Contently

AUGUST 15, 2017

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. In total, events make up about a fifth of marketing spend at B2B companies, according to Forrester Research and Boston Consulting Group.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By personalizing the approach to specific accounts, companies using ABM show their prospects that they understand the challenges they’re facing, which increases engagement and leads to more sales. ABM works best when marketing and sales collaborate. The benefits of Account Based Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 4, 2010

One of the great things about working at Marketo is the amount of marketing and sales professionals we speak to each week. improved their SEO while lowering their online add spend. reduced their sales cycles by as much as 35%. tightened the relationship and handoff between their sales and marketing teams.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. Finance may ask: “Marketing, what have you done for me lately?”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The current marketing trailblazers realize it’s time to shift their focus away from monthly reports and onto insight-based decisions. They’re moving past backward-looking measurement and toward decision-focused management—and it’s redefining the way we think about marketing ROI. Average order value. Cost per action.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The ability to leverage qualification for a given stage to manage campaign communication, campaign and channel cost management, as well as overall performance reporting. Consideration #2: Track Internal Handoffs or Potential Process Bottlenecks. Example 5: Long sales cycle audience journey map. Do you have sub-stages?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new strategy, and you’ve most likely heard of it before. Account-based marketing spend is expected to increase by 41% in 2019, according to the 2019 Account Based Benchmark Report by Topo. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy, not a technology. Increased marketing revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It encompasses everything from new marketing processes and sales mentalities to unlocking potential for marketers and sales teams (whose jobs should be easier now that companies are capable of gaining so much more information about everyone they come in contact with). But you already knew that.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, hopefully, we’ll collect a nice bucket of leads that keep our sales team happy and busy. But how exactly should you process trade show lists to get the most out of your conference sponsorship? Marketers devote substantial time to driving booth traffic. The way we do it is by using our own lead management solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

by Jen Howard Events are a vital component of demand generation and brand reinforcement platforms and represent a huge slice of total B2B marketing spend. One of Marketo’s most significant events to attend and sponsor is Dreamforce ; every year we make an effort to get the most from this critical industry-leading conference.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By looking at this information, you will be able to determine where to focus your digital marketing spend. Explore the funnel visualization and reverse goal path functions and follow the path to the point of consumption. By selling your customers on the brownies, it assists in the sale of lemonade to wash it down.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Clean and accurate data is always top-of-mind for B2B marketers because without it, your demand generation team can’t send relevant content to leads and your sales team can’t tailor their conversations with leads during each step of the buyer’s journey. How should sales handle leads that are not ready to buy?

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Dave Green interviewed Trish Bertuzzi ( @bridgegroupinc ), author of the popular book, The Sales Development Playbook. For the majority of B2B companies with complex sales, marketing-generated leads rarely account for 50% of revenue and often it’s often much less. How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

What I like most about Demand Generation is that it makes the customer's buying process so much more efficient. The seller that best understands this buying process and adjusts its demand generation process accordingly has the biggest chance of commercial success. I really enjoyed doing that, and the results were amazing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Marketers spend a lot of time (and money) delivering leads to sales teams. Of course, one big mistake – or even a series of little ones – can be the end of a potential sale. Ensure you avoid these 10 worst things you can do with a qualified sales lead in your lead nurturing efforts: 1. Well, you know the rest.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 4, 2012

by Liz Smyth In the final part of our Marketing in a Downturn series, we’re examining the importance of getting your sales and marketing teams aligned. But in an age of cautious spending, no company can afford to have sales leads disappear because of poor internal processes. Score Your Leads Collaboratively.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, hopefully, we’ll collect a nice bucket of leads that keep our sales team happy and busy. But how exactly should you process trade show lists to get the most out of your conference sponsorship? Marketers devote substantial time to driving booth traffic. The way we do it is by using our own lead management solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Author: Raymond Coppinger Behind every great marketer there is a…what? My answer isn’t the most glamorous, but it rings true: Behind every great marketer is a talented project manager. Some of the skills any effective marketer needs are obvious, like the ability to understand and make good decisions based on marketing analytics.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 8, 2018

