ANNUITAS

JANUARY 4, 2012

They stem from discussions I’ve had with marketers over the past year. Although there are five, I’m hoping that each B2B marketer should resolve to focus on at least one for 2012. If this is still the marketing and sales approach for your organization, you should resolve to stop it in 2012. They’re right.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. With 2012 half finished, I can now make a reasonably solid estimate for this year. I come at these figures in two ways.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 22, 2012

As Q3 draws to a close, B2B marketers are already thinking ahead to 2013, strategizing about what’s worked thus far in 2012—and what hasn’t. We hope you will use these highlights to help shape your marketing strategies for the year to come. Online) Marketing Spending on the Rise. Striking a Balance.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). The same study showed that B2B decision makers are 10% more likely to consider brands that consumers know and feel connected to ( source ). We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 13, 2011

One of the reasons I was thrilled to be asked to join the Focus B2B Marketing Year In Review round table was that it would allow me an opportunity to discuss my annual predictions for the coming year. First, I did some research and identified some of the top 2012 marketing predictions posts, listed below.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2012

It is time again for our annual B2B Marketing "predictions". As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. 2 – Content marketing Content marketing went mainstream in 2011.

Marketing Automation Services 100

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Envy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How do you plan when your marketing (and beyond) world spins at an unprecedented pace? Pandemic aside, this is not the first time B2B marketers will face drastic changes to their best intended budget plans. Here are some practical tips to keep you on the right marketing budgeting (and planning) track.

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Everything Technology Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

With 2011 coming to a close, what do you think will be the major trends and priority shifts for B2B marketers in 2012? Take the 2-minute survey to share your thoughts: [link] You will receive a copy of the survey report as a thank you!

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LeanData

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The B2B marketplace is seeing a transformation of the buying journey, and it’s causing conflict. B2B marketers and sellers, however, tend to be frozen in a different era. B2B Sellers Rooted in the Past. B2B sellers weren’t particularly empathetic to buyers in 2012. B2B Buyers Usher in a New Era.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Buy Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Management 91

markempa

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I compiled a list of the top 10 most-tweeted blog posts from the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog. Here’s an at-a-glance analysis that could provide a glimpse of the most pressing issues lead generation professionals have faced in 2012: Understanding and leveraging social media. B2B Social Media Marketing: Focus on leads, not likes.

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry editors and society directors, they have 37 years of B2B publishing experience between them. Cory Sekine-Pettite Cory Sekine-Pettite is president of ASBPE and an award-winning, Atlanta-based editor with more than 25 years of experience in traditional news reporting and B2B publishing.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Last quarter , we gave you a recap of the “Trends in Industrial Marketing 2012” report from GlobalSpec ; our analysis covered the marketing trends, challenges, and expenditures specific to the engineering, technical, manufacturing, and industrial communities. Fuel Growth with Increased Spending. Find the Sweet Spot.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 15, 2019

Providing excellent customer service is essential for all businesses, but B2B customer service is very different from B2C. In general, B2B customers make up a smaller customer base and tend to need more attention, since their issues are typically more complex and their account value is much larger compared to B2C customers.

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Work Management Marketing Management Service Effectiveness 236

markempa

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Tweet I am especially looking forward to the next B2B Lead Roundtable webinar. You should be, too, if you’re eager to find out how you r peers are responding to today’s marketplace, and how this represents an unprecedented opportunity to drive the highest performance from your marketing efforts. We weren’t surprised by their responses.

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Webbiquity

MAY 16, 2019

No matter for how long you’ve been maintaining your B2B blog, and how successful it’s been in the past—even the most popular blogs tend to reach a plateau eventually. Not all blog post types are created equal, and this is especially true for B2B blogs. In 2012 he founded a creative design agency. By David Gutierrez.

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For the most part, the customer experience B2B sellers deliver to B2B buyers is horrible. In B2B, too many professional revenue team members deploy tactics that just don’t work for today’s newly empowered buyers. . B2B buyers do not want to engage your company on your terms. B2B Sellers Have Been Slow to Respond.

Work Management 98

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The premise behind B2B Marketing Now , Oktopost ’s original podcast channel, could not be more simple: bring together the best of the best of the B2B marketing space, and episode-by-episode, share their experiences navigating the modern day marketing function. The Conversation with Sarah Whipp.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The collaboration of Inbound 2014 and FutureM brought together over 10,000 marketers and “tech geeks” from around the world. This three-day extravaganza explored every topic from marketing strategies to leadership to data and analytics. Ekaterina Walter (Business and Marketing Innovator). Be A Deeply Disagreeable Person.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 30, 2012

B2B buyer behavior has been changing dramatically over the last few years as buyers increasingly refuse to be interrupted by traditional outbound marketing tactics. But as they embark on content marketing strategies, B2B marketers are asking themselves questions like: What types of content should I create?

