Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? Marketing Strategies That Will Help You Gain More MQLs So, how do you get your MQLs to pick up the pace again and move down the funnel?

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

There are some rivalries that are just legendary: The Hatfields and The McCoys, Biggie and Tupac, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates… and in the marketing world, the rivalry is between MQL deniers and apologists. Are leads alive, are they dead or do they just need some life support?

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. Marketing metrics can be messy. Measuring the marketing contribution has never been easy. With so many tools and tech at your disposal, marketers are finding it even more difficult to measure and what ‘not’ to measure. Some basic benefits to an ABM model.

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Engagio

JANUARY 12, 2021

In the past five to ten years, B2B CMOs around the world have made great strides in improving marketing analytics. But with the rise of Account-Based Marketing, B2B marketers need new metrics—ABM metrics—to guide how they measure and prove their results. ABM requires account-based metrics.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 2, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing campaigns come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and it can be difficult to decide which style is best suited to your marketing goals. In this blog post, we’ll be exploring the three most popular B2B marketing campaigns: account-based marketing (ABM), B2B lead gen and demand generation (Demand Gen).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Glad you asked!).

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Many of our clients have been very interested in Account-Based Marketing, and understanding the implications of adjusting their strategies to focus more on targeted accounts rather a demand strategy focused on volume. Say that it takes 100 leads to generate 10 MQLs. The math is simple.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Maximized ROI: MQL-focused strategies translate into cost-effective endeavors.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Glad you asked!).

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The Point

JANUARY 19, 2021

2020 was a year of change for marketers worldwide, much of it not for the best of reasons. Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months and years to come?

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6sense

OCTOBER 1, 2021

No wonder companies in traditional sectors like security and manufacturing have clung to their traditional ways of marketing and selling as long as possible. Unfortunately, the pandemic has changed all that, putting marketers and sellers far outside their comfort zones. The Design of Account-Based Marketing.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 2, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, lead generation is crucial for driving growth and revenue. There are two main approaches to generating Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) : Inbound and Outbound lead generation. However, it can also be intrusive and sometimes lead to low response rates.

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Vidyard

MAY 11, 2016

And I’m an Account-Based Marketer. It all started about 4 years ago when my marketing team discovered a new street drug known as MQL. We created dozens of new programs for generating tens of thousands of MQLs, or ‘Marketing Qualified Leads’ as some like to call them. Hi Tyler! ].

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). However, this is rapidly adapting.

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Televerde

AUGUST 16, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage nowadays. You wonder, is ABM worth the hype? After some research, you see lots of companies are finding massive success by executing ABM strategies. Now it’s time to plan outreach, which is where many marketers enter uncharted waters.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. While it can be used to help you qualify leads, it’s also an excellent strategy to segment audiences.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Account-Based Sales Development. Account-Based Customer Success. Q: There’s a lot of AB acronyms these days can you give a quick run down of the differences between ABE, ABM, and ABSD? While leads and opportunities are important to note, it’s not enough for ABE.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

By now, just about everyone involved in B2B marketing is aware of the hype surrounding account-based marketing (ABM). Many thought leaders argue that ABM is the "next big thing" in B2B marketing, and recent research confirms that the enthusiasm for account-based marketing is strong and growing.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

You’ve worked hard to turn the engagement from your recent marketing campaign into leads. Once your suspects have become prospects who’ve finally reached the scoring threshold, you toss the leads over the proverbial wall for sales to work. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? This makes ABM a powerful tactic to keep in your back pocket. It can be a powerful ally in any ABM strategy.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the mid-2000s, marketers began using the original demand waterfall framework to gain insight on marketing’s performance in terms of leads at the top of the funnel, marketing-qualified leads (MQLs), sales-accepted leads (SALs) and closed/won business.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2017

So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. Companies don’t typically call what salespeople do “lead generation” or “demand generation.” Let me explain.

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The rise of Account Based Marketing has sparked a great debate: should we do ABM or demand generation? The same goes for ABM and demand gen. The question that always follows is “so, how do you do demand gen and ABM at the same time?” Brandon: How do you do demand gen and ABM at the same time?

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? This makes ABM a powerful tactic to keep in your back pocket. It can be a powerful ally in any ABM strategy.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 8, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? Stuck wondering how you can improve the quality of the leads your campaigns are bringing in? What is account-based marketing? This makes ABM a powerful tactic to keep in your back pocket. So how does this fit in with our ABM strategy?

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Engagio

JUNE 21, 2017

The B2B lead handoff process is broken. Marketers invest a ton of time and resources to acquire leads using a variety of tactics, from data acquisition to SEO to trade shows to paid ads. Unfortunately, studies show that upwards of 80 percent of leads generated by marketing are neglected or never acted upon by a sales rep.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. What is meant by “you can’t eat leads for dinner”? Very excited to have with us today Jodi Cerretani she’s the VP of Marketing at RollWorks.

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DiscoverOrg

APRIL 14, 2017

Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. Acquiring enough qualified net new names at the top of the funnel to hit pipeline and bookings targets is a real issue for most marketing departments, and a recurring headache for CMOs and CGOs.

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Terminus

JULY 27, 2021

We live in a world obsessed with leads. Does sales really care about the magnitude of leads marketing generates? Let’s break this down to see if leads have the impact that we’ve been brainwashed to believe. What Even Is a Lead? Basically, a lead is anyone who shows an interest in your offering.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. “When you create a lookalike audience off of your remarketed audience, you go down a rabbit hole of bad leads. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. .

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Glad you asked!)

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 12, 2023

The year has just started, and like every year so far in the 2020s, it’s on track to be a challenging and unique experience in marketing. Making sense of this data is essential for marketing teams. Sometimes it was out-of-date or missing a necessary field for marketers: an email address. Welcome to 2023!

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Cost Per Acquisition is the amount you spend to acquire a new lead or make a sale. Churn rate.

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Using LinkedIn's lead generation tools smartly can set your company apart in a crowded cyber security ecosystem. If you are interested in how much you need to invest in your PPC budget and what kind of return you can expect, you should check out our shiny new Cyber Security Marketing Campaign Benchmarks Report.

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