Proper Demand Generation for Proper B2B Results One of many challenges facing B2B companies today is increasing brand exposure. This comes as a wide variety of online lead generation tools are made available. Marketing expenditures in the industry are also set to increase relative to increasing competition. In demand generation, companies need to provide cost-efficient and effective strategies. But aside from spending for company blogs and webinars, it is also essential to learn about applying demand generation strategies. Some businesses may feel confident in achieving such objectives. Take these tips in mind, and you might just expect positive results ahead. Trade shows and other events. Email marketing. Webinars. Video. Applying these B2B demand generation strategies can be rather difficult. Please follow and like us:
Outbound Marketing: Reaching out to your Target Market Even with the advent of inbound marketing which aims to ‘attract’ audiences instead of chasing them, there’s still a significant need for outbound activities. After all, deliberately reaching out to prospects isn’t just about hard selling; sometimes, outbound efforts help maintain the fluidity of other marketing campaigns. Well, we can’t just wait for leads to come in. That’s a lot of opportunities to waste. We all know that the product or services we are offering is not for everyone. According to a very insightful post at DuctTapeMarketing.com, outbound marketing can be used in different ways to spell success for a business #1: Find a Guest Blogging Partner To Assist You Finding a guest blogger to get instant PR and advertisement for your company is profitable. Aside from branding, this will also send traffic back to your site and grow your search engine rank. Related: NEVER Forget these 7 Ground Rules for Creating Engaging Content #2: Capture Your Target Audience Through Email
Lead Nurturing Tips to Hike up Conversions In any marketing endeavor, it is essential for businesses to have an effective lead nurturing platform. Having one entails an improved CRM experience and contributes to the overall success of a business organization’s B2B lead generation and appointment setting strategies. Lead nurturing isn’t well off however with just engaging prospects. Lead conversions are a crucial gauge that indicates whether your marketing strategies are functioning enough to produce a high rate of revenue. Here are several ways to get better at nurturing your leads and turning them into valuable business opportunities. Learn about the market Aside from knowing what individual prospects want, which of course is a tedious process, businesses can do more with a general picture of buyer preferences. Get SMART When engaging a prospect regardless what channel or combination of channels you are using, it is important to follow the CRM version of SMART, which goes to mean: Consider a multi-channel marketing company
How Event Companies in Singapore Make Their Events Successful • Singapore Event Telemarketing Blog Event planning is a huge industry in Singapore. This doesn’t come as a surprise as this dynamic and diverse city has all what an event planner needs. It has a wide range of world-class venues, efficient public transport system, and for twelve years, it has remained as Asia’s Top Convention City in International Congress and Convention Association. But just like in any other industry, there are top players in the event planning niche in Singapore. They use multiple channels for marketing. They customize invitation for a specific group. They create a system. They master the art of management. They are excellent communicators. Event planning can be pretty challenging especially if you’re a beginner. #Event planning tips#Singapore Event Companies
How to Fail at Fill Forms for Lead Generation If your business wants to succeed in yielding qualified leads, trust that your fill forms will do just that. However, online marketers often ignore the fact that making efficient fill forms are as important in lead generation as having them in a landing page. It is thus wise to nurture your fill forms, make them capable of capturing leads, and avoid counter-effective practices, the most infamous of which are as follows. Overfeed your visitors. Make your prospects do finger work. Not giving a hoot about privacy. Overusing the word “submit.” Knowing how to fashion your fill forms efficiently and positioning them at an advantageous location in your landing page entails an important facet of online lead generation. Source : 7 Tips for Lead Generation Forms That Generate Leads
Email Lead Generation: How to Fashion Messages with High Response Rates According to statistics by Forrester Research, at least 89% of marketers use email as their primary lead generation channel. This goes to show that direct mail marketing is still a relevant tool, both for B2C and B2B purposes. And with the introduction of new conveniences in digital marketing, we can all say it would take long before email marketing fades away. Acquiring new clientele is still possible through this channel – only if you have nurtured and streamlined your email components. While email continues to be a widely used lead generation platform, there are still many marketers (mostly SMEs) that struggle with attaining higher response rates from cold leads. Indeed, many businesses often wonder they are not getting enough traffic despite a high send out volume. If you are leading a business that confronts similar issues, consider these tips for creating emails that go straight to your audience’s heart – and not their spam folders. Give a sense of urgency. Personalize your emails.
Callbox Integrates With Salesforce: A Better, More Efficient Client Experience in Singapore Years of innovation and hard work have been put in to give Callbox clients the best solutions for their business, as well as to enable managers and sales professionals to streamline business development. The challenge has always been to keep up with the changing times, especially with how technology evolves in exponential fashion even just in the last two decades. Callbox started out as a simple telemarketing firm, which eventually flourished into a multi-channel marketing machine. Now, in the age of cloud and automation, Callbox steps up to the plate, ready for another era of marketing savvy. In celebrating 10 years of flourishing into a stalwart player in the business-to-business industry, Callbox is taking cloud-based lead management and marketing automation to new heights. Putting the clients front and center: Callbox integrates with Salesforce Introducing Callbox DialStream: The Most Efficient Power Dialer for Salesforce What is DialStream?
