The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Marketo sends second follow-up email.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2023

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Understanding the impact of your content marketing efforts is not just a best practice; it’s a critical component for success in today’s digital marketing realm. The Role of Metrics in B2B Content Marketing First things first: Why bother with metrics?

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline.

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2018

So now it’s time to fire up the ads and watch as your leads turn into revenue, right? While a high quantity of leads can undoubtedly be good, it’s not enough. According to research done by eMarketer , the highest priority of B2B marketers is increasing lead quality , while increasing volume only ranks in third regarding importance.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. Let’s look at best practices for using chatbots to convert your leads. The result?

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you and your team are not analyzing your efforts, you may be losing out on valuable information and new sales. An Accenture survey found that 61% of B2B transactions start online. Therefore, if you are not capturing your data accurately on these platforms, you could be losing insight into these valuable leads that start online.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Following on the heels of CAN-SPAM (US) and CASL (Canada), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the latest in a series of government regulations that promises to have a major impact on the way B2B marketers conduct business. This is not one of those articles. Let Visitors Opt-Out of Cookie Tracking.

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Valasys

MAY 31, 2019

HG for Marketo has been designed to link directly to the users’ marketing automation platform & to reflect upon the latest technologies being used by the potential & existing customers. Marketo is a long-standing leader in B2B marketing which was acquired by Abode on October 31, 2018.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s important to follow through on leads. Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

Ultimately, the blood, sweat, and tears you put into your social media campaigns should translate to leads and sales. But how do you translate ordinary social media conversations into actionable sales leads? Dig into your data to find out what social media platform generates the most sales leads for your business.

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Data insights are critical to boosting marketing and sales performance. The lack of confidence B2B organizations have in their data is hindering the ability to deploy key sales and marketing initiatives,” the D&B report concludes. Integrate marketing and sales data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

From small startups to national corporations, what has shocked me the most is the lack of unity and communication between the sales and marketing departments. To get to the bottom of the issue, I check in with the sales team. 4 Ways to Reunite Sales and Marketing for Good.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

B2B lead nurturing is crucial for driving conversions and revenue scientifically and removing "gut instinct" from the equation. These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. 74% of companies say converting leads is their TOP PRIORITY. Don’t miss your chance. Company size.

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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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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? Remember: .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in. Map Your Sales Journey and Touchpoints.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Steve Lucas, SVP of Marketo, an Adobe company, on Thursday challenged the thousands of attendees at Adobe Summit—The Digital Experience Conference to make every experience count. With that, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen came on stage to discuss with Lucas Adobe’s 2018 acquisition of Marketo. Helping B2B Meet the Experience Mandate.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With experts in marketing and sales technology, strategy, data and analytics, web and engagement channels, content, and so much more, it’s no wonder we are able to do what we do so well. Each one of these evangelists is an expert in their field as well as a practiced demand marketing specialist. . Expertise: Demand marketing strategy.

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Contently

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yet in B2B marketing, there’s a reason they’re still incredibly popular. According to a report from market research firm Demand Metric, events are second only to email when it comes to the most effective B2B marketing tactics. But that doesn’t mean B2B events aren’t affected by the digital revolution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A compelling engagement strategy requires robust content, an omni-channel approach to communication, and a lead scoring partnership with the sales department. Best practices for enterprise-level SEO content include: Thorough keyword + user intent research. By planning ahead, you’ll be able to adjust to content needs on the fly.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jon Miller recently said that the B2B go-to-market playbook is kaput. That’s the same Jon Miller who practically invented that playbook at the dawn of inbound marketing. You know, Marketo and Engagio founder and CMO at Demandbase (and, it just so happens, serial Velocity client). No wonder B2B pipelines are so under pressure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

What Are You Trying To Prove With B2B Marketing? The traditional funnel’s problem is that it views marketing merely as a supplier of leads to sales. Reducing cost per lead. Boosting contributions to the sales pipeline. Sales VPs want to hear about your contribution to the pipeline.

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LeanData

JANUARY 20, 2021

B2B marketers invest an extraordinary amount of time, energy and resources creating demand for their products and services. However, far too many fail to deliver those precious leads to the right team member for timely follow-up. Poor lead management contributes to a 25 percent reduction in potential revenue (Gartner).

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

At this week’s Marketo Summit , I realized we’re right in the middle of B2B Marketing Event Season. MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit was last week, Pardot’s user conference was 2 weeks ago, and the Eloqua Experience is coming up next week. Marketo University. Global Marketo Roll-Out.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. Not in the least, according to a recent UK survey , which reported, amongst other findings, that just 2% of B2B marketers use marketing automation to its full capacity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

They customize our software to the specific business requirements of thousands of B2C and B2B customers across over 20 industries. As we unified the Marketo and Magento partner programs with the Adobe Solution Partner Program and Adobe Exchange Partner Program, we brought our respective partner awards together as well. Akeneo : EMEA.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this comprehensive blog, we’ll unravel the transformative journey from SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) to loyal customer. To contextualize their significance, consider a report by Gleanster Research , which states that roughly 50% of leads are indeed qualified but aren’t quite prepared to make a buying decision.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Imagine a world where sales and marketing can actually work together and, in fact, help one another instead of stepping on each others’ toes. Creating a strong partnership between sales and marketing teams has plagued companies since…well, forever. How many times have you heard sales reps complain about a lack of quality leads?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This meant we could take advantage of decreased ad costs to boost awareness of our offering, empowered with our Marketo Engage solution. To do this well, we also needed to develop and execute the right programs to capture leads, place them in relevant lead nurturing campaigns, and ultimately pass them to Sales (at the right point in time).

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Contently

JANUARY 31, 2023

This is the practice of understanding consumer attitudes and opinions using technology. The next step after understanding what the customer thinks today is to predict where those sentiments will lead them tomorrow. B2B companies can also access customer sentiment data for their target market.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 10, 2022

Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? In this episode of the Radically Transparent podcast, Kevin Lau, one of the biggest customer marketing influencers in the B2B industry and now serving as the Senior Director of Customer Marketing at F5 spills all from his time as Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Adobe.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

How did they influence sales and opportunities? Fortunately, we created five best practices on email metrics to help you get the most out of your email marketing initiatives. First-touch (FT) attribution: This answers a simple business question, ‘which campaigns generated the most profitable new names (leads) into the database?’.

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Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Examples: Increase brand awareness Drive lead generation Improve customer engagement Increase sales 3. Specify your industry or target audience: Examples: B2B marketing might focus on using technology to generate qualified leads and nurture relationships. Are there any downsides or risks from this? Get MarTech!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marketo is happy to be one of the partners contributing to this vision through our integrations with Facebook that connect the dots between seemingly disparate activities, digitally and offline. A Marketo Case Study. The effect on our sales pipeline has been impressive, to say the least.“.

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