Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. According to our first party research conducted among our IFP audience, lead quality is the key focus for 40% of senior B2B marketers.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests? Axel developed a comprehensive understanding of marketing by moving through brand, communications, and product roles early in his career.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

Just when you thought B2B buyer habits couldn’t change more dramatically, along comes the COVID pandemic. How should companies adapt their demand generation playbook to better serve the needs of the self-serve buyer? Key Finding 1: Buyers have all but replaced vendor-provided content.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Novel formats, channels, and technologies like TikTok and ChatGPT are now driving forces behind buyer interest, opening up new ways for B2B brands to raise awareness about their products. 59% of marketers attribute revenue growth to marketing-generated leads , so demand-generation tactics remain a non-negotiable among marketing teams.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

B2B CRM Users Are Highly Focused on Nurturing Leads and Customers 33 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have focused their customer relationship management (CRM) usage on the customer service, up-selling and cross-selling portion of the buyer journey over the past 5 years, closely followed by 32 percent who have targeted mid-funnel lead-generation (..)

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. But we also fully recognize the enduring factors that distinguish successful marketing in B2B versus B2C. Address the full funnel with your SEO content. This, in turn, will set up lower-funnel content to be more effective. #2.

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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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6sense

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Having been privy to the lead management processes of hundreds of B2B organizations of every stripe, I would estimate that at least half have internal demand funnel (AKA waterfall) stages that combine stages of their sales process with what are really stages of the buyer journey. Your Funnel Is Not Their Journey.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

As we’ve learned in this blog series highlighting key findings from our new interactive ebook , shining a light on the otherwise invisible Dark Funnel of buyer intent is novel to say the least. . But Dark Funnel visibility is much more than a neat trick. Validating visible buyer journeys. Check out the Ebook.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Basically, intent data allows marketing and sales teams to focus on the accounts that are in the market for a product or solution,” said Dan Tabaran, CMO of account-based advertising company N.Rich, in his recent MarTech presentation. Understanding buyer intent. How to move to a first-party data marketing strategy.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 3, 2024

The next step is to figure out what type of content your target audience wants and will respond to at each stage of the buyer journey. But that’s a mistake, as a tailored marketing approach is likely to achieve a far higher conversion rate. The concept behind account-based marketing (ABM) is the same.

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ATAK Interactive

MARCH 12, 2020

Over the years, the B2B marketing landscape has noticeably changed. Driving this transformation is the B2B buyer journey, which has gotten longer and more complex. 82% of B2B buyers are spending more time in the research phase, using more sources to research and evaluate products and services. 1. Sales Enablement.

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Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey. In fact, the whole concept of “buyer journey” has become commonplace because of the complexity of online purchasing and research.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. This will attract your audience to your brand and content, integrating them into your marketing ecosystem.

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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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PathFactory

OCTOBER 12, 2022

She was featured in this Harvard Business Review article discussing how the modern B2B buyer journey is changing, and those buyers expect more than ever. I sat down with Caitlin to get her thoughts on everything from the buyer journey to sales and marketing alignment (and everything in between).

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. It’s the next shiny object that is luring B2B marketers so they can gain and provide more insights into their prospects and have a better shot at closing a deal. Intent data allows marketers to know what prospects need as a next step to bring them closer to purchasing.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2022

This metric alone is not the measure of success, but it is a milepost on the way towards figuring out the return on investment (ROI) of the marketing spend. CPA “is not a standalone metric,” said Michael Brenner, CEO at Marketing Insider Group. What CPA really does is measure the efficiency of the marketing campaign, Brenner said.

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Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Next year, e-commerce will be a driving force in how marketers engage with customers. E-commerce strategies will penetrate channels like TV, social media and in-store experience, to a greater extent than marketers could have imagined. In 2022, buyer journeys will continue to get more personalized. Simplified stack.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 30, 2022

Determining what a quality lead looks like to not only prioritize these but effectively nurture them is a key area of focus for the majority (40%) of B2B marketers in 2022. It’s easy for B2B marketers to become fixated on generating greater lead volumes, but this doesn’t guarantee lead conversions. Reading time: 4 minutes.

