Money Rail: 50 Lead Generation Posts Your Business Needs You to Read

…Or they will be after you dig in to these 50 posts on Lead Generation

Remember the “good old days” of lead gen when all you needed were flashy red banners, promises of free computers, and sketchy sign up forms? With half a marketing brain, you could make leads fall from the sky.

Thankfully, those ridiculous days are over.

Consumers are getting smarter and have high expectations for your brand, and as a marketer, it’s your job to do the wooing. Luckily, that’s also what makes your job fun.

Lead generation is all about connecting brands and audience. These 50 posts will teach you how to do it right.

If You Love Content, You’re in Luck

1. Why Content Marketing Is Your Key to B2B Lead Generation

Solve a key problem, and your customers will like you better. Content is the web’s most powerful match-maker, and here is some data that explains why.

2. The Foolproof Formula for Writing a Solid Blog Post

Quit over-thinking your content. All you need is an old-school mad lib to be a rockstar writer. Seriously though, when you write relevant content, leads will flock to your sign-up form. This post will squash your excuses for why you can’t blog.

3. How to Justify the Cost of Content Marketing

Word on the street is that content marketing costs less per lead than paid search.

4. Five Reasons Your Content Marketing Effort is Failing

You spend hundred of hours writing blog posts that generate zero leads. Ouch. Here’s what you’re probably doing wrong.

5. Six Lead Generation Offer Ideas for Your Content You Already Have

Wow your visitors with an all-in-one white paper, webinar, and slide deck. Like this idea? Click through for five more.

6. Free eBook: How to Brainstorm Content that Rocks and Converts

You sat down to start. Five hours later, you’re procrastinating by reading this blog post. That’s precisely why we linked to this eBook.

7. Seven Tips: Convert Readers of Your Blog into Paying Customers

Time to kick it up a notch! Blogs will improve your search visibility and attract readers, but at the end of the day, your posts need to pay. Bad rhyming aside, here’s how to hit a content home-run.

8. How to Convert Blog Readers into Paying Customers

Scroll down to section four, and read about the ‘free product’ model. Then, read everything else.

9. Creative Ways You Can Profit from Content Marketing

Need one or two lead gen ideas? How about 49? Thank you, Sonia Simone!

10. How to Use Content to Find Potential Customers

Here’s how to kickstart a solid commercial relationship with your readers.

11. Why Content Is Still King When It Comes to Lead Generation

We know that the expression is cheesy, and yet, it makes way too much sense.

12. Content Marketing Is not as Simple as Writing a Ton of Blog Posts Every Day

Before you write out your next blog post, map out your content marketing sales funnel. Here’s how.

Just Don’t Do Any of This

13. Online Lead Generation Mistakes to Avoid

Link overload, bad calls to action, and confusing content will scare away any prospective customer.

14. Nine CTA Mistakes to Kill Your Lead Generation Process

Your awesome content isn’t converting anyone. What’s wrong? Find answers here.

15. Five PPC Lead Generation Mistakes to Avoid

When running paid campaigns, do you send most of your traffic to your home page? If so, keep reading because you probably need to change your strategy.

16. How to Avoid the Three Most Common Mistakes in Lead Gen

You have leads, but are they sales-ready? Here’s how to tell. Stop harassing leads that don’t convert.

17. Eight Frequently Missed Lead Gen Opportunities for Your Homepage

Make sure that you make the most out of all traffic that comes to your site. Use empathetic photos, and don’t be afraid to stand out from the crowd.

18. Nine Ways to Truly Suck at Lead Management

Can you tell a good lead from a bad one? When was the last time that you organized your messy, messy database? Here are nine mistakes that you need to stop making today.

19. The Seven Worst Marketing Emails You’ve Ever Seen

Oh, they’re bad. Real bad. Read until you can’t take it anymore.

20. 20 Clues Your Marketing Stinks, Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

Are you pushing or pulling your customers? The answer to that question is mission-critical.

21. Are Your Lead Generation Tactics Targeting the Wrong Buyer?

You’re selling clothes to 20 year old women, so why does your landing page feature an 80 year old man? If you’re second-guessing your answer, you better read this post.

22. Ten Companies with Insanely Bad Marketing

Four jaw-dropping words: “singing rodents called spongmonkeys.”

23. Birthday Wishes from my Marketing Friends

Birthday marketers aren’t fooling anyone. Here’s a breakdown of the good, bad, and ugly.

24. Not Generating Leads from Social Media? Here’s Why

Here’s why your social media campaigns are falling flat.

25. Why Lead Generation Is Irrelevant

If you’re sales and marketing efforts are two codependent, you’re probably doing something wrong. The relationship should be harmonious, not intrusive.

Boost Your Creativity

26. Ten Ways to Generate More Leads

Think that everyone wants free stuff? Think again. Freebies are getting tougher and tougher to give away. Keep reading for more counter-intuitive tips.