Sunday, September 4, 2011

Increasing Sales Leads With Lead Generation Marketing

By Nicholas Windley


Marketing has developed its ways , from the old marketing mind-set, targeted on the suppliers business and pushing messages to their audience which they dictated, into a new marketing mind-set which refocuses on understanding the market in great depth and using messages that speak about their world, Problems and wishes.

And for the first time marketing has aligned itself with sales, as its becoming more about quality exchanges, audience engagement, perspective and persuasion which takes folk from your content to somebody that's a possible client or sales lead.

Why Online Lead Generation Is Crucial

A large proportion of today's b2b marketing is now being done online, the Internet has empowered customers to make informed acquisitions than previously and consider even more choice. At the same time its possible for suppliers to engage as closely as possible with their key audiences, understand who they are and even provoke those audiences to help in promoting their cause, all with assistance from technology.

In truth technology and automation is enabling businesses to hold marketing operations accountable for delivering real quantified business results like sales leads, as its possible to understand in detail what activity generates the most profitable results and focuses activity on those areas.

Make Marketing Accountable For Lead Generation

With technology comes complexity, so a rather more holistic or integrated approach to b2b marketing is needed that permits more to be done with less effort. Today and in the future the way search engines like Google rank the content of sites and individual pages is to consider multiple factors like the content itself, the inbound links, the variety of referring sources and the freshness of that content so once again a tactic that can address multiple online channels will have the best effect.

As old b2b marketing concentrated on sending out message, new marketing refocuses on drawing possible customers to you by ensuring your business can be found online, otherwise known as inbound marketing.

Its a strategic approach that generates qualified sales leads from folks who are actively looking for your product or services and related content. Future clients then identify there sales readiness by engaging with your content at varied levels.

Getting Leads From Your Marketing

Once you've got folks coming to your site from search and social media you want to convert that traffic into potential sales leads.

The types of leads you can generate will alter depending on the effectiveness of your offer, the data you ask for in exchange and the type and amount of requests a potential customer makes from you. Much of this will depend upon how clearly you understand your audience and what it is they actually need from you. From this you can build your offer and make it easy for people to understand how they access it.

Your offer must be presented on a landing-page that's specifically designed to help turn visitors into leads which you can later segment and organise in terms of level of importance. With the proper combination of offers, calls to action and landing pages you can establish a filtering mechanism for lead generation.

If you increase and combine the quantity of offers you put forward, with the traffic you generate and the follows up you do, it will increase the amount of sales leads your marketing activity generates and as you get better the quality of sales leads will also improve.




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