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How to Improve B2B Website Conversion Rates

Your conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who arrive on your website and take the intended action, such as downloading a piece of premium content, filling out a form to become a lead, subscribing to your newsletter, or requesting to speak to a sales representative. For most B2B companies,...

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Defining a Business Strategy for Websites

Websites play a vital role in business today. For most companies, websites are the primary representation of a brand and their top lead generation engine. A website may live at the center of most marketing efforts, including top-of-the-funnel demand generation, lead generation, sales enablement,...

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Outbound Marketing vs. Inbound Marketing – Which is Better?

Inbound marketing is about attracting qualified leads to your company by creating content designed specifically for your target market. By being helpful and relevant, leads find their way to your site. Your content keeps them coming back for more, and they become long-term customers and brand...

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What is Lead Scoring?

Lead scoring involves separating high-quality leads that are almost ready to buy from leads that either aren’t yet ready to make a purchasing decision or will never become customers. Only the high-quality leads are sent to sales, ensuring that the sales team only invests their limited time and...

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Sales Enablement Statistics: Does Sales Enablement Work?

Sales enablement is a strategic and data-driven approach to sales that is designed to increase the productivity and effectiveness of your company’s sales team and increase sales opportunities. Sales enablement also includes the practice of aligning marketing and sales teams to help nurture leads...

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4 B2B Sales Enablement Best Practices

Sales enablement is a very effective strategy that’s designed to increase the productivity and effectiveness of your company’s sales team. When applied to B2B companies, it involves providing the sales team with the high-level content, training, analytics, feedback, buyer personas, insights,...

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What is Inbound Sales?

Inbound sales is a strategy that involves focusing on individual buyers and their unique needs, pain points, and goals, rather than using the same generic sales technique on every prospect. It’s a strategy that is entirely free of assumptions, spam, hard sells, and elevator pitches – and it’s...

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5 Sales Nurturing Best Practices for IT Companies

Sales nurturing is a critical key to ensuring qualified leads continuously flow through your IT company’s sales pipeline. The strategy involves using marketing automation to nurture strong relationships with buyers at every stage of the sales cycle – engaging them, answering their questions, and...

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7 Ways to Improve Online Ticket Sales

The last thing any organization wants is to be left with unsold tickets on event day. To prevent this from happening, it’s important to make sure your online ticket sales are as strong as possible, by strategically promoting and spreading the word about your event on your website, blog posts and...

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Franchise Nurturing Should be More Than Just Sales

A franchise’s long-term success relies not only on the prominence of the national brand – but also on the health of its local franchisees and affiliated organizations. At Ironpaper, we’ve found that one of the best ways to ensure franchise success in competitive local markets is to incorporate...

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