Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2012

B2B Marketers have always been doing content marketing. And the reason is simple: the decision making process in B2B is a bit more complicated than buying a pack of gum. Dynamic content destinations are needed to develop the kind of two-way dialogues that form the basis of solid relationships. zzzzzzzzzz (snore).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Leading Results Rambings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Inbound marketing is a discipline, when used correctly, can solve your sales lead shortage, but by itself, it doesn’t solve the lead generation issue. Specifically inbound marketing and what a lead is. Inbound marketing – Hubspot uses the graphic below to define the overall inbound marketing process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Tomorrow People

AUGUST 2, 2012

Unfortunately, this isn't always the case and if both sides aren't singing from the same hymn sheet, it'll undoubtedly result in a marketing campaign devoid of focus. While marketing budgets disappear the expectation doesn't. Inbound Marketing offers an cost effective solution at a time when the tighter belt remains in vogue.

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Valasys

JUNE 20, 2019

Therefore, in an era of fierce competition in B2B marketing, marketers need to leverage the interdisciplinary aspects of inbound marketing & neuromarketing to stop selling to just 5% of customers’ brains & use both, the explicit & implicit, behavioral insights of customers. Best Practices.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

So we typically send emails that link to juicy, relevant content. In 2005, HubSpot gave birth to the concept of inbound marketing , which was all about attracting people to your company with informative content, search-engine-optimization and social media marketing. Filter first. Then approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

The goals of the modern marketer are timeless: create new opportunities to grow sales while keeping your existing customers happy and coming back for more. And content marketing plays a big role in this. Here are three ways that content marketing and marketing automation go hand in hand: 1.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 19, 2010

What is Inbound Marketing and why is it important to B2B marketers? Why should you consider Inbound Marketing in your 2010 marketing programs? Inbound Marketing Is… …the art of creating inbound marketing interest from your prospects when they have a need or interest in your product or service.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 12, 2010

One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Here are some examples of marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics that are best suited to each stage.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 29, 2015

CEOs and marketing leaders often stand on opposite sides of a deep chasm in terms of their belief in the power of B2B content marketing. While marketers recognize that content marketing can boost ROI, many corporate leaders still live in a worldview where traditional direct marketing campaigns rule.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Martech

JULY 30, 2021

Although inbound marketing remains critical to B2B lead generation, many marketers are increasing their use of account-based marketing (ABM) to take back some control of the process and speed up the buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

In my conversations with industrial companies about inbound marketing, I find my audience agreeing with me up to a certain point and then there is a big disconnect. I see heads nodding in face-to-face meetings or hear plenty of “Uh-huhs” on the phone when I talk about the benefits of inbound marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It reflects today’s technological capabilities as well as marketing’s new focus on accounts. They’re reaching out to target accounts early in the buying cycle before their competition grabs the advantage. They’re aligning sales and marketing. Because buyers have built up a resistance to content offers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Here is a scenario that resonates with many marketers using inbound marketing as part of their marketing mix. You create your blog, social accounts, maybe a couple of ebooks, and invest in marketing automation software. But, as the year comes to a close, your inbound growth has slowed.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 2, 2011

Current marketing wisdom says content should be mapped to buying cycles. Yet according to a study from MarketingProfs and Junta42 , 78% of B2B marketers say awareness is an objective of content marketing. Question: Where is awareness most valuable in the buying cycle? Consumable.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 22, 2012

Now that you’ve attracted qualified prospects to your brand, company, website, product or services, what do you do if they are not quite ready to buy now ? The answer – engage them, the middle step in the inbound marketing process of attract – engage – convert. How do they like to consume that content?

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now, with the help of progressive profiling and tech capabilities of most automation platforms, you can use the same form for different stages of the buying cycle and content offers without sacrificing lead intelligence or conversion tracking. Content was updated in January 2023. How has it worked for your company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 26, 2011

Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. In my opinion, completely ignoring outbound marketing can be a costly mistake.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. At least, this is what the marketers think of in first place & this is where the majority of the marketers align their focus on.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2010

While low cost is very important, I think there are other key reasons for the shift towards inbound marketing. They are: Change in buyer behavior – the B2B buyer is now in control and will only interact with your salespeople on their preferred schedule, probably towards the tail end of their buying cycle.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

For most companies, this data provides deeper insights into the buying process to better tailor marketing strategies to their target audience. You can gauge the level of a buyer’s intent through the content they consume. An effective B2B marketing campaign is one that’s delivered on time. Volume of content consumed.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is one who has acquired a piece of content or connected with your marketing team but has not yet approached your sales funnel. Perhaps they’re working on a lengthy buying cycle. They keep coming back because they enjoy the content you’re providing.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

The burgeoning trend towards account-based marketing (ABM) takes that a step further, by customizing activities to enable a laser-sharp focus on each specific target account. While inbound marketing is occupied mainly with attracting prospects to your offering, ABM emphasizes focusing on qualified business prospects , according to HubSpot.

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Tomorrow People

MAY 10, 2012

Using content to market your business? Want your content to create results and help boost your company’s performance? Insight creates better content. It’s tempting to ask your copywriter to quickly create content to fill that gap on your website or your blog.

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 25, 2012

A strong, clear written message forms the core of marketing content for many businesses, from the big budget adverts - to the growth of business websites and SEO copywriting. But creating a range of content is only just the beginning. The rise of content has made copywriting even more of a priority. Copy - over and out?

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 16, 2013

A great content marketing plan doesn’t have a set end date, and neither should your video marketing strategy. You have to go beyond your explainer video and release lots of quality content consistently to be a real video marketing Jedi, but it’s hard work and it doesn’t happen overnight.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?). Inbound marketer. The Customer Buying Cycle Framework. Content Creation Challenges.

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 31, 2022

Every consumer will go through different steps of consideration and purchase throughout the life cycle of a brand or service. In the past, the consumer buying cycle was explained by four stages: awareness, interest, evaluation, and purchase. As such, consumer journey mapping is a vital part of your marketing strategy.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing’s role is growing through the addition of what I call ‘sales enablement’ activities. These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). Informative, non-promotional content in the form of blogs, case studies, webinars, white papers, videos, etc.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing’s role is growing through the addition of what I call ‘sales enablement’ activities. These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). Informative, non-promotional content in the form of blogs, case studies, webinars, white papers, videos, etc.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 24, 2012

In a recent podcast on OpenView labs , I discussed how content strategy can drive real results for businesses of all sizes. I talked about how every business needs a content strategy – it is not just for large companies. I also answer the question of whether content marketing is just another term for marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Even though the process of buying industrial products and services has not changed much over the years, how industrial buyers prefer to go through their buying cycle has changed dramatically. Content marketing has become indispensable for addressing this changed buyer behavior. Content marketing cannot do it all.

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Leveraging Targeted Content Strategy.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Nearly all companies offer the same basic capabilities for email, website tracking and a marketing database. Is inbound marketing (social media, blogging, SEO ) more important than outbound (email)? Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process? Are reporting and analytics the key features you need?

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