Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer 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.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Gartner B2B Sales 102

ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your content does not provide the information they are looking for in their stage of the buying process, you may get overlooked for another company that has provided the content that aligns with their current needs. Trying to make a sale too early in the process can often turn potential customers away.

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Buy Process Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 59

FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. This shift towards remote and automated sales is becoming increasingly common. What are B2B Buyer Personas?

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Buyer Personas Marketing AI Ideal Customer Profiles Webinar Metrics 57

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. The B2B buying process has gone primarily digital; most B2B sellers and teams have not.

Marketing Automation Services 108

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Attribution 108

Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer 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.

Ideal Customer Profiles 60

Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Gartner B2B Sales 60

Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The digital-first strategies many companies are adopting have removed countless in-person interactions and sped up sales cycles. Marketers have their work cut out for them in terms of making an impact on buyers well before the sales stage. This is where webinar engagement tactics shine. “It Elena Hoffman, Sr.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer 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.

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Gartner B2B Sales 52

Biznology

AUGUST 30, 2018

“Much like sales enablement, sales organizations must focus on what we call ‘buyer enablement’ ” Gartner research indicates that two-thirds of any B2B buying journey is devoted to “gathering, processing and de-conflicting information.” Take video, for example.

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Video Marketing Gartner Case Study Case Studies 120

ANNUITAS

APRIL 20, 2020

It helps connect with customers in their buying process and it helps drive demand. When it comes to demand marketing, what matters is how effective that content is at moving prospects through the funnel to closed-won. “Content is king” is a phrase that’s dominated the marketing world for years now, and for good reason.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 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. Welcome everybody to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I have worked in B2B marketing, sales and alliance management for 25 years. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I clearly remember how as a sales rep, I controlled the information my prospects and customers received.

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Marketing Budget Budget Programs Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 108

accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

In one sense, SaaS marketing is similar to other kinds of traditional marketing—it’s about targeting potential customers across one or more channels with a view to growing your sales. If you’re offering a CRM solution, for example, it would make sense to approach the directors of sales departments at B2C companies.

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Marketing Budget Paid Content Work Management Paid Search Agency 52

Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multiple decision-makers on a purchasing team do their own online solution research when buying a complex B2B solution. Gartner research suggests sales reps only have 5% of a buyer’s time during their B2B buying journey, so it’s up to marketers to arm buying groups with all the information needed to make an informed decision.

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Multi-Channel Account Based Marketing Advertising Channels ABM 52

Modern B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Rewind 10 years and you’d see B2B marketing budgets being spent on events and meetings – fill the top of the funnel and then let the sales team walk that lead all the way through the process until contracts are signed. Millennial’s and Gen X, these youngsters are now making B2B buying decisions.

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Top of Funnel B2B Gartner Digital Marketing Funnels 45

6sense

APRIL 13, 2016

“When Gartner first wrote about predictive lead scoring in August 2014, the practice was still in its early stages.” In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.”

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Lead Ranking Gartner Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Report 48

Moz

JANUARY 22, 2019

Posted by OliviaRoss No matter who your customer is or what you’re selling, it’s more likely than not that your customer will have to go through several steps before choosing to buy your product or service. Think about your own shopping habits: you don’t just buy the first thing you see. What is the conversion funnel?

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Top of Funnel Optimization Conversion Lead Ranking 56

Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

B2B marketers need to learn to prioritize Customer Experience Management (CEM) to stay close to their customers and to develop an all-inclusive marketing strategy that strikes a perfect balance between creative demands, budget limits & channel decisions of the marketers. Effective marketing is difficult to get right.

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B2B Marketing Marketing AI Marketing Management Multi-Touch Attribution 64

Exo B2B

JUNE 26, 2023

It speaks to your customers, guides them through the buying cycle, or customer journey, and acts as a powerful SEO magnet. Let me start by quoting a Gartner study on the power of content in the customer journey. Their site isn’t set up to convert, since their traditional sales channels are working better than ever.

