Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The following excerpt is certainly important to sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. This post also appeared recently in B2C Marketing Insider. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. Alignment With Sales The majority of tele campaigns are passed to the sales department without their input, and can therefore produce sub optimal results, as the Account Executives might not agree with the campaign or the strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. Some creative marketers call these lists suspects. To sales, they are a waste of time. Inbound marketeering requires 2 simple things: First you need to be found and that requires the basic techniques of understanding how prospects search and the keywords they use.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! « 9 1/2 Ways.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2017

I've seen the inside of hundreds of marketing agencies over more than a decade, including my own. Most marketing agencies struggle to generate recurring revenue. When I met Stream Creative (now a Platinum HubSpot Partner) in 2010 at HubSpot's INBOUND event, they told me they had no recurring revenue. 1) Your Own Marketing Sucks.

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LeadSquared

MARCH 11, 2013

In sales & marketing, the most important discipline is to stay focused on Leads that matter most. It is, of course, important to nurture leads so that they start mattering. That’s the art and science of Lead Nurturing and we will not talk about it in this article. The answer lies in knowing the “Lead Pulse”.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lead nurturing is a hot topic right now. It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. Let’s take a closer look at both.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The ultimate objective of marketing is to increase revenue performance , and one key way to achieve this is to optimize the entire sales funnel. In his presentation, he covers a five-step process to optimize lead management, get marketing and sales alignment , and make the most of your entire sales funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

by Bill Binch B2B companies don’t have the same luxury that businesses had in former years, when sales controlled consumer behavior. Now the digital marketplace has put the buyer in the driver’s seat and some sales forces behind the eight ball to keep up with consumer habits. Consider these 5 ways sales will continue to evolve: 1.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. I believe it to be the most complete picture yet painted of how marketers are thinking about and deploying social media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Yet according to CSO Insight’s 2010 Sales Performance Optimization study, only 52% of sales reps met quota in 2009, and companies achieved only 78% of their revenue plans. In contrast, today’s best companies are using a new revenue engine that uses repeatable marketing and sales 2.0 The Old Revenue Engine.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2009

What can Sales 2.0 do to improve your sales success? Anneke Seley, Author and CEO, shares some of her thoughts about using social media in our newest B2B Marketing thought leader interview. Anneke was the twelfth employee at Oracle and the designer of OracleDirect, the company’s revolutionary inside sales operation.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The past two decades have brought disruptive technological change and radically reshaped B2B marketing practices. Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. Cold calls, trade shows, direct mail, and print ads were the primary forms of marketing. Market size analysis.

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Hubspot

JULY 29, 2010

The following is a guest post by Peter Rastello, the founder of Inbound Market Link , an Inbound Marketing agency specializing in helping small and medium, B2B and B2C businesses to succeed on the internet. For this reason, it is critical that SMB marketers focus carefully.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. The content used to educate buyers of B2B products and services can be a very valuable asset when it comes to content optimization and acquiring leads via organic search.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Don’t spam!

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BenchmarkONE

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Competition in the content marketing arena is heating up. Statistics show that the number of brands that are actively using content marketing has grown by 12% between 2020 and 2021. . To succeed, you have to master content marketing and use creative ways to set yourself apart from competitors. What’s Content Marketing?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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Valasys

AUGUST 9, 2019

The best practices in Search Engine Optimization have evolved over the years to coalesce the ever-evolving research methodologies of the B2B prospects. SEO in its present state is being dominated by the Internet of Things (IoT) and as the researching methodologies of prospects have evolved, so have the SEO practices.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JANUARY 4, 2011

Here it is - the very best posts and the hottest topics for 2010. 50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , October 5, 2010. Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010. Marketing Genius Blog , May 25, 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

by Jon Miller The Definitive Guide to Sales Lead Qualification and Sales Development. This is especially true in the handoff between marketing and sales. In addition to those techniques, I believe the secret to a truly high-performance revenue engine is the effective use of a Sales Development team.

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Outgrow

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Interactive Content Ideas For All Types Of Marketing . Marketing isn’t unidimensional. You can have different strategies, metrics, and tools to work on different kinds of marketing. But one thing that you can fit in everywhere is - interactive content for all types of marketing. Content Marketing.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Here on the HubSpot blog, we’ve written glossary-themed posts that cover some of the core components of inbound marketing -- we''ve covered email marketing , website optimization , social media , and the list goes on. So we thought it was time to create a blog post that could serve as an inbound marketing glossary. A/B Testing.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Techcrunch acquisition dispels those myths 2 days ago « People on the Move in the Social Business Industry: Sept 21, 2010 Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist? These referral links drive highly qualified traffic to your website, improve SEO, and project your brand.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The advent of the Internet, smartphone and social media came in different decades, but the 2010s were not without its seminal moments and trends for digital marketing. In fact, the last 10 years saw the true emergence of social media marketing, mobile marketing and SEO-building content campaigns.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank's internet marketing blog on the intersection of social media, digital public relations and search engine marketing. Search marketing should be a top priority for organizations in any industry.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Larry Ellison taught us all how to be marketers and I got the chance over the years to serve as CMO and VP of Marketing for many Silicon Valley software companies. I loved the creativity, but what I really wanted to do as CMO was to have a systematic way of measuring a sales and marketing funnel as well as impact of marketing on sales.

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Valasys

JULY 25, 2019

The landscape of B2B marketing has transcended beyond the conventional realm of inbound marketing. With the outgrowth of sub-branches of digitization, the marketers have stepped into an era studded with cutting-edge technologies.

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Single Grain

JUNE 23, 2020

This post on creating an effective content marketing strategy to grow your brand has been updated for 2020. Content marketing is no longer the simple, easy-to-execute tactic it was in the early days of the boom when it was all about blogs and keywords, and “content strategy” was a concept that was yet to be born.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and small business market fit. The platform’s infinite canvas is designed to enable its more than 20M users to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, and brainstorm ideas. 2022 BEST SOFTWARE LIST FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Over the last eight years, lots of things have changed in HubSpot''s marketing. When I first joined, we had two marketers; now, we have seventy. And our monthly lead numbers? Here''s the inside story of how our email marketing strategy evolved as our company and database grew. They used to hover around a few hundred.

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