In order to meet your revenue targets, you'll need to know how many leads you need to get there. This infographic will help you do the math.

First, determine your annual revenue target and divide it by your average sale, in order to discover the number of wins you need. Then work from the bottom up to learn how many top-of-the-funnel leads you need.

A recent study by Google shows that 89% of B2B buyers use the Internet during the research process. Whether you get a call from these prospects or whether your competition does instead will depend on how well your website does its job. Here are six elements you can add to your site to generate more leads.

If you are in sales, then chances are you are focused to some degree on your closing rate. Don’t get me wrong, looking at the closing rate is certainly something that you want to pay attention to. But it's not the most important metric like it once was a couple of decades ago. The buying process is no longer as simple as it used to be. Now the sales cycle is longer, and it involves more moving parts. In 2016, you need to spend more time marketing your services and getting more qualified leads. At the same time, you need to engage in pipeline marketing techniques to pull your prospects through your sales funnel. Allow me to make my case. 

Wouldn't it be fantastic if you had a steady stream of leads coming into your sales department? Wouldn't it be even better if this steady stream were filled with qualified sales leads? This is possible, and it's often achieved by businesses actively working a lead generation strategy that includes both inbound marketing and thought leadership marketing.  

It's almost summer, when everything slows downs just a bit. Kids out of school, family vacations, and most of us looking for opportunities to enjoy the summer weather. Unfortunately, just like the summer sun can dry up even the greenest lawns, our sales pipelines can be reduced to a trickle if we don’t remain disciplined with our lead generation efforts. Below are some lead generation ideas that can ensure that your summer fun doesn’t turn into a winter misery of missed revenue targets. 

You say you’re serious about building a lead-generation program using content (inbound) marketing. But are you?

Here are a dozen ways we tell the difference between the pros and the poseurs, between those who are deadly serious and those who just playing at it.

Lead Generation

Serious: Making a full commitment by establishing lead-gen as a priority, building out a complete plan, allocating resources (most especially, the human resources), setting goals, and measuring outcomes. 

Unserious: Dipping your big toe into lead-gen to see if it will work for you. No quasi-effort will deliver, but a commitment will.

As an inbound marketing and sales consultant, each day I have the opportunity to work with clients to make recommendations that help them improve their conversion rates and generate additional leads. It’s difficult to not get excited about how helpful this can be to clients since it directly impacts their revenue and is proof that the recommendations I make are truly working. Most of the recommendations that I make for clients work across industries and, for the most part, can be used by other companies to replicate the same success. This is one of the reasons I enjoy writing about the recommendations that are implemented and produce amazing results.  

Many books and articles have been written on why inbound marketing is one of the most effective ways to attract prospects. It all makes perfect sense that you would want to put your business in the position to be the thought leader in your category, and at the same time give those same prospects an opportunity to raise their hand and let you know that they are interested. This concept is really catching on and smart business leaders are starting to take notice. 

As part of the LeadG2 series on "The 10 Commandments of Inbound Marketing" we're looking at each of these ten commandments and the importance of each one. The seventh of "The 10 Commandments of Inbound Marketing" is: You must have premium content (white papers, guides etc) on your website if you intend to generate leads. (Tweet This)