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

Vision Edge Marketing

He proposes that the purpose of Downstream Marketing is to motivate customers to adopt existing products and services. Upstream Marketing, Dr. Chara says, refers to “the strategic process of identifying and fulfilling customer needs.” 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. Industry Classification Code (NAICS or SIC). Let’s get into it! Newly Discovered Only.

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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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B2B Market Segmentation – Part 2: How to Approach Segmentation

Everything Technology Marketing

But it doesn't get to the core of why companies are buying and what problem they are looking to solve (don’t get me wrong, demographics are still an important factor in the segmentation process, but they shouldn't drive the first steps of segmentation). Many automation platforms score along two dimensions: demographics and behavior.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

Each one restarts a process of understanding the nuances and integrating, normalizing, matching, managing, and maintaining that unique data source. ZoomInfo has long offered enrichment services to fill in missing data fields from lead forms and cleanse outdated data in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation systems.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

Each one restarts a process of understanding the nuances and integrating, normalizing, matching, managing, and maintaining that unique data source. teams, most often doesn’t work for their international teams so they bring in other sources or resources to fill those holes.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?