Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many businesses aim for their websites to rank highly in search engines, but it's a moving target. You might remember when Google's featured snippet addition disrupted the numbered ranking system of search pages. With this in mind, here are a few user engagement metrics that Google and other engines seem to value as priorities.

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Webbiquity

JULY 1, 2013

Here are a few of the top online marketing trends for the second half of 2013 that may help you grow your sales both online and off faster than you expected. Work to improve customer value not just the customer base. If your existing content is thin or less than perfect, there is still time to improve your rankings.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2013

And please let me know what topics you would be interested in me covering for the rest of 2013? As a former sales person, I think it’s important for marketing to be measure by what value we create for the business, the customer and the employees. 10 Common Sense Ideas To Raise Your Klout Score.

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The Forward Observer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kurtz takes you inside the craft to help you use all the tools at your disposal–from the intricate relationship between lists, offers, and copy, to continuity and creating lifetime value, to the critical importance of multichannel marketing, and more–so you can succeed wildly, exceed all your expectations, and overdeliver every time.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Tweet According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , 24% of marketers ask a timeline-to-purchase question on their lead capture forms. Q: Please select the most important fields that you need to collect from your leads on the lead generation form. Lead qualification in a post-BANT world.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Read on to find out what B2B Lead Roundtable Blog posts were shared the most as well as the three topics B2B marketers valued most in 2014. Topic #1 — Lead generation is king. Lead generation was a huge topic for 2014 and for good reason. But what’s the best way to optimize your lead gen efforts?

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Fun, intriguing, unique content whets your audience’s appetite, making them hungry for the next course, which could be a sale, more information, or repeat business. Fostering a culture that values creativity more than data-based results. Customers know they’ll have a unique, memorable experience. Boost engagement.

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markempa

JUNE 30, 2014

Tweet For her first week on the job, Debbie Pryer, Program Manager, Siemens Healthcare, arrived ready to accept an intimidating challenge: Bring Marketing and Sales together for one common cause – generating quality leads. The end result was a sales team overwhelmed with unqualified leads, 65% of which were tossed out. “I

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ViewPoint

JULY 25, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. Anthony Iannarino, founder of the popular blog The Sales Blog , shares his knowledge on how to create and maintain a successful blog that will drive traffic to your site and generate more leads. Via OpenView Labs. Via Social Media Examiner.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2012

It’s that time of year; a time to reflect, assess, and think about what can be optimized for inbound marketing in 2013. . Internet marketers are under more pressure than ever to deliver high quality leads to the sales folks. Well, that ends a brief checklist for your 2013 inbound marketing resolutions. Let’s grow in 2013.

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markempa

JANUARY 27, 2014

It’s just another way we can look at trying to increase revenue and possibly generate more leads at the same time. To learn more about how you can dial into prospect motivation, watch the MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2013 video replay of, “ How You Can Use Email to Discover the Essence of Your Value Proposition.”.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 11, 2021

In the inbound marketing world, you likely understand the importance of a landing page to help convert visitors into leads. If the sales associate is well trained, they will stop to ask if you would also like to see the jacket that matches the shirt. Here’s how to use thank you pages to increase your lead conversions.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 4, 2012

So read on to hear what I think is in store for marketing in 2013… Content Marketing Matures. Because you cannot SPAM people on Twitter or Facebook and generate leads or new customers. We have to provide value. In 2013, many more brands will seek to become publishers. What’s Your 2013 Marketing Prediction?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 13, 2016

However, B2B organizations are finally starting to ramp up their use of social for marketing and sales. The Webbiquity report also indicated that companies view increasing brand awareness as their top objective on social channels, followed by lead generation. Social Nurturing Isn’t Just a Job for Sales.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Including lead generation. EST – “ Planning for 2013: How to best utilize top lead gen tactics in the New Year ” – David Kirkpatrick, Senior Reporter, MECLABS, and I will review the basics of the lead generation funnel. Step #2: Review new leads. Cost per lead – How much did these leads cost?

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markempa

MARCH 11, 2013

Tweet According to MarketingSherpa’s just-released 2013 Analytics Benchmark Report , only 37% of respondents said they routinely used analytics for their marketing planning. They would be wise to follow the lead of Aimee Miller, Vice President of Marketing, AppFolio , a property management software company. The number that closed.

