Sunday 7 December 2014

6 Best Online B2B Lead Generation Techniques

“Lead generation” is one of the most familiar words for the business owners.  If you are a business owner, you always try to find new techniques and strategies to generate quality leads for your business. As whole world is becoming digitalized at rapid pace, online lead generation has become one of the vital mantra for success in any B2B business. Stats also supports this statement - firms generating 60% or more of their leads online are two times more profitable than those generating less than 20% of their leads online.

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Here in this post, I will cover the six most successful techniques for online lead generation for any B2B business.

Website Design

Today for any business, a permanent web address is must. Designing of the website can influence the visitors to a great extent. Design your website in such a way that, every page (including homepage) must have a call to action button.

Website Optimization

Website optimization for search engine is another method to get noticed by genuine visitors. Do a research for relevant keywords and optimize your website according to them. Set up well optimized Meta title, description, image tags and last but not the least; the website content. Produce some really informative contents in your website which really adds value to your website visitors and increase the audience engagement. A well optimized website will gradually come top in search engine result and thus can acquire some genuine lead for your business.

Giveaways

People always look for some quality contents of his interest. You can adopt an intelligent technique to create the ground of your lead generation. Just create a premium content either video, PPt Presentation or video and give your visitors and option to download free by fill up their name and email address in an online request form. Just collect and keep them- the list may work for lead generation.

Paid ads

Besides search engine optimization, the business owner can also go for paid advertising option which works really well for the startups. The major paid options are search engine ads & social media ads. Among the search engine ads, Google PPC is the most effective one. Research on your business related keywords and set up ads with your Google Adwords account to get quality leads for your business. Among the social media ads, Linkedin and Facebook ads also works well to generate leads for your business.


Email Marketing

Email Marketing is one of the most effective ways to generate leads for business. An effectively written email can attract customers and thus can generate enormous leads for your business. You should keep in mind some factors while writing an email.

  • The email should be short and to the point so that the receiver can see the best part of your email without scrolling down and keep a call-to-action button there.
  • Smart Use of Color
  • Use of contact form in the email.

Social Media

Social media is an effective medium of building brand name for your business. If you are a startup and want to make aware of your business activities, achievements and values of your business to the entire world or your targeted customers, social media is the only platform which helps you to achieve your goal easily and effectively. Posting useful and informative contents in a regular interval will increase the visitor’s engagement with your social profiles & website and there is every possible chance that some of your audience may become your potential customers.

Some of the popular lead generation techniques have been documented here. But implementation strategy should depend on factors like business goal, manpower, budget allocation for marketing, business type etc.

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