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When You’re Focused on Upstream, What do You Measure?

Vision Edge Marketing

Being able to establish performance targets and measure them against these types of metrics takes a different set of data than relying on Google analytics, CRM, or MAP (marketing automation platform) data. Let’s examine two of these concepts to explores measures for Upstream Marketing: preference and penetration.

SIC 143
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How to Do ABM Without an ABM Tool- Part II

Heinz Marketing

Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. Traditionally, [ABM] was used by large enterprises where the size of the deal justified the amount of energy focused on marketing to only one business or account. Company Name/URL/Ticker. Company Industry (23 options). Company Revenue (Min—Max).

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Is Technology Making Marketing Agencies Obsolete?

The Point

Over at the IDC Technology Marketing Blog , analyst Sam Melnick posted an article recently with the intriguing title: “Are Ad Agencies Keeping Pace with the Marketing’s (sic) Massive Digital Uptake? Specifically: • IDC reports that digital marketing spend by technology companies will surpass non-digital spend by the end of 2016.

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Marketing Technology Success: It’s All About The Integrations…

Allocadia

In the marketer’s world it seems like this is all anyone talks about. For good reason — this area of marketing has boomed over the last 10-15 years. And while many people first think about Marketing Automation and CRM when MarTech comes to mind, there are almost 4,000 marketing technologies available (as made famous by Scott Brinker).

SIC 40
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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

Everything Technology Marketing

The biggest segmentation error that people make is to start with the "who" or "what" and segmenting the market using criteria such as industry verticals, company size or geography and other dimensions because this data is easy to gather. A better segmentation strategy is to start with why companies purchase a solution.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

Source : Eric Wittlake, Heads Up: Account and Contact Data Might Be More Important Than You Think , TOPO, a Gartner Company. We are in the early innings of a major transformation in how businesses worldwide go to market. We expect that our combined company data asset will be 5x larger than it was prior to this acquisition.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Given the current state of the economy, I find companies in the industrial sector only recognizing SAL’s and SQO’s. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?