IT Firm Uses Callbox to Divide and Conquer Market The Client The Client is a renowned IT consulting firm based in the US. It provides IT solutionsused by well-known commercial organizations and government institutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce telecom costs. The Challenge The Client hired a North American telemarketing firm to promoteits products.While the telemarketing companywas able to deliver good numbers,the Client recognized that much of its time was spent meeting and dealing with people who were not ready to engage or ultimately unqualified. To make best use of its in-house resources, the Client sawthe need to refine its appointment setting process by segmenting its market and creating definitive profiles of its potential customers. To identify more narrowly defined potentialcustomers and how to best reach them.To allocate more accurately its sales resourcesto meeting sales-qualified prospects. The Callbox Solution The Results
Callbox Shares Lead Qualification Secrets in Singapore In this presentation, we reveal how we generate highly qualified leads in Singapore through a set of lead qualification standards. We would like to share Callbox Lead Qualification Secrets. By answering these frequently asked questions: What is a qualified Lead? Who qualifies the Lead? What is a qualified Lead? A lead will be considered qualified if the campaign specifications were indicated or heard from the call. Who qualifies the Lead? The Quality Analyst (QA) is the subject-matter-expert who is responsible in evaluating the Leads based on the campaign specifications. When should a QA qualify a Lead? As soon as a Lead is submitted by the caller the Quality Analyst (QA) should approve it within the day. Where can you find qualified Leads? You can find the submitted leads in the QA Lead Editor Tool. How does a Quality Analyst qualify a Lead? Evaluating a Lead goes through a strict process. See full article on The 4Ws & 1H of a Qualified Lead You might also like these articles.
Why B2B Companies Should Prioritize Case Studies A recent report has cited case studies as the most effective content format. Findings from the Content Marketing Benchmarking Report published in B2BMarketing.net reveal that 66 percent of B2B marketers from a sample of 122 say producing case studies are the most effective means of attracting their target audiences. While 32 percent say that case studies are “quite effective,” the number presents no significant counterweight to the majority of B2B marketers that say they are “very effective,” implying that these content forms are highly reliable. And it’s easy to see why. An article from AndersPink.com summarizes the intrinsic value of case studies to companies in their B2B lead generation. Credibility The first thing a case study does is to establish your credibility. Evidence Case studies provide evidence about the effectiveness of your product or solution. Stories Case studies provide a narrative structure with a beginning, a middle and an end. Guides and tips Unique content Reusable content
What B2B Marketers MUST know about Honesty For B2B marketers wanting to improve their demand generation efforts, listen up. There’s a lot to consider in the recent controversy involving NBC’s Brian Williams. The 55-year-old poster boy for debonair journalism has come under fire after an episode of Nightly News where he said he fabricated an on-location Iraq War report. This was later contradicted by people who were with him when the helicopter they boarded was forced to land after taking a “hit” from an RPG. Call it a deception of memory, but Williams’ obscure February 4 apology has directed public attention towards a string of other fabricated observations in his past reportage. One can only imagine the negative impact on Williams’ reputation. Honesty is the best policy By now, you want to know the significance of this issue to B2B lead generation and appointment setting. First of all, in order to drive leads, you first consider the type of inbound strategies that generate demand. Trust and knowledge: A perfect combo
Business 101: Building Your Thought Leadership Level 2.0 Thought leadership is what positions your brand as an expert in your industry. It is creating content that positions yourself as knowledgeable and keeping potential customers or clients coming back to you for more insight and information in your industry. – Tony Adragna, www.smartbugmedia.com Just a bit of trivia: the term “thought leader” was first coined 23 years ago in the pages of Strategy+Business, the publication from consulting firm Booz & Company. From www.entrepreneur.com, “Thought leaders are CEOs, businesspeople, entrepreneurs and other individuals who are respected for their knowledge and expertise and who have something to say and know how to say it.” In short, a thought leader is someone regarded as an authority in his/her field—someone other professionals in the field look up to. We’ve known a lot of sales and marketing influencers but these TOP TEN Thought Leaders in ASIA were the most influential speakers in the industry. Here are some of the strategies. Be Credible
Small but not Pitiful: Top Lead Generation Boosters for SMEs Don’t be too pessimistic. Small and medium enterprises can gain leverage in their respective industries despite the existence of large corporations. The only problem is that some of these enterprises lack a thorough understanding of the importance of B2B lead generation processes. Resources are not much of a factor here. Considering that social media has made possible the free movement of information, creation of compelling content and unique ideas for customer engagement matters the most. Then again, SMEs are at a loss on how best to approach lead generation and come up with strategies that pose a high ROI. This only drives home the fact that lead management is a complex, highly specialized task. It’s a tough thing for SMEs to encounter these problems, but again there’s no need to be pessimistic here as long as these lead generation boosters exist. Expert insights through videos. Information is central to customer awareness. EBooks. Crowdsource. It’s a big world out there.
The Problem With Telemarketing Today Critics and pundits all say that this is a dying form of marketing, but still it lives. It still functions. And it still does what it does best – generate B2B leads. That is the truth, and that is the reason why telemarketing is still employed during lead generation campaigns. Fraud – yes, fraud is a big issue, since this prevents telemarketers from getting to their prospects. These are just some of the challenges faced by telemarketing firms today.