Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In essence, digital marketing is a lot of work, as is demand generation and working with sales. Social Media. Demand Generation. Media Planning. By connecting the dots, social media teams can craft a plan to better support sales. Demand Generation. Media Planning.

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Sales Management Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 103

ANNUITAS

JANUARY 13, 2015

In October of 2014, ANNUITAS published a Benchmark Study regarding B2B Enterprise Demand Generation. One of the key takeaways was that “Marketing departments are struggling to succeed with their Demand Generation.” Understand Your Buyer and Think Strategically About Demand Generation Programs.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Buyer Personas Demand Generation Agencies 100

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Tom Swanson, Engagement Manager, Heinz Marketing Process changes are among some of the most difficult to make in business. Most teams avoid making process changes until there are already rampant problems. For marketing orchestration, it is best to be proactively improving your process as you scale.

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Velocity Partners

JUNE 6, 2023

Who in our target audience is most relevant?) And you can see our strategy and offerings that we have been developing in line with our B2B performance marketing process. One of the first things we need to consider is how to generate enough volume from the right target demographics. Driving demand generation?

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Planning Marketing Analytics Tools Conversion Rate Advertising Agencies 92

Rev

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here then are my suggestions for the top-level funnel stages for sales and marketing: Target Market, Opportunities, Pipeline, and Closed-Won Deals are used universally and everyone seems to understand what they mean. Target Market. Factor in such considerations when assessing your target market. Definition. Conversation Leads.

Lead Ranking 111

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 111

The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Either that, or they’re just choosing to frame the discussion in such a way as to greatly limit the potential of their clients’ social media initiatives. Recently I was made privy to a social media plan authored by a client’s PR agency. use targeted, insightful content to attract and engage with qualified prospects.

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Demand Generation Agencies PR Social Media Paid Search Agency 100

The Point

AUGUST 9, 2012

Even if a few publishers offer the option, it’s likely that they’d charge a high premium given they’d be eliminating a large number of otherwise quality leads in the process (see above). If it’s important that you only target specific regions, you’re probably better off considering either a list purchase, or possibly even paid search (SEM).

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 9, 2012

Retargeting via digital advertising (banners and search) allows you the opportunity to show advertisements across websites, networks, and ad exchanges, targeting audiences who’ve been to your website, landing page or even blog, but did not perform a desired conversion. Lead management process. Need more proof? Retargeting Costs.

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Paid Content Conversion Rate Tactics Internet Marketing 100

NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 9, 2012

Retargeting via digital advertising (banners and search) allows you the opportunity to show advertisements across websites, networks, and ad exchanges, targeting audiences who’ve been to your website, landing page or even blog, but did not perform a desired conversion. Lead management process. Need more proof? Retargeting Costs.

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Conversion Rate Paid Content Tactics Internet Marketing 100

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. In the video below, Holly explains their process. All I can say is WOW! Listen to her carefully; there are some awesome sound bites and plenty of key takeaways in it.

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Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. The tools are wonderful – they do indeed automate many of the tasks you listed (email handling, lead management, nurturing, etc.). But here’s the thing: Inbound Marketing Automation, like most complex issues, is a Process.

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process. In order to get there, you need to start with a content marketing plan and that starts with a content audit. Once you have done your content audit, you can begin the content mapping process. What is a content audit?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. Depending on the stage of the prospect, your content needs to: Move them from ignorance to awareness – define the problem and make your target audience aware of generic solutions and the benefits of your offerings.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). In this post, I’m going to focus on content for the early stages of the buy cycle.

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Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process. This way the company can see exactly where the leads are coming from, how old they are, where they are in the process, which account executive is handling them and where leads typically fall out. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

The ABM Agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes As a director of marketing or CMO at an enterprise B2B SaaS organization, you may be wondering how to create and execute an effective account based marketing strategy. All these elements must work together in order to successfully deliver results from your account based marketing strategies.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing AI Cost per Lead Marketing Strategy 52

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process. And yes, it does cost money.

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Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 We could have conflicts with our channel partners 4.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). I should know — I am an engineer too.

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Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

However, industrial marketers face a challenge when it comes to producing a steady stream of fresh content to keep their target audience engaged. Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers.

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Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? While it is good to have multiple links in your email, don’t confuse your target audience by making multiple offers in the same email. How are you using email marketing to reach and engage with your target audience?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

However, it is not so easy to translate features into benefits that really engage and speak directly to your target audience. It is only when you tie them together or translate features into benefits can you engage with your target audience and increase your success rate of closing the sale. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

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Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers? Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. Reaching your target market doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Don’t be persona non grata – take the time to really understand the persona of the target audience. Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process. However, they may not be good at articulating those benefits and features.

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Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

B2B Social Media Management tools like Oktopost can pick up where your content studio leaves off, streamlining social media management processes and providing analytics you can use to evaluate and adjust your campaign after it launches. Source What are the benefits of using a content creation studio? Explore more here.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 7, 2012

In the US, research generally considers businesses with less than 100 employees to be small businesses and those with 100 to 1,000 employees to be medium buisnesses. Other Fortune list abbreviations like F50 and F2000 are also used. Most frequently used to indicate the general size of target companies versus the specific list.

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Paid Content Lead Ranking Cost Per Click Cost per Lead 100

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 B2B Lead Ranking 60

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2012

Indium’s key objectives include positioning themselves as thought leaders in the industry, establishing trust and confidence in their brand, and last but not least, generating leads. A social media plan that aligns with company initiatives will support your marketing efforts, and help promote your content to a wider audience.

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B2B Marketing Planning B2B High Quality Lead 48

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms. We know it’s a necessary tool for seed nurturing and demand generation , but in many cases, B2B marketers are still not sure where to begin.

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Ning Paid Content Facebook Sales Management 40

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Manufacturers and industrial companies have now realized that the vast majority of their target audience is online during a major portion of the buying cycle. Grow your in-house list by implementing a lead generation tactic. Use social media judiciously to increase name recognition, drive traffic and build a community.

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