KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. source ).

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

On the 30 th of September 2019, BrightTALK announced its new insights tool to aid in the level of precision of its buying intent-based marketing product named Intent Leads. The tool helps customers gauze the buying behaviors of their niche-specific prospects.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 30, 2020

Marketing technology buyers are results-driven and often choose vendors that are leaders in their field. Our latest research pulls together essential data about the way decision makers reach their outcomes, giving vendors and demand generation managers the inside track. Where do they go to research solutions? When do they plan?

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Recently, I had an engaging conversation with Lauren Carlson, a CRM Analyst with   Software Advice , as well as read her article Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software posted on The Software Advice Blog. 

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Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 8, 2010

By Holger Schulze Major shifts are taking place in B2B marketing that started a few years ago but have accelerated in recent months – in the marketplace as well as inside vendor organizations. They are tuning out a lot of the marketing noise they receive which makes it harder for marketers to reach audiences the old fashioned way.

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Influitive

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s empowered customers expect the interactions they have with your sales and marketing teams to be highly personalized and relevant—which can make striking up valuable conversations with prospects challenging. That’s one reason why account-based marketing has become a popular strategy in recent years. Advocacy comes in many forms.

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The Point

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Most B2B companies will readily acknowledge how much the Web has transformed the way they market their product or service, most visibly in the form of vehicles like search, content marketing, social media, and lead management. Vendors leveraged that knowledge gap. Fast forward to today. The proliferation of Web 2.0

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Engagio

JULY 31, 2017

Research shows that upwards of 80 percent of leads generated by marketing are neglected or never acted upon by a sales rep. On the other hand, marketers lack visibility into why deals move slowly or lose momentum after the handoff. The role of intent data in Account Based Marketing . The B2B lead handoff process is broken.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

B2B marketing is all about the inbound practices to improve customer experiences (CX) & ultimately provide the customers with apt products or services resonating with their pain-points. Furthermore, emails are used by 93% of marketers to distribute content. Read on: Everybody Loves a Personalized Email.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Attend workshops, sessions and learn from industry experts and peers and keep in mind this is a complex process that won’t be solved immediately. I once heard at a conference one of the speakers tell a room full of marketers “all you need is the desire to want to make it better, and you will.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. It’s important to ensure both Sales and Marketing are in alignment from a segment prioritization perspective. Brand Strategy.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

  Especially in the vernacular of B2B marketing whereby we see many topics related to Creating Demand, Demand Generation , Increasing Demand, and etc.  Demand is still very much part of the business vocabulary today.    This shift underway is creating an economic relationship between demand, experience, and revenue. 

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

It is now harder than ever for B2B vendors to get the attention of our audiences. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer. They educate themselves on the nature of their business problem, possible solution options, available vendors and products.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. 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.

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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?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

Re-casting How We Think About B2B Marketing Automation I was analyzing results from our recent B2B Marketing University series , which Silverpop launched this past Fall, and the data seem to point to an eye-popping, potential ‘banner year’ for marketing automation in 2010.

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6sense

APRIL 13, 2016

In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.” It also speaks to the live implementation of predictive tools and the tangible economic impact organizations are seeing.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

These new channels have made it easier than ever for marketers to reach out to prospects, and marketers are certainly taking advantage of the available efficiency. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    These being areas related to new social buyer ecosystems, social business models, and new social buying cycles. 

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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.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

There’s been some buzz in the venture capital (VC) community recently about the importance of start-up content marketing, particularly when it’s unleashed in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up scene. ” Start-ups have traditionally skimped on marketing dollars until their later stages. .”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not.

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LEADership

JUNE 26, 2014

As marketers, we are typically driven by our corporate goals and brand strategy and yet, many organizations still struggle to maximize team performance. As marketers, we are typically driven by our corporate goals and brand strategy and yet, many organizations still struggle to maximize team performance.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. And yes, it does cost money. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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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. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Marketing automation has the ability to benefit almost every B2B company and industry, but are there benefits specific to open source companies? What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies? The entire buying cycle is important.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Hundreds of marketers have built robust lead nurturing programs, ranging from simple drip campaigns to sophisticated lead life-cycle campaigns , using only a few white papers or webinars. How can they do this with limited content marketing assets? What I thought was the exception was actually the norm. What can they do?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 16, 2017

With another year upon us, B2B marketers are still struggling to reach the right buyers. No marketer wants to send 100 leads to her sales team to close a single deal; it would be incredibly more effective to send 10 qualified leads to close the same deal. The problem is, most leads in our marketing databases are cold.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2018

is helpful not only for those thinking about a transition but for prioritizing MAP objectives/needs no matter what platform you use. We talk about, among other things, requirements that go into why you make a marketing automation transition. We’ll publish similar highlights here for upcoming episodes. It’s crazy.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

So, to begin, here’s an analogy that will make your life in ABM a lot easier: Marketing Orchestration is to Account Based Marketing, what Marketing Automation is to Demand Generation. You see, Marketing Orchestration is how you win the biggest deals ABM. Why Marketing Orchestration? Business is no different.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 13, 2012

In this second episode of PowerViews, I have the pleasure of talking with Jeff Ernst who provides advisory services to CMO and marketing leadership professionals as Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Jeff joined Forrester after spending 20 years in sales and marketing.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

2022 BEST SOFTWARE LIST FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and small business market fit. Best Software List for enterprise buSINESS Best Software List for mid-sized buSINESS. Best Software for Small Business.

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Valasys

AUGUST 28, 2019

Event marketing is the pragmatic marketing of a brand, service, or product through promotional events that involve direct interaction with a brand’s representatives. As Stefanie Grieser, Co-Creator at Shine Bootcamp & Director of Growth at Sphere, stated: “ Event marketing is an extension of your content marketing.

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