KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

Boosting their demand generation efforts, in other words, gave B2B marketers a way to counteract the weak performance that so many other marketing tactics suffered from in 2020. While the two tactics share a lot of similarities, they are not the same thing. The data bears this out. In other words, use personas. Use more storytelling.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in 2021 to US$410.2 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study. The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 16.0% from 2022 to 2026. million, more than $5.9

Top of Funnel 98

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 18, 2021

NOTE: Powerhouse Pass Attendees will have access to the INBOUND 2021 virtual event platform for 1 year from today to rewatch any session on-demand. Click here to watch the on-demand recording of the session; note that you must have an INBOUND 2021 Powerhouse Pass to view. The process of unifying your internal ops teams.

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For many leaders in sales and marketing, the year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in their careers thus far. The renewed surges in the spread of the pandemic will raise further obstacles and questions as B2B businesses look ahead to 2021. A pressing question to adapt to rapidly changing buyer behaviors.

Marketing & Strategy 245

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Seismic

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A seller in 2021 starts their day at a desk, most likely in their home office. In this new normal, buyer engagement consists of social selling, Zoom calls, and remote presentations. A buyer in 2021 starts their day at a desk, most likely in their home office. Buyers don’t want to be sold.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The tenure for a sales VP is much shorter, at around 19 months. Since the beginning of COVID, sales within tech companies has experienced massive attrition with an average tenure for all sales professionals at 21 months. Billion in 2021 , more than 2/3 greater than the record-setting 2021. Think Beyond the Funnel.

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 30, 2020

From driving top of funnel engagement as part of your SEO strategy, to reaching buyers and improving conversion, video content offers major B2B opportunities. Produce video marketing that turns on buyers Create a video that fits your brand and tells an engaging story. When producing video, get your buyers in focus.

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Mereo

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Beginnings of Sales Enablement Programs. Travel back to 1999, perhaps in a cubicle-lined office or around a rectangular conference table, John Aiello and Drew Larsen strategized a new approach to sales operations and management. Lack of buyer and solution information. Lack of buyer and solution information.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Often, CROs have risen up through a classically successful sales career, only to face an entirely new challenge: take over every revenue-generating function in the business to drive predictable growth. A chief revenue officer (CRO) is responsible for every process that generates revenue in an organization. It’s 9 a.m.,

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Madison Logic

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Madison Logic Named a Leader in 2021 Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Platforms. Madison Logic Recognized Based on Ability to Validate Revenue Impact and Accelerate All Stages of the Buyer’s Journey. NEW YORK, Dec. NEW YORK, Dec.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s become pretty impossible to escape those themes, particularly if you’re a small business owner or on a sales team. In today’s climate, companies that aren’t adapting to online sales are missing out on a massive opportunity to better meet customer needs and generate more revenue while still cutting costs. Looming recession.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In addition, according to some studies, LinkedIn users convert to leads at a rate nearly three times higher than Twitter or Facebook users. To understand where you should be and with what message, you must map out the buyer groups within companies in the industry you’re targeting.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The marketing team at Toast is gambling on the mere possibility that restaurant managers seeking a phone system might also be in the market for POS software. You need to study the search results closely if you want to master the art of understanding keyword intent. Reveal "hidden keywords" within the buyer journey.

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Televerde

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Millennials make up 59% of all B2B buyers with 30% functioning as the lead buyers at their companies. Personalization, interactive buyer journeys, and a focus on quality data are just a few of the routes B2B brands will take to adapt. B2B buyers are consumers for the 16 hours they spend outside work each day.

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Sana Commerce

JANUARY 5, 2023

Studies by independent research company, Sapio Research, have shown that 51% of manufacturers have already invested in e-commerce. According to research done by McKinsey , at the end of 2020 only 30% of B2B buyers wanted to order from their suppliers in person. The rise in D2C sales among manufacturers. Double entry of orders.

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Martech

AUGUST 24, 2023

As we’ve seen in retail media networks (RMNs) , sellers with loyal customers and engaging experiences can drive more sales for advertisers when the buyer journey is managed intelligently. Lyft averaged $87 per transaction in July 2023, up 3% YoY and 12% since July 2021. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

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LeanData

APRIL 30, 2021

In go-to-market (GTM) processes, it’s often easy to focus attention at the end of the buyer journey, where closed/won deals occur and recognition gets handed out more widely throughout the organization. According to The Bridge Report’s 2021 Sales Development report , the average tenure for an SDR in 2020 is 1.8

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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 8, 2021

These intriguing conversations and case studies not only drove eyeballs and downloads but stirred some interesting comments and dialogue along the way. Check out the latest data on the state in B2B marketing: 48% of marketers completely changed their content strategies in 2021 and 47% overhauled their data strategies. B2BMX Is Back!

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The Lead Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

They also prefer to avoid direct communication with sales, which has a considerable impact on B2B interactions. B2B buyers are seeking information autonomously and are comprehensively researching products before making a final decision. Buyers are unlikely to respond to cold outreach.

Work Management 62

Work Management Trends B2B Marketing Marketing Management 62

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

of consumers aged 25-34 made at least one purchase on social media in 2021. In the buyer journey , it’s one less click for customers to take and that’s one less chance for them to abandon the cart. In mid-July 2021, Snap purchased Vertebrae , a company that produces 3D images of products for brands. billion industry.

