Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter.

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Lake One

MAY 14, 2020

Engagement is a key goal for many marketers. Research has found that getting target customers to engage with a brand is the top challenge for B2B marketers. Related Reading: Lake One’s Guide to LinkedIn Marketing. Brand Market Share. Brand market share is a tactic you can use to measure this. Qualified Leads.

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

Both of which are tools used in conjunction with your marketing campaigns, meaning your day is mostly full of software management instead of strategic planning. The goal with most B2B marketers is to get their automation to a point of fluidity that it requires very little human input. Why Marketing Automation? Acquiring Data.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Oftentimes as paid media marketers, it’s easy to stick to LinkedIn’s platform reports and conduct business just on the ad side. Although platform metrics can be a good indicator of ad performance, they don’t shine light on how successful the campaigns are at reaching deeper lead goals. How do MQLs become marked as SQLs?

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Metadata

APRIL 21, 2021

So we’re teaming up with some of the best B2B marketers we know. In 90 days, we increased our paid lead volume by over 270%, while simultaneously decreasing cost per lead (CPL) by 82%, and increasing lead-to-MQL conversion rate to over 60%. Use LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms. It’s worth it.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What is a Marketing Funnel? A Marketing Funnel is a tool/visualization that marketers utilize to understand the process of interaction with their audience. Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom. How the messaging is similar but also different?

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Valasys

JUNE 4, 2020

On the 2 nd of June 2020, LinkedIn through its marketing blog announced some new retargeting options to allow the marketers to make their customer interactions more personalized and turn more clicks into actual customers. How Retargeting by Video Views & Lead Generation Forms will Help the Marketers Reach the Right Professionals.

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SnapApp

JULY 16, 2019

The formula for marketing success used to be simple: 1. But the explosive growth of content marketing over the past 10 years means that “if you build it they will come” is no longer a viable strategy. Savvy marketers know there’s too much passive content demanding prospects’ attention. Create great content.

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Leadspace

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We B2B marketers are a simple breed. Some good leads now and again; enough SQLs to keep sales from chewing our ears off; license to throw around some silly acronyms every so often. Well, you can draw some solace in knowing that pretty much every B2B company struggles with the same lead gen problems. We don’t ask for much.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The answer is high-quality leads. Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. This keeps your brand top-of-mind and encourages conversions.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Read on to discover how your marketing and sales teams can close more leads by recognizing and responding to prospects’ buying signals.

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. Avoid the Blind Spot During Lead Qualification.

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PathFactory

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many of our customers implemented PathFactory to get more out of their content, and were thrilled at the growth in key metrics like pipeline generation, engagement, and MQL to SQL conversion. Evaluate if your lead gen strategy is working for you. Remember, performance isn’t measured in opens and clicks anymore.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s a new idea for marketers. We tend to get caught up focusing on more: More sales, more traffic, more leads. Here’s why: Doing more and more marketing work is not better. But doing more effective (and thus better) marketing tasks? And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads?

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Strategic-IC

MAY 8, 2018

How can you ensure your marketing campaigns will deliver ROI? To achieve lead generation and revenue targets, it's important to first map those targets back to clear, realistic goals. When planning a marketing campaign, it’s the Marketing Director’s responsibility to ensure the strategy will deliver on financial goals.

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Outbrain

JANUARY 13, 2020

That explains why 63% of companies consider generating traffic and leads as their most important challenge. Even so, lead generation definitely has its own share of obstacles to overcome. Before we dive into optimizing your lead gen activities, let’s take a look at the lead generation process as a whole.

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PathFactory

MAY 10, 2022

The proof is in the numbers: businesses, and in particular sales and marketing teams, can’t continue working in silos when they are both working towards the same revenue goals. It’s time to start taking a unified approach to the marketing and sales orgs at your company. Marketers confer with salespeople on important accounts.”.

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Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

However, a poorly optimized website can be one of the biggest liabilities in your marketing practice. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Here are some common lead generation mistakes organizations make with their website and how you should fix them.

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The ABM Agency

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Our recent webinar on the difference between account based marketing, demand generation and B2B lead generation. Well welcome everyone to the ABM agency webinar around demand gen lead gen and ABM. You know, in today’s environment, marketers are faced with all kinds of challenges. Jason McDaniel .

