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Overcoming the Challenges of Industrial Marketing for Manufacturers: Strategies for Lead Generation and Growing Sales

Tiecas

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Measuring ROI : Like any business investment, we need to measure our marketing efforts’ return on investment (ROI).

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A Guide to ABM Funnel Metrics

SmartBug Media

Here’s what I see: Marketing is consistently exceeding their SMART goals; return on marketing efforts and progress towards key performance indicators (KPIs) are simple to track; and sales and marketing work side by side as a well-oiled machine. Lack of technology to align marketing and sales efforts. ABM Funnel Metrics that Matter.

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What’s new and what’s working, in B2B channel partner marketing

Martech

Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks. These ideas are organized into three categories: strategies, tools and tactics.

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20 B2B Marketing Strategies That Will Deliver Success In 2021

Marketing Insider Group

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Align and Build Ongoing Partnerships with Sales.

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How to Convince Reluctant Sales People to Use Video

Vidyard

They see the writing on the digital wall, see how prospects grow harder to reach by the week, and adopt it as a way to break through the attention barrier. Some reps on your team may already use it. They see anything that challenges the process that’s already working as an unwelcome interruption, even when it’s good for them.

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Researching Personas? Ask Sales!

Content4Demand

Your sales team. Sales representatives and account managers know your audiences better than anyone else in the company. Schedule some time with a top sales rep to discuss what they know about your customers. What do we know about their demographics: age, gender, education, income?

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Four Sales and Marketing Pivots for Customer Lifecycle Stewardship – Accelerating “Converged Growth” B2B Go-to-Market Transformation

ANNUITAS

Spoiler alert: The ‘classic’ B2B go-to-market organization and approach is fundamentally broken and out-of-date; moreover, trying to course correct by working on ‘sales and marketing alignment’ is inadequate and unattainable. 1 – Orient Around End-to-End Customer Lifecycle – Pre- and Post-Sale.