{"id":314,"date":"2021-01-07T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T09:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markteer.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:11:46","slug":"how-to-use-marketing-automation-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/how-to-use-marketing-automation-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Marketing Automation for Lead Nurturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing automation tools help lead nurturing to push your contact further into the marketing funnel. With good lead nurturing techniques, your business will convert contacts into customers and then to promoters. The process of lead nurturing is a long but tedious one, although its effects are exceptional. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.demandgenreport.com\/industry-topics\/demanding-views\/2336-the-10-commandments-for-lead-nurturing-success.html#.U6m75PldV5p\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forrester study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, proper lead nurturing practices give you 50% more conversions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, lead nurturing is an untouched area for many businesses as the data suggest that only <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/content.marketingsherpa.com\/data\/public\/reports\/benchmark-reports\/BMR-Email_Marketing.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">36% of companies take the lead nurturing practices seriously<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. What if we have a strong organized process for such an essential aspect of the business which works by itself? That i\u2019s where automation comes in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will dig deeper into how automation helps businesses in the lead nurturing process and brings positive outputs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is Lead Nurturing?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead nurturing plays a vital role in inbound marketing. It is a never-ending process, which goes on even after the customer proceeds with the defined final action. The main aim is to convert as many leads into customers as you can. However, it should not be misunderstood with forced marketing. Lead nurturing is all about offering relevant content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To put it in a nutshell, lead nurturing is building and maintaining a strong relationship with the customers. You hear from your customers for their feedback, suggestions, and complaints and offer them relevant content that answers all their queries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This communication leads to creating awareness about your brand, helping your business convert your contacts into customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Marketing Automation Tools and Lead Nurturing<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-348 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/marketing-automation-and-lead-nurturing.png\" alt=\"marketing automation and lead nurturing\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/marketing-automation-and-lead-nurturing.png 800w, https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/marketing-automation-and-lead-nurturing-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/marketing-automation-and-lead-nurturing-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing automation tools allow you to automate specific marketing tasks such as sending emails and posting on social media. It is one of the most effective ways of lead nurturing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With intelligent marketing automation tools, you can create buyer personas with all information about users, including user behavior, demographics, browsing history, and social media interaction. This in-depth information lets you segment the leads in different categories and paves the way for launching effective email campaigns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highly efficient CRM tools such as Zoho, Hubspot, Engagebay, Freshworks, etc., enables you to automate all your email campaigns with particular content for each category to grow customer engagement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead nurturing helps in improving your brand awareness, and automation strengthens the process further. Here are the ways to nurture your leads with the help of marketing automation tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Important Ways to Nurture Leads with Marketing Automation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/lead-nurturing-marketing-automation.png\" alt=\"lead nurturing with marketing automation\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/lead-nurturing-marketing-automation.png 800w, https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/lead-nurturing-marketing-automation-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.markteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/lead-nurturing-marketing-automation-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead Scores<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on the engagement and behavior, a specific score is assigned to the leads, known as lead scores. Lead score is attributed to the leads for each activity. The information with a higher lead score is the qualified lead and your potential customer. Pushing it more will result in the conversion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lead score is a great way to quickly recognize performing leads and work on them to get a better conversion rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email Marketing<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email is one of the most popular ways of lead nurturing. Brands always consider emails as the most trusted mode of communication. Email marketing automation only helps in enhancing lead nurturing. There are few circumstances where marketers send different types of email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A drip email campaign is mostly used to nurture the leads with the information educating the recipient about a topic to get the user to the landing page. If the user finds the content in your email helpful, he\/she will be visiting your page for more educational content.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced Lead Segmentation<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead segmentation carries massive importance as it becomes easy to send separate emails for a specific bunch of recipients. Advanced lead segmentation is quite a difficult task to do. With automation, you can segment all your leads into different types and send the emails at the right time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Say if you are targeting customers who have already signed up for your product. It is better to send emails to the person about your premium plans instead of further sending information about all your free services to further push the user into the marketing funnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segment your leads in this way and prepare a campaign accordingly to get better outputs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SMS and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ush<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> notifications<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SMS is a great way to nurture your leads through mobile devices. Send SMS to your leads with information about your product or a discount offer. In this way, users develop some interest in your brand. SMS enables your brand to stay connected with the customer at any time, which is significant for lead nurturing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ladyhaja\/status\/981187363698368515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ladyhaja\/status\/981187363698368515<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Push notification is another important automated lead nurturing technique. Push notifications appear on your desktop or mobile screens showing important information about your brand. Push notifications are sent using Dynamic content, a type of content, which tends to change according to your browsing information as well as demographics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content Marketing<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content is the most effective way to lead nurturing. No wonder it\u2019s considered as the backbone of your entire marketing campaign. Keep in mind that the behavior of your content is changed at every stage of the marketing funnel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality informative content only helps in improving user engagement. However, content and design go hand in hand. Good quality content should be accompanied by an attractive design to attract your prospects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing automation tools certainly make lead nurturing easy and gives a healthy ROI. Automate your lead nurture campaigns by segmenting your leads properly and running a campaign with different modes such as email, content, or SMS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bonus Tip<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important aspect you always need to do is to align your sales and marketing operations. A constant collaboration between the two teams helps nurture leads properly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing automation tools help lead nurturing to push your contact further into the marketing funnel. With good lead nurturing techniques, your business will convert contacts into customers and then to promoters. The process of lead nurturing is a long but tedious one, although its effects are exceptional. 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