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B2B Marketing’s Measurement Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

No one makes a million dollar decision based on one white paper, one email or one Google search. It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? The problem doesn’t begin with marketing though.

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B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?

markempa

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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Marketing Attribution – Beginning of a Data Journey

B2B Marketing Analytics

Every marketing leader takes immense pride in talking about the marketing analytics teams at their organizations when they have implemented attribution tools/frameworks and can provide attribution data either via salesforce.com or via in case of more mature analytics teams in platforms like Tableau, Looker, DOMO, etc.

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Top 2 Marketing Analytics Priorities for B2B Marketing Teams

B2B Marketing Analytics

These pipeline correlations of the marketing activities provide valuable insights when it comes to understanding “when” the new opportunities were created in marketing engaged accounts and for the accounts with existing opportunities, how marketing was able to influence deal expansion and accelerate deal closures.

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

ViewPoint

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Create Video Marketing for the Entire Sales Funnel

Vidyard

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as contributed content on Salesforce.com. While most marketers are aware of the incredible effect video can have as part of the marketing mix, I still see a lot of B2B brands create top-of-the-funnel explainer videos and call it a day.

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3 Strategies to Make Big Content Work for Your Brand

Convince & Convert

How can you manage risk in your content marketing? It’s important to realize two things about content marketing, which help shape your perspective on the place of ‘big content’ in the overall scheme of your marketing mix: The most effective content marketers don’t focus on ‘one-off’ campaigns.