The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.

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Sage Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Perhaps you opened this article because you’re a new marketer, or because you’ve heard about HubSpot and are unsure what it really does, or because you’re my friend and I sent you this link to show you the cool stuff I get to do at my new job. HubSpot for Startup. First off, let me just say: marketing is intricate.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

33% of inbound marketers and 31% of outbound marketers rank outbound marketing practices, such as paid advertising, as the top waste of time and resources,” per HubSpot in 2016. Brian Halligan , the co-founder of Hubspot, first conceived the term “inbound marketing.” What is Inbound Marketing? Content Marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

This post will provide some strategic tactics marketers can use to better measure B2B advertising effectiveness, and provide a list of KPIs expert marketers are measuring to help them hit their ROAS goals. In the past, tracking the ROI of a digital ad was similar to how billboards are still measured today–throw it up and hope for the best.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

Specifically, it helps you in three crucial ways: Build an effective top-funnel and mid-funnel social strategy Top-of-funnel social media efforts aim at attracting new visitors and measuring audience behaviour such as web traffic, impressions and average time on site.

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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. Reduce risks by removing a lot of the guesswork from your processes and strategies. How Does the Predictive Analytics Process Work? Source: HubSpot. What is Predictive Marketing Analytics?

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Imagine a visitor landing on your website after clicking on a targeted ad. They are part of strategic SaaS marketing campaigns that understand the different stages of the sales funnel. If you invest in ads, nailing your PPC landing page best practices is essential! Measure performance metrics and track key funnel stages.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When Brian Halligan (HubSpot’s CEO) started talking about retiring the funnel and adopting the flywheel as the model to think about our business, I was not very happy. See, I love the funnel. So no disrespect to Brian, but “retire the funnel”? It’s been my trusted sidekick for years. Yeah right. Friction kills flywheels.

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Hubspot

MAY 5, 2021

Conversion funnels are a fundamental concept in sales. Personally, I like to visualize the funnel as that big scary slide you wanted to try as a kid. Customers take a similar journey through your company's conversion funnel when evaluating whether or not to buy from you. All leads begin at the top of the funnel.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? In this B2B marketing strategy framework, we provide insights on how to develop a manageable strategy for an early market team. Having ICPs clearly defined helps your sales and marketing teams to understand which businesses would make great prospects.

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Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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. Organic Traffic: How many people found your content organically, without clicking a link on a paid ad or sponsored blog post?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s right, for just $8,000 per month, you can get a content marketing strategy , a year’s worth of content ideas , an SEO audit and keyword strategy , external link building, conversion funnel development, and paid promotion to reach all the new people you need to grow your business. But we can’t take traffic to the CFO.

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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. the tactic positively impacts revenue or leads). Many media platforms provide brand lift studies.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This enables data-driven decisions in creating landing pages, registration processes, and website copy. As such, omnichannel marketing includes strategies outside of traditional touch points—from social media ads to emails. B2B organizations must also consider how content pieces fit different sales funnel stages.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. It’s often used as a top-of-the-funnel tactic to attract prospects and turn them into leads or customers. The consumer buying cycle is an increasingly self-serve process scattered across multiple touchpoints. a sale, new customer, conversion, etc.).

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, for those of us deeply immersed in the day-to-day realities of managing B2B marketing audits & campaigns, the nuances between theory and practice are as profound as the gap between your MQL and SQL conversion rate (ouch). Effectively running always-on, full-funnel campaigns. Honing SEO skills.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, if your goal is to increase revenue, your KPIs may include metrics related to customer acquisition , sales performance, and lifetime value. Some examples: Google Analytics: Tracks website traffic and user behavior. These provide the data necessary to help you identify the next steps.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. The top 3 2022 marketing priorities include funnel conversion, lead generation and marketing automation. Email Marketing.

