The Point

AUGUST 4, 2009

Do a quick Web search on “lead nurturing” these days, and you’ll find plenty of high-level, strategic content on the “whys” – how nurturing can improve demand generation ROI, increase conversion rates, accelerate sales cycles, recycle long-discarded prospects, etc.

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The Point

JUNE 26, 2009

Tags: B2B Marketing Demand Generation Landing Pages Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation direct marketing lead generation b2b demand generation demandbase marketo. Conversion rates for organic traffic to a corporate Website may be as high as 10 percent or more.

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The Point

MAY 18, 2010

I was reminded today of just how successful the marketing automation vendors have been (to their credit, it must be said) in defining their solutions as the answer to today’s marketing problems. And here’s my response: “There are plenty of good software options there for lead nurturing. It won’t. (No

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2010

Fast-forward to today’s highly mobile workforce, where people change jobs like the proverbial underwear, throw in a volatile economy, and more than one-third of the email addresses in your marketing database could change each and every year*. The result: more hard bounces and unsubscribes. Has anyone seen more recent statistics?

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

B2B Marketing has become multi-faceted in this digital era. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " How can companies maintain branding and messaging consistency across various marketing vehicles that they use? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In a recent webinar which Marketo conducted with MarketingProfs, we looked at the tips and tricks you will need to develop a powerful content marketing strategy. The webinar audience had a chance to send in their questions and the speakers made reference to additional resources – their top resources related to content marketing.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. And that’s where Inbound Marketing comes in.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In Marketo’s latest B2B Marketing Cheat Sheet about Content Marketing, we cover the basics of content marketing. In a previous blog post we reviewed the three Rs of content marketing – reorganize, rewrite and retire. First off, how do you define content marketing? What is it?

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " What do you recommend to marketers that create and market content? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Greg Link’s keynote at the OTA 2010 summit had one statistic that stands out and answers the question: Why does trust matter to B2B marketers? Trust matters to marketers because people buy from businesses they trust. Indeed, lead nurturing programs take trust building as a fundamental pillar. It’s that simple.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2010

While every marketing position likely requires a mix of writing, lead generation , public speaking, decision-making, networking, critical-thinking and researching skills, there are a few key skills that every marketer needs to have mastered. These include: Analytics skills – Take responsibility for your marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 13, 2010

Of particular note, this purchase price is a 120% premium to Unica’s recent market cap, which is a very high number and indicative of the value that marketing automation companies are able to create. Marketing automation and enterprise marketing software have long been undervalued in the marketplace.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Today, Marketo launched a fun interactive game called You Don’t Know Jack about Online Marketing. Within minutes of the launch, we had hundreds of marketers testing their skills to see how their knowledge stacked up compared to their friends and marketing peers. Leads just weren’t the goal of this program.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2010

With only two marketers, we were struggling to keep up with our growing database across multiple systems. We found that using our CRM to handle our lead management and reporting ended up creating more problems, such as duplication. How do I measure ROI benefits from marketing automation? Flash forward to today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Back in January 2009, Marketo came out with a webinar entitled, The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation: How Marketo Nurtures, Scores and Accelerates Leads through the Revenue Cycle. Originally created to illustrate how Marketo achieved booming marketing results, this webinar soon became Marketo’s most popular resource.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Lead nurturing and lead scoring are key to B2B marketing success. Integrate social media into your marketing automation to make social marketing automation (I like this one because Marketo kicks butt with B2B social media marketing.). Mobile Marketing is important too.

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DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s easy to shrug off this scenario as “the way it’s always been,” but misalignment between sales and marketing teams can create detrimental results and cost B2B companies 10% or more of their revenue per year. So how do you shift from working in disconnected silos to working as a collaborative, revenue-generating sales and marketing team?

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Optinmonster

JUNE 21, 2021

OptinMonster University is a complete online course in digital marketing at a value of $1,997. When you sign up for OptinMonster, one of our conversion experts will design a campaign for you as you ease into your new lead generation strategy. Smart Tags : Personalize your campaigns with the user’s name or location.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: "In what ways have metrics evolved with the increase in digital B2B marketing? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

How should marketers leverage content? Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Marketing Sherpa and Q Interactive found that 56% of recipients considered email from a known sender that was “just not interesting to me&# to be spam. Marketers need to be a lead developer, not just a lead generator. To do this, use lead scoring. . Next Scott talked about Lead Nurturing. Distribute.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Prior to the Marketo user summit I had heard a few great examples of nurturing programs being created without a lot of content, but after I shared some of these stories at the event I was approached by many others with similar stories. How can they do this with limited content marketing assets? What can they do?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2009

Despite some signs of an improving economy , understanding techniques for marketing in a recession is still on the mind of almost every marketer I speak with. What this means is that B2B marketers need to change their marketing strategies during a recession.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 11, 2009

Here at Marketo, everyone is very excited about the upcoming SiriusDecisions 2009 Summit being held May 13-15 in Scottsdale, Arizona.      Last year attendees made big leaps in integrating their sales and marketing teams during the event.  through opportunity completion and beyond. 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system. Mine the Gold in Marketing Automation and CRM Systems. With this insight, marketers can develop more targeted messages, increasing the effectiveness of their lead generation efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

B2B Marketing Content falls under 2 broad category - 1. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee.

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The Point

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Access my free Slidecast on “ Getting Leads (and More!) In just 18 minutes, you’ll learn: • How to leverage your blog for lead nurturing and customer marketing …. • How to use links and tags to generate better search rankings and more leads …. • From Your Blog: 10 Tips for Higher Blog ROI.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2009

Finding out that most of what marketing calls “leads” are not really sales leads reinforces the sales team’s impression that marketing-generated prospects are not worth their time. As a result, the house database becomes a place where leads “go to die” and most (or all) of them never make it back to sales.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 14, 2024

Do you want to find out the best digital marketing tools in 2024? Given the pace with which the online industry is booming, having the best marketing tools at your disposal is now more important than ever. So, let’s dive in and explore these tools that promise to revolutionize your digital marketing strategy in 2024.

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DiscoverOrg

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. You guys take forever to follow-up on our leads – and you wonder why they don’t convert? Agreement on what a “qualified lead” is.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

So marketing was largely masked from this requirement, if it was done at all. ). Changes in the customer buying process, web and digital media, as well as marketing automation have changed the game for marketers. To train, market, sell or brief (provide information). Permit me to oversimplify: What’s the purpose?

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