Content Marketing. Nearly everybody is keen to share opinions and infographics on this relatively young discipline. To 90% of all marketeers content is increasingly important within the marketing discipline. Ironically less than 40% of all marketing managers have drafted a content marketing strategy, according to a recent econsultancy survey.
Marketing automation solutions including Eloqua, Marketo en HubSpot promise to do their best in helping to ‘warm up’ prospects into qualified opportunities. The english expression B2B lead nurturing says it all.
Well over 200 B2B companies (North America) were surveyed Q1 2012 to assess the state of affairs when it comes to B2B lead generation. The differences between those companies that use CRM and Marketing Automation and those that do not sometimes don’t seem all that massive. Yet the delta is significant when it comes to the volume of leads generated and the happiness with the quality of leads generated.