repeated [...]

February 4, 2010

You Don’t Know Jack About Online Marketing – More than Just the Coolest Marketing Game Ever

Posted by Maria Pergolino

You Don’t Know Jack About Online Marketing – This post explains why this is more than just the Coolest Marketing Game Ever!

January 27, 2010

Introducing Seed Nurturing

Posted by Jon Miller

What happens when qualified prospects visit your site or social media sites anonymously where you don’t necessarily have their names or e-mails? Seed nurturing is the process of building relationships with qualified prospects before you have their contact information.

December 29, 2009

B2B Lead Nurturing in 2010

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Resolve to maximize conversions of B2B leads in the New Year. Discover how to make that resolution a reality with effective lead nurturing on Modern B2B Marketing Blog from Marketo.

November 29, 2009

Dreamforce 2009: Using Lead Nurturing and Scoring to Deliver More and Higher-Quality Sales Leads

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Last Wednesday I attended the Dreamforce session Using Lead Nurturing and Scoring to Deliver More and Higher-Quality Sales Leads. In this session, they discussed how to use lead scoring to identify and prioritize sales-ready leads. They also discussed how to use lead nurturing to establish a relationship with prospects that are not sales ready.

September 20, 2009

The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing: Free On-Demand Webinar

Posted by Jon Miller

Watch The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing webinar on-demand, with no registration. Get practical tips for how you can actually implement lead nurturing at your company, including:
* Deciding what leads to send to sales
* Establishing permission to nurture leads
* How to customize drip “stay in touch campaigns” based on buyer role and stage of the buying cycle
* What types of campaigns accelerate the buying cycle
* When and how to recycle leads from sales back to marketing
* Measuring and proving the ROI of lead nurturing

August 27, 2009

Lead Nurturing ROI and Content Mapping

Posted by Maria Pergolino

Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing book and webinar highlights including why content mapping is an important initial step in the lead nurturing process needed to calculate the ROI of your nurturing campaigns.