The Marketing Blender

MAY 4, 2021

The how and why of marketing ROI. But how do you really know if your marketing efforts are successful? It’s not always easy to calculate but getting an accurate read on your revenue ratios is the best path to understanding your marketing ROI. Starting at the top, you need to get an idea of how visible you are in the market.

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

The recruitment efforts at higher education institutions are naturally and rightfully following the trends and best practices generally acknowledged by marketing and sales specialists across a wide assortment of various fields. The lead nurturing process itself is improved by leveraging marketing automation best practices.

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Brandpoint

JULY 14, 2023

It quantifies the value generated from social media activities and helps businesses determine whether their investment in social media marketing is yielding profitable results. Align your social media activities with your overall marketing strategy. By doing so, you can: Provide direction and purpose to your social media efforts.

Social Media 62

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. That’s Product Marketing 101. Developing Your Buyer Personas. Everything!

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a public relations and digital marketing agency owner, I often hear about numerous tips, tricks, hacks, and workarounds to build massive social media success. If your goal is to reach people, consider adding paid media spend into your marketing strategy. The size is different, but the significant impact remains the same.

Paid Content 128

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SalesIntel

MAY 27, 2022

Social selling is a concept hovering around social networks like Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn to find the right business-minded and ready-to-engage prospects for growth. . You may have seen some videos illustrating the importance of business matters or something from reputed people working in top-notch positions.

Sales Management 52

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SWZD

AUGUST 19, 2019

This week, we spoke with Deepak Bahree , AVP of Digital Demand Generation at RingCentral. As with our earlier interview with Box, RingCentral serves a broad potential market, and it was interesting to learn how they go about approaching such a wide opportunity. Market Segmentation. Organizing and Acting on Data.

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Top of Funnel SMB Demand Generation Agencies Digital Marketing Funnels 59

Lead Forensics

JANUARY 26, 2024

The term growth hacking was first coined by Sean Illies, Chief Exec of GrowthHackers.com and the marketer behind several successful tech giants, including Dropbox, Lookout, and LogMeIn. While growth hacking has a lot to do with marketing, it isn’t solely about that. The best growth hackers will be skilled in a range of areas.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

How is this relevant to marketers? It reinforced key marketing messages, and satisfied the rational criteria I would use to evaluate brands like these. With over 25,000 buyers and sellers studied and nearly one hundred research reports published , there is no other place with more extensive research on professional services markets.

Marketing Budget 117

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 15, 2021

But how do you really know if your marketing efforts are successful? It’s not always easy to calculate but getting an accurate read on your revenue ratios is the best path to understanding your marketing ROI. Starting at the top, you need to get an idea of how visible you are in the market. Know your revenue ratios*.

Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Marketing Qualified Leads ROI Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 52

PureB2B

JULY 19, 2021

For marketers and their companies, lead generation is critical for growth. Also, prospects must be nurtured from the marketing funnel to the sales pipeline. Marketers often find themselves wondering how to boost lead generation. Overview of a Lead Generation Strategy. Tips for Successful Lead Generation.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Lead Scoring 62

PureB2B

JULY 19, 2021

For marketers and their companies, lead generation is critical for growth. Also, prospects must be nurtured from the marketing funnel to the sales pipeline. Marketers often find themselves wondering how to boost lead generation. Overview of a Lead Generation Strategy. Tips for Successful Lead Generation.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Lead Scoring 62

ClickZ

JULY 5, 2019

Management tools help you run your team more efficiently, and they’re essential to running a high-performance marketing organization. This is a broad category of marketing tools, but it encompasses everything from budgeting to project management. These platforms are generally more widely used in organizations with digital products.

Enterprise Management 110

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 110

SnapApp

AUGUST 29, 2018

In the world of B2B marketing , it’s easy to follow the leader. The problem with this, however, is that when everyone starts doing the same things marketing-wise…it gets a little, well…boring. Let’s explore this topic a bit further and look at a few non-traditional B2B marketing ideas you likely haven’t tried before.

B2B Marketing 114

B2B Marketing Marketing Budget B2B Top of Funnel 114

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Using vanity metrics to measure the performance of content campaigns on social media is perhaps one of the simplest things to do in marketing, but also one of the most difficult. It’s this second point that is the thorn in the side of many marketers struggling to discover the true value of a vanity metric to a business.

Lead Ranking 95

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Correlation Lead Scoring 95

PureB2B

JUNE 23, 2021

To stay competitive, communications teams must keep up with industry trends as technology advancements continue to disrupt the B2B marketing space. The continuous influx of new technologies and execution methods leaves marketing professionals with the challenge of directing their energies. Account-Based Marketing.

Marketing AI 62

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Belkins

AUGUST 5, 2020

In the last three years, our team has been deeply invested in email marketing. Having started as a digital marketing agency, we evolved into a company that specializes in email outreach and solutions for email deliverability fixing at the niche leader level. That conversation was a real eye-opener. Value-builders.

