Posts Tagged ‘marketing automation’
How to Automate Your Customer Experience for Referrals
The buyer’s journey has changed drastically compared to what it was several years ago. This is mainly due to the growth of the internet, as well as changes in consumer expectations. Prospects today will complete more than half of the buying journey before even speaking to a sales representative for the first time. Marketing automation…
Read MoreLead Nurturing: How to Do It The RIGHT Way [INFOGRAPHIC]
When customers turn to you for information about a product or service, they’ve likely encountered a pain point: They have a problem they need to solve. Even more importantly, they need you to figure out if you can assist them. It’s that plain and simple. It might be a big problem—say, they have something new…
Read MoreEmail Marketing Tricks for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
Email is one of the oldest tools in the digital marketing toolbox. Regardless of that fact, it is still one of the most effective. According to a 2017 email tracking study from the Direct Marketing Association, email offers up to 30 times return on investment (ROI) on average. How does this old-school tool continue to…
Read MoreInternet Marketing 101 [Slideshow]
Our friends over at SCORE have been hard at work to provide quality, up-to-date trainings to business owners and managers in the Austin, TX area. As part of that ongoing effort, we collaborated with them to build out a basic class called “Internet Marketing 101”. The intent of this training is to glaze the surface…
Read More2013 Online Marketing Predictions From Around the Web
As we get a couple of weeks or so into 2013, most of the “predictions” columns, articles, and blog posts have made their way out onto the web. This annual tradition is one that most of us either love or hate. I tend to take a non-biased view to start, but there does come a…
Read MoreManaging Web Forms For Conversion and Lead Quality
Marketing Sherpa recently released another solid chart of the week, this one focused on form fields for lead generation. The chart summarizes the list of fields that marketers designated as the most important for lead generation forms. But before we get to the chart, let’s frame the topic to understand why this data is of great…
Read MoreMarketing Automation: The Importance of Lead Scoring in B2B
As I’ve mentioned in this space previously, I have spent a great deal of time of late evaluating various marketing related technologies to build out some efficiencies and adopt some of the newer tricks out there. Last months I dug into my view on the content management space. As it turns out, several of the content management and WEM vendors also include Marketing Automation. So I thought I’d talk a little how to use it to nurture leads.
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