Blue Flame Thinking

MARCH 28, 2024

A strategic marketing plan is like a funnel. Marketing is designed to increase awareness of what you offer and lead your audiences to a conversion—whether that is a purchase, meeting, or other connection. Use a marketing funnel strategy. Three key phases of the marketing funnel drive this action.

Marketing Funnels 65

Marketing Funnels Top of Funnel Paid Content Paid Search Agency 65

Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

Top of Funnel 118

Top of Funnel Tactics B2B Marketing Work Management 118

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?

Top of Funnel 218

Top of Funnel Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Ranking 218

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2021

When it comes to developing growth marketing strategies, you don’t have every resource at your disposal. The best growth strategies involve organic SEO, content marketing, organic social media, and email marketing. Growth marketing strategies are not cookie cutter. Commit to Content Marketing.

Growth Marketing 358

Growth Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 358

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.”. Researched content for a blog article? So then why did display ads account for 85% of U.S.

Paid Search Agency 62

Paid Search Agency Ads Work Management Landing Pages 62

Walker Sands

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) introduced several big changes for B2B marketers who recently had to switch over to the analytics tool from Universal Analytics (UA) , including how GA4 tracks conversions, the shift to events instead of goals, and the implementation of predictive metrics and audiences. What Is a Conversion Event in GA4?

Marketing Analytics Tools 52

Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Report Paid Search Agency Google 52

Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Content marketing ain’t easy… but isn’t that why it’s so valuable? Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Are you meeting their needs?

Lead Ranking 189

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 189

Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

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Social Media Template Work Management Marketing Management 107

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Paid Content Lead Scoring 264

Bannerflow

MAY 12, 2023

Google Optimize, a powerful tool for website optimization and A/B testing, has long been a go-to solution for advertisers seeking to enhance their online marketing strategies. Google Optimize has been a longstanding product but lacked features that many marketers found essential.

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Advertising Agencies A/B testing Advertisements Advertising 52

Unbounce

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You and a couple of friends have an idea for a product that fits a clear gap in the market. Procurify’s marketing team was under more pressure than ever to keep their growth going—even accelerate it. We also spoke with Jendi, Procurify’s Marketing Web Designer, over the phone. They did a bang-up job, too.

Landing Pages 136

Landing Pages Account Based Marketing ABM Lead Scoring 136

Directive Agency

APRIL 15, 2022

Too often, companies can get stuck in a sort of tunnel vision, focusing only on one digital marketing solution for their business, either SEO or PPC. This article will highlight each digital marketing component providing the unique benefits while also including the drawbacks of having tunnel vision in each. What is SEO?

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Work Management SEO Paid Search Agency 52

Metadata

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Refuse to be B2B-oring Most B2B marketers read from the same script: LinkedIn ads with similar messaging. Marketers are stuck swimming in a sea of sameness, and that’s making B2B marketing oh-so-bland. Our social team is constantly creating valuable content to jump on existing conversations,” Melissa shared.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Advertisements Advertising Peer-to-peer 52

Golden Spiral

MARCH 14, 2019

If you’re a B2B company, concern yourself with two types of digital ads: Pay-per-click (PPC) ads: PPC ads , a.k.a. search ads are an affordable way to get in font of the right buyer at the right time. PPC ads are a budget-friendly medium that deliver qualified leads and measurable data. display spending ?

Paid Content 91

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Ads 91

FMG Suite

AUGUST 18, 2021

When you search using Google, you’ve probably seen the ads at the top and side of the resulting pages. Those are paid ads that put brands like yours front and center for relative searches. Here’s how financial advisors can use Google Ads to grow their book of business. . The best part?

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Google 52

Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not exactly news that LinkedIn advertising can be expensive. Google that phrase, and you’ll see articles like “Why are LinkedIn ads so dang expensive?” and “LinkedIn is the most expensive digital advertising platform.”. Our customers’ LinkedIn ad experiments prove that out. Keep reading for more!

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Cost Per Click CPC CTR Conversion Rate 52

Metadata

AUGUST 14, 2023

If I wrote a book about the life of a performance marketer, I’d call it, Metrics, Madness, & Mayhem. The pressure of performance marketing is VERY real, especially in a down economy. I’m looking at you, native ad channels. Performance marketers need help. Metadata structures paid campaigns differently.

Budget Programs 52

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Optimization Ads 52

NuSpark Consulting

MAY 16, 2016

Google AdWords continues to expand and improve conversion tracking metrics, and without a full understanding of the data provided, your firm may not be optimized with regard to generating efficient quality leads and sales. Obviously search advertising is a must when the goal is to capture prospects in active research or buying mode.

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Adwords Conversion Google Paid Search Agency 124

The Lead Agency

APRIL 14, 2024

Tired of trend lists that don’t apply to the unique challenges of B2B marketing? B2B marketing can be complicated; buyer journeys are messy. You’re researching, comparing, and have just now landed on the relevant, tangible information that will actually help you get better B2B marketing results.

Work Management 62

Work Management Paid Content B2B Marketing Trends 62

Directive Agency

JULY 23, 2020

For many business-to-business (B2B) software organizations, paid advertising is essential to generating leads and driving revenue. Through paid channels, marketers are able to segment and target audiences more precisely, leading to higher conversion rates and ultimately, more sales. What is B2B advertising?

