Sales Engine

APRIL 13, 2016

Just because B2B companies are investing heavily in content marketing doesn’t mean that they’re successful at generating the leads they need for business growth. In fact, the Content Marketing Institute’s 2016 Benchmarks Report estimates that only 30% of the companies surveyed consider their content marketing efforts to be effective.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. Overall, B2B marketing budgets are expected to increase, on average, by about 5% in the coming year.

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The Point

MAY 30, 2014

Melnick posits his question largely on the basis of IDC research that shows the rate of growth in digital marketing spend amongst technology companies significantly outpacing the equivalent growth of digital marketing as a percentage of agency revenue. Personal experience aside, I fear he may have a point.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

And even though this correlation has been debunked in it’s significance, one can’t argue with the connectivity Google+ has in it’s association with related search experiences like Authorship , AdWords Social Extensions , and broader search results personalization. per month, almost double that of Facebook (9.3%).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

This week I had the pleasure of reading a new report from Smart Insights on the State of Digital Marketing 2015 and decided to dig in a bit further with an interview. I think content personalization is the biggest opportunity into 2016 for B2B Marketers. The following is an excerpt from our discussion, I hope you enjoy it.

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Prospectr

APRIL 14, 2017

” — loudly proclaim all the B2B sales professionals around the world as soon as they fail to generate B2B leads and sales on LinkedIn… The. In this post you’re going to find an inside peek into our exact methodology for how we get a steady stream of leads and sales in our ideal customer market.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Email marketing consistently has one of the highest ROIs and when done properly, is a powerful lead nurturing tool. As we are on the cusp of 2016, here are 5 tips to take to help revamp your email strategy in the coming year. If you’re not, it might be time to invest in one. Start with the basics.

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Atomic Reach

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In 2016, Content Marketing Institute published their Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report stating, 85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is their most important content marketing goal. As shown, it is clear that lead generation is the ultimate driver for teams investing so heavily into content marketing.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The Serialist-.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The Serialist-.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you? The Serialist-.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Writers note – This as a primer for my session at Dreamforce 2016 next week. In our rush to obtain leads, drive opportunities and move the sales needle, it’s too easy to forget that we need to address the emotional needs (fears, hopes, wants, and aspirations) of our customers. To feel what they feel and think what they think.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Is your company one of them? This was one of the key highlights of the sixth annual B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released last week. Instagram use, on the other hand, increased by 5% this year, from 24 to 29%. Want To Learn More?

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Envy

JULY 31, 2017

The Challenges: Market Education and Lead Generation. When Aqua launched its security platform back in 2016, the competition was fierce from day one. On the other hand, the need to secure this new revolutionizing technology was still not obvious to many. Choosing 10 main keywords to focus on. The Winning Strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. We created separate nurtures tracks based on industry and buyer personas, and we have learned a lot of lessons along the way.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Companies in this vertical routinely spend 30-50% of their revenue on Sales and Marketing, making them capable of a quality and a quantity of marketing campaigns most other industries never see. Because Marketing will have to lean in to understand Sales better if they want to deliver the types of leads Sales wants.

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. Read on for five more areas of focus that were top of mind in the B2B realm in 2013.

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LeadSquared

APRIL 14, 2016

In our last webinar, we discussed all things content marketing with Scripbox. It was a Q&A session with Anjali Gupta , the Chief Marketing Officer of Scripbox, the 2nd most influential Financial Services brand on LinkedIn ! It depends on where your audience is. However, pay only on channels , where your audience is.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 16, 2017

No marketer wants to send 100 leads to her sales team to close a single deal; it would be incredibly more effective to send 10 qualified leads to close the same deal. The problem is, most leads in our marketing databases are cold. I witnessed the deal-making power of social media contact at Inbound 2016.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Value themes are derived directly from your value propositions, but a value theme may encompass more than one value proposition. In a marketing communications plan, these three value propositions might well be embodied in one "cost reduction" value theme. For example, Forrester Consulting recently wrote: ".

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 26, 2017

And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. Of course, that’s probably one month before video prospecting starts to lose its impact …). I’m curious how things are going with them & if you'd be open to a conversation re: HubSpot and using an all-in-one marketing automation platform?

