Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

2023 looks like a tough year for marketing budgets. Overall, 58% of marketers project flat or reduced budgets for 2023, up from just 26% in 2022. But very small companies (11-50 workers) were actually most likely to increase marketing budgets this year. 1) B2B marketers are faring (a little) better than B2C.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 2, 2022

Acquisition Accelerates Activate's Full-Funnel Demand-to-Pipeline Demand Generation Services and Adds High-Value Sales Appointment Setting Capabilities. The acquisition bolsters ACTIVATE's position as a top-tier, preferred demand generation provider by adding Green Lead's proven track record of high-quality lead generation and it's U.S.-based

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

These tasks take time away from the value we could potentially be adding in our business. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. Ideally, marketers focus their time on performing high-impact tasks that need our knowledge, expertise, and experience.

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Anteriad

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In B2B today, there is rarely a unilateral buying decision. Because your focus shouldn’t be on just one buyer—but a buying group. While individual targeting is not entirely lost, you’ll get farther faster by identifying and marketing to the entire buying group. What is a buying group?

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Buyer intent signals are a collection of indicators that tells me whether the account that I am targeting is relevant to my brand or relevant to one of my offerings,” said Hussam AlMukhtar, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for B2B intelligence platform ZoomInfo, at our recent MarTech conference. Source: Hussam AlMukhtar. “94%

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Act-On

APRIL 29, 2024

Lead scoring tools for marketing can help you build better relationships with prospective cusotmers. Lead scoring tools: Marketing automation Unlike lead enrichment, marketing automation tools are a must-have: your marketing automation platform is where your lead scoring actually happens. As Suzy Balk, Sr.

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ConvertKit

JUNE 21, 2021

Posting a link to your social channels and crossing your fingers that sales pour in is not the product launch you deserve. After all the work you put into creating your incredible product, you need a proper marketing plan. Enter our product launch timeline. A solid launch process for a new product starts early.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. For B2B marketers, staying on top of the latest digital marketing strategies is not just a job requirement, but a matter of corporate survival. Guest post by Sumeet Anand.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In fact, these days, an increasing number of organizations are discovering it’s more important to focus their attention on retention marketing. As human beings and as marketers, it’s natural to want to focus on what’s new rather than what we’re already familiar with. How Content Marketing Can Improve Your Customer Retention Rate.

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Contently

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the complex marketing strategies most of us design today, models like “multi-touch” and “omni-touch” are crucial to genuinely mapping ROI to every piece of content in the buyer’s journey. So why use single-touch attribution in a 21st-century marketing context? Why Use Single-Touch Attribution?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

With content marketing. The Power of Customer Retention Marketing. Implementing effective customer retention strategies into your content marketing plan can help you build a community of advocates for your brand. We would even go so far as to say that “retention” and “advocacy” should be added to the bottom of the sales funnel.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

What is a product description? A product description is a piece of writing that conveys the features and benefits of a product, ranging from basic facts to stories that make a product compelling to an ideal buyer. Product descriptions commonly include… Physical product details and features. Dimensions.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 13, 2023

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. How do you know which tactics work and who’s just blowing smoke?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. If you can master this skill, you’ll continually improve your digital marketing efforts and drive more brand loyalty online. What is Predictive Marketing Analytics? Adjust and create new models as needed.

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BenchmarkONE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

??When you think of “ marketing automation ,” does it immediately send you into doomsday mode where robots entirely take over all jobs usually done by humans, or are you normal? . Let’s discuss more about the ways you can leverage marketing automation to boost team productivity , increase sales efficiency, and accomplish goals faster. .

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 27, 2019

If you’re not already running Facebook and/or Instagram ads for your business, there are probably six different people who have encouraged you to move some of your advertising dollars to paid social. And if you are advertising on Facebook and Instagram, are you following a sound strategy that mirrors successful inbound marketing principles?

