Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re a business owner, marketing professional, or digital enthusiast, you already know how important it is to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy. But why is digital marketing so important? If you’re ready to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy, you’re in the right place!

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 28, 2023

For some, that might mean entering new markets. For others, it may mean creating deeper engagements with existing customers. Throughout this guide, we’ll look at four effective ways to use data to improve your small business practices to increase new and existing customer engagement and satisfaction. Work across channels.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. Sound familiar?

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Forget the Funnel: A Customer-Led Approach for Driving Predictable, Recurring Revenue by Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop About the Book Your product is great. So why is marketing it so hard? Many SaaS companies struggle with marketing. Teams try everything they can to drive more traffic, leads, and signups.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited, and you know your customers are going to be impressed. Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Bombora, 6sense, and other “intent data” platforms are helping marketing teams evolve ABM where there are less forms, less spam, and less cold calls. Sending emails without knowing what the accounts care about based on keyword research, what the key personas are, and what stage they’re at in the buying journey.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

John Leonelli is head of sales, B2B Americas, at Babbel, a company that provides subscription-based language learning software and an e-learning platform. They recently moved into the American market, where companies of all sizes are looking for help with Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish language skills.

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. But we also fully recognize the enduring factors that distinguish successful marketing in B2B versus B2C. The approach is guided by personas, which often span verticals, functions, or buying committee roles.

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NetLine

MARCH 6, 2024

Intent data is a powerful tool that can transform the way we approach B2B marketing strategies. Over the past two years, we delved into what marketers need to make the most of B2B intent data. Image caption: Finding the best target accounts shouldn’t be like searching for a lost opportunity in the dark. Created using Midjourney.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 22, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant You’re building your buying committee based off your ideal customer profile, but you’re feeling stuck… What if one buying committee doesn’t feel all-encompassing of who has been reported to you by your sales department? Maybe it’s really a case-by-case situation?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

B2B marketing success hinges on more than just innovative strategies and cutting-edge technologies. At the heart of top-performing B2B marketing programs lies a solid answer to the fundamental question: Do you truly know your best customers and where to find more of them? The key takeaway?

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Technological progress has always been a game-changer for businesses, opening new avenues to connect with customers. The world of B2B marketing automation is on the brink of a full-fledged AI-driven revolution. Human touch alone won’t suffice in deciphering customer nuances.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 19, 2023

Content marketing is still driving success for companies that do it right. Several content marketing areas expect significant growth and change in 2023. These include account-based marketing, artificial intelligence, local SEO, persona marketing, podcast marketing, social media, and video marketing.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 26, 2023

By Payal Parikh , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing If you are just getting started in your ABX journey, you’ve landed at the right place. We have learned some things along the way, helping so many organizations successfully roll out an Account-Based Experience in their organization.

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 14, 2023

Account selection is the most critical step in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) – yet 39% of B2B marketers say determining which accounts to target is one of their biggest ABM challenges. How do you define your strategic accounts when all of them have the potential to convert?

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Oktopost

APRIL 28, 2024

Social media marketing managers and sales executives are no longer sitting on opposite ends of the strategy table. Why B2B sales teams need to be using social media for sales Long gone are the days of sales teams viewing social media as a nice-to-have marketing tool. The B2B sales space is changing.

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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Martech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Marketing departments have near-term and long-term responsibilities to the corporation. Near term is entirely driven by the needs and maturity of marketing operations. Long term, marketing is responsible for developing the intelligence, systems, and processes to drive continuing viability and profitability. Market introduction.

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Top Rank Marketing

APRIL 22, 2024

Where AI really shines in marketing is in data analysis. As we marketers lose some of our most useful data tools, AI and machine learning can help us pick up the pieces. Here’s the current state of generative AI for marketing data, and how it looks to evolve in the near future. Put these insights to work in a timely fashion.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 12, 2022

By Clarissa Gunadharma , Marketing Intern at Heinz Marketing. The rise of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) in the B2B world has shed light on techniques rooted in human behavior, more specifically in this case, client behavior. Buyer Personas / Ideal Customer Profiles. Account Based Marketing (ABM).

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The Marketing Blender

MAY 13, 2024

In B2B marketing, professional services is an industry that requires a specialized approach. The marketing and sales environment for B2B professional services is a highly relationship-based nurturing and selling environment. Why Is Marketing B2B Professional Services So Hard? And value is defined by the customer.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Whether you are building a healthcare diagnostics or a customer service app, you can take a step-by-step approach and use this as a roadmap. And, closer to home, your competitors are deploying AI chatbots to handle customer service around-the-clock. Negative customer service feedback? What is the problem you’re trying to solve?

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Only B2B

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because many new marketing efforts lack the proper segmentation, personalization, ideal client representations, or customer research. Because of these crucial elements, account-based marketing presents a fantastic opportunity. That is the kind of customer you desire, and that is what this article is focused on.

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Martech

MAY 1, 2024

Rapidly advancing generative AI models promise to help scale marketing and sales functions by automating customer conversations. Are brands willing to trust digital assistants to take over the reigns for part of the customer journey? As a result, the company improved customer engagement leading to revenue growth.

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Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers, we aim to confidently and repeatedly deliver effective campaigns to the best opportunities within our target market – at the lowest possible cost.

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NetLine

JULY 5, 2023

Do you want to know why some companies are up to 59% more likely to get their customers engaged? It’s about the ability to understand customer intent and then offer relevant and highly personalized content. In this article, I’ll explain what customer intent is, and how to identify it and improve your marketing efforts.

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Contently

JULY 26, 2022

Are you doing enough to differentiate your company from the competition and create an engaging brand persona? As marketing advice, “know your audience” may be cliché, but some platitudes are worth listening to. Explainers like “ What is a checking account? Share customer stories.

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Word of Mouth Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Content 194

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. In this guide, we share practical content-related advice and examples that you can use to resolve specific ABM challenges, ultimately increasing the efficiency of your marketing campaigns.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 27, 2021

I’m really tired of seeing people dismiss B2B buyer personas as worthless. Although, I have to admit that many of the personas I review from prospective clients are little more than recipe cards for disconnected experiences. And shame on those who are building and promoting what I’ll just call fake personas.

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Leadspace

MAY 2, 2023

Who specifically has engaged with your previous marketing efforts? An engagement scoring model is a tool that monitors and scores engagement (account buying teams, contacts, leads and prospects), and applies scoring based on the specific user actions and digital activity specific to customers’ products/category.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation Services Marketing Analytics Tools 62

Leadspace

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the last two blogs I discussed how to discover your TAM and assign territories, and then how to determine where to focus your sales & marketing efforts by using AI/ML models to score leads and understand who is ready and able to buy your product. Do your segments start with your Total Addressable Market and cover its entirety?

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

That’s why lead nurturing remains such a key element of a good B2B go-to-market. That said, a key question has come up in the last few years: who should nurture prospects, marketing or sales development representatives (SDRs)? OK, so now onto the core question: should lead nurturing come from marketing or SDRs?

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