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When You’re Focused on Upstream, What do You Measure?

Vision Edge Marketing

Putting a Number on the Value of Upstream Marketing . Measures such as open and clickthrough rates, website traffic, Marketing generated qualified leads, and qualified lead-to-deal ratio are examples of downstream measures. You now have a number that reflects what we’ll call the SAM (service available market).

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How to Do ABM Without an ABM Tool- Part II

Heinz Marketing

Need-to-Have Tools (and their Channels): CRM and Marketing Automation. Traditionally, [ABM] was used by large enterprises where the size of the deal justified the amount of energy focused on marketing to only one business or account. The CRM is the hub of all lead, contact, account, and opportunity records. Headcount. #

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Is Technology Making Marketing Agencies Obsolete?

The Point

Over at the IDC Technology Marketing Blog , analyst Sam Melnick posted an article recently with the intriguing title: “Are Ad Agencies Keeping Pace with the Marketing’s (sic) Massive Digital Uptake? Here’s where I think today’s B2B marketing agency can best compete: • Helping clients get the most out of marketing technology.

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Marketing Technology Success: It’s All About The Integrations…

Allocadia

In the marketer’s world it seems like this is all anyone talks about. For good reason — this area of marketing has boomed over the last 10-15 years. And while many people first think about Marketing Automation and CRM when MarTech comes to mind, there are almost 4,000 marketing technologies available (as made famous by Scott Brinker).

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third.

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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

Everything Technology Marketing

For example, how do I know whether an organization is an early adopter or laggard without investing a tremendous amount of research (that often leads to ambiguous answers anyway)? While company size or industry SIC/NAICS classifications are easy to gather for demographics-based segmentation, behavioral data is not that easy to come by.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

Whether you are an outbound seller cold-calling new accounts, a customer success manager preparing for this month’s renewals, or a marketer running a targeted email or advertising campaign to generate leads, the insights that come from your company’s data drive decisions and action. . Data is at the core of every go-to-market motion.

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