The Point

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Started in 2008 as the world’s first open source video player, JW Player pioneered video on the Web and today has customers in 193 countries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. JW Player contacted Spear Marketing Group , a leading B2B demand generation agency , for help. billion unique monthly views.

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SEM Cost Per Click Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency 222

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.

B2B Marketing 98

B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Generation 98

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 ?

Cost per Lead 100

Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

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.

Hubspot 98

Hubspot Enterprise Management Work Management Advertising Agencies 98

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.

eCommerce 119

eCommerce Amazon Comparison User-Generated Content 119

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).

CMS Development 286

CMS Development Barriers Act-On User-Generated Content 286

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

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

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.

Digital Transformation 147

Digital Transformation Interactive Marketing Custom Publishing B2B Sales 147

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.

Enterprise Management 246

Enterprise Management Startups Work Management Advertising Agencies 246

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.

Sales Qualified Leads 324

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

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

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!

Ideal Customer Profiles 120

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

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

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.

B2B 109

B2B Work Management B2B Sales Positioning 109

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

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?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing ABM Social Marketing Social Networks 100

Tony Zambito

MAY 4, 2020

In the last 100 years, the Great Depression, War World II, 9/11, and the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis come to mind. as a major source of leads will have to figure out a new avenue. Business leaders will further their focus on trying to estimate the long-term outlook for their organizations, markets, buyers, and partnering industries.

Marketing AI 173

Marketing AI Buyer Personas Advertising Agencies Conference 173

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

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.

Marketing Budget 173

Marketing Budget Content Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency 173

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.

Account Based Marketing 151

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

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.

Top of Funnel 52

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

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?

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

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.

Top of Funnel 65

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

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

Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

These checks and balances on essential marketing and sales tools help ensure you are following best practices for outstanding results. Create your forward-thinking marketing plan with our latest Raising the Bottom Line with Next-Level Marketing eBook. Keep in mind that 50% of the average marketing database is useless.

B2B Sales 118

B2B Sales CRM Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 118

Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2023

” Theresa Kushner has been at the center of marketing data and analytics since the beginning. Q: How did you get from studying journalism into marketing management? A: I went into IBM as a marketing manager for the inside sales unit. It was really a direct marketing effort. Now look where I am.

Merchandising 88

Merchandising Work Management Thought Leadership Marketing Management 88

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.

Marketing Strategy 52

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy B2B Marketing Marketing Attribution 52

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.

Stats 116

Stats CRM Marketing Management Top of Funnel 116

Trade Press Services

MARCH 11, 2024

He is the leader of a newsroom with 130 journalists and sets the direction for the company’s 35+ market-leading B2B publications for over two million subscribers. Davide Savenije: After the 2008 crisis, there were a lot of bigger publications that got either spun out, unwound, acquired, or shut down.

B2B Thought Leadership 109

B2B Thought Leadership Conversion B2B Thought Leadership 109

Contently

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The series, which debuted over a decade ago, was one of the first majorly successful examples of video content marketing. Clips helped drive sales of the blender up 500 percent in 2008 without any overt calls-to-action. Media and marketing experts have been anointing video as the trend of the year for over a decade.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Video Marketing Generation Leads 149

Contently

JANUARY 22, 2021

But one thing is clear: Gen Z and millennials are changing the way that brands tell their stories and position themselves in the market. That’s why social impact storytelling was one of the top content trends I presented in our State of Content Marketing 2021 trends webinar (which you can get on-demand here.). That’s right.

Storytelling 211

Storytelling Trends Ethics Content 211

chiefmartech

JULY 30, 2022

“What is it about marketing that spawns so many software apps? ” While there are certainly dynamics specific to marketing that feed the frenzy of new martech startups , the truth is that martech is merely a part of a much larger software revolution. Surely no other profession has to deal with such sprawl!”

Budget Programs 132

Budget Programs Software Churn Rate Startups 132

Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

JAY MITCHELL REMEMBERS INDECISIVE BUYERS AND HOPES FOR A 2024 RAMP-UP As trusted advisors to dozens of companies, we at Mereo get to see market and economic trends from not only individual companies but on a macro-level. This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession.

Terms and Conditions 45

Terms and Conditions B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 45

ClickZ

JANUARY 15, 2021

So many disparate marketing tools only make the task tougher. The winners of this new economy are going to be brands that can deliver their products directly to consumers digitally and achieve excellence in personalized ecommerce marketing. Jivox’s impact on ecommerce marketing. A modern brand is faced with many disruptions.

eCommerce 114

eCommerce Personalization Paid Search Agency Purchase Intent 114

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

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