Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. B2B marketers need to learn to prioritize Customer Experience Management (CEM) to stay close to their customers and to develop an all-inclusive marketing strategy that strikes a perfect balance between creative demands, budget limits & channel decisions of the marketers.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Building a network in Google+ could be the next critical tactic when it relates to B2B search engine optimization and broader social media initiatives. SEO impact aside, recent statistics indicate Google Plus is on pace to overtake Facebook (the current leader) in social shares by 2016. per month, almost double that of Facebook (9.3%).

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Demand Generation Agencies B2B Marketing Google Work Management 120

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Prologue: The use of B2B Videos marketing is one the rise. With the video being a big thing in 2019, the projections for B2B video marketing trends look promising for 2020. According to a report by the Smart Insights, 83% of marketers believe that videos are becoming increasingly important.

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B2B Marketing Video Marketing Practices B2B 52

Valasys

JANUARY 23, 2020

Lead generation forms the bedrock of a highly successful B2B sales strategy. With the constant evolution in the digitized landscape & Internet of Things (IoT), the B2B sales process has changed. Read more on B2B Marketing in Martech Age. What is Lead generation ? Engage with Your Prospects.

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Valasys

JULY 14, 2020

You need to understand and prioritize their pain-points and preferences at each stage of their buying cycles. Moreover, the report also reveals that an astonishing 79% of marketing leads are never converted into sales. Marketers can employ intelligent predictive insights to optimize the audience-experiences in real-time.

Top of Funnel 78

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Enterprise Management Work Management 78

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 7, 2013

It’s no secret that social media is an important channel of digital marketing. For B2B marketers, there are endless opportunities for leveraging social media platforms and strategies. Research from Optify’s 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report supports these statements. Twitter is one solution.

Social Media 120

Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Twitter Profiling 120

Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

B2B marketing is a monolithic & ever-transcending field & thriving in a knowledge-based economy takes a lot of effort – particularly in terms of delivering the value with the help of content. Read more: How Omnichannel Reputation Management Assists in B2B Branding.

B2B Marketing 59

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency B2B Best Practices 59

Valasys

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Content marketing has been the steering wheel, constantly brewing the B2B dominion. As the big data & Internet of Things (IOTs) have taken over the B2B world, B2B content marketing has become more important than ever. B2B content marketing is an invisible tool in the marketing arsenal of B2B brands.

B2B Marketing 52

B2B Marketing Content Marketing Lead Ranking B2B 52

Valasys

MARCH 25, 2020

As B2B marketers you need to be the flag bearers of innovation to sustain in a tech-savvy and ever-evolving realm. The idea of virtual event marketing was popularized by corporate giants such as IBM and Microsoft to help the idea of real-time customization. Read more on How Intent Data Helps B2B Companies Boost ROI.

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Valasys

APRIL 13, 2020

Since the very inception of the B2B businesses, customer relationship management has been in use in some way or the other. Agile CRM integrations are need of the hour for modern businesses to meet the expectations of their customers and to outlast their competitors in the lead acquisition, nurturing and sales closure game.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers.

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Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Personalizing Your Lead Nurturing Campaigns.

Lead Nurturing 59

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 59

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” Don’t sell.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?)

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

The fact that companies and marketers are increasingly looking at adopting marketing automation software can be seen in Ultimate’s Marketing Automation July 2019 update, that stated that while over 51% of companies had already adopted marketing automation tools, more than half of B2B companies (58%) were also planning to adopt the technology.

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Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Marketing AI Enterprise Management 144

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Content Standard

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

For B2B marketers, qualified leads look like the panacea for every corporate campaign. The thinking goes that if you deliver leads to sales, then you’ve made your company more money and justified your budget in the process. Corporate Executive Board says 90 percent of B2B marketers are linking the two together.

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 40

Content Standard

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

For B2B marketers, qualified leads look like the panacea for every corporate campaign. The thinking goes that if you deliver leads to sales, then you’ve made your company more money and justified your budget in the process. Corporate Executive Board says 90 percent of B2B marketers are linking the two together.

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 40

Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It is possible & some of the most successful content marketers have been doing this for years now. The trick lies in focusing on every part of the buyers’ journeys & accordingly designing pieces of content tailored to each of the individual buying cycles of the prospects. In short, the audience centricity matters.

Loyalty 72

Loyalty Top of Funnel Content Marketing Ad Building 72

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. Who has more “Rs&# to add to the list?

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Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Fifty-six percent of the participants were primarily B2B marketers and the remaining 44% were B2C. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Are you using a blog as part of your B2B marketing?

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Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? How can industrial and B2B marketers apply the same creative problem solving lessons in engaging with their prospects and customers?

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

Valasys

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

B2B marketers think that if they are providing spectacular products or services, it’s more than enough as the services will speak for themselves. Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM) may be inexpensive, but it blossoms only once exemplary products or services are delivered by the brands to their customers.

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Word of Mouth WOMM B2B Marketing Marketing AI 40

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.)

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At the same time, you know that social media has changed the marketing landscape : shouting to prospects with endless email offers may produce leads but you’re worried about the longer term implications to your market. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix? Social media? All rights reserved.

Marketing Mix 100

Marketing Mix Social Media Social Marketing Media 100

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

Social Networks 60

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Are those predictions a little premature?

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Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0 60