Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Trends Lead Scoring 282

Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. Access this and more Content Disrupted episodes on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Google Podcasts. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests?

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Top of Funnel Planning Content Buyer's Journey 85

Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. Those ideas can really move the needle.

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Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Digital Marketing Funnels 218

Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Its potential for storytelling and marketing is undeniable, making AI in B2B marketing and sales a transformative force, reshaping interactions with brands, information, and services. The world of B2B marketing automation is on the brink of a full-fledged AI-driven revolution. But what is the path to reeling in those big fish?

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services 97

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. You’re familiar with the B2B buyer’s journey : moving prospects through the awareness, consideration, and decision stages of the buying process. The Shift to Customer-Centric Marketing. In 2019, 90% of all U.S. Source: Pew Research.

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Buyer Intent Intent Work Management Marketing Management 355

Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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ROI Email Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services 175

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

During an increasingly competitive time in the digital marketing landscape, it can be easy to get lost in the ever-changing trends and customer needs in the B2B space. However, at least one trend is overwhelmingly clear, and has been for some time: B2B customers expect tailored content. How do they prefer to consume content?

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Personalization Buyer Personas B2B Marketing Management 147

Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 191

SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? There’s a lot to navigate when searching for the best marketing practices for your emerging company. Knowing when and how to get a realistic and effective marketing strategy off the ground may even seem daunting. Start-Up Marketing Fundamentals.

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Paid Search Agency Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Management 97

Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

However, this sales-driven environment presents unique challenges for industrial and manufacturing marketers. Some of these challenges include: Limited pool of qualified prospects: The manufacturing niche often targets specialized buyers and decision-makers. To adapt, manufacturers must embrace inbound marketing as a core strategy.

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 64

Scoop.it

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You have audiences distributed across every stage of this customer journey, represented by a marketing funnel. Below is a great visual representation of what the funnel looks like. So, disseminating one content type across the levels is not advisable. Focus on Informative Content. See an example from scoop below.

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Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Funnels Content 84

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Funnels, stages, paths, journeys, and more labels that suggest some form of a linear line of thinking has dominated marketing and sales for decades. As forward-thinking marketing and sales leaders prepare for 2020 and continuous digital disruption, it is time to alter this line of thinking.

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Marketing AI Buyer Personas Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels 174

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recognizing the health threat raised by classrooms filled with students, schools and educational institutions are investigating how digital education and interactive learning can be extended and made more available in the midst of this global health crisis. 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study. 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Circle Studio

JUNE 27, 2019

Content is the magnet of your website and arguably the most important tool in helping achieve your firm’s marketing goals. Whether you’re looking to do a complete website redesign or just want to make improvements to your current site, it’s crucial to have a solid content strategy in place. Conduct a website content audit.

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Marketing Websites Top of Funnel Content Thought Leadership 133

Navigate the Channel

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the world of B2B marketing, where relationships and decision-making processes are intricate, the concept of the customer journey has gained prominence. This journey is no longer linear but a dynamic process influenced by various factors, including digital transformation, data analytics, and evolving consumer preferences.

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Marketing AI B2B Marketing Buyer Personas B2B 65

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion? Free Trial A Sales Funnel Has Four Stages: 1.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Work Management 130

NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Here’s how it is done: Identify actively researching prospects: When prospects are actively researching a product or service, they leave a trail of digital footprints. Buyer-intent data captures these footprints (signals) and provides insight into the research buyers are doing and what their interests are.

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Intent Data Top of Funnel Intent Outreach 59

ClearVoice

JULY 17, 2023

With the right approach, content marketing can transform fledgling startups into powerhouses of influence and success. Here’s a primer on how content marketing is an essential part of fintech growth and how to do it right. Let’s examine what content marketing brings to the table regarding fintech growth.

