MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I love seeing what’s possible when marketers think like product orgs and use the modern tools available to them to make high-value content. So I wrote this newsletter and made a video with some early-stage marketers to help. Part 2: Why marketing orgs need to become more like product orgs.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

Calculating Your Email Marketing ROI: What to Keep in Mind The return on an investment is calculated by deducting the investment’s beginning value from its ending value. Here’s the equation: ROI is calculated as (Final Value – Initial Value) / Costs x100%.

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Convert

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Growing a successful product means constantly adapting to your users’ needs. Product experimentation is key to this. It’s a tool for testing and improving your product while you continuously develop it. Why Is Product Experimentation Essential in Today’s Climate? Let’s get started!

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New North

MAY 8, 2023

The primary metric of interest in any meaningful B2B marketing strategy effort will always be generating leads. But many B2B businesses struggle to find their momentum when it comes to successful lead generation via digital marketing. If you’re an MSP in the early stages of defining a lead gen strategy?

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Referral Rock

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It’s essential to understand the framework of pirate metrics, because only when you know all the metrics will you be able to identify exactly where the leak is in your funnel and save your sinking ship. Acquisition is the first step in your user lifecycle and typically is where most startups and marketers focus their growth efforts.

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MKT1

AUGUST 7, 2023

” Once prospects decide they want your product, they likely want to pay you, get into the product, and improve their workday asap. If you fix your demo request flow—aka the stages of the funnel between lead and closed won—you’ll drive more revenue. Stop making it so hard. It’s that easy.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

However, when it comes to growth marketing, directories can often be a marketer’s afterthought to Google ads and paid social. Bottom-of-funnel advertising should focus on gaining a share of the search engine results pages (SERPs) for high-intent keywords. Most of the traffic on directories comes from search.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Revenue CMOs are growth marketers who are going beyond the traditional marketing execution role. Marketing ROI is the most important metric for the Revenue CMO. We are always on the lookout for inputs and examples from the marketing community to keep adding value for our customers.

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Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

As it says on the company website, “Sentry is an open-source company because the right to learn and to share what is learned with others is fundamental to product growth and relevance.” The community of open-source developers will push back hard if their values aren’t respected. Marketing reports in our business insights tool.

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The first of my top growth hacking strategies will skyrocket your subscribers quickly. You’ll need to set up an exit intent campaign with a lead magnet, like this one: A lead magnet is an incentive that marketers offer to potential buyers in exchange for their email address, or other contact information.

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Contently

APRIL 28, 2022

For example, that new product feature you’re releasing next month might add a new workstream to the calendar as you create a set of content assets to support the launch. By aligning the goals with the content assets, it’s easier for executives to see how marketing will affect overall business goals.

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MKT1

DECEMBER 18, 2023

RevenueHero RevenueHero is the easiest way for marketers to qualify and route leads to sales rep’s calendar, right in your demo request flow, in email sequences, and sales hand-offs. Use these strategy drivers to shape your marketing plans instead of copying another company’s marketing playbook.

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MKT1

JUNE 5, 2023

“The marketing funnel is dead,” they say. I agree the marketing funnel isn’t exactly funnel shaped–it's sort of an hourglass. So, I still strongly recommend B2B marketing teams map their funnels. I don’t agree. 20% off for paid newsletter subscribers.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

When we talk to marketers, one of their biggest challenges is getting data to flow efficiently across their systems,” says Arjun Pillai, senior vice president of products and growth at ZoomInfo. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Liveintent

AUGUST 3, 2022

Before 2020, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands were booming, disrupting traditional retail markets with targeted, direct-to-consumer digital tactics. Unfortunately, some of the very same tactics that enabled D2C success are hindering scale and growth, namely performance marketing. Keep reading — trust us.

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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: . . And, of those not exceeding their revenue goals, a whopping 74% did not know the number of visitors, leads, MQLs, or sales opportunities they needed to hit their targets. . .

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Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 31, 2021

Marketing Analytics and Lead Nurturing is a strategic combination across all revenue marketing organizations. A well-thought-out lead nurture strategy backed by data-driven insights through marketing analytics frameworks is a game-changer. The funnel status/stage of the engaged contacts.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A well designed and intuitive marketing analytics scorecard provides the much needed at-a-glance view of the health of the marketing organization. How efficiently the team is generating and qualifying the leads through the funnel. Leads from which campaigns are moving through the funnel faster and are converting better?

