Strategic-IC

JULY 1, 2020

ABM in the House: a series of conversations between Alex Olley, Co-founder of Reachdesk and Declan Mulkeen, CMO of Strategic IC, as they explore how to build an effective Account-based Marketing (ABM) programme. Here, Episode 1 outlines the key steps to define or redefine your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Episode 1 - Transcript.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing ABM Profiling 118

Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant. Need proof?

Tactics 75

Tactics B2B Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 75

Outgrow

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

What Is a Lead Funnel and How to Create One in 5 Minutes? Every business relies on a steady stream of leads to grow. That is why improving lead funnel efficiency should be among a company’s top priorities. What Is a Lead Funnel? Different Stages of a Lead Funnel. Different Stages of a Lead Funnel.

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 52

Strategic-IC

MARCH 5, 2018

As today’s B2B consumers increasingly ignore traditional interruptive marketing, marketers must adapt their strategies to succeed. For Marketing Directors today, that means having the confidence to change strategy; earning visibility through helping buyers reach the solutions they need. HubSpot State of Inbound 2015.

Inbound Marketing 118

Inbound Marketing Planning Campaigns Buyer Personas 118

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales team are active players in the blame game. While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Sound familiar? Remember: .

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads 99

SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. You need to reach the right prospects, fill your pipeline with quality leads , and eventually turn those folks into paying customers. Leads should: Have enough money to afford your solution.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking High Quality Lead Top of Funnel 103

Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the most important lead generation tactics you have at your disposal is your website. However, a poorly optimized website can be one of the biggest liabilities in your marketing practice. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Download an eBook?

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Qualified Leads 118

Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But then if it were, every B2B marketer would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that cover different marketing targets, channels, and lead sources. Creating a successful demand generation plan is not easy.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Demand Planning 120

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. Intent data is a dataset that proactively identifies potential buyers searching online for similar products and services that your company is selling.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This is where buyer personas come in. Buyer personas help you effectively connect your value propositions to customer pain points in a language they speak. Personas can help with many facets of your business, but in this article, we concentrate on their application to digital marketing.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Whether your sales process relies on inbound leads or targeted outreach, whether you’re a big company or small, whether your sale is complex or simple; inbound sales is relevant. Define your buyer's journey.

Sales Management 95

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SnapApp

MAY 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series that explores best practices for nurturing prospects, generating qualified leads, and improving conversion rate. In part one of this blog series, we looked at the ways marketers can lay the foundation for an effective lead generation strategy.

Sales Management 48

Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 48

Cintell

JANUARY 27, 2016

You Built Personas, Now What? Creating buyer personas is only half the battle. If your personas are wasting away at the bottom of a desk drawer, gathering dust up on the wall of your office, or sitting ignored on the company intranet, it’s time to reimagine their potential. For Demand Generation Marketers.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 19, 2019

Last week saw some 2,500 VCs, CEOs, C-suite and sales and marketing professionals come together in Paris to talk all things SaaS and B2B Tech Marketing. Consider - Outbound vs Inbound Lead Generation? How should SaaS companies generate leads? Adopt “Intelligent” Outbound - Account-Based Marketing.

Enterprise Management 78

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But then again, if it were that easy, every marketer of a B2B company would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that covers different marketing targets, channels and lead sources. Problem #2: Limited Marketing Channels.

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Demand Planning 62

SendinBlue

MARCH 16, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to improve on your existing activities, these marketing automation best practices will make sure you get the most from your efforts. And it’s true, automation has the potential to bring significant benefits for your marketing strategy. 7 Best Practices for Marketing Automation Success.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Practices 98

Albacross

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Social media has evolved into a booming marketing frontier, where businesses of all shapes and sizes flock. Among the main reasons for this boom, lead generation stands out. According to Hubspot, social media has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than inbound marketing, which is rather impressive. Fine-tune your profile.

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Social Media Lead Generation Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 65

Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As marketers, we understand the importance of incorporating social media into our marketing mix. In fact, 74% of global marketers continue to invest in social media marketing. Considering these factors, let’s go over eight ways that marketers can leverage social media to meet their business objectives.

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Outgrow

MAY 16, 2023

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! We recently interviewed Alex Mackrill for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! Common content marketing mistakes: focusing on irrelevant topics and using sales-driven calls to action too early 3. Welcome to another episode of Outgrow’s Marketer of the Month.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

Your B2B markets are changing rapidly. B2B buyers are more sophisticated than ever. Today's prospects filter out most attempts by companies to interrupt them with vendor and product focused marketing messages and sales pitches. Brave New B2B Marketing World Welcome to the brave new world of marketing.

