Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2021

Calls-to-Action (CTAs) are everything in B2B marketing. Well-crafted CTAs encourage prospects to click and convert to a marketing qualified lead (MQL), or possibly to a sales qualified lead (SQL), depending on which type of CTA you present. Learn more about personalized CTAs with HubSpot now. Watch/Book Demo.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 10, 2020

HubSpot is a powerful tool that can handle almost all of your sales and marketing needs. Now, there is a difference between “workflows” and “sequences” in HubSpot that many people get confused about. In fact, marketing automation can lead to a 14.5% increase in sales productivity ! Basic Asset Delivery Workflow.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

You’ve worked hard to turn the engagement from your recent marketing campaign into leads. Once your suspects have become prospects who’ve finally reached the scoring threshold, you toss the leads over the proverbial wall for sales to work. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 23, 2021

As you organize and implement your Go-to-Market plan, you must: Find a real market problem that your product or service will solve. Marketing leaders have always been expected to do a lot. Ask yourself, "Would it be fair for a CEO to judge my performance as a marketing leader based on this metric?"

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2020

Now, as a marketer, I get it. Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem. When the two software work together, your company will convert more MQLs to SQLs and make more sales. CRM and Marketing Automation.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. In fact, 37% of B2B marketers rank it as their number one challenge. Any good B2B marketing campaign will attract the attention and leads but at different stages of the funnel. GPCTBA/C&I.

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Seismic

MARCH 25, 2022

In a recent study, HubSpot found that 51% of marketers who leverage social media plan to increase their investment this year. Hubspot also notes that more than 65% of sales reps rely on LinkedIn social selling as a way to fill their pipeline and conversion funnel. Trim down the sales cycle.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Using LinkedIn's lead generation tools smartly can set your company apart in a crowded cyber security ecosystem. If you are interested in how much you need to invest in your PPC budget and what kind of return you can expect, you should check out our shiny new Cyber Security Marketing Campaign Benchmarks Report.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. And you improve your ROI.

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A closer look at what marketing tactics seem to be working – and what to watch out for. Earlier this year, before the world experienced mass disruption, we were putting the finishing touches on a series of eBooks looking at some of the most interesting trends we saw in content, marketing, and business strategy. Revenue Growth.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 18, 2022

Numbers are key in any kind of marketing. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of confusion among marketers today about what numbers are the most important to track. The huge expansion of the marketing technology sphere over the last decade has led to the creation of all kinds of statistics that may or may not be relevant to your business.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Imagine this: Your agency has created a clear and effective digital marketing plan. For digital marketing agencies, driving campaigns is only half the battle. Understanding this simple yet crucial factor sets apart an effective digital marketing agency. In short, you’ve done nothing at all.

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Metadata

APRIL 21, 2021

So we’re teaming up with some of the best B2B marketers we know. In 90 days, we increased our paid lead volume by over 270%, while simultaneously decreasing cost per lead (CPL) by 82%, and increasing lead-to-MQL conversion rate to over 60%. That’s nearly unheard of in the marketing world – so don’t skip this step!

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Televerde

MARCH 27, 2023

Optimizing the journey from prospect to customer is crucial to maximizing your revenue. Without an effective lead qualification process, your sales and marketing teams could be wasting valuable resources on unqualified leads. Key Takeaways Lead qualification helps you decide how close a prospect is to becoming your customer.

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6sense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A marketing qualified lead (MQL). According to the latest Hubspot report , lead generation is a top priority for marketers around the world in 2021. Some of them have a high chance of buying from your company (they are called prospects). A marketing qualified lead (MQL). Unqualified leads.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

I understand that generating high-quality SQLs is crucial to your job as a business owner or marketer. Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. In this blog post, we’ll explore 7 sales-qualified leads tactics you must know in 2023.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 12, 2023

The year has just started, and like every year so far in the 2020s, it’s on track to be a challenging and unique experience in marketing. Making sense of this data is essential for marketing teams. A company may have access to enormous amounts of data, but until that data has been analyzed and understood, it isn’t useful.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

HubSpot conducted research on the “State of AI,” with over 1,350+ specialists reporting on how AI affects their business. HubSpot’s research says that sales professionals spend 2+ hours daily to automate repetitive tasks. 85% claim their prospecting efforts have become more effective with AI.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 10, 2020

We all know that marketing efforts are what attract your future customers, but at the end of the day, it falls on your sales team to turn those leads into customers. We reached out to a number of sales and sales enablement experts to find out what tools they use to bridge the gap between sales and marketing. Lead Qualification Matrix.

