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Lead Liaison is Prepared to Revolutionize the Relationship Between Marketing and Analytics

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Allen, TX – Lead Liaison is revolutionizing the way marketers, executives, and salespeople receive and analyze their data. Lead Liaison is hard at work fine-tuning the marketing automation company’s newest add-on: Revelation™. Never before has reporting and analytics like this been so seamlessly integrated within a marketing platform.

A Wealth of Data as the Foundation

Lead Liaison is already a powerful tool for collecting data on prospects, customers, and partners who engage with a company’s outbound and inbound marketing. Their cloud-based marketing automation system is second to none. They top that with massive amounts of demographics and social insight to generate rich prospect profiles. But, the sign of a true leader of the pack is their ability to adapt to the needs of their clients. They recognized that something important was missing. It was clear that there was a need for a powerful platform to analyze and interpret that data in order to deliver useful insight to its users.

The Solution

As an answer to this cry, Lead Liaison is preparing to launch one of their biggest add-on’s yet. Revelation™ is an analytics platform built on the industry’s best business intelligence engine, to deliver rich visual insights, answering sales’ and marketing’s most burning questions. This add-on provides data in a beautifully rendered dashboard that includes heat maps, bar charts, geographical maps, and more. Custom reports can be created, saved, and scheduled for email to users on a periodic basis.

It’s Almost Here

While it isn’t available to the public just yet, it is rapidly evolving – and taking shape with the help of our trusted clients. Revelation™ is currently being rolled out to early adopters . John Peebles, CEO at Administrate, a fast growing Training and Learning Management Systems company, says “We’re always looking to reduce the time it takes to nurture prospects and increase the efficacy of our communications with those leads.  The best way to do this is with actual metrics, and we’re really pleased with the latest updates from Lead Liaison as they’re helping us improve our business and generate more leads.”

Businesses interested in this launch are being directed to Lead Liaison’s Account Managers to learn more about this exciting breakthrough in the marketplace.

About Lead Liaison
Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that helps businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of marketing automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and additional website engagement tools to boost sales effectiveness. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible business model, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality, all specifically tailored for mid-sized businesses, into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Allen, Texas, near Dallas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237).

 

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How to Run a Webinar: Pre-Webinar Bonding & Follow-Up

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How to Run a Webinar

This is the eight installment in the series How to Run a Webinar.

In our last post in this series, we talked about building a compelling landing page and “Thank You” page. The next step is to get comfortable with pre-webinar bonding and follow-up.

Pre Webinar Bonding

If possible, create further short pieces of content that cover any possible objections and start building more trust with registrants. This can be drip fed via email before the webinar. This content could be short videos or articles or just a nice webinar cheat sheet to download and print off before the webinar. Your marketing automation software can help you build a simple drip track for new registrants prepping them for the event.

Follow Up

Make sure to follow up with attendees and no shows once the event is over. We suggest doing so three (3) days after the event. In your follow up, include a video recording of the webinar. Put it into an email, but only include an image of the video. When clicked, the recipient should be taken to a landing page, separate from your registration page, where they can play the video. Separating your follow up page from your registration page will help you isolate statistics and get better tracking from your marketing automation system. This is especially handy for people that couldn’t attend the event as they can watch the video later at their convenience.

In the next, and final, installment of How to Run a Webinar we’ll talk about syndicating your content.

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Lead Liaison Opens It’s Doors to Partners

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Lead LiaisonAllen, TX – To kick off the new year, Lead Liaison has recently launched a Partner Program. This strategic step is in an effort to make even more innovative and exciting enhancements to their powerful solutions which include visitor tracking, marketing automation, tools for engaging website visitors with dynamic website content, and more.

The intent is to offer added insight and expertise into an industry dominated by publicly-owned conglomerates. Lead Liaison’s mission has always been to form partnerships with each of their clients to help them reach their marketing and sales goals. This thirst for partnership is now reaching outside of their own client-base and into the marketplace. Jennifer Worsham, Director of Marketing at Lead Liaison, explains, “We believe that ‘two brains are better than one.’ While we strive to give our clients every tool that they could possibly need to be successful, we recognize that there will be some areas outside of our wheelhouse – where other companies do it better. Instead of competing with these companies, we want to partner with them in order to reach a common goal: to give our shared customers every opportunity for success.”

Partnerships are important for Lead Liaison, their partners, and their shared customers because these mutually beneficial relationships help better serve the marketplace. Lead Liaison hopes to use these partnerships as a way to help strengthen areas in which partners may be weak, and vice versa. They will be able to do this by first identifying clients’ pain points. If those pain points are outside of the realm of the software’s functionality, Lead Liaison can help clients close the loop by bringing in a partner’s powerful solution or service.

