The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Familiarity engenders trust and primes them to buy from you.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multiple decision-makers on a purchasing team do their own online solution research when buying a complex B2B solution. Gartner research suggests sales reps only have 5% of a buyer’s time during their B2B buying journey, so it’s up to marketers to arm buying groups with all the information needed to make an informed decision.

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Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s about building positive brand awareness and strong relationships throughout the entire customer lifecycle. We face a changing B2B buying landscape with longer sales cycles and larger buying committees made up of increasingly independent decision-makers.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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. Yet, generally speaking, a lead can be considered anyone who begins to exhibit buying behaviors.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. On the other hand, while it is aided by top-of-funnel awareness that demand generation drives, lead generation is the process of converting sales-ready prospects into qualified pipeline. You aren’t the only one to think so.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion? Awareness Stage 2.

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Inbox Insight

MARCH 29, 2022

Measuring brand awareness remains a key challenge for B2B marketers due to its intangible nature, causing it to all too often become overlooked in multi channel strategy. Why should brand awareness feature in your B2B multi channel strategy? Read on to discover 5 key reasons…. Reading time: 5 minutes. What is brand awareness?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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. Yet, generally speaking, a lead can be considered anyone who begins to exhibit buying behaviors.

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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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Outgrow

MARCH 30, 2021

And, every stage of the marketing funnel involves some kind of demand generation strategy to make this goal successful. It’s important to evaluate every step we take to make the demand generation funnel smooth and more effective. This helps your sales team check how their pipeline is performing. Average Sales Cycle Length .

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markempa

MARCH 2, 2017

In this article, I’ll share how to apply lead nurturing to help advance leads through three stages of your lead generation funnel to get more qualified opportunities. Here’s the thing: Our customer’s don’t see our funnels. Yet, it’s helpful to notice that all customer buying cycles fit into three distinct funnel stages.

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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. Yet within all these touches is the holy grail of B2B KPIs: campaign ROI. As mentioned above, this essentially becomes the first touch.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic approach that coordinates personalized marketing and sales efforts to open doors and deepen engagement at specific accounts. When focused on leads, the top of the funnel becomes the 1st target to analyze. What’s the volume of known visitors entering the funnel? It] is about influence.”

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The Lead Agency

AUGUST 20, 2020

Source: [link] The B2B marketing funnel has become longer and more complicated. B2B buyers now conduct much more research on their own before speaking to a seller, and expect the same digital experience they encounter during the B2C sales cycle with their B2B purchase decisions.

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Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2014

The “why” part is pretty clear: Business buying cycles tend to be long, and involve multiple parties at either end. Marketers produce campaigns to generate an inquiry, then qualify that interest with a series of outbound communications, and finally pass the qualified lead to a sales rep for follow up.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel. CX is how your leads and customers see your brand throughout your funnel. They are already used to slick, streamlined interfaces and experiences in their buying process, so they want the same in their B2B interactions. What makes your CX stand out? Source: Salesmanago.

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SalesIntel

JULY 12, 2021

Outbound sales reps are generally equipped with a tech stack to enable their outreach like sequencing tools, dialing platforms, prospecting platforms, gifting/rewards tools, etc. Outbound sales cycles tend to be longer since by necessity there is more warming and education involved compared to inbound leads. Start small.

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Bannerflow

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These target audience segments help marketers create content and personalised ads specifically for people who are more likely to buy their products. Demographic targeting can work better with top-of-the-funnel campaigns where you’re trying to create awareness of your brand within a specific group. Behaviour targeting.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

TOFU means top-of-the-funnel, MOFU is middle-of-the-funnel, and BOFU is bottom-of-the-funnel. What is this funnel I speak of? Your revenue model, which has defined stages with business rules (agreed upon by marketing and sales) that determine where each prospect is in the sales cycle.

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Has your marketing funnel dried up? Is your sales team stranded in a barren desert of ‘not interested’ and ‘put me on your do-not-call list’? Increasing the size of your marketing funnel will lead to more opportunities in your pipeline, which will inevitably equate to more closed won business for your company.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

first-touch, last-touch, linear, algorithmic) Attribution models – can be categorized into various types (e.g., first-touch, last-touch, linear, time decay, algorithmic). Oversimplified Attribution – Does not account for the multifaceted nature of modern sales funnels, potentially missing valuable insights.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

By understanding how quickly accounts move through your funnel, you can more effectively forecast, make revenue projections, and optimize your sales process. There are a few ways to measure sales velocity (sometimes referred to as pipeline velocity): Total time spent from opportunity creation to close date. Why should you care?

