Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

Among marketers, few topics spark as much debate as the comparison between demand generation and inbound marketing. Conversely, inbound marketing predominantly relies on passive techniques to draw in potential leads. Here are some metrics to consider: High-intent Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Lead Ranking Paid Content Marketing Qualified Leads Cost per Acquisition 207

Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s where marketing qualified leads, or MQLs, come into play. You might be asking, “What exactly is an MQL?” “How How do you identify an MQL?” and “Why do MQLs matter?” This blog post covers all you need to know about MQLs—from definitions to strategies for converting leads into paying customers.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Must Read: MQL vs SQL: Which Lead Matter More & When? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers.

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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

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 246

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

You’ve worked hard to turn the engagement from your recent marketing campaign into leads. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold. Moreover, sales doesn’t want you to do any marketing to their prioritized list because you lack the context of the relationships they are actively cultivating.

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Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 95

Envy

JULY 31, 2017

The Challenges: Market Education and Lead Generation. Establishing presence as a serious contender in virtualized container cybersecurity required investment in brand awareness and market education in an industry that was still in its infancy. Our strategy included: Inbound Marketing to educate and build awareness. Step 6: PPC.

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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.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 195

Martech

JUNE 4, 2024

If you spend any amount of time among the B2B marketers on LinkedIn, you’re familiar with the arguments for and against lead generation and demand generation. Lead generation is a well-entrenched growth strategy, especially among the marketers at large enterprise organizations. You don’t really want to educate the market.

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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.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Advertising Benchmark Advertising Channels 95

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Account-based marketing has been around for several years now. Some of the statistics that have attracted marketers to ABM include: 87% of account-based marketers say that ABM initiatives outperform other marketing investments ( ITSMA ). And yet, many B2B marketers have still held back from adopting ABM.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate leads.

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Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring ROMI 119

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Paid Content Top of Funnel 130

Stevens & Tate

MAY 20, 2021

How are you handling your marketing qualified leads? Once you have a lead at the top of the sales funnel, you can’t just stop marketing and hope that initial lead turns into a sales-qualified lead (SQL). You need to keep your eye on your marketing qualified leads (MQLs) as well.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

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. “The more profitable experience for search engines is more people clicking on ads. .

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Many people view marketing as a creative endeavor, but it’s really a mix of art and science. When you invest time and budget on marketing, you need to know it will pay off through a strong ROI. And therein lies the science of modern marketing. Which are most critical to measuring, monitoring, and optimizing your marketing?

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Cost Per Click tells you how much it costs to get one person to click on your paid ad. Did we miss any?

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Marketing Analytics Tools Cost per Acquisition Paid Content Lead Ranking 119

Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. HubSpot’s Customer Journey Analytics at a glance Launched at HubSpot’s Inbound22 conference, Customer Journey Analytics is available to Marketing Hub Enterprise users. Want to go deeper?

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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.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That being the case, sales and marketing metrics have shifted from the norm to better support communities. We are going to dive into some specific senior care sales and marketing metrics that you should follow so you can track your occupancy rates. Which are the crucial senior sales and marketing metrics?

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Paid Search Agency Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 104

Envy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you are interested in how much you need to invest in your PPC budget and what kind of return you can expect, you should check out our shiny new Cyber Security Marketing Campaign Benchmarks Report. Best Practices for Ads on LinkedIn. Viewers understand the point of banner ads, so getting needlessly fancy only distracts.

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Linkedin Lead Ranking Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 87

Martech

MARCH 29, 2022

While Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a key strategy today, going forward, B2B marketers will take a more holistic view. More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. As part of this evolution: Buying Group Marketing (BGM).

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Marketing gets a bad rap. 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. And that’s partially because it’s incredibly misunderstood.

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BOP Design

MAY 5, 2021

Phil, take a minute to see how this applies to B2B marketing. Here, we take a closer look at a few ways to evaluate your B2B marketing strategy to ensure you are focusing on creating a human connection with your prospects and clients, not just making a sale. The best marketing campaigns don’t start with a statement about “us.”

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Martech

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days where traditional marketing fought on an even playing field with digital. We truly live in a world where marketing and technology have become inseparable concepts,” said Lyola Rowe, Growth Marketing Manager at Tray.io, in her session at our MarTech conference. “We Develop a lead status framework.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? And when taking a deep look at marketing results, we were a bit surprised that the data actually helped to diagnose asales problem. During the evaluation timeframe, we generated almost 6,000 leads, for a Suspect-to-MQL conversion rate of 27.3%.

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Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Cost per Lead 120

Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? 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? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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DemandBase

AUGUST 21, 2020

What do the most successful B2B companies that sell into mid-market and enterprise accounts have in common? Is there a singular trait that unifies their go-to-market and determines their outsized success? At the heart of every successful B2B business is a truly unified Sales and Marketing engine that drives growth.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

DECEMBER 14, 2020

MQLs are an important part of the marketing analytics frameworks across most of the modern marketing teams but the sales follow-up of the MQLs is critical. set of key metrics is the sales follow-up of the MQLs that are handed over to them. We will continue to discover more sales conversation ready MQLs but.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Analytics Top of Funnel 59

Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2022

With a $25 eCPC bid, you are telling Google that you are willing to spend up to $25 for that ad click regardless of who is searching that term. Smart Bidding works by seeing which searchers lead to “primary” conversion actions set in Google Ads (and which ones don’t) and then curates bids based on that information moving forward.

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Marketing Budget Lead Ranking CPA Cost per Acquisition 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in the market for a new car.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 100

Aberdeen

MARCH 19, 2020

Marketers often make assumptions and misplace value on MQLs. In some ways, MQLs remind me of the oil and gas industry. So why isn’t the MQL evolving to meet modern expectations? How can we get traditional market and sales organizations to start recognizing the EV equivalents of the MQL on our way to something better?

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