For this post, we are featuring the four essential steps to effective demand generation.
ALEA Group CEO Louis Foong mentions the Blue Ocean Strategy, a method mirroring the expeditions of the great explorers of old. To get to the gist of it, the approach encourages marketers to be more adventurous in terms of discovering new areas of opportunity and establishing a firm foothold in their respective markets.
For Foong, “In the demand generation landscape, I think it is time to embark on a new expedition. We need a strong and focused infusion of the ‘Lewis and Clark’ spirit of discovery.”
Here are the four points for achieving just that:
1. Using the right tools and frameworks to empower your lead generation campaigns: By this I don’t mean automation. In fact, as I said recently, you can’t use a cannon to kill a mosquito. What you need is a set of tools, a sound process and a customized framework that takes into account your specific offering and how best to present it to your target buyers.
2. Maximize opportunity while minimizing risk: This goes back to the age-old wisdom of test and learn. You have to be able to test the effectiveness of your campaign strategy and the tools you are using to measure the results and ROI. Here is an outstanding tool that allows B2B companies to maximize opportunity with minimum risk. Take a look at the Heroes & Lifeboats Program and their extraordinary HeLP Networks platform. It lets you amplify your results without increasing your marketing budget.
3. Pursue differentiation and low cost: Buyers want to see innovation, they crave differentiation, but rarely are they willing to pay a higher cost for it. As marketers, our challenge is to deliver true differentiation AND offer it at a lower cost. Coming back to the example of HeLP Networks, this platform empowers corporations to reach out across the vast ocean of unexplored online territory at a fraction of the cost involved with using established networks like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. See how their simple, yet robust technology works.
4. Build execution into strategy: Among the more common problems afflicting lead generation programs are: the complexity of tools, mountains of data across multiple sources, a tunnel view of the lead generation process and lack of capability to execute effectively and gain real-time intelligence and insights. What is required is a clear, 360° view of the lead generation process—one of the key reasons why MyLeads2Go has seen tremendous and very quick success in the market.
Read Foong’s full article on Business2Community.com.
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