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Terminus

OCTOBER 26, 2018

No matter how many leads you have today, sales will demand more tomorrow. Here are three reasons why relying on leads is horrible for your funnel. Leads Will Never Buy From You. Leads Are Generated Too Late in the Sales Process. Sales Doesn’t Really Want Leads. T arget the best-fit accounts most likely to buy.

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DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To the contrary, nurturing programs should be augmented with multi-touch, multichannel marketing or sales campaigns to yield the greatest results and ROI. No amount of advertising can shorten the sales cycle. Use them to create engagement until prospects are ready to move further down the funnel.

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DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To the contrary, nurturing programs should be augmented with multi-touch, multichannel marketing or sales campaigns to yield the greatest results and ROI. No amount of advertising can shorten the sales cycle. Use them to create engagement until prospects are ready to move further down the funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Usually, leads which might be sales ready next month or next quarter are “noise” or “distracting”. It’s now time for us to invest in an inside sales rep to mange our MOFU (speakers referred often to “Middle of Funnel” activities). I heard marketers judged by lead quantity, conversion quality, % of revenue, and a mix of these.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most of us are solving sales and marketing problems. But instead, we need focus on solving customer buying problems with empathy. Because buying is harder today than ever been. According to Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor, Gartner, “empathy” is the one word that matters most to sales [and marketing] success.

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Contently

MARCH 21, 2023

For smaller businesses with simpler marketing systems, tighter budgets, and shorter sales cycles, a single-touch attribution model may be sufficient. There are two types of single-touch attribution models. These models can take time to build, especially for newer companies without mature content.

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Terminus

JANUARY 3, 2018

ABM unites the go-to-market team around orchestrating their engagement with key people in target accounts, which leads to efficient growth and exceptional buying experiences. Shortened average sales cycle by 20 days. Six months ago, we didn’t have a way to effectively measure marketing’s impact throughout the funnel.

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Terminus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In our conversations with HubSpot, we roughed out a visual that blends the inbound funnel with the flipped funnel of account-based marketing. Maybe we should call it the bowtie funnel?). By complementing lead scores with measures of account engagement, marketers can confidently gauge an account’s interest and buying intent.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 9, 2024

The goal of lead nurturing is to help potential customers on their buying journey. It’s about helping them progress along the way to get more sales. I define lead nurturing as consistent and meaningful communication with viable potential customers regardless of their timing to buy. Or doing random acts of nurturing.

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MKT1

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With the complexities of go-to-market motions, funnel mapping, and tooling, I understand why this is the case—but it’s definitely something you need to fix! Use us as a pipeline accelerator to: engage buying committees, improve demo and event attendance rates, boost email open/response rates, and amplify field marketing efforts.

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InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2019

And in order for today’s marketers to be successful full-funnel strategists, marketing automation platforms (MAPs) need to provide more. And, without these insights, the sophistication of today’s campaigns is jeopardized, along with the tight coordination needed between sales and marketing. Multi-touch attribution.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 27, 2020

Or whoever you’re targeting, whatever decision making group you’re targeting, they’re all going to have different goals and we want to make sure to speak to all of them, so you can create that collective buy-in and change why they should be working with you versus maybe a competitor or why they even need to change at all.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” We help you build your pipeline by finding the right people and making sure that we have the human touch of quality across the board with the data. Those are the five things we’re going to touch upon. This shows you how big is the market, who can possibly buy your solution. That’s about SalesIntel and me.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” We help you build your pipeline by finding the right people and making sure that we have the human touch of quality across the board with the data. Those are the five things we’re going to touch upon. This shows you how big is the market, who can possibly buy your solution. That’s about SalesIntel and me.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2022

Otherwise, you risk losing buy-in from executives, your marketing budget — or worse. Monitor These ABM Success Metrics ABM is a sales-oriented marketing approach that leverages data to identify, target, and engage priority accounts. ABM success metrics can be broken down in many ways, including where they fall in the sales cycle.

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