Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. Half of C-suite executives say they leverage thought leadership to make purchasing decisions in tough economic times. Readers have high standards for thought leadership content.

Thought Leadership 218

Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Digital Marketing Funnels 218

Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Content that builds connections with customers is important. And content that generates emotion and helps them overcome a challenge is key to converting them into buyers. The content you produce can look different in B2B versus B2C. The content you produce can look different in B2B versus B2C.

Storytelling 190

Storytelling Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Conversion 190

Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

The way B2B buyers consume content has changed significantly in the past two years. But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. B2B tech buyers most highly value product demos, factual product information, and free trials. No surprise there.

Research 351

Research B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel 351

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

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. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

Demand Generation Agencies 225

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

Contently

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Video is now the main way people consume content online. Much of that video content is pure entertainment , but consumers are itching for branded videos. In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Livestreams can take on many forms.

Top of Funnel 198

Top of Funnel Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 198

Biznology

JULY 11, 2019

Effective sales funnels are the most engaging—and effective—ways to increase your business. Many businesses struggle with lead generation, qualifying leads and converting them to sales. About 73% of a business’s potential leads aren’t sales-ready. Allowing sales and marketing to work together effectively.

Top of Funnel 130

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

Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

With practical data such as tracking your social efforts against actual revenue-generating clicks, sign-ups and subscriptions, and giving you in-depth audience insights, Google Analytics provides contextualized social metrics to elevate your marketing strategy without overshooting your budget.

Marketing Analytics Tools 137

Marketing Analytics Tools Social Media Top of Funnel Analytics 137

The Lead Agency

JULY 18, 2019

When it comes to B2B selling, the purchasing process can be both long and complex. If your current B2B sales strategy doesn’t take this into account, you may be losing valuable leads that become ‘stuck’ in funnel bottlenecks. What does this mean for your organisation?

Top of Funnel 88

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 88

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

Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

And if you jump into it without a solid strategy in place, you aren’t going to see game-changing results (or a happy sales team). In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If So let’s break it down.

Lead Ranking 194

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 194

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

As marketers we can get caught up in all of the nuances of specific campaigns, emails opened, calls-to-action clicked, forms filled out, events attended, and more. While numerous potential measurements exist, some key marketing metrics can help guide results across your strategy. Buyer Journey Velocity Defined.

Top of Funnel 134

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Conversion Peer-to-peer 134

Martech

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Online events have become a valuable marketing channel for businesses of all sizes, especially during the pandemic, when live events were scaled back. Mining data from online events, however, requires specific strategies to measure intent and move prospects through the funnel. Event activity data.

Top of Funnel 104

Top of Funnel Intent Signal Lead Ranking Digital Marketing Funnels 104

Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel?

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

Demand Generation Agencies 116

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Account Based Marketing 116

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. What is Demand Generation?

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 130

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

Top of Funnel 97

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 97

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

Top of Funnel 97

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 97

Choozle

JANUARY 7, 2022

Full-funnel marketing campaigns consist of several different stages with each stage demanding its own marketing tactics, activities, and goals to ensure it fuels conversions in the final stage. When someone makes a purchase, it is never in a vacuum. Brand awareness goals in full-funnel marketing.

Sales Management 61

Sales Management Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Funnel Advertising 61

ANNUITAS

APRIL 19, 2022

On average, customers engage with nine different channels in their buying process before making a purchasing decision. Buyers are choosing to engage in new ways as they continue to increasingly prefer to do their own research prior to ever getting on the phone with a salesperson.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Advertising Channels Peer-to-peer Elasticity 130

Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

B2B CRM Users Are Highly Focused on Nurturing Leads and Customers 33 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have focused their customer relationship management (CRM) usage on the customer service, up-selling and cross-selling portion of the buyer journey over the past 5 years, closely followed by 32 percent who have targeted mid-funnel lead-generation (..)

Marketing Analytics Tools 139

Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing AI Top of Funnel B2B Marketing 139

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

To create the best possible buyer’s journey for your target audience, you must first know them well and understand their behaviors and actions at different touch points. Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully.