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PureB2B

AUGUST 28, 2018

You think you used the right language , prepared for the call, and worked hard on understanding what to offer a particular lead. The painful truth of the matter is that these situations arise merely because you didn’t do enough research about your lead. Why It’s Important to Research Your Sales Leads.

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Research Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Automation Services Work Management 96

Sharpspring

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that.

Buyer Personas 72

Buyer Personas Top of Funnel Urgency Marketing Lead Ranking 72

Everything Technology Marketing

JULY 10, 2010

We often discuss in this blog how B2B marketing is becoming more complex, and how to manage this complexity. Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms.

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Sharpspring

JANUARY 23, 2020

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? And effectively developing buyer personas can help you do just that.

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Buyer Personas Tips Top of Funnel Urgency Marketing 76

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2020

This leads to subtle pushes like asking for a demo before the prospect is ready. Marketing automation and sales enablement tools are an absolute must. Challenge 3: Matching the prospect's position in the buyer's journey. Much of the buyer’s journey these days happens without the salesperson.

B2B Sales 59

B2B Sales Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B 59

Hubspot

MAY 16, 2017

As marketers, capturing buyer attention is everything. Yet, there has never been a harder time to earn buyer attention. Thanks to advances in technology and the abundance of information on the internet, today's buyers have a lot more knowledge and power. What is Intent-Based Marketing?

Intent Data 69

Intent Data Intent Lead Ranking Campaigns 69

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2016

All this despite record investments in marketing automation and sales enablement tools. Now consider that the top priority among B2B marketers is increasing the number of contacts/leads generated ( Source, State of Inbound 2015 ). Of course, a close second priority is converting contacts/leads into customers.

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Lead Nurturing Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 28

OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The inbound marketing for B2B landscape of 2018 is a brave new world for business – one virtually unrecognizable from years past. Go back to the start of the decade – concepts like content marketing, social media marketing, influencer marketing, and inbound marketing were years away from conception.

Inbound Marketing 28

Inbound Marketing Sales Management Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 28

Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2015

Your leads are the driver of your business. To grow and to gain customers you need to have quality leads that are actively engaged in your organization’s offerings—leads that are a fit for organizations strategy. Lets take a look at 10 lead quality myths and debunk them using facts derived from industry data.

Lead Ranking 28

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Qualified Leads 28

6sense

MAY 10, 2017

With all the new technologies that enable B2B marketers to use the sharp minds they were born with, it really is a whole lot more fun than it used to be. There are so many new tools and solutions to geek out about that it’s not surprising Marketing has become one of the largest stakeholders for IT investments in the enterprise.

Account Based Marketing 59

Account Based Marketing ABM Demand Generation Top of Funnel 59

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2022

A critical piece of any data-driven go-to-market strategy , data orchestration is used by marketing and sales operations teams (also known as revenue operations ), data engineers, and data analysts to prepare large swaths of actionable data deliver results for their business. It’s part science and part art.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

An effective strategy, whether developed in-house or through a professional SaaS SEO agency, is vital to achieving sustainable growth and success in the SaaS market. Whilst algorithms, market trends and best practices may evolve over time, the core principles of SEO remain unchanged. Where do your external links lead?

Top of Funnel 87

Top of Funnel Marketing Budget SEO Enterprise Management 87

accelerate agency

AUGUST 4, 2021

Marketing has changed dramatically over the last decade or so. Cast your mind back to this time ten years ago: things like social media marketing and content marketing were in their infancy compared to today. Today, marketing is a much more sophisticated business. How to craft powerful B2B inbound marketing strategies.

Inbound Marketing 98

Inbound Marketing B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy 98

SalesIntel

AUGUST 2, 2022

No matter how innovative your product is, its success may depend on how you market and sell it. Developing a go-to-market (GTM) plan ensures that you avoid costly mistakes, such as selling your product to the incorrect audience or in a market that’s already saturated with comparable offers. Firmographic Data .

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Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 52

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

At Green Leads, we offer targeted content syndication as part of a broader, systematic lead-generation effort based on the buyer journey. It’s important to understand the B2B buyer’s journey - the path the buyer takes from recognizing a need to purchase your product or service.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Cost per Lead CPL 130

Single Grain

JUNE 3, 2021

This is a complete guide to finding and hiring a Director of Marketing for your business. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about: The role of Director of Marketing. Typical duties of a Marketing Director. Plus plenty of tips from the other side: how to land a job as a Marketing Director.

Resource Management 98

Resource Management Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 98

NetLine

AUGUST 2, 2023

B2B demand generation marketers face a growing list of challenges, from navigating complex buyer journeys to breaking through the noise of a crowded marketplace. High-quality, validated, opt-in leads are essential to driving sales and revenue growth, but generating them is no easy task. 3… 2… 1… Blast off!

Lead Generation 52

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