The Forward Observer

MARCH 22, 2024

MKTG STINX by Bob Hoffman About the Book From the Author: There have been thousands of books and articles extolling the virtues of marketing and advertising. About the Author Bob Hoffman is the author of several best-selling books about advertising. Well, now there is. Bob was the CEO of two independent agencies and the U.S.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 19, 2024

This blog post will dive into real-life B2B demand-generation campaign examples, crushing it with their demand-generation tactics. Demand generation is a collaborative effort between sales and marketing teams to build brand reputation and nurture prospects into leads over time.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 30, 2022

Good lead-generation tactics can help. We define lead generation as the process of creating consumer interest for a service or product, with the end goal of turning that interest into revenue. They come from organic channels, such as Google search, and paid channels, such as advertising campaigns. Watch the video.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 23, 2023

You’re always on the hunt for new revenue, but new sales has to come from your sales team, right? Sales can come from partners, too. In fact, partner selling is a great way to take the pressure off your own reps — and it’s relatively easy to implement. What are best practices for partner relationship management?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The spread of social media and blogging, radically faster Internet speeds, online video, the rise of influencers, and reliance on mobile devices continues to change the way companies market their products and services. Without research, marketers have less data for helping the sales team address the main points of potential customers.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

As the fintech industry evolves, grows and introduces new technologies, it is important to ensure that fintech companies are capitalizing on the most effective marketing tactics to reach the right audience with the right content at the right time. For fintech companies, LinkedIn is a good place to start with Twitter a close second.

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Outbrain

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Top-of-funnel marketing is a lot like fishing. When you’re fishing for leads you need to find the right location, use the right bait, and try new tactics to land the best catches you can. When you’re fishing for leads you need to find the right location, use the right bait, and try new tactics to land the best catches you can.

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Hinge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Many professional services firms still struggle with digital marketing. Usually, these solutions incorporate cloud-based technologies to collect data, automate complex processes, interact with prospects and deliver insights in near-real time. By definition, professional services firms are collections of individual experts.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Funnel metrics enable you to measure velocity and compare results.

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Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Keeping up with the latest B2B Sales and Marketing terms is no simple task. With a seemingly endless stream of new trends, tactics, and acronyms, keeping your finger on the pulse of marketing key terms is vital to stay current (and relevant) as a B2B marketer.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics. Your ESP (email service provider) is the most obvious expense, and it is simple to calculate. What’s the Scoop on ROI for Email Marketing?

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 1, 2024

The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry is experiencing phenomenal growth as technological advancements are making cloud-based solutions more accessible, scalable, and secure than ever before. B2B demand generation focuses on creating brand awareness, driving interest, and generating leads for your SaaS product or service.

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Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Keeping up with the latest B2B marketing and sales terms is no simple task. With a seemingly endless stream of new trends, tactics, and acronyms, keeping your finger on the pulse of marketing key terms is vital to stay current (and relevant) as a B2B marketer. BANT stands for:  B udget – Do they have the ability to spend? 

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PathFactory

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While time and money management in our personal lives is one thing, optimizing them in our professional lives is becoming easier by the minute. LinkedIn, for example, is a social networking site with hundreds of millions of business professionals who use it daily to connect, educate, and inspire one another. Why use LinkedIn for ABM.

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Directive Agency

MARCH 16, 2018

Today, we’re going to talk about B2B advertising insights for your funnel. As B2B marketers and advertisers, we tend to be focused solely on one part of the funnel. So, today we’re going to discuss: The importance of different areas of the funnel. B2B Advertising: Top of the Funnel.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Full Circle ABM is the first martech solution that gives B2B marketers the power to measure funnels in an account-based marketing context inside the CRM. This enables closer alignment between the sales and marketing teams and facilitates tighter collaboration on account targeting, which is critical for B2B success.

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Madison Logic

MAY 2, 2024

WATCH VIDEO The Challenge Endava is a leading technology services company that combines world-class engineering, industry expertise, and a people-centric mindset to assist global enterprises in creating technological solutions that drive innovation and transform businesses.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2022

What is the best way to grow your professional services firm? For many professional services firms the answer is neither. To illustrate these different marketing approaches imagine that an accounting firm has three service lines, and they market each service using a different marketing approach.