Lead Ranking 349

Lead Ranking Analytics Marketing AI Marketing Budget 349

Choozle

MARCH 29, 2022

When someone makes a purchase, it is never without influence and very rarely after the first exposure to a brand. Catering your messages and tactics to align and guide your potential customers through the decision-making funnel will yield long-term results, as each stage demands its own tactics and goals to ensure it fuels user action.

Top of Funnel 74

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Paid Content Advertising Agencies 74

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

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. A company’s SEO content strategy should be built around this core distinction.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel SEO Long Tail Marketing Marketing & Strategy 52

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? The results?

Sales Management 130

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 130

Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Novel formats, channels, and technologies like TikTok and ChatGPT are now driving forces behind buyer interest, opening up new ways for B2B brands to raise awareness about their products. 59% of marketers attribute revenue growth to marketing-generated leads , so demand-generation tactics remain a non-negotiable among marketing teams.

Demand Generation Agencies 62

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 62

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.

Sales Management 240

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Contently

APRIL 28, 2022

Many marketers use editorial calendars to plan their marketing campaigns and support their overall marketing strategy. For example, that new product feature you’re releasing next month might add a new workstream to the calendar as you create a set of content assets to support the launch. Get more people involved.

Top of Funnel 213

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Digital Marketing Funnels Custom Publishing 213

Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Madison Logic ABM Success Series Spotlights Enterprise Marketing Teams Accelerating the Buyer Journey. Customers share first-hand accounts of pipeline impact and marketing ROI of multi-channel ABM strategy. By acting as a strategic partner at every stage of the ABM process, we enable them to drive incredible results.”.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Buyer's Journey Account Based Marketing 52

Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

ROI 175

ROI Email Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services 175

Martech

MAY 18, 2023

While virtual events are a great way to connect with your customers and prospects, getting qualified attendees is often a challenge. Events have become more accessible in today’s digital world, with multiple channels and platforms available to promote and attract attendees. What do you want to achieve with your event?

Webinar Metrics 94

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Thought Leadership Sales Qualified Leads 94

Martech

MARCH 4, 2022

There is no sale without a customer. This metric alone is not the measure of success, but it is a milepost on the way towards figuring out the return on investment (ROI) of the marketing spend. This can generate leads, conversions, sales, and eventually lifetime value. So how much does it cost to find one? One number among many.

Cost per Acquisition 108

Cost per Acquisition Top of Funnel Cost CPA 108

Parse.ly

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Content is quickly becoming marketing’s top money-making channel in today’s digital landscape. No matter what form it takes, whether it’s ebooks, articles, help docs or blog posts, teams are focusing more and more on using their content to drive revenue. . Table of Contents.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Digital Marketing Funnels Funnel Advertising 52

Parse.ly

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Content is quickly becoming marketing’s top money-making channel in today’s digital landscape. No matter what form it takes, whether it’s ebooks, articles, help docs or blog posts, teams are focusing more and more on using their content to drive revenue. . Table of Contents. HW Media ROI content strategy.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Digital Marketing Funnels Funnel Advertising 52

Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. For B2B marketers, the importance of LinkedIn cannot be overstated. Why LinkedIn Lead Generation is Perfect for B2B Marketing.

Lead Generation 148

Lead Generation Top of Funnel Linkedin Lead Scoring 148

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 8, 2019

In an industry where creating better brand-to-customer relationships is everything, demand generation is an umbrella term for a range of marketing activities that drive long-term engagement —including lead generation, demand capture, and pipeline acceleration. Field marketing events are also a very common tactic for pipeline acceleration.

Demand Generation Agencies 134

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 134

Trade Press Services

MAY 13, 2024

B2B video marketing is a staple for today’s businesses with more than 90 percent of companies leveraging the medium to reach target audiences. According to Wyzowl’s Video Marketing Report , individuals watch an average of 17 hours of video content each week.

Video Marketing 84

Video Marketing B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Work Management 84