Contently

MARCH 26, 2021

Want to feel depressed about marketing? According to eMarketer , display ad spending is expected to grow a whopping 24 percent this year to over $80 billion. First, that you don’t work in ad-tech (if you do, this post is probably going to p**s you off). Because humans almost universally dislike display ads.

Top of Funnel 196

Top of Funnel Display Paid Search Agency Ads 196

Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For example, B2B content marketing may require more touch points throughout the buying journey, in part because the sales process can take months (or even years), and multiple leaders are usually involved in the decision. And before they do, they need to trust your brand as a thought leader in the market.

Storytelling 190

Storytelling Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Conversion 190

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. If you can master this skill, you’ll continually improve your digital marketing efforts and drive more brand loyalty online. What is Predictive Marketing Analytics?

Lead Ranking 344

Lead Ranking Analytics Marketing AI Marketing Budget 344

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

Sales Management 240

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Webbiquity

AUGUST 26, 2021

The two most common objectives for digital marketing campaigns (and B2B marketing in general) are brand awareness and lead generation. Of course, as you create your digital marketing campaign, you’ll keep in mind that different prospects will be at different stages of the customer journey.

Landing Pages 267

Landing Pages Paid Content Tips Paid Search Agency 267

Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies.

Paid Search Agency 121

Paid Search Agency Marketing Attribution Top of Funnel Companies 121

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Account-based marketing has been around for several years now. Some of the statistics that have attracted marketers to ABM include: 87% of account-based marketers say that ABM initiatives outperform other marketing investments ( ITSMA ). And yet, many B2B marketers have still held back from adopting ABM.

Account Based Marketing 269

Account Based Marketing Budget Programs Planning Paid Search Agency 269

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 13, 2023

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. How do you know which tactics work and who’s just blowing smoke?

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Cost per Lead Paid Content Lead Ranking Cost Per Thousand 228

Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 14, 2021

In a fictional world where you have unlimited time, money and resources, of course you’d want to offer your complete and undivided attention to every prospective and current customer. I’ve covered the benefits of using AI in Digital Marketing before. Similarly, you have a wealth of ad targeting options on Facebook.

Marketing AI 247

Marketing AI Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Process 247

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Marketing Budget Paid Content Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation 282

Zoominfo

APRIL 12, 2021

How do you scale your marketing strategy to enterprise-level and keep leads flowing into your funnel? An SMB digital marketing strategy, meanwhile, will typically focus on a customer base that best fits the product or service rather than exponential growth. What Is an Enterprise Marketing Strategy?

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 130

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As social marketers, we spend a lot of time focused on content marketing conversion. It’s how leadership measures results, even as marketers we know that conversion is just the desired end result and not the whole journey. We need a complete content funnel optimized at each stage for conversion. — Fluent ??

Top of Funnel 140

Top of Funnel Acquisitions Advertising Funnels Digital Marketing Funnels 140

Terminus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That’s precisely why full-funnel targeted advertising and creative ad plays are so important. With a huge amount of admiration and respect for Vogue and their annual publication of all things fashion and culture, we set out to do the same for smart, creative, targeted digital advertising. 23 Questions About the September Issue.

Advertising Funnels 29

Advertising Funnels Top of Funnel Design Ads 29

Martech

MAY 13, 2024

Quantcast is a global digital advertising, audience insights and measurement platform. ’s Competition and Markets Authority. ’s Competition and Markets Authority. Google is a significant player, in some ways the backbone with their browser and their ad server being very commonly used.

Advertising Agencies 102

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Privacy 102

Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less. What is marketing mix modeling? or “How will a 10% change to upper-funnel media impact bookings?”

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Marketing Mix Marketing Attribution Lead Ranking Planning 106

FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is one of the top goals for B2B marketers. It can feel overwhelming to keep track of everything, and even the most seasoned marketers fall prey to the top mistakes in B2B lead generation CRO. Helping simplify the overwhelm is where Funnel Envy can help. It depends on your business, of course.

Lead Generation 123

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Generation Ideal Customer Profiles 123

ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Content marketing is ever-evolving. And for B2B marketers and large enterprises, the cost of lagging behind the content marketing trend curve is too massive to ignore. To help you keep up with the times, here is a compilation of the top 15 trends in content marketing that will shape the industry in 2023.

Top of Funnel 115

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Trends Enterprise Management 115

Outbrain

AUGUST 1, 2022

To compete for market share, businesses must have an online advertising presence, and while organic exposure takes many months to build up, PCC ads can get visibility for your business, fast. That’s why 45% of small businesses use paid ads , And it’s why getting more familiar with PPC is a very smart career move, too.

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Paid Content PPC Course Best Practices 29

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2021

Over the last year, the pandemic forced many organizations to shift from in-person to all-virtual marketing events. Communication, flexibility, and personalization are three pillars of great virtual marketing events. What’s a Virtual Marketing Event? Virtual marketing events are constantly evolving.

