SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The digital era has changed the way we do business, and it’s important for marketers to keep up with the demands of their prospects by building a well-oiled lead generation machine. How to Generate Leads With Your Digital Marketing. Use Content Marketing to Establish Thought Leadership. Leverage Paid Social.

Sales Management 94

Sales Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 94

KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There are many elements that influence a successful B2B marketing strategy – your unique industry, target audiences, brand strength, budget and more. For these reasons, there is no one-size fits all solution for B2B marketing success. However, there are certain best practices and tactics that have proven to work.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

Whether it’s a cold call/email from a sales rep or a promotional email from a brand you follow, there’s so much digital noise to sift through. What is category leadership? You might be wondering: “ how this is different from thought leadership? How do you enhance category leadership?

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Research B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Cold Calling 83

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers. Ads and Attribution.

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Linkedin Sales Management Paid Search Agency ROI 80

Velocity Partners

MAY 8, 2024

This is the seventh in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. That’s the sound of a successful sale. Udi Ledergor is the Chief Evangelist at Gong, an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform built for sales teams. How is the face of B2B marketing changing? You can find the other blogs in the series here.

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Marketing Analytics Tools B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Planning 83

Top Rank Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2023

For over 22 years , TopRank Marketing has had the honor of helping a diverse selection of the world’s top B2B marketers and major global brands elevate beyond merely being competitive, to truly standing out from the crowd with creative and award-winning successes.

Enterprise Management 98

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 98

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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SpotMe Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Selecting the right in-person event platform to manage your onsite events is critical to their success. But with so many options on the market, how do you determine which onsite event management software is the best fit for your needs? An in-person event platform is the software and tools used to plan, organize, and manage live events.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But in all of my years in B2B, whether as a marketer, an agency person, a consultant or a fractional CMO, people have considered email an important channel but have overlooked its true potential for fulfilling company goals. As an email marketer, everything you do, especially in B2B, is about cultivating and recognizing intent.

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Marketing Automation Services Intent Marketing Automation Email Marketing 124

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Data insights are critical to boosting marketing and sales performance. The lack of confidence B2B organizations have in their data is hindering the ability to deploy key sales and marketing initiatives,” the D&B report concludes. Integrate marketing and sales data.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Work Management B2B 134

Marketing Interactions

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

To gate or not to gate your B2B content? This is a question that comes up repeatedly for B2B marketers and one we can’t seem to answer definitively. Because for a reason that may have worked decades ago when information was scarce, the powers that be cannot get past the idea that filling out a form constitutes a lead.

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B2B Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 62

Marketing Craftmanship

JULY 1, 2013

Thought Leadership Programs Must be Accountable for Business Outcomes. Thought Leadership is one of the most widely used terms in B2B marketing. But there’s a range of opinion regarding what Thought Leadership is, and fuzzy expectations with respect to its tangible benefits.

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Thought Leadership Merchandising B2B Thought Leadership Wikipedia 100

Biznology

JUNE 10, 2016

Earlier this year, LinkedIn set out to determine which departments wield the most influence over B2B buyers across a number of different sectors. Their findings show that overall, marketing has 30% more sway than sales in a typical B2B buying decision and that marketing has 27% more sway than business development.

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Top of Funnel Linkedin Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 80

Exo B2B

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Who in the field of marketing and B2B has been able to get out of the social magma while being confined? So it is with a certain amount of apprehension that we’ve scoured blogs and marketing sites, B2C and B2B. Annual rankings. In fact, are we still talking about influencers? Influencer or expert?

Marketing AI 98

Marketing AI Advertising Agencies Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 98

Metadata

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“We’ve experimented with new forms of storytelling to really humanize the typically stale world of enterprise sales, SaaS, and B2B.” Here are four tactics Melissa and her team used to catapult ClickUp to stardom and go toe-to-toe against an industry giant with a head start of more than a decade. Psst…we’re talking about Jira.)

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Mereo

JULY 27, 2022

What is the last step of your sales cycle? Most B2B sales organizations will consider the job complete at the contract signature. Yet, if the true goal of sales is to Seek to Serve a buyer, the sales cycle is not over until the value promised is actually the value delivered.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. No problem!

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Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 117

TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Demand generation, or demand gen, and account-based marketing (ABM) have traditionally been thought of as two distinct strategies for B2B growth. Demand gen and ABM share a common goal of driving sales through a focused blend of inbound and outbound efforts. It’s a logical combination in many ways. ABM is certainly on the rise.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

Bryan Kramer , President and CEO of Pure Matters, will share practical tools you can use right now to connect with other humans and be better marketers, managers, and fellow members of the human race in his session, Human to Human: #H2H: Learn to Speak Human, Share Human, and Market Human. Marketers Need to Evolve.

