Contently

APRIL 13, 2017

There are two slides that I love in particular because they explain the biggest misconception in content marketing: that content is just another direct-response marketing tactic. If you’re hoping that your content is going to directly lead to sales on a consistent basis, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.

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Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2014

The other day, I had the pleasure of discussing the challenges of marketing ROI with Jim Obermayer, CEO and executive director of the Sales Lead Management Association , on his Internet radio show. But in this lengthy, multi-party, multi-touch selling situation, the “investment” part can be pretty tough to get at.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

New Engagements – Volume and Quality: the only way to influence new deals is to have the right customers and accounts engage, actively qualify and nurture them before they are handed over to sales. These 4 KPIs provide insights into efficiency across the funnel and help with accelerating deals.

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Outgrow

MARCH 30, 2021

B2B demand generation works out only if there’s the right tracking involved. Demand generation is a process that aims to generate awareness and induce interest in your products and services. And, every stage of the marketing funnel involves some kind of demand generation strategy to make this goal successful. We’ll tell you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Some take more sales resources. Here’s what marketing leaders find most challenging about marketing with impact: Attribution. Being able to attribute revenue to marketing campaigns is very important for speaking to leadership or the CMO. While first or last touch attribution is easier to model, it can lead to a biased decision.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

New Engagements – Volume and Quality: the only way to influence new deals is to have the right customers and accounts engage, actively qualify and nurture them before they are handed over to sales. These 4 KPIs provide insights into efficiency across the funnel and help with accelerating deals.

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Hubspot

JULY 15, 2020

ABM is a Mindset, Not an Isolated Tactic. While ABM is often ranked among tactics like 'email marketing' or 'display advertising' or 'social media marketing', it's actually more of a mindset. In essence, account-based marketing is just a smarter way to do B2B marketing. Kickstarting ABM for Small Teams. The resounding answer?

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Lead Forensics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Lead generation marketing is a vital process; identifying potential clients who fit your target audience and have an interest in purchasing your product through marketing channels is a strategy organizations everywhere take action on daily. Managing warm leads Leads don’t always convert first time.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 1, 2015

To many of us, Cox Media conjures up images of a huge company, with tons of people, processes, and departments. Merrie Beth works in the B2B side of things, however, preferring to think of her department as a ’boutique ad agency’ within a big company. How content supports the sales process. In This Episode.

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B2BMarketing.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The result, far more than a cheat sheet, is a thoughtful, far-reaching, and highly insightful plan for how the CMO can achieve what is arguably their primary, yet so frequently elusive, goal: to be genuinely indispensable to the CEO and the management team as a whole. Synonyms include immaculate, precise, unblemished and accurate.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For this reason, we recently published comprehensive lists of helpful YouTube channels for recruiters and YouTube channels for sales professionals. Jon Loomer’s YouTube channel focuses only on advanced Facebook marketing tactics that help experienced marketers. 5. Jon Loomer. 6. MarketingExperiments.

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NetLine

JUNE 29, 2021

Because of this, B2B Marketers need to move towards hybrid marketing and engagement. To break down this trend and explore each way it’s affecting B2B marketing, NetLine joined experts from ON24 and PFL to analyze hybrid engagement and share their top tips for success. View What’s Trending in B2B Marketing?

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

B2B marketers think that if they are providing spectacular products or services, it’s more than enough as the services will speak for themselves. Having a strong brand resonance sets the pace up for improved sales revenue. Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM) plays a prominent role in shaping brand trust & reputation.

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InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2019

Today’s marketing success relies heavily on deep analytics—analytics that allow marketers to act smarter, faster, and with more thoughtfulness than ever before—to not only gain the attention of today’s savvy B2B buyer, but to engage, nurture, and enable that buyer through the end of their decision-making process. Let’s dive in.

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Metadata

APRIL 4, 2023

said every B2B marketer in 2023. The problem with B2B marketing right now According to The Economist, the economy is headed for a downturn, not a crisis , but don’t tell that to Silicon Valley Bank. With clear expectations, you can dive into your books, see what’s working, and double down on those tactics.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

As a CMO, I’m not necessarily hands-on with marketing automation, but I went to the Summit to optimize my plan for content marketing and sales and marketing alignment. There’s no perfect answer for sales and marketing alignment – it’s about disciplined communication [Tweet This]. Sales says “those leads are junk”.

