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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s the kicker: Among leading content marketing companies, that figure jumps to 29%. Only 49% of B2B content marketers are measuring return on investment, even at the first stage of their sales funnel, where they generate leads and build an audience. But don’t despair! There’s hope for us all.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Every company has its own history, values, strategies, and quirks that impact how marketing happens on a day-to-day basis. For example, at a company with a traditional, sales-led model, lifecycle marketers will usually fall under the Growth Marketing team. And the hallmark of a good marketing department is simply that it works.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

These are the types of observations that can lead to new standards and processes across your team that you wouldn’t have come up with otherwise. Then segment audiences by company size, geo, or industry. Or maybe a certain subject line format is having outsized impact compared to others. Every audience is unique.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Learn why marketing operations and sales alignment is crucial to achieving your company's goals and improving ROI, and a few ways that you can ensure both these teams are collaborating, staying in sync and taking the steps needed to drive company growth and see results.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Develop your ICP Your ICP describes the firmographic details of the type of company you agree would be the best fit for your product or service. Align marketing and sales on your ICP to deliver a shared understanding of what kinds of leads you want to prioritize. Financial services or SaaS companies? Startups or enterprise orgs?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Marketing automation for B2B: Account-based management and lead scoring Buyer personas … have you created them yet? It’s common for B2C and B2B companies to create personas to more effectively target various audiences and capture their attention. B2B companies have complex buying processes (hello, long sales cycles!).

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MARCH 19, 2024

Surveys show CMOs are concerned about demonstrating ROI, with another significant challenge being the generation of leads,” says Jeff Day, SVP of Marketing at Act-On Software. We worked so hard to get those leads….” Marketing keeps sending us all these terrible leads; we’re sick of wasting our time!” asks Kevin.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The commission is usually based on the amount of clicks and/or leads delivered. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a law that imposes certain obligations around privacy and security on companies that collect personal information from California residents. eBook Learn More What is Cost Per Lead Advertising?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To paraphrase an old saying: You can lead a prospect to your website, but you can’t make them buy. On the other hand, you can improve your chances considerably with a lead nurturing campaign, helping your prospects every step of the way. Almost two-thirds of leads aren’t sales ready. Take it slow!

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

You can use automation to enroll new leads in nurture campaigns that send educational content over time. This could include standard alerts and notifications, promotional texts sent to a targeted segment of your audience, or even behaviorally triggered SMS messages that you send after a client or lead takes a specific action.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Shrinking budgets, rising expectations, and a growing disconnect between CEOs and CMOs about the “most important” marketing metrics lead to more questions than answers about how to expand pipeline. Your team might say, ‘We drove 4,000 leads this month.’ But what if there are only 200 companies in your target market? asks Kevin.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

More specifically, growth marketing goes beyond the old-school “attract and capture” model of lead generation. In a nutshell, growth marketers take deliberate steps toward expanding their company’s customer base and overall revenue through more creative measures than typically associated with traditional marketing.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, you need contact with the Salesforce administrator and the CRM administrator in your company to ensure the integration with your new marketing automation platform runs smoothly. Identifying the right person and processes early helps build the appropriate lead time to complete tasks and keep your projects on schedule.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And that doesn’t even get into planning automated nurture programs and assigning lead scores to key intent signals. Each ISP and filtering company puts different weight on different factors to determine a sender’s reputation. It also leads to a higher ROI for emails. Are your emails making it to the inbox?

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Widespread use of text messaging, coupled with modern technologies like marketing automation makes SMS marketing a smart and effective way to connect with leads and customers throughout the buyer’s journey. Building your SMS Marketing List No company can get into SMS marketing without a list of people to text.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For example, you need contact with the Salesforce administrator and the CRM administrator in your company to ensure the integration with your new email marketing platform runs smoothly. Identifying the right person and processes early helps build the appropriate lead time to complete tasks and keep your projects on schedule.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But to execute strong inbound and outbound marketing campaigns, you need to integrate these sales tools with a marketing automation platform, which is the functional layer of successful companies. Lead Acquisition Attract and acquire new leads by managing all inbound and outbound marketing programs from a single platform.

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