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Business blogging “best practices” instruct bloggers to include a relevant call-to-action at the bottom of every blog post. This is nothing groundbreaking — it’s how you convert visitors to your blog into valuable inbound leads for your business.

But are those end-of-post calls-to-action (CTAs) really the best option? After all, any conversion rate optimization expert worth their salt knows to take industry “best practices” with, well, a grain of salt.

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For inbound marketers, “offers” are the golden ticket for lead generation. Not only do they feed your list of new contacts, but they are a critical tool for nurturing existing leads into a position that makes them more sales-ready.

But, let’s face it … creating an offer is complicated. For starters, you have a choice of format: templates, kits, workbooks, and even interactive websites. The most common, however, is the ebook. 

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We’ve all been through it. You know, the moment you’re about to dig into the best darn pile of spaghetti and meatballs you’ve ever seen.

Just as you twist your fork in the pasta, spear a mouth-watering meatball, and go in for the first savory bite … the phone rings. “May I speak to Aaahnooom Hahsahn?” says the telemarketer on the other end. “This is an important message regarding your oven preferences.”

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Let’s start with some scary stats. According to SiriusDecisions 98% of MQLs never result in closed business. Additionally, 54% of sales reps won’t make quota. All this despite record investments in marketing automation and sales enablement tools.

Now consider that the top priority among B2B marketers is increasing the number of contacts/leads generated (Source, State of Inbound 2015). Of course, a close second priority is converting contacts/leads into customers. Over the last five years, I’ve seen the focus on lead generation increase significantly among small and mid-market businesses (SMEs). As recently as 2013, I would regularly engage executives who had reached out to me to discuss a sales problem in an effort to teach them that the cause of their sales problem was how they were (or more accurately weren’t) generating leads. Today I get to do much less teaching as more and more executives have increased their focus on lead generation.

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Not everyone is ready to buy your product or service the first time they come to your site and that’s okay. With the right amount of time and information they will warm up to your brand, assuming they’re the right persona for your product or service, of course.

Nurturing campaigns are essential for keeping these people who visit your site but aren’t ready to immediately buy engaged with your brand. Essentially these campaigns are a series of emails aimed at keeping you top of mind while building trust and moving your lead further along in the buyer’s journey.

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An effective content strategy doesn’t rely on only one tactic.

Generating qualified leads requires you to regularly publish compelling, valuable content, explore guest blogging opportunities, identify co-marketing campaigns, and devise a strategy for promoting said content.

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According to research, 93% of B2B marketers use content marketing, but only 42% are actually effective at it. 

Why such a big gap? As with most things, it comes down to a lack of education on what actually works and how to plan and execute on your campaign in the most effective way.

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Filling the top of your sales funnel with leads is tough — especially when you’re relying on traditional methods. Sending cold emails and scraping together lists can be incredibly demoralizing, right? Most of those people don’t really want to talk to you … and they can be pretty hostile about it. So what if I told you that you could still reach your leads quota using methods that actually add value to your prospect’s day?Continue Reading

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Here at HubSpot, we know a thing or two about webinars. We’ve
set the Guinness World Record for largest online marketing seminar, hosted webinars with partners such as
Facebook,
LinkedIn and
Unbounce, and we’re able to host and promote in-house because of
the modern marketing team we’ve built.

No matter how great the content of your webinar is, though, it doesn’t mean much if there’s nobody there to hear it.

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If you’re considering a website redesign or are wondering how to generate more leads from your website, it’s a good idea to start with your homepage. 

Serving as your company’s virtual front door, this page is generally responsible for drawing in a majority of your website’s traffic. And despite its prominence, many businesses struggle to optimize it properly. 

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There’s a really big difference between passing off leads to your sales team, and passing off qualified leads to your sales team. 

While a mixed bag of leads will often leave them tied up on calls that won’t translate to much for the business, a list of qualified leads will set them on a path that might actually result in a sale. 

What’s the best way to separate the good from the bad?

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I think we can all agree that things taste that much sweeter when we actually earn them: the promotion you got, the first car you bought with the money you saved mowing lawns for three summers, or the free coffee you received after the cashier punched the final hole in your rewards card.

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