KoMarketing Associates

MAY 1, 2019

As marketers’ budgets fluctuate with changing demands, new research suggests that they are focused more on lead generation, as well as sales and marketing alignment to achieve their primary goals. Sales and Marketing Continue to Close the Gap. At least 16 percent claimed that it will rise by more than 30 percent.

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DemandBase

AUGUST 10, 2020

Like most digital marketing teams, our team faced the challenge of solving for the wrecking ball-sized hole that COVID-19 created in our pipeline plan. You know the story: budgets and in-person marketing channels—vanished, just like that. Some quick ABM adoption data from the 2020 ABM Market Research Study ). I’m winded.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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DemandBase

AUGUST 21, 2020

What do the most successful B2B companies that sell into mid-market and enterprise accounts have in common? Is there a singular trait that unifies their go-to-market and determines their outsized success? At the heart of every successful B2B business is a truly unified Sales and Marketing engine that drives growth.

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DemandBase

MARCH 23, 2020

But as B2B marketers (and sales practitioners), the fact remains that we’re still on the hook for generating and delivering on pipe goals that may now seem impossible. This challenge is particularly daunting because some of our most trusted marketing tactics are no longer available. Tighten your sales and marketing alignment.

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DemandBase

JULY 16, 2020

The Demandbase sales team has achieved considerably higher results from personalized outreach than with generic blasting. Your marketing team can take care of that approach with marketing automation. Prospecting gold mine? Personalization: It’s Not Just Jargon. percent to 10 percent. 3 Types of Content Sources.

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DemandBase

APRIL 23, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis hit, my team and I at Demandbase were catapulted into unchartered territory. I quickly realized that we weren’t (and, if I’m being completely honest: I wasn’t) being sensitive enough to what our prospects, customers, and colleagues were dealing with. Especially to cold prospects. We weren’t alone.

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DemandBase

APRIL 29, 2020

Like other companies, the Demandbase marketing team has gone from weekly in-person meetings in Journey, our main conference room, to entirely virtual Zoom-fests. Now’s a great time to build your marketing skills, but we’ll get into that in a bit.). Shift to digital marketing. Build skills for your future.

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DemandBase

JULY 24, 2020

In 2019, I decided to become a certified ABM expert by completing the Demandbase ABM Certification program. When I first learned about Account-Based Marketing (ABM), it seemed like another niche marketing strategy. Needless to say, the Certification program and the Demandbase ABM Platform were key elements in my toolbox.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They bridge the gap between sales and marketing and act like the initial handshake in the B2B world — a crucial first step in a long-term relationship between businesses. In account-based sales development, the SDRs work in conjunction with marketing and AEs to create new opportunities for new and existing customers. What is ABSD?

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jon Miller recently said that the B2B go-to-market playbook is kaput. That’s the same Jon Miller who practically invented that playbook at the dawn of inbound marketing. You know, Marketo and Engagio founder and CMO at Demandbase (and, it just so happens, serial Velocity client). That Jon Miller. Few are paying attention.

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Engagio

JUNE 29, 2021

Any financial services Marketing or Sales team can transform itself into a center of excellence without much budget thanks to an account-based pilot. Identifying your in-market accounts. In the recent past, the best companies could do was blanket the market in full-bleed print ads. Also available through Demandbase.).

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing. According to Scott Brinker’s most recent Marketing Technology Landscape , there are 9932 (and counting) solutions in the marketing technology space. We believe that technology needs to support your marketing strategy, not be your marketing strategy.

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Engagio

MAY 3, 2021

Demandbase’s CMO on why every great go-to-market team stands on a foundation of great data. Andreessen talked about the companies that are winning — Apple, Netflix, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google, etc. — And, it turns out, the best go-to-market strategies run on the best data. Data in B2B go-to-market (Sales and Marketing).

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DemandBase

AUGUST 5, 2020

Recently, Megan Anderson Vasquez was promoted to Vice President of Customer Success at Demandbase. Beth Tiltges, Director of Field & Customer Marketing at Demandbase, notes, “I have worked with Megan for close to six years, and she is the epitome of a true business partner. I’ve been at Demandbase for about six years.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But to succeed in B2B Sales and Marketing, we must keep up with the trends despite the unpredictability. We engaged the top minds in B2B Sales and Marketing for their prescient understanding of two powerful questions: What are your predictions for ABM in 2021? CEO at Marvel Marketers | LinkedIn. Maneeza Aminy.

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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. Account-Based Marketing: What Is It? Account-Based Marketing Examples. Live Events.

