Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Measuring key marketing metrics also allows for reliable and accurate reporting to senior managers and stakeholders, and to deliver this with confidence. Let’s take a deep dive into the top 12 demand generation KPIs that every B2B marketer should have on their radar: 1.

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Meerkat Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) and 2. I will focus on MQLs in this blog. . HubSpot defines a MQL as a lead who has been deemed more likely to become a customer compared to other leads. I.e. We did a, b and c marketing activities this month and generated 20 MQLs in our pipeline. Our cost per MQL is $x. .

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Marketing focuses on full-funnel, not just top of funnel The first order of business for building a fully-functioning marketing org is to recognize marketing as a full-funnel job. For more on my fuel & engine framework for thinking about marketing activities, check out this newsletter.

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The Point

APRIL 23, 2020

There’s plenty of debate online about the merits of marketing spend in a recession, but the reality is that many B2B firms are currently cutting back on large-scale investment. Map your content. Audit your existing content library and map each asset by form factor, persona, vertical and funnel stage (early, mid, late).

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PureB2B

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Is it safe to assume that prospects will engage with your marketing email, not become an inbound lead, and still buy from a competitor? So why not kick up the marketing activities once the lead hits the MQL score? Revenue marketing is part of a philosophy and mindset focused on generating and accelerating ROI.

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PureB2B

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Is it safe to assume that prospects will engage with your marketing email, not become an inbound lead, and still buy from a competitor? So why not kick up the marketing activities once the lead hits the MQL score? Revenue marketing is part of a philosophy and mindset focused on generating and accelerating ROI.

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

Marketing qualified leads – how many of the leads are likely to become buyers? Marketing qualified leads can be calculated based on certain criteria such as company size, industry/sector, and content consumption. Step 3: Determine the percentage of that traffic that qualifies as an MQL.

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Sage Marketing

MARCH 24, 2019

And of course, my all-time favorite, “Lower spend.”. Marketing starts with goals. PPC, SEO, tradeshows, webinars, PR, and content are some fundamental elements of a successful comprehensive marketing approach, but they are just tools. In order to use your budget wisely, you need to start with goals and KPIs.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads.

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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. What kind of accountability measures are in place?

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

B2B SEO can help your business with discoverability, technical analysis and content strategy to drive revenue organically. These services include link building, content, and on-page improvements to optimize opportunities at every stage in your marketing funnel. B2C SEO content will focus on ecommerce, or an online purchase.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2020

Executing a successful ABM strategy is easier said than done given the natural tendency across marketing to lean towards the “spray and pray” approach to drive the so-called leads and MQL volume. As all marketers would agree, ABM is all about focusing on a critical few rather than trivial many.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The faster a marketing organization is executing programs, more is the need for the marketing analytics teams to provide insights around the performance of the campaigns to enable optimization of the strategy and spend in the pursuit of higher ROI.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Far too often SaaS companies are unable to let their SEO agency know how many MQLs or SQLs it took to close one sale, or even be able to get more granular with how many customers per product have been produced by the organic traffic medium. This section alone could absolutely make or break your digital marketing campaigns, not just SEO.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Tomasz Tunguz has noted that SaaS companies invest between 80 and 120 percent of their revenue in sales and marketing , while Jason Lemkin has discussed using 40 percent of your revenue-growth delta as a marketing spend. Keep the content flowing. Paid content promotion and retargeting.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Everyone talks about the importance of tracking data and making decisions based on it, but no one tells you how to do it and what a data-driven marketing organization looks like. Here at Marketo, the marketing operations team owns all things data–cleaning our lead database, appending data from 3 rd party sources, and segmenting our data.

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Hubspot

JUNE 14, 2013

Nearly 60% of companies are already practicing inbound marketing and 42% are set to increase their inbound marketing spending in 2013. Leads and customers research online, view websites, consume content, and actively engage on social media -- so it''s no wonder that inbound marketing is catching on fast with marketers.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

When you start drilling down into who your customer really is, the cost-per-click will increase because the likelihood of conversions drastically increases—but so will the efficiency of your marketing spend. Intent data uncovers buying signals by tracking the digital footprints of people’s content consumption across the web.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This is not an “MQL is dead!” As marketing’s central system of record, it is still being unleashed to generate, store and score leads captured on forms through third-party syndication, webinars and email blasts. To hit marketing qualified lead (MQL) quotas. We witnessed examples of: Intelligence-informed timely outreach.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 3, 2020