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illumin

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Journey advertising is a transformational shift in how marketers and companies reach their consumers with personalized, targeted messages unique to each stage of the marketing lifecycle. The buyer’s journey matters because they are the final decision-makers in purchasing decisions. What is journey marketing?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Today, personalization is more important than ever, as consumers and business decision makers alike are overloaded with content. While a lot of information gets ignored, personalized content tends to hit home. A similar reaction takes place in the brain when people receive personalized content. Guest post by Stefan Debois.

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Paid Content Personalization Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools 254

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Envy

MAY 2, 2019

Content marketing is a key part of B2B marketing strategies for a simple reason: when it’s done right, it brings more leads for less money than most other channels. But it’s one thing to say “I’d like to increase our B2B content” and another thing to write the most effective content for your target market.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 106

ClearVoice

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The subject line … ‘Google Makes It Official: Content Marketing Is Now the #1 Ranking Factor.’ That email legitimately validated my worth and value as a content marketer (Thanks, Michael Brenner!). Years later with my own firm, content marketing has become widely accepted. Bing = 5.56%.

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Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Google 105

Binary Demand

JUNE 7, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In the ever-evolving world of B2B marketing, harnessing the power of automation is paramount. Let’s start with a glimpse of what B2B marketing automation is, then explore its working, importance, distinction from CRM, and other insights.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Enterprise Management Work Management 98

SalesIntel

JANUARY 27, 2022

A business-to-business (B2B) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plan is a valuable marketing method that any B2B company should employ to attract targeted, high-value customers. Start With a Buyer Persona. The more you know about your target market, the more effectively you can promote your products and services to them.

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SEO Buyer Personas Webinar Metrics Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

This is the main reason that brands and marketers spend huge sums of money on digital promotion. Now, as a B2B marketer , you might be quick to point out that, sure, a lot has changed. Well, according to Google, more than half (52%) of all B2B purchases in 2019 were influenced by digital content and marketing.

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Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 137

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How can you increase digital engagement? Third-party cookies, once a cornerstone of data collection for marketers, are slowly being phased out to improve consumer privacy protection. Get your customers back What is digital engagement and why is it important? This demand for personalization will only continue to grow.

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Account Based Marketing Work Management Digital Marketing Funnels Top of Funnel 122

DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

B2B buyer behavior has shifted dramatically to independent, online research. Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team.

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Intent Data Ideal Customer Profiles Intent Marketing Automation Services 52

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2015

Are you overwhelmed with the complexity of creating B2B marketing content that generates leads? This sea change in how customers buy is why sales and marketing is going through a dramatic, wrenching transformation. For ages, marketing was constrained by space limitations (i.e. B2B Content Marketing: Easier Said Than Done?

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Lead Generation Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management 100

FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many companies are re-evaluating their marketing strategies, from social media marketing to SaaS SEO strategy. On-page SEO now leverages AI tools for optimizing keywords, content relevance, and enhancing user experience. Effective SaaS Content Marketing and SEO Content marketing is essential to online marketing efforts.

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Paid Content PPC Traffic SEO 62

Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). The Sales Funnel. Sales Funnel.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 118

SalesIntel

JULY 28, 2023

Consumers nowadays are more tech-savvy and digitally driven than ever before. Yet, through the change, and diversification of the sales funnel, many seemed to have lost track of what is important to their business, and more so, how to garner engagement with their customer leads. Awareness First and foremost is awareness.

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Top of Funnel Cost Buyer Personas Digital Marketing Funnels 52

Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Planning 78

Madison Logic

JUNE 28, 2023

Yet, standing out doesn’t always mean having the right content and messaging about how you’re the best solution to solve a customer’s pain point. A competitive displacement campaign is a strategic marketing initiative designed to identify, target, and win over customers currently using a competitor solution.

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Ideal Customer Profiles Multi-Touch Attribution Campaigns Multi-Channel 52

The Lead Agency

MAY 19, 2019

According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2018 report, 91% of B2B marketers are using content marketing to reach their customers. While it’s great that so many B2B marketers are aware of how effective content marketing is for their overall strategy, it means that a vast amount of content is being generated.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 89