lead generation

Conversational Marketing leader announces new product integrations with enterprise meeting platform Zoom Drift, the world’s leading Conversational Marketing platform, today announced it will offer three unique integrations with leading enterprise meeting platform Zoom. The integrations -- which include solutions for Drift Chat, Drift Meetings, and Drift Video -- give sales teams the power to transition meetings into pipeline faster than ever before. Marketing Technology News: Blippar Accelerates International Growth…

Customers come into contact with brands through a wide variety of channels every single day. Marketing campaigns can only be effective if they reflect all these channels, which will increase the probability of user engagement. Being present in the right channel at the right time with the right message is a challenge for marketers and one that ties up a lot of time and resources. Professional Marketing Automation solutions can help: they enable the precise, time-controlled placement of messages using pre-defined customer…

Have sales left you feeling overwhelmed and burned out? It used to seem so simple. Now there are hundreds of millions of potential clients, along with millions of competitors vying for their attention. The world of sales is moving faster than anyone can keep track of, leaving only one thing for certain: If you’re using the same methods and tools you were using a few years ago, you’re going to be left behind. If you’ve spent any time with us at Reply, you’ll know we’re big fans of automation. We’re constantly looking…

Companies Increase Emphasis on LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads and Retargeting to Expand Virtual Brand Reach and Online Lead Generation Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA), the preeminent provider of public relations, digital marketing and event planning services for the telecom, data center and tech industries, reports that its clients are increasing digital advertising budgets to secure fresh, engaged leads as face-to-face meetings are postponed, conferences are cancelled and direct sales campaigns are frozen. JSA is…

Are you investing in the right Marketing efforts for your organization? Marketing Analytics means to collect, manage and study key metrics for determining the success and ROI of your Marketing strategy. Additionally, it helps you identify the key areas to improve. Often, enterprises use the terms ‘analytics’ and ‘metrics’ interchangeably but, there is a slight difference. Marketing metrics refer to the data points while Marketing Analytics is the process of extracting relevant insights from the collected data that will…

In Marketing, Lead Generation is a process to initiate the interest of strangers/potential customers in your company’s product or services The industry standard to identify an opportunity is the BANT framework (Budget-Authority-Need-Timeline). BANT framework is deployed as a primary sales prospecting methodology created using four components, and customer events. About the framework BANT answers a simple question - Is the person likely to become your customer? A Salesperson needs to answer several questions to help the…

"A creative digital invite is key to great event experiences because we know that our target audience gets a lot of event invites and we need to stand out." Hi Som, tell us about your role/team you handle at GumGum. What inspired you to join the company? I run the Global Marketing team here at GumGum, which means I lead growth marketers, marketing operations, and the content and creative teams. Our core focus has been driving growth through Integrated Marketing campaigns, Events, PR, Content Marketing and Lead…

Digital lead generation techniques have evolved rapidly over the past decade, and businesses that are looking for new ways to connect with customers online have refined the way they optimize sites for search, guiding visitors to landing pages and reaching out via email or social media. But there’s one widely used lead generation tool that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves: the Online form. Most company websites have an online form — if not multiple forms. But is your online form working as hard as it could to…

The majority of people still use LinkedIn as a resume and job posting platform. However, this is no longer the truth and LinkedIn is gradually turning into a powerful lead generation platform. According to the recent statistics from LinkedIn lead generation: LinkedIn has more than 500 Million registered users, with more than 260 Million of them signing-in at least once a month. More than 80% of B2B leads that are socially generated, come directly from LinkedIn. Around 80% of total business leads come from LinkedIn…

LeadX AS; announced that they are releasing LeadX 2.0, with premium features like multi-organization, Salesforce Integration, Simplification of posting leads, Digital Bell for notification and Pulse - An analytical dashboard. A mobile first platform, LeadX helps organizations share and process leads across organizational silos. Ensure warm introductions to customers and drive revenues. This allows organizations to create maximum synergy with their network of stakeholders by leveraging employee lead generation. LeadX’s own…

