Crimson Marketing

JUNE 10, 2015

B2B doesn’t work that way.” So says Wayne Morris, the Corporate Vice President of Marketing for Microsoft Business Solutions. He details the challenges of long, multi-touch sales cycles and explains the importance of marketing analytics to sales cycle optimization.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2020

Business leaders and marketing and sales teams are struggling now, more than ever, to not only drive new demand, but to replace the loss of existing demand in the marketplace. And for many B2B companies, they are struggling to do so without live interactions, especially events. Website [4.03%]. Nurture [2.65%].

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Walker Sands

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Generating revenue from marketing efforts is one of our most important tasks as B2B marketers. With new technologies and a growing number of marketing channels to take advantage of, a strong integrated marketing strategy is key to building programs that effectively generate ROI.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Too often, B2B marketers get wrapped up in the world of click and lead volume optimization. But the reality is, the ultimate goal of all marketing should be efficiently generating revenue growth, which is measured by ROI. In short: effective marketing organizations have high ROI. Do they have different priorities?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return. But after it’s up and running, your boss asks, “So, what did that marketing program get us?”. Digital marketing key performance indicators (KPIs).

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ClickDimensions

JULY 26, 2023

Previously, we discussed why the traditional approach to sales and marketing is becoming increasingly ineffective , and some of the challenges that SMBs face when trying to modernize their sales and marketing efforts. Page Contents Toggle What is a Unified Sales and Marketing Approach?

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The Lead Agency

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Find out how attribution can align your B2B sales and marketing activities to generate more revenue and lower acquisition costs. The B2B customer journey has changed considerably over the past twenty years. How to connect your marketing and sales data. These are bottom of the sales funnel measurements.

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ClickDimensions

JULY 26, 2023

Previously, we discussed why the traditional approach to sales and marketing is becoming increasingly ineffective , and some of the challenges that SMBs face when trying to modernize their sales and marketing efforts. Page Contents What is Simple Account-Based Sales and Marketing?

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Outreach

MAY 16, 2019

Nope, B2B sales is not for the faint of heart. So here are the top B2B Sales Challenges in 2019, plus some tips on how to beat any challenge and end the year as MVS (Most Valuable Salesperson). Challenge #1: Much of the buyer journey happens without you. They want to be engaged by B2B vendors in the manner they prefer.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For B2B marketers, finding new and promising leads is a never-ending challenge. One of the hottest marketing trends to come along in recent years is content personalization, which might provide them a path out of the lead generation wilderness. 60% claim that marketing personalization plays a key role in improving lead quality.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Marketers have already responded by doubling down on content production — the Content Marketing Institute reports that, on average, 26% of B2B marketing budgets are allocated to content. The bad news is, “tried and true” B2B marketing methods aren’t up to the task. That’s the real competitive advantage.

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Crimson Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

With the steadily increasing importance of marketing analytics and metrics, it’s very easy for B2B marketers to hone in on “vanity metrics.” There are general key performance indicators (KPIs) that all marketers must measure, but are you measuring in a way that allows you to fully understand marketing ROI?

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ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Winning strategies for account-based marketing (ABM) are essential for any director of marketing or CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization. We’ll start by discussing the importance of understanding your buyer personas and defining your ideal customer profile. What is the ABM strategy in 2023?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return. But after it’s up and running, your boss asks, “So, what did that marketing program get us?”. Digital marketing key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Inside sales has always been a high-touch and highly professional strategy for reaching out to business buyers with a targeted message. That’s what account-based marketing (ABM) is all about—helping companies to target prospects with the highest propensity to buy. Account-Based Marketing and AI Working Together.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. At its core, a successful rollout relies on a tight partnership between sales and marketing. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

B2B advertising world is dynamic & multi-channel. With the New Year around the corner “How to Generate B2B leads using Facebook in 2020” is a question that will be on the top of the head of every B2B marketer. Learn more: 10 Powerful B2B Marketing Strategies to Optimize Sales Conversions.

