Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Staying ahead of the curve is imperative for long-term success in B2B. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively. Getting real with upper-funnel expectations We need to rethink how we approach the early stages of marketing traditionally focused on brand awareness.

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Televerde

MARCH 20, 2024

Previously Published on SalesAndMarketing.com It’s tempting to believe that the more likes, shares and comments you rack up, the fatter your sales figures will soar as well. There’s no quick-fix way to make your social media platforms direct paths to sales conversion. But let’s face it, the equation isn’t that simple.

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Rev

JUNE 25, 2019

That’s B2B marketing in 2019 in a nutshell. . We’ve been inundated with process improvements, strategies, and marketing automation tools – there’s literally no shortage of things we can be doing. Which proven demand generation tactics actually work to increase the metrics that matter to your organization? advertisement.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Imagine yourself as the captain of a B2B company sailing through the competitive seas of the Americas. In this scenario, the significance of B2B growth marketing cannot be overstated. What is B2B Growth Marketing? B2B Growth Marketing is a strategic approach aimed at driving sustainable growth for business-to-business companies.

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accelerate agency

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Like everything else, sales have gone online, and that’s especially true for the SaaS industry. In the following article, we’re going to give you all the details and tricks you need to finetune your SaaS sales game so you can make sure you’re selling your SaaS product in the best way possible. What Is the SaaS Sales Process?

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Enterprise Management Process Lead Ranking Work Management 78

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Even though many B2B marketers are already looking ahead to 2016, it’s may be worth recognizing the accomplishments of the past year. Because a component of your B2B marketing strategy certainly needs to focus on leveraging the experience gained executing tactics and campaigns that worked well. STRATEGIC CONTENT MARKETING.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Intent is the lifeblood of sales. Intent data paints a panoramic picture of the B2B arena -revealing current interests, challenges, and needs of target audiences, resulting in increased conversions and accelerated pipeline. Must Read: What are the Benefits of B2B Intent Data? Must Read: How to Collect B2B Intent Data?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There is perhaps no more challenging role in the C-suite than that of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) within a B2B organization. All of this begs the question: Is the role of the B2B CMO past its prime? The challenge with the modern B2B CMO role is one of positioning. Modern B2B CMOs are set up to fail.

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NetLine

APRIL 11, 2024

Having a pulse on the state of content consumption and demand is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. Fresh off of our recognition at the 2023 KIller Content Awards , we’re thrilled to announce the latest edition of our award-winning annual report. million first-party content registrations. An Analysis of 6.2

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Oktopost

JUNE 30, 2021

Though it’s still the most widely-used social network in the world , B2B marketers don’t always see it as a viable platform for generating leads. Easy, but wrong — because with the right strategy, Facebook is a viable channel for B2B marketing. Are Facebook Ads Right for B2B? How to Succeed with B2B Facebook Ads.

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accelerate agency

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Like everything else, sales have gone online, and that’s especially true for the SaaS industry. In the following article, we’re going to give you all the details and tricks you need to finetune your SaaS sales game so you can make sure you’re selling your SaaS product in the best way possible. What Is the SaaS Sales Process?

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Process Paid Content Lead Ranking 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2018

The importance of data cannot be understated in the modern sales landscape. Now, data and analytics reign supreme when it comes to running a successful sales organization. Maybe you’re new to data-driven sales, or maybe you just need to brush up on how to leverage data as part of your sales strategy.

Marketing & Strategy 170

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Aberdeen

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Onboarding sales reps is painful — both in terms of the cost and delay in achieving return on training investment. And the cost of talent acquisition, talent management, and talent development isn’t cheap. The delay in achieving comparable performance to those tenured sales people will usually exceed one full year.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2018

In fact, 73% of all B2B leads are not ready to purchase the first time they interact with your brand. Lead nurturing is the process of developing meaningful relationships with potential customers throughout every stage of the buyer’s journey. Lead behavior: how a prospect interacts with the content you provide.

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This year at InsightSquared, we covered a variety of topics in our webinars, from RevOps process and rep coaching to marketing attribution and pipeline management. Keeping tabs on all this great content is never easy, so we’ve compiled a Best of List with top webinars from our team and partners, to guide you into the new year!

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Dissecting the very short lives of the B2B marketing budgets in 2022 will not take long. Q3-4 2022 - The Marketers' Awakening - World (AKA company CEOs) enter a changed reality, many adjust marketing budgets and expectations for marketing and sales. 2023: The B2B marketing stakes are high. Q1 2022 - Spend, spend, spend.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2020

Both ask the same, fundamental question when analyzing demand marketing budgets: What real sales ‘lift’ am I getting from this spend? Demand Marketing should be held to a clear, high standard of incremental – i.e., ‘net’ – contribution to sales. What do CFOs and CROs have in common? What do we mean by lift? Incrementality.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

Most content marketers have two core beliefs about content: That “good” content (high-quality content) will outperform “bad” content every time, i.e. that good content gets more results. That good content takes more time to create than bad content. Time spent in creating content ?