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Social media marketing is always changing. We marketers have to be agile and constantly evaluate how different strategies, tools and platforms are performing. LinkedIn just introduced Product Pages, a part of its ecosystem dedicated to building a trusted community of information around B2B products.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Program the ad buys to follow the online buyer around the web, wherever they go. Conversational marketing tries to do that. Conversational marketing is personalization, but it takes data and dialogue to make it so. LiftAI takes a data-driven/buyer intent approach towards conversational marketing.

Product 93

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Kevin Indig

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Wix teams up with SE Ranking for 360° competitor insights Wix has added yet another industry-leading SEO tool to its ever-expanding App Market. Learn More There are two types of SEO: product-led and marketing-led. It’s like funnel optimization, just broader.

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Martech

MAY 10, 2022

Tonkin needed more reviews in more places, but he also wanted to streamline Planful’s marketing strategy to focus on in-market buyers — the people who had done their research and were close to making a purchase. Today’s B2B buyer cohort, made up largely of millenials, is much more inclined to research products and solutions online.

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Sales productivity is a critical element of your company’s performance. Sales team productivity can be defined as a measurement of how well a sales team meets the demands of their customers, achieves their goals, and satisfies their expected outcome from working with the company they have chosen. What is Sales Productivity?

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. But we also fully recognize the enduring factors that distinguish successful marketing in B2B versus B2C. The approach is guided by personas, which often span verticals, functions, or buying committee roles.

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. That’s why it’s so important to have a well-defined digital marketing funnel in place.

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Scoop.it

APRIL 11, 2024

Current trends indicate marketers rate webinars as an effective channel for brands to connect with a target audience. According to On24 , 66% of marketers say their sales teams prioritize leads generated by varied webinar strategies. In addition, 99% of marketers cite webinars as key to their plans.

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illumin

JANUARY 9, 2024

As an integral part of a full-funnel marketing experience, retail media aims to target consumers at or near the place of purchase, encouraging conversion. Lower-funnel activities like this are important for engaging customers throughout their buying journey and in retaining brand interest after a purchase has been made.

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Contently

APRIL 25, 2023

Are you looking for ways to craft better Facebook ads that result in higher conversions? But with so many options and variables, it can be easy to burn through your ad spend with minimal return. Here are five Facebook ad tips that will help you maximize your ad performance and drive more conversions.

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Martech

MAY 30, 2023

You have likely seen this phrase in plenty of marketing blogs. This means creating and delivering content that answers their questions, solves their pain points and encourages them to invest in your product — all at the right time and place. This is where reception marketing comes into play. The reception marketing solution?

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins. They want to be informed and educated about brands, products, and services.

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Contently

MAY 26, 2020

When I was making the transition from journalism to marketing, my first big epiphany came from a caveman cartoon. You make content, people click on it, and then—BOOM—they immediately buy something or fill out a demo request form. After all, if our search ads work that way, shouldn’t content work that way too?

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Martech has exploded in recent years, with over 11,000 solutions available to help marketers automate and optimize operations. However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. We might have a decent operation for the 5% of in-market prospects.

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Contently

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Many consumers would probably agree that we’re in dire need of a customer experience transformation—after all, how many times have you scrolled past an ad and thought, “Ugh, why is this clogging up my feed?” It’s clear that in 2023, generic, one-size-fits-all marketing simply doesn’t cut it anymore.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team. When you wait, you miss out on potential earned revenue from buyers who are ready to buy your solution now.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Novel formats, channels, and technologies like TikTok and ChatGPT are now driving forces behind buyer interest, opening up new ways for B2B brands to raise awareness about their products. 59% of marketers attribute revenue growth to marketing-generated leads , so demand-generation tactics remain a non-negotiable among marketing teams.

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Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For example, B2B content marketing may require more touch points throughout the buying journey, in part because the sales process can take months (or even years), and multiple leaders are usually involved in the decision. It can take time for people to take the leap and buy a product or even fill out a request for more information.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’ve heard variations of it from marketers, freelancers, journalists, and students looking to start their careers. Sure, writing is at the core of multiple marketing jobs, but there are key distinctions. Copywriting and content marketing call for different skills and success metrics. Objectives. web, email, blog, video).

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