SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Salesforce is a powerful and flexible platform, but it’s not winning any awards for its sophisticated marketing and sales reporting anytime soon.

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NetLine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But beyond leveraging first-party data from a platform like NetLine, how can sales and marketing teams action engagement data to create meaningful, personalized experiences for their buyers? Misalignment between sales and marketing. First-party data is the core of what we use to understand buyer engagements.

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Integrated B2B

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

B2B companies are rushing to transform their current sales and marketing approach to an Account-based Marketing (ABM) approach before the next financial crisis. It’s hard not to notice that the financial markets are in turmoil these days, bringing back some nasty memories from a decade or so ago. [READ IN DANISH].

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 24, 2019

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Canadian Marketing Association

MARCH 14, 2017

Check out this month’s top B2B marketing reads, curated by CMA’s B2B Council : The Ultimate Guide to Account-Based Marketing: 6 Key Steps Nowhere is the happy marriage of analog and digital tactics rewarded more than in effective ABM. – Shared by Stacey Cummings , Marketing Director, yconic.

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Valasys

APRIL 10, 2020

The term personalization in account-based marketing means not just identifying and targeting the accounts of high-value, but also deploying account-based data and technology as key account-based solutions to help companies attract engage and convert prospects and then analyze their performances by competitive benchmarking.

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Before I dropped out, I found my college marketing courses to be relatively ineffective. Some essential basics, a lot of textbook’y theory and very little practical guidance coming from the true experts in the industry. I never underestimated the importance of studying the marketing experiences of authentic thought leaders. .

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Before I dropped out, I found my college marketing courses to be relatively ineffective. Some essential basics, a lot of textbook’y theory and very little practical guidance coming from the true experts in the industry. I never underestimated the importance of studying the marketing experiences of authentic thought leaders. .

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. So marketing sends more. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you want to learn about the latest best practices in the world of video marketing and where the industry is heading, this latest Demand Metric report is a must-read! Demand Metric, an independent marketing research and advisory firm, has just published the industry’s first comprehensive report on the video marketing landscape.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

by Jason Miller Inbound marketing is a highly effective strategy, but in isolation it will fail for most companies. To be successful and maximize the impact of your inbound marketing efforts, you need to combine it with other elements in your overall marketing mix. What do you think of the presentation?

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 16, 2010

Back in the day, in the 1970s and 80s, companies like Xerox and IBM established the best practices on how B2B, and especially technology, was successfully marketed and sold. And the content that worked best was content personalized to the buyer: their industry, their title, their stage of the buying process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

To effectively project these kinds of statistics, B2B marketing teams need to look at a marketing analytics solution that provides features including: - Forecast deals and bookings before they enter the sales cycle. - Create analytic models that predict conversations between funnel stages over time.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. However, it is difficult for companies to gain inbound responders in large volumes, and too many companies do not have an optimal responder program in place to drive whatever responders they receive to an eventual sale.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle. Get Everyone on the Same Page.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 26, 2024

The answer to overcoming these challenges is a data-driven, full-funnel account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to identify and prioritize key accounts, surround all buying committee members with relevant content and messaging that resonates with them, and measure and optimize your approach for higher impact and return on investment (ROI).

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Thank-You Emails Twice as Engaging as General Marketing Emails. While we can easily theorize that thank-you emails would be beneficial to a company's marketing mix, we at HubSpot wanted to analyze just how engaging they are in practice. 2) Optimize Your Thank-You Emails. This part is key.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A Prospect driven Buying Cycle Changes Everything Back in the day, in the 1970s and 80s, companies like Xerox and IBM established the best practices on how B2B, and especially technology, was successfully marketed. More Stakeholders than Ever The old method used to be to get to the Decision Maker to get the sale.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. When it comes to B2B video marketing myths, this one just doesn’t seem to want to die. It shouldn’t. Lead generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Here’s what marketing leaders find most challenging about revenue marketing and tracking ROI: Lead Quantity vs. Quality. Sales teams demand more leads but often complain they’re not the right ones. Most participants used a mix of digital, events, offline, and sales related channels. Sales Loves Events.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. Anything to avoid the sales rep, right?