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Trust Marketing Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Lead Scoring 52

MKT1

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you lead content efforts at a startup, are the only marketer at an early-stage startup, or even a founder, you should make a content roadmap. Your growth team (even if that’s also just you) will thank you. TLDR of the series: Think of content as a product. It’s also probably more of a list than a roadmap.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Content Advertising Funnels 52

accelerate agency

AUGUST 15, 2021

In the past, if you wanted to increase your chance of success in marketing campaigns, you could just throw money at additional ads and better time slots on television and radio. While you are probably still buying ad space in other places, digital marketing is a driver of campaign success. Why is SEO important for B2B?

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. This limited view of marketing negatively impacts revenue growth and efficiency —both short and long term.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools 52

Goodish Agency

MARCH 10, 2021

According to the data source world research center on average US companies have increased their marketing budget (ie. In fact, research shows that in the US an astounding 35% of all products sold in 2020 were bought online (up from 20% according to the year before). Optimizing Your Digital Marketing Strategy in 2021.

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accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right SaaS marketing strategy for your company may seem challenging, but in such a competitive environment, it’s crucial. It’s estimated that the total value of the worldwide SaaS market will hit $195 billion in 2023, up 17% from 2022. Here’s a quick look at what we’ll be covering: What is SaaS marketing?

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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.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PLG and customer activation powered by advanced marketing analytics capabilities is among the top priorities for all business and growth marketing leaders across B2B SaaS organizations. To drive a successful PLG strategy, marketing and growth teams rely on the analytics teams to understand product engagement data.

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 21, 2020

You need a SaaS marketing strategy that works. You don’t have a physical, tangible product, after all, to show off and promote. What follows are 12 elements of a successful SaaS marketing strategy. What is SaaS marketing strategy? But SaaS products aren’t like other products. How is SaaS marketing different?

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Albacross

JANUARY 12, 2023

Through Albacross’ integration with LinkedIn Matched Audiences, B2B marketers can target high-value accounts and buying committees more effectively on LinkedIn. We’re thrilled to offer marketers a seamless way to target the audiences that matter most: their in-market buyers,” said Viktor Carlsson, co-founder of Albacross.

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MKT1

JULY 19, 2022

This newsletter is part of a series I’m calling “Content as a Product” This first post is about creating content, the next post is about content roadmapping, and the final post is about distribution. TLDR of the series: Think of content as a product. How do they buy products? Apply for Course 1.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

Think Beyond the Funnel. Funnel imagery permeates marketing. Fill the funnel with a lot of sales leads, then move on to ultimately reach a narrow, well-defined goal. It’s like catnip for sales and marketing teams. Sales may be sending more emails than marketers. Social media.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Growth marketing has been around for awhile now. Wondering “What is growth marketing?” So congratulations, growth marketer. So let’s take a look at the definition of growth marketing, and where the term came from. What specifically do growth marketing professionals do?

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MKT1

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The fuel is all the stuff that you say (out loud, in writing, or visually) to your audience—whether that be short-form copy on a website, a long-form blog post, an image in an ad, or an explainer video. So, make sure you have goals around the project work needed to create the fuel that will drive these qualified leads.

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MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

After reading this newsletter, you should have a few products to check out and a better tactical understanding of how AI can make you a better marketer. We’ll cover: An overview of the 4 main workflows AI can help marketers with, plus examples of products that can help with each. Who is it for?

Sales Management 52

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel? The funnel leverages messaging, intent, and consumer mindsets to match with their creative assets.

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MKT1

JUNE 16, 2022

You need a marketing team to create this value-add content. What’s working for SDRs should be automated if possible, and without marketing and rev ops, this won’t happen. You’ll be stuck adding new SDRs forever and won’t achieve economies of scale. See the funnel diagram below.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Planning 52

accelerate agency

MAY 24, 2023

In an ideal world, all you’d need to do to succeed is to sell great products and provide excellent customer service. Good SEO (search engine optimization) practice is critical to getting your business seen in Google’s rankings. It primarily works by using a block of JavaScript code that gets added to pages on the website.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2021, it is expected to reach a value of $145.5 These models offer major advantages to clients as they no longer have to buy products that may outlive their usefulness quickly and also avoid having to make one-off major payments. SaaS products also tend to offer better levels of support.

Planning 52

Planning Top of Funnel Practices Enterprise Management 52

accelerate agency

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2021, it is expected to reach a value of $145.5 These models offer major advantages to clients as they no longer have to buy products that may outlive their usefulness quickly and also avoid having to make one-off major payments. SaaS products also tend to offer better levels of support.

Planning 52

Planning Top of Funnel Practices Enterprise Management 52