The Consumption Gap & What It Means for Your Content Strategy

The Consumption Gap & What It Means for Your Content Strategy

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...
9 Tips for Improving the Lead to Opportunity Process

9 Tips for Improving the Lead to Opportunity Process

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...
The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms?  B2B marketers seem divided on the question.  In a recent LinkedIn poll, almost half of the respondents (46%) indicated they’d rather force prospects to enter...
How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”?  What best practices should we put in place? There are multiple, legitimate reasons to suspend or even delete non-responsive leads from your...
Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. At face value, the...