Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The lead qualification process helps B2B marketing teams focus their efforts and resources on serious buyers and prospects that are likely to take the next step. In this article, we’ll explain the lead qualification process step-by-step. Why is the lead qualification process critical to marketing success?

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, it is no longer a question of whether or not influencer marketing works. In fact, a vast majority of respondents to our 2023 Influencer Marketing Report report that they have seen extensive benefits in the form of increased sales revenue and improved customer brand reputation.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 30, 2019

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized from demand generation, account-based marketing and, lead generation. The post 4-Step Lead Generation Analysis To Optimize Sales Conversion appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. I’ll review the basics of reviewing your demand generation funnel.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 4, 2024

Often, leads aren’t ready to buy, and when they are, it’s a challenge to keep them engaged. And with drip marketing, emails don’t have to live on an island unto themselves. A marketer’s job is to find and understand high quality leads, then help convert them to sales. Why use drip campaigns?

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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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Biznology

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I am a demand gen marketer. My entire B2B career has been about leads—lead quality and quantity. Measurable marketing communications. Cost per lead. ROI on marketing investments. On my side, I was trained as a data-driven, direct-response marketer. The post B2B marketing is all about leads.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

Conducting a thorough SEO analysis of a website provides much more than a list of keywords. An in-depth examination of your SEO strategy helps enhance every aspect of your brand’s marketing. To do that, SEO analysis has to go deeper than surface-level results. The next crucial step of keyword analysis is a gap analysis.

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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BOP Design

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As such, in this blog, we are taking a high-level view of what B2B marketers should consider when crafting a lead generation strategy. We know the genesis is always, “We need more leads!” so this article provides quick tips on how to get started with a new lead gen strategy or how to revamp your existing approach.

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. Low-quality leads make their way to sales, and some of the most qualified leads fall through the cracks.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! 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? Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Those lost sales opportunities can actually be great learning experiences if you take the time to conduct a win/loss analysis. What’s a win/loss analysis? Win-loss analysis (also called lost sales analysis) systematically identifies patterns in lost sales opportunities.

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Only B2B

JULY 28, 2023

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has emerged as a powerful strategy to target and engage high-value accounts, resulting in Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Unlike traditional marketing approaches, ABM focuses on individual accounts, personalizing campaigns and content to resonate with specific prospects.

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Tomorrow People

JUNE 14, 2022

Competing within an existing market is not always easy. Read on to learn about the most crucial steps of effective competitive analysis. Before conducting a competitive analysis, you must first pick what organisations you’re going to focus on. Understanding competitors requires more than just monitoring their online presence.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

billion doing so, according to new analysis from ZoomInfo. market share in the CRM industry, according to prior analysis from Gartner. Beyond the pandemic, a challenge often cited with CRM is the feeling that data becomes stagnant in the system, sometimes leading companies to switch vendors and undertake installations.

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lead generation for B2B has undergone quite a transformation. But have we deviated too far from sustainable lead generation practices and become too reliant on pay-to-play databases to fuel outbound initiatives? As I often say, a true lead demonstrates intent to discover or purchase your product — yes, it’s that simple.

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Lead Forensics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Lead generation marketing is a vital process; identifying potential clients who fit your target audience and have an interest in purchasing your product through marketing channels is a strategy organizations everywhere take action on daily. Managing warm leads Leads don’t always convert first time.

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BOP Design

MARCH 30, 2021

Email marketing continues to be a fantastic method for nurturing B2B marketing leads. In the first post of our four-part series on email marketing, we take a look at best practices for using B2B email marketing for lead nurturing. 73% of successful content marketers nurture subscribers, audiences, or leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 14, 2021

So you’re a B2B marketer. If it does, we’ve got to be honest: no matter how great your product is, your content isn’t going to capture many leads on its own. If it does, we’ve got to be honest: no matter how great your product is, your content isn’t going to capture many leads on its own. But your lead magnets?

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Oktopost

APRIL 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll explain how B2B brands can use social listening to complete a comprehensive competitive analysis. Quick links: What is competitive analysis? 3 benefits of performing competitive analysis. 5 ways to leverage social listening for competitive analysis. What Is Competitive Analysis?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019. billion in 2019.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Enter, sentiment analysis. What is sentiment analysis? Sentiment analysis is the process of gauging the attitudes, opinions, and emotions an audience expresses about a brand, product, or a specific topic. The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Customer analysis should move through three different stages. Customer analysis must then show what the needs of these different customer groups are.

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

One strategy has proven to be a game-changer – lead generation. This blog explores the significant benefits of lead generation, highlighting its importance and role in modern business. Understanding the significance of lead generation in B2B Lead generation is the backbone of any successful marketing strategy.

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Brandwatch Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The purpose of undertaking customer analysis as part of a business plan is to examine the consumers most likely to purchase your product or service in-depth. Customer analysis should move through three different stages. Customer analysis must then show what the needs of these different customer groups are.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Discover what interests them, the content they enjoy seeing, their pain points and frustrations. Ultimately, brands can leverage social data to optimize marketing strategies, manage reputation, foster better customer relationships, and sustain profitable growth. What Are The Key Components of Social Data Analysis?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

Enter, sentiment analysis. What is sentiment analysis? Sentiment analysis is the process of gauging the attitudes, opinions, and emotions an audience expresses about a brand, product, or a specific topic. The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 9, 2019

Want more leads? Maybe… but probably what you really want is better leads. It’s 2019, after all – B2B marketers have evolved past “lead gen 101” They need leads that contribute to pipeline. Leads that become closed deals and real revenue. Only 46% said it was lead quantity. Google Trends.

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 10, 2018

A content marketing strategy is dead in the water if it can’t deliver significant sales-ready leads. With the move online, marketing has an even more important role to play in capturing prospects’ attention as they do their research in order to generate, nurture and deliver more sales-ready leads.

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Markempa

APRIL 16, 2019

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized from demand generation, account-based marketing and, lead generation. Among other things, we’ll take a basic look at conducting a lead generation analysis, to help you optimize your lead generation process, campaigns and programs.

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Biznology

JANUARY 4, 2017

All sales leads are not equal. I know this is something that most sales and marketing leaders understand and it’s why they put lead qualification and validation into most of their sales, marketing, and lead generation programs. Of those 350,000, about half—178,000—were actual sales leads.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

In business strategy, where the tides of change ebb and flow, a perennial debate echoes through boardrooms and marketing departments: content marketing vs traditional sales tactics. Here, we pull back the layers of the content marketing vs. traditional sales comparison so you can decide how to use each — or both simultaneously.

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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. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Vision Edge Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Market and Customer Research: Danger Zones for Confirmation Bias Companies rely on customer research to develop new offerings, establish pricing models, and anticipate which customers are likely to purchase and which are likely to defect. How can you benefit from the upside while minimizing the downside?

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ClickZ

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With a fast-approaching, cookieless future ABM needs to move beyond lead qualification based on form fills and start exploring more avenues that are intent rich. As a marketing stack, technological advances in account-based marketing (ABM) have enabled marketers to capture and apply the “intent” of prospective buyers.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 3, 2021

It seems like every week I see a new research report naming leads as the top priority of B2B marketing departments. Ask any sales person, “What do you want from marketing?’ They’ll say, “Leads! Give me leads!” I’m talking about everything that comes after the lead-to-sales handoff. Lead Nurturing.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Marketers then use this information to guide their lead nurturing campaigns and GTM strategies.

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