In many organizations, marketing suffers from a crisis of credibility. Many executives believe it exists solely to support sales, or that it is an arts and crafts function that throws parties and puts logos on swag. This is the difference between backward-looking measurement and decision-focused management.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new strategy, and you’ve most likely heard of it before. Account-based marketing spend is expected to increase by 41% in 2019, according to the 2019 Account Based Benchmark Report by Topo. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy, not a technology. Increased marketing revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

Which funnel stage gets the majority of a marketing budget? If you answered the top and the middle—congrats, you’ve passed today’s marketing pop quiz! According to CustomShow , 97% of a company’s marketing budget is spent on the top and middle-of-the-funnel— which is where online ad campaigns play a key role.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Marketo’s sessions were flatteringly well-attended (sold out, in fact!) by the many marketers at Dreamforce this year. As such, marketers need to look into applications that can support multi-channel relationships with customers. 10 Ways Marketing Automation and Inbound Marketing Work Together.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 28, 2018

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. About three years ago now we started producing a weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio ,(live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. We started talking to more and more people, and hearing that they were struggling with ABM,” said Ari Echt , Invoca’s senior marketing automation manager. “A Ari Echt. “We

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. We started talking to more and more people, and hearing that they were struggling with ABM,” said Ari Echt , Invoca’s senior marketing automation manager. “A Ari Echt. “We

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. We started talking to more and more people, and hearing that they were struggling with ABM,” said Ari Echt , Invoca’s senior marketing automation manager. “A Ari Echt. “We

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. We started talking to more and more people, and hearing that they were struggling with ABM,” said Ari Echt , Invoca’s senior marketing automation manager. “A Ari Echt. “We

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles ABM Multi-Touch Attribution 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you dig into the design and capabilities, you’ll find that while CRM systems provide indispensable value to any kind of sales organization, the reality is that they fall short for most marketing departments. Track opportunities and pipeline, manage contact and account information. Marketing Automation. Case Management.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2015

The fact that 83% of decision makers stated their company websites are the most popular channel for online research, coupled with the fact that more then 70% of today’s sales processes are done before ever contacting a sales rep explains why there are tens of thousands of monthly visitors to company websites.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

In several previous posts I have been discussing the ways that marketers (and other business professionals) can gain and maintain a secure position at the senior management table. These more intelligent marketing assets and tools are crucial to building and operating a high performance revenue engine.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 21, 2016

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2016 has in store for marketers? We were curious so we asked Marketo employees to take a moment to look forward and share their marketing predictions. Social Media Marketing: Google is going to feel the pressure from social media advertising. Quality over quantity!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Demand generation marketers spend their careers building out complex lead acquisition and engagement engines, but sometimes it’s good to take it back to the basics—way back–as in, back to the things we learned in kindergarten that still hold true in today’s marketing landscape. Hand-Raisers Are Encouraged. A warm one!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

If you can’t draw the connection between your marketing and the bottom line, it’s nearly impossible to defend your budget. But it’s not just about securing next quarter’s marketing spend. “TOFU,” or “Top-of-Funnel” metrics are the first metrics you use to evaluate a program.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2011

by Phil Fernandez There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about the desire of marketing professionals to have a “seat” at the senior management table – where the most important decisions are made regarding the company’s strategic direction, operations, and financial activities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2015

Author: David Cain As marketing professionals we’re often at the center of a variety of critical cross-functional initiatives, which gives us the rewarding opportunity to work with nearly every department in an organization. We work with IT on the selection and implementation of mission-critical software platforms (think “Marketo”).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

To effectively project these kinds of statistics, B2B marketing teams need to look at a marketing analytics solution that provides features including: - Forecast deals and bookings before they enter the sales cycle. - Create analytic models that predict conversations between funnel stages over time.

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