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How to Create an Organic LinkedIn B2B Marketing Strategy

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Here are several tips for building an organic LinkedIn B2B marketing strategy. Are you doing all you can to better leverage LinkedIn to be a powerful B2B marketing tool for your company?

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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

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Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. Lead scoring examples For example, at Act-On, we sell marketing automation software to SMBs and enterprise organizations.

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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

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Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. When sales knows what marketing is doing, and vice versa, efforts organically become more aligned. Moreover, 36% say that personas contributed to shorter sales cycles. And who doesn’t want shorter sales cycles, right?

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Sales and Marketing Alignment: Why it Matters

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Every organization will have their own approach based on their size, growth stage, and goals, but these basic functions are common across most B2B companies. How silos form and tensions build between marketing and sales We all know what the finger-pointing sounds like when an organization doesn’t meet its revenue goals.

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B2B Marketing Department Structure: Finding the Right Approach

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The most common approach to B2B marketing department structure and roles Today’s B2B marketing departments are usually structured into three major buckets: Growth Marketing Product Marketing Brand Marketing Some organizations have a fourth bucket: Content Marketing. This is just a big-picture overview.

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Today’s CMO is tomorrow’s CEO candidate

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Today’s CMO typically has more responsibility and influence than ever and is likely to have stronger ties across the organization beyond marketing to sales, product marketing, corporate strategy and IT. More and more companies are turning to chief marketing officers (CMOs) as CEO candidates.

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The People Factor in Marketing Automation ROI

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Creating these strategies and process improvements take time, energy, and resources. Marketing Automation Returns: The Outcomes No matter the business type or vertical, when marketing automation is done well, it reaches a large percentage of leads and customers who come into contact with the business.