One of the biggest headaches B2B marketers face today is generating high-quality leads for the sales pipeline. Inbound sales and marketing is a high value and low cost methodology that will help you attract and nurture your leads along the sales pipeline.

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Below we have listed the 101 reasons why you should be using inbound sales and marketing as an approach to grow your business:

1. Attracts qualified visitors and leads to your website

2. Helps increase brand awareness by sharing and reusing content distributed across owned, earned and paid media

3. Inbound works for most B2B companies as an integral part of a sales & marketing strategy

4. Undertaking buyer persona research develops an understanding of the “pain & gain” mind set of your customers

5. Builds a structure to grow your thought leadership and brand positioning seen through the content that you create and share

6. Increases actionable insights of your customer through buyer persona development

7. Provides a platform to undertake social selling to your social network

8. Builds your level of expertise in social media through social selling efforts

9. Can optimise and improve your SEO performance and organic search ranking

10.Incorporating your Keyword research through-out all of your inbound activities

11.Keeps you one step ahead of your competitors

12.Develop a focused content marketing strategy, planning and production process as the fuel that drives the inbound engine

13.Understand and recognise the digital body language and behaviour of your target audience to trigger your responses

14.Enhance your ability to segment your contact database, track responses to campaigns and assess which prospects to contact

15.Build a more effective attribution and contribution model to see the impact of your inbound activities

16.Enable your customers to become better promoters of your own brand

17.Fine tune your online value proposition to the needs of your buyers

18.Enhance ability to collect customer or visitor information as they come into contact with your digital marketing

19.Reduce the cost of your customer acquisition by being more effective with your time and budget with better targeting

20.Increase the relevancy of your offering by focusing only on the specific needs of your buyers

21.Avoid being disruptive with your communications, unlike traditional methods that push a message out whether it is wanted or not

22.Learn to be where your customers are when they are searching for relevant content

23.Maintain and build a sales and marketing momentum rather than a ”stop and go” approach often used in traditional marketing activities

24.Generate leads by providing educational and interesting content to those searching to solve a particular problem

25.Build relationships and tactics that help nurture your prospects through the sales funnel

26.Create a qualified lead / sales funnel process that can be adapted over time

27.Identify and track which loyalty drivers work best for each target audience

28.Unify the sales and marketing process together as “Smarketing”

29.Promote long-term growth through your relationship building activities that add value through your advice

30.Inbound is more efficient with your budget – saving time and money by consolidating activities

31.Access more ways to gather and use your customer intelligence

32.No more expense of cold calling to uninterested leads

33.Move away from the outbound or traditional way of marketing that disrupts rather than attracts

34.Earn more credibility and respect from your prospects through your advisory role

35.For start-ups and small businesses it is a great way to get your budget to go further and make a quicker impact

36.Easier to track your marketing ROI spend

37.An inbound sales approach is buyer-centric not company-centric

38.Learn how to educate and attract rather than sell, sell, sell

39.Generate a quick uptick in company interest by being in the right place at the right time

40.Turn anonymous visitors into prospects and leads by gathering hard data on visits and traffic

41.B2B buyers are now exposed not just to what you as a business communicate but what the media, friends, peers, etc., are saying as well across social media

42.It is a world where “content rules”, buyers are more likely to trust other sources of information that your own

43.Learn the “hot buttons” that will help you nurture your leads more effectively across each stage of the sales funnel

44.Learn how to build your sales funnel and identify the types of questions prospects have at each stage

45.Get your sales and marketing team working together rather than blaming each other for a lack of warm leads

46.Boost the likelihood of customer referrals by managing the post sales period more effectively

47.Use inbound marketing to recruit great internal candidates

48.Satisfy a growing customer demand for more personalised and relevant content

49.Tap into the change in buyer behaviour across B2B buyers and B2C consumers as they extensively use the internet to conduct self research

50.A new resource to help reach your target buyers in a different way, stand out from the competitors

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51.Create personalised, relevant content that will provide an enhanced customer experience

52.Use inbound to leverage your social network to create truly influential content

53.Build personalised emails that move prospects through the sales funnel as they build trust in your actions and content

54.Use the customer data you are collecting to make more informed decisions

55.Leverage inbound channels to get the most out of every piece of content that you create

56.Reap the benefits offered through the power of personalisation i.e. emails, website smart content, etc.