Sales Management 126

Sales Management Account Based Marketing Planning ABM 126

Brandpoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I still remember my orientation from one of my first B2B sales job s. After m y 30-minute orientation , my new boss wished me luck and I thought, “I’ll need it!” I was essentially now head of marketing and sales for a B2B sales organization and my marketing tech stack consisted of a tele phone.

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Top of Funnel Advertising Agencies 54

Onalytica B2B

AUGUST 23, 2017

Last week we published our white paper called The Definitive Practical Guide to Influencer Relationship Management. So, each week we’re going to bring you an easy-to-digest blog post covering each step of the influencer marketing process as per the definitive practical guide. ” Lee Odden , CEO, Top Rank Marketing. .

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Peer-to-peer Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth Work Management 192

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

53% of B2B organizations are using marketing automation technology today, and 37% surveyed say they are planning to implement it, according to an eConsultancy report. It’s reported that 70% of enterprises expect to implement AI in the next 12 months, according to Forrester. Invest in People and Processes.

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Marketing AI Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Enterprise Management 134

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Historically in B2B demand generation, more has been better too. More leads? If you bring in 20,000 names from a tradeshow or inbound marketing tactics, but the leads do not convert–so what? It’s important to remember that a name is not a lead. All leads are NOT the same.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Lead Ranking 91

LeanData

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And, of course, you’re likely repeating that entire marketing process across other similar accounts. The company’s industry-best lead-to-account matching solution is fundamental to ABM success, and LeanData Engagement Analytics is mission-critical for advancing deals to closed/won. Each named account gets the royal treatment.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing Demand Generation ABM 97

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. No problem! Winner: Punch!

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 65

Engagio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This way, your Sales and Marketing teams can focus on hot accounts that show signs of being in-market and ready to engage. You can even populate Demandbase One fields in Salesforce so that it appears where your Sales team already works – no need for everyone to learn the ins and outs of a new platform. Automate notifications.

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DemandBase Lead Ranking Marketing & Strategy Lead Scoring 71

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thought leadership. Leadership development. If you want to increase brand awareness and provide real value to your audience, content marketing can help you with that and more! Michael makes content marketing manageable! Every great B2B company started out as an entrepreneur’s dream. Digital marketing.

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B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Planning Digital Marketing Funnels 134

Webbiquity

JANUARY 5, 2021

Second, this is an alphabetical list (by last name) rather than rank-order by number of followers. Principal Analyst, Forrester Research. Managing Director Techstars Farm to Fork. Managing Partner Bread & Butter Ventures. Program Manager @flipgrid. Managing Partner @bread_butterVC. CharlesTBetz.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Display advertising has a bad reputation, due to common misconceptions about its limited value in B2B campaigns. In fact, research suggests that B2B display advertising is projected to surpass traditional search spending for the first time. Here, we’ve rounded up the most popular display ad formats for B2B marketing.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. No problem! Winner: Punch!

Video Marketing 51

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 51

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 31, 2020

Everyone wants to convert more leads. Statistics say over 80% of leads will never convert into a sale. If a secret formula to convert leads existed, companies would never go bankrupt or struggle to meet sales goals. Quick takeaways: Today’s B2B buyers demand informative content that solves their pain points.

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B2B Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 363

The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. Does it sound familiar? A new role is starting to take shape.

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Planning Marketing Budget Creation Work Management Marketing Management 100

Heinz Marketing

JULY 2, 2018

Yet another great episode on Sales Pipeline Radio! It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Peer-to-peer DemandBase Forrester 40

EveryoneSocial

JULY 31, 2018

Yet, content is not as simple as just publishing something and then a ton of leads will come piling in. This most likely falls into the marketing departments laps, but sales teams should also have a part in helping with the content research process. pieces of content before making a purchasing decision, according to Forrester.

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Research Effectiveness Branding Brand Identity 79

Vidyard

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It’s a perfect opportunity for marketers, sales leaders and business executives to discover what’s really working and to gain practical advice on how to use video in a more strategic way to deliver real results.” Zach King started his journey in film at the age of 7 when his parents put him in charge of shooting home videos at a wedding.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Video Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Forrester 50

Vidyard

OCTOBER 19, 2016

YouTube and Vine star Zach King, Forrester analysts Nick Barber and Laura Ramos, Solarwinds video director René Lego join top voices in video, marketing, content and customer success. Zach King started his journey in film at the age of 7 when his parents put him in charge of shooting home videos at a wedding.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management Video Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Forrester 50

Exo B2B

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Content marketing and artificial intelligence should be the main B2B marketing trends in 2019. Or this post from Michael Brenner on Marketing Insider Group’s blog, covering the trend in content personnalisation to reach the right audience, also quoting a Forrester study. And this is no surprise. You’re still in doubt?

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