Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

Many B2B marketers struggle to connect their content strategy to concrete results. It can be hard to know if your content is generating leads or boosting brand awareness. Marketers are reporting that the expected revenue of the worldwide content marketing sector in 2022 was about $63 billion.

ROI 71

ROI Marketing Budget Creation B2B Thought Leadership B2B 71

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. It is the key to your business’s future success because when you look more closely into your competitors’ marketing, you learn from their successes and mistakes.

Planning 102

Planning Paid Search Agency Advertising Benchmark Analysis 102

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Developing your alignment roadmap The following steps will help you create a plan to align your marketing technology with your main business goals. Define how marketing supports the company’s goals Clearly define how your marketing efforts can help move the company’s big rocks in the next year or two.

Marketing Automation Services 92

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 92

markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

Sales Management 326

Sales Management Lead Management Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 326

SmartBug Media

MARCH 6, 2024

According to a ZDNET connectivity benchmark report, companies now use an average of 991 applications , yet only 28 percent are integrated. Data silos are a problem for any organization, and 81 percent of survey respondents from the benchmark report said silos were hindering digital transformation. Data is siloed, limiting its value.

Enterprise Management 64

Enterprise Management Work Management Hubspot Marketing Management 64

Velocity Partners

JANUARY 24, 2024

Spotify Wrapped is one of the biggest marketing success stories in recent history. For a few weeks every year, Spotify’s marketing team grows by tens of millions. And what can B2B marketers like you steal from Spotify Wrapped? There’s an obvious drawback with this approach: it costs money to build up quality benchmark data.

Peer-to-peer 84

Peer-to-peer Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring 84

Only B2B

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s digital era, businesses are constantly striving to enhance their marketing efforts to generate more leads and drive revenue growth. This metric evaluates the effectiveness of your lead generation and qualification process and provides crucial insights into the performance of your sales funnel.

Marketing Qualified Leads 62

Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking MQL Conversion Rate 62

Lead Forensics

APRIL 16, 2024

This blog explores 10 ways AI and beyond can supercharge your sales game, from identifying high-potential leads to crafting personalized outreach and automating tasks. AI can unlock a goldmine of customer data, revealing valuable insights into your leads’ challenges, interests, and online behavior.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Cross-Selling Budget Programs High Quality Lead 52

SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

For most inbound campaigns, success is measured by the number and quality of leads generated. Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Marketing Qualified Leads.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Generation 117

NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. How to leverage intent data in 8 steps Gone are the days when banner ads on a popular review website could funnel hundreds of leads to your business. Fortunately, intent data has become a mainstay among business analytics to do just that.

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Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles 64

Martech

MARCH 21, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies rapidly advance, marketing teams are tasked with integrating these powerful tools into their existing operations. As a marketing leader or CMO, you’re looking to harness AI to generate tangible business outcomes and elevate customer experiences. Determine your benchmarks for ROI.

Marketing AI 106

Marketing AI Contingency Planning Work Management Digital Transformation 106

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What is the measure of your B2B marketing campaign’s success? As CEOs worldwide are looking at marketing as a growth driver , they have become more critical in measuring all marketing efforts’ performance. Leaders are looking beyond engagement numbers and qualified leads. The Basics of Marketing Metrics.

Cost per Lead 260

Cost per Lead ROMI CPL Churn Rate 260

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 24, 2023

Automatically create sales dashboards to visualize your data Hit your targets with data-driven selling guidance built directly into your CRM. Located within a company’s CRM or sales analytics software, it groups together related metrics for an “at a glance” look at progress toward sales goals. Create and share your dashboards.

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Examples Enterprise Management Work Management Eye-Tracking 98

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

According to the B2B Benchmark Report from CMI , 72% of businesses that increase their engagement through various marketing strategies also saw similar growth in sales leads. This allows your sales team to gently follow up rather than hounding customers with marketing content. Transition engagement into lead generation.

Lead Ranking 334

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Planning Leads 334

Oktopost

JANUARY 11, 2024

From email marketing to social media and sales outreach, there are various ways in which you can continuously generate demand for your product. Therefore, it may not be surprising that 39% of businesses are looking at marketing automation to drive their demand-generation efforts. What is a Demand Generation Tool?

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services Demand 62

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Over the past two weeks, we have covered the definition of strategic demand marketing and introduced you to the first phase in our process, the insights phase. It is at this stage that we define the critical customer journey and begin to build the Strategic Demand Marketing Plan. . The Core Elements of the Demand Marketing Plan.

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Top of Funnel Planning Demand Marketing Plans 147

Velocity Partners

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s also cheaper and easier to market platforms and products within one narrative thrust than to tell a bunch of different stories on different fronts. Say you are a company who primarily sells a CRM platform, but also has a cybersecurity module. ” Sure, it sounds promising, but it’s extremely generic.

Enterprise Management 82

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Buy 82

Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

If you had a chance to read the recent Korn Ferry article The CMO is Forever Changed , perhaps the statement “linking marketing activities and business results hasn’t always been the strong suit of CMOs” rang familiar. According to ChiefMartech the average enterprise now uses 120 marketing technology (Martech) tools. It did for me.

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Enterprise Management Work Management CMO Marketing Management 281

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

The same is true in marketing. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers.

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Linkedin Paid Search Agency Sales Management ROI 154

Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Several factors can lead to stack underutilization, including scope issues, viewing investments as costs or inadequately supported teams. To enhance efficiency, companies need to reevaluate marketing activities, revamp processes and eliminate unnecessary steps. Enter the experimental marketer.

