7 Ways to Generate Leads Using Marketing Automation in 2021

As businesses gain access to greater amounts of customer data, and consumers themselves have more options for services and products, marketing strategies have become more complex.

The number of specialties within marketing has expanded, and now includes positions dedicated to social media, search engine optimization, content creation, conversion rate optimization, email marketing, and more.

For most organizations, these positions all have the same ultimate goal: producing revenue for your organization. This means they need to produce a steady stream of leads, and one of the best ways to accomplish that goal is by using marketing automation to amplify their existing efforts.

As you well know, modern marketing has evolved and targeted traffic is the key to successful marketing campaigns. Inbound marketing captures prospects at the right time and for the right reasons. And Marketing automation software allows businesses to take email marketing to a whole new level.

Here at ICRM Marketing, we use ICRM Mailbooster for our marketing automation and CRM needs. This amazing AI-based email marketing platform has helped us to warm up our process and improved our email delivery percentage.

Here are 7 things you can do with marketing automation software to improve your lead generation and take your sales to the next level.

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1. EMAIL DRIP CAMPAIGNS

A “drip campaign” is a series of auto-responder messages sent out on a schedule to deliver timely information and move prospects through the sales funnel. Prior to setting up your drip campaign, you’ll need to segment your audience to be sure your messages are relevant. After you initiate your drip campaign, you’ll need to track your messages to see that they’re effective.

2. LANDING PAGES

Landing pages let you speak to a particular audience segment and target your marketing messages with greater precision. Landing pages can also focus on the buying cycle of your audience — some for soft inquiries that provide additional research information, and others to take interested parties directly to a sale. Create custom contact forms for each of your landing pages and set up each contact form submission on a campaign specific to that landing page product or service offering. Using segmented email marketing along with a customized landing page can yield up to a 50% increase in conversions.

3. A/B TESTING

A/B testing lets you create two versions of the same display ad, landing page, or email and test the results with a segment of your audience. For instance, every other person visiting your landing page may receive a different version of the page. This allows you to calculate the bounce rate, time spent on the site, and sales to help you determine which version was more effective overall. The same goes for email marketing campaigns — test out different variations of subject lines, the content within the email, times of day, etc. Calculate your email open rates and activity within the email such as link clicks and downloads.

4. BUILDING YOUR CONTACT LISTS

Sales start with a reliable list of prospects. The best marketing automation tools pull contacts from PPC ads, contact forms, social media contacts, and emails. Some marketing automation software will help you identify anonymous visitors and target your messages based on available demographic or behavioral data.

5. CONDITIONING AND NURTURING LEADS

Conditioning and nurturing leads is the most profitable function of marketing automation. You need all the other good stuff — a contact list, data entry, audience segmentation, content, landing pages, and drip marketing — before you can nurture a lead. Yet, marketing automation can yield big dividends when you are able to catch and convert prospects who are most ready to buy.

Marketing automation helps you:

• Warm-up leads with information and engagement to keep your company in mind when it’s purchase time.
• Present up-sell opportunities to engaged, interested buyers with the right message at the right time.
• Catch leads that may have fallen out of the sales cycle for one reason or another and bring them back in.

6. TRACK VISITORS AND EMAIL OPENS

There are several ways marketing automation software helps you track your contact's behaviors:

• Shows you a prospect’s activity history so you know what web pages they’ve visited, the content they’re downloading and purchases they’ve made.
• Enables real-time alerts to let your team know when a prospect visits a targeted page (such as the price page) or performs the desired action (like downloads your eBook).
• Establishes a complete record of pre-conversion engagements for all new visitors to help you determine how to connect with future newcomers to your site.
• Shows you a prospect’s email activity so you know when they open your emails, how often they open your emails, and what links they click within your emails.

 7. COLLABORATE WITH SALES

Improved coordination is another benefit of marketing automation software. Sales teams and marketers can centralize customer behavioral data pulled from social media, email campaigns, and web activity to ensure that all teams have access to the same information. The software allows sales teams to mark prospects for email marketing follow-up. By the same token, marketing can make a note when a prospect has performed behavior signaling readiness to purchase for sales follow-up. The end result is (hopefully) an end to finger-pointing and improved alignment between departments, which can help your company grow revenue by 32 percent a year, according to one study.

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ICRM Marketing syndicates B2B content through 7 marketing media channels and deliver 5 types of leads that get results. Our leads, boost the industry with advanced technology and marketing features, analytical tracking, and high-quality campaign delivery that actually get results.

2020 has shifted the agency and media landscape. This isn’t news to you. Reaching consumers is changing rapidly with the adoption of new tech and platforms. So this year we took this opportunity to warm-up our content marketing strategy which helped our clients reach potential buyers and generate more ROI. 

Our partnership will help your clients with affordable, good volume, high-quality leads at scale.

Lead types we deliver:

• ID - Intent Data
• MQL - Marketing Qualified Lead
• SQL - Sales Qualified Lead
• BANT - Budget Authority Need Timeline lead
• AG - Appointment Generation

Our lead features:

• Verified high-quality lead with declared intent.
• Pixel tracked lead with IP address
• Real-time campaign leads with call recording delivered to your Salesforce CRM.
• Instant strategic lead nurturing is available with ICRM Mailbooster.
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