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Marketing AI B2B Marketing Optimization Content Marketing 52

NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Despite the challenge, your sales and leadership team continually ask you to produce qualified leads. As Gartner reported in Flipping to Digital Leadership: The 2015 CIO Agenda , digitalization has become the muscle that transforms businesses. Gartner forecasts that IT budgets will remain flat in 2016. Here’s why.

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Sales Qualified Leads Gartner B2B Thought Leadership Barriers 100

Albacross

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With the ease of COVID-19, people are starting to work back in the office and more off-line sales activities are coming back – events, fairs, and face-to-face sales meetings. It indicates WHO is interested in your products, WHAT they are interested in, WHERE they are on the buyer journey, and WHEN they are ready to buy.

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Intent Data Ideal Customer Profiles Intent Buyer's Journey 52

NetLine

MARCH 6, 2024

Gartner reminds us that marketers shouldn’t be developing an ICP just for the fun of it : “ICP development is not an academic exercise. Now that it is complete, the ICP must be shared across the entire organization and embedded into sales and marketing programs.” Who else is involved in this process? It is a plan for action.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Intent Data Buyer Need Intent 52

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 5, 2015

What you think is valuable content may be considered worthless to the customer on their buying journey! This CRM contribution is vital to your sales pipeline. By 2020, customers will manage 85% of their buying relationship without talking to a human, indicating decision makers will count on content more than ever.

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B2B Thought Leadership Landing Pages Content Gartner 100

Terminus

JUNE 21, 2019

Once the target accounts are identified within your CRM as either existing customers or prospect accounts, you can select the tools required to align and scale your sales, CSM, and marketing efforts in an efficient manner. TIER 3: High-Fit, Further Out Renewals, Longer Sales Cycle. Tier 3 Account-Based Marketing Tactics.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Tactics Thought Leadership 26

Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 14, 2017

According to a report by Smart Insights , content marketing was rated the most valuable technique for increasing incremental sales throughout 2017—and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Millennials—the generation with $200 billion in buying power in 2017— will have the most buying power of any generation by next year.

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Content Marketing Peer-to-peer Transparency Paid Search Agency 62

Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

These two concepts came into play in a recent conversation with a CGO of a B2B Identity and Access Management company who asked : “ What are the pros and cons of using the waterfall versus the intent approach for developing a new opportunity scoring model and which approach would I recommend.

Lead Ranking 211

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads MQL 211

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2017

Basedon on a recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey , marketing budgets now account for 12% of company revenue, a steady increase from 2010. The business is moving product, however, and there's a reliable record of who's buying—age, gender, location, income level, and so on. This strategy dovetails with another good, commonsense tactic.

Small Business Marketing 71

Small Business Marketing Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Advertising Agencies 71

B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 27, 2017

SiriusDecisions calls the new version the Demand Unit Waterfall , and it's depicted in the following diagram: Source: SiriusDecisions The first version of the Demand Waterfall was introduced in 2006, and over the past decade, thousands of B2B companies have used the waterfall model to track and manage their demand generation efforts.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most of us are solving sales and marketing problems. But instead, we need focus on solving customer buying problems with empathy. Because buying is harder today than ever been. According to Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor, Gartner, “empathy” is the one word that matters most to sales [and marketing] success.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is the biggest roadblock to converting marketing leads into the sales pipeline? How do marketers overcome this roadblock?

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Leads 100

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!). Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!). Tune and refine the buying process.

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ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!). Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While cold calling and print media remain useful, and live event marketing remains effective at every stage of the sales funnel, digital channels have surpassed traditional methods in terms of importance, reach, and budget allocation. Instead of phone calls with sales reps, they prefer to conduct their own research online.

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Paid Content Sales Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services 240

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The Death of a Salesman?

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Content may indeed be king.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Marketing Budget Budget Programs 40