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. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant.

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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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Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

But big-ticket purchases in B2C and B2B will help marketers see ROI with a small number of wins, which pushes some marketers toward quality. Even with new channels and new tactics entering the fray on a regular basis, the debate around how to do lead gen rages on, including on social media channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 21, 2017

If you’re keeping up with the latest B2B trends, you’ve probably heard or read the term “Account Based” recently. Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. 1: VP of Sales.

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A/B testing Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 134

SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is preferred by most salespeople. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria.

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Sales Management Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 52

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. Enough with the negativity and cliches.

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Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Research 348

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

4 Customer-Led Strategies for Success Here are a few customer-led growth strategies you can try in your organization to build loyalty, drive sales, and navigate choppy waters: 1. Content Marketing and Thought Leadership High-quality content positions your B2B company as a trusted industry resource and thought leader.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy B2B Thought Leadership Word of Mouth 112

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

However, your social media accounts can be a fully functional sales channel that drives revenue. Let’s take a look at how you can strategize your social media platforms and examine sales tactics that work on social. In this blog, I’ll help you turn your social media presence into an engaging sales funnel.

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Sales Management Social Media Advertising Channels Top of Funnel 116

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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PureB2B

APRIL 29, 2022

Being tasked with the job of not just managing, but accelerating the sales funnel, is no mean feat. which is precisely why so many organizations invest so much of their budget in multi-channel demand generation campaigns. Read on to discover six techniques to foster successful B2B demand generation.

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Demand Top of Funnel Marketing Management Effectiveness 62

PureB2B

APRIL 29, 2022

Being tasked with the job of not just managing, but accelerating the sales funnel, is no mean feat. which is precisely why so many organizations invest so much of their budget in multi-channel demand generation campaigns. Read on to discover six techniques to foster successful B2B demand generation.

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Demand Top of Funnel Effectiveness Marketing Management 62

Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Intent data can be used to drive B2B marketing efforts through a multi- or omni-channel strategy, giving you invaluable insight into what prospects are about to do next. Not only should marketers be capturing intent data across every channel, but they should be applying insight to make these channels convert seamlessly.

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Demand Generation Advertising Channels Multi-Channel Intent Data 98

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You may not realize it, but B2B podcasts from you and your company create multi-use content, testimonials, thought leadership, and relationships with industry leaders. This multi-use content is used in testimonial quotes, blogs, nurture messages, ebooks, hard cover books, guest websites, white papers or case studies.

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Multi-Channel B2B Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Thought Leadership 159

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.

Demand Generation 62

Demand Generation Demand Sales Qualified Leads Account Based Marketing 62

Oktopost

JUNE 19, 2023

More than ever before, the general consensus is that marketing is just as relevant to lead generation as sales – and why shouldn’t it be? These platforms grant easy access to some of the most valuable audiences any B2B enterprise could hope to find – provided you know how to find them, and how to use social media publishing to your advantage.

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Lead Ranking Social Media Lead Generation Lead Scoring 62

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. As a follow up to this newsletter, we are launching the MKT1 Guide in early 2024.

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Startups Marketing Analytics Tools Course B2B Marketing 98

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. These metrics disregard whether or not you’re reaching the right people at the right time in their buying process and they give you no actionable data to inform strategy adjustments. . Brand Awareness. Correlation is not causation.

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Blast Campaigns Elasticity Eye-Tracking B2B Thought Leadership 147

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s no secret measuring the success of a B2B SEO program can be tricky. B2B buying cycles can take up to 18 months , multiple touch points can occur, and on top of all of that, many businesses don’t have the right tools in place to measure marketing efforts. Analyze Your Content Funnel. Go Multi-Channel.

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Top of Funnel Multi-Touch Attribution ROI SEO 147

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. What content do you have at your disposal (white paper, thought leadership , demo videos, etc )? How often do you publish new content ?

