Not every marketing lead is a good lead. As long as some leads fall short – don’t meet ICP criteria, aren’t quite ready to talk to sales – a high-performing, well-executed nurture program will always be a vital part of the demand generation engine. An...
When prospects download or otherwise request gated content (like a white paper, for example), do they generally read that content immediately? Not according to a recent report from NetLine, who use prospect behavior on their buyer engagement platform to measure what...
When the sales team needs help boosting pipeline, the request of marketing is usually either: 1) more leads, or 2) better leads, or 3) a combination of the two. However, if demand generation isn’t producing the number of opportunities that the company needs, simply...
Like many B2B marketing agencies, even though we’re a professional services business and don’t sell or re-sell technology, our firm gets marketed to regularly by companies looking to recruit us as a channel partner. Most of these pitches inevitably revolve around the...
A good creative brief is the foundation for an effective marketing campaign. In the face of deadlines, however, and at the normal, torrid pace of modern marketing, creative briefs are often viewed as an extra step, an annoyance, and an unnecessary obstacle to getting...
When a marketing budget get cut, certain line items tend to get immediate scrutiny: media spend, headcount, events. However, simply slashing spend – while quick and dramatic – can have a detrimental effect on leads, pipeline, and revenue. There are more creative...