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ATAK Interactive

MARCH 12, 2020

Over the years, the B2B marketing landscape has noticeably changed. Driving this transformation is the B2B buyer journey, which has gotten longer and more complex. 82% of B2B buyers are spending more time in the research phase, using more sources to research and evaluate products and services. 1. Sales Enablement.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 3, 2024

The next step is to figure out what type of content your target audience wants and will respond to at each stage of the buyer journey. But that’s a mistake, as a tailored marketing approach is likely to achieve a far higher conversion rate. The concept behind account-based marketing (ABM) is the same.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 16, 2022

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. We have all witnessed a digital transformation in B2B Marketing with the onset of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Marketers are becoming more comfortable utilizing AI in their digital marketing strategies than they were a few years ago.

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PathFactory

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

2023 is bringing economic volatility that has most B2B marketers scratching their heads. Sellers are having a hard time meeting their quotas, while B2B go-to-market teams are still depending on marketing tactics that are quickly going out of style—like cold calling and blanket email marketing.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But then if it were, every B2B marketer would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that cover different marketing targets, channels, and lead sources. Creating a successful demand generation plan is not easy.

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 20, 2020

Marketing is evolving yet again. Digital marketing has become mainstream and unscalable. Overwhelming amounts of content confuse buyers and sellers alike. We used content for everything from demand generation to nurturing the funnel until “the handshake.” Change in Buyer Behaviour.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. The B2B buyer journey has shifted, with sales reps now only having roughly 5% of a customer’s time.

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2018

The Holy Grail of digital marketing is personalization: being able to serve the most relevant content to particular users at a particular time to help them progress on their buyer journeys. In large enterprises, where thousands of users come to your site daily, the strain of this marketing automation is staggering.

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PathFactory

MAY 20, 2022

Specifically, two macro trends that we’ve believed are important for a long time are most definitely driving the evolution of B2B marketing & sales. Marketing & Sales has evolved well beyond their historic MQL obsession. Of course, sales and marketing need to be aligned and working together to help the buyers buy!

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The Lead Agency

JULY 18, 2019

If your current B2B sales strategy doesn’t take this into account, you may be losing valuable leads that become ‘stuck’ in funnel bottlenecks. 68% of organisations are yet to clearly define their sales funnel, missing out on the significant benefits that could otherwise be achieved. What does this mean for your organisation?

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Seismic

JANUARY 21, 2021

As organizations prepare to navigate 2021 and beyond, the ability to deliver exceptional digital customer experiences will be critical for success. The acceleration of digital transformation in sales will only continue. By 2025, Gartner projects that 80 percent of sales interactions will occur in digital channels.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Organic lead generation is the process of bringing in potential customers without spending money on PPC ads, sponsored content, or other paid marketing. Once they reach your website, you want to get their contact information so you can connect them with your sales team or bring them into an automated sales funnel. Content Marketing.

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RebelMouse

AUGUST 30, 2023

A first-party data strategy gathers consumer information to develop a personalized experience that satisfies customer needs and preferences while boosting marketing efforts. Examples of first-party tracking pixels include: Conversion Pixels: Conversion pixels track ad sales and conversions from marketing campaigns.

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RebelMouse

AUGUST 30, 2023

A first-party data strategy gathers consumer information to develop a personalized experience that satisfies customer needs and preferences while boosting marketing efforts. Examples of First-Party Tracking Pixels includes: Conversion Pixels: Conversion pixels track ad sales and conversions from marketing campaigns.

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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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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 16, 2021

Read on to discover how B2B marketing segmentation continues to evolve to deliver better results and return on investment. Why do many marketers scoff at the notion of mass marketing and macro segmentation? What does ‘good B2B marketing segmentation’ look like? Reading time: 3 minutes. Trouble in paradise.

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Sprout Social

MAY 9, 2024

Trendsetters and culture drivers like Lia have made influencer marketing an essential piece to social media strategies. We’ll explore five influencer marketing trends shaping the social media landscape in 2024. We’ll also share trends in influencer marketing by industry to help you benchmark your brand.

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