Work Management 110

Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management Advertising Benchmark 110

Oktopost

JANUARY 31, 2024

Others may prioritize lead generation metrics, aiming to convert advocacy efforts into tangible business opportunities. When employees share content that leads to conversions, it signifies a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. Monitor the impact on lead generation by attributing leads to specific employee shares.

ROI 62

ROI Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking Click Rate 62

Martech

MAY 8, 2023

Creating a data-driven marketing strategy can be intimidating. In my experience, a marketing strategy hinged on first-party data drives better business results. I’ve supported clients across all stages of creating a data-driven marketing strategy — from discovery and implementation to measurement and optimization.

Marketing & Strategy 109

Marketing & Strategy Budget Programs Advertising Benchmark Loyalty 109

Brandpoint

JULY 14, 2023

It quantifies the value generated from social media activities and helps businesses determine whether their investment in social media marketing is yielding profitable results. Generating leads and driving conversions. Align your social media activities with your overall marketing strategy.

Social Media 62

Social Media ROI Multi-Touch Attribution Paid Search Agency 62

ClickDimensions

MARCH 23, 2022

With the right methodology and supporting tools, you can quantify the impact of your employee advocacy program , just as you do for any other B2B marketing channel. Next, track your advocacy conversions and benchmark this number against conversions generated by other social marketing initiatives (corporate channels, paid social ads, etc).

ROI 98

ROI Paid Social Agency Buyer Personas Sales Cycle 98

Optinmonster

JANUARY 18, 2024

Does your SaaS business have a free trial marketing strategy? But what’s a good benchmark for free trial conversions? According to RevenueCat’s benchmark study : Apps with the 4-day (or fewer) trials have a 30% conversion rate. Are you struggling to convert free users into paid ones? According to recent research, 51.2%

Conversion Rate 89

Conversion Rate Conversion Examples Marketing Analytics Tools 89

BenchmarkONE

MAY 5, 2020

Louis, MO – April 20, 2020 – Hatchbuck, a leading software as a service provider of sales and marketing solutions, today announced its rebranding to BenchmarkONE. Both now operate under one innovative brand, Benchmark, bringing together 150 employees serving over 150,000 users in 15 countries and nine languages worldwide.

Marketing Management 62

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Advertising Benchmark Paid Search Agency 62

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.

Sales Management 240

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

PureB2B

APRIL 6, 2022

Buyer intent data has become an effective and powerful analytical tool for B2B marketers. Quite simply, it’s changed how we approach campaign development, because we’re now able to generate leads from targeted, in-market buyers. 55% of sales leaders saw an increase in lead conversions when using intent data.

Intent Data 62

Intent Data Intent B2B Sales Stats 62

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

Marketing Budget 129

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Paid Content Budget Programs 129

Martech

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketers have a responsibility to add more data into their decision-making processes, especially given the technologies available. Marketing automation platforms have made decision-making more effective by streamlining tasks that used to take up much of marketers’ time. How to build a long-term, search-first marketing strategy.

Marketing Automation Services 124

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Automation 124

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In MuleSoft’s 2023 Connectivity Benchmark Report , enterprise IT leaders estimated spending an average of $4.7 Because every generative AI-powered CRM app depends on the quality of the AI prompt, it’s useful to get a boost with the provided prompt templates. Scarier still, fewer than a third of these apps are integrated.

Enterprise Management 126

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Digital Transformation 126

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Just as CMOs and other marketing leaders started reaching into their pockets after more than two years of pandemic-restricted spending, they’ve hit another flaming hoop: uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Insert the collective sighs of marketers.]. If you could get every marketer in the world in one room, who’d you approach?

Cost per Lead 98

Cost per Lead Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs CPL 98

Hubspot

JULY 7, 2020

For the last several months, we've been publishing weekly cuts of data on core performance metrics, to provide business owners with useful benchmarks as they adapted to circumstances that were changing by the day. This data is based on benchmarks calculated using weekly averages from Q2 vs. post-holiday weekly averages from Q1.

Advertising Benchmark 101

Advertising Benchmark Work Management Business Marketing Management 101

Litmus

MAY 10, 2021

What’s more, automated campaigns have been shown to drive 21% of marketing revenue. Automating your email marketing gives you a simple way to effectively nurture your subscribers. Having a strategy document to call upon when you need to review and confirm goals will help you determine what’s most important for your marketing.

Marketing Automation Services 144

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Work Management Template 144

SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

For most inbound campaigns, success is measured by the number and quality of leads generated. Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Marketing Qualified Leads.

Marketing Qualified Leads 66

Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Generation 66

Hubspot

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Inbound marketing strategies are working incredibly well, while outbound sales strategies are struggling. This places greater emphasis on inbound tactics as brands need to prioritize new channels like chat where consumers can interact with marketing, sales, and service at their own pace. Digital transformation is accelerating.

Advertising Benchmark 101

Advertising Benchmark Business Digital Transformation Hubspot 101

Martech

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Personalization is not just a marketing buzzword. It has come a long way from its origins in the 1990s and is now powered by advanced technology, behavioral data and a plethora of marketing tools. However, as personalization becomes a baseline expectation for consumers, it presents new challenges for chief marketing officers (CMOs).

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Personalization Practices Allocation Enterprise Management 119