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markempa

APRIL 7, 2014

In today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, we’ll take a look at how a one small tweak to the copy on a lead generation page increased conversion and what we can learn from the results. Objective: To increase leads from quote requests. Primary Research Question: Which form messaging will result in the most leads?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels. If 6Sense exposed model scores but no other data, it would qualify as a CDP by the thinnest margin possible. Company models score each company’s likelihood to buy from the client. Formal release was in May 2014.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The stats, guides and tips to effective lead nurturing abound in the B2B marketplace and yet with all of this information, still only a fraction of B2B companies are using or effective in the use of lead nurturing according to MarketingSherpa. This is why fewer than 4% of marketing generated leads are ever converted into sales.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. Probably the most common complaint that I hear from Sales is that “Marketing just doesn’t understand engineering problems, and they generate ‘crappy’ leads that are not ready to buy.” Need proof?

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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. Probably not.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Content is critical for B2B business to attract potential customers, capture leads, and guide those leads toward conversion. SEO-focused blog content can pique your audiences’ interest; a gated whitepaper helps you capture their information; detailed product collateral will help you close the sale. When to Refresh Content.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The company’s justification for this claim is that it adds sales-marketing alignment to standard marketing automation features. Lead scoring rules can consider response to system-generated documents, such as proposals and presentations, arguably allowing more accurate scoring than other systems. Integrations with ACT!

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markempa

JUNE 9, 2014

Tweet Content marketing can be an effective tactic for lead generation as customers look to your brand as an authority in the marketplace delivering relevant information that is useful to their needs. We decided that we could use content to start qualifying these leads,” Shelby explained. Develop a highly focused, targeted strategy.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ranking well on Google searches is one of the most important things a business can do to add more customers. On Christmas Day in 2013, Google reported for the first time that searches from mobile exceeded that of desktop. For example, are you generating leads from your website? Do you have a clear target audience?

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Kaon

JULY 2, 2015

A new McKinsey report reveals that companies that implement transformational sales and marketing capabilities yield 90% higher sustained growth than those who don’t. Below are four tips for increasing sales with digital interactivity. This results in a generalized selling pitch, making the sales experiences less than stellar.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. Enablement ranked fifth in priorities for the incremental spend, with only 1 in 10 indicating that this would be their priority.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Dan Tynski expertly provides “a guide to common errors and pitfalls that beginner content marketers should make themselves aware of,” starting with “problems of scope”—is your goal in content marketing to find new customers, improve search rankings, or up-sell/cross-sell existing customers?

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 9, 2013

While these opportunities are designed to help B2B marketers address common challenges like lead generation, lead nurturing, and improved brand awareness, choosing the appropriate tools and channels requires due consideration. Moz’s 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors. View the full report. View the full results.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2021

You need a solid grasp of your offering's value, a clear picture of who's buying it, and an understanding of their interests and circumstances. How you price your product shapes how customers perceive its value and your company's legitimacy as a whole. Prospects need to be sold on value , and value doesn't necessarily mean "bargains".

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markempa

JUNE 10, 2013

How important is value prop testing? The case studies at Optimization Summit 2013 reaffirmed the importance of value proposition testing for me. He reinvented his lead funnel based on this insight, changing everything from his company’s landing pages to his team’s call scripts. Select up to three responses.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

A brand that is well known and well respected will enhance the effectiveness of demand generation programs and make it easier for sales reps to win deals. The CEB Research For example, a 2013 study by CEB (now part of Gartner) compared the behaviors of high brand consideration customers with those of no brand consideration customers.

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markempa

DECEMBER 3, 2012

For marketers and sales professionals, the pressure cooker we live in all year is turned up a few notches. So it is with generating leads – yet, when the funnel needs to be fed now, we toss in more leads, turn up the pressure, and voila! We expect robust sales. Uncover qualified leads. Uncover qualified leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Author: David Cheng As part of our open beta launch this December, ShareBloc ran a contest to find the Top Content Marketing Posts of 2013. More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50. Here they are: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Author: David Cheng As part of our open beta launch this December, ShareBloc ran a contest to find the Top Content Marketing Posts of 2013. More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50. Here they are: 1.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

What’s the key to generating more inbound marketing leads? At least on the B2C side, there is a disconnect between what marketers think consumers think is important and what consumers actually value. Consumers actually place the highest value on deals and promotions (83%) and rewards programs (70%). ( B2B Lead Blog ).

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Three days at Eloqua Experience 2013 demonstrated the importance of asking questions, the need for content marketing, and Eloqua’s expanding app cloud. Eloqua Experience 2013 in San Fran was a blast! You might be qualifying your leads down the sales funnel, but they’re scrutinizing you, too. How are you stacking up?

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