Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2019

That’s because most markets are crowded with competitors that offer similar products, services, or solutions. In fact, LinkedIn’s State of Sales 2017 US Report notes that trust in a salesperson is the number one factor in a purchase decision. These account-based strategies let the customer drive the marketing and sales approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

So why has account-based marketing only recently gained widespread popularity and practice among B2B businesses? In the past, ABM was a fairly tedious, manual, and sales-driven process. In fact, our SMB marketing team at Marketo has seen great results with this account-centric strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.– Marketo and Ascend2’s Marketing Automation Strategy Survey. That means you need the right team to manage your marketing automation platform. It’s a tall order, and you want the very best.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 12, 2019

Do you want to implement a top-notch sales enablement strategy or do you need to take your approach to the next level? Advice from experts can expand your knowledge and guide you to achieve a successful sales enablement program. Their sales blog covers a wide variety of topics that appeal to both marketers and sales reps.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

While lead gen is a core part of a successful demand gen campaign, a more central component of demand generation is the process of converting leads through your marketing funnel. The following conversion metrics should help you get a better understanding of the entire process. You don’t always have to offer a sales-meeting CTA.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

While lead gen is a core part of a successful demand gen campaign, a more central component of demand generation is the process of converting leads through your marketing funnel. The following conversion metrics should help you get a better understanding of the entire process. You don’t always have to offer a sales-meeting CTA.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Author: Adam Hutchinson Like the middle child, the middle of the demand generation funnel receives far less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

I recently had the pleasure of attending one of the biggest marketing conferences of the year— Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit. A gathering of hundreds of marketing executives, partners, and thought leaders from around the world came together to learn about the latest marketing trends and strategies in the new “Engagement Economy”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a game-changer, but it’s not uncommon for sales to push back against implementing it as a new strategy. On the surface, it appears that ABM is asking sales to work with fewer leads, and that kind of change can be a scary proposition. Sales and Marketing Alignment is Crucial. It’s understandable.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Top B2B marketers understand two key objectives 1) Building new business and 2) Becoming a thought leader. 56% of B2B marketing executives stated “positioning our company as a thought leader” as their top objective in a recent Economics Intelligence Unit study. This puts huge importance on being a thought leader.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 29, 2018

In fact, one study revealed that 40% of salespeople said prospecting is the most challenging part of the sales process. In the latest Top Performance in Sales Prospecting research report, 488 B2B buyers revealed the top five offers that are most likely to sway them to accept a meeting or connect with you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales team are active players in the blame game. While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Sound familiar?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

As a sales leader or rep, marketing automation is fundamental to understanding your prospects’ behaviors, leveraging them in your follow-ups, and making the right connections. In this blog, I’ll share three key areas in which sales uses marketing automation for success: 1. Lead Scoring and Collaboration.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The internet is saturated with content marketing, people’s inboxes are full of well-designed emails , and account-based strategies are quickly becoming a B2B standard. It’s hard to feel buyer’s remorse over a purchase when a brand is consistently interacting with the buyer—even after the sale. Present Your Customer Engagement Goals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

Buzzwords become dated terms as time passes, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg for ABM as more B2B marketers than ever are realizing its significant impact and value. Do your sales and marketing teams want to make a bigger impact with a more strategic focus? Why Is Account-Based Marketing Gaining Traction?

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

We looked to one of our internal experts, our Sales Development Rep with the 60% response rate, to show you how (and when) to write a perfectly personalized BASHO email. A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. And we’ve got examples.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Today’s buyers are highly informed and much farther along in the decision-making process before they ever reach out to your brand. In fact, many decisions for both B2B and B2C products are made long before interacting with a human being. Consistently measure and report across channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Using rich data is commonplace in the B2B world. B2B marketers have the art of prospecting down to a science. Although the B2C world is different, in some ways there’s a lot to be learned from the way B2B marketers manage their audiences, personalize their customer experiences, and use data to drive strategy.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

That’s right, email replies (like Out-Of-Office and Left-The-Company) contain valuable sales intelligence about your leads. The data doesn’t get any fresher, or the process any easier, than mining emails to maintain the health of your database. No changes are required to processes or systems. Think about it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

