Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

As data analytics grow in sophistication, measuring the results of your marketing efforts becomes even more critical to your company’s success. So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing? So, show them the money.

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Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Content marketing ain’t easy… but isn’t that why it’s so valuable? Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Content is an integral part of that process.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 129

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Generation vs Lead Generation: What’s the Difference? Does demand generation sound similar to lead generation ? What is Demand Generation?

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.). That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Leveraging marketing data is key to continual optimization and driving growth. This article explains how feeding bottom-of-funnel analytics back into top-of-funnel activities boosts acquisition and reduces costs over time. Data flows throughout the growth loop so the bottom-of-funnel data (i.e.,

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Multi-Touch Attribution Marketing Attribution 105

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And every customer is a “converted” lead. But, not all leads will convert. That’s where marketing qualified leads, or MQLs, come into play. and “Why do MQLs matter?” This blog post covers all you need to know about MQLs—from definitions to strategies for converting leads into paying customers.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. 60% of B2B SaaS companies reported their biggest marketing problem is a lack of time and resources. What is B2B SaaS Marketing?

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Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy 62

ClearVoice

APRIL 17, 2024

This wisdom holds especially true for us marketers, whose responsibility is to drive growth and attract new customers. The Importance of Tracking Your Collaborative Content Hopefully, we don’t have to emphasize how important data is to your marketing success. Sixty-eight percent of B2B businesses struggle with lead generation.

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Contently

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the complex marketing strategies most of us design today, models like “multi-touch” and “omni-touch” are crucial to genuinely mapping ROI to every piece of content in the buyer’s journey. So why use single-touch attribution in a 21st-century marketing context? Why Use Single-Touch Attribution?

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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

Manufacturing lead generation is a perennial top priority for most manufacturers. To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. However, this sales-driven environment presents unique challenges for industrial and manufacturing marketers.

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 52

Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. Unfortunately, at many companies, that’s not always the case. What is lead handoff between marketing and sales?

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Qualified Leads 78

Rev

MARCH 29, 2023

Marketing and sales teams use a lot of acronyms, and we throw them around like everyone knows what they mean. That’s exactly the case with MQL and SQL. We know that MQL stands for marketing qualified lead, and SQL stands for sales qualified lead. What is a marketing qualified lead?

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 10, 2024

Navigating the sales funnel can be complex for any business. Developing a journey from prospect to customer acquisition demands a specific sales process—and, often, sales and marketing teams aren't sure of which responsibilities they hold during that process. Marketing brings in leads; sales closes the deals.

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Only B2B

JANUARY 27, 2022

Lead generation is an important aspect of client acquisition. It is the primary goal of every marketing effort. You’ve definitely heard of lead generation and how entrepreneurs and marketers are all over it, maximizing its power and tailoring it to your exact specifications. What Exactly Is a Lead?

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Industrial marketing for manufacturers offers solutions that allow us to maximize our resources.

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Top of Funnel Lead Generation Advertising Agencies Lead Scoring 104

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. That’s why it’s so important to have a well-defined digital marketing funnel in place.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Measuring content within an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy is like navigating a ship through uncharted waters — but with a finely tuned compass. Just as a ship relies on its compass to assess direction and progress, a marketer relies on metrics and indicators to understand how well their content is steering their ABM campaigns.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Measuring content within an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy is like navigating a ship through uncharted waters — but with a finely tuned compass. Just as a ship relies on its compass to assess direction and progress, a marketer relies on metrics and indicators to understand how well their content is steering their ABM campaigns.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 52

Only B2B

MAY 4, 2022

That’s not the case. ” It may appear that you’re freeing yourself from the duty of nurturing leads through the sales funnel, but make no mistake: failing to update CRM data while engaging prospects is a B2B appointment setting mistake you don’t want to make. No bueno.). Using Time-Consuming Tools.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 3, 2024

We often hear people say that their goal is simply to bring in more leads. You don’t want just any old lead. You want the right kind of leads. Your goal should actually be to generate more of the kind of leads. Let’s assume you’ve done your homework and you know what a good lead looks like for you.

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Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 52

Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the realm of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), two terms frequently arise that B2B marketers often struggle to comprehend – demand generation and lead generation. While these two concepts may seem interchangeable, they in fact serve unique roles in any B2B marketing strategy.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

Most marketers understand this basic concept: You should create personalized content for your site visitors. But by doing this, your leads will turn out more qualified, and you’ll have a better understanding of what someone needs. Speaking to your different personas is the exact thing that will make your leads more qualified.

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Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Personalization Generation 98

Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In an age where the allure of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the attention of so many of us in the B2B marketing industry, the essence of authentic human connection in storytelling is more important than ever. “81% of marketers think content writers jobs are at risk because of AI.

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Only B2B

JUNE 23, 2022

The terms leads, prospects, and opportunities are frequently used synchronously in B2B sales, despite the fact that they truly have distinct meanings. That is to say, a lead cannot receive the same level of attention as an opportunity. Leads, prospects, and opportunities in B2B sales. We have leads at the top of the funnel.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As we wrap up 2023 and look ahead to 2024, now is the time to evaluate our marketing strategies to ensure we are fully prepared for what’s to come. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively. Tracking upper-funnel and B2B activities is challenging but feasible.

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Binary Demand

MAY 2, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In B2B sales, generating leads is only half the battle. The real challenge is converting those leads into actual sales. That’s where B2B sales qualified leads (SQLs) strategies come in. As a B2B company, generating leads is crucial to your success.

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Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 59

Velocity Partners

JULY 5, 2023

Our last campaign generated loads of leads! Clients come to our door with problems like this all the time — the high of an influx of leads from the latest marketing campaign, quickly replaced by frustration and disappointment when none of them want to talk to sales. Sugar rush leads can actually be worse than no leads at all.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Campaigns 82

Lead Forensics

APRIL 11, 2024

That’s a big proportion of website visitors you’re missing out on – but with software from Lead Forensics , this doesn’t have to be the case. Lead Forensics is a powerful lead generation tool designed to reveal the businesses visiting your website. Uncover new leads This is what Lead Forensics is all about.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 11, 2024

That’s a big proportion of website visitors you’re missing out on – but with IP tracking software from Lead Forensics , this doesn’t have to be the case. Lead Forensics is a powerful lead generation tool designed to reveal the identity and contact information of your unknown website visitors. For Marketing 5.

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Work Management Marketing Management Software Sales Qualified Leads 52

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing Let’s call it how we see it and acknowledge that it’s been an interesting year. Targeted Customer Segmentation Effective customer segmentation allows you to tailor your marketing efforts to specific customer groups. that span various topics and stages of the funnel.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy B2B Thought Leadership Word of Mouth 109

Velocity Partners

JUNE 14, 2023

In our view, B2B marketing is a weak-link sport. A good marketing campaign is (with some exceptions) only as good as its worst component, rather than its best. So… why do we insist on doing this with our marketing? If success hinges on leads from gated content, you’re shooting yourself in the foot early.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 88

Stevens & Tate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Not all buyers are created equal, and depending on what stage in your sales funnel a buyer lands can dictate the type of marketing they’re ready to receive. Inbound marketing is about just that: tailoring exactly the right content to your buyer precisely when they need it.

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