The Three Building Blocks for Effective B2B Demand Generation -- Lead Management, Marketing Automation and Content Marketing

Adam Needles covers how lead management, marketing automation and content marketing combine to help B2B marketers better connect with buyers through demand generation [...]

Where Do You Start With Lead Management?

Carlos Hidalgo addresses what B2B marketing organizations can do to get started with understanding and implementing lead management [...]

Forrester on Using B2B Lead Management to Pump Up Your Pipeline

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The potential benefits to B2B marketers of adopting marketing automation are significant, but the technology, by itself, cannot singlehandedly deliver sales.   This is the story of any business technology:  Gaining the benefits often requires process change and re-alignment that the technology will amplify, but that it cannot affect on its own.

This is why the practice [...]

What Are the Keys to Finding Success with B2B Content Marketing?

Adam Needles presents his thoughts on the keys to finding success with B2B content marketing strategies and [...]

B2B Thought Leadership with Neil Edwards

Read which business practices Neil thinks are working best in B2B lead generation [...]

B2B Thought Leadership with Malcolm Friedberg

Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Malcolm Friedberg, principal at Left Brain Marketing. He has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in a broad range of B2B industries.

Malcolm has built [...]

The Pounce or Nurture Debate: The Debate Rages

Recent B2B blog posts have been discussing the topic of how aggressive should a salesperson be in their response when they see a lead is visiting their site. Mike Damphoux’s post in Smashmouth Marketing on Web leads (Pounce, Pause, Nurture, or Wait) highlighted a unique difference in selling tactics and approaches for the modern [...]

Silverpop Takes Usability to the Next Level

B2B marketers face numerous challenges, not the least of which is in the building and maintaining of the automated campaigns required by today’s lead management processes. Consequently, there has been a heavy focus around the usability of marketing automation tools, and I’ll have to agree that it is a very important part of [...]