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B2B Sales Cycles Require 27 Interactions both Digital and Human [Study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

“Buyers now exercise more due diligence than ever before, conducting more research and engaging in more conversations with vendors and third parties,” according to Forrester. That analysis is how the research firm sets up a paper that compares the results of several surveys over time. That’s up from 17 interactions in 2019.

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Seven Steps to Align Sales and Marketing Teams Around an ABM Strategy

Full Circle Insights

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.

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Four Ways to Define Marketing Priorities for Your ABM Strategy

Full Circle Insights

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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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

Only B2B

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads!

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4 qualities of an intent-driven marketing automation email program

Martech

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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What is the future of content marketing?

Velocity Partners

They set about driving a step change from the dull, analogue land of colorless white papers into the exciting, digital world of glorious technicolour media. The creative gene found perfect harmony in its new environment, providing the magnetic content that search engines, social media and marketing automation plays needed. Is that bad?

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Content Marketing and Sales Alignment: Bridging the Gap [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

If you are in marketing, you probably see a visual of something you work to optimize every day. It’s the representation of marketing process and efficiency. Marketing people would say “I see a filter.”. But if you’re in sales, you likely see something different. Sales people would say “I see a gateway.”.