Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Rev

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

How to Use the Funnel to Optimize B2B Lead Conversion. To increase the conversion of marketing leads into pipeline and closed-won business, you need an in-depth understanding of the funnel. Business buying behavior is complicated and marketing technology is increasing complexity. Target Market. Definition.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Contact information is easy to get, but how do you turn a lead into a customer? There is no magic bullet for conversion, despite the many wild promises you may hear, but lead nurturing can drive huge improvements. In fact: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. Buyers respond to brands they trust.

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markempa

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Tweet The ultimate goal of B2B marketing and lead generation is to help the sales team sell. Marketers spend a lot of time and effort creating inbound leads but struggle getting those leads to convert into customers after they hand them off to sales. Remember, people buy from people. Use your manners.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

by Katie Byrnes Marketo’s third installment of definitive guides is The Definitive Guide to Lead Scoring. Over the course of the next few weeks we will be doing a series of posts on lead scoring. So, what is lead scoring ? What lead scoring isn’t – pitfalls to avoid.

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Engagio

JUNE 21, 2017

The B2B lead handoff process is broken. Marketers invest a ton of time and resources to acquire leads using a variety of tactics, from data acquisition to SEO to trade shows to paid ads. Unfortunately, studies show that upwards of 80 percent of leads generated by marketing are neglected or never acted upon by a sales rep.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you could layer third-party intent data into every lead gen program you run, would you do it? In other words, would you only ever want marketing leads from prospects pre-determined to be actively researching your category, solution, use case, etc.? My argument: no, you wouldn’t. . Effective demand generation.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2023

This buzzword has been popularized in the past decade as a way to talk about how customers move through the buying cycle. Go-to-market professionals will often map out the stages of their customer’s experience, creating strategies to help them progress onward through each stage. What’s the Problem?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 15, 2011

Here’s a sample excerpt of a digital marketing/ lead generation proposal we did recently I thought I’d share because it really is a compilation of recent blog posts in a way. Our approach to lead generation beings with a message strategy. From there, the lead generation plan is developed, followed by lead nurturing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 15, 2011

Here’s a sample excerpt of a digital marketing/ lead generation proposal we did recently I thought I’d share because it really is a compilation of recent blog posts in a way. Our approach to lead generation beings with a message strategy. From there, the lead generation plan is developed, followed by lead nurturing.

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue. Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year.

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markempa

APRIL 27, 2017

This is important because marketers rely on email as the top lead-nurturing tactic and according to Econsultancy, it’s the best channel for ROI. As I’ve written before, the best marketing feels like helping (because it is.). Focus on humanizing your emails to build a connection and actually offer value.

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Modern B2B

AUGUST 29, 2019

Many B2B marketers are tasked with lead generation, but is quantity over quality really the best approach? Generating top of funnel leads is expensive and often uses a scattergun approach. And as a result, sales often don’t value marketing, making it easier to throw blame their way when leads don’t turn into opportunities.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This reality of buying committees may be why account-based marketing has been so successful for B2B marketers to date. The idea of a buying committee is baked into account-based marketing. The average B2B buying cycle is 6 to twelve months. B2B products are often more complex.

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DealSignal

MAY 15, 2022

Intent data shows what a buyer is interested in and what they are likely to do or buy next Imagine targeting a buyer before they even start their buyer journey. For businesses, this means understanding when buyers are actively researching products and services, bringing them closer to a decision that will lead to a sale or conversion.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 5, 2011

The new buyer experience economy has resulted in shifting the economic value of many sales and marketing tactics over the past couple of years.    One approach whose value is on the rise is that of Lead Nurturing.  The approach taken towards lead nurturing could make a huge difference. 

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Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification. Speed Kills The Competition.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2023

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing Lead scoring is often made out to be a behemoth endeavor, but it really doesn’t have to be. If you’ve considered implementing a lead scoring process at your organization but you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by the project, keep reading.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

The promise and payoff of modern marketing often seems out of reach to healthcare marketers. It’s easy to buy software, but it’s difficult to transform. How do you convey value propositions that are deeper than ROI? How do you maintain relationships throughout years-long healthcare buying cycles?

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

Perfect for: Driving lead management. Marketo is a multi-functional cloud-based marketing automation software that enables businesses to drive revenue with lead management and mobile marketing. Key Features: Offers web-based email marketing platform. Provides lead generation. Search Marketing.

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Valasys

JULY 14, 2020

Sales funnel marketing is all about the orchestration of your branding and business development endeavors in a way that helps salespeople acquire new potential customers and ultimately prompt those leads to make a purchase decision. Bridges the Gap Between the Content Strategy of Marketing and Sales.

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markempa

JANUARY 21, 2013

And, as we marketers have embraced digital, the value of face-to-face interactions has increased. Yet, many companies still measure marketers on cost-per-lead metrics when such metrics are inadequate for measuring face-to-face interactions at trade shows. The real value of trade show interactions.

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Valasys

JANUARY 23, 2020

Lead generation forms the bedrock of a highly successful B2B sales strategy. The conventional funnel structure of a B2B buyer has transcended to a loop-like structure, wherein, the customers prefer to do multiple pieces of research before they make a final buying decision. Read more on B2B Marketing in Martech Age.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As more buyers work from home and utilize digital channels for a self-driven buying experience, Connected TV (CTV)—which includes Smart TV’s and other devices that allow brands to reach their audiences through internet targeting—has emerged as a compelling choice for B2B marketers seeking to enhance their multi-channel ABM strategy.

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Conversica

APRIL 18, 2019

Any company involved in lead generation or lead purchasing may find the new marketing technology can dramatically improve marketing return on investment (ROI) and accelerate the sales process. Many companies generate a lot of marketing leads but then waste many of them, which drags down their results.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Building Customer Relationships will be Paramount: Not just generating an ample amount of leads through the lead generation campaigns would be important, but the marketers will also have to give new dimensions to prospecting & conversions. The conventional structure of the buying funnel is dead.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 13, 2015

In this episode Paul went over modern marketing, lead generation, and how important storytelling is for the buyer's journey. Below are a few highlights from our conversation: TechnologyAdvice: What does a modern marketing program look like these days? Or they want the ability to control the buying journey themselves?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Valasys

APRIL 13, 2020

Keeping in view the dynamism of B2B businesses and the overarching influence it cascades in the client acquisition, lead nurturing, sales conversions and client retention, there are several reasons to prefer agile CRM integrations over the waterfall. Value Proposition. However, the development of CRM software is fairly new.

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Go Beyond SEO

AUGUST 16, 2018

For example, you can structure your campaigns to target your ideal audience based on where they are in the buying cycle. Are you trying to generate leads or increase revenue? Average position also indicates how your Ad Rank compares with other ads. A higher Quality Score can mean lower CPCs and better ad positions.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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