Lead Nurturing Best Practices Flashcards
Master the material in the "Advanced Lead Nurturing" hour long WBT.
What are the 6 stages in Eloqua’s integrated marketing and sales funnel?
Suspect, Prospect, Marketing Qualfied Lead, Sales Accepted Lead, Sales Qualified Opportunity, Purchase
Define suspect
Individuals who have just heard about your brand, for example, an unknown visitor
Define prospect
A lead whose interest level has been validated by marketing
Define marketing qualified lead
A lead who has been nurtured to be sales ready
Define sales accepted lead
A lead who has met sales readiness criteria
Define sales qualified opportunity
A lead that has been validated by the sales team
Define purchase
The stage of the funnel where the prospect has made a purchase decision and become a customer
SAL
Sales Accepted Lead
SQO
Sales Qualified Opportunity
MQL
marketing qualified lead
Name the 5 stages of the buyer’s journey
Interest, learn, evaluate, justify, purchase
Can a buyer skip stages of the journey?
Yes - some buyers may skip stages of the journey.
How can marketing move buyers from one stage of the journey to the next?
Through nurturing.
Define nurturing
an action that helps the buyer to move from point A to point B in the buying cycle
What are 5 things you do in nurturing?
- Reach out to your contacts; 2. provide them the information they need; 3. educate them and develop their interest; 4. encourage them to buy; 5. build a strong relationship and trust.
Name 2 things that distinguish the modern way of buying
- spending more time on independent research online; 2. gathering information from peers
Because of buyers’ increased activity online, what do successful marketers need to do?
Begin lead nurturing at an early stage of the buying cycle.
Define lead nurturing as a process
A methodology for engaging and developing leads that are not yet ready to buy
Name 2 things used to predict the needs of the buyer
Their user profile and their current position in the buying process
How do you keep prospects engaged?
By providing relevant content at the right time.
Name 2 communication channels used in lead nurturing
- white papers 2. webinars
Name 2 things that trigger effective lead nurturing
Prospects’ activity and digital body language
When does most nurturing occur?
After the inquiry phase
Name 3 lead nurturing goals.
- engage contacts with the right message at the right time; 2. educate the prospect about your differentiators and product features; 3. track the development of the prospect
Name the 6 elements involved in planning a successful lead nurturing campaign
- Measure existing metrics; 2. define persona; 3. content audit; 4. map content to persona; 5. plan and align campaign with buying cycle; 6. run, measure, analyze
Name 3 campaign metrics
- # of qualified leads generated by campaigns; 2. email clickthroughs; 3. # of nurtured leads buying your product
What is a persona?
A fictional character created to represent your ideal buyer or buyers.
What does a content audit help you to identify?
New content that your company needs
When you define a persona, what important insights do you gain?
What a persona wants to know about your product and solution at each stage of the buying cycle
What are 4 things to monitor in order to measure campaign performance?
Email opens, click throughs, form submissions, and landing page visits.
Name the first 5 steps of planning a lead nurture campaign
- define your buyer profile; 2 pinpoint what motivates your buyers; 3. whiteboard the ideal user experience; 4. define your nurture program; 5. define your lead qualification process
What are 4 things the buyer persona outlines?
Activities, problems, questions at a given stage of the buying process, preferred mode of contact