The Point

JANUARY 19, 2021

2020 was a year of change for marketers worldwide, much of it not for the best of reasons. Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months and years to come?

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Lead Ranking 147

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. What is the equity value of those leads - the lead equity ?

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Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We saw with 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the numerous natural disasters of hurricanes and floods neighbors helping neighbors. Let us take a look at seven areas of buyer insights that can help lead to unshakable loyalty: Community. Enabling buyers in a positive way leads to loyalty. Interaction Experience.

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Loyalty Lead Scoring Lead Ranking B2B Sales 195

Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Salespeople need leads—right now.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 4, 2009

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. What is the equity value of those leads - the lead equity ?

Cost per Lead 100

Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

markempa

AUGUST 1, 2017

The answer can make a huge difference in your sales and marketing results. And he’s had a profound influence on how we sell and market, especially those who are in B2B. Because with the cloud, the conversation has to shift from the old “our-solution” marketing: our solution will do this, and our solution will do that.

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Sales Qualified Leads Peer-to-peer Buyer Personas Work Management 324

markempa

MARCH 4, 2009

According to the 2008 Miller Heiman Sales Best Practices Study, only 37% of respondents agreed that their sales and marketing organizations are aligned in what their customers want and need. I discussed this disconnect with Bill Golder in the February issue of Sales & Marketing Management. Clarify your value proposition now!

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Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ViewPoint

JULY 10, 2012

We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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BtoB PointClear Lead Generation Terms and Conditions 120

Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 4, 2009

Almost a year ago, July 23rd 2008, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Connect, which gives any website the power of a social network like Facebook right there on its own website. This scenario illustrated the power of a new era of what we will call Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM). So what you say?

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Account Based Marketing ABM Social Marketing Social Networks 100

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

They updated them twice since then, in 2008 and 2018. No matter what type of business you have, generating website traffic typically leads to sales and conversions. By doing this, you gain a better hierarchy of the website, leading to a better user experience. These are standards from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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CMS Development Barriers Act-On User-Generated Content 288

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

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. In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%).

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Walker Sands

JUNE 20, 2023

What does this mean for B2B marketers? The best place to start is your web content marketing strategy. Your move: Talk like an expert, but keep Gen Z marketing content conversational and authentic. Gen Z is bringing their more casual, authentic style to the workplace — and anyone marketing to them should follow suit.

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B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Generation 98

The Point

JANUARY 14, 2014

In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. And that lack of focus can be a big mistake.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Leads 100

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2022

Your warm leads leave for “safer” industries or join the ranks of the recently laid-off. I spoke with Lou Wolf, VP of sales at ZoomInfo, to learn how he survived the recession that followed the dot-com crash of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008. BrassRing was in a hot market during the late ‘90s tech bubble,” Wolf says.

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Tips Work Management Terms and Conditions Marketing Management 130

SmartBug Media

MARCH 23, 2023

As a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, SmartBug Media has done it again! We understand how important marketing technology is for modern companies, and we owe our success in developing top-tier campaigns to our ability to capitalize on the latest advancements in industry-related tools.

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Hubspot Enterprise Management Work Management Advertising Agencies 98

Kaon

JULY 22, 2020

Kaon Interactive is a B2B software company that creates interactive sales and marketing applications to transform customer engagements. Our platform helps many leading technology, medical technology, and industrial companies elevate the engagement with their customers around the world on any device, any time, and with unlimited users.

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Digital Transformation Interactive Marketing Custom Publishing B2B Sales 147

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. However, is improving efficiency enough to justify investing in Marketing Automation?

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Square 2 Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I ’ve been helping companies with their growth plans, revenue generation and marketing execution for almost 20 years – long enough to remember the last recession in 2008. HubSpot was a baby of a company back then, but it had a very compelling story and message. The size of your brain is more important than the size of your wallet.

Inbound Marketing 52

Inbound Marketing Tactics Planning Hubspot 52

Convert

DECEMBER 18, 2020

ebay in 2008. In 2008, eCommerce had developed a certain aesthetic. Interactive images became important tools in generating leads. Small blocks of text were marketing everything from CDs to stuffed toys. Amazon in 2008. Around 2008, online retailers started getting creative and Amazon was leading the charge.

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eCommerce Amazon Comparison User-Generated Content 119

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Since bottoming out in the 2008-9 financial crisis, the world economy has generated significant growth. The continuous and rapid introduction of new technologies into the market has created a huge demand for multi-talented people who can quickly make and implement data-driven decisions. Among the reasons are: Market Globalization.