57.Use marketing automation to trigger emails that put the customer first

58.Detail your customer’s journey to see where you can improve satisfaction and build loyalty across different touch points

59.Optimise your efforts to present the right content format and type

60.Use the contact database to identify which leads you should be following up through lead scoring, and which ones to leave

61.Use your marketing automation tool as a data source to develop targeted marketing campaigns

62.Identify your core key performance indicators (KPIs) and track across your multi-channel marketing

63.Keep track of contacts, companies, and deals in your pipeline, and easily get in touch with the right prospects at the right time with your CRM system

64.See the value of social monitoring by tracking potential customers, contacts and competitors across your social networks

65.Give meaning to your data by reviewing activities against your KPIs

66.Complement existing marketing strategies such as outbound when implementing inbound

67.Use workflows and custom lead scoring to drive the impact of your marketing automation campaigns

68.Use inbound to deliver your content across multiple channels all at the same time

69.Distribute content in various formats depending on where your prospect is in the buying cycle and what actions they have carried out so far

70.Inbound can be effectively used to facilitate lifecycle marketing and onboarding new customers and responding to those that are near the end of a contract

71.Use closed loop reporting to know which marketing efforts are bringing in the best leads and make ongoing changes to your Campaigns

72.Design your website with a conversion mindset, using Calls-to-actions and landing pages to gather contacts and warm leads

73.Optimise your form’s to make the capture of emails and the conversion process as easy as possible

74.Utilise calls-to-actions throughout your activities to generate leads across your website, landing pages, emails and social media

75.Build landing pages and calls-to-actions that integrate with other parts of your communication mix

76.Having all your data in one place helps to make sense out of every customer interaction

77.Optimise your future interactions to be more effective by reviewing your data

78.Blogging is the most effective way to get found by the right prospective customers

79.Customers typically begin their buying process online so optimised pages, links and keyword research will help conversion

80.Social publishing allows you to build a brand personality

81.Interact on the networks where your ideal buyers spend their time

82.By shifting your focus and impressing upon buyers the desire to offer advice first and foremost it can help lift the pressure off the sale and open up the opportunity for dialogue

83.Avoid building your sales process around your own needs, address your customer’s pain

84.Develop a sales process that supports your buyer throughout their buying journey

85.Identify buyers you believe are a good fit

86.Marketing automation helps work on lead management from acquisition and engagement to retention and conversion

87.Helps you to engage early in the sales process

88.Stay top of mind and on your customers radar when they need your services

89.Spending time interacting on social media rather than just posting

90.Inbound selling is personalised, buyer-centric and takes on an advisory role

91.Helps you make sure that the content you create is aligned to the needs of the buyer persona

92.Amplifies the content marketing by sharing through social networks

93.With tighter budgets and cost control, content is a priority when buyers assess proposals

94.Fear of making a bad decision by buyers means that they need more information in the form of content found through self research across multiple-channels

95.Because buyers have more options to choose from vendors need to be better prepared in how they target and attract buyers through their content marketing

96.Reaching a consensus is a challenge with so many more people involved in the buying decision, so plan a content structure and inbound strategy that means your content is available in the places the target audience is searching

97.Customers want to interact differently, so you cannot reach out to them all in the same way – having a buyer persona allows you to focus your efforts on the best prospects and not a “one size fits all” approach

98.Businesses have to start thinking of customers in very specific terms as company size is no longer a sufficiently informative lead attribute – so use lead scoring and hard data to target

99.Most buyers arrive at the Awareness stage in the buying cycle – before they have engaged directly with sales, so inbound can help feed content to those that do their research

100. Positioning your solution to help solve a problem and at the same time understand the needs and limitations of your prospects by listening rather than selling

101. Inbound sales is a relationship building exercise, offering advice rather than closing a sale helping to change an “all about me” to a buyer-centric sales mindset

Let us know if you can add another reason to make it #102 or if you have a question or a challenge that you need help with.