Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

by Katie Byrnes The Forrester paper, the CMO Mandate: Adapt or Perish , truly embraces the idea of survival of the fittest. To avoid extinction and survive in the digital age, Forrester explains that you must take the following approach: employ Adaptive Brand Marketing. Identify weak links.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing ? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) has quickly become the predominant strategy for B2B marketers. Marketing operations that achieve better alignment with their counterparts in sales experience significant improvements in efficiency. This should be a joint effort between the sales and marketing teams. « Older Entries.

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. Engagement Level: MQLs typically demonstrate a lower level of engagement with your marketing activities.

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Biznology

MAY 31, 2017

And most people don’t watch marketing videos all the way through. That is, instead of producing videos that stand on their own, make video snippets that amplify or explain specific features and benefits featured on web pages, in white papers, slideware, or webinars. So, what are the odds that the intended takeaways get taken away?

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since it promotes an integrated approach to selling, sales enablement involves both marketing and sales teams. Here are five tactics your B2B marketing team needs to master to empower sales people to close deals faster. Sellers and marketers have to collaborate to develop this consistency in product messaging.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel B2B Sales Tactics 221

KoMarketing Associates

JULY 3, 2017

New research suggests that email and personalization remain prominent marketing tactics, but marketers still face obstacles in execution. About 78 percent of respondents said that they were using email recipients’ first names in their email marketing campaigns for personalization purposes.

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Onalytica B2B

AUGUST 23, 2017

Last week we published our white paper called The Definitive Practical Guide to Influencer Relationship Management. First thing’s first- what does the white paper cover? Dare we call this the influencer marketing bible? So, what is influencer marketing?

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

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Full Circle Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The growing popularity of account-based marketing among B2B marketers is well established — most B2B marketing teams have adopted an ABM strategy, though the maturity of the ABM model they use varies across marketing teams. A mature ABM marketing strategy requires well-defined marketing goals and metrics.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. closely measure the ROI of their content marketing, according to the 2019 Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs B2B report.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing ? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

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Paid Search Agency B2B Sales Marketing & Strategy CMO 173

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. There are essentially two competing schools of thought among B2B marketers. Demand creation Includes webinars, white papers, and product trials 3. The good news?

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Vision Edge Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Your upstream and downstream Marketing efforts related to segmentation, positioning, content, social, and SEO are paying off. For example, in the new Forrester Decisions Waterfall, is consideration part of the prioritized demand, qualified demand, or pipeline stages? . Source: VisionEdge Marketing, Inc. . Exploratory.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers. Solution: Foster regular communication between marketing and sales leadership.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But in all of my years in B2B, whether as a marketer, an agency person, a consultant or a fractional CMO, people have considered email an important channel but have overlooked its true potential for fulfilling company goals. The perspective has been this: “We have this marketing automation platform. Intent makes the difference.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” I call it participation marketing, and the reason is clear. Altimeter’s 2015 State of Social Business Report revealed that “building employee advocacy” programs are becoming a high priority and strategic initiative for marketers, jumping from 13 percent to 45 percent in 2015. Employees tell better stories than you do.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 23, 2018

Most content marketers have two core beliefs about content: That “good” content (high-quality content) will outperform “bad” content every time, i.e. that good content gets more results. As a recent study of 1,597 content marketers found, “There is virtually no correlation between time spent creating content and marketing success.”.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2012

Leveraging a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and white paper by Forrester, Alinean created an interactive white paper for Concur, so that prospects not only received the TEI study results showing average opportunities and savings, but a customized analysis of their own unique business case for Concur.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

At a recent meeting I attended with some of the best minds in B2B Marketing, I was introduced to Columbia University’s Center For Creative Leadership whitepaper on Learning Agility by my friend Carla Johnson. The paper presents 5 steps to learning agility that are relevant to today’s marketing leadership challenges.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Forrester B2B Revenue Waterfall is an excellent framework for B2B sales because the sale can be complex and most involve groups of buyers. This waterfall focuses on opportunities within a set of targeted accounts instead of individuals, correlating to B2B marketing’s shift to an ABM approach. . Download eBook.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 27, 2022

Let’s face it in the B2B landscape, money talks, and marketers know that while creative campaigns and viral content are fun to develop and deploy, they mean little if they don’t help generate long-term revenue for the organization. You Waste Fewer Resources with Account-Based Marketing. Ways ABM Improves Marketing Efficiency.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the mid-2000s, marketers began using the original demand waterfall framework to gain insight on marketing’s performance in terms of leads at the top of the funnel, marketing-qualified leads (MQLs), sales-accepted leads (SALs) and closed/won business.

