Strategic-IC

MAY 8, 2018

How can you ensure your marketing campaigns will deliver ROI? To achieve lead generation and revenue targets, it's important to first map those targets back to clear, realistic goals. When planning a marketing campaign, it’s the Marketing Director’s responsibility to ensure the strategy will deliver on financial goals.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. What is marketing automation?

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Imagine this: Your agency has created a clear and effective digital marketing plan. For digital marketing agencies, driving campaigns is only half the battle. Understanding this simple yet crucial factor sets apart an effective digital marketing agency. In short, you’ve done nothing at all.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo. The C-suite will come later.

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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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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Case studies. Training webinars.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) are defined as leads that have expressed interest in a product or service and have a high likelihood of becoming a customer. Challenges Associated with MQL. MQLs Have Evolved.

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Martech

MARCH 29, 2022

While Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a key strategy today, going forward, B2B marketers will take a more holistic view. More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. As part of this evolution: Buying Group Marketing (BGM).

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Most of my digital marketing career has been running campaigns for eCommerce companies. It took me some time to adjust to B2B marketing, where analytics have not always played a significant part in decision making for many of our clients.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) are defined as leads that have expressed interest in a product or service and have a high likelihood of becoming a customer. Challenges Associated with MQL. MQLs Have Evolved.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That being the case, sales and marketing metrics have shifted from the norm to better support communities. Because of this, you need to figure out the key metrics for your organization that will create the most success. Which are the crucial senior sales and marketing metrics? Improve your MQL-to-SQL conversion rate.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? And when taking a deep look at marketing results, we were a bit surprised that the data actually helped to diagnose asales problem. While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

DECEMBER 14, 2020

MQLs are an important part of the marketing analytics frameworks across most of the modern marketing teams but the sales follow-up of the MQLs is critical. set of key metrics is the sales follow-up of the MQLs that are handed over to them. We will continue to discover more sales conversation ready MQLs but.

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PathFactory

MARCH 10, 2023

We sat down with Shelly Aufray , who leads Digital Marketing Campaigns & Lead Management at Siemens Industry Inc., Digital Industries – Factory Automation, to chat about the tried and true ways to achieve success with PathFactory this year. Learn more about Path Analytics HERE.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2018

Marketing is all arts and crafts. Marketing is a cost center for my organization. If you haven’t heard these things at least once as a marketer, you’re in the minority. What’s more, until the digital age, arguing against these statements was near impossible. Top of Funnel KPIs. MQLs by Program & Asset.

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Seismic

MARCH 25, 2022

Maybe your organization is in the early stages of its social selling journey or looking to take things to the next level—we’d like to help you develop best practices to drive sales on LinkedIn and social media. In a recent study, HubSpot found that 51% of marketers who leverage social media plan to increase their investment this year.

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Customer Relationship Management is the heart of B2B tech marketing. Did we miss any? Churn rate.

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Terminus

JULY 27, 2021

Does sales really care about the magnitude of leads marketing generates? Next, you convert them to an MQL to hand over to sales. The average lead-to-MQL conversion rate is 31%, which is decent. Also, it’s wild that there is no universal definition of a marketing lead. Spoiler alert: they don’t.). A nurtured email?

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Before we get into best practices on content marketing follow-up, Marketing and Sales must be on the same page regarding their lead definitions. It is not reasonable, however, to expect that this person is unsatisfied with their current vendor, has the budget, or has the authority to make a change in the organization.

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Ledger Bennett

MARCH 11, 2019

TAKE THE DEMAND GENERATION MATURITY INDEX SURVEY NOW In fact, I can’t even count the number of times a CMO has pressured timescales. Greg Dorban Demand Generation Maturity. When working with many clients that want to increase scale, efficiency and commercial impact from marketing, we’d be ignorant not to see common patterns and trends.

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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? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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ViewPoint

MAY 3, 2012

The introductory post in this series addressed the problems and costs of applying the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments. In the second post, we looked at elements of a complex sale that impact B2B lead generation costs. Leads must be more likely to convert deeper in the funnel.

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6sense

OCTOBER 1, 2021

No wonder companies in traditional sectors like security and manufacturing have clung to their traditional ways of marketing and selling as long as possible. Unfortunately, the pandemic has changed all that, putting marketers and sellers far outside their comfort zones. The Design of Account-Based Marketing. Smart, right?

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Golden Spiral

DECEMBER 22, 2021

How well are you measuring and reporting on the Return on Investment (ROI) from all of your digital marketing efforts? If you’re a CMO or key stakeholder for your company and you’re confused by the SEO or organic elements of digital marketing, keep reading. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As digital marketing and search engine optimization become increasingly important, it’s necessary to understand that the strategies for each should differ. We will also outline the most impactful B2B vs B2C marketing strategies for both businesses and consumers that are common in today’s SaaS world. . What is B2B SEO .

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

79% of B2B marketers say that improving ROI of marketing activities is a key focus for 2020. And when it comes to inbound marketing specifically, proving ROI isn’t so straightforward. Why you need to measure your inbound marketing efforts. Successful inbound marketers don’t make decisions based on gut feelings.

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PathFactory

MAY 20, 2022

Specifically, two macro trends that we’ve believed are important for a long time are most definitely driving the evolution of B2B marketing & sales. Marketing & Sales has evolved well beyond their historic MQL obsession. Of course, sales and marketing need to be aligned and working together to help the buyers buy!

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The basic concept of marketing has not changed much since its inception during the industrial revolution but how we market has drastically changed over time. In today’s market, most companies know to look at email open and click-through rates but digging deeper can give you useful data that can guide your next steps.

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6sense

MAY 9, 2017

If you’re heading to SiriusDecisions Summit next week, one of the can’t-miss analyst keynotes will be Kerry Cunningham and Terry Flaherty ’s unveiling of the Next-Generation Demand Waterfall. Every marketer is already familiar with the classic Demand Waterfall and has likely implemented the SiriusDecisions framework in varying ways.

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SWZD

AUGUST 19, 2019

This week, we spoke with Deepak Bahree , AVP of Digital Demand Generation at RingCentral. As with our earlier interview with Box, RingCentral serves a broad potential market, and it was interesting to learn how they go about approaching such a wide opportunity. Market Segmentation. Organizing and Acting on Data.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

I understand that generating high-quality SQLs is crucial to your job as a business owner or marketer. Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. Don’t worry; you’re not alone. Are you ready to take off?

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Directive Agency

JUNE 18, 2020

Key Points: We outlined 8+ different SaaS marketing metrics you must track. See the SaaS marketing template our team utilizes: the LTV:CAC method. The only way to measure growth from SaaS search marketing (and all other marketing) campaigns is revenue. SaaS marketing metrics that matter. Do your research !

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

At this point, most of us have realized that traditional, or “spray-and-pray” marketing approaches no longer work. As Steve Lucas, Marketo CEO, said, to win in the Engagement Economy, marketers must listen and learn before they engage. Now, savvy marketers are turning to intent data to listen to their target audience.

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SnapApp

JULY 18, 2018

To address this, B2B marketers have turned their attention toward content marketing—increasing demand generation, engagement, and overall leads through quality content that provides value to the prospective buyers. By sharing content prospects want to engage with, marketers can nurture leads along a path to drive conversions.

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Envy

MARCH 25, 2019

Since the beginning of time, thought leaders have proclaimed that technology is transforming marketing forever, just like it has done for so many other professions. B2B tech marketing especially is seen as a fast-paced, ever-changing field where you have to keep up or get left behind. Tech didn’t kill classic marketing.

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