Accounts-based marketing (or ABM for those of you out there who love acronyms!) is the talk of the town for marketers these days. The approach consists of hand-selecting highly strategic accounts that you want to do business with and creating a priority wish list of companies to exclusively target.
Lead generation is one of those things that never goes away. Sales teams constantly need more leads to keep their pipelines flowing, and inbound inquiries alone don’t always suffice. When it comes to generating (outbound) leads within ISV accounts to join your OEM program, challenges arise.
For any successful marketing campaign to work, it’s important to have great landing pages that can be used as support to educate, nurture, and convert top-of-the-funnel leads into viable sales opportunities.
I get approached all the time by people trying to sell me leads. I bet you do too. It seems that in recent years there has been a proliferation of random companies sprouting up all over town promising qualified leads in incredible volumes; some even claim that they can deliver thousands of leads each month.
ISV-OEM can be an elusive term. In fact, it means many things to many people. For us, it means embedding one software solution into another to enhance product features for the benefit of the end-user customer. Third-party integration helps bring a faster time-to-market and can make your product more competitive in the global marketplace. But finding new partnership opportunities in the right ISV accounts is not as easy as it seems.
