The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. Otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by ALL the options available for marketing online. This knowledge forms the foundation of your digital marketing efforts.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Staying ahead of the curve is imperative for long-term success in B2B. As we wrap up 2023 and look ahead to 2024, now is the time to evaluate our marketing strategies to ensure we are fully prepared for what’s to come. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In my last blog we discussed the detailed ways B2B marketers can reach their target audience through paid advertising on LinkedIn. While there are several ad formats to choose from on LinkedIn, lead generation campaigns are one of the best ways to ensure conversions through LinkedIn advertising.

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Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2023

Every marketing team looks to leverage advertising channels to their fullest. In order to drive awareness, MQLs, pipeline — and ultimately revenue — from B2B advertising, you need to track the best success factors and strike a balance between top, middle, and bottom of funnel metrics.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. Here’s your current B2B buyer. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear. Quick Takeaways.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020.

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Webbiquity

MAY 16, 2023

end of Google’s Universal Analytics (UGA) rapidly approaching, digital marketing professionals are frantically seeking alternatives. To be fair, GA4 covers the basics: traffic by source, top pages, comparisons by custom time periods, and conversion tracking (if you can get that to work). With the long-awaited (dreaded?)

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Valasys

JULY 26, 2021

An effective B2B marketing strategy focuses on generating quality leads, and building a strong pipeline will help you maintain a stable growth rate. B2B Leads are qualified prospects who may be approached and marketed by salespeople. It’s challenging to create high-quality leads that will convert into customers.

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Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

Among marketers, few topics spark as much debate as the comparison between demand generation and inbound marketing. Conversely, inbound marketing predominantly relies on passive techniques to draw in potential leads. Must Read: 5 Common B2B Demand Generation Pitfalls to Avoid What is Demand Generation?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 10, 2022

For any B2B company, it takes planning and a solid strategy to establish a successful brand. In fact, 54% of B2B companies have a brand program to measure their brand perceptions. For B2B companies, it’s likely that many of your prospective customers find you by searching for your business online and on social media.

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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. But we can’t take traffic to the CFO.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Oktopost

JUNE 30, 2021

Though it’s still the most widely-used social network in the world , B2B marketers don’t always see it as a viable platform for generating leads. Easy, but wrong — because with the right strategy, Facebook is a viable channel for B2B marketing. Are Facebook Ads Right for B2B? What Are Facebook Ads?

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Marketing casts a wide net at the top, attracting potential customers. Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads!

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Brandpoint

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s no secret that video content is the name of the game when it comes to generating social media impressions, engagement and traffic. Marketers have been preaching its rising value for years, and the statistics overwhelmingly affirm the medium. 91% of businesses use video as a marketing tool – an all-time high since 2016.

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SalesGrape

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Telemarketing vs. Digital Marketing: Which Drives Better B2B Leads? In today’s competitive business landscape, generating high-quality leads is crucial for the success of any B2B company. With the rise of digital marketing strategies, many businesses have shifted their focus towards online lead generation techniques.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Programmatic Native Advertising: Zemanta Image Source: Zemanta At Marketing Insider Group, we use Zemanta , an Outbrain company, for all our clients. Zemanta revolutionizes programmatic advertising with its comprehensive native advertising platform and Demand Side Platform (DSP). It is advertising for the modern internet.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Business owners and marketers have had to quickly and repeatedly adapt their strategies , redefine how they do branding , and adjust their infrastructure in these unprecedented times. Among the aspects proving to be particularly challenging is content marketing. Content drought and lower ROI in the world of B2B marketing post-COVID.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 7, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In the ever-evolving world of B2B marketing, harnessing the power of automation is paramount. Let’s start with a glimpse of what B2B marketing automation is, then explore its working, importance, distinction from CRM, and other insights.

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry editors and society directors, they have 37 years of B2B publishing experience between them. Cory Sekine-Pettite Cory Sekine-Pettite is president of ASBPE and an award-winning, Atlanta-based editor with more than 25 years of experience in traditional news reporting and B2B publishing.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

B2B lead nurturing is crucial for driving conversions and revenue scientifically and removing "gut instinct" from the equation. These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. B2B lead nurturing isn't a "nice to have" anymore. Marketing automation is your best friend.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic that has dominated our lives for the last 18 months has changed how we live both professionally and personally, and the B2B landscape is no different. To succeed with marketing campaigns in 2022, businesses will have to continue to adapt their strategies to suit buyer trends. – B2B Decision Maker Pulse.

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Online advertising is no exception. 84% of B2B marketers use paid distribution channels (read: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), Pretty much everyone buys ads from Facebook and Google, but it’s also quite common for B2B marketers to buy ads from LinkedIn. Yet, most of us put up with it.

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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? 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?

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Outbrain

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Paid advertising. As websites compete more fiercely for traffic, costs are rising. That’s why marketers must be smarter about which paid traffic sources they are using and when, and how much to invest in each. What are paid traffic sources? Video is by far one of the more popular marketing tools available.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

B2B organizations often are remiss in remembering B2B buyers are just B2C consumers wearing a different hat. For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel.

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Paid Content B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Cost per Acquisition 101

Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But the math is not as simple as, say, pay-per-click advertising with its straightforward transactional nature. Marketing leaders across industries are wondering: How much of my marketing budget should be allocated to SEO, and what can we expect to get out of it? As we just discussed, organic traffic is money.

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Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

B2B Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing—however you badge it, it’s a numbers game. Many marketers shy away from social media because they don’t understand how to measure social media return on investment (ROI). How to Measure ROI in Social Media Marketing. We are here to drive revenue.

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Social Media ROI Media Brand Identity 174

Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 27, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In the ever-evolving business landscape, generating high-quality leads is fundamental to any successful B2B venture. This is where effective B2B lead generation solutions come into play. On paper, B2B lead generation companies may be described relatively simply.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Your sales and marketing teams can use intent data to learn more about the customers who are approaching, departing, and progressing through your sales pipeline. Thus, your marketing team can target their efforts to attract them. I’d want to go over some intent data basics before we get into B2B intent data providers.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Being at the forefront of marketing sometimes requires shifting resources away from old practices. That’s why 52% of outbound marketers say their marketing efforts are “ineffective”. In fact, inbound marketing is starting to be used more than outbound marketing. What is Inbound Marketing?

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We’ve had a busy year at ONLY B2B. Our attention in 2022 was on: Making the most out of current economic situation Expanding our value-driven marketing strategy. Strategies For Generating B2B Leads In 2023. In general, B2B businesses prioritize producing high-quality leads above a large volume of leads.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? There’s a lot to navigate when searching for the best marketing practices for your emerging company. Knowing when and how to get a realistic and effective marketing strategy off the ground may even seem daunting. Start-Up Marketing Fundamentals. Check out

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Exo B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

This post was born out of a long reflection over the weekend on content marketing. In content marketing, do we write for search engines or for readers? The answer from GEMINI (Google) Tips for an effective B2B blog : Define your goals and audience: What do you want to achieve with your blog? Who are your personas?

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Rev

JUNE 25, 2019

advertisement. That’s B2B marketing in 2019 in a nutshell. . We’ve been inundated with process improvements, strategies, and marketing automation tools – there’s literally no shortage of things we can be doing. Ask a dozen marketers and you’ll get a dozen different responses. Email Marketing.

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