The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The complexity of business-to-business sales and marketing can make it hard to find a marketing agency or Chief Marketing Officer with the right experience to help you hit your revenue targets. Here is our guide for how to select a fractional CMO agency if you run a B2B company.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nearly three-quarters of people will look elsewhere for whatever item or service they need when this expectation isn’t met. In this post, we’ll cover: What is content marketing? Why marketers should care about content marketing. How effective is content marketing?

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Of course, this one-hour rule only really applies if your lead handoff process prioritizes highly-qualified leads that are, in fact, ready and able to buy. Low-quality leads make their way to sales, and some of the most qualified leads fall through the cracks. What is lead handoff between marketing and sales?

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Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

If you had a chance to read the recent Korn Ferry article The CMO is Forever Changed , perhaps the statement “linking marketing activities and business results hasn’t always been the strong suit of CMOs” rang familiar. According to ChiefMartech the average enterprise now uses 120 marketing technology (Martech) tools.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You’ve explored the crucial link between your martech stack and strategic goals in “ The CMO’s guide to aligning martech and business strategy ,” understanding why syncing these elements boosts efficiency, customer value and growth. Look into omnichannel customer experiences and inventory management integrations.

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2022

This description is useful for understanding what some marketing operations teams do and what they aspire to do, but the responsibilities and tasks undertaken by marketing operations organizations vary widely. How does marketing operations fit in your organization? What do marketing operations professionals do?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Author: Anastasia Pavlova Whether you’re a small to medium-sized business or a larger enterprise organization, marketing automation is your company’s best bet for staying competitive in this digital age. 53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.–

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“Everything we do tries to be a reflection of the world and the customer,” said HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar. Two kinds of disconnection — personal and technological — two solutions — building community and building a natively connected marketing, sales and service platform. The platform effect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable.

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ABM in Action

JUNE 29, 2023

Traditionally, leads and accounts were treated as incompatible — but Jon Russo, CMO of sales and marketing performance firm B2B Fusion , explained that many practitioners have a lead motion and an account motion, and they exist as two separate entities. Why is it important practitioners unite their funnels?

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. With a complex sale, many personal touch points in customer relationship management are present – such as directly answering a question posted on social media or an online forum. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2020

When I recently interviewed Kathleen Schaub about the changes in marketing over her long tenure as both a CMO and the lead of IDC’s CMO Advisory Practice, she commented on what had changed most for marketing professionals. The concept of one-to-one or one-to-few marketing is hardly new.

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The Point

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Here’s what they had to say: “I fully expect to see continued buzz around AI, but I think the real heavy lifting next year is going to be around tech stack management. Marketing departments are continuing to invest more in technology and the average number of technologies per marketing department is skyrocketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. What is Marketing Automation?

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Ready for the one thing no one tells you about marketing automation? Setting it up is not exactly automated! You’re the lucky one who gets to put the brain-power behind amazing automated workflows that educate your audience, shorten your sales cycle, and ensure none of the opportunities you’re driving falls through the cracks.

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Modern B2B

MAY 4, 2023

This distinguished gathering celebrated the launch of Modern’s Digital Connections 2023 report , delving into the concerns keeping B2B CMOs awake at night. These marketing leaders boast CMO roles at nine global businesses, from FinTech to consultancy and SaaS firms. Asks Nick Webb, CMO at CloudPay.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Maximize online success with a comprehensive marketing strategy that boosts your online presence, increases visibility, and drives targeted traffic to your website. Enhance your B2B marketing plan with this marketing plan template. Goals For Marketing Plan Template The primary goal is to increase brand awareness and drive sales.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The average tenure for a CMO has fallen further, to just 40 months , the shortest in the C-Suite. 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.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that predictive marketing vendors seem to have anticipated this. I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring.