Seeing growth in unique visitors indicates that your audience is growing and that your content is resonating with them. Work with your sales team to establish definitions for all three, because what makes someone an MQL versus an SQL is different for every business. An SQL has qualified themselves even more than an MQL.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

When you start drilling down into who your customer really is, the cost-per-click will increase because the likelihood of conversions drastically increases—but so will the efficiency of your marketing spend. Intent data uncovers buying signals by tracking the digital footprints of people’s content consumption across the web.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 23, 2016

As content marketers , there are a lot of things that we can and should be measuring—open rates, click through rates, number of visitors (unique and returning), number of users, conversion rates, number of impressions, social media likes and followers, and so on.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

When marketing teams create leads and monitor their progress through the funnel inside the platform the sales team also uses, marketing can identify issues at critical points, such as MQL-to-SAL conversions, and address any problems to expedite lead progress through the funnel. Content Optimization Reference Sheets.

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Sharpspring

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Inbound marketing, on the other hand, is when customers and leads actually opt in to receiving your marketing messages on their own terms. For example, they might subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for a white paper or a long-form piece of content. Inbound marketing enables you to : 1. Engage with your buyers.

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Kapost

MARCH 27, 2017

The latest report by Marketo reveals that 65% of marketers publish content at least once a month. According to Gartner’s CMO Spend Study , marketing spend is on the rise for the third consecutive year. It’s time to connect your content efforts to real results. Content coverage gaps.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Your commute isn’t completely dreadful, you enjoy spending time with your coworkers, and you believe in the ultimate direction of your company. And you simply don’t have the time and resources to analyze your marketing budget while trying to close the year in the black, so you allocate the same funds you had in 2017 to 2018.

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Albacross

APRIL 24, 2019

While lead acquisition, by definition, involves using both inbound and outbound tactics to generate leads, most sales reps and marketers find more success with inbound strategies. What Are MQLs And SQLs. MQL - Marketing qualified lead. Video Marketing. People are consuming more video content than ever before.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

B2B marketers are being given less resources than ever, and yet targets are only increasing. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to 3 innovative, trail-blazing marketers who recognize that the path forward needs deeper content engagement, and better data. Anne saw a critical gap in her data set: content consumption data.

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Single Grain

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They create stage-appropriate content that sends qualified leads into your marketing funnel for additional growth marketing. Their SEO and SEM professionals can elevate your online revenue by cutting down your ads spending and increasing your ROI. They devise strategies to build connections that engage maximum prospects.

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Brandpoint

JUNE 24, 2021

CMI: Content Marketing Institute. A reputable resource for all things content marketing, the Content Marketing Institute is “the leading global content marketing education and training organization, teaching enterprise brands how to attract and retain customers through compelling, multi-channel storytelling.”

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Sharpspring

MAY 13, 2020

A sales and marketing platform may include a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system , email automation , interactive forms , social media scheduling , analytics , community management and content management system (CMS) capabilities to publish blogs , landing pages and other digital content.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

The name of the game is efficiency in marketing spend, and here are some high-level tips to keep in mind: Validate your targets and refine your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) in a downturn. Pick a message, content types, and specific channels and then test the combination. Cost of Not Implementing Marketing Performance Management.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

If you can identify a pattern, theoretically you can serve up the “next best action” (piece of content, invitation to a webinar or demo, etc.) Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Cost of Not Implementing Marketing Performance Management.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s an especially popular approach during a downturn and other uncertainties because it allows marketing teams to try new things and shift gears quickly rather than commit to the long-term strategy as required by other methods, such as the waterfall approach. Getting Started with Agile Marketing. Content Optimization Reference Sheets.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 28, 2021

Cost of Not Implementing Marketing Performance Management. Content Optimization Reference Sheets. Spice Up Your Marketing Funnel. Top 10 Signs You Have A Marketing Data Problem. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Flywheel Goes Full Circle.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Cost of Not Implementing Marketing Performance Management. Content Optimization Reference Sheets. Spice Up Your Marketing Funnel. Top 10 Signs You Have A Marketing Data Problem. Top 5 Reports Finance Wants from Marketing. Avoiding Analysis Paralysis In Marketing Measurement. Flywheel Goes Full Circle.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But it’s also true that the pandemic has dragged on longer than people expected, especially factoring in the initial surge of optimism around vaccine distribution, and it’s important to recognize the role events play in marketing budgets, particularly in the B2B space. Marketing — and Measurement — Remain Essential.

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