Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies.

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Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, few metaphors are as powerful as the sales funnel. It's a near-supernatural, multi-layered vortex that pulls in leads from the wider world, then draws them down toward closing. At the top of the funnel (TOFU) are fresh new leads who are just discovering your offerings.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A sales funnel, stretching from early-stage brand discovery to final purchase, represents the customer journey. Most companies use the funnel to track prospects as they move through sales stages, adjusting strategies and marketing methods in response to their behaviors. In real life, the buying process is never so linear.

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SendinBlue

APRIL 19, 2021

Successful B2B marketing automation requires thought and preparation but once up and running, can do serious heavy lifting for your sales funnel. Now you might be wondering how exactly one should use marketing automation for B2B. What are the most effective B2B automation techniques and tactics for nurturing leads?

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. Source ] So, what does this mean for B2B industrial marketers?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Word-of-mouth advertising has always played a powerful role in both consumer and B2B buying decisions. According to Gartner , B2B buyers today spend only 5% or 6% of their time with sales reps while comparing multiple suppliers. Customer relationships are all about how you treat your buyers after the sale.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 18, 2024

When done properly, sending cold emails—that is, messages to people or companies with whom you have no prior relationship—is still one of the best tactics for B2B lead generation or making direct sales. Then, process it using data analytics. Guest post by Nina Petrov.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before. This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. One-Touch Attribution Models.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Social Media Today Industry Jargon Is the Silent Killer of B2B Marketing 88 percent of B2B decision-makers have said that jargon, marketing clichés, and tired buzzwords such as “disruptive” harm the credibility of brands, and Adweek recently took a look at how using the wrong words can have negative consequences in B2B marketing.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As the new year looms, planning your marketing budget and activities is top of mind for B2B marketers and leaders. What about expanding your marketing automation efforts or supporting sales and the channel? There are many different frameworks and analysis tactics that organizations can use to set long-term marketing goals.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

marketing teams are relying more extensively than ever before on marketing analytics to help guide the decision making around investments and execution. Such modern marketers with the growth mindset incorporate analytics rigor as well as revenue mindset for every decision they make. This is where.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Ambiguous ROI and direct relationship to sales.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before. This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

After all, the B2B buyer’s journey has become increasingly complex, as each prospect engages with a number of digital touchpoints on their path to becoming a customer. By assigning credit to each touchpoint, marketers are able to better assess and optimize the various campaigns and channels they use to engage their target audience.

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Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The capabilities and benefits of marketing automation might not always shine front and center, but it often makes marketing processes more streamlined and easier to manage. This blog helps simplify what B2B marketing automation is and highlights some of the key benefits of implementing marketing automation software.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. What is Demand Generation?

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Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. But that changed when HubSpot introduced its new Customer Journey Analytics tool. It allows marketing and sales teams to see their customer’s end-to-end journey within HubSpot.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We sat down with William Wright, Senior Account Manager, SMACT Works to talk through his experience with ZoomInfo Engage. . SMACT Works provides strategy, management, consulting and managed services for digital, data & analytics, Cloud and Enterprise Technologies. What is Sales Intelligence?

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic that has dominated our lives for the last 18 months has changed how we live both professionally and personally, and the B2B landscape is no different. With responses from 3,600 B2B decision-makers across 11 countries, the report outlines the major shifts and swings that have been seen across the B2B sector, as follows.

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MKT1

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the past couple years writing newsletters and working with hundreds of founders and marketers, we’ve developed a fairly-comprehensive approach to building B2B marketing. The channels they use may not work at a different scale. Use it to outline your goals, audience, channels, creative, and stakeholders for campaigns.

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Lake One

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For a holistic definition, account-based marketing is a focused growth strategy in which Marketing and Sales collaborate to create personalized buying experiences for a mutually-identified set of high-value accounts. .

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Engagio

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Sales development reps (SDRs) are an essential component to a truly high-performance revenue engine. They bridge the gap between sales and marketing and act like the initial handshake in the B2B world — a crucial first step in a long-term relationship between businesses. What is ABSD?

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 11, 2022

Your Simple Guide to B2B Marketing Analytics. Paying attention to marketing analytics is crucial for B2B companies. B2B marketing analytics can provide immense data; however, making sense of it all can be a complex process. What is B2B marketing analytics? Contact Us. .

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, seasonal shopping and holiday sales are B2C centric—Santa Claus is known for making toys, after all, not Cloud ERP. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the B2B email marketing opportunity and (properly) engage your clients and prospects with holiday greetings. . Why use B2B email marketing this holiday season?

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The ABM Agency

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the sophisticated landscape of B2B marketing, establishing an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Center of Excellence (COE) represents the pinnacle of ABM maturity. This stage involves deepening the alignment between sales and marketing, enhancing content strategies, and leveraging analytics for better decision-making.

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Kevin Indig

APRIL 11, 2023

Long sales cycles (+90 days) are the biggest enemy of attribution models, often to the detriment of channels like SEO that play an important role in early touches. Companies with long sales cycles often either sell B2B enterprise software (SaaS), high-priced products (e-commerce) or long-term commitments (consumer).

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6sense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A business always needs a continuous flow of customers and a healthy sales pipeline, the question is – how do you bring the most relevant prospects to engage with your business? Every marketer understands how hard sales prospecting can be. This is where intent driven sales prospecting comes into the picture. 6Sense ABM.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As marketing execution in 2020 gets into full swing, marketing analytics continues to be the top priority for organizations. Such modern marketers incorporate analytics rigor as well as revenue mindset for every decision they make. These 4 KPIs provide insights into efficiency across the funnel and help with accelerating deals.

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

79% of B2B marketers say that improving ROI of marketing activities is a key focus for 2020. That’s why measuring campaigns is so important for the B2B marketing strategy. Being able to effectively calculate ROI for different inbound tactics also helps you decide on the best ways to move forward. Setting up your KPIs.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Marketing Analytics and ROI are the 2 terms making a lot of noise across the marketing world to the point that they are almost beating “ ABM ” in the popularity. These 4 KPIs provide insights into efficiency across the funnel and help with accelerating deals.

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Binary Demand

MAY 24, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Account-based marketing (ABM) is a tactic that is gaining popularity among organizations looking for fresh approaches to their marketing. Businesses can provide better experiences and close more sales by concentrating on the best accounts. Every day, people have to deal with more noise.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 25, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, one strategy has emerged as a powerful weapon in the arsenal of marketers: Account-Based Marketing (ABM). Moreover, SiriusDecisions found that organizations with tightly aligned sales and marketing teams achieved 24% faster three-year revenue growth and 27% faster three-year profit growth.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every seasoned B2B marketer knows that launching a new campaign can be a venture into the unknown. That might be a big reason why nearly 70% of B2B content ends up unused , because it doesn’t align with what buyers are interested in. B2B marketing is too high-stakes for any blind leaps of faith. 6 B2B Marketing KPIs to Measure.

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