ANNUITAS

JULY 28, 2011

This brochure is ugly and even if it wasn’t, it’s a waste of money because it’s not delivering leads or having an impact on revenue.” We both agreed that my job as the director of our marketing team was not about making pretty collateral pieces. Unfortunately, most marketers today are missing this point, and missing it by a long shot.

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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”. Why is this important? This is a foundational activity.

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Conversica

AUGUST 15, 2018

The company’s flagship AI Sales Assistant engages leads in a human conversation to qualify more of them for sales, freeing humans to spend more time closing business. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2014. Methodology. The 2018 Inc. They had to be U.S.-based,

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markempa

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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! But inquiries are not leads.

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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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Hubspot

AUGUST 20, 2019

It’s the lifeblood of charitable organizations and can serve as a way to raise awareness of a cause and drum up interest among donors. Because it’s likely your primary means of income as a charitable organization, raising money can be a burdensome, never-ending effort. Nonprofit fundraising is exciting. It can even seem scary.

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markempa

MAY 21, 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!

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

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!

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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. 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%).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

We are pleased that we were able to catch-up with Andrew Gaffney, Editor-In-Chief of DemandGen Report, an on-line publication that covers B2B marketing and the marketing automation space. We wanted to get his take on all things B2B marketing and what the future holds for this space. Most of data comes from the marketing side.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 27, 2012

Guest post by Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute and Junta42. Joe evangelizes content marketing around the world through keynotes, articles, tweets and his books, Managing Content Marketing and Get Content Get Customers. Is content marketing required for professional services companies?

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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

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it. Reaching your target market doesn’t have to be difficult.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

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!

Lead Generation 120

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 27, 2012

Guest post by Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute and Junta42. Joe evangelizes content marketing around the world through keynotes, articles, tweets and his books, Managing Content Marketing and Get Content Get Customers. Is content marketing required for professional services companies?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We close 40% of our qualified leads. So, we need about 20 quality leads a month to close seven deals. We have measurable goals for lead generation to help manage our business. We’ve learned a lot since 2010. We turn away more prospective clients than we accept. We’ve been in business for 13 years.

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Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Ad Agencies SEO 101

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 21, 2011

As all good content marketers know, engaging marketing content moves the needle. It persuades readers to take action and guides them along in their sales cycle in a logical manner. Pushing out blatant product-centric sales messages are sure to turn off your audience. billion of sales in 2010.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. The statistical similarity shocks me.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Better ROMI (Return-On-Marketing-Investment) is one of the many reasons that more and more b2b marketers are turning to Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation. Some marketers make the mistake in calculating marketing ROI by using pure Sales Revenue in the ROMI formula. Add rows, subtract rows.

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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

MAY 30, 2010

Doesn’t your B2B marketing strategy deserve a makeover? As we wrap up the first quarter, try out these 5 ideas to improve your B2B marketing strategy: 1. Find new ways to integrate marketing channels. For example, marketing efforts that focus on email marketing can incorporate social networking channels to maximize reach.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. January 1, 2010 to January 31, 2010. There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks - Chris Koch , January 8, 2010 There is too much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about social media objectives and strategy these days. In other words, everybody.

Work Management 40

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business Finding The Right Calls-To-Action For Your B2B Website Nov 17, 2010 at 12:23pm ET by Shellie Foriska Marketers continue to search for ways to convert more website visitors into actual leads. Here are two important web analytics reports I recommend focusing on: 1.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Your customers and prospects are talking about you online.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

In a recent article on the 10th anniversary of B2B magazine, marketing leaders were asked to look back on the past 10 years and reflect on the biggest changes in B2B marketing. Carone is that “Marketers must “break through the barrier” of simple personalized communications into more relevant one-to-one interactions with customers.”

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Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Peer-to-peer Paper 40

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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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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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As we’re rapidly approaching the end of the year, it’s a great time to look ahead at where we’re going and the marketing trends we’re likely to see more of in 2022. I’ve already touched on how we can expect marketing to evolve strategically , and in this article, I’ll be looking in more detail at some of the specific trends to look out for.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The global pandemic has confirmed what many marketers already knew: the telephone is an integral part of the consumer purchase journey. More and more enterprise marketers are using call analytics platforms to collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of caller data now being captured from the billions of inbound calls to businesses.

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Marketing Attribution Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management 96

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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