Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As we approach the end of 2020, it’s time to take a look at key 2021 B2B marketing trends that will emerge in the year ahead. Continuing a pattern from previous years, 2021 will see the ongoing evolution of many B2B marketing trends from recent years, and the increasing influence of B2C marketing will make a big impact.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. If you can master this skill, you’ll continually improve your digital marketing efforts and drive more brand loyalty online. year over year, meaning businesses are catching onto this trend fast.

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ClickZ

MARCH 2, 2020

Practical video marketing strategies that increase engagement on Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube. With ecommerce sales surpassing $4 trillion this year, staying ahead of emerging technology and trends is essential to staying competitive online. Digital technology has been expanding at a rapid pace.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. And influencing buyer decisions is what marketing is all about !

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Contently

JANUARY 11, 2023

As countless marketing messages flood email inboxes, McKinsey research suggests 71% of customers expect the messages they receive from brands to be personalized—and 76% are frustrated when they’re not. Marketers have been trying to master personalization since the dawn of the Internet. Personalization takes many forms.

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The Lead Agency

APRIL 14, 2024

Tired of trend lists that don’t apply to the unique challenges of B2B marketing? B2B marketing can be complicated; buyer journeys are messy. Multiple stakeholders and longer decision-making processes bring unique challenges, and the how-to tips everywhere online are mostly irrelevant in B2B industries.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

.” While that, unfortunately, maybe the case with a good number of personal resolutions as the year wears on, in business, setting sound marketing goals — and following through — is a primary ingredient for success. Markets ebb and flow. User behaviors evolve — and so do marketing goals. Technologies come and go.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If Marketing Automation Migration: Switching Platforms Made Easy Migrating your marketing automation platform doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Business process automation is, hands down, one of the best technological innovations to come along in decades. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. What is B2B Marketing Automation?

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sagefrog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The healthcare industry is fiercely competitive, making impactful marketing an absolute necessity. With the growing contest between heavy-hitting brands, capturing attention in a saturated atmosphere can be challenging for B2B healthcare marketers. What Makes B2B Healthcare Marketing Important?

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The Lead Agency

AUGUST 20, 2020

B2B marketing has undergone a dramatic change in the last 5-10 years. Previously, the key focus of B2B marketing was networking with the objective of securing a face-to-face meeting with the relevant C-level executive in the target company. This was a clear differentiator that separated B2B from B2C marketing.

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Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“The buyer process is changing a lot and it’s not going back to the way it was. ” Colby Cavanaugh, VP of Product Marketing at Integrate, was reflecting on the rapidly changing B2B marketing environment. We describe what B2B marketers are trying to do as ‘precision demand marketing.'”

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

The sudden, wholesale transition to remote work and virtual teams has only accelerated trends that were evident pre-COVID, led by younger generations of digital consumers who brought their buying preferences to the office (even if that office is now their living room). Less and less of that content is vendor-provided.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 23, 2023

Process mining is an innovative technology to discover and analyze business processes using event data extracted from CRMs and other systems. It enables managers across the organization to gain insights into how to optimize and automate their processes.

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FunnelEnvy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence is the big news for B2B SaaS marketing and sales in 2024. Yet while generative AI is transforming B2B SaaS marketing, the other big news is not about tech disruption but about people – specifically about the sales experience buyers want now.

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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. It should work hand in hand with other content marketing initiatives.

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Scoop.it

AUGUST 25, 2022

Natural language processing is one of the hottest areas of artificial intelligence. NLP spending has gone up to 30% in some markets, and the market for NLP products and services is bound to increase to more than $25 billion by 2024. . Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP). This process is NLP for one language.

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Valasys

MARCH 10, 2023

With the growing importance of marketing and sales, every enterprise is trying to stand out in the race. As businesses push for better growth and improved ROIs, the need to revitalize their marketing efforts is only becoming ever so important. The advent of marketing and sales automation is timed to perfection.

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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.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. Otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by ALL the options available for marketing online. Understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. For B2B marketers, staying on top of the latest digital marketing strategies is not just a job requirement, but a matter of corporate survival. Guest post by Sumeet Anand.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. Today we’re covering how sales teams can benefit from both sales and market intelligence along the buyer’s journey. What is Market Intelligence? What is Sales Intelligence?

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a good amount of complexity to work through in understanding marketing automation (MA) for professional services firms— with countless products featuring a constantly-evolving array of capabilities and features. The Major Trends in Marketing Automation. Adoption of marketing automation is spreading.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since the first electronic mail (email) was sent in 1971, marketers have been looking for ways to optimize the channel to reach prospects and customers more effectively and efficiently. In this three-part series, we outline best practices for building, marketing and measuring an effective email newsletter. That is a 40x ROI.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

59% of marketers attribute revenue growth to marketing-generated leads , so demand-generation tactics remain a non-negotiable among marketing teams. However, you need to freshen up your strategy to account for the needs and expectations of buyers in the current digital environment.

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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.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2018

They say time flies when you’re having fun, but it goes even faster when you work in marketing. The digital world is incredibly fast-paced. From technological advancements in AR/VR to the ever expanding Internet of Things (IoT), B2B marketers have to work hard to stay ahead of the game with marketing trends.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Its potential for storytelling and marketing is undeniable, making AI in B2B marketing and sales a transformative force, reshaping interactions with brands, information, and services. The world of B2B marketing automation is on the brink of a full-fledged AI-driven revolution. But what is the path to reeling in those big fish?

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Content Standard

APRIL 16, 2024

This article explores how AI can streamline the process without sacrificing quality or strategy. With advertising costs continuing to rise, marketers are leaning again into SEO as a more sustainable and cost-effective solution to overshadow the competition, grow brand awareness, and feed the digital funnel.

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Digilant

APRIL 23, 2024

In today’s screen-obsessed world, digital audio isn’t always at the forefront of marketing conversations—but it should be. adults are spending with digital audio has been growing for years. In fact, in 2024 , the average daily time spent with digital audio in the U.S. The amount of time that U.S.

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Kapost

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As the year rolls to a close, marketers are planning, preparing and strategizing based on new B2B marketing trends to expect in 2017. Is mobile a big contender for grabbing market share in the B2B space? Does it drive them to the right funnel within the buyer’s journey? Is content still relevant, and if so, how?

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests? Axel developed a comprehensive understanding of marketing by moving through brand, communications, and product roles early in his career.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For years, marketers have engaged audiences with account-based marketing strategies to better align sales and marketing practices and, in turn, provide more relevant, personalized content and messaging. From a marketing perspective, we had to go entirely digital to be able to reach our audience.

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