Funnel Advertising 59

Funnel Advertising Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Advertisements 59

Velocity Partners

JULY 5, 2023

” “HUNDREDS of people clicked on our ad! Why is no-one signing up for a demo?” “We Clients come to our door with problems like this all the time — the high of an influx of leads from the latest marketing campaign, quickly replaced by frustration and disappointment when none of them want to talk to sales. So, what’s going wrong?

Sales Qualified Leads 82

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Campaigns 82

Sprout Social

APRIL 9, 2020

One of the first things you learn as a marketer is that your audience is everything. It drives conversations around your brand, fuels your business and informs the content you create and share. . Backed by data, marketers can apply logical and results-oriented insights to their strategies. The seven lessons we’ll cover are….

Social Media 135

Social Media Creativity Webinar Metrics Media 135

Sprout Social

JANUARY 13, 2021

Maybe you have a general idea, like they saw an ad and clicked on it, or that someone told them about it. But what if they saw an ad multiple times across different platforms? Or it was a combination of newsletter information, social media posts, and word of mouth? Why marketing attribution models are important.

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Marketing Attribution Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking Social Media 95

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 30, 2022

As marketers, our goal is to attract people to our brand. Leads can be generated when a consumer downloads a piece of content, signs up for a free trial, or creates an account for a free product, for example. They come from organic channels, such as Google search, and paid channels, such as advertising campaigns.

Lead Generation 96

Lead Generation Tactics Work Management Generation 96

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.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels B2B Marketing Ad Building 98

Sharpspring

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Many of those billions of users are also shopping online, which means internet marketing has become one of the most lucrative industries in the world. In this all-inclusive guide to internet marketing, you will learn everything there is to know about expanding your business into the digital realm. What Is Internet Marketing?

Internet Marketing 108

Internet Marketing Paid Content Marketing Automation Services Planning 108

Parse.ly

JULY 29, 2021

Table of Contents. Understand content marketing for top of the funnel. Incorporate multiple channels in marketing funnel stages. Build successful marketing funnel stages. When we talk about The Content Marketer’s Funnel , lead generation gets a lot of attention.

Top of Funnel 59

Top of Funnel Paid Content Webinar Metrics Optimization 59

Directive Agency

OCTOBER 2, 2019

One of the significant challenges within paid advertising is prospecting while staying within your cost-per-lead (CPL) or cost-per-action(CPA) target. Your total addressable market is not always searching for what you offer through search engines, and they may have never visited your site, leaving remarketing out of the question.

Linkedin 53

Linkedin Facebook Paid Search Agency Google 53

ConvertKit

JUNE 21, 2021

After all the work you put into creating your incredible product, you need a proper marketing plan. The ability to launch a product without worrying about social media algorithms limiting your reach ( and sales ). Start growing your email list by sharing the URL on your social media channels and adding it to your website or blog!

Paid Content 142

Paid Content Product Landing Pages Top of Funnel 142

MKT1

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educating the rest of your company on marketing is often the hardest part of doing marketing. Marketing’s actual job is to understand an audience and communicate to that audience in a value-add way. Yet, when it comes to doing this internally, marketers often fall short–very, very short. Nor should you.

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Planning Paid Search Agency Marketing Analytics Tools Advertising Agencies 75

Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

If your SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) teams exist in complete silos, it's time to change that. These channels aren't meant to be siloed, and getting them aligned is one of the most underrated ways to improve your overall digital marketing performance. Avoid paid keyword traps.

PPC 101

PPC Work Management SEO Top of Funnel 101

Conductor

MARCH 29, 2022

And the eCommerce industry added $219B in sales in 2020 alone. We’ve written extensively about the strategic value of organic marketing in 2022 , especially as it relates to online shopping. For this analysis, we analyzed 16 eCommerce domains within Google Analytics. eCommerce content trends: new rankers & result types.

eCommerce 115

eCommerce Paid Content Features Trends 115

MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Paid Content Marketing Analytics Tools Tools 52

Sharpspring

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Here are five of the leading mobile marketing tactics for business in 2020 to help you drive awareness, conversions and revenue. Since users are controlling the buyer’s journey from their mobile devices, the challenge to marketers is relevance. Leverage search engine marketing (SEM) for mobile. Native ads.

Paid Content 63

Paid Content Mobile Marketing Tactics Mobile Advertising 63

Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 20, 2021

Some B2B tech companies, especially in early stages, are eager to make a splash in their respective markets. They’re raring to go with branded content about who they are and promotional materials about what makes their product great. This type of content simply isn’t relevant to their audience – at least not yet.

Paid Search Agency 114

Paid Search Agency Paid Content B2B Marketing Companies 114

illumin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Data attribution is critical for marketers looking to understand the full impact of their campaigns. With that being said, what is data attribution and how does it help marketers make informed decisions? This means associating sales leads back to any and all marketing activities and touch points that brought them into the fold.

Marketing Attribution 52

Marketing Attribution Multi-Touch Attribution Marketing Analytics Tools Multi-Channel 52

Metadata

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to Kim Roman , Senior Director of Global Campaigns and Programs at Okta, “Content is king, data is queen, and revenue is the royal family. Introducing your company to revenue marketing. What’s revenue marketing? Revenue marketing is so much more than that. What’s your system of record? Where’s your focus?

Lead Ranking 52

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Paid Search Agency 52