Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

by Katie Byrnes Marketo CEO, Phil Fernandez, had the chance to interview the CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association, James Obermayer at Dreamforce 2010. At SLMA, Jim Obermayer focuses on proving the return on investment of marketing activities and managing sales leads, and the value of managing those sales leads.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

So, you’ve developed a solid marketing plan, and you’re feeling good about your strategy. You then meet two types of sales leads: the qualified and the non-qualified. The next step is pretty simple when it comes to marketing qualified leads , you either nurture them or try to close them. Leave it to the experts.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 19, 2014

Here, in the second of this three part series, we will hear from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the second part of the series, we heard from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! « 9 1/2 Ways.

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markempa

JULY 28, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Stay tuned.

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markempa

MARCH 6, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. Qualify all marketing leads as sales-ready before the hand-off.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. When they ask for better leads. Give them leads they can close and then we can all share in the success of hitting the numbers. hot lead management.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lead Generation Driven By Digital Marketing Online marketing strategies are used in the process of “inbound lead generation” to entice clients with useful and pertinent material. Each of these lead magnets may be put together into a series of actions that guide your customer to your product.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 21, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Marketing creates demand, finding interested people and companies, and gives these leads to Sales; 75% of which are ignored.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2011

Marketers need to be able to quickly sift through incoming leads, identify those ready for sales, and have a plan in place to nurture the rest. Also, marketers need to evaluate which techniques are producing the highest quality sales leads so they will know where to continue panning.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales. Rapid identification of problems.

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The Point

MAY 6, 2010

For other companies, the decision of whether or not to take the plunge into marketing automation is less of a slam-dunk. Not everyone is able to measure the precise ratios at which sales leads currently convert to sales. Inevitably, much of the business case for a marketing automation solution comes down to intangibles.

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The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Except awareness and thought leadership represent only a fraction of the potential return from social media, and in fact (I would argue) place well behind the windfall that social media makes possible in the areas of lead generation and lead nurturing. expand company’s leads database and community of followers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2008

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Craig Rosenberg , author of The Funnelholic (one of my favorite B2B marketing blogs). the world's fastest growing B2B online media and lead generation company. I can talk a mean game about B2B sales as well. This is a great question.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 21, 2014

Which brings me to the topic for this month’s article, which follows up on the December topic entitled: " Taking away a salesperson’s excuses ," in which I wrote about the lack of sales lead follow-up. This month we tackle the issue of Marketing not delivering on an ROI responsibility. Here are some of the justifications.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 26, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Some say that 18-20% of all B2B companies have marketing automation, and up to 80% have a CRM system. i Really, how do you argue you with this?

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PureB2B

MARCH 6, 2018

LinkedIn offers a number of marketing tools that you can use to drive more people to your website and generate sales leads for your team. These and a host of other reasons make LinkedIn a good tool for inbound lead generation and prospect research. Use Your Company Page as a Lead Generation Page.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

What Is Demand Generation Marketing? A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service. Demand generation is so much more than that. The reality was that there was no clear understanding of the root causes of low lead follow-up.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

What Is Demand Generation Marketing? A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service. Demand generation is so much more than that. The reality was that there was no clear understanding of the root causes of low lead follow-up.

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PureB2B

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Whether you’re looking at it from a marketing or sales perspective, getting someone interested in a product or service you offer, and turning that interest into a real conversation can feel next to impossible. It all starts with enabling your sales team, and turning them into lead nurturing machines. Here’s how….

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago. Leave a comment below.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Best time for telemarketers to call a Sales Lead: For the marketers wishing to establish the Perfect time to make a Sales Call in 2020, it is important to recognize what is the best time to cold call business owners. The key takeaway being if you get a sales lead – respond promptly.

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Biznology

JANUARY 6, 2016

Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. We are lucky to have them.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Maria Pergolino is Director of Marketing at Marketo , leading their efforts in adoption of social media channels for brand awareness and demand generation. Maria has a Marketing Degree and MBA from the School of Business at Rutgers University , is a Salesforce Certified Administrator, and a speaker at numerous marketing events.

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PureB2B

APRIL 21, 2017

With buyer intent data, you can improve your marketing tactics in terms of content marketing, lead generation, copywriting, and keyword optimization to actively engage with prospects at the optimal time: Content Strategy. Lead them there, and let them make that “oh so desirable” purchase decision. Lead Generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

How do you know if your demand generation is good enough or when it's time to take your lead management processes to the next level? Here are 14 important questions that indicate whether or not you can benefit for more sophisticated marketing automation. Lead Generation. Is your sales team?

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PureB2B

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In one way or another, every website utilizes forms, whether it’s to capture lead data, gate premium content, or to facilitate event registration. The reason form design is so important is because it can make the difference between generating a new sales lead and causing a visitor to bounce.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 7, 2011

by Bill Binch To create the best lead generation process, you’ve got to keep sales and marketing on the same page. There is a continuing challenge for marketing to fill the sales lead coffers. When sales is closing, everybody shares in the spirit of success and motivation.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Yet, they only ranked fourth in marketing effectiveness, under websites, SEOs, and emails. Smart marketers apply some type of lead scoring to leads generated from website, SEO, and email initiatives. I suspect that part of the ROI problem may be due to improper prioritization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

We see this all the time with hockey sticks at the end of the quarter, followed by complaints to marketing since there are no sales leads and the pipeline is now cleared out, followed by panicked prospecting to try to make something happen in time to make the numbers. Lead nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Typically, only one-fifth of your leads are ready to make a purchase the first time they come in. Nurturing those who are not ready to buy on the first go-round can increase your sales leads by 50%. Lead Management : Make sure that sales follows up with the right leads at the right time.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2015

It’s important to recognize that content syndication leads are not like most sales leads. When someone registers to download a white paper or podcast or case study about the business challenge that your product solves, he or she is expressing an interest in that topic, not necessarily in your product.

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