Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

AI technologies are also creating key internal opportunities that drive better alignment between marketing and sales resulting in an increase in revenue and a healthy pipeline. Let’s look at five ways AI can help marketing and sales continue to tear down silos. Support Sales with Relevant Customer Experiences.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. For one, I can report that no companies are coming to our firm asking us to help them align sales and marketing. Enable sales reps to turn off lead nurturing for specific prospects from within the CRM system.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 2022

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. Changing the dynamic of prospecting and lead management strategies.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2013

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Your current white papers just don’t have the same impact as they once had … but why?

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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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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Yet within all these touches is the holy grail of B2B KPIs: campaign ROI. Why Campaign Attribution in Salesforce Is Important. But fear not!

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Frequently, this is due to a backlog of campaigns and other tactical needs – as soon as the platform is deployed, the company moves immediately into “campaign mode” to address that backlog, and never has the time thereafter to hit “pause” and address the big picture. Not setting up SPF and DKIM. Trying to be too complex too quickly.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

To succeed in this new climate, you must adapt your tactics and shift your brand to become more human and digital native-friendly. At the very least, it should include the following: 70% original content: The bulk of your content should be original—articles, white papers, videos, case studies, webinars, etc.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Content marketing gurus all seem to be talking about the need to create experiences for marketing to engage with buyers, but what does that mean to the average B2B company? Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. Here are a few of the metrics every B2B business should be looking out for. This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution. Sales qualified leads.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. Buyers’ needs, not yours, drive the purchase process. Too-early sales contact is frustrating for both buyers and salespeople.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

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. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

B2B Marketing has become multi-faceted in this digital era. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " How can companies maintain branding and messaging consistency across various marketing vehicles that they use? "B2B Marketing Must Be Driven by an Umbrella Strategy" Ardath Albee's Bio. Ardath Albee.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. Here’s what assessments can look like for B2B. The modern B2B buyer does a huge amount of research during their purchase process. Unconvinced?

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, there are only 8% of companies that have created a strong alignment between their sales and marketing departments. A company’s inability to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs them more than 10% in revenue per year.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Content marketing gurus all seem to be talking about the need to create experiences for marketing to engage with buyers, but what does that mean to the average B2B company? Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before.

Acquisitions 120

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " What do you recommend to marketers that create and market content? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? " Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

Although it’s been around for quite a while, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) seems to be the new holy grail for B2B marketers – and for good reason. Fueled by advances in data analytics and marketing automation, a well-designed and executed ABM campaign can speed up your sales cycle and dramatically increase conversion rates.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in August 2009.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. Here are a few of the metrics every B2B business should be looking out for. This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution. Sales qualified leads.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

B2B Marketing Content falls under 2 broad category - 1. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you send the prospect directly to the content (say, a white paper) upon him or her clicking in the email, how confident can you be that the individual is expressing an active interest in your topic? Here’s why: 1. A click is not a response. People click on a whim, out of idle curiosity, even by accident.

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Webbiquity

MAY 23, 2011

It’s not that B2B companies aren’t finding success in social media marketing, but more (in my experience at least) that they are less willing to publicly reveal their strategies for competitive reasons. Recently, that’s begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. Here are a few of the metrics every B2B business should be looking out for. This is the plight many B2B companies face, but marketing qualified leads are the solution. Sales qualified leads.

Lead Ranking 48

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 48

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Biznology

JULY 18, 2016

In today’s B2B world, your prospects don’t want to hear from you until much later in the buying process, so attracting, engaging and nurturing them until they’re ready to talk to a sales person is no longer a nice way to supplement the top of your funnel. A white paper that takes a deeper dive?

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 23, 2017

When potential customers see your ad on Facebook, they can sign up for more info or request something from your business—like price estimates, newsletters, product demos, white papers, trials and much more. Using Lead Ads for B2B Lead Generation. Best Practices for Facebook Lead Ads.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. New York, NY.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Peer-to-peer marketing is not only a viable channel you should be exploring, but it’s also one that has seen great success in both B2B and B2C marketing. In fact, 91% of B2B purchasers say past buying decisions had been influenced by word of mouth from industry peers. This was a really fantastic way to document the event!

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: "In what ways have metrics evolved with the increase in digital B2B marketing? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The most glaring symptom was the absurdly high scores: hundreds of contacts had lead scores of more than 1,000, even though the supposed threshold for a sales-ready lead was a mere 100 points. Once a contact’s lead score exceeds the threshold value for sales-readiness or “hot lead,” any further increase ceases to have much relevance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Management could understand these metrics. It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. Your sales reps know this. Here at Marketo, we use lead nurturing and scoring to help us identify when someone is ready to buy.

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And more than just creating content like blogs, white papers, and case studies, you’ll need to master SEO, have a social media presence, and don’t forget about email marketing. More About Buyer Personas: Why Understanding Your B2B Buyer Persona is the Crux of all Marketing Efforts. Keyword being consistent. Not so fast.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. Most would argue 100 Webinar leads are worth more than 100 White Paper leads. no improvement matters if you can’t measure it.

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