What is lead generation? For your business to thrive, you need to be creating a constant stream of potential customers. Lead generation is the effort your business makes to attract new interest to your products or services, and move high-intent individuals along the sales funnel.
You have been working tirelessly on your marketing strategy, from creating your buyer personas to creating a full funnel campaign, but how can you make sure all your time and effort has been worth it and will continue to yield results for your business in the future?
To increase sales for a B2B company, there are many digital tactics you can implement that will (when encompassed within a strategy) help you to create a lead-to-sales conversion machine.
Now here’s a question that used to cause a lot of conflict between marketing and sales teams.
Sometimes, we need to take a step back and look at where we’ve come from in order to determine how and why we are heading in a particular direction. Marketing has been around for hundreds of years, evolving and expanding its principles and functions, but many businesses still don’t recognise the need for an inbound approach, simply believing that their product or service will generate demand through old fashioned tactics and strategies.
It’s fair to say business in the UK has had a rather uncertain start to 2019. A lack of clarity over Brexit has had a chilling effect on the economy, and it is also unclear what impact it will have after 29th March.
It’s sensible for a marketer to ask, ‘What is a good conversion rate?’. However, this is an incomplete question that could result in many ambiguous answers.
I’m not usually a fan of what’s on the radio—it’s podcasts and playlists for me. A few months ago, however, a Radio 4 news bulletin caught my attention. The broadcaster reported that many of the UK's elderly, despite their loyalty to certain service providers, were being considerably overcharged because they didn’t have the tech skills to search for better alternatives online after their contracts had ended.
At the end of the day, profit is what drives business. Before a customer decides on any kind of venture, we often want cold, hard proof that the investment will deliver profit, and that it will be worth continuing to invest in in the future.