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Why you should focus on Lead Generation
You wouldn't be reading this blog post if you hadn't considered using a white paper yourself to generate qualified leads for your own business.
There are scenarios where lead generation makes sense:
- Not every product is as obvious as a Coke at first glance. Particularly in the B2B sector, products are generally complex, and you really have to be trained to use them correctly.
- Not every product is as inexpensive as a Coke. While a Coke is purchased and tried out with little money, a more complex product like software, for example, requires a year-long contract before they can be set up and put through their paces.
- This makes the customer journey longer and the effort to invest in benefit communication and objection handling greater.
- To implement these digitally for reasons of efficiency, you need the e-mail address of the target customer to handle the necessary persuasion work in the dialog via e-mail.
That's why we generate leads—in compliance with data protection laws, with genuine consent from the user and a great desire on our part to make a happy customer out of him.
What is Lead Generation?
Lead generation is the data-protection-compliant acquisition of a user's e-mail address, which is the basic prerequisite for a consultation preceding a purchase.
By submitting the e-mail address via a form, the user gives the lead-generating company his or her consent to receive information about the brand, product, or service. This is usually done by e-mail.
Once the lead-generating company has the address, it can qualify the user: From lead to marketing-qualified lead to sales-accepted lead or even to sales-qualified lead. The marketer hands over the latter incarnation of the user to the sales department, which is not only spared a lengthy sales communication process, but also has a user on its desk who is ready to close the deal.
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Gerrit Grunert
Gerrit Grunert is the founder and CEO of Crispy Content®. In 2019, he published his book "Methodical Content Marketing" published by Springer Gabler, as well as the series of online courses "Making Content." In his free time, Gerrit is a passionate guitar collector, likes reading books by Stefan Zweig, and listening to music from the day before yesterday.