ClearVoice

APRIL 11, 2019

A B2B buyer persona represents your ideal client decision-maker. When developing your buyer persona, address all the issues and aspects that may have an impact on how, when, and why the person will buy. Personas are marketing code for “knowing your audience.” Build buyer personas with collective knowledge.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Marketing and sales teams are famously frenemies. Sales and marketing alignment is no small task, but it’s not a mystery. Real or imagined cultural clashes (“Marketers are mired in process and research.” Sales and marketing alignment isn’t easy, but it’s one of the most efficient ways to improve your business.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2023

CRM software, buyer intent data, competitive analysis, automation, CMS, and web analytics are vital decision intelligence tools. What Are the 6 Decision Intelligence Tools That Should Be in Your Marketing Toolkit? Use a CRM with built-in predictive analytics to gain deeper insights into your customers and their patterns.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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PureB2B

JUNE 23, 2022

While online B2B buying habits have changed dramatically in the past decade, today's B2B buyer journey looks a lot different than it did just a couple of years ago. Therefore, as Forrester states, the role of B2B marketing is “no longer to attract and persuade; it’s really to engage buyers and help them through their journey.”.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 18, 2021

Customer relationship management, or CRM, as we all know it, is about making sure the customer is at the center of everything you do. In today’s consumer-focused milieu, your CRM should be one of your tech stack’s MVPs. CRM applications can be used for more than just the recording of customer touch points. Need more convincing?

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 12, 2017

It is safe to say that no industry or B2B markets will go without some form of disruption affecting buyers and buying behaviors. More so than in consumer oriented markets, B2B markets had a degree of predictability that companies often relied on. At issue is much of analytics remains tactical.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. 30-50% of CRM and ERP data is inaccurate,” says Henry Schuck, Founder, and CEO of ZoomInfo. Buyer personas don’t hold up.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. If your company isn’t harnessing the potential of content marketing , then you could be losing valuable opportunities to attract, interest, and convert buyers. Build a Content Strategy. Pillars in Place?

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. You’re familiar with the B2B buyer’s journey : moving prospects through the awareness, consideration, and decision stages of the buying process. Buyer intent data will help you learn “why” a lead is looking for a solution to their problem.

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SalesGrape

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

One such challenge is navigating through strict regulations and compliance requirements that govern pharmaceutical marketing. These regulations limit what marketers can say about their products, making it crucial for businesses to find innovative ways to engage potential buyers while staying compliant.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? There’s a lot to navigate when searching for the best marketing practices for your emerging company. Knowing when and how to get a realistic and effective marketing strategy off the ground may even seem daunting. Start-Up Marketing Fundamentals.

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Lake One

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) aligns the efforts of both marketing and sales to target high-value clients. It’s a way to optimize the marketing process and create more value for all stakeholders (prospects included!). Advertising in Inbound vs Account-Based Marketing Most B2B marketers are leveraging an Inbound playbook.

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Contently

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s clear that in 2023, generic, one-size-fits-all marketing simply doesn’t cut it anymore. The good news is there’s no need for marketers to pivot careers just yet. Yet, despite the personalization, all these content marketing efforts still remain consistent with your brand’s core identity. The result?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2024

ICP vs. buyer persona: Which is the way to go? ICP is more of a big-picture strategic direction or target market and high-potential accounts, while buyer persona is more of the people behind it and closing deals with specific individuals. This means you need to take into account all of them.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a lot of benefits to most B2B organizations. All of these things can clearly lead to a more profitable company and a better customer experience, which is why many companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budget towards this strategy. Why Sales Marketing Alignment Matters.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The global B2B intent data market is expected to reach a value of USD 2.16 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 22.7% – [ Forbes report ] At this point, where the marketing landscape is full of noise, the most successful B2B businesses are already reaping the benefits of intent data — to maximize revenue.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 28, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B sales and marketing, the key to achieving outstanding results lies in the art of marketing orchestration. But what exactly is marketing orchestration, and why is it so crucial?

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In order to build a sustainable business, generate new customers, and retain existing customers, companies must invest in a solid marketing strategy. No matter which manufacturing niche you operate in, understanding the Buyer’s Journey is critical. Where do your marketing operations fall on the maturity scale?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Focus on the Buyer.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 7, 2023

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]In the ever-evolving world of B2B marketing, harnessing the power of automation is paramount. Let’s start with a glimpse of what B2B marketing automation is, then explore its working, importance, distinction from CRM, and other insights.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The importance of lead generation is ingrained in the mind of every modern marketer— the more high-quality leads you bring in, the better. But, as the buyer’s journey becomes increasingly multifaceted, it’s now clear that lead generation is just one piece of the marketing puzzle. Create buyer personas.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Third-party cookies, once a cornerstone of data collection for marketers, are slowly being phased out to improve consumer privacy protection. Marketers who acknowledge and address this demand will be able to build relationships with customers that keep them coming back for more.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Each stage has its challenges and conditions, and tackling them makes the buyer’s journey much smoother. When sales reps go hunting for new buyers at this stage, audiences already expect some sort of intervention. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Prospecting. Engagement.

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Cintell

APRIL 30, 2019

This has become a whole lot easier in the digital age with access to big data to inform us and provide guiding insights across a customer’s journey. You can also use your personas to find and add new contacts to your customer relationship management (CRM) system.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 4, 2022

In business, you deal with a lot of data – whether from your CRM, sales platform, or other sources. It is essential to leverage the data available to know when to engage or re-engage with your prospects throughout their buyer journey. . Understanding the Buyer’s Journey. What are they going to buy?

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SalesIntel

APRIL 4, 2022

In business, you deal with a lot of data – whether from your CRM, sales platform, or other sources. It is essential to leverage the data available to know when to engage or re-engage with your prospects throughout their buyer journey. . Understanding the Buyer’s Journey. What are they going to buy?

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

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BenchmarkONE

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A small business CRM can be an investment, but it can help your company grow in a myriad of ways that makes that investment totally worth it. . By next year, most businesses will be spending the largest portion of their software budgets on CRM systems. Your CRM software does more than just make life easier, though.

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Sharpspring

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Some types of marketing may seem self-explanatory. For instance, social media marketing builds connections with leads through social media networks, and email marketing is a stream of communication between you and your prospective customers via email. What is Product Marketing? Market Research. Market Adoption.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Winning strategies for account-based marketing (ABM) are essential for any director of marketing or CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization. We’ll start by discussing the importance of understanding your buyer personas and defining your ideal customer profile. Developing Buyer Personas C.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

Because of this it’s essential to have an Account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. The shift and the case for ABM: Anonymous buyer’s journey.

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NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

As an example, combining CRM data with intent data gives you a 360-degree perspective. Criteria like content engagement, webinar registrations, and search queries can be vital indicators of a prospect’s position in the buyer journey. You know who they are Where they’ve been searching And what problems they are trying to solve.

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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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SalesIntel

MAY 13, 2024

It prioritizes a journey of deep connection with the customer. For instance, the financial services industry, particularly capital markets, has traditionally been seen as product-centric. Today, capital markets technology is playing pivotal in enabling a customer-centric approach. What Is Customer-Centric Selling? But fret not!

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