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Planning Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels B2B Thought Leadership 278

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

Sales Management 177

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

Paid Content 79

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Planning 79

Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When done right, marketing can be about more than return on investment or brand metrics. When we talk about “marketing that moves,” global brands like Nike or Dove easily come to mind. For small and midsize businesses (SMBs), marketing campaigns may be smaller —c’mon, who has the budget to advertise in the Superbowl?!—

Marketing AI 136

Marketing AI Work Management Landing Pages Paid Search Agency 136

Martech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is continuing to expand and evolve. This means marketers can use it holistically in omnichannel campaigns, due in large part to more programmatic DOOH and data from those campaigns. The $13 billion global market represents 37% of all out-of-home. All these digital features have now come to out-of-home.”

Advertising Agencies 121

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Multi-Channel 121

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

Lead Generation 264

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Paid Content Lead Scoring 264

Scoop.it

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You have audiences distributed across every stage of this customer journey, represented by a marketing funnel. Below is a great visual representation of what the funnel looks like. The top of the funnel (ToFu) accommodates customers who are just interacting with your business for the first time.

Top of Funnel 84

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Funnels Content 84

Choozle

APRIL 27, 2022

Marketers are under increasing pressure to be accountable for their media investments. One of the biggest challenges is measuring programmatic top-of-funnel performance and connecting your outcomes to bottom-line results. Full-funnel marketing is built upon the idea that each stage of the funnel is connected to the others.

Marketing AI 61

Marketing AI Relevance Top of Funnel Advertising Agencies 61

Goodish Agency

AUGUST 5, 2021

Growth Marketing is without a doubt a buzzword in 2021. But what is growth marketing, what does it entail, and why is it making a big difference for many SaaS, eCommerce, and FinTech companies? What is Growth Marketing? landing page, Facebook ad, or email campaign) affect your conversion rates? Goodish Agency.

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Growth Marketing Paid Search Agency Multi-Channel Work Management 116

Choozle

MARCH 5, 2021

In this choozlechat podcast episode, we chatted with our Director of Partnerships & Strategic Solutions, Hunter Phillips, about digital out-of-home, or DOOH advertising. How DOOH advertising fits into your marketing strategy. Do you want to explain what digital out-of-home is? We cover: What DOOH advertising is.

Advertising Agencies 98

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Funnel Advertising 98

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 5, 2022

You’ve probably heard of an email marketing funnel, but are you wondering how to build one and what all the fuss is about? Email marketing funnels are a super effective way to turn casual website visitors into loyal customers. It’s not magic, but with our ultimate guide, email funnels can be simple.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Email Marketing Conversion 75

Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

This year, a topic that’s being added as a priority for many sales teams is (surprise, surprise) virtual selling and how to use video and other techniques to enhance the remote sales process. As if that weren’t enough, this course can be fully customized for your industry, customer base and company culture.

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Training Top of Funnel Resources Work Management 141

Biznology

JULY 11, 2019

Effective sales funnels are the most engaging—and effective—ways to increase your business. This high number indicates that too many leads are pushed through the sales funnel before they’re ready to convert and make a purchase. Allowing sales and marketing to work together effectively. Your Sales Funnel is Too Complicated.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Funnels 130

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How can you increase digital engagement? Third-party cookies, once a cornerstone of data collection for marketers, are slowly being phased out to improve consumer privacy protection. Get your customers back What is digital engagement and why is it important? This demand for personalization will only continue to grow.

Account Based Marketing 122

Account Based Marketing Work Management Digital Marketing Funnels Top of Funnel 122

Lead Forensics

APRIL 3, 2024

But that’s a mistake, as a tailored marketing approach is likely to achieve a far higher conversion rate. In many cases, you are able to take the same piece of content and slightly adjust it, to market it at a specific audience. The concept behind account-based marketing (ABM) is the same.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 8, 2019

In an industry where creating better brand-to-customer relationships is everything, demand generation is an umbrella term for a range of marketing activities that drive long-term engagement —including lead generation, demand capture, and pipeline acceleration. Field marketing events are also a very common tactic for pipeline acceleration.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 134

Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 167

ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

In business strategy, where the tides of change ebb and flow, a perennial debate echoes through boardrooms and marketing departments: content marketing vs traditional sales tactics. As businesses acclimate to the digital age, the quest for the most effective approach to captivate audiences and drive growth intensifies.

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Top of Funnel Analysis Tactics Content Marketing 64

Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Of course, because you’re a SMART marketer. Smart marketers know that one of the best ways to grow your list is by offering your website visitors a lead magnet. Here’s how they work… You create a lead magnet, usually a piece of digital, downloadable content, such as a free PDF checklist, report, eBook, whitepaper, video, etc.

Small Business Marketing 96

Small Business Marketing Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 96