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Enterprise Management Startups Work Management Advertising Agencies 246

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2021

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. Here Are The Habits Of Employees Who Lead Without The Title. LinkedIn to B2B Marketers: It’s Time To Build Your Brand. Learning To Speak With Clarity.

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B2B Work Management B2B Sales Positioning 109

B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Last month, I wrote an article here arguing that, to achieve success in 2023 and beyond, marketers will need to be adept at leveraging both the capabilities of technology and data science, and the principles of behavioral science describing how people make decisions. I'll cover books relating to technology and data science in a future post.

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management Press 52

Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. It turns out that advice is dead wrong.

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Marketing Budget Content Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency 173

PathFactory

MARCH 6, 2023

Everything from economic conditions, the B2B technology landscape, and the amount of data companies have access to has made go-to-market teams reconsider how they conduct customer outreach and generate leads. 2) Sales teams are increasingly relying on qualified inbound leads. Be maniacal about lead and MQL follow up.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Lead Ranking B2B Marketing 52

Valasys

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Time and time again, social media has proven to be a great lead generation tool. In 2019, the social CRM market is set to reach $10 billion! All this is done in order to enable market segmentation and to effectively target campaigns. In 2008, only 12% CRMs operated via the cloud while 87% CRMs hosted on the cloud by 2018.

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CRM Marketing Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Services 56

B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Source: Analytic Partners Analytic Partners , a provider of marketing optimization solutions, recently published an ebook that offers marketers five recommendations for addressing the economic uncertainty that's likely to exist for much of 2023. The risk of a recession in the U.S.

Advertising Agencies 90

Advertising Agencies Terms and Conditions Planning Allocation 90

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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Traffic Class Marketing Qualified Leads Leads 65

B2B Digital Marketer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Harnessing the Power of Strategic Marketing Introduction In this episode, we delve into the challenges of navigating the plethora of options and opportunities in a continuously changing landscape as we explore modern marketing transformation , particularly in the B2B space.

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Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy B2B Marketing Marketing Attribution 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Author: Ellen Gomes Today’s potential buyers don’t become customers overnight—they require marketing over time as they self-educate and build trust with a company. Why Is Lead Nurturing Important? With lead nurturing, you spend time establishing a relationship with your buyer and building trust. Lead Nurturing—Evolved.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 48

Biznology

DECEMBER 30, 2016

I caught up recently with Ichiro Niwayama , founder of Symphony Marketing , the leading B2B-demand generation agency in Japan. His new book, Ultimate B2B Marketing: ABM , was published only last week, and has already leaped to #1 on the Amazon Japan business book list. Both our domestic and our international markets fell apart.

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Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Work Management Paid Search Agency 151

Outbound Engine

APRIL 20, 2020

The markets looked like a beach at low tide, dry. No longer able to meet with customers face-to-face, and losing out on buying and selling opportunities, many agents saw shades of 2008. This is not 2008. Like a tsunami, when markets quickly recede, they tend to roar back with a similar intensity. Fill your funnel now.

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Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Digital Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking 65

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The entire infrastructure of sales and marketing has shifted, and buyers are now self-educating. This means, brands that understand the customer best, and use that insight when compiling their marketing plans , are the most successful with their marketing and sales strategies. Driving lead generation. General CRM Stats.

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Stats CRM Marketing Management Top of Funnel 116

Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

2024 will see generative AI touching more areas of our lives, but where will it have the most profound impact within B2B influencer marketing? Penn Chief Data Scientist Trust Insights @cspenn AI’s advancements in language and image generation are set to reshape influencer marketing. AI Insight #1 — Christopher S.

Marketing AI 89

Marketing AI B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Marketing Management 89

Rev

OCTOBER 13, 2018

The Explosion of Marketing Technology. Marketing Technology) landscape. Scott , the VP of Platform Ecosystems at Hubspot and the editor of chiefmartec.com, has been categorizing marketing technology since 2011. A Useful Perspective on the B2B Marketing Stack. Lead scoring. Lead nurturing. The demand funnel.

Lead Ranking 114

Lead Ranking Account Based Marketing Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 114

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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Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

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? Now, that doesn’t sound very different from most b2b and industrial marketers but wait till you hear/read about the phenomenal results that Holly and her team have produced.

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Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60