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. Understanding the Complex B2B Landscape Unlike B2C brands that primarily target individual consumers, B2B companies engage with a diverse range of stakeholders within an organization.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a lot of benefits to most B2B organizations. 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?

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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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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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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing.

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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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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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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Understanding lead generation ZoomInfo refers to lead generation as: “[T]he process of attracting prospects and getting them into the sales funnel, with the goal of converting them into customers. This ensures both sales and marketing teams work in unison toward a cohesive communication strategy.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 29, 2021

What is bottom-of-funnel (BoFu) marketing? Bottom-of-funnel marketing is a strategy that aligns with the latest “decision” stage of the buyer’s journey. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life. As much as we like to toy with the idea that we have evolved past marketing funnels, we haven’t.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

( Source ) Unfortunately, only 32% of manufacturing marketers have a documented content marketing strategy, even though one in four manufacturing marketers reported that their organization spends 25% to 49% of their total marketing budget on industrial content marketing. Source ) Why is that? What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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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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The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s essential to understand that marketing is a scalable process, and not investing enough can hinder your business’s growth potential. Without a clear strategy, you might be wasting your resources on tactics that don’t align with your goals. Your strategy should answer questions like: Who is your target audience?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Because B2B organizations often mistake go-to-market strategies as being a new launch. This undermines the extensive use cases sound GTM motions provide organizations for ongoing, sustained success.

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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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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Impulse purchases often play a role in B2C, resulting in a much shorter sales cycle, sometimes only minutes long. B2C marketing needs to reflect this fast-paced sale. It’s a simple way to measure activity at the top of the funnel and at the individual level, and best for B2C companies with a highly transactional sales cycle.

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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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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. How to leverage intent data in 8 steps Gone are the days when banner ads on a popular review website could funnel hundreds of leads to your business. Fortunately, intent data has become a mainstay among business analytics to do just that.

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Oktopost

APRIL 29, 2024

Social media channels provide organizations with a communication channel they can participate in directly. Doing this helps to drive your leads that you are in contact with further down the funnel. Figuring out intent at a certain time offers understanding of your customer’s decision-making stage and process.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

But without proper benchmarking and analytics, meeting lead and sales expectations is tough– Especially if you are unable to forecast how campaigns might perform or set appropriate marketing budgets to achieve sales goals. Calculating funnel stage Percentages. How to benchmark your marketing channels.

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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. As a result, the pandemic has altered how B2B organizations will operate, promote, and think about their customers. As an example—. The answer is both.

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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Marketing is a requirement for growing organizations. And it makes sense to have a savvy individual in the driver’s seat to ensure that your marketing efforts dovetail together, connect with your KPIs and overall business goals and move the organization forward. How does their presence (or lack thereof) affect different organizations?

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2022

This process necessitates a strong appeal to brands’ goals — often at the enterprise level — and this can’t be done without proper marketing and sales team alignment. “The other thing that you need to make ABM successful is tight marketing and sales alignment,” Britt said. Sales engagement and outreach.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Impulse purchases often play a role in B2C, resulting in a much shorter sales cycle, sometimes only minutes long. B2C marketing needs to reflect this fast-paced sale. It’s a simple way to measure activity at the top of the funnel and at the individual level, and best for B2C companies with a highly transactional sales cycle.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 5, 2019

With so many advertising platforms available, it’s certainly a challenge to keep up with the space and create high-converting campaigns. Even though it might seem easy to define who your audience is, in reality this is a process that should be done very carefully. Align Offers to the Stage of Buyer Journey and Advertising Platform.

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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

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.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Marketers still struggle to answer foundational questions about the impact of marketing on the business, such as “How effective is my digital marketing at driving in-store sales?” 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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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2022

Get more sales and marketing best practices for small businesses. Read our free SMB Guide to Sales and Marketing Alignment. Website optimization is a priority for every marketer and a key marketing tool for any SMB, but especially for those that sell, advertise, and target online. A funnel report to identify bottlenecks.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently. Only targeting upper-level management: The C-suite is busy.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This week’s show is called “Is Outbound the New Normal?

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6sense

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Account-based marketing has become the most sought-after marketing strategy for B2B organizations striving to win new businesses and retain current customers. Since it focuses on customers that matter, ABM enables B2B organizations to close deals faster and increase revenue significantly. Focusing on Metrics That Matter.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Matt: Welcome to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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Strategic-IC

MAY 18, 2021

At the same time, technology has impacted many aspects of ABM from intent data to programmatic advertising. The impact of Account-based Marketing is being felt throughout organizations. Much more than Sales. In the interview ( full recording here ), we discussed: How Sales Enablement unlocks ABM. ABM is evolving.

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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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Martech

MARCH 18, 2022

“If you have a big sales organization and complex routing issues they have a really nice system.” “That’s where the system of record is for sales,” Crater said. A first-touch model tells you how you got that customer at the very beginning of the sales cycle.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2021

Sales and Marketing Alignment History. In the past, there has often been a division between sales and marketing. Segmented from one another, marketing would work the top of the funnel and sales would work the bottom. What is Sales and Marketing Alignment? What Does Sales Do For Marketing? Market dynamics.

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