markempa

MAY 18, 2005

According to studies, the single biggest issue for contemporary business-to-business marketers is effective lead generation. Conversely, it has been pointed out that 80% of marketing expenditures on lead generation and collateral are wasted because the leads are ignored by sales people. Why did I write the book?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows.

Lead Gen 136

Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 136

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Trish Bertuzzi - The Bridge Group Karla Blalock - PointClear Bob Bly - Bly.com April Brown - Rubicon Marketing Group Michael Brown - Purple Pig Consulting Michael A. Bill Rice - Kaleidico Jose Raul Rodriguez - Aon Dan Rogers - SmartLead by The AdTrack Corporation Anneke Seley - Phone Works LLC Tibor Shanto - Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.

Leads360 100

Leads360 Lead Management Work Management PointClear 100

sagefrog

JANUARY 26, 2025

Sagefrog Marketings Survey Reveals How Marketing Budgets are Spent in 2009 PHILADELPHIA, PA October 2009 Sagefrog Marketing Group, a full service marketing, interactive and public relations company, announced the results of their fourth annual Marketing Mix Survey that shows over 50% of companies use both outsourced and in-house marketing.

Paid Search Agency 52

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Planning Companies 52

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2011

HHS), a direct marketing services company that offers the widest variety of integrated, multichannel, data-driven solutions for top brands around the globe. Gary Skidmore, president of Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, said, “ The Annuitas Group offers powerful insights to benefit clients who focus on B2B marketing.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management Demand Generation Marketing Automation Services 100

markempa

JULY 21, 2005

The secret to successful lead generation and marketing in the business-to-business space today is the process called lead nurturing, which converts more inquiries into qualified leads and qualified leads into sales. This action-oriented session will provide tips and best practices that you can put into practice immediately.

Lead Nurturing 120

Lead Nurturing Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Webinar Metrics 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I spent most of the past week in San Francisco at overlapping conferences for the Direct Marketing Association and Marketo. My Marketo presentation was based on the marketing measurement white paper I recently wrote for them, which argues that measurement should be based on tracking buyers through stages in the purchase process.

Allocation 120

Allocation Marketing Automation Services Marketo Demand Generation 120

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 9, 2015

For CMOs and marketers today, adopting a goal-directed marketing framework is one path towards achieving effectiveness in content strategy. The one important recognition that needs to take place though is knowledge of whether a buyer persona development effort was based upon goal-directed principles and methodology.

Effectiveness 100

Effectiveness Buyer Personas Content Marketing Forrester 100

markempa

AUGUST 10, 2005

« Getting into big companies | Main | Lead Generation via white papers and webinars » Two new reports on marketing and lead generation If you sell complex services or technology solutions I encourage you investigate these reports, I think youll find a ton of value. Ive read both of them and they are terrific. Do you sell services?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Report 120

Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In business-to-business and consumer industries, the influence of goal-directed behaviors can be significant determinants of how choices and buying decisions are made. For example, the Starbuck’s app definitely influences my choice, besides the great coffee, on where I go to get coffee. Buyer’s Journey Is A Pursuit.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Buyer's Journey Case Studies Buy 100

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Ruth consults on customer acquisition and retention, teaches marketing at Columbia Business School and is a guest blogger at HBR.org and Biznology. She is past chair of the DMA Business-to-Business Council, and past president of the Direct Marketing Club of New York.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

Normally, this article would only be open to American Marketing Association Members but InTouch was given special permission to share it with readers of the B2B Lead Generation Blog. a marketing and sales information services company in Southport, Conn.: a marketing and sales information services company in Southport, Conn.:

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B to B Paid Search Agency 120

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Ruth consults on customer acquisition and retention, teaches marketing at Columbia Business School and is a guest blogger at HBR.org and Biznology. She is past chair of the DMA Business-to-Business Council, and past president of the Direct Marketing Club of New York.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Marketing Management Salesforce.com Lead Scoring 120

Stevens & Tate

DECEMBER 27, 2022

How you market your brand depends greatly on who your audience is, which is why b2c (business to consumer) and b2b ( business to business ) marketing are very different strategies. As such, your email marketing strategy is going to depend heavily on whether or not you’re marketing b2b or b2c.

B2B Marketing 139

B2B Marketing Email Marketing Planning Buying Cycle 139

markempa

JUNE 26, 2006

The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope. The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Work Management B2B Thought Leadership 120

markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

Here are some tactics you can use to leverage your lead nurturing content: What can you send via direct mail? The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope. And once youre done, be sure to keep your lead nurturing library catalog updated.

Lead Nurturing 120

Lead Nurturing Lead Generation Tactics Lead Scoring 120

Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 8, 2015

by Johan H. This has been an eventful year. We are seeing continued growth in the adoption of buyer personas as a means for understanding buyers and customers. At the same time, the growth is fraught with the perils of buyer personas being misunderstood, mislabeled, and serving as a cover for basic buyer profiling.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Customer Surveys Ideal Customer Profiles Organic Leads 100

Tony Zambito

JUNE 26, 2016

The term, audience development , has become more ubiquitous in the world of marketing. A recognition of the growing importance of digital content marketing to overall marketing strategies today. by Gregor Črešnar. For B2B CMOs, the idea of audience development and engagement can be perplexing.

