Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, B2B marketers face unique challenges and opportunities. With digital transformation, shifting consumer expectations, and a mobile-first mindset, the world of B2B marketing is undergoing a significant transformation.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Before we dive in, let’s cover the basics: what are campaign attribution models and why are they important ? . Attribution modeling is a way to analyze which marketing channels are accredited with lead conversion. Think of your attribution model as a map of sorts. B2C Marketing. And the cons?

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2022

When lead-to-account matching specialists LeanData decided to withdraw their marketing attribution solution, one beneficiary was marketing performance measurement platform Full Circle Insights. “If you have a big sales organization and complex routing issues they have a really nice system.” Up to a point.

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Walker Sands

MAY 18, 2023

In fact, according to Integrate’s 2023 State of B2B Marketing survey , 22% of B2B marketers plan on cutting Demand Gen spend in 2023, while 25% plan on cutting ABM spend. It is important to take strategic action, not urgent action.” — Izzy Koumjian , Digital Marketing Strategist Reallocation is the key here.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. In these conditions, implementing a marketing automation platform is a no brainer. . How often do you publish new content ?

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Author: Aleece Germano As a digital marketer, you might be asking yourself this question: “Where’s my (social) ROI?” Your peers tell you it’s impossible: “You want to attribute revenue dollars to social? So what’s a data-driven marketer to do? So what’s a data-driven marketer to do? Good luck with that.”

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DemandBase

APRIL 12, 2020

First-touch, last-touch, multi-touch, oh my! “A A full 54% of marketers say multi-touch attribution is one of the biggest gaps in their marketing research.” There are a number of ways to skin the marketing attribution cat—most of them arbitrary. More importantly, should we?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Not all marketing activities are created equal. Some involve lots of marketing effort. Some take more sales resources. But with so many opinions from across the business about what marketing activities are the best, it’s hard to keep focused. Another challenge that marketers face is how to continually optimize their KPIs.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Why Campaign Attribution in Salesforce Is Important. Yet within all these touches is the holy grail of B2B KPIs: campaign ROI.

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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. The same rings true in B2B marketing.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Video is becoming a preferred B2B buyer content type, with short videos and webinars ranking among the top 5 preferred forms of content. With this desire and drive for video many B2B marketers feel overwhelmed, and underprepared. ” – A Blueprint For Successful B2B Video Marketing -Forrester.

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Lead Forensics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demystify the process, offering a roadmap to not just calculate, but to optimize the ROI of your marketing software, ensuring every dollar you invest works as hard as you do. Section 1: Understanding Marketing Software ROI What is Marketing Software ROI?

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Contently

JUNE 29, 2017

Instead, in the spirit of Contently’s accountable content series , let’s talk about something much more practical: how to use B2B content to drive leads. So, how do you—or others—use article content to influence leads in the B2B process? —Joe’s Shares are often overlooked in B2B marketing, but they’re crucial.

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Outgrow

MARCH 30, 2021

B2B demand generation works out only if there’s the right tracking involved. And, every stage of the marketing funnel involves some kind of demand generation strategy to make this goal successful. 66% of B2B marketers said that improving their ability to measure and analyze their marketing impact was a top priority.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

By the end of 2018, an estimated $500 billion in digital commerce revenue will be attributable to email marketing, reports Gartner. And if you are managing email marketing campaigns your CMO wants to know: What impact did they make in terms of revenue? How did they influence sales and opportunities? Test and Control.

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Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. B2B marketers need to learn to prioritize Customer Experience Management (CEM) to stay close to their customers and to develop an all-inclusive marketing strategy that strikes a perfect balance between creative demands, budget limits & channel decisions of the marketers.

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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.

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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. Our conversation got me thinking: Why is the holy grail of marketing ROI so tough to achieve in business markets?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Any B2C marketer can attest to the total relief that comes right after setting up successful email automation. From text reminders to cart abandonment emails to multi-channel campaigns that span social media and in-app messaging, B2C marketing automation marries the power of personalized messaging and hands-off marketing.

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Contently

JANUARY 3, 2017

Last month, before people went away on vacation and struggled to explain their jobs to their extended families, the editorial team asked everyone at Contently to think about the future of content marketing. Will fake news change the way publishers pursue marketing? Adam Blake, senior marketing operations manager. Tweet this!).

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I believe pipeline/cost is more important than ROI for marketing metrics. While ROI depends on multiple factors, some of which are out of marketing’s hands, such as sales performance and capacity, the Golden Ratio is measured primarily on marketing aptitude—the ability to deliver pipeline across certain channels.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Account-Based Sales Development. More specifically: Account-Based Everything (ABE) is a strategic go-to-market approach that orchestrates personalized marketing, sales, and success efforts to drive engagement and conversion at named accounts. Account-Based Customer Success.

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Outgrow

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! . We recently interviewed Eric Quanstrom for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! How outbound marketing aids in achieving typical goals for enterprise clients. Doing more with less : marketing budgets in the downturn. Eric Quanstrom: Account-based marketing.

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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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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. Single-touch models assign all the credit for a sale or conversion to just one touchpoint.

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Outgrow

MAY 17, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! We recently interviewed Phil Gamache for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! In this podcast – we learn the secret behind his rapid career growth in this ever-evolving world of marketing. Welcome to another episode of Outgrow’s Market of the Month.

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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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SWZD

JULY 9, 2019

The power of having a customer-first approach, clear metrics, and an independently branded thought leadership program for engaging senior leaders – we talk about these themes and more with Rebecca Stone , vice president of marketing at LiveRamp. About LiveRamp. Career and Background.

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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. With more on the line for your business, marketing attribution has never been more important for identifying and optimizing the channels that are tied to marketing success and revenue generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Whatever your situation is, one thing’s for sure: trying to figure out how demand generation really works and where marketing ends and sales begins can be downright tricky as a novice.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Mason is CMO of iLevel Solutions in New York and markets a cloud-based software platform to private equity firms worldwide. 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.

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Valasys

AUGUST 14, 2019

B2B companies also employ CMSs to store, control, revise & publish documentation. According to a report published by codeinwp.com WordPress alone accounts for 50-60% of the total share of the global CMS market. Headless CMS delivers best results when incorporated in omnichannel marketing, customization, integration & security.

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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. Marketing teams big and small alike are under loads of pressure to maximize their budget and make sure every penny goes the extra mile. Multi-touch: All of the touchpoints receive fractional credit.

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