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. Create, host, manage, and share your videos. It shouldn’t.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 15, 2023

As a marketer, you must be able to clearly measure and communicate marketing’s impact on revenue, likely using either multi-touch attribution or single-touch attribution. Attribution models are a popular method marketers use to assign credit for a sale or conversion to one or more campaign touchpoints along the customer journey.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 28, 2019

In the year ahead, we expect to see more B2B marketers investing in platforms that can help segment audiences more precisely and guide prospects through the buy cycle, ensuring that you are delivering the right messages to the right audience at the right time. Also Read: 4 Digital Transformation Best Practices for SMBs on a Budget.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Everyone knows this, but marketers still struggle with how to measure campaign performance in terms of a closed business. Marketing attribution models help marketers identify which campaigns influence sales and contribute to revenue so marketers can: Adjust on the fly to improve performance.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

There are lots of interesting opinions, from practical to visionary, with consensus on some topics, and differences on others. Integration of Social Media, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation. Sales & marketing alignment. Adam Needles , Director, Field Marketing and B2B Marketing Evangelist, Silverpop.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If you are asking if we need to align with sales, go find a new profession. If you think marketing is much more important than sales, update your resume. If you think marketing is much more important than sales, update your resume. And…Marketing needed lots of help. In BtoB Magazine , Karen J.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle.

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Envy

JULY 3, 2021

The process is messy, forces you to have uncomfortable conversations with yourself, your team and ultimately, your customers. The need to integrate all B2B marketing activities throughout multiple MarTech platforms and qualification funnels creates additional complexity. There’s a shortage of B2B marketing talent out there.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 9, 2013

January is a great time to take a step back from day-to-day tactics and ask the Big Questions; or in cliché form, to look at the forest rather than the trees. How has the way buyers in your market make procurement decisions changed? 7 Burning Questions for B2B Marketers in 2012 by iMediaConnection.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Lead generation isn’t just about generating leads; it’s about generating quality leads – an essential activity for B2B marketing and sales teams. It’s the process of identifying the ideal customers for your product or service, then attracting them to make a purchase. Sales Qualified Lead (SQL).

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Integration Empowers B2B Marketers to Measure the Impact of Their Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Strategy Inside the CRM SAN MATEO, Calif. , Jan. Full Circle ABM is the first martech solution that gives B2B marketers the power to measure funnels in an account-based marketing context inside the CRM.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here are three ways to prepare to manage disruption. To keep the focus on the right customers during a disruption, you can conduct a sprint project (more on that concept below), i.e., assign a small, cross-functional group to assess marketplace changes, revise your ICP and identify ways to maximize sales using the revised ICP.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But that makes it critically important to get management buy-in before committing to an agile approach and also to make sure project objectives align tightly with overall company goals. But regardless of whether you are on a B2B or B2C team, either type of agile marketing team can benefit from a separate measurement sprint.

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Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Keeping up with the latest B2B Sales and Marketing terms is no simple task. With a seemingly endless stream of new trends, tactics, and acronyms, keeping your finger on the pulse of marketing key terms is vital to stay current (and relevant) as a B2B marketer. A uthority – Do we know who will ‘write the check’? 

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Full Circle Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What are the qualities of great B2B lead management? Some B2B marketers took a major budget hit, while many marketing departments redirected dollars to digital programs. B2B teams can use this opportunity for a reset so they can achieve great lead management. Marketing teams have varying levels of risk tolerance.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

B2B marketers who have adopted the CRM as a part of the marketing solution stack and are able to report data using the company’s de facto revenue reporting system can create reports using data that resonate all the way to the board and C-suite. . Marketing and IT teams’ share the role in ensuring great customer experiences.

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