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SugarCRM

MAY 11, 2016

S MB Marketers with a MAP and supporting processes are nearly 3 times more likely to have strong communication with sales. The company also published an eBook, The SMB Marketing Automation Blue Book detailing these findings, available here. Simply Having Marketing Automation is Not Enough.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In demand marketing, that Eye of Providence is the marketing automation platform. Why haven’t marketing automation vendors created insight from the wealth of data they have access to? Moreover, some vendors just don’t show averages and go down to the industry or size of company.

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Modern B2B

MARCH 9, 2023

In theory, marketing technology platforms should be supporting our marketing processes, enabling us to work at a pace and required volume. They should be giving us reporting on which of our marketing activities is working and which isn’t. Why is fixing the marketing technology puzzle so hard?

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 17, 2019

B2B marketers are increasingly using marketing automation to provide value to their leads and to educate and onboard users. When carried out effectively, marketing automation can generate significant results. increase in sales productivity and a 12.2% reduction in marketing overhead.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 5, 2024

Data from "The CMO Survey" suggest that more change may be needed. Marketing has always played the starring role in driving revenue growth in the B2C world, but marketing was not viewed as a principal driver of revenue growth in most B2B companies until a few years ago. The question is: Has it changed enough?

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Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

“Not only is [utilization] low, but it’s declining year over year while people are buying more,” said Domenic Colosante, CEO of 2X, a B2B marketing-as-a-service agency. “It’s When I talk to CMOs, they all know it, they all feel it.” At 18 months CMOs have the briefest tenure of any C-suite office.

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SalesGrape

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Companies need a more targeted approach that focuses on individual accounts rather than broad market segments. This is where account-based marketing (ABM) comes into play. The Basics of Account Based Marketing Account-based marketing is a strategic approach that aligns sales and marketing efforts to target specific high-value accounts.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

With an average tenure of lasting 1-2 years in this position , it becomes even more crucial to navigate the complexities of the hiring process to find the right fit for your organization. Previous Experience – Former experience and general knowledge of all facets of marketing is essential.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In demand marketing, that Eye of Providence is the marketing automation platform. Why haven’t marketing automation vendors created insight from the wealth of data they have access to? Moreover, some vendors just don’t show averages and go down to the industry or size of company.

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Pearl Digital Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The world today is such that a lot of products and services can be had on demand. There are Uber and Lyft for transportation needs, ready-made apps and software companies can use and integrate into their system (such as SaaS), and Amazon to take care of online shopping needs and product delivery. What is a fractional CMO?

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6sense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At one point Friday morning, one of our CMO Coffee Talk regulars started a Beautiful Mind -esque soliloquy on what the “perfect” marketing automation platform would include – features, integrations, etc. Marketing automation is the orchestration of marketing, not just email.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Especially as the marketing landscape grows, founders with technical and sales backgrounds simply don’t have time to study marketing’s many niches. Outsourced marketing processes vary by company, of course. Search engine optimization may sound simple, but it’s one of the most complex areas of marketing.

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The difference between winning and losing is your ability to demonstrate your impact on sales using digital data. That’s not an easy feat as it requires to focus on the back-end and front-end, automation/workflows of customer journeys, and user-interface and creative design as a whole. VP of Marketing or CMO.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Source: 2019 CMO Survey, Deloitte. Nearly two-thirds of CMOs say demonstrating the impact of marketing actions on financial outcomes is their biggest communication challenge. * Typically, CMOs use ROI and pipeline metrics to quantify marketing performance for the CEO and CFO. Make mobile marketing a priority.

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LeadSquared

MAY 26, 2015

It’s a common misconception that marketing automation can only be used by enterprise companies. Like so many other types of business technology, an expanding market of users and an increase in the number of software vendors has driven the price of this software down and resulted in a more accessible standard for user experience.

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Sharpspring

JUNE 18, 2020

I set out to write about how excited I am to join SharpSpring as their CMO. Also, I intended to discuss how their incredibly powerful marketing automation platform is ideal for agencies and small businesses that need to manage leads and drive growth. I will get to that in just a bit. Two words: recurring revenue.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 2, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Welcome everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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