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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

Biznology

Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. There are scads of ways performance marketing is being applied across the B-to-B go-to-market spectrum. Another player is True Influence, which uses email to its own compiled database of business buyers.

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Testing for B-to-B Marketers: How hard is it?

Biznology

B-to-B marketers are often guilty of laziness when it comes to testing their communications, whether it’s testing the copy approach, the layout, the offer or the target audience. It’s a fact that the typical B-to-B campaign targets universes that are too small to support a split test. Image via Wikipedia.

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Five Ways B-to-B Marketers Need to Change Their Game

Biznology

The Internet has driven dramatic changes in business buying behavior. Just as no one buys a car anymore without first checking prices and features online, business buyers now research and educate themselves online, months—even years—before ever seeing a sales person. But there’s more. Active social media outreach.

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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

Biznology

Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions. Find new customers.

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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

Biznology

There’s a spirited debate in B-to-B marketing about whether it’s best to give away information (aka “content,” like white papers and research reports) to all comers, versus requiring web visitors to provide some information in exchange for a content download. This is exactly why business marketers debate the subject with such vigor.

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Report: B2B Marketers Falling Short in Connecting to Buyers’ Needs

KoMarketing Associates

Part 3 of Merkle Loyalty Solution’s “B-to-B Loyalty Report” recently shed light on these challenges and how they impact B2B buyers. About 61 percent of North American B2B buyers claim that when they have a personal brand preference, they are more likely to buy a B2B product or service for business.

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Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media

Online Marketing Institute

B2B: Business Media. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company.

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