How to Use Close for Marketing — 5 Practical Use Cases
Close is one of the most capable ai demand generation platforms available. Here's how marketing teams actually use it day-to-day to drive results.
Build Lead Generation Campaigns
Use Close to create and optimize lead generation campaigns. From content offers to landing pages, build a predictable pipeline of qualified leads for your sales team.
- Define your lead generation offer: ebook, webinar, tool, or assessment
- Build the campaign infrastructure in Close: landing page, form, thank-you page, and follow-up
- Set up conversion tracking and lead source attribution
- Launch the campaign across channels: paid, organic, email, and social
- Optimize based on conversion rates and lead quality metrics weekly
Pro Tip: Gate high-value content but ungated the awareness-stage content — forcing email registration for a basic checklist generates low-quality leads that waste sales time.
Create ABM Campaigns
Leverage Close to run account-based marketing campaigns targeting your highest-value prospects. Coordinate personalized outreach across ads, email, and direct channels.
- Build your target account list: 50-200 accounts based on ICP scoring and revenue potential
- Set up account-level tracking and engagement scoring in Close
- Create account-specific content and personalized landing pages
- Launch multi-channel campaigns: targeted ads, personalized emails, and direct mail
- Track account engagement signals and coordinate with sales on outreach timing
Pro Tip: Focus ABM on accounts already showing intent signals — targeting accounts with zero engagement is just expensive cold outreach with better presentation.
Optimize Landing Pages
Use Close to build, test, and optimize landing pages that convert. From headline testing to form optimization, systematically improve conversion rates across all your campaigns.
- Audit your current landing pages: conversion rates, bounce rates, and form completion rates
- Build new landing page variants in Close with clear hypotheses for improvement
- Test one element at a time: headline, hero image, CTA, form fields, or social proof
- Run tests to statistical significance before declaring winners
- Roll out winning variants and document learnings for future pages
Pro Tip: Reduce form fields to the absolute minimum — every additional field drops conversion rate by 5-10%. Ask for email only and enrich the rest from data providers.
Build Webinar Funnels
Create end-to-end webinar funnels using Close. From registration to follow-up, automate the entire process to maximize registrations, attendance, and post-webinar conversions.
- Plan the webinar: topic, speaker, date, and target audience
- Build the funnel in Close: registration page, confirmation email, reminder sequence, and post-event follow-up
- Promote through email, social, paid ads, and partner channels
- During the webinar, drive engagement with polls, Q&A, and offers
- Follow up within 24 hours with recording, slides, and a relevant next step (demo, trial, content)
Pro Tip: Send three reminder emails: 1 day before, 1 hour before, and 5 minutes before start time. This sequence typically increases attendance rate from 35% to 55% of registrants.
Track and Optimize Pipeline Contribution
Use Close to measure marketing's pipeline contribution and optimize program mix for maximum revenue impact. Connect marketing activities directly to pipeline and closed-won revenue.
- Set up marketing attribution that connects campaigns to pipeline and revenue
- Build a pipeline contribution dashboard in Close showing campaign-level ROI
- Track leading indicators: MQLs, SQLs, pipeline created, and pipeline velocity
- Analyze which programs generate the highest-quality pipeline (win rate, deal size)
- Reallocate budget from low-performing programs to proven pipeline drivers
Pro Tip: Measure pipeline quality, not just quantity — a program generating 10 high-intent SQLs is more valuable than one generating 100 MQLs that never convert.
Best Practices
- +Measure pipeline quality, not just lead volume — a smaller number of qualified leads beats a flood of unqualified ones
- +Align content offers to funnel stage — top-of-funnel content for awareness, bottom-of-funnel for conversion
- +Follow up fast — speed-to-lead is the strongest predictor of conversion in B2B marketing
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