Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As your prospects move through the buyer’s journey, good storytelling helps ensure your brand is top of mind, especially when it’s time to make a purchasing decision. Regardless, fitting smaller stories into your larger brand narrative and defining where they fall within the funnel will drive a lot of your strategic decisions.

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Storytelling Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Conversion 135

Outbrain

AUGUST 1, 2022

To compete for market share, businesses must have an online advertising presence, and while organic exposure takes many months to build up, PCC ads can get visibility for your business, fast. In the US, the average wage for PPC marketers is close to $50K, and 62% of marketers are increasing their PPC budgets next year.

Paid Content 29

Paid Content PPC Course Best Practices 29

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2019

But, sales and marketing organizations must resist this instinct in order to constantly adapt to changing markets, new technologies, emerging trends and so on. We’re speaking, of course, of the sales funnel. The sales funnel represents the theoretical customer’s journey to making a purchase.

Top of Funnel 228

Top of Funnel Word of Mouth Lead Ranking Digital Marketing Funnels 228

Optinmonster

MARCH 11, 2024

Gamification marketing, are you doing it? Good marketing content has become a lot more engaging lately. There’s actually some truth to that, and it’s all thanks to the rise of gamification in marketing. Games and marketing may sound strange, but they’re actually a match made in heaven. What Is Gamification in Marketing?

Examples 99

Examples Planning Paid Search Agency Interactive Marketing 99

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Paid Content Lead Scoring 264

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Account-based marketing has been around for several years now. Some of the statistics that have attracted marketers to ABM include: 87% of account-based marketers say that ABM initiatives outperform other marketing investments ( ITSMA ). And yet, many B2B marketers have still held back from adopting ABM.

Account Based Marketing 269

Account Based Marketing Budget Programs Planning Paid Search Agency 269

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Martech Advisor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Marketers must reach shoppers who are in-market, not just browsing. Purchase intent is when a consumer expresses an actual desire to buy a product through their behavior, yet confusing “interest” with “intent” can be a stumbling block, shares, Daniel Heer, Founder & CEO at zeotap. Forbes, 2018).

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Purchase Intent Advertising Agencies Purchase Intent 41

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 18, 2020

The question of why Sales and Marketing need to be in sync is a no-brainer. Studies have shown that companies with “good” sales-marketing alignment achieve. 108% more acceptance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). But how exactly can sales-marketing alignment benefit YOUR organization? 36% increase in customer retention.

Sales Management 290

Sales Management Lead Ranking B2B Sales Top of Funnel 290

FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is one of the top goals for B2B marketers. It can feel overwhelming to keep track of everything, and even the most seasoned marketers fall prey to the top mistakes in B2B lead generation CRO. Helping simplify the overwhelm is where Funnel Envy can help. It depends on your business, of course.

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Generation Ideal Customer Profiles 123

ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Content marketing is ever-evolving. And for B2B marketers and large enterprises, the cost of lagging behind the content marketing trend curve is too massive to ignore. To help you keep up with the times, here is a compilation of the top 15 trends in content marketing that will shape the industry in 2023.

Top of Funnel 115

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Trends Enterprise Management 115

Martech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is continuing to expand and evolve. This means marketers can use it holistically in omnichannel campaigns, due in large part to more programmatic DOOH and data from those campaigns. The $13 billion global market represents 37% of all out-of-home. All these digital features have now come to out-of-home.”

Advertising Agencies 122

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Multi-Channel 122

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How can you increase digital engagement? Third-party cookies, once a cornerstone of data collection for marketers, are slowly being phased out to improve consumer privacy protection. Get your customers back What is digital engagement and why is it important? This demand for personalization will only continue to grow.

Account Based Marketing 122

Account Based Marketing Work Management Digital Marketing Funnels Top of Funnel 122

FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Technology, especially digital tools like email, electronic signatures, and marketing automation, has significantly impacted our business operations. Studies have shown that this group has a distinct preference for a few specific styles of sales and marketing. Finally, remember to include a personal touch in each funnel stage.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Optimization Generation 76

NetLine

APRIL 11, 2024

Let’s begin with one of the more “controversial” subjects in modern marketing and NetLine’s bread and butter: Gated content. Marketers May Hate Gates, But Users Are Unbothered Contrary to the narrative surrounding it, our findings reveal demand for gated B2B content increased 14.3% Of course not. Don’t hate the gate.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Report Intent B2B Marketing 52

Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies.

Paid Search Agency 123

Paid Search Agency Marketing Attribution Top of Funnel Companies 123

Contently

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Of the marketers who responded to Wyzowl’s State of Video Marketing 2023 report , 92% say video gives them a good return on their investment. To live stream effectively, consider the following.

Top of Funnel 148

Top of Funnel Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 148

FunnelEnvy

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now that the digital marketing space is maturing, the focus is increasingly on the finer details of digital experiences. Most marketers already recognize the importance of major pillars like email, social media, and web design. Of course, the B2B world can be a little different.

Top of Funnel 73

Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Digital Marketing Funnels 73

Choozle

MARCH 5, 2021

In this choozlechat podcast episode, we chatted with our Director of Partnerships & Strategic Solutions, Hunter Phillips, about digital out-of-home, or DOOH advertising. How DOOH advertising fits into your marketing strategy. Do you want to explain what digital out-of-home is? We cover: What DOOH advertising is.

