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Report:Provisional L2RM Process Catalog

This provisional lead-to-revenue process catalog is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Designed to jump-start your own process documentation, it...

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Report:Lead-To-Revenue Management Automation Made In Europe

Local Innovative Solutions Help Address European Needs

Many of the international lead-to-revenue management automation vendors have not yet seriously set up shop in Europe because they consider firms in that territory to be late adopters of marketing...

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Report:Case Study: Telus B2B Marketing Demonstrates The Value Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

Taking A Holistic View Of Managing Demand

In the evolving economy, the Telus Communications B2B marketing organization found that it was more important than ever to crystallize the value of marketing's contribution to the bottom line. The...

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Report:Pinpoint The Actions And Outcomes That Elevate Leads To Revenue

Processes: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

Lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) is all about optimizing processes and practices to ensure that every scintilla of potential revenue is realized from your marketing investment. A well-designed and...

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Report:Automating Lead-To-Revenue Management

The challenge of accelerating revenue in the face of rapidly changing buying behaviors and an exploding number of marketing vehicles is driving technology product and service companies to refine (and...

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Report:B2B Marketers Prefer To Create Their Own Content Mostly For Lead Nurturing

Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...

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Tool:An Example L2RM Model

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Tool:Marketing's Strategic Value Is Disappearing

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Report:Using A Results Chain To Model Your Lead-to-Revenue Process

This results chain toolkit is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Forrester recommends that B2B marketing leaders use a results chain model to frame and...

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Report:European B2B Marketers Will Invest In Automation In 2013

Local Vendors Continue To Innovate

Wake up, marketing automation vendors: The European market is getting hot! Forrester's Q4 2012 US And Europe B2B Marketing Tactics And Benchmarks Online Survey shows us that the rate of investment is...

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Report:Tech Marketers Are Poised To Ramp Channel Investment

Channel Enablement Is A Top Priority For 2011

2011 will be a bellwether year for tech vendors. Tech investment by customers and marketing investment by tech vendors are rising ahead of the economic recovery into 2011. Most tech marketers see...

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Report:Top-Performing Tech Marketers Use Webinars As A Portal To The Buyer's Journey

Webinars Can Impact The Awareness Phase Even More Than Product Selection

Webinars are now a favored communications vehicle for tech marketers. The most successful tech marketers do more than just "create webinars" and demonstrate products; they position these events in...

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Report:The Lead-Nurturing Payoff For The Tech Industry

Engage With Early-Stage Buyers, Drive Pipeline And Revenue Performance

Today's empowered technology buyers are two-thirds of the way through their buying process before they engage with tech vendors' sales teams. Forrester believes that a robust lead-nurturing program...

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Report:2012 Tech Marketing Planning Guidance

With Proliferating Tactics And Constrained Budgets, Targeting And Focus Are A Mandate

Tech marketers typically use last year's plan as a starting point for next year's marketing planning process, making changes to accommodate new goals and current-year budget realities. As a result,...

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Report:A Holistic Measurement System Enables Continuous Improvement

Performance Management: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The seminal idea behind lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) was the need to calibrate marketing's activities (and budget) to the result of revenue generation. But effective performance management of...

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Report:Drive Tech Marketing And Sales Alignment With Lead-To-Revenue Management

Three Steps Lay The Foundation For Alignment With Sales

In technology companies, sales and marketing alignment and collaboration has been on the agenda forever, but only because it remains problematic. Tech marketing must resolve this misalignment to...

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Report:Tools For Defining And Documenting L2R Processes

The goal of lead-to-revenue (L2R) process management is not to move hundreds or thousands of "leads" through a process of sequential attrition until tens or hundreds of deals emerge. The goal of the...

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Report:Transform Marketing With A Revenue-Relevant Customer Engagement Strategy

Executive Overview: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

In 2010, Forrester introduced the term "lead-to-revenue management" (L2RM) to categorize a set of integrated processes, goals, and metrics that frame marketing practices from lead generation to sales...

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Report:The New Physics Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

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Tool:The L2RM Model

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Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

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Report:B2B Marketing Tactics And Results: Channel-Oriented Versus Direct

Channel Ecosystem Entropy Diminishes Results

In this economic climate of scrutinized marketing budgets and demonstrable return on investment (ROI) expectations, business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to make sure that they're doing the right...

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Report:Tech Channel Marketing Trends 2012

Growth Continues In Channel-Generated Revenue Share And Investment

It's a case of good dollars following good — channels continue to perform, in terms of revenue contribution, so tech vendors continue to invest in them. Tech marketers will be operating with...

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Report:Mobile Is A Mainstream Content Source For Tech Buyers

Deliver What They Want Where They Want It

Mobile is becoming the new face of engagement. By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion business application buyers and/or users. Mobile is not simply another...

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Report:European Tech Marketing Continues To Be Different

This is a deep-dive data update to last year's report, "European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How," based on Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey. Most of the...

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