Generating sales leads online has become one of the most important marketing objectives for B2B companies. They are typically obtained by placing enquiry forms on the company’s own website, on dedicated landing pages or on B2B internet portals. Users with questions or information requests fill them in, submitting their contact details, all in the expectation of receiving a quick and…

Marketing budget is routinely wasted without generating any sales leads. That’s the quintessence of a study by LUMITOS in the course of which the ads appearing in the German magazine “Laborjournal” (3/2015 edition) were scrutinised. In this blog article I will demonstrate how landing pages are used properly to avoid typical mistakes in print media advertising. They offer a way…

Call to action elements are as indispensable in marketing as the advertisements themselves. The universally known marketing principle AIDA (attention, interest, desire, action) can help to explain how they work. AIDA’s second A stands for action: at the end of an advertisement the potential customer is asked to perform a specific activity. We all know the sappy calls at the…

It happens all the time: an e-newsletter with content tailored specifically towards a target group mysteriously turns out to be a flop for unknown reasons. The root cause analysis begins, covering analyses of the open rate [OR], click-through rate [CTR] and click-to-open rate [CTOR]. And then it dawns on the person in charge: “If only I had carried out a…

In B2B markets, the most widespread way to generate sales leads is through contact forms on web pages. Although producing such leads is one of the main objectives of marketing managers, few seem aware of how many prospective buyers are put off by poorly devised or wrongly implemented contact forms – they will not contact the company at all. So…