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s 2018 and virtually all marketers understand the importance of adding video content to the buyer’s journey. Which is why you need to integrate video into your lead scoring models and associate the right scores to the right videos. Spoiler alert: this includes your marketing automation platform (MAP).

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Martech

MAY 3, 2024

It’s a tired cliche that B2B marketing is the “boring” sibling to B2C, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Most of the problem is that marketing success is measured by outcomes that have nothing to do with how advertising works. Only about 5% of buyers are in the market at any given moment.

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Metadata

APRIL 25, 2023

We spared you the pitch slap in 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy Metadata to help demand gen marketers learn why Metadata might not be the marketing OS for them. To help demand gen marketers feel more confident about buying Metadata before the DocuSign email comes through. The goal this time around?

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SnapApp

MAY 10, 2017

As a B2B marketer, lead gen is of utter importance, but quality over quantity is just as important. You need the right tools to get you the right leads that bring you the right business. . Let’s look at the relationship between content marketing and that sometimes daunting database of yours. . A Day in the Life.

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It’s indicative of how quickly you’re selling, the health of your sales strategy and how effectively you are capturing your market space. It goes without saying that a higher number of qualified opportunities leads to a higher sales velocity. A higher sales velocity means you're bringing in more money, over less time.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 16, 2009

If marketers give sales people what they want, they will never have a reason to complain (ok, I kind of know that's a lie, but follow me here). There are lots of terms describing leads. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), Sales Qualified Lead (SQL), Sales Accepted Lead (?), Get them all three.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? Now that I have your attention, let’s make you an account-based marketing champion. Tactic #3: Use the Power of Retargeting.

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Hubspot

APRIL 25, 2012

As inbound marketers, we all know the value and importance of measuring, tracking, and reporting on key metrics and goals. Let's take the data you collect around your lead generation efforts, for instance. Here are 4 simple steps to set effective lead generation goals for your marketing team.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? Now that I have your attention, let’s make you an account-based marketing champion. Tactic #3: Use the Power of Retargeting.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 8, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? You can take this a step further and split-test using LinkedIn’s Lead Gen Form versus sending the user to a custom landing page.

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Modern B2B

JUNE 27, 2019

They’re dedicating teams to content, digital advertising and creating, or acquiring, their own internal agency to service their extended marketing teams. One marketing leader recently told me, I’m really proud of how far we’ve come, the team have improved so much. Converting leads at the appropriate time in their journey.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 30, 2022

Determining what a quality lead looks like to not only prioritize these but effectively nurture them is a key area of focus for the majority (40%) of B2B marketers in 2022. Effective lead generation comes down to quality rather than quantity – though ample high quality leads is undoubtedly the ultimate aim.

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Convert

APRIL 29, 2022

Experimentation in B2B marketing is much harder than in B2C, greatly because of the long sales cycle and its implications. Everyone has an opinion on whether marketing is an art or a science. Experiments in marketing are no different. The Challenge with B2B Marketing Experiments. Sounds like a win-win so far. Here’s why.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 3, 2022

One reason why content marketing continues to be so crucial to B2B success? That’s a long time to nurture a lead. . When done well, content marketing allows prospects to guide their own journey by exploring topics and resources that matter to them. . What Is B2B Content Marketing? A recent study found 74.6%

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Terminus

APRIL 4, 2019

Relationships are one of the underlying principles and key differentiators of account-based marketing (ABM), where the goal is making meaningful connections and progressing opportunities with the right accounts rather than driving lead volume. What the ABM funnel does is help you focus on business outcomes rather lead conversions.

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Single Grain

APRIL 18, 2023

Your efforts are successful…until you lose the leads you have been working so hard to attain. If your current lead gen strategy isn’t successful, it may be time to call in a professional. In this post, we’ll help you understand the benefits of lead generation outsourcing and how to find the right lead gen company.

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Terminus

MAY 24, 2017

When it comes to generating leads vs. account-based marketing, the buck stop at the CEO. Innovative B2B marketers and CMOs are rallying behind the idea of account-based marketing (ABM) because it’s a proven strategy to grow revenue. That’s why we’re in the midst of the account-based marketing revolution.

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