Computer Market Research

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But the quicker you get your customers through the sales funnel, the better for your business. A shorter channel sales cycle frees up time for your sales team and your channel partners to generate more leads. More leads equate to increased market share and an increase in profitability. Think about it.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 29, 2021

What is bottom-of-funnel (BoFu) marketing? Bottom-of-funnel marketing is a strategy that aligns with the latest “decision” stage of the buyer’s journey. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The same could be said for alignment across the revenue team: marketing, sales, and often customer success. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy that B2B organizations use to target high-value accounts that accelerate pipeline and revenue growth. The problem with sales and marketing team misalignment .

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Conversica

JANUARY 24, 2019

A guest blog by Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight. Or late at night?

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Lattice

JULY 19, 2016

And since Q4 is historically the biggest quarter for most sales teams, now is the time for companies to identify any issues with their revenue funnel, and determine ways to fix those problems so Q4 is a runaway success, not a flop. But what happens if there are multiple issues with a company’s revenue funnel?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Content marketing takes time and effort. When marketers don’t see results, determining the return on investment isn’t easy. Simply posting a blog per day won’t amount to anything if you’re not taking your customers’ sales cycles into account and adjusting your marketing strategy accordingly. Mid-market.

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Rev

MARCH 23, 2018

When it comes to traditional sales, it seems the standard method is to push as many prospects through the funnel as quickly as possible until they make a purchase, fill out a form, subscribe to a newsletter, or whatever “call to action” goal may be. That outcome alone is reason enough to say the traditional sales cycle is broken.

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SnapApp

JULY 18, 2018

In addition, a longer sales cycle requires more time and resources. To address this, B2B marketers have turned their attention toward content marketing—increasing demand generation, engagement, and overall leads through quality content that provides value to the prospective buyers. Quality Content Isn’t Enough.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 5, 2024

B2B SaaS content marketing can be notoriously complex. No matter how niche your SaaS solutions are, however, content marketing can and will work for your brand. Major challenges of SaaS marketing The SaaS industry is a hot place to be , but strategies are under a magnifying glass. Let’s talk about how.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Rethinking Your Marketing Automation Migration Strategy Proven strategies to reduce risk, accelerate “time-to-live,” and optimize performance. And it takes an average of 20 touches with a brand before a prospect becomes a potentially successful lead for the sales team.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Faced with marketing budgets cuts, CMOs planned to spend less on live events (obviously) and online advertising, and relatively more on content marketing and online self-service. No surprise there.

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SmarkLabs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Plenty of things you do as a marketer each day fall under the “demand generation” umbrella. Think of it as any activity that brings attention to your B2B company to bring people into your sales funnel. It’s about keeping in mind where people are in their buying journey when tailoring your marketing materials to them. .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The rate at which marketers have moved towards an account-based marketing (ABM) model is quite surprising. I remember when ABM was the ultimate buzz word at the Marketing Nation Summit a couple years ago. With any marketing strategy, the number one question you are going to be asked is what the performance of your campaign is.

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6sense

OCTOBER 18, 2021

RepTrak had traditionally relied on old-fashioned tactics, a subpar tech stack, and unreliable data for its marketing efforts. The marketing qualified lead (MQL) reigned supreme — and an MQL was anyone who showed any kind of engagement. CEOs and board members told me, ‘We think marketing is dark magic. The Solution.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. Content marketing is dead. * Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead. . The MQL is dead.

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Only B2B

JUNE 5, 2024

Two distinct yet powerful approaches, when combined effectively- can create a winning marketing strategy. What’s Account Based Marketing? Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a highly focused approach where marketing and sales teams collaborate to target high-value accounts rather than a broad market.

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Tiecas

JUNE 17, 2024

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic alternative to the Approved Vendor List (AVL) that manufacturers have traditionally used. On the other hand, Account Based Marketing (ABM), offers a better solution to targeting high-value customers. Table of Contents What is Account Based Marketing (ABM)? Why look for an alternative?

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the digital transformation of marketing and the shift to digital channels for communications since COVID, webinars have become a cornerstone for many B2B marketers. This new study highlighted the challenges marketers face with webinars as well as their potential.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Marketing automation is all about results, isn’t it? Sure, you need content that resonates with the target audience and strategically guides them along their journey , but it’s impossible to know if you’re on the right track without understanding marketing automation roi statistics and potential results. But here’s the thing.

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Contently

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the complex marketing strategies most of us design today, models like “multi-touch” and “omni-touch” are crucial to genuinely mapping ROI to every piece of content in the buyer’s journey. So why use single-touch attribution in a 21st-century marketing context? Why Use Single-Touch Attribution?

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? Implementing hit-or-miss content marketing tactics is not likely to produce the results you want. Table of Contents What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 16, 2024

When it comes to marketing insights, your CEO is primarily interested in one thing: attribution. In other words: which marketing efforts are driving the most revenue, and what is the return on investment of the marketing spend? So, which CRM marketing insights does your CEO want to see? 2: Funnel Velocity What is it?

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The Point

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Budgeting season is here again, and demand marketers are not immune. Based on the work we do with our agency’s B2B clients , here’s a basic, funnel-based approach to determining a realistic demand gen budget based on specific revenue targets: 1. Define the percentage of that revenue (or pipeline) for which marketing is responsible.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Overflowing the sales funnel with leads doesn’t necessarily guarantee more paying customers in the end. Abundant lead conversion can happen when sales reps practice meaningful engagement with them throughout the sales funnel. Leads transform into customers by stepping through a carefully curated sales funnel.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Optinmonster

JULY 22, 2019

Are you looking for ways to shorten your sales cycle and make people buy sooner? The less time a lead spends in your sales funnel, the more return on investment (ROI) for you! In this article, you’ll find 15 effective ways to shorten your sales cycle and start making money from your marketing efforts sooner.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Let’s get into the importance of landing page content marketing, and how to build them for your digital marketing strategy.

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Full Circle Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our first official fall webinar focused on uniting marketing and sales to drive revenue growth. I mean, how many times have we all talked about marketing and sales “interlock”? This webinar addresses some of the underlying issues that sales and marketing teams encounter when working together.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a lot of benefits to most B2B organizations. All of these things can clearly lead to a more profitable company and a better customer experience, which is why many companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budget towards this strategy. ABM gives the sales team fewer leads to work with.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes As a leading strategy for B2B SaaS marketing, account-based marketing (ABM) has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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