Martech

MAY 9, 2022

“Our digital future was happening well before a global pandemic; it just simply accelerated it,” said Mark Bornstein, VP of content marketing at ON24, in his presentation at The MarTech Conference. “Some people are going to be top-of-funnel, and some people are going to be mid-funnel.

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markempa

APRIL 27, 2017

It’s funny when we put on our marketing and sales hats or walk into our offices how we can talk and write differently. Do you use a sales tone or an empathetic tone? The email on the left was “sales speak.” Read more on How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline. Here’s what I mean. Here’s how.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Powerful customer marketing that engages audiences and drives home your unique value proposition can be a differentiator edge in a crowded market. For your organization to boost customer marketing activities, consider these B2B content personalization tactics. Email marketing can be particularly effective for a nurture cadence.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

With live events on hold for now, webinars have become a more popular channel than ever for communicating directly with sales prospects. But with seemingly everyone producing webinars now, how can you make yours stand out and attract busy buyers? Several elements determine the success of your webinars. Total reviews: 4,423.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place. Table of Contents What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. But buyers want to engage with experts and they want support for their current and future challenges. Many blame it on C-19. Challenge the status quo.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2020

You create mindful content. After all, you’ve embraced the results of a detailed content marketing audit, hired a branding firm to polish your messaging and discovered hundreds of attributes about your target audience. Does your content creation align with the path your potential customers take when engaging with your brand?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2020

LinkedIn’s 2020 State of Sales Report shows that 44% of teams are seeing a decrease in responsiveness to email and social outreach because of C-19. Buyers still want relationships with experts that can help them now with their current challenges and in the future.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You know your content is crucial to driving revenue but does the rest of your organization? Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year. How can we use content to remove friction from our customers’ buying process?

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Buyer-level intent data, specifically, is sourced from dozens of intent signals that are gathered from multiple touch points throughout the customer journey, from the content prospects consume to the conferences they attend. This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy.

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Huptech Web

MARCH 15, 2024

Do you know why your sales are dropping? Before reading this blog, consider where you might be losing customers in your funnel and the root cause. Read More: Customer Journey with Inbound Marketing Funnel You might be making $$$$$ in the first year, and some time later, sales drop gradually. What would you do?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Whether your sales process relies on inbound leads or targeted outreach, whether you’re a big company or small, whether your sale is complex or simple; inbound sales is relevant. What is inbound sales?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Measurements of Success: Tracking success with agreed metrics (between sales and marketing) steers the course for current and future marketing strategies. GTM strategies also help with maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV).

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Lattice

DECEMBER 14, 2015

After all, sales teams don’t celebrate when they win a lead; they celebrate when they close accounts. This was the mantra at the Flip My Funnel roadshow event in Boston last Thursday. Flip My Funnel was a half day event organized by Sangram Vajre of Terminus. What did you think of the event?

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Maintaining balance is crucial for mid-market and enterprise businesses, especially those inclined toward outsourcing content. Content Marketing Institute found that 75 percent of enterprise marketers report that their organization outsources at least one content marketing activity annually.

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Hinge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Not even 24 hours had passed before a sales development representative emailed me to sell me their software. Five Benefits of Producing Educational Webinars The webinar and virtual event industry is booming right now. billion by 2025 , there’s no doubt that virtual events and webinars are here to stay. I’ll give you an example.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Welcome everyone to another exciting episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Inbox Insight

MAY 24, 2024

When considering outsourcing your lead generation , selecting the appropriate partner is not just imperative—it’s critical for fueling your sales pipeline and enhancing your ROI. Without vetting potential vendors, there’s a tangible risk of allocating budget towards low-quality leads, affecting your sales funnel.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter , Content & Context, to receive future insights and updates on the content marketing world from Skyword CEO, Andrew C. Let’s talk about the convergence of content marketing and the customer experience (CX). So what role does content play in all this? In short, a critical one.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You know you have been involved with something or someone special for a long time when you cannot remember the date you first started working with a colleague or team, first attended an event, or became aware of key concepts that became “ah hah moments” or epiphanies. Not long after, I attended my first ITSMA Marketing Vision event.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This week’s show is called “Is Outbound the New Normal?

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Great marketers can differentiate in a crowded marketplace to create a competitive advantage and niche for their brand. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 17 Questions to Break Free From Competitive Content Issues. From a content marketing perspective, how do you go from poor to average to extraordinary? Click To Tweet.

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team? Optimizing your funnel based on this difference maximizes your ROI. They’ve downloaded content, attended webinars, or visited product pages, indicating potential customer status. Attending webinars or events. Matching your ideal buyer persona.

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There’s no denying that the attributes of a B2B buyer differ greatly from a B2C consumer’s. B2B buyer journeys are much longer and more complex with a higher average purchase price, compared to buyer journeys in B2C which tend to be much shorter, more impulsive and lower value purchases. Program Focus.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2024

In fact, the formal CDP Institute definition – "packaged software that builds a persistent, unified customer database accessible to other systems" – is carefully crafted so that each term identifies a differentiator between CDP and some other type of system. I won’t go through the other elements point-by-point.

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SnapApp

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Despite the rapid growth of digital marketing in the B2B space, events still provide marketers with a tried and true method to bring quality leads into the sales funnel. Unlike other marketing efforts, B2B events bring together prospects that are more likely to fit your ideal target audience right from the get-go.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

In the modern marketer’s race to capture buyer attention and create meaningful experiences, differentiation is more important than ever. . But simply putting potential buyers into a nurture isn’t enough; you need to understand who is engaging with that content and demonstrating intent to buy.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 20, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. How do you differentiate and still win. But we’re all still here.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1. Build a Recruiting Pipeline Funnel with Clear Goals For Each Candidate Stage. Identify How The Pipeline Funnel Changes For Every Role. Learn How to Message and Motivate Like Sales and Marketing.

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xiQ

JUNE 27, 2019

Account-based Sales And Marketing (ABM) Is Complex! Long sales cycles, multiple decision makers and influencers, a daily barrage of events i.e. executives leaving or new ones being appointed, industry events i.e. M&A activity and much more require the attention of ABM teams. “On Influence the Buyers’ journey?

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MKT1

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Demand gen teams are responsible for outbound efforts and events in service of driving leads to sales—their efforts are mostly top of funnel. Don’t limit your company’s growth by only having a demand gen team—even if you have a top-down, sales-driven motion only.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It is the dilemma of content production. Marketers know that they have to tolerate this dilemma because content development is proven to generate awareness, thought leadership , leads, engagement, and sales opportunities. that content development is the top priority of most marketers—edging out brand differentiation.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You’ll also learn how MQLs compare to sales qualified leads, (SQLs) and how they work together in the sales funnel. In other words, MQLs are leads that have met specific criteria that indicate that the leads are more likely to move further down the sales funnel. So, without further ado, let’s dive in.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 30, 2020

It helps you create mindshare with buyers and establish what they can expect from you. Your brand is what differentiates you from your competitors. This can help you keep your content style consistent. Even the most amazing content won’t make an impact if it doesn’t reach the right people when they’re looking for it.

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You’ll meet plenty of your fellow B2B marketers at receptions and networking events—even in the marketplace, where of course you’ll find members of the Content4Demand team at Booth 309. And be sure to check out the impressive B2BMX agenda to find the sessions that focus on your favorite topics to stay on top of what’s happening.

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