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The Point

JANUARY 21, 2014

I received an email recently from Kevin Payne, Senior Director of Field Marketing at customer service software provider [24]7. I would a) break it up into 2 paragraphs at minimum, and 2) tie the copy back to the offer in action-oriented terms, as in: “In a new white paper from Forrester, learn how …”. Shortened body copy text.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Have you created a white paper for your organization in order to generate leads? If you have, there are some great tips that Michael Stelzner has just written about in an article Getting The Most From Your White Paper Marketing. Warm them up to the idea of registration with some "meat" from the white paper.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I recently had a chance to sit down with Andre Pino, principal analyst for Forrester Research, to discuss lead to revenue management , a solution for overcoming the sales and marketing process gap. Andre Pino: Let’s look at the basic problem that many marketers have today, particularly for any company with a high consideration product.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve seen this trend play out in our research – according to a recent Forrester study that we co-commissioned with Stripe, over half of SMBs still rely on disparate solutions to manage payment data, averaging five tools per purchase transaction. Even worse, this creates a disconnect between the front office and back office. with a U.S.

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Martech

APRIL 26, 2022

You’ve heard about the results companies are getting with account-based marketing (ABM) and you want to know what it will take to make it work for you. Like any digital marketing campaign, the cost of running ABM campaigns consists of multiple components with multiple line items within each component. Marketing specialists have a 19.8%

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Account Based Marketing ABM Paid Content Cost 98

Brandpoint

JUNE 18, 2020

As the business world continues to work its way through the effects of the coronavirus, savvy financial services providers are switching up their marketing strategies to reflect new priorities. leaders in banking and capital markets pointed to “decrease in customer confidence” as one of their top three business concerns following COVID.

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Work Management Marketing Management Service Planning 118

ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2015

For all the change that’s taken place in how buyers buy, it’s no wonder that marketers feel uncertain. It’s about realizing, understanding and then doing something about the new roles that we need to have as marketers and marketing departments. This struggle doesn’t apply only to marketers in the trenches.

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The Mx Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As a savvy B2B marketer, you know why content marketing is critical if you want to connect with modern customers. The B2B space is embracing content marketing — so B2B buyers expect it. Forrester ). Forrester ). Commitment to content marketing and building audiences breeds success. CMI and MarketingProfs ).

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ClickZ

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

30-second summary: Capgemini’s white paper covers eight important replatforming considerations that retailers should ask before updating their ecommerce ecosystem. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of each question from the white paper. When it comes to ecommerce, the replatforming journey can be daunting and overwhelming.

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Ledger Bennett

JANUARY 9, 2022

This phenomena is not limited to the consumer market, but instead is spreading across nearly all industry verticals – especially B2B. Zuora estimated a total addressable market of $102 billion from 2016-2020. It also makes global markets easier to reach. “What sounds straightforward on paper can be a tall order.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

You’re juggling hundreds of sessions, thousands of HCPs, and a mountain of spreadsheets, all while dealing with outdated, unsustainable, paper-based surveys that make HCP follow-up unmanageable. Having everything synchronized on one app, there is no need for outdated spreadsheets and paper forms. 131 reviews) Capterra Score: 4.4 (14

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 6, 2015

As we start 2015, the one thing that B2B marketers can be assured of is that our market and the approach our buyers take to purchase will continue to change and become all the more sophisticated. Typically these campaigns promote a singular asset or event like a white paper, webinar, or an eBook. Don’t Start With Technology-.

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Markempa

AUGUST 12, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

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