Up until this point, the marketing automation company has been more than a little selective with the partnerships they have pursued. While there will still be a great deal of vetting, opportunity has now been given to the masses and is expected to make a big impact on the industry as a whole. “Our customers are at the forefront of our minds. We only want to focus on partnerships that would benefit them,” says Worsham.

Partnership opportunities include, but are not limited to, resellers, referrals, and integrations. Past partnerships include print and mail API creator, Lob; Pipedrive CRM, Citrix’ GoToWebinar, Google AdWords/Analytics, Wistia, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more. Growth Engineer at Lob, Shrav Mehta,  comments on his excitement to partner with Lead Liaison this past fall, “Lead Liaison and Lob share [a common] goal, which is why we were excited to partner with them on this project.”

In addition to their partnerships, both past and future, Lead Liaison also integrates with over 400 third party applications. They boast a wealth of native integrations, as well as a full-featured API and Zap that offers additional ways to connect the system’s capabilities to other applications or create personalized integrations.

Interested in partnering with Lead Liaison? Visit Lead Liaison’s Partner Page for more information.

About Lead Liaison

Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that helps businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of marketing automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and additional website engagement tools to boost sales effectiveness. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible business model, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality, all specifically tailored for mid-sized businesses, into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Allen, Texas, near Dallas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237).

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Breaking the Lead Gen Stereotypes

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Gopher LeadsDid you know that the success rate of getting an initial appointment through cold calling is about 1-3%? Whereas, when the same call is made through a referral, the success rate shoots up to 40%. [1]

Luck plays a role in business success, but you can’t leave the health of your sales pipeline to chance. Besides the expensive traditional channels for generating leads, there is an innovative, often-overlooked approach to filling the top of your sales funnel: formal business referral program. Here are 5 steps to effectively use your professional network to become an extension of your sales force by generating high quality leads and business referrals:

#1 – Define your Ideal Customer

To ensure that your network and connections are investing their time in chasing the right people, make sure they understand your ideal customer base. Succinctly explaining the need that your product or service addresses in advance will better clarify your value proposition to your potential prospects.

#2 – Tighten the Feedback Loop

The need to have an effective two-way communication channel is paramount. No one will continue to send introductions and prospects into a referral-blackhole! So, make sure you provide regular updates on the referrals sent your way. The results in the image below show that when you implement an effective referral campaign, with systematic two-way communication system facilitating frequent automatic updates, the engagement rates can go as high as 74%.

#3 – Incentivize Referrals

Having a structured incentive plan within your referral program will keep your network motivated to look out for new leads. Evernote, a leading CRM platform with over 100 million users, acquired 13 million users through partner referrals. Evernote rewards points to its customers every time they make a referral, and the points can be used towards a free upgrade or increased upload capacity. [2] It is, therefore, important to recognize and reward the people who contribute to your pipeline.

#4 – Eyes on the Progress

Once you have gathered some prospects through your referral program, the next crucial step is monitoring the progress closely. Gather information about the activity of your referral network and analyze pipeline results to make intelligent decisions about how to continuously improve the program drive higher conversion and sales. In other words, monitoring the activity and effectiveness of your referral program will allow you to better educate, communicate with and encourage your lead referral network.

#5 – Remarkable Results

If you follow the above 4 steps, you will have a consistent pipeline with relevant leads. Additionally, your business will earn a higher conversion rate due to higher quality of more actionable leads.

Lead generation is the oxygen for the survival of any business, but it can be extremely difficult to identify the right source of leads. So, with the ever-changing modern world of commerce, make sure your methods of generating leads have not passed their expiry date.

Sources:

[1]https://www.ducttapemarketing.com/the-abusive-math-of-cold-calling/

[2]http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2014/05/13/evernote-reaches-100-million-users/

Guest Poster: Sahand Sojoodi

Founder and CEO of Gopher Leads Inc, a technology startup that accelerates sales revenue by engaging the customer-facing frontline. I have worked as an innovator and early-stage startup founder for over a decade. Gopher Leads utilizes a modern, mobile, cloud-based platform to educate, engage and incentivize employees to generate leads from their daily routines.  Follow me on Twitter @sojoodi, or email me directly at sahand@gopherleads.com.

 

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What Does a Marketing Automation Platform Cost?

