Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2020

Nurturing leads has never been simple for B2B companies – in fact, it often tops the charts when marketing and sales teams are asked about their greatest challenges. However, there are several tactics that are not just rumored to be effective (across the board to various extents) but have the data to back them up. Let’s dive in.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. They’ve already gone through the awareness stage of the buyer’s journey. Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing. Sales agrees! Outbound Lead Generation.

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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. The Shift to Customer-Centric Marketing. Source: Pew Research. at the right time.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 25, 2021

As a marketer, creating and publishing the right content in the proper context is essential. Many marketers can waste precious time, energy, and resources producing the wrong content for the wrong audiences. Many marketers waste their time, energy, and resources producing the wrong types of content for the wrong audiences.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2021

If you’re in the initial stages of building a new business, you may feel overwhelmed and underprepared to manage your ever-growing marketing to-do list. We’re here today to help simplify what can be a complex process: building a successful content marketing program. What is a Content Marketing Program?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today, an effective digital marketing strategy relies on content that stands out because it’s genuinely engaging for readers, viewers, or listeners. One of the best ways to do this is by creating an interactive content funnel that segments prospects while turning them into customers. Guest post by Daniel Ndukwu.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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Cintell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Video marketing is officially the top content format B2B marketers used in 2019. While video has become a quintessential component of today’s content marketing strategy , it’s like any other medium. And this is why buyer personas are so important. They take the guesswork out of marketing.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. I am using the term “digital-first” for a reason.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? 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.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The past two decades have brought disruptive technological change and radically reshaped B2B marketing practices. Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. Cold calls, trade shows, direct mail, and print ads were the primary forms of marketing. Market size analysis.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most of us are solving sales and marketing problems. According to Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor, Gartner, “empathy” is the one word that matters most to sales [and marketing] success. I find both of those attributes of empathy to be potentially hugely powerful for anyone in sales or marketing.

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Trade Press Services

APRIL 28, 2025

For B2B marketers, truly knowing their customers is the holy grail, but getting there is no easy feat. With the right prompts for generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Jasper, marketers can simulate buyer conversations, extract insights from raw data, and even fill in the gaps when feedback is sparse.

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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?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 21, 2021

Familiarizing yourself with the industry by learning about the core metrics and pain points is the key to filling your sales pipeline with qualified medical and healthcare leads. It’s important to learn about the perspective of your various buyer personas in order to create content that resonates with them.

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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. And influencing buyer decisionsis what marketing is all about!

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markempa

JANUARY 25, 2018

. #10: How to Improve Lead Routing to Skyrocket Sales . Have you intentionally optimized your sales lead routing and assignment process? If not, you could be losing sales, and marketing ROI not see it. Over 25% of marketing-generated leads get assigned to the wrong person. Did you catch that?

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Marketing automation is a tool that promises to help streamline workflows, scale with ease, and get better results. Yet creating better strategies requires better data, and this is where many marketers get stuck. That’s why we’ve pulled together our favorite B2B marketing automation strategies to set you on the path to success.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 30, 2019

As a B2B marketer, there’s a good chance you are a part of a large team, which is one piece of a much larger organization. While your team may have all types of strategies in place to carry out marketing messages, without B2B buyer personas, you could be missing the mark when it comes to getting your efforts consumed by target audiences.

Buyer Personas 125

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Lead Forensics

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, a seamless sales funnel is crucial for turning potential customers into loyal buyers. However, many businesses find their sales funnels leaking leads at various stages, which impact revenue and growth opportunities. increase in sales and a 1.8x

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To achieve success in modern digital B2B marketing, the alignment of marketing and sales teams is no longer optionalit’s a necessity. Despite the clear benefits, achieving harmony between marketing and sales remains challenging for many B2B organizations. What is B2B Marketing and Sales Alignment?

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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. And influencing buyer decisions is what marketing is all about !

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Success in B2B marketing isnt just about delivering the right message. B2B buyers engage with brands across multiple platforms, making consistency and strategic coordination essential. Integrated marketing also eliminates redundancies and focuses resources on tactics that drive results.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2022

B2B marketers spend a great deal of time, effort, and money on top-of-funnel activities to drive website traffic. Converting those visitors into potential customers and putting them on the path to a sale is essential in order to see a return on that investment. You Know the Steps of the B2B Purchasing Process.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? David identified four factors key to Enli’s ABM success: process, culture, attitude, and metrics. In terms of background, Enli is a Portland-based company with a population health management platform for health systems.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Its one thing to drive traffic to your site, but its a completely different thing to turn that interest into sales. You can also start to pattern the behaviors that indicate a high-intention buyer so you know where to channel your sales efforts. But for B2B marketers, the key is turning those insights into conversions.

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Webbiquity

MAY 11, 2021

How large is the B2B market? An efficiency audit allows you to streamline processes and tap into the needs of your customers. Do you understand your target market? You might also look specifically at topics such as logistics, inventory control, customer relationship management , and user experience. Who are they?

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In order to win sales, you have to nurture your leads throughout the customer journey. If you overlook key steps in your lead nurturing process, you’ll miss valuable opportunities and see low conversion rates. Lack of an Effective Sales Pitch 6. Most people would like to skip this phase of the process. Rocketbots.io

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Optinmonster

JULY 18, 2024

If you’re looking for a proven way to boost traffic and increase conversions, then you need a video marketing strategy. Here at OptinMonster , we’ve been refining our video marketing strategy for years. Of course, growing a YouTube channel is just 1 aspect of video marketing. What Is Video Marketing?

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

And if you jump into it without a solid strategy in place, you aren’t going to see game-changing results (or a happy sales team). In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If So let’s break it down.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 13, 2022

B2B buyers have relied heavily on search for years, but recent research shows that Gen Z and Millennial buyers are 2X more likely than older generations to discover a product by searching online. That makes SEO one of the top areas of investment for B2B marketing teams. Affiliate sales support independent publishing.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Engaging, mobile-friendly, and easy to consume, online video has become a mainstay for B2B marketers. According to recent research , 81% of businesses now use video as a marketing tool, and almost 77% say they are getting results with it. digital marketing directors) or vertical (e.g., healthcare providers)?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? 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.

Sales Management 177

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When I first pioneered the concept of buyer insights research and developing buyer personas seventeen plus years ago, the “sales funnel” was something you could count on not changing that drastically over a few years. Back in 1994, there was a book by Bradley Gale entitled Managing Customer Value.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 17, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Must Adapt To A New Era For B2B To Succeed With ABM And ABX. ABM (Account-Based Marketing) has consistently been viewed as either a glass-half-full or a glass-half-empty program. Depending on which surveys you read, statistics are available to show ABM as a successful tactic for marketing.

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