Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. Some marketers define anyone who fills out a form or attends an online or physical event as a lead. And we accomplished this by focusing on giving sales what they wanted: truly qualified leads.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals.

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NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 3, 2016

You’ve written, designed and produced a white paper. Your objective was likely to establish thought leadership, generate leads and perhaps use it to nurture existing leads until they’re ready to buy. If you subscribe to the theory of “if you build it they will come,” your white paper is dead in the water.

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WriteSpark

APRIL 8, 2014

Your marketing department may produce dozens of new white papers each year, but how often do you refresh an existing one? For many technology marketers, once a white paper is written and posted it''s instantly forgotten. These papers offer proven performance that you''ll want to sustain. How a Copywriter Can Help.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2020

One way to ensure that marketing delivers quality leads to sales is to implement a lead scoring methodology. Based on their interest and buying intentions, the prospect will be ranked according to the lead scoring model that your organization establishes. Why is it important to have a lead scoring model?

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Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Must Read: MQL vs SQL: Which Lead Matter More & When? They’ve reached a pre-determined score based on your lead scoring system.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Martech

AUGUST 3, 2023

Email remains a powerful and cost-effective tool for content delivery and marketing offers, despite frequent predictions to the contrary. This may include: Ad revenue from content emails. Lead generation. When calculating revenue, do I use the list price or the lifetime value of a subscription sale or customer?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. Read several blog posts?

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

I posted recently on LinkedIn that, in the current climate, leads from content syndication and other CPL programs may be an ideal replacement for lost trade shows and other events, and indeed can be an effective way to stay engaged in the marketplace at a time when many buyers are laying low. Quality content = quality leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In content marketing, we measure effectiveness by the amount of organic search traffic and rankings we deliver for our clients. And that is derived from the value our content brings to a brand’s prospects and current customers. But they often surprisingly not judged on how well the overall content marketing program works.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 14, 2021

You’ve spent countless hours developing content for potential buyers. If it does, we’ve got to be honest: no matter how great your product is, your content isn’t going to capture many leads on its own. But your lead magnets? Lead magnets should always be high-value, specific, actionable, and accessible.

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team? Attending webinars or events.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

You are regularly creating content to get traffic and conversions, but is it really turning into the lead and email list numbers that you or your executives are expecting? If you know content can help you reach more of your target audience, there are some ways you can increase the value of your content.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. It doesn’t add value to your audience and can seem completely irrelevant. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment).

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

How is it that a quality white paper on a hot topic can still generate bad leads? Even a well-written white paper, by a respected author, on a hot topic of vital interest to your target audience, can still generate leads your salespeople will consider “junk.” Choose your content carefully.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 5, 2022

The phrase “content is king” was used by Bill Gates in 1996 to describe the future of the internet as a marketplace to share information. More than 25 years later and after countless innovations across both print and digital content, the familiar phrase continues to dominate business headlines. three to five pieces of content ?before

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 21, 2021

Content creation is the cornerstone of a successful inbound marketing strategy. This new Checklist: Perfecting Your B2B Brand Identity helps B2B companies hone how their brand looks, feels, and sounds in the marketplace, which is a great first step to creating the voice that will transcend your content. What will be worth their time?

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marketers are results people, which is why many marketers rely on a systematic approach to prioritizing the best leads for their businesses. Most marketers do this through a process called lead scoring. What is activity-based lead scoring? This seems like a pretty solid approach, right?

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The Point

JULY 18, 2011

Dollar for dollar, white papers continue to be some of the most effective offers for most high-technology marketers. Prospects are usually more likely to download or otherwise register for a white paper vs. a Webinar, free trial, etc. Benefits/Applications/ROI (including case studies, if possible).

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Well, your firm has written and produced a white paper. A quality white paper can one of the most important content marketing vehicles to generate leads within your internet marketing plan. Your ultimate goals with white papers are typically the following: . . Generate new leads.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. As a result, you’ll want to periodically review, update research, and align to ensure you’re positioned to get the best results from your content and sales efforts. Moreover, 36% say that personas contributed to shorter sales cycles.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people. Heck, not all marketing people are content people. We’ve been tempted to and have poured a ton of dollars into paid before, and we’re a content-led organization that has used content to grow our organic traffic 35X (and counting over the past five years).

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. However, strategic content creation and distribution are great solutions to these challenges. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword. ” Providing relatable, real-world examples.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Among the aspects proving to be particularly challenging is content marketing. Here are a number of key challenges related to content marketing during and after the pandemic, along with useful tips and methods that you can use to boost your ROI. Content drought and lower ROI in the world of B2B marketing post-COVID.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means doing keyword research (determining the best keyword phrases to target based on a combination of relatively search volume and low competition or difficulty); mapping the selected keywords to specific pages; then optimizing the navigation, content, URL, and other elements of on-page SEO for each page.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 11, 2023

Even though these options might sound like the logical next-step for your business, what you really need is a website that attracts the right people, communicates your company’s specialty, and converts traffic into leads. Content Marketing Today’s consumers are eating up content. Content Creation. Distribution.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

You’ve probably seen, heard or maybe even used the term “interesting moments” in tracking and scoring what your prospects are doing. But there’s one problem with most variables we historically have used to track and score prospect interest – they fail to account for and measure time. Did they read it?

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Writing on the Web

APRIL 4, 2011

I asked Laura Carlson to share with you here some important perspectives on content marketing. It doesn’t matter what you call your information (white paper/eBook, microsite/landing page), what matters is using information wisely to get found, get known and get clients. Is Your White Paper a Sales Pitch in Disguise?

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Your prospects have access to vast amounts of content, and they want it on their terms. Your savvy, educated and overworked prospects will only invest time in reading your materials if your words offer value. Enter the white paper. White papers have become a powerful marketing tool because of two important qualities.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Use Humor to Build Connections.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 17, 2020

Generating leads is one of the hardest but most important tasks in business—it attracts interest, builds relationships, and helps you increase your revenue. Using authoritative content can help you generate leads, and there are some great content strategies that you can use to boost your chances of getting the leads you want.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

And what’s good for the company that makes an investment in online B2B marketing videos is that they are proven to increase metrics such as awareness, conversion rates, quality leads that go into the sales process, thought leadership, social metrics, open rates, and click-through rates in email campaigns.

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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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Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Research has shown that up to 50% of leads are qualified but not yet ready to buy and only 3% of those in the market are in an active buying process. A strategic lead nurturing campaign enables you to stay engaged with these prospects until they are ready to purchase. Acquisition.

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Atomic Reach

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The time to evaluate your content marketing is now, but what's the best way to understand it? Content Scoring is one of the most effective ways to evaluate your content marketing and uncover why your content is performing well (or poorly). How Does AI Affect Content Scoring? Source: Atomic Reach.

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