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Content Standard

AUGUST 26, 2016

But in all that, it’s easy to forget one key element of a comprehensive storytelling strategy that’s too important to leave behind: email marketing. Even in 2016, where spur-of-the-moment, blink-and-it’s-gone content reigns ever supreme, you need email. ” Are you among them? ” 2. .”

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s all about tailoring content based on individual preferences, behaviors, and interests. Increased sales: Businesses can drive targeted website traffic, generate qualified leads, and boost sales through effective lead nurturing and conversion strategies.

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Envy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

However, as I wrote in a post for CIO in 2016 : “Marketing will always consider Sales to be lazy bonus-driven zealots who would sell their grandma to hit their sales target this quarter. Sales on the other hand, will always regard Marketing as money-burning idealists who like to make the company logo look pretty and deliver shabby leads.”.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 16, 2015

B2B content marketing today is really about generating leads for sales by replacing the one-to-one conversations that salespeople used to be able to get more predictably. #1 1 Magazines are all about the readers, not the advertisers. The answer is critical for anyone in B2B marketing today. Sometimes they get it wrong.

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Hubspot

MAY 14, 2018

There’s been a ton of research about lead nurturing and its ability to affect a funnel. We know that, on average, we see more qualified leads, shorter sales cycles, and larger purchase amounts made by nurtured leads when compared with non-nurtured leads. Nurturing Based on Content Topic.

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Hubspot

MARCH 16, 2017

Edison Research's 2016 Infinite Dial study showed a significant year-over-year increase in podcast listenership, with monthly listenership increasing from 17% to 21%. Research in the UK and Europe has also shown an uptick in the popularity of podcasts, with the Winter 2016 Rajar Midas Audio Survey reporting 4.7

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Hubspot

JULY 10, 2018

Lead generation for B2B is not about chasing a “secret method” that results in a ton of leads. Instead, building the best lead generation strategy for your business is more about understanding tried-and-tested channels, and finding the most effective combination of tactics for your unique goals.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

We are all looking for a competitive advantage, and if you’re fortunate enough to be selling a completely unique product from a well-known firm to a needy market, you probably don’t have to be very good at marketing to be successful. But what makes his story unique is that his team was not made up of all stars.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It's the home for all of your marketing content. Most importantly, though, it's where your leads convert, giving you the opportunity to win their business—and grow yours. However, one major different from your homepage is that you should not have a navigation or any other menus that can detract from the goal of the page.

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Hubspot

MARCH 9, 2017

Reporting on unique visitors and traffic per channel should already be part of your reporting routine; however, as a SaaS company, it’s important to dive a bit deeper. Most SaaS websites have a log-in link on the site, usually in the top navigation. 2) Leads by Lifecycle Stage. 2) Leads by Lifecycle Stage.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 24, 2017

As we enter 2017, I thought it would be helpful to establish a set of best practices that will have the most positive impact on your SEO strategies. As Lee Odden notes in this article , “There is a little bit of hating on SEO these days, but as long as there is Google, SEO will be a staple in the content marketing mix.

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. You need to reach the right prospects, fill your pipeline with quality leads , and eventually turn those folks into paying customers. Leads are the people behind your CRM data.

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LeadSquared

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Book a Demo About Recklabs Since 2016, Recklabs has been helping enterprises, unicorns, and businesses completely optimize their cloud costs. Prior to using LeadSquared, they used a combination of tools like HubSpot and spreadsheets to manage and keep track of lead activities, upcoming meetings, follow-ups, and lead nurturing, to name some.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

3 of the top 5 most important goals for B2B organizations are lead generation, sales and lead nurturing, according to the 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report compiled by CMI. Out of the leads that get generated, 79% of it won’t convert to sales! Defining A Qualified Lead. Lead Nurturing.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

With the business landscape becoming more and more competitive, how can your team stay ahead of the game and attract more qualified prospects in 2016? With an estimated 32% increase in conversion, opt-in offers should not be overlooked as a lead generation technique, as these strongly incentivize your web visitors into making a decision.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

With the business landscape becoming more and more competitive, how can your team stay ahead of the game and attract more qualified prospects in 2016? With an estimated 32% increase in conversion, opt-in offers should not be overlooked as a lead generation technique, as these strongly incentivize your web visitors into making a decision.

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Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Sales Qualified Leads Generation 62