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10 Ways To Lose a Lead

Marketing Insider Group

Are you inundated with articles telling you to nurture your qualified leads? Perhaps you’ve grown weary of all the advice you’ve been hearing about how to get your prospects moving faster along the sales funnel? Strategies about how to attract and grow your leads often vary depending on who you’re talking to. Sometimes it involves […]. The post 10 Ways To Lose a Lead appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How giving useful ideas and secrets builds trust

markempa

I had coffee with a potential partner, and our conversation ebbed to us talking about business philosophy, marketing, and lead generation. I talked about freely sharing ideas and helping people. He replied something like, “I think companies [like yours] give away too many of their trade secrets on their website and blogs. They provide too much information freely.

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From Branding to Demand Generation

Sales Engine

How First Rate Uses Thought Leadership Content to Grow the Business Having the same brand since their start in 1991, First Rate knew they had to make some major changes if they were going to compete effectively and grow in today’s digital era. Given their mission to help wealth management firms grow and thrive as stewards of their client’s investments, First Rate needed an innovative approach that would help empower investors and advisors to simplify and better understand their financial world.

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Is Your Funnel Full of Fool's Gold?

ViewPoint

The sales reps at most B2B organizations have two choices: 1) Spend their time culling through leads that experience has shown are overwhelmingly raw, unfiltered, and unqualified. 2) Or, dismiss them outright. In this take-it-or-leave-it scenario, nobody wins. Sales is not as productive as they need to be to meet quota, marketing is wasting its budget generating leads that don’t get followed up, and the company as a whole is not likely to meet revenue goals.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Understanding the Stages of Your Sales Funnel [Infographic]

Marketing Insider Group

Think of a sales funnel as a device you can use to create customers. While it seems that many businesses find customers, a closer look will show you the process involved in generating sales. Simply put, a sales funnel conceptualizes the process of turning prospective leads into loyal customers. Paying attention to your sales funnel […]. The post Understanding the Stages of Your Sales Funnel [Infographic] appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Social media strategy leaders: an intro to the series

Biznology

Hello Biznology Readers! I am so proud to join the digital marketing experts who contribute to this blog. A special “thank you” to Mike Moran who invited me to join the ranks. Over the years, I’ve known Mike as an author, a research partner, and a consultant. I continue to learn from his ever-expanding expertise and innovation in marketing and share it with my own colleagues, network and students.

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Your Business Newsletter: What’s Your Brand Personality?

Writing on the Web

When it comes to a business newsletter, your brand is perceived in a blink of an eye. As I shared in my last post, your newsletter should build trust and confidence with your readers. It should include tips and information that invites your prospects and clients to take action. Your newsletter is a representation of you and your business. It’s a part of your brand.

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5 Tips To Rock Your Snapchat Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

With more than 110 million daily active users worldwide, Snapchat has proven to be a social media powerhouse itself, giving big players like Facebook and Twitter a good run for their money. In fact, Snapchat grew as much in one year as Twitter has in four years altogether. And according to eMarketer, Snapchat is expected […]. The post 5 Tips To Rock Your Snapchat Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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7 Marketing Hacks To Build Brand, Generate Demand, and Grow Revenue

Influitive

Building a top-notch marketing machine isn’t easy—but harnessing the power of your customer advocates will help. Andy Mackensen, Co-Founder and CMO of HUMAN and SnackNation, gives his top seven tips for creating amazing marketing content that will generate lots of evergreen leads. (Hint: start talking to your advocates!) Who’s ready to talk about some smart.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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8 Examples of B2B Businesses Managing Powerful LinkedIn Pages

KoMarketing Associates

There’s no doubt that LinkedIn is one of the most effective social media lead generators for B2B marketers, offering businesses the chance to tell their brand story in a unique and meaningful way. On the other hand, many B2B brands still struggle to engage their audience on the platform. This study found that B2B companies actually get 20 times more engagement on Instagram than on LinkedIn, despite having much smaller audiences on the platform.

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It’s normal to be bad before you’re good

Biznology

I write an article for Biznology religiously, though not always on time, every Tuesday, because I know it’s not only normal to be bad before you’re good. I was out at the Nationals v Orioles game last night at Oriole Park at Camden Yards with Bob Fine and told him I needed to get my blog post done the next day before I moved on to my business development duties and work with Skinny Coconut Oil and my other clients.

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5 Ways Marketing Automation Builds True Customer Loyalty

Marketing Insider Group

It seems that somewhere along the way, customer loyalty became a forgotten objective of the marketing strategy. We focus on getting customers, and lots of them, through various methods, and often at any cost. But the cost of acquiring a new customer is five to twenty-five times higher than the investment required to keep an […]. The post 5 Ways Marketing Automation Builds True Customer Loyalty appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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7 Steps To Creating The Best ABM Campaign Ever With Advocacy

Influitive

Developing your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy while keeping your brand advocates in mind will ensure your next ABM campaign is a success. Combining the two gives you the best of both worlds: the targeting power of ABM, and the ability to leverage your advocates’ personal connections and stories. But how do you do it? Here. The post 7 Steps To Creating The Best ABM Campaign Ever With Advocacy appeared first on Influitive.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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5 Things to Pay Attention to in a B2B Competitive Analysis

KoMarketing Associates

Competitive analyses are extremely important to B2B marketing strategies. They help to identify weaknesses as well as highlight where you’re having success against your competitors. To put it simply: If you’re not measuring your performance against that of your peers, you’re falling behind the competition. When starting a B2B competitive analysis, it can often seem overwhelming.

