Marketing effectiveness is not measured by response rates alone.
Two things are certain.
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Driving all leads directly into the SFA or contact management solution is a
losing proposition – for both marketing and sales.
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Marketing resources will be cut unless ROI can be validated and continuously
optimized.
B2B companies with sizeable marketing investments recognize the need to improve
marketing effectiveness as well as the limitations of marketing modules that
have been “tacked on” to CRM applications.
Imagine the ROI of a solution designed specifically to:
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make marketing team members more productive
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complement and lower the TCO of your CRM application
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consistently increase lead quality and justify ongoing marketing efforts
As you evaluate marketing effectiveness, if the answer is NO
to any of these twelve questions, it's time to complement your CRM application
with a best-of-breed solution built from the ground up to optimize B2B lead
generation and fill the pipeline – not just forecast it.
Campaign set-up and execution
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Are marketing efforts closely aligned with the sales cultivation process?
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Can personalized and metric-rich landing pages be set-up without the help of IT
resources?
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Are supporting vendors, including outsourced telemarketing resources, held
accountable through a centralized real-time solution?
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Is personalization technology fully leveraged to optimize response and lead
capture rates?
Tracking
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Is a unified solution that reports real-time on all marketing channels shared
with sales management?
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Can marketing easily determine which lead generation channels and specific
sources are driving the best quality leads early in a campaign?
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Are web visits directly correlated to marketing efforts and appended to a
unified contact history profile?
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Does marketing have real-time insight into the follow-up productivity of high
quality leads?
Refinement & ROI Reporting
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Is marketing ROI reporting in the CRM application 100% accurate?
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Does real-time “projected ROI” (based on lead quality) factor into early
refinement of the marketing channel strategy?
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Is lead quality systematically captured and improved – based on specific sales
qualification criteria?
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Are search engine advertising, list and offer strategies systematically
improved based on the quality of leads captured?
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| Customer Success |
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| The LeadGenesys solution cost effectively complements our CRM solution to dramatically shorten our sales cycles and boost marketing ROI. Continuous refinement of marketing and lead cultivation efforts through all channels has given us a key competitve advantage." |
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Anritsu
Marketing Director |
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| Analyst Quote |
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| Marketing
and sales effectiveness (MSE) solutions have begun to gain traction as B-to-B
organizations have sought to get marketing and sales on the same page and to
eliminate the hemorrhaging of marketing budgets and sales effectiveness." |
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| Aberdeen Group |
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