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DemandBase

JANUARY 15, 2019

You know the drill: Marketing does the heavy lifting to drive awareness and engagement, and Sales Development Reps (SDRs) need to convert that into opportunities. Here at Demandbase, we enjoyed a particularly successful approach to solving these prospecting challenges. But that’s easier said than done. And we killed it.

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

You’ve likely seen the social commentary shared across LinkedIn. The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner. Companies can shorten sales cycles by having prospects onboard and educate themselves.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sales and marketing teams understand that a core part of their job is reaching the right audience at the right time with the right message. But as B2B marketers face a seemingly endless supply of vendors and solutions, many struggle to understand the intent data trend or its importance. What is intent data?

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Lake One

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Introduction to AI in B2B Sales and Marketing The most seasoned B2B salespeople have spent years working out the kinks in their processes, finding ways to procure data when most needed, and halting delays before they start. Sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and lead scoring can help sales and marketing spend their time more effectively.

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The Point

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase announced its “ Company Targeted Advertising ,” a new platform that allows B2B marketers to target online display advertising either to specific companies (by name) or those that meet specific corporate attributes (company size for example, or vertical industries).

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Engagio

JULY 19, 2021

Marketing will never be the same. ABX represents the next evolution of account-based marketing , and — we believe — a realization of this model’s true potential. In simple terms, it involves reframing ABM and B2B go-to-market strategy through a distinct customer-experience lens. Follow Gerry on LinkedIn and Twitter !

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

I love account-based marketing (ABM). Because of the bigger deal sizes and longer sales cycle, we have found that a focused, ABM approach leads to better performance of our marketing department. We spend a considerable amount of time aligning on what accounts we should be targeting with marketing and outbound efforts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2015

It also released a new survey on predictive marketing which is probably interesting, but I just can't face after last weekend’s data binge.) The new funding is certainly impressive, although the record for a B2B predictive marketing vendor is apparently InsideSales’ $100 million Series C in April 2014.

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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.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But there’s also a parallel in the marketing world. As we see new trends come and go, and attitudes shift, it’s worth considering for sustainable strategic demand marketing what separates a one-hit wonder from a solid-gold standard that stands the test of time. So, where do one-hit marketing wonders end up?

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Talk to any ABM analyst, read any ABM report, or listen to any ABM keynote, and they’ll all give you the same advice for getting started with ABM: The most critical piece in your marketing strategy is selecting the right accounts. However, this is not how many B2B marketers were trained to think. Are these markets growing?

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Check them out.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2011

There’s a technology available that identifies company and prospect visitors to your websites, landing pages, and forms. Long available within marketing automation, these programs complement sales and lead scoring efforts, by allowing you to capture intelligence and follow-up with firms visiting your digital destinations.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2013

Inbound marketing techniques continue to evolve, and HubSpot is the pioneer for Inbound. Almost 6,000 attendees to this year''s Inbound conference were gathered for lots of marketing goodness, not just the orange kool aid. In the world of sales, selling doesn''t start until a conversation starts with the prospect.

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Walker Sands

JULY 23, 2019

Targeting and personalization are the heart and soul of every successful Account-Based Marketing (ABM) campaign. With ABM, your sales and marketing efforts deliver highly customized content to a small number of very high-value prospects. It’s a one-to-one strategy, where each targeted account is treated like its own market.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? What is account-based marketing? Account-based marketing or ABM is a B2B strategy where marketers target specific accounts within an industry using personalized campaigns that resonate with each target account. Tactic #1: Make Waves on LinkedIn.

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NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 17, 2012

The infographic summarizes key data from a variety of research reports covering B2B and technology lead generation, media strategy, and content marketing trends, from initial solution research to lead nurturing. Chief Marketer’s 2012 Business-to-Business Lead Generation Survey: Your Best Prospects. Here’s the Infographic.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Welcome to our “Ask Me Anything” blog recap, where we pull together the best insights and advice from the best (and brightest) minds in B2B marketing. Her impressive resume shows previous lives taking on senior leadership roles at SalesLoft (CMO), Adobe, Marketo, Demandbase and Alyce. What are your favorite podcasts?

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? What is account-based marketing? Account-based marketing or ABM is a B2B strategy where marketers target specific accounts within an industry using personalized campaigns that resonate with each target account. Tactic #1: Make Waves on LinkedIn.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 8, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? What is account-based marketing? Account-based marketing or ABM is a B2B strategy where marketers target specific accounts within an industry using personalized campaigns that resonate with each target account. Tactic #1: Make Waves on LinkedIn.

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