Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Not every piece of content can be solely for lead generation. It is a top tactic.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This week’s show is entitled, “ Edelman and LinkedIn’s 2022 B2B Thought Leadership Impact Report “ and my guest is Ben Laws , EVP & Deputy U.S.

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Oktopost

JUNE 19, 2023

Ah, lead generation – that everlasting conversation. For the past few years, a common thread in that conversation has been marketing – how involved is marketing, and how involved should the marketing team be in lead generation? Its centrality is a long-term market shift – one that any B2B enterprise should be working to keep up with.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s the difference between demand generation and lead generation? Many B2B marketers recognize the value of both and incorporate them into the same campaigns. Definition: Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation The difference between demand generation and lead generation is simple.

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Marketing Craftmanship

JULY 1, 2013

Thought Leadership Programs Must be Accountable for Business Outcomes. Thought Leadership is one of the most widely used terms in B2B marketing. But there’s a range of opinion regarding what Thought Leadership is, and fuzzy expectations with respect to its tangible benefits.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

What is category leadership? Put simply, category leadership refers to the act of positioning yourself as the primary expert or a go-to-resource for community-led ideas and solutions to problems. You might be wondering: “ how this is different from thought leadership? How do you enhance category leadership?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Not every piece of content can be solely for lead generation. Quick Takeaways.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 14, 2011

Thought leadership is a common marketing topic, but unfortunately thought leadership is not a common outcome of marketing. Part of the problem is that thought leadership marketing has lost all notions of actual thought leadership. A company or individual cannot be a thought leader in a vacuum.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 16, 2020

Yes, it’s typically thought of as a sales tool (it’s in the name, after all). But Sales Nav is powerful for B2B marketing, too. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a premium account that lets you generate leads, keep track of their job changes, and contact them directly. Finding The Right Leads. Create a leads list.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders. So, if you’re looking for inspiration, Kyle is definitely someone to follow.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. If your sales strategy doesn’t include social media, leads who could have been brought to your business are likely going to your competitor. Which Channels Are Best for B2B Social Selling? Jump to a Section.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

Aligning sales and marketing leads to 38% higher sales win rates. 93% of companies who exceed lead and revenue goals use personas. Not only will this get more sales reps on board, but it will also lead to more accurate, comprehensive personas. Explain the value of your personas as part of the sales prospecting process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

Author: Ellen Gomes If you’ve been keeping up with digital marketing trends, then account-based marketing is most definitely on your radar. Buzzwords become dated terms as time passes, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg for ABM as more B2B marketers than ever are realizing its significant impact and value.

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Velocity Partners

MAY 8, 2024

This is the seventh in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. How is the face of B2B marketing changing? When younger companies try to mimic the authority and thought leadership of large incumbents, it can sound stuffy, condescending, and unearned — they end up talking at their audience instead of with them.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

It perfectly aligns with B2B buyers’ behavior patterns. . In short, it helps establish you as a thought leader in your space. Premium Content is any type of content that is highly valued by the target audience. The first is in content marketing or thought leadership marketing programs.

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BOP Design

APRIL 6, 2020

There has been much debate among B2B salespeople on what an inbound lead looks like: Is it someone completing a contact form? With inbound leads to your B2B website, there are conversions that are more sales-ready leads and there are some conversions that require nurturing. Downloading a case study?

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 13, 2023

Source: LinkedIn and Ipsos (This month's Research Round-Up discusses some of the significant findings from a recent global survey of B2B business and marketing leaders conducted by LinkedIn and Ipsos.) This spring, LinkedIn and Ipsos conducted a significant survey of B2B business and marketing leaders located around the world.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 6, 2023

Thought leadership is one of those inherently appealing ideas. Who doesn’t want to be a thought leader? And for many B2B and professional services firms this makes a lot of sense. Thought leadership can provide the credibility and visibility for your offering.

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Oktopost

JULY 6, 2023

Your mind is probably going to the B2C brands that have made a splash on the socials but, in B2B, the landscape is just as productive and just as fruitful. And yet, the target remains the same: high-quality leads. Your sales team is in charge of nurturing those leads, but that process is part of the same funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group. Sound familiar?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The second definition is what we’re going to talk about here—what your marketing department’s strategy should be for making the most of the time, energy and dollars you allocate to marketing. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. But ranking in the search results doesn’t happen overnight. Have a Formal Marketing Plan.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

As a bonus, leads generated using content versus paid are 6x more likely to convert than other marketing methods, including paid (more on this later). Despite a glut of bad content online — increasing daily due to the rise of generative AI — the fact of the matter is that people do value quality content. Here we go!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It's time for B2B marketing professionals to think beyond justifying their existence and start thinking about how they can create long-term return on marketing investment (marketing ROI) for their organizations. I thought it would be glamorous. How did you get into sales and marketing, and what do you like most about it?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

It leads to quantifiable business value. What makes content marketing different than other types of marketing is in the ROI and business value it delivers over time. Content marketing allows any business to increase their presence in organic search because it focuses on sharing thought leadership.

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Circle Studio

JANUARY 10, 2020

As firms look to optimize their marketing efforts in 2020, it’s imperative that business-to-business (B2B) marketers are laser focused on doing what is most likely to drive growth and make an impact. Here are five to consider: Myth 1: B2C marketing has little relevance in B2B. Myth 2: Content marketing = thought leadership.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders. So, if you’re looking for inspiration, Kyle is definitely someone to follow. Free Trial 1.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Before Revenue Operations ( RevOps ) became an emerging function in the B2B world, things could get… confusing. In this blog post, we’re going to give you an overview of 27 RevOps best practices that can help drive growth for B2B companies. Do you remember?

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SmartBug Media

MAY 13, 2022

According to a Demand Gen Report survey of companies leveraging intent data in marketing: 80 percent say intent helped account prioritization and scoring. 53 percent say intent improved ideal customer profile definition. Your B2B marketing software can give you an intent signal score indicating the strength of their interest.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We talk to some of the best leaders in B2B sales and marketing every day. Thought you guys did a great job continuing to build and foster community among the group as well.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 24, 2021

And they benefit from B2B content that shows them how to do those things. There’s a lot more to B2B content marketing than thought leadership, industry trends and infotainment. What about outcomes, strategic value for different stakeholders, and future vision? Aim Earlier with Your B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Atomic Reach

JULY 27, 2023

When your market looks to your brand for thought leadership, you gain the instant credibility boost of being a recognized expert in your industry. Do you have to rely on intuition and luck to turn your influencers into thought leaders? However, they don't necessarily have a large online following or lead opinion in their field.

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Top Rank Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Here’s what we’ve learned about B2B podcasting: B2B podcasting: What, why and how Let’s start with the easiest question first: What is a podcast? It’s important to keep the definition broad, because podcasts aren’t tied to a specific genre or format. The TopRank Marketing team has worked on podcasts with brands like SAP and 3M.

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BOP Design

JUNE 26, 2019

At its core, content marketing is to educate a specific audience and to add value to their daily life and work. What a lot of companies and marketers seem to forget is that B2B content marketing isn’t about them and their needs, it’s all about the audience. Attracting new leads to your B2B website. Thoughtful articles.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 27, 2019

Beyond that basic definition, more robust technographic data contains insight into purchase behavior, renewal dates, historical purchases and more. In the B2B world, technographic data points often serve as critical buying signals. Thus, The 2019 Technographic Data Report for B2B Sales Organizations was born.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. If you turn your attention to the metrics that matter, you can improve your marketing strategy and communicate the important insights to leadership. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes.

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