Learn from the Pros

MARCH 21, 2024

As a B2B marketer, you’re no stranger to the challenges of adapting to a rapidly changing landscape. B2B marketing is moving towards a cookieless future, making first-party data crucial. Failure to shift to a first-party data culture could hinder marketing effectiveness and business growth. Source: Contentlift.io

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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? 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.

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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.

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Oktopost

APRIL 22, 2019

Attribution. It’s hard to deny that it is the biggest marketing concern in 2019. Especially, for lead generation. Especially, for B2B and Considered Purchase marketing. digital companies now have a veritable plethora of viable and effective marketing channels available for lead generation.

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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.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

APRIL 3, 2022

The ability of a marketing organization to track marketing attribution is often considered an end in itself when it comes to advanced marketing analytics. This is exactly where most of the marketing teams end up dropping the ball. Gone are the days when a marketer could just go by what she “felt” was right.

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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?

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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? 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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When it comes to demand generation, even the most seasoned B2B marketers have fallen into this trap and sabotaged their success without knowing it. Hopefully, I can help you avoid this disaster by shining a light on the most common pitfalls that demand generation marketers may run into. but also all throughout the funnel.

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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. It also makes it necessary to employ traditionally B2C-oriented marketing techniques to attract new B2B leads and retain your current customers. CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To succeed with marketing campaigns in 2022, businesses will have to continue to adapt their strategies to suit buyer trends. Shift to A Digital Reality. According to the report, over 75% of buyers and sellers say they now prefer digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions.

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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. This has further fueled the need for more content.

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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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SmartBug Media

MARCH 19, 2021

If you’re an inbound marketer in the B2B space, you understand how much time and energy goes into planning and executing your marketing campaigns. of my favorite inbound marketing resources that any B2B marketer can benefit from subscribing to in 2021 and beyond. We Asked 10 Marketing Experts. What Is Clubhouse?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 27, 2020

Survivorship bias can warp the expectations of both leaders and new team members, and digging up your 'graveyard of knowledge' can help elicit new ideas and insights that could contribute to major breakthroughs in marketing and optimization. In general, it's best we confront failure honestly, instead of hiding from it.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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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. Furthermore, we will explore ways to personalize messaging and leverage multi-channel strategies to engage decision-makers effectively. Conclusion 1.

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DivvyHQ

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Although it first entered our lexicons more than 50 years ago, “information overload” is all too pertinent in today’s digital business landscape, and especially when it comes to content marketing analytics. Content marketing managers are swimming in analytics. 5 Examples of Actionable Content Marketing Analytics.

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Goodish Agency

MARCH 25, 2021

This Google Analytics tutorial will point out the most common missed opportunities we usually see amongst the clients of Goodish Digital Marketing Agency. organic searches, which keywords are you ranking for, which landing pages are ranking for certain keywords etc). This can be done at the Property level. Then, get creative.

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Contently

MARCH 21, 2023

We all want to attribute value to the content we produce. The ability to map sales back to content is a practice known as attribution, and it’s the black box of content marketing. Every content marketer struggles to achieve success here. Yet content attribution models can look different across companies.

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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. This combination ties together marketing execution with measurement. Our Journey to Joining Terminus and BrightFunnel.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Believe it or not, over a third ( 34.1% ) of businesses admit they don’t use any attribution model to measure marketing performance. Simultaneously, only 13% of B2B marketers consider the impact measurement and tracking capabilities of their business excellent , with 40% describing their business as “needing improvement.”

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

That said, digital advertising is fundamentally different than it was just a few years ago, incorporating image recognition, voice-activation, augmented reality and chat messaging — all of which represent a new direction for the industry, and a myriad of new data that you could potentially leverage to your advantage.

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Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2018

One thread that binds my career is top-of-funnel content. And I’ve written extensively about what success looks like for top-of-funnel content. But I have rarely led sustainable upper-funnel content efforts for a simple reason: It’s difficult to track the first touches in a multi-touch customer journey to revenue.

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Hubspot

APRIL 19, 2012

When chatting with marketers, one of the most common questions we hear at HubSpot is regarding "first touch" versus "last touch" attribution in marketing analytics. What Are 'Attributions' in Marketing Analytics? Last Touch Attribution. Before we begin, first a definition.

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Contently

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Content Marketing Institute (CMI) predicts that companies will spend less on paid content and focus more on organic ways to gain audience share in the new year. When using a full-funnel strategy with several touch points along the way, how can you truly know the effectiveness of each piece of content? Not at all!

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

Best Sales Tools According to Experts. For 2020 we will continue focusing on getting leads and converting these leads into sales. Albacross and ActiveCampaign are perfect together as Albacross without a doubt is the best tool for automatically retrieving company information and enriching company data.

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Choozle

JUNE 10, 2024

In today’s fiercely competitive advertising landscape, where every marketing dollar counts, advertisers seek more than directional metrics like impressions and click-through rates. In this blog, we’ll delve into this shift, exploring its core principles and why it’s gaining traction among marketers across industries.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As consumers, we’ve all seen examples of what happens when business units within a single enterprise or partner organizations that jointly serve customers maintain data on different systems. A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. A single source of data truth is also essential for improving marketing efficiency.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 29, 2024

Legislation, regulation, and an increasingly data-conscious audience have put an end to third-party cookies as a viable primary data source, pushing marketers to look for more sustainable ways to learn about their customers. First-party data — information volunteered by customers — is now a crucial source for the modern marketer.

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SmarkLabs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Did you know that approximately 42% of marketers still use spreadsheets for marketing attribution? What is an Attribution Model? Marketing attribution is the process of assigning credit for conversion to the various marketing channels that contributed to the sale. Improved decision-making.

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Single Grain

JULY 28, 2020

Few marketing channels are as direct as email — and few are as effective. Almost 60% of marketers say that email marketing is their biggest source of ROI. Clearly, email marketing is a force to be reckoned with. With so many popular email marketing tools vying for your business, it can be hard to choose one.

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ClickZ

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Quantify conversion value — Calculate the true cost of every lead and client. Forensic attribution that connects every step along the purchase funnel is essential for publishers to determine the price of a sale and develop campaigns that will deliver on core KPIs and make the best use of budgets.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the dynamic world of B2B manufacturing, marketing can be a complex maze. That’s a lot of people who have to say, “Yes” to your marketing! This complexity heightens the difficulty of marketing to multiple personas with different needs and tracking attribution amidst off-screen decisions that can sometimes span multiple organizations.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And that was before Covid hit and we experienced an unprecedented shift to digital in all aspects of our lives. Yet despite all this change, the way most marketers (and their tools) operate hasn’t evolved nearly enough to keep up. As a result, the B2B marketing that you know today is heading towards a shipwreck in 2021 and beyond.

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Engagio

MARCH 20, 2019

The problem of Marketing Attribution has been challenging marketers ever since there’s been marketing. We want to be able to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing investments to business results – and get precise measures of ROI. Proving” marketing has an insight-opportunity cost.

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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. You can read part one here: New research: Boost organic growth from current customers. What are their objectives as an organization?

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