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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. Read more about the survey results on Lori’s blog.). LDW: Yes and no.

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Forrester thinks Content Marketing Isn’t Working – They’re Half Right

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Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

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B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. One fixture of B2B marketing for more than a decade is the lead funnel, brought to prominence by the analysts at SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester.) Cold-calling is dead.

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5 Tips for More Effective Email Preview Text

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Which makes it a vital and necessary component in any B2B marketer’s copy deck. For example, use the subject line to describe the offer, and the preview text to deliver a key benefit or two: New Forrester Report on 2019 B2B Buyer Trends 7 key ways marketers should adapt to today’s buyer behavior.

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Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

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The guide features insights, projections, and opinions on current challenges, opportunities, and trends from 19 B2B marketing experts and practitioners, including leading executives from Marketo, Oracle, SiriusDecisions, and Forrester Research. DGR) What were the biggest changes/challenges for B2B marketers in 2017? (DGR)

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

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These comments align with industry studies (most recently: Forrester ) bemoaning the inability of B2B marketers to fully leverage marketing automation to its full capability, most specifically in areas like lead nurturing and customer marketing. (Our

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How to Market an Analyst Report

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By which I mean that most analyst reports – Gartner Magic Quadrants, Forrester Wave Reports, and the like – are marketed as press announcements vs. information of value that might attract prospects actively evaluating your type of solution. However, in my experience, most tech companies don’t know how to market them.