Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial. But how do you subtly engage your prospects when they are researching solutions online? Intent data is your key to simplified B2B marketing lead generation. This is where the fun stuff comes in: social media.

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Lake One

MAY 16, 2019

Inbound marketers do their diligence developing buyer personas; cultivating content plans informed by keyword research throughout the buyer’s journey designed to attract and convert B2B leads. Here’s the deal: it’s not that the inbound research is necessarily wrong. Get to Know LinkedIn Sponsored Content.

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Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2023

For many years, a focus on lead generation has led to seller-centric strategies and “a shitstorm of gated content.” But now, to borrow from Kaylee Edmondson’s DEMAND fireside chat, Moving From An Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine —“Lead generation’s just not hitting like it used to hit.”

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Schubert B2B

JUNE 23, 2023

Did you know that 89% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn for lead generation? And 62% say that the platform generates over 2 times more leads than the next-highest social channel. The good news is that anyone can turn the platform into a lead-generating machine. Let’s get started! Look no further.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

The challenge with campaigns is that marketing teams or agencies are defining a message, creating content – and then they hope that it will drive awareness and leads on LinkedIn. But sales and marketing are not shifting their content, LinkedIn profiles, and messaging.”.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

At 706+ million users in 200+ countries, LinkedIn is one of the most used social media platforms for making connections. Recruiters, both fresh and seasoned, can always use a refresh on their LinkedIn recruiting strategy. Update your LinkedIn company profile. Up your LinkedIn marketing game. Update your personal profile.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 29, 2010

Most sales people today have found that using LinkedIn as a research tool to identify specific prospects has been a fantastic way to find the needle in a haystack of potential leads. However, LinkedIn doesn't always show you all the names of the individuals your search produces: So how do you find this specific person's name?

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Instagram Is a Powerful Tool for B2B While Facebook and LinkedIn ranked as the two most popular social media platforms among B2B marketers, Instagram should not be disregarded. Recent research shows that it produces 20 times more engagement than LinkedIn for B2B brands.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Start with the buyer persona(s) you are targeting in your lead gen marketing, and ask yourself what that individual wants and needs from you. This is important for auditing your lead generation strategy as you identify gaps in your current content and messaging and make note of opportunities to fill a specific need for your personas.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Before asking them questions, do some research on LinkedIn to see if it sounds like they are responsible for what you sell. For example, you might say, “We have some new research that marketing executives faced with lead follow-up and lead conversion challenges find very helpful. Rarely do they offer to add value.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Sales Input Large sales teams are typically divided into several sub-categories.

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Lake One

JULY 1, 2020

LinkedIn is one of the popular social networks right now. Here’s what you need to know to launch a LinkedIn account based marketing strategy. Why Use LinkedIn for Account Based Marketing. Why Use LinkedIn for Account Based Marketing. Unique amongst all other social networks, LinkedIn is purely business-related.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2017

And they leverage their social network via LinkedIn and Twitter, and monitor news feeds about key accounts. The rest of their pipeline will come from sales-ready leads from marketing. A well-crafted, researched, intentional lead generation strategy can’t come from sales. Who should own lead generation?

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markempa

MARCH 16, 2015

Tweet You need to rethink the way you use LinkedIn. Without some of us even noticing, LinkedIn developed into a useful publishing platform and lead generation tool for marketers and sales people looking to build relationships with prospects. But if you’re looking for an easy lead source, you won’t find it here.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Ramp up your LinkedIn outreach. Then it takes over the LinkedIn accounts of the client’s sales reps. Jason Kieffer offers a similar service using a message template stream on LinkedIn on behalf of the sales reps in small and medium businesses. Here are some to consider. Surround your prospects with their own colleagues.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 3, 2020

Meticulous Research study reports that B2B sales will see the fastest growth of all ecommerce categories over the next 7 years. Nurture Potential Buyers on LinkedIn. While LinkedIn ads are not nearly as ecommerce focused as a Google Shopping Ad, LinkedIn’s main benefit lies in its’ audience targeting options.

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Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2020

In a recent interview with our Director of Marketing, Hannah Mans, she outlines the successes that Directive has found with LinkedIn conversation ads. Conversations ads were launched by LinkedIn back in March of 2020, and since then has been an important topic of conversation (no pun intended). First off, what are conversation ads?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some of the most popular paid channels include: LinkedIn Ads Google Ads (Pay-Per-Click) Virtual Events and Webinars Social Media Ads Sponsored Email Newsletters Social media advertising stands out as one of the most popular and highly effective methods. Target Audiences Every organization has its very own ideal customer persona.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Plan targeted campaigns. in this article).

