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The Dangerous Allure of World-Class Marketing

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But conversations with enough marketers over the years tells me that most B2B organizations, big and small, struggle with some element of their marketing execution. Marketing attribution is a good example. My advice was: if you’re only tracking clicks, track leads. If you’re only tracking leads, track MQLs (and Cost Per MQL).

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Key B2B Demand Generation Strategies for 2015

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We discussed what’s new, what’s working, and what’s on the horizon in B2B Demand Generation. What is the first B2B marketing strategy that marketers must consider for 2015? (HS) A content map is a very useful exercise and one that every B2B company should initiate and then maintain over time. One is predictive analytics.

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Video Tech Company Leverages SEM to Drive Enterprise Leads

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JW Player contacted Spear Marketing Group , a leading B2B demand generation agency , for help. The audit recommended some fundamental changes in strategy and application of SEM best practices across the board, including: • Tighter ad groups to improve ad relevance and therefore quality score (decreasing CPC).

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Top 10 ABM Mistakes

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I may not be a market analyst, but from what I see working with our agency’s B2B clients , it seems to me that, in the language of technology adoption lifecycles, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) stands at that pivotal junction – what Geoffrey Moore calls the “chasm” – between early adopters and early majority.

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Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

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The guide features insights, projections, and opinions on current challenges, opportunities, and trends from 19 B2B marketing experts and practitioners, including leading executives from Marketo, Oracle, SiriusDecisions, and Forrester Research. DGR) What were the biggest changes/challenges for B2B marketers in 2017? (DGR)

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Observations from the 2017 Marketo Summit

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The last two decades have seen a sea change in B2B marketing, much of it driven by data, analytics, and advances in marketing technology. B2B will be technology-driven for the foreseeable future, and yet many of the dominant themes of this year’s summit were pure throwbacks. Email may be losing its B2B dominance.

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This Year, Tackle These 3 Demand Generation Priorities First

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In an era when B2B marketing is so technology-driven, marketers can be forgiven for thinking that the only thing keeping them from success is one more layer in their technology stack. Or Social Media Analytics. It seems almost quaint to suggest that B2B marketers should track success. If we only had ABM, you hear. Or Predictive.