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

It’s also been well and repeatedly documented that “advertisers that maintained or grew their ad spending increased sales and market share during the recession and afterwards.” Not only have the tools improved, but so have the virtual event planning and production processes within most organizations.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Finding the appropriate leads is the ultimate aim of B2B marketing management and is critical to the success of your business. There are two types of leads: marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) and sales-qualified leads (SQLs). MQLs are often evaluated and sent on to the sales team to become SQLs. Let us delve a little further.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Lead generation isn’t just about generating leads; it’s about generating quality leads – an essential activity for B2B marketing and sales teams. It’s the process of identifying the ideal customers for your product or service, then attracting them to make a purchase. Sales Qualified Lead (SQL).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer lifecycle success hinges on making every customer a priority — from how soon your rep responds to a request to following up quickly after a demo. Does your team have the process down? What is the Customer Lifecycle (and Why Every Sales Rep Should Care)? This slows the buying process.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Advertising to your ideal customer can be complicated. With LinkedIn, professionals update their profiles regularly, try to grow their network, make themselves stand out through various skills or groups they join. What does this mean for digital advertisers? Is your team equipped to get the most out of this channel?

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Social Media Today Brandwatch 2024 Digital Marketing Trends [Report] Social media management and research firm Brandwatch has published its 2024 collection of digital marketing trends, with top areas of focus expected for the coming year including AI, authenticity, personalization, and social listening, among others, Brandwatch recently announced.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

As a rule, it should focus on the personas you are targeting and address their pain points, while illustrating how your product or service can fix their problem. To be actionable, your content must make tactical use of calls to action, offers, promotions, demos, and free trials that move prospects along the buyer’s journey.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Clearly, ABM has an effect on sales – but is true alignment between both the sales and marketing departments in terms of goals, strategies, and key areas of focus entirely necessary in order for this type of marketing to be a success? ABM gives the sales team fewer leads to work with. Why Sales Marketing Alignment Matters.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Getting real with upper-funnel expectations We need to rethink how we approach the early stages of marketing traditionally focused on brand awareness. Tracking upper-funnel and B2B activities is challenging but feasible. the tactic positively impacts revenue or leads). Many media platforms provide brand lift studies.

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Metadata

JANUARY 7, 2021

This award recognizes the partner who has made a significant impact to customers and the partner community through a new and innovative service or solution with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Using this new tactic, Metadata increased platform demo requests 300% and reduced monthly cost by 20%.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer lifecycle success hinges on making every customer a priority — from how soon your rep responds to a request to following up quickly after a demo. Does your team have the process down? What is the Customer Lifecycle (and Why Every Sales Rep Should Care)? This slows the buying process.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

They must see themselves as the protagonist in your story and feel like you’re speaking directly to them through marketing and advertising. Product marketing is where sales, marketing, and product development overlap. It’s where marketing, sales, and product development come together. Driving demand and sales for the product.

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Valasys

AUGUST 18, 2020

LinkedIn needs no introduction. Professionals use LinkedIn to connect with one another, hunt for jobs, and be aware of the latest developments in their industries and shifting audience preferences. According to LinkedIn, 80% of B2B leads coming from social media are generated by LinkedIn.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 26, 2024

The answer to overcoming these challenges is a data-driven, full-funnel account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to identify and prioritize key accounts, surround all buying committee members with relevant content and messaging that resonates with them, and measure and optimize your approach for higher impact and return on investment (ROI).

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 2, 2022

For many industries – financial services and technology among others – customer trust is the most valuable marketing currency right now. Social media can also help drive potential prospects to the top of your sales funnel. And when you have your prospect’s trust, it’s easier to move them through the funnel.

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Only B2B

MARCH 10, 2022

You know how difficult it is to boost sales with B2B lead generation tactics. Overhyped case studies from huge firms that might raise sales. The “ugly” fact is that your strategy must be tailored to your business, industry, product/service, and target audience. More sales = more leads.

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seo.co

JUNE 13, 2022

Do you collect email addresses, but struggle to turn your leads into sales through your email marketing campaign? Your ability to convert leads into customers depends on your lead generation and lead nurturing strategies and your ability to close the sale. This process requires time and strategy. What is lead nurturing?

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Financial services is an industry that’s on the brink of a new day. From customer service to new client contracts, everything is going digital—even selling. The financial services industry is recognizing a digital change that clients have wanted for a long time. Onboarding Your Remote Sales Team 1.1 FAQ Videos 2.

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Launch Marketing

MAY 11, 2023

Lead generation comes in many forms, and it can be hard to know where to begin if you are short on time and need a quick boost to your sales pipeline. Utilize these tactics and points of execution to help marketing uncover more qualified leads for the sales team. Digital ads: Use digital advertising platforms (i.e.,

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