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The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you could layer third-party intent data into every lead gen program you run, would you do it? In other words, would you only ever want marketing leads from prospects pre-determined to be actively researching your category, solution, use case, etc.? My argument: no, you wouldn’t. .

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Plan targeted campaigns. in this article).

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Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

Jasper will help with researching and creating copy for campaigns and social media posts. If you notice that all of your LinkedIn posts created by generative AI tools follow the same structure, tweak your prompt and provide clear instructions to dictate a new format. Grain will help you take better notes in meetings.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

Remove bad contacts, or research and replace them. Functional Tools - Fill the toolbox with tools, and know how to use them: LinkedIn, Google Alerts and Google Search, LeadIQ, Zoominfo, Discoverorg, others. If they are tip-worthy, I'll add them to the growing list of lead gen tips. Validate lists prior to dialing.

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Lake One

APRIL 4, 2019

Creating LinkedIn posts for B2B can be a challenge when competing with all the other noise on social. However, unlike some channels that are heavily influenced by friends and families, research from Marketing Profs found that while individuals have a slight advantage, brands bring a fair degree of influence on LinkedIn.

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Top Rank Marketing

JULY 31, 2023

We’ve helped flagships like Adobe, Dell, and LinkedIn to develop influencer marketing programs tailored to their specific challenges and opportunities. A full-funnel influencer strategy should create a logical progression from influencer-promoted social messages to ungated assets to lead gen forms (or demos) to revenue.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

Along the way we’ll explain the research that prompted these recommendations. But recent research from DemandGen will show you exactly how B2B buyers would like to have content organized: Use personas. Uses data and research to support claims (52%). Is research-based (40%). Is personalized/tailored to their needs (32%)”.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 29, 2022

LinkedIn and cold calling are still effective B2B marketing strategies. The best-performing content forms for B2B businesses in 2022 were research papers, ebooks, blogs under 3,000 words, and virtual events like webinars or online courses. Start with LinkedIn if you’re not sure which platform to use.

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The Point

APRIL 26, 2018

Bombora and other intent data providers can let that brand know when companies start to do research on independent sites, long before a potential buyer actually identifies themselves to the seller or even visits their Website. (HS) Intent data can help marketers identify a lot of that anonymous research activity.

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Only B2B

MARCH 10, 2022

Contact information is frequently developed in-house, purchased from a lead database, or generated by a third-party “lead gen” organisation. Step 2: Contacting Potential Leads. Reps contact leads via cold outreach, social media, or answering to queries after compiling a list of (ideally) high-quality leads.

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

Define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Conduct thorough market research to define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Meet your customers where they are 80% of B2B marketers leverage LinkedIn to reach their target customers, and 65% have increased their LinkedIn usage in the past year.

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Smarte

JANUARY 8, 2022

The best kind of marketers know why data quality is important for lead generation and how it can ensure that your lead gen strategy is setting you up for success. It also comes with a Chrome extension to help sales reps access contact and company information from within corporate websites and LinkedIn profiles.

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Honorable Mention : Lead Generation: 5 tips to generate leads faster on LinkedIn. In this blog post, Ellie Mirman, Head of SMB Marketing, HubSpot and Shreesha Ramdas, General Manager, Leadformix, discussed five tactics for generating leads using LinkedIn. Capitalizing on email for lead gen.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 24, 2019

In fact, 68% of marketers intend to increase their spend on social advertising in 2019, according to recent SocialMediaToday research. But how exactly should you invest your money so your company can truly make an impact on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? The latter helps you target audiences both on and off LinkedIn.

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The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 1, 2022

You’ll want to look at budgeting for direct lead generation strategies (think of platforms like Google Ads or LinkedIn Lead Gen ads). If you’re trying to reach professionals for a software service, you’ll want to focus on direct outreach, trade shows, and LinkedIn. Here are a few simple steps to get you started.

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the biggest challenges B2B marketers face is how to generate qualified leads with the most effective marketing channels. But there are a few great tips and tricks to facilitate an effective lead generation process, and I’m here to share them with you. #1 So, what’s the secret? Trust me; you got this!

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markempa

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Tweet I recently had coffee to catch up with my friend Jill Konrath and we were talking about new opportunities, ideas for the improvement of lead nurturing and I’m currently pondering my next book. Marketing Research Chart: Messaging tactics for effective lead nurturing [MarketingSherpa chart]. You might also like.

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Every sales funnel depends on leads to scale. How can you stand out from the crowd when there are so many businesses fighting for sales leads? To assist you in overcoming the lead gen challenge, we’ve put up this guide to help you plan your approach. We will go over all you need to know about B2B lead generation.

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