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6 important data points to record on your customers

Biznology

Customer data is one of the most important parts of your business success. If you’re not already using a customer relationship management (CRM) platform to collect and manage the data , you should be. But what kinds of data should you collect? How should you collect it? Contact Information. Regardless of whether your business is online, brick-and-mortar, or a hybrid of the two, you should be maintaining a database of your customers contact information.

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Getting Your Video Marketing Strategy Right

Marketing Insider Group

By Tom Hopkins, Managing Director at One Productions Gangnam Style by Korean rapper Psy is YouTube’s most viewed video ever. It has more than 2.5 billion views to date and is a viral video sensation. But, what makes it so popular? Is it the cheesy K-Pop that we have now come to love? Is it the colorful […]. The post Getting Your Video Marketing Strategy Right appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Webinar: How to Develop Content that Drives Sales Conversations

Sales Engine

In this webinar clinic, Presenter Mike Vannoy, Co-Founder and COO of Sales Engine Media will diagnose three of the most common mistakes that B2B companies make in their content strategy that results in lost opportunities.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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ABM Vendor Guide: Special Features to Deliver ABM Messages

Customer Experience Matrix

Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. ABM Process System Function Sub-Function Number of Vendors Identify Target Accounts Assemble Data External Data 28 Select Targets Target Scoring 15 Plan Interactions Assemble Messages Customized Messages 6 Select Messages State-Based Flows 10 Execute Interactions Deliver Messages Execution 19 Analyze Results Reporting Result Analysis 16 This has a very broad definition: These are systems that actually deliver

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Are your marketing personas your sales market segments?

Biznology

Marketing is supposed to lead to sales, right? So why is it that we marketers sometimes throw up unnecessary impediments to selling things? I’ve talked in the past about how you better make sure that the steps in your marketing Buyer Journey matches the phases of Sales Funnel. That way, when you learn which content is moving prospects in the Buyer Journey, you can suggest the same content for sales people to share with their clients for offline sales.

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Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy With These 7 Tips

Marketing Insider Group

With all the blogs, social media posts, eBooks, whitepapers, and videos you create, how do you make sure you are achieving the right results with your content marketing? You probably have a few metrics you’re tracking to measure how well your content is performing. You may also have a publishing schedule and a list of content […]. The post Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy With These 7 Tips appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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From Branding to Demand Generation

Sales Engine

How First Rate Uses Thought Leadership Content to Grow the Business Having the same brand since their start in 1991, First Rate knew they had to make some major changes if they were going to compete effectively and grow in today’s digital era. Given their mission to help wealth management firms grow and thrive as stewards of their client’s investments, First Rate needed an innovative approach that would help empower investors and advisors to simplify and better understand their financial world.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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ABM Vendor Guide: Differentiators for Result Analysis

Customer Experience Matrix

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. ABM Process System Function Sub-Function Number of Vendors Identify Target Accounts Assemble Data External Data 28 Select Targets Target Scoring 15 Plan Interactions Assemble Messages Customized Messages 6 Select Messages State-Based Flows 10 Execute Interactions Deliver Messages Execution 19 Analyze Results Reporting Result Analysis 16 As the Guide points out, this category focuses on m

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Use Marketing Automation The Right Way

ANNUITAS

Several days ago, Mitch Joel, who is the President of Mirum, wrote a compelling piece on the misuse of marketing automation. I could not agree more with his statements made in the article about how so many organizations are using marketing automation (and many other marketing technologies) in the wrong way in an attempt to garner the attention of their buyers.

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CMOs fail to go beyond brand awareness on LinkedIn

Marketing Insider Group

Recent studies show 87% of B2B sales and marketing leaders are using LinkedIn and other social media platforms, but less than 1 in 5 can clearly prove and demonstrate social media ROI. I believe it’s because the attention and efforts are on the top of the funnel instead of thinking about the complete buyer’s journey. […]. The post CMOs fail to go beyond brand awareness on LinkedIn appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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No Filter: DJ Khaled and the FTC’s Snapchat Problem

Contently

No one has been more influential to Snapchat culture than DJ Khaled. An Adweek cover story on the famous rapper deemed him the “King of Snapchat” in February. One month later, Emmanuel Seuge, senior vice president for content at Coca-Cola, called him the same in a cover story in Bloomberg Businessweek. As a result of DJ Khaled’s prolific snapping, an entire language has emerged in the digital lexicon: “bless up,” “another one,” and “major key”

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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7 Steps To Creating The Best ABM Campaign Ever With Advocacy

Influitive

Developing your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy while keeping your brand advocates in mind will ensure your next ABM campaign is a success. Combining the two gives you the best of both worlds: the targeting power of ABM, and the ability to leverage your advocates’ personal connections and stories. But how do you do it? Here. The post 7 Steps To Creating The Best ABM Campaign Ever With Advocacy appeared first on Influitive.

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3 Basics For Benchmarking

ANNUITAS

Individuals measure themselves in so many areas – we gather data, compare and contrast achievements, performance, revenue, strategies, fun (FOMA) and any number of the other areas. As with most things, the data itself is only valuable if you provide context, or better yet, a benchmark against other data points to obtain an understanding of performance and trends.

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8 Virtual User Experience Tricks for Better Conversion Results

Marketing Insider Group

There’s the same reason why we always come back to the same restaurant, barber or supermarket. All of these businesses have focused on a positive user experience that in return creates trust and adherence toward your brand. Brand experience and conversion rate are the strongest drivers of trust and are intimately related. If your website […]. The post 8 Virtual User Experience Tricks for Better Conversion Results appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.