Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this article, we will explore four essential tactics that every B2B marketer should embrace to thrive in this ever-changing environment. This includes everyone from C-level executives to end-users, and each of them plays a vital role in the lengthy B2B sales cycle.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The same could be said for alignment across the revenue team: marketing, sales, and often customer success. Sales and marketing alignment is key to executing an account-based strategy that drives revenue impact. The problem with sales and marketing team misalignment . these team-ups create new victories for us to celebrate.

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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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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. What is Demand Generation?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to your target market. You’ll even see sales rep positions advertised online under the title of “business development representative.” What is Sales?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to individuals in your predetermined target market segment. You’ll even see sales rep positions advertised online under the title of “business development representative.” What Is Sales?

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 27, 2017

Search engine advertising – or PPC – is not typically associated with account-based marketing. However, marketing platforms and tactics continually evolve to provide new ways to nurture customers. Sales cycles that span multiple months, potentially even year-long in duration. Twitter Tailored Audiences.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Marketing to professionals, such as doctors or lawyers, will often involve tactics borrowed from both sides. Companies that are looking for products or services with which to assist their own operations will typically have or assign a “product champion” to conduct research on solutions and manage the sales relationship.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While it’s important to invest in efforts that target the 5% of people who are “in-market” today, you need a full-funnel strategy that delivers persistent messaging with the other 95% as well. This comprehensive and unified data-driven approach accelerates the sales pipeline and helps convert your best accounts faster.

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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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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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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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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

We’ve put together this primer to help you identify primary characteristics and key tactics of these disciplines, so you confidently develop a strategy that includes all three. The inbound process is viewed as much more targeted and effective than the old “spray and pray” methods of marketing used in the past. Inbound Marketing.

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Oktopost

JUNE 30, 2021

The small target audiences and long sales cycles that characterize the B2B purchasing process might be somewhat at odds with the modus operandi of the platform. Facebook Ads is the name for Facebook’s integrated advertising platform. What Are Facebook Ads? There are several advantages to using Facebook Ads.

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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. More sales = more leads. Are you ready to discover the best B2B lead generating tactics for your company? The Process Of Generating B2B Leads.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Conventional lead generation tactics for B2B marketers will not work in 2022. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. Because customers are the primary focus of lead generating tactics, you must first identify your target audience before developing methods. As an example—.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 2, 2021

Digital automation and target ID tactics, such as a progression toward advanced use of cookies and other similar technologies, have transformed the advertising industry. In a nutshell, programmatic advertising empowers advertisers with enhanced accuracy in reaching target audiences while potentially reducing ad-buying expenditure. .

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Rev

AUGUST 2, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting, there is no magic formula. That said, there are certain tactics and strategies that can help you become more successful at prospecting. We’ll start by exploring the basics of prospecting, from understanding your target audience to defining a productive process. What is sales prospecting?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Only B2B

JANUARY 9, 2023

A successful social media campaign will convert at a rate of less than 1%. The sales and marketing teams collaborate in account-based marketing to identify the most eligible accounts for conversion into customers. Here, you are inverting the conventional sales funnel. To integrate marketing and sales. Live Events.

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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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Only B2B

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Must Read: Automating B2B List Building: Tools and Techniques for Streamlined Lead Generation How to use your B2B list to generate leads and sales Segmenting Your B2B List: The Bedrock of Precision The cornerstone of prosperous B2B marketing is segmentation.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

With increasing pressure to prove the value of marketing , smart CMOs are turning to marketing mix modeling, or MMM, to improve media performance and quantify their impact. or “How will a 10% change to upper-funnel media impact bookings?” Imagine a product or service with a six-month sales cycle.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 1, 2023

How do you maximize your marketing investment to engage multiple members of the buying committee with relevant content and advertising when your audience researches solutions in so many different areas? If you distribute content and advertising in siloed channels, there’s no guarantee that your messaging is aligned across each channel.

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Only B2B

MAY 8, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) has gained popularity as a marketing tactic among B2B businesses in recent years. Targeting certain accounts rather than casting a wide net has proven to be a successful strategy for generating higher-quality leads and boosting sales. Use personalized marketing tactics to engage your target accounts.

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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There are plenty of reasons to hold off on hiring an in-house CMO, ranging from the effect on your bottom line to a CMO’s inability to build successful marketing efforts without an established sales cycle to extrapolate from — let alone a team to build out content and campaigns. Processing. Get MarTech! In your inbox.

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Walker Sands

APRIL 29, 2020

In recent weeks, companies across industries have been relying on their sales and marketing teams to fill revenue gaps created by COVID-19. Having a strong sales enablement strategy is essential for shortening the sales cycle and converting new leads into opportunities. The benefits of sales enablement.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 26, 2023

Learn how B2B marketers from leading enterprise software organizations use research and insights to implement multi-channel ABM strategies that yield higher conversion across the sales cycle. A lot of programmatic and social media buys are somewhat influential tactics.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The tenure for a sales VP is much shorter, at around 19 months. Since the beginning of COVID, sales within tech companies has experienced massive attrition with an average tenure for all sales professionals at 21 months. Think Beyond the Funnel. Funnel imagery permeates marketing. The sales cycle has gotten longer.

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Hubspot

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most lucrative ways to improve your bottom line is through boosting your sales team's effectiveness — yet many companies choose to focus on aspects of the business like product velocity or customer support costs rather than dialing in on their sales execution. That said, sales execution can be elusive.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales. These detailed descriptors give a framework for marketers (and sales reps) to address specific challenges from prospects, attract them to your brand, and craft tailored messages. Identify your best customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs?

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges. Failure to Nurture Leads Correctly.

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Madison Logic

JULY 20, 2023

It’s a collaborative process that ensures everyone’s insights are considered, leading to a unified choice. Identifying and Targeting the Right Decision-Makers Gone are the days when a sales team could reach out to one gatekeeper to invest in new business solutions.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. vague or hard-to-define objectives can be the biggest barriers to a rep’s success. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. Sales Rep Activity.

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