In fact, Sirius Decisions found that 92% of B2B marketers worldwide consider ABM “extremely” or “very” important to their overall marketing efforts. Align Sales and Marketing. Leverage account-based marketing as the forcing function to drive better alignment between sales and marketing. Know Your Audience. Know Your Audience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Hopefully zero, but the reality is that all too often we get sucked into the rinse-and-repeat tactics that we’ve used forever. Even if you’re a creature of habit, it’s no excuse to become inflexible in the way you approach sales and marketing, especially when there’s so much technology available. And why is this key? You’re Not Alone!

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NetLine

JULY 23, 2020

In the middle of the world being turned upside down , businesses are quite cognizant of the changes in the B2B marketing landscape. . They still have products and services to market but want to both be sensitive with their messaging and sensible in the execution. By studying what the best B2B marketers are doing today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

Author: Stacey Thornberry A joint Marketo and Reachforce research piece found that businesses are 67% better at closing deals when sales and marketing work together. Combined, these two sessions created a powerful and holistic view of how sales and marketing can partner to attract, engage, and close customers. Asset Scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Author: Stacey Thornberry When it comes to sales and marketing, there are plenty of misconceptions due to lack of understanding and collaboration. As a field marketing professional, I have the pleasure of working with sales team members on a daily basis. But, relationships are still the most important part of the selling process. .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2019

Adobe recently published a report detailing the findings of a survey we conducted of 1,215 marketers and B2B buyers in the U.K., The findings reveal that European business buyers expect vendors to display traits traditionally associated with consumer brands, demonstrating B2B and B2C landscapes are no longer distinct.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

Author: Amy McCarthy Throughout the many, many years of working in different aspects of channel management through value-added resellers (VARs), channel partners, or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, I’ve learned firsthand how powerful partnerships can be. Technology partners are an integral part of the software world.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 11, 2016

” Well, as a field marketer, I work to create strong relationships with members of our enterprise sales team. As a B2B company, we have field representatives—otherwise known as account executives—across the globe, with field marketers aligned to each and every one. Set the Tone: Meet with Your Rep ASAP.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

Odds are your sales and marketing departments have spent a great deal of time and money answering this question. But you know that your sales team can call someone who fits your buyer persona perfectly and still end up without a sale. Why is that? You also need to track their behavior. How is Social Intent Data Used?

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Video content in particular is an increasingly compelling tactic for business marketers to deploy throughout the funnel, with numbers to support its use. How can a good B2B video be characterized? Why is it a good idea to incorporate video into your B2B marketing? The word these days is content. Informative. Entertaining.

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BOP Design

JUNE 13, 2019

Is the goal of your B2B content marketing strategy to attract high-quality traffic to your website, to nurture existing prospects through to the final sale, to retain your existing clients, to generate qualified leads, or to increase the revenue of your existing client relationships? IT Services for Schools. 101 Guides.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

Author: Sean Zinsmeister It used to be that prospect management meant dolling out “ Glengarry Leads ” to add to your Rolodex, keeping a spreadsheet of top prospects, or most recently populating an empty CRM database with leads that seem to “look good.” The current state of disconnect. So what does it mean for marketers?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Historically in B2B demand generation, more has been better too. If you bring in 20,000 names from a tradeshow or inbound marketing tactics, but the leads do not convert–so what? At Marketo, a lead has to meet three criteria to become a lead: right demographics, right behavior, and right account profile. More leads?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Here are some questions that IDC sought to answer with their survey: How do leading companies staff and organize teams for effective lead management?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

We kicked off the 2017 Marketing Nation Summit on Sunday with an amazing Fun Run, Marketo University training, and our annual customer and partner awards gala, The Revvies. The next guest to take the stage was Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, who shared the vision for Infor and Marketo as a strategic partnership. What a start!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

They even include what looks to be a personalized customer service angle to finish the email. of sales are completed on a mobile phone, with an expected rise over the next three years. Tips for B2B. While this is true (certainly by percentages), B2B ecommerce and their requisite cart abandonment issues should not be overlooked.

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