Blue Flame Thinking

MARCH 28, 2024

A strategic marketing plan is like a funnel. Use a marketing funnel strategy. The 3 Critical Phases of the Marketing Funnel There are many models varying in sophistication levels that offer ways to approach the marketing funnel. Three key phases of the marketing funnel drive this action.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. On the other hand, while it is aided by top-of-funnel awareness that demand generation drives, lead generation is the process of converting sales-ready prospects into qualified pipeline. You aren’t the only one to think so.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In my last blog we discussed the detailed ways B2B marketers can reach their target audience through paid advertising on LinkedIn. While there are several ad formats to choose from on LinkedIn, lead generation campaigns are one of the best ways to ensure conversions through LinkedIn advertising.

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Linkedin Sales Qualified Leads B2B Thought Leadership Lead Scoring 221

Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Getting real with upper-funnel expectations We need to rethink how we approach the early stages of marketing traditionally focused on brand awareness. Tracking upper-funnel and B2B activities is challenging but feasible. Embracing the role of content in the upper funnel When considering the upper funnel, focus on quality content.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Get a Demo Demand Generation vs Lead Generation: What’s the Difference? While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. Search, social media, advertising, and email are all valuable distribution channels that must be developed to carry your unique message to prospective customers.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

Frenemy: A person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental rivalry. If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” You’re kind of like friends because they distribute your ads, and kind of like enemies because you’re both self-interested.

Budget Programs 130

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Work Management 130

NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

How to leverage intent data in 8 steps Gone are the days when banner ads on a popular review website could funnel hundreds of leads to your business. On the contrary, today’s buyers are so inundated with paid advertisements and email blasts that they’ve turned a blind eye.

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illumin

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For advertisers and brands, understanding that path or journey involves examining the consumer’s shopping habits, analyzing their behavior, and – in the end – helping the consumer find what they are looking for. What is journey advertising? Tracking and targeting abilities improve greatly with journey advertising.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 5, 2019

With so many advertising platforms available, it’s certainly a challenge to keep up with the space and create high-converting campaigns. In this post, I’ll summarize best practices that you should always keep in mind when creating successful multi-channel B2B ad campaigns. First, target them with a LinkedIn ads campaign.

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Multi-Channel Top of Funnel Advertising Channels Paid Search Agency 121

SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Intent data from various sources provide invaluable insights into prospects’ behavior to help businesses identify high-value opportunities, personalize their outreach, and drive conversions throughout the sales funnel. The biggest benefit of intent data is always knowing what message to share with which audience.

Top of Funnel 71

Top of Funnel Intent Data Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. The key to a sound content marketing strategy is mapping messaging to a sales funnel. Lead Scoring.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 22, 2018

At the start of online advertising, there was a “one-size-fits-all” approach to generating clicks. A user could type in a keyword, or browse the internet and see an ad that may or may not be of interest. At the time, platforms such as AdWords didn’t offer much for ad personalization. Well, things have changed.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Traditionally, B2B marketing relied on account-based marketing, lead generation, and personalization to hook potential clients. With AI, businesses can understand when specific job titles interact with ads, visit websites, and show interest in demos, enabling them to optimize marketing strategies with precision.

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 97

The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges. Yet, many B2B companies don’t take the time to compute these numbers, or even basic funnel metrics.

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Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Campaigns Cost Per Click 235

Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You’ll also learn how MQLs compare to sales qualified leads, (SQLs) and how they work together in the sales funnel. A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is a person or organization that has expressed interest in your company’s product or services. Paid advertising: Are they responding to your paid ads?

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead 78

DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Clicking on ads with keyword terms (intent topics) like “services,” “software,” “outsourcing,” “consulting,” “providers,” “companies,” and “reviews.” You can upload and use intent data with a tool like an ABM platform or Google Ads, which refers to them as “In-Market Audiences.”

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Intent Data Ideal Customer Profiles Intent Marketing Automation Services 52

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. A well-constructed funnel will help qualify leads and precisely target those who are most likely to buy from you.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels B2B Marketing Ad Building 98

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

Let’s take a look at how to fix the funnel. Influ2’s Person-Based Advertising solution is a BGM enabler. Person-Based Advertising allows you not only to capture buyer engagement at an individual and buying group level. Buying groups that engaged with their advertising at the ‘demo stage’ had a 1.5x

Lead Ranking 93

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 93

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

Consider your marketing funnel when setting specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely (SMART) goals for your video marketing strategy. The most commonly created video types are social media videos, ads, presentation videos, sales videos, and explainer videos. Personalized messages. Interviews. Educational videos.

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Video Marketing Top of Funnel Content Marketing Planning 363

SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2023

Businesses pay large amounts of money to fill their sales funnel; however, most of these leads are unqualified. Personalization is critical in B2B as we enter 2023. According to the Salesforce State of Marketing report, 65% of businesses will consider switching vendors if a brand doesn’t make any effort to personalize communication.