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Marketing Automation CostAlthough marketing automation is one of the most rapidly growing segments within the business software industry, there is still tremendous room for growth. If your organization is considering the implementation of marketing automation in the near future, you might wish to know how much of a budget you should set aside before beginning a search for the right program. There are numerous marketing software pricing plans and models. Below, we explore the various factors affecting marketing automation platform costs.

The question of how much a marketing automation platform costs is one that many marketers often ask. It should be understood that the cost of a marketing automation platform will vary based on a number of factors. While there are some open-source marketing automation platforms that may at first appear to be free, most such platforms have a certain cost of ownership. Generally speaking, prices for marketing automation software will be based on the following factors:

  • Number of prospects, which is how we refer to contacts at Lead Liaison
  • Edition (whether you choose standard, professional, or enterprise)
  • Third-party services that connect to the platform
  • Number of emails sent per month
  • Number of unique active contacts per month

Additionally, there could also be other plug-ins or add-on fees. Examples include fees for APIs or other third-party services that connect to the platform. Extra fees may be based on the following features:

  • CRM integration
  • Number of users
  • Training
  • Feature add-ons, SEO, social media management, content management plug-ins, SPAM analysis, email deliverability testing, customized landing page URLs, dedicated IP addresses, etc.

Each of these factors should be taken into careful consideration before choosing a marketing automation package to ensure the package you select is in line with both your budget and your needs. In addition, consider the size of your organization as well as scalability for growth.

On the low end, a small to mid-sized package will typically begin at about $300 per month. However, it should also be noted that pricing can range up to about $4,000 per month for higher-growth companies.

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Lead Liaison Wows Marketing Automation Industry With Most Recent Feature Release

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ALLEN, TX – Lead LiaisonIn the spirit of the season, Lead Liaison has gifted its clients with added solutions and updates that help salespeople and marketers finish the year with a bang. Sr. Support Engineer at Lead Liaison, Alan Page, weighs in on the strategy behind this update, “what good is a powerful marketing automation suite if it isn’t intuitive? We’ve spent a lot of time building out some of the market’s most valuable tools, and now our mission is to make those tools even easier to use.”

Custom Activities

This release is one of the most valuable ones to date, enabling tracking and automation truly tailored to the individual needs of each business. Custom Activities track any type of activity imaginable, and can be triggered from JavaScript or from the API. Anything that’s not a standard activity, such as email engagement, page visits, etc., can now be logged and used in automations or segmentations with custom activities.

For example, suppose a user needed to track when a prospect placed a phone call to their support number. Before now, there wasn’t much that could be triggered around a custom activity such as this. Now, companies can track virtually any activity and details about it (like the time of call or duration) by adding this information to the prospect’s profile. What’s more, this information can then be used as a part of an automation to follow up with something personal like a handwritten letter thanking them for the call.

“We’re pumped about what custom activities can do for clients. They’re not limited to standard activity tracking, like emails, documents, forms, etc. Anything they imagine can be tracked. We recently connected our Fulfillment Actions, a very light-weight, highly efficient form of automation, to custom activities to trigger immediate actions when the custom activity happens. Technology is amazing!” – Jen Worsham, Director of Marketing

Other examples of what users can log are things like product orders, preferences and interests, or website engagement (like button clicks, link clicks, etc.).

Other Updates to Note

Updated Interface

Lead Liaison’s platform is one of the most rapidly updated and ever-evolving platforms on the market. Unlike other applications that have a take-it-or-leave-it approach, the automation powerhouse yearns to continuously enhance the user experience. In this facelift, tables were improved, font sizes were increased for better readability, and most actions on tables can be executed with a single click on hover.

Support for Custom Fonts

Custom fonts supported in Lead Liaison’s email builder are now available across the entire platform, including postcards, web forms, landing pages, and more. It’s now easier than ever to match branding and styling with marketing assets.

About Lead Liaison
Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that helps businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of marketing automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and additional website engagement tools to boost sales effectiveness. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible business model, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality, all specifically tailored for mid-sized businesses, into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Allen, Texas, near Dallas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237).

 

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How to Run a Webinar: Building a Compelling Landing Page and Thank You Page

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How to Run a Webinar

This is the seventh installment in the series How to Run a Webinar.

In our last post in this series, we talked about Promoting your webinar. The next step is to build a compelling landing page and “Thank You” page!

