3 Reasons why lead nurturing and scoring have NOTHING to do with software


B2B Demand Generation | Lead nurturing and scoring

Want to develop and deploy a world-class lead nurturing and scoring program in your Lead Nurturingcompany? Better post a job for someone with experience in the software you use such as Eloqua, Marketo, Silverpop, Act-On, Manticore, Aprimo, etc., right?

WRONG!

Here are three reasons why Lead Nurturing and Scoring have NOTHING to do with software.

  1. Lead nurturing is about telling a great story - from Problem to Solution. Story-telling skills have nothing to do with software.
  2. Lead nurturing relies on delivering the right content to the right executive in the right media at the right time. That means you need great content in various media. Content marketing is not software.
  3. The foundation of lead nurturing and scoring is buyer personas, buying processes and agreed lead definitions. This requires insight and conversation and has nothing to do with software.

The very last step you do will be to add the campaigns and scoring to software. That is a rather trivial step.

My advice to you is this. Find an expert in lead nurturing and scoring - not software.

We invite you to check out the Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service from Find New Customers or watch me explain the ideas on YouTube.

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Coming up tomorrow: We reintroduce our superb white paper and explain what Sales really needs from your marketing team.

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Jeff Ogden is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. We help companies with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

Find New Customers introduces the Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service


B2B Lead Generation | Find New Customers Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service

Announcing a new service from Find New Customers

Lead nurturing is one of the most important, yet poorly understood aspects of B2B lead generation today.”

Jeff Ogden, President of the B2B lead generation consultancy Find New Customers

As of today, Find New Customers can help YOU implement a best-practices lead nurturing and scoring program in YOUR company - regardless of what marketing automation software you use. Lead nurturing and scoring is not about software - it is about the people who could buy your products and services.

With up to 9 out of 10 visitors to your website not ready to buy, lead nurturing isLead Nurturing one of the most important factors in B2B marketing today. Few companies do it at all, and very, very few do it well.

Lead nurturing is the process of sharing valuable content (to them) over time, earning their trust, till they are ready to buy.

From Marketo, here are the benefits of lead nurturing:

  • Fewer marketing-generated leads ignored by sales (from 80% to as low as 25%)
  • 150% increase in contact-to-lead conversion rate
  • 2-3x lift in conversion rates on raw leads to qualified opportunities
  • 20% more sales opportunities
  • 225% increase in volume of prospects that convert to sales opportunities
  • 7% points higher win rates on marketing-generated leads
  • 6% points lower rate of “no decisions”
  • 2x increase in bid-win ration
  • 47% higher average order values

Problem is - most companies  simply send out email after email without any plan - so they rarely get the results promised by Marketo and others.

To check out the Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service from Find New Customers, click the highlighted words.

What you really need is a story that walks the prospective buyer from Problem to Solution - leveraging deep buyer personas. Only with deep insights, will you be able to craft the compelling messages you need to move the prospective buyer through the process.

This is why we created this video clip - to share insights on this important B2B marketing concept.

Hope you find it helpful.  For more information on Lead Nurturing and the services we offer to help you dramatically improve your lead nurturing programs, please visit our Lead Nurturing page.

To check out the Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service from Find New Customers, click the highlighted words.

Check out what Forrester wrote about lead nurturing. We could not agree more.

“Determine the personas and buyer journeys that can be supported with nurturing. Most marketers struggle to use lead nurturing because they don’t know enough about how their buyers seek information early in their problem-solving cycles.
Marketers must identify the personas within the segments they want to target and map the buyer journeys that each persona takes. They need to crisply define the questions buyers may ask when they go online and do research on their problem, learn about approaches others have taken, define their requirements,and build the business case to get budget for a purchase so that they can satisfy these information needs with lead nurturing.”

Lead Nurturing Overview from Jeff Ogden on Vimeo.

To check out the Lead Nurturing and Scoring Service from Find New Customers, click the highlighted words.

Coming up tomorrow: We reintroduce our superb white paper and explain what Sales really needs from your marketing team.

This blog publishes 7 days a week and 2 times a day on weekdays. Keeping it fresh!

Jeff Ogden is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. We help companies with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

Find New Customers Fan of the Month - Kenny Madden


B2B Lead Generation | Find New Customers Fan of the Month

Each month we recognize a special fan of Find New Customers. This month our fan of the

Announcement from Find New Customers

month is none other than Kenny Madden.

According to Linkedin, Kenny is the Director of Business Development at Spiceworks in Austin, TX and the owner of Madden Acquisitions. He can be reached at Kenny at spiceworks.com. He is also on Twitter at @kennymadden1973

Why don’t you follow him?

Kenny is a great guy and loyal fan of Find New Customers and our weekly B2B marketing show, Laugh and Learn featuring @fearlesscomp.

Thanks for your support, Kenny. We really appreciate it.

Congratulations on being our Fan of the Month, Kenny!

Who wants to be named fan of the month for September? It can be you if you care for Find New Customers too.

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Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. He presented “How to Build an Awesome Personal Brand” at the 140 Social Media Conference and appeared to discuss B2B lead generation on Sales Lead Management Radio.

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Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.