Lead Scoring 91

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking B2B Sales Top of Funnel 91

Anyword

APRIL 1, 2020

Paywalls are the digital version of the traditional newspaper subscription. Like most things digital, it introduces a new level of flexibility as well as complexity. But which paywall vendor should you choose? For most publishers, hiring an in-house team to build and maintain a paywall is cost-prohibitive. Types of Paywalls.

Work Management 58

Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency 58

Directive Agency

OCTOBER 29, 2019

While there are positive trends to indicate a change from the status quo, marketing as a whole is frequently overlooked and underappreciated. For marketers, this is not a formidable combination for resources or buy-in. The modern-day marketing leader needs to be ROI-obsessed and fixated on data to earn their seat at the table.

Forecasting 56

Forecasting Marketing Report Planning Enterprise Management 56

PureB2B

JULY 18, 2018

And now that old methods are shunned , visitors are able to avoid marketing messages more easily. They can be any page a visitor lands on after clicking on an ad, a call to action button, or any other marketing trigger. Email Marketing. Leads are some of the most effective markers that measure the growth of your business.

Lead Generation 79

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency 79

PureB2B

JULY 17, 2018

And now that old methods are shunned , visitors are able to avoid marketing messages more easily. They can be any page a visitor lands on after clicking on an ad, a call to action button, or any other marketing trigger. Email Marketing. Leads are some of the most effective markers that measure the growth of your business.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 62

Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

Inbound salespeople focus on their prospect's pain points, act as a trusted consultant, and adapt their sales process to the buyer journey. With an outbound approach, you using a sales funnel to get in front of as many people as possible, potentially wasting your efforts by engaging with consumers who are uninterested in what you're selling.

Sales Management 97

Sales Management Top of Funnel Buy Advertising Agencies 97

SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

SnapApp

AUGUST 29, 2018

In the world of B2B marketing , it’s easy to follow the leader. The problem with this, however, is that when everyone starts doing the same things marketing-wise…it gets a little, well…boring. Let’s explore this topic a bit further and look at a few non-traditional B2B marketing ideas you likely haven’t tried before.

B2B Marketing 48

B2B Marketing Marketing Budget B2B Top of Funnel 48

B2B Marketing Insights - WE

JUNE 29, 2018

It provides clear insight into your marketing action plans and should be revisited and reviewed frequently. We’re sharing actionable insights that’ll boost your B2B marketing to a whole new level. Brand Position. Your brand position is the space that you own in your customers’ minds. based on positive connotations.

Marketing & Strategy 74

Marketing & Strategy B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy Planning 74

Valasys

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Contextual content is something that has always been imperative for B2B marketers. In an era of the Internet of everything & Intent data , the marketers have are constantly scaling the level of personalization delivered to their audiences, aiming to reach an acme. But the vital question is what data points are vital?

Marketing AI 59

Marketing AI Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Personalization 59

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? So what’s a marketer to do?

Tactics 100

Tactics Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Leads 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

Marketing Strategy 100

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Planning Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

Marketing Strategy 100

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Planning Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Each B2B customer will be thinking about products in the context of his or her own position. Results: Upon conducting a post-click marketing segmentation analysis—in real time—the company immediately learned that more than 70% of respondents were not in their target audience of hospital decision makers.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Each B2B customer will be thinking about products in the context of his or her own position. Results: Upon conducting a post-click marketing segmentation analysis—in real time—the company immediately learned that more than 70% of respondents were not in their target audience of hospital decision makers.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

How do you overcome internal fears, politics and budget battles in integrating social media into marketing? And the cost of not acting must be made plain. This is one of the most positive outcomes of the social media activity in B2B marketing. Quite simply: Executive buy-in. It’s all about content!

Social Media 100

Social Media Media B2B Budget Programs 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?! Hard to explain.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Budget Programs Marketing Budget 100

Terminus

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

When I joined Terminus back in 2016, I announced my new position as CPO with a manifesto of sorts. That brief history of my MarTech journey still lives on LinkedIn , but in essence, I declared that I wanted to make things easier for marketers. . Cut to now, and account-based marketing isn’t so new anymore.

Top of Funnel 20

Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 20

Hinge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Many professional services firms still struggle with digital marketing. Others have invested half-heartedly in marketing technology but lack the knowledge, skills and commitment to make the most of them. In this article, we will not recommend specific digital marketing platforms or technologies.

Work Management 141

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Paid Content 141

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re like most companies, you realized in 2020 that annual marketing budget planning doesn’t work anymore. Unsurprisingly, 46% of B2Bs say they’re paying closer attention to their marketing’s direct impact on sales post-pandemic as well. Quick Takeaways: Annual marketing budget planning isn’t ideal anymore.

Marketing Budget Creation 315

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Planning Budget Programs 315

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The act of personalized selling is more than just adding a customer’s name to the subject line of an email, or knowing what company they work at. Rather, personalized selling is about having a multi-tiered approach applied to your sales funnel. Personalization increases as the customer progresses through the funnel.

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