The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In order to optimise the performance of any marketing campaign, it is essential to know your target audience. This means going further than demographics to get a real sense of who your buyer is and what drives them. This can be done by building buyer personas. Steps to Creating a Buyer Persona in B2B.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If Marketing Automation Migration: Switching Platforms Made Easy Migrating your marketing automation platform doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 130

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

As marketing technology and information access continues to evolve, B2B buying behavior changes as well. For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. The Seven Phases of the Buyer Experience Journey. What Are Buyer Personas?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2023

Winning the battle means developing a solid strategy and tactics in operations and marketing. How can you gather intel to help you improve your content marketing strategy? Learn how to perform and ace competitor content analysis in this simple breakdown. Execute monthly or quarterly reviews of your annual analysis.

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Sales Engine

JULY 29, 2016

) Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

) Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

Buyer Personas 120

Buyer Personas Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Leads 120

Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether your goal is to acquire leads, boost sales, or increase conversions, content is vital to moving people through the buyer’s journey. From bylined articles to informational videos, content helps prospects learn about brands and gather information about their products and services.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. Here’s your current B2B buyer. Quick Takeaways. We Live in a Digital Marketplace.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

What is striking is the funnel view has changed very little during the past twenty years. Oh, I know we have the buyer’s journey, curve shapes, non-linear shapes, flywheels, and etc. But if you and I are being honest, the most significant development is the funnel was flipped from its vertical view to a horizontal view.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 2, 2021

When it comes to content marketing, how do you know what to write about? The answer is simple: conduct a content gap analysis. In short, this analysis will help you find gaps in your content marketing strategy and show you exactly how to fill them. What is Content Gap Analysis? Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Trends Lead Scoring 288

Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From seasonal upticks and downturns in sales to market trends to consumer behavior tendencies, ecommerce brands must manage a variety of factors when attempting to surpass the average CR of (approximately) 2%. Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. Let’s dive in.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers?

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

As marketers, we strive to understand and adapt to the dynamic needs of our target audiences. While buyer personas have been the key component of many marketing strategies, what if the key to unlocking more effective and resonant content lies not in demographic details but in the intricacies of an individual’s personality ?

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many evolved business and marketing strategies to meet the new digital-first focus, heightened customer expectations, and so much more. To help put marketing efforts of this past year in perspective, we’re looking back at some of our top marketing content of 2021, focusing on B2B marketing strategies and new trends.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

Most marketers understand this basic concept: You should create personalized content for your site visitors. But the question is where to start, especially if your product or service targets multiple buyers. Delivering the right content to the right person at the right time may seem like a daunting task at first glance.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

As video marketing continues taking the world by storm, more businesses adopt it as a pivotal strategy to educate consumers, generate leads, and boost ROI. Video marketing can be a powerful way to reach new prospects and provide extra value to new and long-term customers alike. 93% say it’s an integral part of their strategy.

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Lake One

AUGUST 9, 2022

This is probably because the company lacks a mid-funnel marketing strategy. Each stage of the buyer’s journey needs customized content that easily guides buyers along their way to make a purchase. . Read more about creating a successful mid-funnel marketing strategy below. Case Studies .

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Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. Those ideas can really move the needle.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

In a previous post, I shared a four-step process for creating in-depth B2B buyer personas. In this post, I’ll discuss how the details of a buyer persona inform a content marketing strategy. 9 Components of a B2B Buyer Persona. A Day in the Life. Objectives.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. Access this and more Content Disrupted episodes on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Google Podcasts. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests?

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing . In the current B2B marketing field, your prospect’s engagement levels are directly tied to how well your content is tailored to specific target groups. Ideally, you need to have different content offerings for different targets. Pain points/needs

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Tony Zambito

JULY 10, 2011

In part 1 of this reflection on the future of buyer personas, I focused on how it is important to leave some of the major misconceptions about buyer personas behind in order to peer into the future.    Without a doubt, we are seeing the most dramatic change in buyer behaviors since post World War II. 

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 18, 2011

  Adam gives us a good sense of the numbers and dollars being invested in demand generation and marketing automation.  In the article, Adam lays out three reasons why failure exists: Your plan is not built around your target buyer. You don’t frame your demand generation plans in terms of the “reverse funnel math”.

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Brandpoint

APRIL 3, 2019

Is the marketing funnel obsolete? While the funnel isn’t (and shouldn’t be) completely dead, there HAS been a shift in the way content marketers work within the company to best serve a customer. What is the marketing flywheel? Attract phase tactics include: Blog posts and content marketing.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pandemic has posed challenges for all facets of businesses, including marketing and technology. An excellent way to do that is by creating a well-planned senior care marketing funnel. What is a marketing funnel? A key and introductory piece of this marketing funnel is often referred to as the buyer’s journey.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2020

You create mindful content. After all, you’ve embraced the results of a detailed content marketing audit, hired a branding firm to polish your messaging and discovered hundreds of attributes about your target audience. When we envision the customer journey, we refer to a classic conical “funnel.”

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Oktopost

JANUARY 25, 2024

Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. The strategic use of intent data allows you to identify key accounts, nurture them with content that speaks directly to their needs, and guide sales conversations to closed-won.

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Integrated B2B

AUGUST 14, 2017

Buyer personas have been used for years to help marketers hone in on what causes purchasers to make positive buying decisions. B2C buyer personas are relatively straightforward. B2B buyer personas are a tad more difficult. They could prove valuable for your content marketing later.

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Integrated B2B

AUGUST 14, 2017

Buyer personas have been used for years to help marketers hone in on what causes purchasers to make positive buying decisions. B2C buyer personas are relatively straightforward. B2B buyer personas are a tad more difficult. They could prove valuable for your content marketing later.

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Buyer Personas Psychographics B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 40

FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Even before the internet, corporate video was a powerful (and expensive) tool in the marketing mix. During the 2000s, video production costs plummeted, bandwidth increased, and B2B videos quickly became a staple for online marketing. Choose one key point: Simplicity is vital in short-form video content.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Its potential for storytelling and marketing is undeniable, making AI in B2B marketing and sales a transformative force, reshaping interactions with brands, information, and services. The world of B2B marketing automation is on the brink of a full-fledged AI-driven revolution. But what is the path to reeling in those big fish?

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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SnapApp

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As marketers, we’re always working to build deeper relationships with our audience. If you’ve started developing buyer personas , you’re well on your way to matching your marketing up with your audience’s specific needs and interests. Consider the Whole Buyer’s Journey. How can we learn what makes them tick?

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