Advertising Agencies 98

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Funnel Advertising 98

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2019

But, sales and marketing organizations must resist this instinct in order to constantly adapt to changing markets, new technologies, emerging trends and so on. We’re speaking, of course, of the sales funnel. The sales funnel represents the theoretical customer’s journey to making a purchase.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Word of Mouth Lead Ranking Digital Marketing Funnels 130

Optinmonster

AUGUST 8, 2022

Want to build a challenge funnel that packs your list with qualified leads? In this article, we’ll show you how to create an online challenge funnel, step by step. What is a Challenge Funnel? Challenge funnels start with the contest to build up a list of email subscribers or social media followers.

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Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Marketing Funnels Sales Qualified Leads 86

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As social marketers, we spend a lot of time focused on content marketing conversion. It’s how leadership measures results, even as marketers we know that conversion is just the desired end result and not the whole journey. We need a complete content funnel optimized at each stage for conversion. — Fluent ??

Top of Funnel 143

Top of Funnel Acquisitions Advertising Funnels Digital Marketing Funnels 143

Goodish Agency

AUGUST 5, 2021

Growth Marketing is without a doubt a buzzword in 2021. But what is growth marketing, what does it entail, and why is it making a big difference for many SaaS, eCommerce, and FinTech companies? What is Growth Marketing? Growth Marketing vs. Growth Hacking. Growth Marketing & digital hyper-personalization.

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Growth Marketing Paid Search Agency Multi-Channel Work Management 116

Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility. Providing the content customers need when they’re ready for it ultimately leads to better outcomes for marketers. How important is personalization in content marketing? Additional reading.

Digital Asset Management 136

Digital Asset Management Paid Content Work Management Marketing Management 136

LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

If you’ve spent more than three months in a marketing capacity, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the mysterious, and most often problematic, phenomenon of lead leakage. For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel.

Lead Management 97

Lead Management Sales Qualified Leads Work Management Marketing Management 97

Stevens & Tate

MARCH 7, 2023

The process that a consumer goes through before they make a purchase is known as the buyer’s journey. As a result of digital media, consumers can now navigate much of their buyer’s journey on their own. This may seem like a challenge, but it’s what the entire concept of inbound marketing is built around.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Digital Marketing Funnels Funnel Advertising 83

Scoop.it

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You have audiences distributed across every stage of this customer journey, represented by a marketing funnel. Below is a great visual representation of what the funnel looks like. The top of the funnel (ToFu) accommodates customers who are just interacting with your business for the first time.

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Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Funnels Content 83

Biznology

MAY 17, 2021

Oh, to live in the world of B2C marketing, where you can easily draw a line directly from your marketing work to the revenue generated. I’m kidding, of course. Sure, it’s helpful that there’s a “buy” button at the end of the marketing process much more often in B2C sales than in B2B. Here are a few to consider.

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Top of Funnel Effectiveness Content Marketing Planning 104

Martech

AUGUST 10, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, and are you being creepy? Over the last few days, I’ve had one of those personalized marketing experiences which, if it doesn’t cross the line, gets pretty close.

Work Management 110

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Analytics Tools Digital Marketing Funnels 110

Biznology

JULY 11, 2019

Effective sales funnels are the most engaging—and effective—ways to increase your business. This high number indicates that too many leads are pushed through the sales funnel before they’re ready to convert and make a purchase. Allowing sales and marketing to work together effectively.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Funnels 130

Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Wondering how to sell digital products? Creating digital downloads takes work, so you want to make sure that your digital product actually sells. In this article, we’ll go over the basics of selling digital products so you can get started quickly. What is a Digital Product?

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Product Tips Work Management Digital Marketing Funnels 66

Biznology

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

To get some insight into what’s going on in B2B marketing here, I tapped the brain of Sudhi Seshadri , who is dean and professor of marketing at MYRA School of Business in nearby Mysore, and has a PhD from Penn State. Sudhi has been teaching B2B marketing for decades, and knows the territory. I posed six questions to him.

B2B Marketing 147

B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel 147

Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

If I asked you to think back on your last meaningful purchase, there’s a very high chance that online research was involved in your process. In fact, the whole concept of “buyer journey” has become commonplace because of the complexity of online purchasing and research. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey.

Top of Funnel 136

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 136

PathFactory

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

2023 is bringing economic volatility that has most B2B marketers scratching their heads. Sellers are having a hard time meeting their quotas, while B2B go-to-market teams are still depending on marketing tactics that are quickly going out of style—like cold calling and blanket email marketing.

Top of Funnel 64

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Cold Calling Funnel Advertising 64

The Lead Agency

JULY 16, 2020

Beyond the cost-saving, satisfied customers are known to spend more money, make more purchases more often and of course , refer family and friends. With B2B buyers taking a much longer time to filter through the sales funnel, keeping your current customers engaged is a great way to remain profitable and successful.

Marketing Budget 101

Marketing Budget Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy Budget Programs 101

Choozle

AUGUST 25, 2021

You’ve got a few good digital advertising campaigns all set up to run through Black Friday, so you must be good to go, right? This strategy is largely overlooked, yet vital to your digital advertising plan if you want to reap even more of the monetary benefits from the biggest eCommerce holidays of the year. Not so fast! Time matters.

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Advertisements Advertising Marketing & Strategy Funnel Advertising 58

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 5, 2022

You’ve probably heard of an email marketing funnel, but are you wondering how to build one and what all the fuss is about? Email marketing funnels are a super effective way to turn casual website visitors into loyal customers. It’s not magic, but with our ultimate guide, email funnels can be simple.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Email Marketing Conversion 74