For realtors, taking time out to ascertain the overall seriousness of a lead from scratch is time-consuming. But, it is a no-brainer that if you wish to be successful when it comes to real estate, you need to capture as many leads as possible to make sure that you have a specific number of clients on a monthly basis. Whether you’re a real estate agent, broker or property consultant, buying or selling a property is a harrowing process that involves tons of calls, emails, and a lot of follow-ups. With a WhatsApp Chatbot for…

The MarTech industry is massive, to say the least. As a matter of fact, it’s been forecasted to grow to $8.3 billion in annual revenues by 2021. And as with all industries, MarTech Trends come and go, which means that staying up-to-date with industry changes will keep you a step ahead of competitors and hopefully even doing your job better. Additionally, taking advantage of the latest MarTech strategies and tools has the potential to improve your workflow and the customer experience you offer. While there’s lots of…

Reaching Prospects at Just the Right Times Is Not Only Desirable, but It’s also Practical with Current MarTech Tools As Marc Andressen famously said, “Software is eating the world” but eight years later we must ask - has the global market for MarTech products and services – one of the great success stories of recent times – finally reached capacity? Is the industry’s enviable pattern of growth likely to continue, or even accelerate, in the foreseeable future? If it does continue its historic penetration of the Marketing…

Today’s digital marketing “best practices” have done retail marketers a disservice by capping their collective imagination, weighing them down with outdated practices and narrow expectations on how things can and “should” be done. The standard digital playbook, as dynamic as it may be in some ways, unfortunately, prescribes a singular reliance on the walled gardens of Google and Facebook. To the retail marketer’s detriment, this isolated approach relies on dated, limited tactics accompanied by a high cost of entry. Some…

You can have all the content planned in your calendar. You can have your best Salespeople working with the most profitable prospects. However, none of those strategies will work if your Marketing and Sales teams are out of alignment, working in silos. According to a study, only 10% of Marketing and Salespeople all over the world believe that there is perfect alignment between the two teams. Also, 25% of the respondents believe that this lack of alignment leads to lost opportunities for closing deals. Sales and Marketing…

The adoption of Marketing Automation technologies continues to be one of the fastest-growing Marketing trends today. In fact, according to a 2018 Forrester report, global Marketing Automation spend will reach $25.1 billion by 2023 – nearly double the amount spent in 2017. With this Marketing Automation technology, growth comes an increased need for a steady flow of customer data. Without this data, Marketing organizations struggle to deliver on initiatives related to e-commerce, lead generation/nurturing, accumulating…

For a very long time, CMOs had to rely on disparate Marketing Attribution and Optimization techniques to understand how various online activities impact your offline conversion metrics. But, things are changing very quickly with maturity of the CRMs and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs). CMOs can expect better MarTech tools to manage their Salesforce data by the time Dreamforce 2019 concludes tomorrow. One of the many CMO-friendly updates is Optimizely's latest Product launch on the AppExchange. It's called the Optimizely for…

You’ve cleaned your Sales pipeline, primed your Marketing team, and gotten everyone off to a running start. So, why aren’t your leads converting? Are you refining your lead nurturing process? If you’re losing out on qualified leads, despite a clean pipeline, that’s a red flag that your lead nurturing isn’t working, and it’s time to find out why. Here are three reasons why your lead nurturing might not be delivering results. Poor Communication It takes an average of ten, some say as much as 15 or more, touches with…

If every consumer took the same path to purchase for their wants and needs, your Marketing would be effortless. But we know people are different and their behaviors are unique. This is especially true when it comes to making major life purchase (MLP) decisions—those big decisions that require a lot of time and research to make, such as buying a house or deciding on an insurance policy. Consider the mortgage consumer journey, which often begins months before a credit score is even pulled. Or the life insurance journey…

As trends in technology advance, there are more advanced software solutions available than ever before in the Lead Generation space—but which ones are actually useful to Marketing professionals? That is a question I have considered in my years of experience working in Lead Generation. Every year, new technologies are rolled out with claims of streamlining the operations of lead gen businesses and netting new profits. But those of us in the industry have seen plenty of these products come and go, not always delivering on…