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Walker Sands

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

From brand awareness to lead generation and sales enablement, the modern marketer needs to have a hand in everything. However, driving revenue is our biggest responsibility as marketers, so it’s imperative to tie all marketing activities back to bottom-line revenue in order to prove our success to senior leadership and internal stakeholders.

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Walker Sands

JUNE 25, 2020

In today’s digital world, the B2B buyer journey is increasingly complex, with a growing list of channels and touchpoints to track and measure. Understanding the Buyer Journey. The buyer journey is the path buyers take to reach different stages of the marketing funnel, from awareness to purchase and renewal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Author: Tanya Chu What does it mean to be a data-driven marketer? Everyone talks about the importance of tracking data and making decisions based on it, but no one tells you how to do it and what a data-driven marketing organization looks like. Understand Your Buyer’s Journey. How do you even get started?

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Mike Moran is the co-author of the book on Content Marketing and Big Data, Outside-In Marketing. One of the initial reasons you started Bizology is that, traditionally, B2B companies tend to have little marketing experience of any kind. These are great days to be a B2B marketer. Mike Moran of Biznology.

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Valasys

JUNE 10, 2019

The criticality of Account-Based Marketing for B2B businesses is immense; it involves customer acquisition & retention, engaging them through omnichannel marketing & generating sales conversions & afterwards delighting them for future prospecting & positive word-of-mouth.

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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. Get your story straight with leadership Most chief marketing officers (CMO) don’t last long. Let’s turn that around.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What is a Marketing Funnel? A Marketing Funnel is a tool/visualization that marketers utilize to understand the process of interaction with their audience. Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom. How the messaging is similar but also different?

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 15, 2023

As a marketer, you must be able to clearly measure and communicate marketing’s impact on revenue, likely using either multi-touch attribution or single-touch attribution. There are two categories of attribution models, single-touch and multi-touch, and several different types of models in each category.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Author: David Cain B2B marketers are always on the lookout for the best way to support their marketing goals and make their sales teams successful. This broad-reaching approach to marketing can be an effective way to generate leads and sales BUT it’s not the only way to organize your sales and marketing efforts.

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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The inbound marketing for B2B landscape of 2018 is a brave new world for business – one virtually unrecognizable from years past. Go back to the start of the decade – concepts like content marketing, social media marketing, influencer marketing, and inbound marketing were years away from conception.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

in the middle of all the action—we had a fun mix of engaging marketing thought leadership sessions, plenty of places to charge your devices and relax, a sweet photobooth, swag, and a taco bar! On Sunday, Marketo featured four informative sessions around both marketing best practices and the future of marketing. Crawl, walk, run.

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Navigate the Channel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s B2B business landscape, effective marketing performance management (MPM) has become an essential practice for companies seeking to achieve sustainable growth and a competitive advantage. The framework provides companies with the tools they need to evaluate and alter marketing campaigns honestly and accurately.

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The Mx Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I’ve been reflecting on the great time we had at B2B Marketing Exchange (B2BMX) in Scottsdale, AZ, last week. Humanizing B2B. In addition, many presenters during the week spoke to the pressing need to respond to B2B buyers’ expectations that are shaped by their B2C experiences. Personalize — but don’t be creepy.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Especially when it comes to complex buying processes like B2B transactions. . Believe it or not, over a third ( 34.1% ) of businesses admit they don’t use any attribution model to measure marketing performance. In the data-driven marketing world of 2020, this should no longer be the case. But how can a marketer begin to choose?

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Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. While there is a long list of gaps, we have identified three debilitating B2B “disconnects” to focus on. 4 tips for addressing B2B disconnects.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Why are business-to-business (B2B) businesses not realizing the same level of success? Because the demand marketing teams at these businesses don’t know how to shift from tactically engaging with these platforms to embracing a strategic approach. Social media isn’t for B2B businesses. B2B is boring.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing When building an effective marketing strategy, it’s important to know where marketing efforts are driving results, and how credit should be assigned to each touchpoint in the customer journey. In this first blog post of a mini-series on marketing attribution.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy. What do super successful marketers do differently?

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