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. The BANT process can help you find higher-quality leads.

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Cost per Lead Paid Content Lead Ranking Cost Per Thousand 221

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. One thing is clear — lead generation has never been more central to a business’ success. Get Your Lead Magnets Out There. Make Content King.

Lead Generation 264

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Paid Content Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

Sales Management 240

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. What is marketing mix modeling? or “How will a 10% change to upper-funnel media impact bookings?”

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Marketing Mix Marketing Attribution Lead Ranking Planning 117

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.

Marketing Automation Services 165

Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Efficiency Marketing Automation 165

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Generation vs Lead Generation: What’s the Difference? Does demand generation sound similar to lead generation ?

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Are your leads ready for market? The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Lead Scoring And MQLs.

Lead Ranking 127

Lead Ranking Cost per Acquisition Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads 127

Martech

MAY 1, 2024

Rapidly advancing generative AI models promise to help scale marketing and sales functions by automating customer conversations. Are brands willing to trust digital assistants to take over the reigns for part of the customer journey? As a result, the company improved customer engagement leading to revenue growth.

Marketing AI 117

Marketing AI Conversion Top of Funnel Eloqua 117

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

Sales Management 177

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 26, 2022

You need some organic lead generation strategies! Organic lead generation can boost both your website traffic and business revenue, all without costing you anything. In this article, we’ll go over some tried and true organic lead generation techniques that you can start using today. Audience Research.

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Organic Leads Traffic Organization Sales Qualified Leads 86

Valasys

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Google Analytics has played a pivotal role in the digital landscape by providing invaluable insights into website and app performance. It enables businesses to track user behavior, measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and make data-driven decisions.

Lead Ranking 52

Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 52

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. Buyer intent comes down to understanding what makes an excellent lead for your business. To attract ideal leads to your business, you must place your customer’s needs, wants, and interests at the center of your sales and marketing campaigns.

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Buyer Intent Intent Work Management Marketing Management 350

Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Making sense of marketing and engagement data is not easy. Especially when there are no tools available to store and organize this data. Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance.

Lead Ranking 62

Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Lead Generation 62

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Marketing Budget Paid Content Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation 276

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Get a Demo Demand Generation vs Lead Generation: What’s the Difference? Does demand generation sound similar to lead generation?

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 130

Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“As digital presence becomes a greater emphasis for businesses, a lot of companies are looking to find out how best to merge all of their activities and teams,” said Ryne Knudson, Senior Content Marketing Specialist for Brandfolder, at our recent MarTech conference. But then also, how can you bring it down-funnel as well?”.

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Organization Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Digital Asset Management 136

Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Industrial marketing for manufacturers offers solutions that allow us to maximize our resources.

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Top of Funnel Lead Generation Advertising Agencies Lead Ranking 104

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

Odds are your sales and marketing departments have spent a great deal of time and money answering this question. Because there is more to lead scoring than just fit. The lead must also have a need for your product or service and be ready to research and evaluate solutions. Why is that? How is Social Intent Data Used?

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Intent Data Intent 134

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. In fact, studies show it takes an average of 6 to 8 touchpoints to simply generate a lead ( source ). Enter: Marketing attribution.

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Marketing Attribution Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking B2B Marketing 236

Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Cost per Acquisition Multi-Touch Attribution Data Hygiene Top of Funnel 134

Webbiquity

MARCH 10, 2020

The best way to establish long-term connections is by generating organic interest and letting others engage on their own time and terms. If you are wondering what all this has to do with effective digital marketing , the answer is: quite a bit! All in all, outbound marketing is not what it once was. Explainer Videos.

Sales Qualified Leads 313

Sales Qualified Leads Video Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 313

Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

Paid Content 79

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Planning 79

FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is one of the top goals for B2B marketers. Like a rising tide, when CRO goes up, it can influence other metrics and lead to higher revenue per visitor and more customers. Even for relatively simple business models, this process has many variables. Organic search is most likely job 1.

Lead Generation 123

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Generation Ideal Customer Profiles 123

Oktopost

APRIL 29, 2024

Social media channels provide organizations with a communication channel they can participate in directly. Doing this helps to drive your leads that you are in contact with further down the funnel. Forrester research shows that 85% of organizations using intent data report substantial business benefits.

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Intent Data Social Media Intent Lead Ranking 62

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Account Based Marketing 116

Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Most of my digital marketing career has been running campaigns for eCommerce companies. It took me some time to adjust to B2B marketing, where analytics have not always played a significant part in decision making for many of our clients.

Marketing Qualified Leads 94

Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Advertising Benchmark Advertising Channels 94

SmartBug Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

There are three distinct types of media that make up any digital marketing mix: earned, owned, and paid media. Inbound marketing traditionally couples the latter two; it’s a method to draw in your audience with stellar website content, blog articles, premium content, and social media engagement.

Paid Content 105

Paid Content Top of Funnel Inbound Marketing Lead Ranking 105

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial.

Intent Data 127

Intent Data Lead Gen Intent Lead Ranking 127

Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies.

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Paid Search Agency Marketing Attribution Top of Funnel Companies 128

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

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Well, for the same reasons you need a marketing automation platform, and to adopt SEO and market intelligence. In a world that is constantly evolving, in order to stay consistent, competitive, and current, we need to up our digital transformation game. Let’s take lead nurturing , for example.

Lead Ranking 118

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Marketing Attribution 118

Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. For B2B marketers, the importance of LinkedIn cannot be overstated. Why LinkedIn Lead Generation is Perfect for B2B Marketing.

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Lead Generation Top of Funnel Linkedin Lead Ranking 148

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. Not every piece of content is meant to drive a sale or even generate a lead. Email: Open rate, click-through rate.

Storytelling 190

Storytelling Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Conversion 190

Brightedge

JULY 1, 2020

5 min read While SEO and PPC are unique channels that both work well alone, combining insights and data from the two for greater results and more visibility can help your overall digital marketing strategy and help increase your ranks in the SERPs. Both SEO and PPC ads focus heavily around optimizing for specific keywords.

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SERP PPC Top of Funnel SEO 128

Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the most important lead generation tactics you have at your disposal is your website. However, a poorly optimized website can be one of the biggest liabilities in your marketing practice. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Download an eBook?

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Qualified Leads 118

FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In response, the search and web ads giant is revamping its search engine results page (SERP). Many companies are re-evaluating their marketing strategies, from social media marketing to SaaS SEO strategy. At the same time, increased use of AI in an already competitive space will likely drive up keyword and ad prices.

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Paid Content PPC Traffic SEO 62

Modern B2B

MAY 28, 2024

I recently wrote about technical debt , and whilst this is pretty common when thinking about systems and technology, it’s equally as relevant to digital advertising, conversion settings and conversion triggers and goals. Attribution models differ between systems Many of the common ad platforms used in B2B have different attribution models.

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