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How to Use Intent Data to Fuel Lead Gen Efforts

Oktopost

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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How to Use Intent Data to Fuel Lead Gen Efforts

Oktopost

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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Moving From an Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine

Metadata

For many years, a focus on lead generation has led to seller-centric strategies and “a shitstorm of gated content.” But now, to borrow from Kaylee Edmondson’s DEMAND fireside chat, Moving From An Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine —“Lead generation’s just not hitting like it used to hit.”

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Here’s How You Can Get More SEO Juice Out of Your Blog

Top Rank Marketing

Mid-funnel content Your middle funnel content is dedicated to showing your audience what our Guide to Full Funnel Lead Gen calls the four keys to best answer content: credibility, quality, authenticity, and experience. Present incremental next-steps (e.g. newsletter sign-up or related content).

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The false allure of B2B intent data

Martech

Only about 5% of B2B buyers are in-market at any given time, so focusing marketing efforts on those active is an incredibly alluring idea. However, the trouble with intent data is that even if the signals are fully accurate, knowing who is actively in-market to purchase will not save bad strategy. It may only shine more light on it.

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Here’s Why Your Customer Marketing Team Needs Content Intelligence

PathFactory

Think about the last time you purchased software for your martech stack. Depending on where you were in your buyer journey (researching, purchasing, or post-sale) you should have noticed some differences in the marketing tactics. From lead gen to post-sale, curious to see how PathFactory can help elevate your marketing?

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How a Common Content Strategy Unites Marketing’s Different Natures

Contently

I recently wrote about the many natures of marketing , including brand awareness and short-term sales activation (or lead gen, as we B2B marketers call it) and the role of content within an overall marketing strategy. They all share a primary challenge: securing alignment across a common audience and buyer journey.