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Walker Sands

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

million voters since the day was founded in 2012. While you might be a little surprised to see this holiday on a B2B marketing agency’s blog, today is all about celebrating civic engagement, as well as the transformative power of communication and technology — something we know all about.

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markempa

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Tweet Warning: If you watch only the first few minutes of this webinar, you might get discouraged about the state of marketing today. However, if you watch the webinar through the end, you’re going to be excited about marketing’s potential for driving more revenue than ever before. But the rest will stay in marketing for nurturing.

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Advertising Benchmark Webinar Metrics Marketing Report Top of Funnel 120

The Lead Agency

MARCH 24, 2017

Business-to-business marketing (or B2B marketing, as it is often called) involves the sale of one company’s product or service to another company. The findings demystified a number of widely held misconceptions and made a strong case for re-thinking current B2B marketing strategies.

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B2B Marketing Planning B2B Paid Search Agency 69

Hubspot

JULY 10, 2019

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. Between creative demands, budget limits, and channel decisions, marketers have a lot to juggle when developing their marketing strategy. The biggest determinant of effective marketing, however, is your audience. You might as well not be marketing at all.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. In actual dollars, the $250 million gain is much larger than the $175 million growth in 2012. Its year-on-year revenue was up 42% in first half of 2012 ($45 million vs. $31.7 million vs. 39.6

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Marketing Craftmanship

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Many B2B companies, and professional services firms in particular, do not succeed at marketing for two major reasons: Failure to understand that the vendor selection process has fundamentally changed. At the upper limit, the responses ran as high as 70%. Failure to respond properly to the new vendor selection process.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 27, 2016

With 688 million Internet users and growing, China has become a compelling market for Western companies looking to expand globally. Despite the incredible potential, China is a unique market, and many companies lack the knowledge and expertise necessary to succeed in online marketing in China. As of December 2015, 33.8%

Search Marketing 120

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B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 28, 2014

Some business to business (B2B) marketers are still hesitant about investing in social media. It is on social media that marketers are able to share content, and content marketing is what helps buyers find you online. B2B companies are getting traction on social media. Facebook for B2B Marketing?

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2014

Earlier this week a colleague forwarded along Bizo’s latest infographic in partnership with Eloqua , highlighting the B2B buyer’s journey from discovery through sales completion. The B2B Buyer is in Control. B2B Buyer Behavior: Timing is Everything. B2B Buyer Behavior: Timing is Everything. Hope you enjoy!

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Engagio

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you’re using ad tech from a provider other than Demandbase, chances are you’re using a platform that doesn’t speak B2B as its native language. Other “B2B advertising” providers rely on third-party ad tech that was originally built for B2C and they’ve retrofitted it for B2B. B2B is the opposite. Easy decision.

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markempa

JULY 22, 2013

Tweet When John Johnston, Director of Digital Marketing, began his journey at Volvo Construction, he knew things had to be completely rebuilt, starting with the website and branching out into everything else. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. I encourage you to visit and explore the entire post in which Hugh suggests that leaders should adopt these six sales and marketing strategies in 2012: 1.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Tweet The week before Labor Day, hundreds of marketers descended upon Orlando, Fla., for MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit 2012. 65% of marketers have not established lead nurturing.“The Even though the marketers we spoke with were experienced, about two-thirds were beginners at lead nurturing.”.

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. Social media has made more of an impact, significantly on B2B than B2C.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 2, 2015

LinkedIn has been found to be the most effective social media lead generator for B2B marketers, with 60-80% of those surveyed (depending on the study) stating that they have gotten real leads from the platform. The perfect addition to your marketing team may not be in the same city (or even country) as your company.

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B2B Marketing Traction

DECEMBER 7, 2012

I think there is a use in B2B marketing for QR codes. But what’s the value in B2B marketing? The problem that I’ve seen in B2B marketing is that the QR codes often link to a Home page instead of the page with specific product or service information.

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B2B Marketing B2B Landing Pages Wikipedia 100

Ambal's Amusings

JUNE 29, 2012

Content Marketing has exploded. 2012-06-29T02:54:00Z. 2012-06-29T02:55:00Z. Content Marketing has exploded. That’s good because you've finally got a way around those annoying barriers that buyers tend to erect when they sense old- school marketing. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. Do yourself a favor.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. Demand Generation.

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