B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Even if a recession doesn't occur, fears of an economic downturn and the continuing effects of inflation may lead both consumers and business organizations to tighten their purse strings and put prospective purchases under greater scrutiny. The risk of a recession in the U.S. Let's take a closer look at those three.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 5, 2024

for-profit companies that's been conducted since 2008. More importantly, these findings indicate that marketing isn't leading many activities and functions that play essential roles in revenue growth. Data from "The CMO Survey" can be used to help answer this question. Consider the following points.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In Predictably Irrational , Ariely described several experiments that illustrate the many invisible factors that lead us to think and behave in ways that are both irrational and predictable.

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Hubspot

MAY 2, 2017

Many marketers have to find out the hard way that more website traffic doesn't always translate to more leads. Unless your site is optimized to drive visitors to take action and engage, you can attract thousands of visitors and never see one of them convert into a lead. That's where conversion rate optimization comes in.

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Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. If you examine the two tactics side by side, it’s clear content is a better investment, especially if budgets are tight. Once someone becomes a customer, it may be easy to forget about them and move on to the next lead. Paid ads and content marketing have inverse reputations.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 24, 2015

Along the lines of the content marketing week series presented here previously, starting tomorrow and running through next Tuesday, a series of posts will cover business blogging strategies, tactics, tools and resources. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those without blogs. Forbes ). • NewsCred ). •

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 19, 2017

Efficiency is usually measured by the percentage of potential buyers or leads who are "converting" from one lead stage to the next. The 2008 conversion rates largely reflect marketing productivity before many of the marketing innovations mentioned above had become widely adopted.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Jon Loomer’s YouTube channel focuses only on advanced Facebook marketing tactics that help experienced marketers. On the Moz YouTube channel, you’ll find a number of valuable resources—including exceptional speakers, actionable tactics, and so much more. 5. Jon Loomer. We strongly recommend you go check it out!

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Rev

OCTOBER 13, 2018

I talk to people like David Lewis who brings considerable perspective to B2B martech used for demand generation and lead management. In the book, David covered five areas of demand generation and lead management: Buyer personas. Lead scoring. Lead nurturing. There were two big changes to lead nurturing.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

” And that was way back in 2008! ” And yet we primarily use tactics that drive potential new customers away. But Red Bull is one company leading the way. Seth Godin said that “ content marketing is all the marketing that’s left.” We talk a lot about brands telling stories and becoming publishers.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 20, 2009

Once you've optimized the list of keywords in your search engine marketing campaign, tweaked the bids and crafted stellar ad text to bring visitors to your site, landing page design is critical to converting those visitors into sales or leads. Here are a few of the best posts about SEM landing page design from last year.

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Televerde

JULY 28, 2020

In fact, a recent study in the UK found that companies cut their marketing budgets by the biggest percentage on record in response to the COVID-19 pandemic—even more so than in the 2008 downturn. But three months down the road, the leads stop coming in. The sales team has no air cover.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO? Attract lots of targeted Twitter followers in a short time? Take advantage of new tools to raise your own profile by commenting on existing content?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Resources for starting a new business, ideas for naming that business, mistakes to avoid, lead generation strategies to embrace, how to apply some of Warren Buffet's wisdom to online marketing efforts.find all of that and more here in this final collection of the best posts on strategy and branding from the past year. What's in A Name?

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

5 Simple, Effective Tactics to Promote a New Website by SEOptimise Glen Allsopp reveals four websites critical to helping launch a new blog, plus the critical practice of commenting on other blogs to help spread the fame of your new site.

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Sprout Social

MAY 26, 2020

The fall was at least partly fueled by reverting to manufacturing in 2008 when more digitally literate companies were rising to the recession’s challenge and diversifying their offerings. Consumer literacy can vary and leads to misunderstanding, as journalists know. What does the challenge of media literacy mean for marketing today?

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 31, 2009

Doing a better job of training employees and qualifying leads? Looking for some off-the-beaten-trail ideas for driving more site traffic? Getting more out of those expensive marketing conferences? Meeting the biggest challenges in b2b marketing head-on? Then you're in the right place!

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Jon Loomer Jon Loomer’s YouTube channel focuses only on advanced Facebook marketing tactics that help experienced marketers. On the Moz YouTube channel, you’ll find a number of valuable resources—including exceptional speakers, actionable tactics, and so much more. We strongly recommend you go check it out!

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 3, 2009

SEO: best bang for your buck for generating online leads by E-consultancy Aliya Zaidi summarizes research from E-consultancy showing that while " natural search, email marketing and paid search are still the most commonly used methods for generating online leads," " SEO (is) seen as providing the best value for money."

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Marketers report that advanced personalization in email increases revenue by as much as 17% over basic personalization tactics like “Hello, Firstname”. Abhishek Shah is the co-founder of Ally Digital Media , a leading voice in digital media and marketing. Benefits of personalization. He can be found on Twitter @abiishek. .

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Outbrain

MAY 29, 2019

Founded in 2008 as a subsidiary of the “Mediengruppe Oberfranken”, inFranken.de The Outbrain optimization team used a powerful two-pronged tactic to increase user interest and participation, leading to truly incredible performance marketing results for inFranken. The tactic proved incredibly successful.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 20, 2009

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. The other clear message from the survey was that the main reason leads are not followed up is “not enough info”.

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seo.co

JANUARY 12, 2021

Essentially, backlinks are external URLs that lead to pages on your website. Since Google is continuously updating its SEO algorithm, it may reduce the impact of links that belong to these domains.edu and.gov backlinks are increasingly sought-after, and people resort to spam tactics and other black-hat practices to obtain them.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

What SEO tactics are crucial to incorporate on your blog? How to get your Blog Traffic to Convert in 5 Easy Steps by Search Engine People Blogger Jennifer Osborne gives simple yet effective tips for converting blog traffic into leads or sales, such as including an "About Us" section and using the loop strategy when writing blog posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Another tactic has been targeting each participating university with mobile and social ads. For instance, between 2012 and 2016, the company’s primary lead collection channel grew by 35% year over year. Schneider Electric: Online classes as B2B marketing tactic cultivates more customer data. year over year in the same period.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Social media among IT and business buyers of technology rose 50% over last year and finally pushed to majority status; 55% said they use social media as part of the technology buying process in 2009 versus just 37% in 2008.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Use this article as a starting point to implement simple do-it-yourself SEO tactics and you’ll start to see better search engine results.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Tagged as: b2b blogs About the Author Achinta Mitra calls himself a “marketing engineer” because he combines his engineering education with 20+ years of practical industrial marketing experience to connect the dots between strategic advice and tactical implementation. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – All Rights Reserved.

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