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SWZD

JULY 9, 2019

When asked about the books that have influenced her thinking, she listed: “From a marketing perspective, Made to Stick ; from a business perspective, Pitch Anything has been really influential in teaching me how to sell my ideas; and then Quiet Leadership is another that has been very transformational for me.”. Ideal Customer Profiles.

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Outgrow

MAY 17, 2022

About our guest: Phil Gamache has been a Demand-Gen Manager, a Marketing Automation Manager, a Marketing Director, a Marketing Technology Instructor, a Marketing Ops Manager and a Director of Growth Marketing. And maybe mapping that with like a CRM, like tracking like demographic stuff deal sizes, if you’re more B2B.

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Terminus

JANUARY 3, 2018

Today, I’m fired up to tell the world about a major step forward for our customers and all B2B marketers! Terminus has acquired BrightFunnel , the pioneer in B2B marketing analytics and attribution. Shortened average sales cycle by 20 days. This combination ties together marketing execution with measurement.

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year. No need to worry, though.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

If you missed us live on Sales Pipeline Radio (Thursdays at 11:30 am PST) you missed a past-paced conversation full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing pros. We cover a broad range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

While marketing to the enterprise is such a large topic that it could fill a series of books, here are four simple steps to help you get started on your journey: 1. reaching out to sales or watching a demo). Who are your current customers and what attributes do they have? Profile target accounts and their geographic density.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The mere mention of attribution is enough to give even the most seasoned B2B marketers the heebie-jeebies—and rightfully so. While untangling the mystery of attribution and ROI may seem like the stuff of nightmares, we’re here to tell you it doesn’t have to keep you up anymore. But for better or worse, that won’t cut it anymore.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

This reveals how much time you have to get everything ready, which is important when you consider that some venues book events right after each other. Your sales team will be disappointed if they can’t connect with their customers at the event–so keep them happy! Post-Event Processes. First-Touch Pipeline .

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 6, 2023

GTM transformation — specifically, shifting from random acts of marketing and sales to building a perpetual growth engine — has significant implications for the KPIs we use to optimize our go-to-market programs and processes. When implementing this new approach, what is the impact on analytics and KPIs?

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BenchmarkONE

JANUARY 25, 2023

Prospecting is what brings you to the attention of your potential clients and keeps your sales pipeline full, leading to more business. Most sales reps consider prospecting to be the toughest part of the sales process. So, how do you get your sales prospecting process bang on?

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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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Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

If your inbound sales and marketing team needs more wine with its cheese, less Ben and more Jerry, come along as we explore how you can align your sales and marketing just like the greatest duos. If you’re in sales, are you writing content? The record books are full of all-star teams who choked when it mattered.

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Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2018

One thread that binds my career is top-of-funnel content. I’ve co-written two books on the importance of early-stage content and how to identify and capitalize on those opportunities. And I’ve written extensively about what success looks like for top-of-funnel content. Upper-funnel content is expensive.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most of us are solving sales and marketing problems. According to Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor, Gartner, “empathy” is the one word that matters most to sales [and marketing] success. This is part two of my interview with Brent Adamson ( @brentadamson ), co-author of The Challenger Sale and The Challenger Customer.

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MKT1

DECEMBER 12, 2023

RevenueHero RevenueHero is the easiest way for marketers to qualify and route leads to sales rep’s calendar, right in your demo request flow, in email sequences, and sales hand-offs. So, if you don’t have a book a meeting step in your conversion flow, try RevenueHero. early in the quarterly planning process.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yet, amid the myriad complexities you face as a marketer, one significant barrier stands out: the ability to distinguish and effectively track the sources of leads within Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. This distinction must be clear to your sales team so they understand how to proceed with each lead.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The sales or support representative should speak directly through whatever medium the contact prefers. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The high-tech/high-touch telephone provides them with convenience, speed and personal contact that inspires brand trust. The market is continually developing, and many vendors are investing heavily in AI and machine learning to expand the range of marketing and sales use cases for their solutions. Product overview.

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Engagio

MARCH 20, 2019

The problem of Marketing Attribution has been challenging marketers ever since there’s been marketing. Of course, we’re never going to have the same direct connection to business results that our colleagues on the sales team have. So, why is attribution so hard for marketers? Attribution is Hard.

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B2B Marketing Exchange

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As we navigate through the dynamic landscape of B2B Marketing, it’s essential to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding achievements. Each year, the B2B Marketing Exchange team ends the conference with the Killer Content Awards, focusing on the best content in B2B! Curious on what you missed last year?

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