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Marketing Automation Services Multi-Touch Attribution Marketing Automation Relevance 129

Mereo

MARCH 21, 2024

A multi-national software provider’s sales cycles was running 12-18 months on average. When they engaged Mereo to address this, we conducted a win-loss analysis and discovered that the majority of the sales cycles were really about three to four months. To say deal velocity was slow would be an understatement.

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Buy B2B Thought Leadership Multi-Channel Sales Cycle 41

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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Account Based Marketing ABM Planning Lead Ranking 134

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“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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Resource Management Work Management CMS Development Marketing Management 100

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

While there are plenty of benefits to social media, and while it is currently a necessary channel for promoting your products/services, my little millennial brain craves more meaning in my life. That’s why I think it’s so important to promote your podcasts through other channels, because the app/platform spaces are highly competitive.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 101

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.– That means you need the right team to manage your marketing automation platform. However, the smaller your company, the more “hats” your marketing automation manager will have to wear in the beginning.

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PureB2B

MARCH 31, 2022

About six years ago, intent-based marketing data broke into the SaaS and B2B spaces and ultimately changed how marketers look at prospects. Now, in lieu of creating high-quantity email campaigns, B2B sales and marketing teams can better prioritize purchase-ready prospects based on their individual behavior and online activity.

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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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For this reason, we recently published comprehensive lists of helpful YouTube channels for recruiters and YouTube channels for sales professionals. Up first on today’s list is a channel called Social Triggers TV. Up first on today’s list is a channel called Social Triggers TV. Today’s blog post is for you!

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Youtube Advertising Channels Work Management Marketing Attribution 220

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

When it comes to attributing ROI to a top-of-funnel social media strategy, the challenge is often in having access to enough data points to correctly understand its impact on revenue. On some teams, sales uses Twitter to search for buzzwords and chat with potential leads. Good luck with that.” So what’s a data-driven marketer to do?

Multi-Touch Attribution 101

Multi-Touch Attribution ROI Top of Funnel Social Marketing 101

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Simply dabbling in multi-channel marketing is no longer an option. 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.

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Multi-Touch Attribution Automation Multi-Channel Marketing Management 132

ViewPoint

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders.

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Sales Qualified Leads Planning Peer-to-peer Work Management 120

Oktopost

JUNE 30, 2021

Listen to the podcast: For more thought leadership on how to tap into behavioral data and B2B buyer brains, check out our Radically Transparent podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or LinkedIn. Radically Transparent , is a podcast geared towards the modern-day B2B marketer. Catch all episodes here.

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Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Transparency B2B 62

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. According to data from the Marketo ABM Benchmark Survey, 33% of B2B SMBs are already conducting ABM.

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Exo B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

Or to promote their brand, or generate sales opportunities. These four pillars are LinkedIn Basic, LinkedIn Ads, the LinkedIn company page with its showcase pages, and Sales Navigator. These range from marketing and communication to sales and employee professional development. Strengthen your employer and sales brand?

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Linkedin Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies B2B Thought Leadership 52

Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. You can even ask Alexa! My name is Matt Heinz.

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B2B Thought Leadership Training Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer 117

DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Demand generation and sales leaders are facing dramatic budget and staffing cuts, but their goals haven’t changed. Marketing and sales must generate awareness, pipeline, and revenue, and must prove their worth to the organization. Digital channels are the primary lifeblood of B2B sales and marketing programs right now.

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Paid Content Advertising Channels ROI B2B Marketing 52

DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Why digital marketing is vital Demand generation and sales leaders are facing dramatic budget and staffing cuts, but their goals haven’t changed. Marketing and sales must generate awareness, pipeline, and revenue, and must prove their worth to the organization. But the reality is different, especially for B2B marketers.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Advertising Channels ROI Paid Search Agency 52

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 9, 2019

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. The Importance Of Organizational Culture For Sales Teams, with Justin Hiatt, Episode #103. Why is No-One Talking About B2B Creative? Maybe it shouldn’t be.

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