Buyer Personas 104

Buyer Personas Research B2B Fulfillment 104

Inbox Insight

MARCH 2, 2022

What do our first party research insights reveal about the state of the B2B marketing strategy on both sides of the Atlantic? While multi channel marketing is no new phenomenon, the art of building scalable, effective and cost efficient multi channel strategies can differ enormously from business to business – and country!

Multi-Channel 98

Multi-Channel Paid Content Advertising Channels B2B Marketing 98

Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the past five years, the often-unquestioned hymnal has been that to succeed in today’s digital world, businesses must produce content. Illustration by Hea Poh Lin. Produce high-quality content, yes. But, produce massive amounts of it to get in front of customers.

Digital Transformation 50

Digital Transformation Buyer Personas Broadcasting Marketing Qualified Leads 50

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 29, 2017

Illustration by Nikita Kozin. In numerous surveys of CEOs in the past few years, predictably, you will find growth strategies as one of the top priorities going into any new year. Strikingly, in these same few years, you will also find developing customer understanding also on the list of CEO priorities.

Digital Transformation 100

Digital Transformation Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Thought Leadership 100

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 22, 2017

In the past five years, we have seen exponential disruption each year in multiple markets. Digital technologies and resulting transformation turning markets literally inside out. Fundamentally reshaping markets in five years’ time compared to the fifty to seventy years it may have taken to build up a market.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Digital Transformation Enterprise Management Account Based Marketing 100

Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Confusion by Adam Gale. In the 15 years since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001, there has been one issue that continues to plague fully understanding exactly where, how, and why buyer personas can be beneficial.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles Segmentation Profiling 100

Tony Zambito

JULY 17, 2016

Transformation by Yu Luck. People and professionals in organizations can have different intentions while working towards the accomplishment of organizational, as well as, individual goals. Understanding the difference between intent-driven and goal-driven behaviors allows for deeper levels of understanding buyers (customers).

Intent 100

Intent Buyer Personas CMO Work Management 100

Tony Zambito

JUNE 5, 2016

by Creative Stall. Customer experience has been and will continue to be one of the major influences on how buyers make choices. Recent research by SiriusDecisions found that for 80% of B2B buyers surveyed, customer experience counted as the top significant reason why they chose to work with a specific provider over another.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Research B2B Correlation 100

Tony Zambito

MARCH 6, 2016

According to various studies over the years (by credible institutions such as Harvard) regarding market and customer research, approximately 80% or better of B2B customer research is conducted to reinforce current assumptions about customers. by Alex Auda Samora. There is a big problem when it comes to B2B customer research.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B B2B Sales 100

Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

When it comes to the state of B2B content marketing and engagement, this proverb is on the mark. According to a recent study by Track Maven , one among a few on this topic, shows both B2B and B2C marketers have increased their publishing of content in 2015 by as much as 35 to 40%. by Juan Pablo Bravo. Sometimes more is truly less.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas B2B Content B2B Sales 100

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 24, 2016

At the start of every year, CMOs and their teams can be besieged by proclamations of the three, four, five, or six things that they must do to succeed in marketing. by Anton Scherbik. Each of these proclamations can come with dire warnings that if you do not heed this advice, then you are bound to fail.

Planning 100

Planning Buyer Personas Paid Search Agency Marketing & Strategy 100

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 3, 2016

by Scott Lewis. In 2016, we will mark the fifteenth year since buyer personas were first introduced. The journey, however, continues towards professionals and organizations gaining a true understanding of what buyer persona development entails.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Correlation Effectiveness Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Analysis by Yamini Ahluwalia. A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Research Studies Demand Generation Agencies 100

Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

At the same time, the ability of marketing to influence and support the entire customer lifecycle continues to expand. by Vica Design. As CMOs look ahead, gaining greater clarity into how buying behaviors are changing is becoming one of their most important aims.

Allocation 100

Allocation Buyer Personas CMO Press 100

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Segmentation has been a staple of business marketing and sales for several decades. The concept of breaking down a potential market or industry into smaller target segments is a standard technique taught in business schools and used by many organizations. by Evan Shuster.

Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Buyer Personas Marketing Management 100

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

A recent survey by B2B Marketing, in conjunction with the UK-based agency Tomorrow People, indicated only 38% of marketers considered their content to be “very customer-centric.” by Matt Brooks.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Creating distinctive and engaging experiences, as part of how people and businesses go about making purchases, is getting more attention today than ever. Engaging new buyers and repeat customers are the lifeline to achieving growth.

Buy 100

Buy Buyer Personas Acquisitions Correlation 100

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

by Yarden Gilboa. Changes in customer and buying behaviors continue to rock the very foundations of many industries. According to recent surveys by PWC, Forrester, IBM , and McKinsey, disruptive trends in customer and buying behaviors are expected to continue over the next five years.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Lead Ranking Buy Research 100

Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 13, 2015

When marketing and sales leaders often think about how buyers make decisions, they are viewed through a prism of buyers making rational and process-driven decisions. Leading to many strategies and tactics devoted to attempts to market or sell to the rationale behind decisions and buying processes. by Gregor Črešnar.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas B2B Sales Lead Ranking Research 100

Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers.

B2B Thought Leadership 100

B2B Thought Leadership B2B Marketing Advertorials Thought Leadership 100