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eCommerce Trends Social Media Amazon 142

Contently

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Seems to me like there is a way to take into account both practical and emotional cues—like “customer visited website three times last week” and “customer was excited on a call with the sales rep”—to determine whether when someone becomes a qualified lead. The study details are fascinating if you have some extra time.)

Work Management 167

Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel Planning 167

Mereo

JANUARY 6, 2022

All signs indicate a need for leadership to prepare for more waves of employee turnover — as well as for a changing buyer journey. In September 2021 the U.S. That trend tapered by the end of 2021. Over Summer and Fall 2021, many leaders handed out bonuses for employee retention. Bureau of Labor reported that 4.4

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PathFactory

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Are you a content, demand, or sales person at a manufacturing company that is curious how content can help you strategically reach your prospects (and close deals faster)? Success stories / customer case studies (1 minute, 45 seconds). How has this changed since 2021? Keep reading. . Data Sheets (2 minutes, 51 seconds).

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PathFactory

JUNE 23, 2022

In its 2021 B2B Buying Study study, Forrester benchmarked that over 80% of B2B purchases involve three or more people in a typical buying group. This multiplayer aspect of the B2B purchasing process makes revenue intelligence a non-negotiable requirement for enabling effective buying and selling experiences.

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Sana Commerce

JANUARY 5, 2023

Studies by independent research company, Sapio Research, have shown that 51% of manufacturers have already invested in e-commerce. According to research done by McKinsey , at the end of 2020 only 30% of B2B buyers wanted to order from their suppliers in person. This makes for a slow and error-prone process.

Trends 52

Trends Digital Transformation Forrester Order 52

Outreach

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email marketing is a core element of the buyer journey, serving as one of the earliest touchpoints in the sales cycle (at Outreach, we refer to the optimized series of such touchpoints as Sequences). Source: Campaign Monitor Benchmark 2021 Global Email Benchmarks. Business and Finance 21.6% Ecommerce 15.7% Gaming 21.1%

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The Lead Agency

APRIL 14, 2024

B2B marketing can be complicated; buyer journeys are messy. Multiple stakeholders and longer decision-making processes bring unique challenges, and the how-to tips everywhere online are mostly irrelevant in B2B industries. Tactics tailored to Gen X are not going to get you far. We’ve got something different.

Work Management 62

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Business Brainz

JULY 11, 2021

The importance of insight at every stage of the funnel is undoubted. We, at Business Brainz like to define “insight” as nuggets of high-value information gathered from highly relevant sources, processed and interpreted by human intelligence. Using insight, sales and marketing teams can develop persona-based journey maps.

Account Based Marketing 52

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 12, 2021

Digital self-service or just “self-service” is a collection of marketing and customer service tactics that allow clients or customers to resolve issues or answer questions on their own through digital channels. Remote sales rep interactions. Digital self-service has been called the biggest trend in B2B marketing in 2021.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I discussed the major themes and learnings from a year ago in “ ITSMA Marketing Vision 2021: My Top 10 “Insanely Great” Ah Hah Moments for Marketing Leaders ”. Just as the marketing funnel/waterfall evolved from a single tactic/individual to an account and a buying center team – so has B2B marketing.

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Oktopost

JULY 12, 2021

The definition of B2B lead generation is the process of acquiring actionable data from site and company social page viewers, which is instrumental in generating a list of potential clients. This process is at the very top of your sales funnel and buyer journey, and without it, you’d have no new customers! (Or

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you're looking to level up your sales team’s performance, turn to artificial intelligence. Although only 37% of all sales organizations currently use AI in sales processes, more than half of high-performing sales organizations leverage AI. That doesn’t mean fully automating your sales jobs.

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Marketing AI RFP Work Management Marketing Management 82

Hubspot

JULY 5, 2022

You wouldn't try to cook a new meal without a recipe or drive to a new city without a map, and your business shouldn't try to convert leads without a sales process. A B2B sales process is a detailed outline of repeatable steps that guides your sales team. B2B Sales Strategy. B2B Sales Flowchart.

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B2B Sales Process B2B Marketing & Strategy 67

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. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth.

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Lead Ranking Sales Management Marketing Attribution Full Circle Insights 89

6sense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s so much more to share with you — including 6sense CEO Jason Zintak’s presentation in which he revealed how he started in this industry (“ I had one of the worst jobs in the world”) and how he became the #1 sales rep at a global software company at the age of 27 (and won a Porsche in the process). 21pp deal win rate.

Lead Ranking 62

Lead Ranking Sales Management Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 62

Unbounce

JUNE 3, 2021

Ever used a funnel while baking? A funnel directs things where you want them to go, and not somewhere else (like all over the counter, or the floor, or your sweater). Funnels guide flow. A conversion funnel is the same idea but applied to your marketing strategy. What Is a Conversion Funnel? Let’s dive in.

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LeanData

APRIL 13, 2022

However, once they’ve acquired those hard-fought leads, how effectively are they orchestrating the buyer journey? That question was the premise of LeanData’s 2017 State of Lead Management study, which captured how businesses were conducting lead management, their successes, and their ongoing challenges.

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