Archive for the ‘Lead/Demand Generation’ Category

B2C Lead Generation Budgets

Monday, July 7th, 2008

B2C marketers are now looking more and more to online for lead generation - following a path already forged by B2B marketers in years past. How are they doing it? According to a recent article from eMarketer... Natural search (79% of respondents), e-mail marketing to in-house lists (75%) and paid search ...

7 Ways to Salvage a Lead-Generation Campaign

Friday, December 7th, 2007

From MarketingSherpa: What if the majority of business leads you worked so hard to collect are worthless because the incentive attracted attention from thousands of consumers looking for a handout. See the damage control plan a technology firm launched to shut down the campaign and cut off the source of bogus leads. ...

Trade Group Splintering Could Hinder Lead Gen Self-Regulation

Friday, November 9th, 2007

In December 2006, Perspectiv CEO Jere Doyle ditched the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Lead Generation Committee and joined the lesser-known Online Lead Generation Association, which plans to vote this week on new board member nominees, including Doyle. He was fed up with the IAB's "lack of movement" on developing standards for ...

Online Marketing Experts to Brainstorm Strategies for Better Lead Conversion

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 20 of the foremost thought leaders in online marketing will explore "conversion marketing" and other leading industry trends at the Online Lead Quality Summit presented by TARGUSinfo on Sept. 19-20, 2007 at the Palms Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. The second-annual Online Lead Quality ...

The Top 5 Best (and Top 5 Worst) Things About Landing Pages

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

If you're spending advertising budget online, then you should be familiar with creating, using and optimizing landing pages to correspond with your campaigns. Here are the top 5 Best (and worst) things about landing pages, from MarketingProfs.com,

Email Marketing Campaigns Need Better Landing Pages

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

New Silverpop Study Finds Lack of Strong Post-Click Marketing ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new review by Silverpop of the landing pages from 150 email marketing campaigns finds that many fail to grab attention quickly and some are confusing and cluttered.

Free Web Seminar - Lead Generation in a Web 2.0 World

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Note: This information is from a promotional email I received, and decided to share with you. This posting is not intended to be seen as an endorsement of the seminar, sponsor or their products and services. Harnessing the Revolution: Media Planning for Lead Generation in a Web 2.0 World >>Web seminar hosted ...

Online Lead Generation

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

As a former Lead Generation Marketing Manager, I am distinctly, and sometimes painfully aware of the importance of generating high-quality, high-volume leads. Webcasts, whitepapers, eBooks, podcasts and more are now being sold in the B2B marketplace with marketing campaigns and guaranteed lead programs. In order to compete in the B2B market, ...

Effective Landing Pages

Monday, January 15th, 2007

There have been a number of articles about landing pages - one versus two column layouts for registration, color schemes, etc. The article "Seven Tips for Effective Landing Pages" from ClickZ contains a good overall set of recommendations for desiging strong landing pages. Here are the basic tips that Jeanne Jennings ...