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Generating leads is the lifeblood of your business. Whether you’ve been an established company for some time or are a startup looking to dramatically improve your customer base, devoting sufficient time and effort to lead generation should be a top priority for you and your team.<\/p>\n

When your lead generation tools aren’t working, you likely need to figure out how to use your inbound marketing to better effect. Otherwise, you’ll be wasting time, energy, and money without getting the results you need to grow your business.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What Are the Main Types of Leads?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Perhaps part of the problem you’ve been running into with your nurturing and lead generation processes is that you don’t understand who your leads are and what stage in the buyer’s journey they’re in. Per Salesforce<\/span><\/a>, the top categories of leads are as follows:<\/p>\n

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New Lead<\/span><\/h3>\n

As the name suggests, this is a brand new lead and represents a potential customer, which you’ll be familiar with due to how this customer found you. This could result from supplying their email address in exchange for a coupon or a customer service representative taking this person’s contact information to receive a catalog.<\/p>\n

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Working Lead<\/span><\/h3>\n

At this level, you’re communicating with the working lead. This may be after they’ve responded to an offering sent by email or while having a detailed conversation with a sales rep about the features of a product or service.<\/p>\n

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Nurturing Lead<\/span><\/h3>\n

Once a lead hits the nurturing stage, it’s time to step up. While interested, this individual may not be ready to buy without a little encouragement from your side\u2013whether that’s extra information or more time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can stay in touch with leads in this category by offering them incentives to return, such as attending a webinar or reading the latest issue of your organization’s newsletter. (Don’t have a newsletter? It’s easy to get started once you have a mailing list of customers to send it to!)<\/p>\n

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Unqualified Lead<\/span><\/h3>\n

Your team has determined that this particular lead isn’t moving forward. The lead is no longer considered a potential customer because they’re simply uninterested in making a purchase or signing up for your services.<\/p>\n

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Qualified Lead<\/span><\/h3>\n

At long last, you have reached the goal of this enterprise. You have verified that a lead intends to buy from you. Guard this sales lead carefully and make sure to provide plenty of attention.<\/p>\n

Once you understand the types of leads and what they mean for your business, you can find the motivation to do more to improve how your team generates new leads<\/a>. With that in mind, here are four reasons why your lead generation marketing may not work as effectively as it could.<\/p>\n

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1. Your Audience Is Too Wide<\/span><\/h2>\n

You can’t please all people all the time. So it’s time to narrow your marketing campaigns.<\/p>\n

Focus your aim on specific and ideal customers. Building a buyer persona<\/a> can help. If you don’t clearly understand your audience (because it’s so vast and varied), you’ll have difficulty marketing to them. As explained by Smart Insights<\/span><\/a>, having a keen understanding of your audience is essential for any inbound marketing campaign<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One way to narrow the focus of your audience is to understand which of the three main reasons they might have to purchase something or not. The reasons are necessity, brand association, and cost.<\/p>\n

Suppose someone is driven to purchase your product because it improves the safety of their children. In that case, you’ll want to visualize them through a buyer persona, such as “Concerned Mom” or “Doting Dad.” Or, if many of your customers are motivated mainly by cost, you will want to emphasize the value proposition of purchasing your goods or services.<\/p>\n

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2. You Don’t Have a Consistent and Reliable Online Presence<\/span><\/h2>\n

Consistency is key when it comes to maintaining your company’s presence online. Not only do you want to post new updates regularly to communicate with your customers and potential customers, but you also need to monitor what they have to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Designate at least one team member to monitor what is happening on your various social channels, paying attention to comments that are full of praise and those that ask questions or complain about your products or services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s also important to maintain a specific brand personality and voice\u2014post on your website and your social media channels consistently<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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3. You’re Impatient<\/span><\/h2>\n

Patience is a virtue. If you have a problem staying patient and maintaining a sense of calm even in a fast-paced business environment, now is the time to practice.<\/p>\n

It’s natural for entrepreneurs to want to start seeing signs of success with their marketing campaigns. As a startup, you’re highly focused on seeing your plans achieve your goals as soon as possible. This helps to prove your concept is sound and that you’re on the right track.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But remember, as the old saying indicates, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” You’ll feel more comfortable about the pace of your marketing and outreach efforts when you get used to generating leads takes time<\/a>. If you implement a new strategy, it likely won’t offer immediate results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But with patience, you can take a step back and view the proceedings more objectively. When you take the time needed to get the right results, you should be more pleased with your lead generation results.<\/p>\n

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4. You Aren’t Nurturing Your Leads<\/span><\/h2>\n

Maybe you’re pulling some leads in, but they don’t seem to go anywhere. What you should do next is develop a lead nurturing process<\/a> to turn your leads into customers. So, spend some time identifying the milestones your customers will pass as they go through the marketing experience you’ve set up for them to pass through.<\/p>\n

As pointed out by HubSpot<\/span><\/a>, nurturing leads will require you to engage with these people in a way that’s natural for them to respond. Do this by offering them content that is relevant to their needs. Follow up with these leads and give each interaction a personal touch whenever possible, especially when this is so easy to do via email messages.<\/p>\n

If you lack the experienced team members to take on this project of lead nurturing in a professional, consistent manner, you can always partner with third-party marketing experts.<\/p>\n

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Getting Better Control Over Your Lead Generation Efforts<\/span><\/h2>\n

Obtaining more high-quality leads is the key to your company’s ongoing success. So, this is bound to be a high-priority topic among you and your fellow stakeholders. Of course, one of the first things to tackle is ensuring that you and your team recognize the different types of leads, from new to working to nurturing to unqualified and finally to the goal of a qualified lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keeping customers and potential customers in these main categories is useful for staying focused on what effort you need to make next, nudging each individual down the sales funnel.<\/p>\n

You may have your work cut out for you in terms of marketing and generating better leads for your business, but it’s well worth the effort. Depending on where you currently are in your outreach efforts, you may need to focus on narrowing the audience to a more manageable level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some businesses get into trouble from simply not nurturing the leads they do have. Once you have determined which area of lead generation needs improvement, you can allocate time and resources until you get the results you need to grow your business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve identified why your lead generation isn’t working, you’ll be significantly more prepared to improve upon it. With a newfound motivation to generate and nurture leads, you’ll have a brand new queue of customers in no time.<\/p>\n

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