Build a Compelling Landing Page

Your marketing automation system should have some great tools in place to help you build a landing page and web form that’s styled and customized to fit the look and feel of your brand. Here are a few ways you can make a compelling landing page:

  • Keep your communication succinct and list out the three benefits to joining the webinar (what you’ll learn).
  • If the presenters are well known, consider putting a picture of the presenter on the page to personalize the event.
  • If you’re offering an incentive, make it clear to the user what that incentive is.
  • Keep the focus on the page, and converting the visitor. Don’t put other things like your website navigation menu or other links that could divert the user’s attention.

Build a Great “Thank You” Page

Similar to the landing page, you want the Thank You Page to be simple, with an easy way for the user to add the event to their calendar. Add a “add to calendar” button with instructions on how to add the event straight to their calendar. AddToCalendar has some neat tools to create buttons and links for this purpose. After the registration form is submitted, make sure to send a thank you email. All of this will increase your attendance rate.

In the next installment of How to Run a Webinar, we’ll talk about pre-webinar bonding.

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Lead Liaison Clients Give A Standing Ovation

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Lead LiaisonALLEN, TX –  The marketplace is ready for a fresh approach to marketing automation. Organizations are desperate for new solutions in sales and marketing. Lead Liaison compiled a few of their clients’ most recent testimonials and displayed those on their newest “Why Lead Liaison?” page. Their clients have found that fresh approach, and they are excited to talk about it. From large to small, in industries across the board, businesses are finally finding the solution that they’ve been looking for.

The Answer for a Multitude of Industries

In the most recent release of testimonials, happy customers rave about why they chose Lead Liaison. David Frederick is the VP of Marketing & Communications at United Way of Tarrant County. He believes that Lead Liaison is unique in that they understand that nonprofits have a different set of tools, different resources, and different needs. The Revenue Generation Software™ company’s dynamic content builder, SiteEngage™, allows United Way to connect with a customer or donor, identify what they are looking for, and provide content that better meets their needs and expectations.

HRchitect is a human capital management (HCM) consulting company, and “has worked with clients with as few as 100 employees to some of the largest organizations in the world.” The sales cycle for their biggest client in 2016 was one of the shortest they’d ever seen, and they credit Lead Liaison’s ProspectVision™. The intuitive platform allowed HRchitect to shorten their sales cycles and continues to enable their sales people to reach the right person, at the right company, at the right time, with the right message.

With Lead Liaison, Select Energy Services has been able to increase their brand awareness and educate potential and current clients. They now have a single platform where they can manage all of their marketing communication, content creation, ROI reporting, and are able to align their marketing and sales teams better.

How Lead Liaison Stands Out Against the Crowd

Lead Liaison focuses on their customers while taking every opportunity to listen. Their business model, interface, and game-changing technology are just a few areas that make them different. Client input and requests matter to Lead Liaison. Their business model adheres to three core principals: flexibility, innovation, and ease of use. To see what their clients really have to say, click here.

About Lead Liaison
Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that helps businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of marketing automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and additional website engagement tools to boost sales effectiveness. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible business model, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality, all specifically tailored for mid-sized businesses, into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Allen, Texas, near Dallas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237).

 

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How To Increase Your Click-Through Rate

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CTRFrom email marketing to website offers, your click-through rate (CTR) is one of the most important metrics you track. People need to click to get to the next point in the funnel, so it is essential that you do everything you can to increase your CTR. After you boost your CTR, you will push more people into the purchase funnel and get more sales. Fortunately, it is relatively simple to boost your CTR.

Test Your CTAs

You should insert a call-to-action (CTA) each time you want someone to click on your website or in an email. Don’t choose just one CTA and reuse it. Instead, split test all of your CTAs to find out which ones work best. This will provide important insight into what your audience wants. Then, customize your CTAs for your audience (you could even utilize your database segmentations here!). Once you put the best CTAs in front of your audience, your CTR will get a huge boost.

Use Personalized Content

General content simply doesn’t convert as well as personalized content does. Use software that collects information about visitors and then personalizes the experience based on that information. From using the person’s name to providing relevant content, there are tons of ways to personalize people’s experiences. The better you are at this, the more your CTR will grow. Marketing automation can help you automate this personalization process!

Entice Your Readers

It is easy to increase your CTR and push people through the purchase funnel by providing some great offers. A free whitepaper or a free trial can go a long way in increasing your CTR. It is a good idea to test and personalize offers for your users. This puts the best offers in front of all of your visitors. When people click on an offer, have them give up some personal information so you can continue to customize the experience. Then, you can use the newly acquired information to increase your CTR even more.

If you can increase your CTR, you can grow your business. Use these tips to get people to click on your links and offers. The more clicks you get, the easier it will be to grow your business.

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