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Every sale starts with a potential client, and every potential client starts as a lead.<\/p>\n
But B2B leads won\u2019t progress through your sales funnel if you aren\u2019t targeting the right prospects. The Content Marketing Institute has found that 85 percent of marketers say quality lead generation is their most important goal.<\/p>\n
Finding the right people \u2014 the ones who need your product and are ready and willing to pay for it\u2014means searching the right places to bring them value.<\/p>\n
Before you even get to start targeting prospects, you have to figure out where they are.<\/p>\n
Traditionally, this means spending hours researching prospects, validating their contact information, and compiling that data into a lead list. That list also needs to be segmented to target your various ideal buyer personas. If you skip these steps, your marketing outreach \u2014 whether it\u2019s email or cold calling \u2014 will be ineffective.<\/p>\n
But it doesn\u2019t have to be that way! Read on to learn how to strategically target the right leads and cut down on the time-consuming parts of this process.<\/p>\n
You can target leads broadly according to industry or location, but you\u2019ll get the greatest return on investment if you define your marketing strategy more narrowly. After all, your product may generally appeal to a wide range of clients, but only a certain percentage of them have a real need and the means to acquire the solution you\u2019re offering.<\/p>\n
Digging deeper into your ideal customer demographics and identifying groups that have small, but important differences, can help you shape your marketing approach and maximize your relevance to each potential buyer.<\/p>\n
This should go without saying, but a quality lead is an accurate lead. Wrong numbers and dead emails will kill a sale.<\/p>\n
Simply generating as many leads as possible won\u2019t get you anywhere if your emails or calls don\u2019t reach them.<\/p>\n
Keeping in mind that even the warmest leads don\u2019t convert every time, it\u2019s in your best interest to have the highest quality contact information available. Searching through company websites for job titles and those precious validated emails takes time and effort, but it\u2019s essential\u2014unless you have access to software that does it for you.<\/p>\n
The task of continuously updating and segmenting your prospect list can be very time consuming. However, there is prospecting software available that can help alleviate the burden, so you can direct your talents where they belong\u2014on closing deals.<\/p>\n
American City Business Journals (ACBJ) recently released BizLeads, a cloud-based sales prospecting tool that can help generate targeted leads lists quickly and accurately. With just a few clicks, users can create data-powered lists packed with leads to match your targeted audience. The platform automatically segments your ideal clients by letting you search using 14+ advanced filters, including industry, business classification, business name, revenue and employee size, location, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every sale starts with a potential client, and every potential client starts as a lead. But B2B leads won\u2019t progress through your sales funnel if you aren\u2019t targeting the right prospects. The Content Marketing Institute has found that 85 percent of marketers say quality lead generation is their most important goal. Finding the right people … <\/p>\n