The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. Are B2B marketers ignoring a huge opportunity? I spoke to Daniel Kushner, CEO of B2B social media management platform company Oktopost , for his perspective. (HS) Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

.” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue. But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more].

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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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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. That’s why it’s so important to have a well-defined digital marketing funnel in place.

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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. Marketing Automation. Take Your Fintech Marketing to the Next Level.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing automation software is going to be dependent on your organization’s needs and criteria. Marketing automation is a great way to automatically move prospects, develop relationships and capture leads with software. It can help you to take your audience through your sales funnel.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I’m beginning to suspect the much-cited trend of marketing playing a larger role deeper into the sales funnel has reached a similar peak. If the pendulum is really swinging the other way, then sales people will be taking a more active role earlier in the buying process.

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Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

Demand generation includes strategic efforts focused on building market awareness, igniting interest, and driving demand for your products or services. It’s a continuous process focused on reaching and engaging potential buyers outside of your existing market. Contribution to pipeline and sales impact.

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Hubspot

MARCH 3, 2022

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The information you accrue through sales automation can inform more complete, pointed marketing efforts — and vice versa.

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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Email marketing automation is when you set up for your business automated emails and drip campaigns that will go out to your clients when they take certain actions in regards to your business. This saves you time and energy by accomplishing certain processes on your behalf while you work on your business.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. These posed nightmares including inaccurate data, conflicting information and slow processing times. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance. What is marketing automation?

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Stevens & Tate

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Creating a successful long-term inbound marketing strategy requires that you tackle several different tactics on different fronts, such as optimizing your site for SEO , creating high-quality content for your website, producing email newsletters, and engaging with followers on social media. Send More Qualified Leads to Your Sales Team.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 17, 2020

Automation has become standard practice in B2C ecommerce. Online sellers automate their marketing emails, pricing, restocking, even their PPC advertising. But automation is just as useful in the world of B2B sales. Here’s why, and four ways to apply automation to improve the sales process.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You’re familiar with the B2B buyer’s journey : moving prospects through the awareness, consideration, and decision stages of the buying process. With a holistic perception of buyer intent in your business, your marketing and sales teams can improve the lead-qualification process and enhance sales conversions.

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Launch Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2024

When implemented and managed properly, marketing automation solutions can take B2B marketing to the next-level. While the idea of setting up and running ongoing campaigns and automations sound like a no-brainer, there are usually unforeseen complexities that arise. With the right strategies, these can be avoided.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. In 2022, lead generation was established as the foundation of most organizations’ growth strategies, with a reported 50% of marketers ’ emphasis on lead generation, making it a top priority.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Finite found that 35% of B2B marketers were struggling to produce enough quality content that could reach and engage with audiences – a situation that is being termed a “content drought.” But despite having experience and expertise, marketers have specific challenges they need to overcome, especially in content marketing.

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Biznology

AUGUST 31, 2017

You know your business needs leads, and plenty of them, to drive sales. Because if you’re not able to turn those leads into sales, they aren’t doing you much good. But how do you turn those leads into sales? The answer: you find an effective way to move them down your sales funnel. Email marketing automation.

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Sharpspring

MARCH 23, 2021

Connecting with your customers, enticing them to buy, and providing exemplary post-sale support all present opportunities for automation. When considering CRM vs. marketing automation for your own business, the premise can seem the same. What Is Marketing Automation?

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

This post will provide some strategic tactics marketers can use to better measure B2B advertising effectiveness, and provide a list of KPIs expert marketers are measuring to help them hit their ROAS goals. That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. With a little marketing math.

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Rev

JUNE 25, 2019

advertisement. That’s B2B marketing in 2019 in a nutshell. . We’ve been inundated with process improvements, strategies, and marketing automation tools – there’s literally no shortage of things we can be doing. An unvarnished view of what demand generation tactics and priorities deliver an ROI.

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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. What’s the Scoop on ROI for Email Marketing? This post delves into ways to make sure your email campaigns bring the best results.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. When you find them apply the same tactics and rules to similar contacts who've just entered your lead nurturing funnel. M arketing Automation: It doesn’t all need to be manual grunt work! Marketing automation is your best friend.

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Ontraport

APRIL 29, 2020

What is marketing automation software? Marketing automation software is a set of technology tools that enable marketers and business owners to deliver, test, measure and improve personalized communication and experiences to a larger audience than they possibly could do manually. What does that mean?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

Previous research detailed here found that: When live events first shut down in the spring of 2020, B2B marketers quickly shifted the majority of planned event budgets to online events and content development, followed distantly by search advertising and paid social media. On the down side, it can also mean longer sales cycles.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 6, 2024

Wide-approach B2B marketing tactics revolve around aiming for the accounts you and your company think are a good fit. But tight budgets, limited resources, and longer, more complex sales cycles require you to work more efficiently. Here’s how. What Is a Target Account List?

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 2, 2022

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. According to the latest data, 78% of sales reps who engage in social selling are consistently outperforming their peers.

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Oktopost

APRIL 29, 2024

Doing this helps to drive your leads that you are in contact with further down the funnel. Many discussions take place about B2B intent data in the context of ABM (Account Based Marketing) or other strategic marketing and sales programs. How can marketers use social intent data? What is social intent data?

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Only B2B

AUGUST 13, 2020

The evergreen mantra for personalized marketing is ‘advertising’. But today, with the help of technology and tools the marketing is way more channelized and shows some sophistication. The Past Phase Of Account Based Marketing. It uses many types of pull marketing tactics- blogs, Events SEO, social Media posts etc.

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Stevens & Tate

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This is your customer’s gateway into your sales funnel and where they are willing to enter your sales process with hopes of a return of more education about your brand or products. Use Marketing Automation. Marketing automation is more than drip emails and encapsulates a vast area of lead nurturing.

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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 have to meet them where they are and how they want to show up in the buying process.”

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Conventional lead generation tactics for B2B marketers will not work in 2022. If you look at the most recent B2B market trends, you can notice how much has changed in such a short time. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. Adopt An Omni-Channel Marketing Strategy.

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Valasys

MAY 9, 2024

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, there is one standout individual who has set the bar high for sales excellence – Steven Khanna. With a unique blend of skills and strategies, Steven has consistently achieved success in the competitive field of digital marketing.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team. Here, we review everything a successful revenue team should know and do with B2B intent data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

The same is true in marketing. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. Measuring B2B Marketing Performance.

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