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Account Based Marketing Work Management Marketing Management High Quality Lead 98

Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. Previously, we could only see where their prospects were along a basic sales funnel. You can drill down further into your source data to track specific campaigns or ads. Want to go deeper?

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Metadata

JANUARY 7, 2021

An early adopter of the ad format, Metadata’s marketing team leveraged conversation ads to engage prospects with messages that were customizable to both the person and their position within the funnel. The team built a campaign to drive awareness, interest, and demo requests from buyers within target accounts.

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Advertising Agencies Marketing Analytics Tools Cost per Lead Work Management 98

illumin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This can mean attributing landing page views with specific social posts , demo requests with paid ads, and organic traffic with blog posts. Attributions lets marketers make informed decisions about their campaigns in order to reduce wasted ad-spend and increase their ROI (return on investment).

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CTV is now the fastest-growing digital ad channel. Adding to that, research shows that 90% of buyers ultimately report choosing a solution provider from their day one list. And with good reason. Nearly half of all U.S. homes already watch CTV every day.

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Multi-Channel Account Based Marketing ABM Advertising Channels 52

Martech

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By transforming their B2B strategy, they were able to take a more successful and efficient approach to reaching these contacts with ad campaigns, as well as follow-up calls. He added, “This turned out to be a waste of media dollars. Persona-specific and personalized ads. Wasted media. Adjusting to different behaviors.

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Advertising Channels Campaigns Merchandising Optimization 109

Metadata

MAY 13, 2021

We discovered LinkedIn Conversation Ads , a new ad type that’s generated more revenue for us than we could have ever imagined. Our monthly advertising budget was cut by 60% so we only had $17,000 to play with each month. We needed to find new (and cheaper) channels to generate qualified demos for our Sales team.

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Linkedin Paid Search Agency Conversion Ads 95

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. The key to a sound content marketing strategy is mapping messaging to a sales funnel.

Sales Management 177

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

Golden Spiral

MARCH 24, 2022

Is the issue with B2B ad conversions an industry-wide phenomenon or do some companies not produce ad content that works? I once read a stat that said: “You’re more likely to get bitten by a shark than click on a display ad.”. So then why did display ads account for 85% of U.S. Your Ads Are Just Noise.

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Paid Search Agency Ads Work Management Landing Pages 62

Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

Think: sending customer emails, SMS communications, scheduling social media posts, running digital ads and more. It includes automation strategies across marketing, including social media, digital advertising, segmentation, analytics and data measurement and yes, email marketing. Why use marketing automation?

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Or were you roaming the web and a business ad persuaded you to register or download right there in the moment? If that last scenario applies, you were enticed by the company’s direct response marketing—a form of advertising designed specifically to elicit an immediate response from a prospect. Was it recommended to you by a colleague?

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Advertising Agencies Planning Paid Search Agency SMS 74

MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

Personalized content at scale - Create relevant content for a specific person, company, funnel stage, and/or channel at scale. Clay combines 50+ data providers, real-time scraping, AI, and outbound workflows, so you can send automated, 1-1 personalized campaigns (and book more meetings than your sales team). What is it?

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Paid Content Marketing Analytics Tools Tools 52

Valasys

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It transcends traditional marketing methods by harnessing data-driven strategies, innovative technologies, and personalized experiences to attract, engage, and retain clients. Drive Revenue Growth: Generate qualified leads, guide them through the sales funnel, and ultimately boost revenue through well-planned marketing initiatives.

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Growth Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 52

Unbounce

JUNE 1, 2021

You know that one ad you keep seeing: The one for that embarrassing t-shirt your friend messaged you about that just couldn’t be real? ( But the truth is that most people kinda like retargeted ads —when they’re well-targeted. That engagement can come in a variety of forms: Click through an intriguing display ad. Request a demo.

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Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Ads Examples 138

Madison Logic

MAY 3, 2022

B2B marketers must engage prospective buyers with relevant content and advertising across multiple channels across individual members of a larger buying committee. . When marketers distribute content and advertising in siloed channels, there’s no guarantee that your messaging is aligned across each channel. Three channels.

Multi-Channel 52

Multi-Channel Account Based Marketing ABM Linkedin 52

Martech

APRIL 26, 2022

ABM components include: Strategy development Tech stack Asset creation Paid ad channels Expertise to run campaigns and analyze results. Personalized ABM campaigns focus on targeting individuals within accounts — the cost is determined by account value and not a fixed budget. More personalized ABM campaigns work better.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Paid Content Cost 91

BenchmarkONE

JANUARY 12, 2022

Countless research studies have proven that businesses that connect with their customers on a more personal level are much more successful than competitors that don’t. The journey your customers take when interacting with your brand is synonymous with the sales funnel. What Is a Sales Funnel? The Four Stages of the Sales Funnel.

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