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What is something that companies can do to leverage their lead generation investment? Get more out of your prospecting by profiling your target market. In other words, use your B2B lead generation programs to gather intelligence about your prospects as you interact with them through teleprospecting or email or webinars or social media marketing. This strategy enables you to start ranking them to find out how good a prospect they are and updating that ranking over time to understand how good a prospect they are in future quarters and years. Then, target them based on that information to educate them over time. So, what are the qualification questions you ask every prospect to determine how strong of a prospect they are for your solution? Find those out as many time as you can each prospect interaction. Then, even add some industry trend-type questions, maybe formulate some multiple choice answers to all of these questions and use the responses to create a research report that can be published and used as a marketing asset for your future B2B marketing campaigns. Talk about effective campaign development. Here's an example (http://bit.ly/gVqS9l) of what it could look like. Set yourself apart as a thought leader in your industry. If you are interested in more, visit their website. Apollo's central hub for up-to-date B2B marketing, lead generation and nurturing information and best practices: http://blog.apollosmg.com Apollo Sales & Marketing Group http://www.apollosmg.com

Marketing Challenges - The TOP 5 Marketing Sherpa recently published their 6th annual B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. In the report, there were many very interesting findings. Among those, here are the Top 5 challenges for B2B marketers responding to the research: * Generating high quality leads * Marketing to a lengthening sales cycle * Creating perceived value * Generating a high volume of leads * Marketing to a growing number of people in the buying process These top five challenges strongly endorse everyone to focus on the following items in their marketing: * Marketing strategy * Custom list building - having the right contacts, keeping your database clean * Meaningful marketing campaigns - plan an integrated approach * Lead generation offers - content development * Marketing messaging to each of the different buyers - address their pains and challenges * Lead nurturing * Multi-channel marketing to reach as many target prospects as possible If you are interested in more, visit their website. Apollo's central hub for up-to-date B2B marketing, lead generation and nurturing information and best practices: http://blog.apollosmg.com Apollo Sales & Marketing Group http://www.apollosmg.com

Have you been repeating the same sales and marketing strategies and activities each year hoping for a better result? Kinda like that movie Groundhog Day? Plug into Apollo's First 100 Days program and make this year different. Here's what business leaders said who responded in the last 30 days: "I called Apollo because we need to take it to the next level in 2011." "We're tired of what is not working. We need a system for lead generation." How did the first 100 days go last year? Looking for better this year? Plug into a proven, systematic approach ensuring that you get off to a quick and sustainable start. * Did you know that less than 33% of the SMB market has a written business development plan * Of that 33%, more than 50% admit that they do not track performance against the plan more than quarterly. Any surprise that the grand plans most companies start out with are rarely achieved? What should my first 100 days look like? Apollo's First 100 Days Program will help you achieve your best start ever. * Transition from working a dozen to a hundred opportunities. * We create a qualified community of ideal prospects and qualified buyers using direct marketing, eMarketing and Social Networking tactics. * Build/clean/augment your database with hundreds of qualified opportunities. * Gather essential qualification criteria for your top prospects. * Build at least 3 marketing assets that drive brand recognition and improve sales conversion. * Launch your nurturing communication strategy so that prospective buyers recognize your brand and value your services. * Get in front of decision makers and close business. …all within 100 days. If you want more out of 2011, let's have a conversation. Apollo's central hub for up-to-date B2B marketing, lead generation and nurturing information and best practices: http://blog.apollosmg.com

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Relate to the Audience (specifically)! At first glance, this may seem a lot like "Be Crystal Clear" or "Aim at the Right Target with the Right Message" or even "Provide Proof Points" and it most certainly is in the fact that all of these Secrets work together to create killer B2B marketing messaging for your Lead Generation and Lead Nurturing campaigns. So, specifically what do we mean here? We mean, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. More specifically, if you are marketing to Law Firms, use relevant messaging for law firms. Use client quotes or case studies from law firm customers. State pains and challenges that they would relate to. Bad Example: "We specialize in working with companies large and small to streamline their document management processes, saving them up to 30% in costs." Better Example: "We work with small to medium sized law firms helping them save up to 30% in document management while virtually eliminating the headaches associated with file document control and eDiscovery." The second example has references to the audience and the specific environment the law forms live in each day. It takes time to get these messages tuned for each of the vertical markets you serve and for each of the audiences in each market. If your company is working hard to figure out how to improve SEO lead conversion, this is one of those areas to focus on. I'm reminded of the old fitness club TV advertisement where the model was finished working out and said into the camera, "Let's face it, if a great body came in a bottle, everyone would have one." It is the same with great, impactful marketing messaging. You have to work at it over time, testing and measuring; tweaking and adjusting until you get it right. Then, you set it on auto-pilot and count the leads.

Database Booster Over 60% of sales leaders say that they do not believe that they know the correct decision makers and influencers in most of their target companies. We have found that if you have a prospect database of 2,000 contacts that is 2 years old; you have over 35% bad data. Did you think it would be that high? Here are some supporting statistics: * Up to 18% of all telephone numbers change every year.¹ * Up to 20% of all postal addresses change every year.¹ * Up to 21% of all CEO's change every year.¹ * 25-33% of email addresses in your in-house file will become outdated every year.² * In addition, up to 66% of people change companies or job functions every year!³ SOURCES: 1. D&B 2. Lyris Technologies: "Guru's Guide to Email Marketing Success" 3. Sales & Marketing Institute If you are interested in more, visit their website. Apollo's central hub for up-to-date B2B marketing, lead generation and nurturing information and best practices: http://blog.apollosmg.com Apollo Sales & Marketing Group http://www.apollosmg.com