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

No matter which way you skin it, an efficient sales process is what fuels the high-growth B2B companies. Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. This is why companies obsess over building and optimizing large sales teams and processes.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the realm of B2B marketing, building a high-quality and targeted list of quality leads is paramount. It involves identifying and compiling a list of potential prospects who are likely to be interested in a company’s products or services. Manual B2B list building , while traditional, is not without its challenges.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some recent and relevant insights with you. Staying on top of sales and marketing trends like these can help you gain a new perspective on your strategies and even help you initiate a campaign or channel pivot.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Editor's note: This is the third post in an 11-part series on the HubSpot Customer Code. We’re big fans of personas at HubSpot, and even built a tool to help people make personas. Not only is treating your prospects and customers like people the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing to do. A person is unique.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

According to a data analytics market study published in 2017, 53% of companies from around the world have adopted Big Data, as opposed to 17% in 2015. Must Read : 5 Ways to Implement MQL Marketing Tactics. A database cleansing can be the difference between an ineffective and successful marketing campaign.

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SnapApp

JUNE 11, 2019

The halfway point of 2019 has come and gone, and for us marketers, now is a good time to reflect on the priorities we set back in January. Year after year, one priority remains at the top of the list for many B2B marketers: better alignment with sales, and the benefits that come with it. The Connection Between Sales and Marketing.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As a marketer, you might've heard coworkers talking around the watercooler about how email marketing is dead. It's been a common concern for many marketing departments. Well, I'm here to let you know that you don't have to worry because email marketing is still going strong. As marketers, we can't ignore these statistics.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

Measuring ROI from paid marketing for B2B is a critical problem a lot of marketers are trying to tackle. B2B marketing is not transactional, and that’s easy to forget. No doubt those traditional marketers were driving revenue, but no one could effectively measure the impact. So don’t stop at MQL.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I like to think of marketing and sales as the leads in a buddy cop movie. And marketing is the hot-headed rookie with a chip on their shoulder looking to prove to everyone that they have what it takes to become the department's first-ever bow-legged sergeant or something. Your marketing department only cares about MQLs.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A quick google search for lead nurturing confirms what you probably already know, dear marketing friend: things are pretty bleak out there in terms of our overall efficiency. Sales and marketing today both work tirelessly to generate more leads to hit increasing revenue goals, but those leads aren’t translating into customers.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

It’s Q2 2019, do you know where your sales and marketing statistics are? We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some interesting insights with you. B2B Marketing Tactics. 91% percent of B2B marketers are doing content marketing.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s 2018 and virtually all marketers understand the importance of adding video content to the buyer’s journey. Spoiler alert: this includes your marketing automation platform (MAP). For example, you may want to tag a prospect as a marketing qualified lead (MQL) if they watch 75-100% of your product tour video.

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SnapApp

MAY 28, 2019

Both our sales and marketing teams live and breathe this ideology. It’s what helps both departments work as one unit, so together, we can drive deals forward and influence company growth. Maybe one of your attendees is a college student who signed up to do research on your company. More on that later. More on that later.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

There's always something you could be doing better — some hitch or hiccup in your sales or marketing efforts that could use some smoothing over. And while those gaps are more obvious and pressing for some companies, every organization stands to gain from consistent, incremental improvement. No business is perfect.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The same might be said for for the transition from product-market fit to the growth stage of a SaaS company. This is a daunting challenge, but in today's post we're going to look at the four core tenets of a marketing plan (goal setting, tactics, resources and evaluation) that can help you achieve these goals. Marketing budget.

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