The State of B2B Lead Generation, a new report by Digital Doughnut, shines a light on the pain points of lead generation campaigns, helping to benchmark your activities in order to succeed.
Before taking a look at the performance of content types, it's vital to understand the maturity of your B2B lead gen campaigns.
1,042 marketers were asked to rate the maturity of different lead generation activities. 54% were confident in their capabilities stating that their content production and development was either "very advanced" or "quite advanced"."Very basic" activities include data verification and validation, measuring ROI and transferring data between CRMs.
The data shows that businesses still struggle with advanced lead gen activities. Not utilizing the opportunities available to you leads to poor performance of lead generation campaigns, poor data handling, and poor ROI measurement.
Knowing what content best suits your audience to gain the highest-quality leads is essential. Our Content Marketing Matrix was designed to help benchmark your content with it's desired effect: to educate, to inspire, to entertain or to convince.
The report found that offline mediums, like events, is perceived as most positive - 34% of respondents stated this was "very effective" in driving good quality leads.
What is interesting is the breakdown of content type for companies - leaders in the industry are more likely to support that events and video are drivers of leads whilst, mainstream respondants valued whitepapers and webinars higher than video.
By Carolanne Mangles
Carolanne Mangles Dig DipM is the Digital Marketing Executive for Click Travel, an award-winning corporate travel booking platform. She is a specialist in B2B SaaS and enjoys planning and optimizing the full customer journey across all digital channels to create brand awareness, great user experience and copy that really sells the benefits of the product. She was previously Digital Marketing Executive for Smart Insights where she was involved with multiple digital channels to manage fully integrated membership campaigns to boost new customer acquisition and current membership retention. She has spoken and given masterclasses at B2B Expo on Search and Content Marketing, holds an IDM award in GDPR and loves a glass of red wine. Connect with her on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.
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