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Marketing Confidential

Marketing Confidential

B2B marketing is a little like working in a high end restaurant. To succeed, you need:

  • Individual talents, but a global approach
  • Attention to details... to a point
  • In depth knowledge of your ratios
How to Nurture Leads With White Papers

How to Nurture Leads With White Papers

This article explores:

  • Why white papers are still the most influential content type compared to other forms of collateral
  • How to incorporate them in your lead nurturing program
  • The pros and cons of developing your white papers internally vs. hiring a good copywriter
7 Signs That You Need Lead Nurturing

7 Signs That You Need Lead Nurturing

When should you implement a lead nurturing program? To find out, learn how to recognize:

  • Warning signs
  • Obvious indicators
  • The next steps you should take for optimum results
How to align your lead nurturing emails for maximum results

How to align your lead nurturing emails for maximum results

Learn how to send different types of lead nurturing emails for each stage of the B2B buying cycle such as:

  • Informational emails for prospects
  • Educational emails for leads
  • Personal text emails for qualified opportunities
5 Reasons Why You Still Need an e-Newsletter

5 Reasons why you still need an e-newsletter

Ditching your e-newsletter too quickly could be a real mistake. Before you do, consider:

  • The real purpose of your e-newsletter
  • What e-newsletters can achieve better than any other medium
  • The complementarity of your different marketing initiatives
12-Point Checklist to Integrate Your E-newsletter Into Your B2B Marketing Mix

12-point checklist to integrate your e-newsletter into your b2b marketing mix

Get the most out of your e-newsletter with:

  • Tips to better integrate your e-newsletter with social media networks
  • Tools to increase the effectiveness of your e-newsletter
  • Processes and workflows that nurture leads more efficiently

Generating leads with the right content strategy

Having a content strategy makes all the difference when you need to:

  • Create the right kind of content
  • Repurpose your existing content for multi-publishing
  • Secure budget for content marketing

20 content ideas to generate leads

This checklist will help you:

  • Conduct a content inventory and audit of what you already have
  • Find new ideas for engaging content
  • Decide what to outsource to nurture marketing content writers

Do lead nurturing best practices really exist?

Find out in this article:

  • What constitutes best practice
  • What the best practices in lead nurturing are
  • The limits of implementing best practices

Select the right customer for your next success story

A very useful checklist to

  • Pick the right client the first time
  • Uncover the best stories
  • Optimize the use of your case studies

Five ways to make the most of case studies

Find out how you can make the most of a customer’s success story:

  • Use your customer stories to nurture your leads
  • Determine where case studies fit in your prospects’ buying cycle
  • Repurpose the same story in many different ways

10 dos and don’ts of lead nurturing

Avoid common mistakes such as:

  • Not defining what is and what is not lead nurturing
  • Setting unrealistic goals and budgets
  • Giving up too soon

Where can I find a good list?

Getting a good list gives you a greater chance of success at generating good quality leads, but it is tricky. Find out:

  • Which list is better suited for your needs
  • Whether you need an intermediary or not
  • The different sources for acquiring and building B2B lists

Five small changes for big benefits

Fresh ideas for those who do not know where to start:

  • Build your trustworthiness with clients
  • Plug leaky sales funnels
  • Determine where to focus your B2B marketing efforts

The case for case studies

This white paper addresses:

  • How to make customer success stories work for you
  • Best practices and pitfalls to avoid
  • How to use them in actual and future B2B marketing campaigns

Four lead nurturing strategies to overcome a downturn

Start planting seeds today if you want to harvest later. Look for strategies that:

  • Better align sales and marketing
  • Offer relevant content to fight “no decision”
  • Communicate what makes you unique

Are you ready for your next event?

The following checklist provides useful tips to organize and execute your next event, helping you:

  • Determine your objectives
  • Carefully prepare your invitations
  • Effectively promote your event

The pitfalls of using seminars to generate leads

Find out in this article what makes the difference between a seminar that generates leads and one that doesn’t.

  • Avoid 10 common mistakes
  • Account for your differences and the needs and desire of your audience
  • Follow a step-by-step approach

Nurture marketing: Top 5 myths

This article will help you clear up misguided notions about nurture marketing and clarify:

  • If you are ready for lead nurturing
  • The key benefits of nurturing leads
  • The importance of the human touch component

The lead generation dilemma

Generating more leads or better leads? Find out how you can solve the dilemma by:

  • Quickly identifying your long-term leads
  • Keeping in touch with warm leads until they become ready to buy
  • Boosting the effectiveness of your sales force

The three essential steps to planning lead generation activities

A simple guide for successful planning:

  • Find out how many leads you really need
  • How to grow your list
  • How to schedule your marketing tactics