NuSpark Consulting

JULY 9, 2010

I’ve introduced marketing automation previously, and I now wanted to discuss essential steps for your company to prepare. As a reminder, marketing automation is a platform to improve marketing and sales integration, increase revenue, decrease costs, and achieve better marketing ROI. Get everyone on board.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 100

NuSpark Consulting

JULY 9, 2010

I’ve introduced marketing automation previously, and I now wanted to discuss essential steps for your company to prepare. As a reminder, marketing automation is a platform to improve marketing and sales integration, increase revenue, decrease costs, and achieve better marketing ROI. Get everyone on board.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 100

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lead nurturing is a hot topic right now. It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking De-duping Work Management Lead Qualification 100

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She is a founding member of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog , and contributes regularly to the Content Marketing Institute blog.

Buyer Personas 120

Buyer Personas Forrester Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? The students had four weeks to design proposals. A proposal for double-paned glass evolved into an idea to fill the space between panes with water.

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 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.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

Content marketing is a great way to do so: When you generate informative, useful, and interesting content for your audience, you can also directly or indirectly sell your products or services to them. Content marketing can give B2B companies a truckload of options to keep their audience engaged. Let’s see how.

Work Management 360

Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management Content Marketing 360

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40

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.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 9, 2024

Current marketing practices take customer needs into consideration when producing content for lead generation programs. This same practice needs to be considered for B2B lead generation strategies. Finding success with B2B lead nurturing in today’s market means profiling customers to identify the decision-maker.

Lead Nurturing 150

Lead Nurturing Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking 150

Ambal's Amusings

JULY 15, 2010

Business decision makers don't read white papers just because a product or service is "cool" They have real business problems they are trying to solve. How should marketers solve this informational need? We asked white paper experts: " What is the biggest challenge in creating and marketing a white paper?

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management SME 100

The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

Forrester 40

Forrester Lead Ranking Cross-Selling Peer-to-peer 40

The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have."

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Practices 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year. Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach.

Tools 40

Tools Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Work Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

The content used to educate buyers of B2B products and services can be a very valuable asset when it comes to content optimization and acquiring leads via organic search. When assessing B2B client resources for optimization, most marketers focus on web pages and increasingly, digital assets and social media content.

SEO 40

SEO Top of Funnel AIDA Digital Asset Management 40

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

B2B and B2C marketing strategies are distinct in many ways – but need they be so different? Sure, B2B strategies target the pragmatic, logic-driven mindset, while a B2C marketing strategy targets the emotionally-driven consumer. And people buy from people. So, what exactly happens when B2B marketers use a B2C marketing strategy?

Work Management 62

Work Management Marketing Management Buyer Personas B2B 62

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

Apart from knowing that the target audiences are different, the average business professional may not know the differences between business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing. That said, there are definite nuances and characteristics of B2B marketing that are different from marketing to a general consumer.

B2B Marketing 120

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Allocation 120

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing teams and sales teams are different within a company. Marketing team within a company works to put together and publish case studies to highlight their solutions and products. Marketing customer engagement is clearly very early stage as compared to sales customer engagement. How does a Marketing Team use a Case Study?

Case Studies 100

Case Studies Case Study Activities Studies 100

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

SnapApp

DECEMBER 12, 2017

. We’ve all been on the receiving end of terrible marketing automation - poorly targeted, ill-timed, and irrelevant messaging. . While marketing automation can be powerful for growing marketing teams, it can also do more harm than good if not configured or implemented properly. .

Marketing Automation Services 103

Marketing Automation Services Marketing AI Paid Content Marketing Automation 103

Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2013

Content marketing represents the most fundamental and widespread rethinking of marketing practices in decades. Content marketing turns the dominant paradigm of the last half-century—interruption-based mass marketing—on its head. Content Marketing Guides, Tips and Tactics.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Paid Content Copywriting Content Marketing 100