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Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 275

Oktopost

MAY 18, 2021

Following the success of our From the Experts webinar series , we wanted to provide you with this content through another channel to make it easily accessible and digestible for our audience. How and What B2B Marketers Can Learn from B2C . What Makes Up Peoples Relationships with Brands. What Makes Up Peoples Relationships with Brands.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

72% of the respondent stated they were using buyer personas for content marketing and messaging while 45% stated they were using for assessing market challenges and problems, as well as, address overall marketing strategy – an increase from 28% the previous year. Important Correlations Uncovered. This jumped from 14% to 30% as well.

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1985, a software designer named Alan Cooper invented a user persona named Kathy to add human context to the development process. Creating buyer personas is a subjective and analytical process based on data and actual customers or prospects. Buying Behavior: Is this a B2B or B2C customer? How do they make purchasing decisions?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. So, how can you manage ever-increasing expectations around marketing vanity metrics? On the other hand, you may have a small but dedicated following on LinkedIn– and your social posts often lead to big sales.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 3, 2017

Evaluating and hiring a winning Sales Team is not unlike the process of evaluating character attributes in a video game. No sales rep is perfect in every category. Sales Team Attributes. The sales team attributes we assessed were: Adapting to change. Sales Skill. It’s a game of give and take.

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Correlation Peer-to-peer Marketing Management Storytelling 120

SalesIntel

JANUARY 10, 2024

The good news is that there is a lot of amazing data out there, and recognizing it may be as simple as asking a few basic questions to the B2B data provider. You might call it your relevant market or your sales addressable market.) How do you leverage all this data to make your marketing and sales efforts efficient and effective?

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Seismic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Customer experience has long been a priority for B2C companies, but it hasn’t been a focus for B2B organizations until more recently. The B2B selling space is evolving, funnel dynamics are shifting, and buyers are becoming better informed. The Focus on B2B Customer Experience. The disruption of data and technology.

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Convert

APRIL 29, 2022

Experimentation in B2B marketing is much harder than in B2C, greatly because of the long sales cycle and its implications. So why, despite its obvious need and advantages, do B2B marketing leaders often avoid marketing experimentation? The Challenge with B2B Marketing Experiments. It might mean an entire lost sales cycle!

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Seismic

AUGUST 25, 2019

.” – Peter Drucker, father of modern management theory. ‘Sales efficiency’ and ‘sales effectiveness’ sound like vague concepts, but they can actually have a significant impact on the success of your sales strategy. If you can improve sales productivity, then why wouldn’t you?

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6sense

JANUARY 6, 2022

During one of our last weekly CMO Coffee Talk sessions of 2021, we tackled the wide-ranging topic of sales enablement. We discussed tech platforms, content strategies, social amplification, partner enablement, and much more. Sending an email to members of the sales team doesn’t mean they’ll all read it, let alone grok it.

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Leadspace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge—particularly in driving revenue for their business. It is collected from a web users’ observed behavior – specifically web content consumption – that provides insights into their interests.

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Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 62

Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the realm of B2B marketing, building a high-quality and targeted list of quality leads is paramount. B2B list building is the foundation upon which successful B2B lead generation campaigns are built. Manual B2B list building , while traditional, is not without its challenges.

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Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Generation 62

Marketing Craftmanship

JULY 8, 2019

There are two reasons why marketing fails most often at small- and medium-sized B2B firms. Your company uses a collection of tactics (often labeled as a “marketing campaign”) only in response to a problem; typically involving the loss of a key client, or decline in revenue. Create Meaningful Content. Do a Few Things Very Well.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

.” – Mary Meeker, Partner at Kleiner Perkins With the ocean of customer data at your fingertips, identifying the right buying intent aligning your business offerings is critical to driving sales. This article explains the intent data and why it is crucial to include it to hit your sales goal in 2024.

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PureB2B

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Blending it with a sales outreach is even harder. Knowing that marketing and sales share a lot of (if not all) the same contacts, how can you make sure that the narrative is consistent across the board for your email nurture? In sales, the primary objective is to generate an opportunity and then convert that opportunity to revenue.

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Top of Funnel Email Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 118

FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Let’s assume that you’re targeting B2B companies and you built out your account list. Generally it all boils down to some combination of inbound and outbound funnels; but what if you’re not getting them to convert? So your goal is to engage them in a conversation as early in that process as possible.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing. Not so with video.

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NetLine

JANUARY 30, 2024

When we introduced INTENTIVE , our intention (yes, pun intended) was to change how B2B marketing gets done. In this blog, we’ll share some of the exciting results and new developments taking place within the INTENTIVE platform, and how it’s making waves by providing real-time insights into active intent within B2B accounts.

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