Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Maximized ROI: MQL-focused strategies translate into cost-effective endeavors.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Contact information is easy to get, but how do you turn a lead into a customer? There is no magic bullet for conversion, despite the many wild promises you may hear, but lead nurturing can drive huge improvements. In fact: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. Buyers respond to brands they trust.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

Think: sending customer emails, SMS communications, scheduling social media posts, running digital ads and more. As our Senior Manager of Marketing Operations Cam Conrad puts it, “Marketing automation allows you to execute your marketing campaigns at scale. Why use marketing automation?

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2011

We recently had the opportunity to connect with Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder of Marketo. Jon leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s hyper-efficient demand center (powered by Marketo’s solution, of course). What would you tell someone asking that question?

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Five years ago, if you asked Jason Miller to pick lead generation or brand awareness as the most important part of B2B marketing, he would’ve chosen lead generation without hesitating. But if you publish a blog without the right system in place to capture and score leads, then your efforts won’t lead to ROI.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By the time they are ready, they’ve seen your website, your competitors’ websites, attended a webinar, watched a YouTube video , been on all the review and social media sites, and downloaded applicable thought leadership content. What Is Lead Scoring? Lead Scoring Disclaimer. How Does Lead Scoring Work?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss? Comments welcome.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? Salespeople need leads—right now. So marketing tries to feed the pipe.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If there is one thing companies need — other than a working product, that is — leads. When done well, marketing automation delivers new leads for 80 percent of companies. Marketing automation comes in many flavors, some of them easier to implement than others. Automation. Influencer relations.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices. In an ideal world, marketing automation can help you engage with your prospects and customers efficiently and effectively. Biggest Obstacles to Marketing Automation Success.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Growth Fusion is a boutique integrated marketing agency with a strong focus on ROI-driven Customer Acquisition and Demand Generation. Rajesh is a Marketo expert and has hands-on experience defining projects and implementing them at both venture-backed start-ups and consulting firms. We are very excited to welcome him.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Too often, and especially in B2B marketing, we give the job of building the relationship that turns marketing leads into sales prospects to the sales development rep (SDR). Email still matters to marketing, and to the people we’re trying to reach. It is now irrelevant, even though the content is useful.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 1, 2017

In B2B Marketing, Lead Generation is a top priority and necessary to keep the cogs turning. Although there are a large variety of strategies to produce leads, many businesses are prioritizing content marketing to generate higher qualified leads. Research your audience.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Element #2 – Email – the most critical element of a lead nurturing platform is email. But Facebook? Tweet This!

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Or spending hours on end tracking down information, manually sending out emails, and following up with leads? We’ll take a look at some of the top digital marketing tools out there today and key features they include. But first, it’s important to consider your overall marketing goals. The #1 Inbound Marketing Platform.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

by Maria Pergolino Regardless of what marketers say about social media, the rubber hits the road at budget time when they have to put their money where their mouth is. Where is social media in your B2B marketing budget? Where is social media in your B2B marketing budget? 1. Weak U.S.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Building a network in Google+ could be the next critical tactic when it relates to B2B search engine optimization and broader social media initiatives. As such, for B2B marketers specifically, activity on Google Plus could potentially have significant effects on lead acquisition and brand trust.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2011

by Rick Siegfried NEWS FLASH: B2B marketers must learn to leverage social media. Sometimes it seems like all you hear about is how important it is to integrate social media into your marketing processes, but do you honestly know why you should do it? Social Media Monitoring Software.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latter will then become a list of features that you’ll need your marketing automation software to provide. . Lead scoring/qualifying . Publishing posts to social media channels. Fortunately, there’s marketing automation software for each of these tasks. Survey, form, and landing page creation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

One of Marketo’s most significant events to attend and sponsor is Dreamforce ; every year we make an effort to get the most from this critical industry-leading conference. Another innovative way we use Marketo for events is by seamlessly integrating it with online webinar providers like WebEx.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 1, 2019

As nice as new leads are, customers are the most important resource your brand has. A couple of years ago, direct mail may have seemed on its way out, but as online marketing grows more competitive, physical mail has become a way to be noticed. However, there’s still a challenge to overcome. Host customer events.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 26, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, was a guest on the SLMA Radio show, a weekly program that showcases the voices of industry leaders. I’m always up for listening to a CEO talk about sales and marketing, so I listened to this the other day while packing up content for an upcoming trade show. The Number Game.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 24, 2018

If you haven’t implemented LinkedIn’s Lead Generation Forms into your demand generation strategy, then it’s safe to say you’re missing out! In my personal experience, lead gen forms work best with sponsored content when promoting assets, such as a downloadable eBook or guide. The benefit to the marketer?

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Author’s remarks: Marketo is one of the most reliable and trustworthy names when it comes to blogs and resources. Having high-value writers like Lauren, Garrett, Robyn and many more, Marketo publishes one of the most well-researched demand generation blogs that you can follow. Marketing Insider Group. Spear Marketing.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices. In an ideal world, marketing automation can help you engage with your prospects and customers efficiently and effectively. For instance, is lead generation a priority?

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2011

Late last year at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco I was fortunate enough to chat with Maria Pergolino , Marketing Director at Marketo (and renowned all-around Content Marketing Queen.) ideas for weaving social media into lead generation and lead nurturing programs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 16, 2013

One would think new marketing tactics such as social media and blogging would have killed good ol’ email marketing. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. That is simply not true. I am seeing manufacturers continue to [.]. This is only a content summary.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! « 9 1/2 Ways. « 9 1/2 Ways.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 6, 2011

Business buyers are becoming more savvy with social networking and other modern tools, using them to search for product information and exchange that information in peer-focused meeting spaces. Today’s marketers need to factor this into their lead generation tactics in order to attract and convert these prospects into qualified leads.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Some tools are set up for success in different channels like SMS, email, and social media, or are even native to applications. Email Marketing & Online Marketing.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 8, 2022

Finally, she creates and hosts a podcast, ‘Online Marketing Made Easy.’ ’ Amy launched her own business backed by plenty of experience; she was once a former contributor to, and Facebook Community Manager for, the Social Media Examiner, and as director of content development for Anthony Robbins Cos.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " How can companies maintain branding and messaging consistency across various marketing vehicles that they use? For example, how can trade show marketing strategy be consistent with blogging and other social media strategy? " Read on to get their insights.

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