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SalesIntel

MAY 3, 2022

The latest HubSpot Marketing Statistics report states that 75% of marketers regularly report how campaigns directly impact revenue. . We’ll explore the tactics and approaches that other marketers are using to reach their goals of converting more prospects and leads into paying, revenue-boosting customers. . Who is your ideal customer?

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . But Hubspot might not be the right fit for everyone. . Let’s jump in.

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then this HubSpot review is for you. One popular email marketing software is HubSpot. Also, HubSpot features email marketing capabilities that make designing an email campaign quick and easy, all without the need for specialized design knowledge. That’s why, in today’s post, we’ll do a full HubSpot review.

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Only B2B

MARCH 10, 2022

You know how difficult it is to boost sales with B2B lead generation tactics. Overhyped case studies from huge firms that might raise sales. More sales = more leads. Are you ready to discover the best B2B lead generating tactics for your company? The Process Of Generating B2B Leads.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We heard many of our customers’ challenges around integrating with social media management tools and took notes. Lead management & CRM. Q: How do you currently manage incoming leads from social media? Sprout lead management and CRM integrations: Salesforce, Marketo, Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. And with ABM tech platforms becoming mainstream, it is much easier to implement (think of platforms such as Marketo, Pardot, and HubSpot).

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Contently

APRIL 4, 2023

Our ad budgets will be reduced, departmental positions will be reevaluated, hiring will be put on hold, and that new software or upgrade we asked for? Most content marketers can pinpoint their highest-traffic pieces — but high-level metrics only tell part of the story. Bottom-of-funnel content conversion rates (i.e.,

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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. This means associating sales leads back to any and all marketing activities and touch points that brought them into the fold. Why does data attribution matter to marketers?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2020

How do more leads, a steady flow of website traffic, stronger customer relationships, and higher revenue sound to you? Businesses that blog regularly benefit from: More web traffic. More web traffic. Once you reach 21 to 54 posts, you can see your traffic go up by as much as 30 percent. Appealing, right? Not only that.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One of the biggest mistakes companies make when creating a blog is choosing a different platform for their content management system (CMS) than for the blog tool, causing them to have two unrelated platforms separated by a subdomain. HubSpot has multiple tiers of their CMS based on your marketing needs. Out-of-the-Box Features.

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Contently

MARCH 26, 2021

According to eMarketer , display ad spending is expected to grow a whopping 24 percent this year to over $80 billion. First, that you don’t work in ad-tech (if you do, this post is probably going to p**s you off). Because humans almost universally dislike display ads. Not all digital ads are made the same.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. With MarketingOS, ZoomInfo offers end-to-end sales and marketing alignment on one platform. The reason?

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FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Even for relatively simple business models, this process has many variables. Helping simplify the overwhelm is where Funnel Envy can help. The critical thing to remember is that it’s not just about driving traffic to your website; it’s about converting that traffic into meaningful leads. And that’s not all.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While marketers with advanced analytics tools might have an easy time figuring how leads got to their landing pages, sales teams can use call tracking to learn more about their customers, where those buyers discover their company, and what platforms they spend time on. Price: Basic plan is free. Premium plan is $99 per month.

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Hubspot

MAY 30, 2019

Google Ads specifically has increased its revenue from year to year. Marketers know that properly investing in PPC can result in nearly guaranteed ad placement in search engine result pages. Create ads based on what you've determined in the above steps. They also know that this placement can help generate leads.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 13, 2019

But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. Social Media Marketing Supports Blogging by Driving Traffic to the Blog. Social media builds our readership and helps fill the top of our marketing funnel.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. 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. It’s wise to begin with your ideal customer profile (ICP).

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Brandpoint

JULY 18, 2019

It’s no secret that video content is the name of the game when it comes to generating social media impressions, engagement and traffic. These metrics eventually yield results with lead generation and sales. Adding a video to marketing emails can boost click-through rates by 200-300%. New Product or Service Introduction.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins. Paid is straightforward, it’s sexy (to non-marketing executives, at least), and it’s a simple sell internally when navigating the budgeting process because of the instantly measurable ROI.

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