Lead Generation: What B2B Sales reps need to know

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Tools you should use

Lead Generation takes time, effort, and marketing resources in some cases, human resources. Professional marketers not only know how to market but they also couple their marketing efforts with a plethora of tools. More often than not these tools are expensive and keep beginners away, established players use these tools to help them market effectively.
We’ll see the tools that are not very expensive and also comes off with tons of features.

• This is our very own tool, a product-led tool crafted for marketers, SD Lead Generation (Link at end of this post). By reducing our marketing spends we were able to exponentially bring down costs and we are able to offer unlimited lead generation and prospecting. Marketers around the world use this tool in their pipeline. You can find many tools in the market, being totally honest, no tool comes close to what SD Lead Generation has to offer.
• LinkedIn lead generation: LinkedIn the largest professional network has quite good features for Lead Generation that goes unnoticed. LinkedIn lead generation forms can also be coupled with LinkedIn ads to drive leads. Generating leads with LinkedIn ads is paid and you’ll have to pay-per-lead, however, you can generate leads from the platform itself. You’ll need some skills to do this, but it’s free.
• Chatbot: So far Conversational marketing is performing well and it is untouched by many marketers. Conversational marketing powered by Chatbots can be used to drive sales or conversions. The best part about conversational lead generation is that we’re all familiar with chat or simply texting. You can easily get your visitors to chat with you or your bot and convert them into leads than emailing them or cold calling. A solution from SD Chatbot will help you with that. Remember these solutions are automated and can drive good results.
• Extract: Not many know they can extract leads from websites, domain names, or just the Company name, even the first and last name is enough to get your next lead. Enrich and Data tools from SD Lead Extraction will help you with that.
  Not many tools are included in the list, most tools out there are pay-per-lead. Meaning, if you generate a lead you’ll have to pay for it. From what I experienced these tools are not just not worth it in the long run. The tools I have added above have fixed plans.

Strategies from Marketers

These strategies may be of some level of use to you.

• Use a compelling offer and a clear Call To Actions (CTAs).
• Use tools similar to SD Lead Generation for your prospecting and marketing needs and try staying away from pay-per-lead tools.
• Declutter your landing page, remove the inessentials, and minimize friction for your visitor to fill out a form or purchase a product/plan.
• Speak with a Conversion and Strategy specialists like The Netly, and make the most out of your resources.
• Invest in a CRM (not just any CRM, a good one) to manage your customer relationships. SD Suite comes with a CRM at no extra cost. The leads you generate can be managed right in the software helping you save money and costs.
• Setup automated email campaigns for all the forms you host. Example, -Welcome emails when there is the first interaction with your lead or customers and Thank you mails for form submissions. An actionable step in setting up welcome campaigns is to, include links to your most relevant articles, offer download links to your ebooks, and have proper email signatures.
• Setup Drip campaigns to engage and nurture all your leads and customers throughout your pipeline and potential touchpoints. This process can be automated as well. SD Suite has Email and Drip campaigns built-in, with this feature you can manage all your marketing needs in one place.

Maximize Lead Generation

To help you maximize conversion, I have added a few strategies that I personally use for my outreach and other purposes.

• You offer is what that converts. No offer, no conversion, no leads. Give your best offer to your visitors, an offer for which they’ll exchange their email for.
• A landing page that converts. An enticing offer won’t convert if your Call To Action is not clear. The landing should be frictionless by design. We highly recommend speaking to Conversions optimization and Strategies specialists like The Netly.
• Display trust badges on your website and below your forms. You’re not only required to displaying trust badges, but you should also follow best security practices. I can’t tell how irritating it is when I visit a site that says “Site not secure”. Install SSL it’s free.
• Treat the privacy of your leads and customers like your life. It’s their data, not yours! Promise your visitors that their privacy is respected and follow it.
• Stay consistent throughout your channels, you visitors (I hate too) will regret visiting your inconsistent landing page. Especially, if it’s crazy different from your Social Media pages or your Ad. They’ll probably leave your webpage before your pop-up pops up. So, be consistent.
• Follow the steps mentioned and know it’s a process. Use the best practices and the tools mentioned to generate more leads and maximize your marketing and lead generation efforts.
• The whole idea of mentioning SD Lead Generation is to help marketers who are paying-per-lead. To help those who are looking for alternatives with better features and functionality. If this is you, then I honestly recommend trying out the SD Lead Generation with free access to the Marketing Suite. I hope this helps!