Litmus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Marketing leaders often have a love/let down relationship with our marketing technology stacks. Is marketing artificial intelligence (AI) the latest technology that looks great on paper, but fails to meet our expectations? Within our organizations, marketing has perhaps the most to gain from AI.

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Hubspot

JULY 30, 2020

Technical marketing is a key aspect of a successful content marketing strategy, particularly if your organization deals with complex products and services. But it can be difficult when your marketers don't have a firm understanding of the technical aspects behind your product. What is technical marketing?

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2023

Without summarizing the whole movie, I’ll limit my plot synopsis to mention that things do not go to plan for the team that visits the planet. The mysterious force of gravity is the most vivid analogy I can use to describe the power of a successful inbound content marketing plan. So journey with me!

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

It's important for companies to engage in content marketing to build their online presence and grow brand awareness outside of word of mouth. The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. But there were some bright spots.

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Albacross

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To meet ideal buyers earlier in the journey and make an impact before your competitors do so, B2B companies need to craft company-wide strategies to dig deeper into the unseen buyer journey. times more likely to make a quick buying decision. **IICP (In-market Ideal Customer Profile)**. However, there is hope.

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Aberdeen

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are words that indicate the position within the buyers journey. Early Stage Words – certain prominent phrases indicate early journey stages, as the prospective buyer educates themselves on industry trends and terminology (i.e., ‘how how to’, ‘definition’, ‘why’, ‘idea’, ‘white paper’, etc.).

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Walker Sands

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to a recent report from eMarketer , while 86 perfect of B2B marketers have a content marketing strategy, only 11 percent describe their strategy as being “very effective.”. Conduct audience research to develop buyer personas. Are you struggling to create strategic content that gets real results for your B2B brand?

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Michael Dillon is the VP of Marketing and Business Development at NovaLink. Making a strategic marketing plan for a manufacturing company is a unique challenge. Marketing a specific widget is simpler because the scope of what you must cover is narrow. Starting Out: Make a Solid Plan.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 26, 2020

What’s the best way to market your firm? . While that may sound like a trick question, recent research has produced tangible, practical answers that can help firms make smarter marketing decisions. Even firms that embrace online marketing often do it wrong, wasting precious time and money. So how should you market your firm?

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Here is our countdown of the top-trending pieces and posts generating buzz and airplay in content marketing. These intriguing conversations and case studies not only drove eyeballs and downloads but stirred some interesting comments and dialogue along the way. Five AI Solutions Transforming B2B Marketing. An Artificial Future.

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Onalytica B2B

JULY 26, 2018

Kim Kardashian’s Instagram faux pas in 2015 sent shivers down many a marketers’ spine within the Pharma industry. It is getting increasingly harder to get noticed and heard on Social Media and so several brands have taken to paid influencer marketing as a means of increasing brand and product awareness. The Kim K effect.

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NetLine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unless you’re Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit , navigating the B2B buyer journey can feel like you’re playing a multi-level chess game. What is the B2B buyer journey? We make this happen by understanding the stages of the B2B buyer journey and learning what our customers need at each stage.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes As a leading strategy for B2B SaaS marketing, account-based marketing (ABM) has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

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nDash

APRIL 27, 2021

However, that isn’t the case. One of the primary reasons your company needs a content strategy is to reduce content marketing challenges. Some marketers view content strategies as the approach, culture, and mindset they must have to deliver appropriate content across every buyer journey stage.

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SnapApp

MARCH 14, 2018

And most of that territory falls squarely in the wheelhouse of marketers. . When we really think about it, our job as marketers is to efficiently move our prospects to make the right decisions – to invest in us and buy what we're selling. Consider and plan for how will you implement the most logical solution identified. .

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Launch Marketing

JULY 11, 2017

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which businesses target a clearly defined set of targeted accounts and create personalized campaigns focused on key decision makers within those accounts. Marketing efforts are thus more personalized to the individual prospects and can lead to higher conversion rates. Company Size.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? What are the most important marketing automation features?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While attending the Momentum ITSMA Marketing Vision 2022 event in Cambridge MA, I was very fortunate to attend an excellent pre-conference workshop “What Buyers Want from your Thought Leadership: Understanding Changing Executive Preferences” led by Robert Hollier , Partner, and Jeanne Browne , Senior Strategist, Momentum ITSMA.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While much of this change is negative and the long-term consequences are yet to be fully understood, it has also introduced many new opportunities for businesses and marketers. Every department in these organizations has had to change without any prior warning or planning. Welcome to the Digital Marketing Renaissance.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Her approach showed how an integrated campaign combining four types of media channels creates a combined effect greater than the sum of its parts: * Paid Media are marketing efforts that involve a paid placement. Examples include ebooks, videos, case studies, recorded Webinars, and blog posts. A white paper can be a short blog post.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had nearly 1,600 people sign up for our webinar last week on “ How To Plan And Build An Effective Content Marketing Strategy. We believe that content marketing is starting to have a dramatic impact inside marketing organizations for business both large and small. Content marketing and SEO are totally connected.

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Hubspot

APRIL 29, 2015

One of the key elements of inbound marketing is the use of automated workflows because they allow you to better engage leads through a set of targeted emails, while saving time by automating the process. Workflows can be used to help nurture potential students through their buyer’s journey with your institution.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2017

If you are a professional services marketing director, firm principal or stakeholder, this guide will help you understand the value of brand design and how you can use it to attract better prospects and improve engagement and start building loyalty at the earliest stages of the buyer journey. Who Is this Guide For?

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

With your inventory scores in hand (see Pre-requisite Work), we are ready to locate those gaps in knowledge, skills, or time and start considering what will be a priority in either hiring (as budget allows) or outsourcing in order to accomplish your now-progressing marketing mission. High-Level Marketing Tasks. Pre-requisite Work.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

B2B marketers who blog get 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. While cultivating a winning business blog requires commitment and planning, it’s not as hard as most business owners think. Because it’s so universal, everyone in website maintenance and content marketing knows how to use it. Subscribing to your newsletter.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 24, 2024

As SaaS solutions continue to make their rise in the market, your solution must stand out. One way to do that is through powerful marketing. A SaaS marketing strategy tailored to the unique interests of your audience can help you drive business growth and increase revenue. Define Buyer Personas. Download it now.

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 1, 2024

The rise of inbound marketing focused on attracting potential customers through valuable content and building trust, perfectly complements the SaaS model. Strength in Demand for SaaS Products and Services Even as economic uncertainty still hovers on the horizon, recent surveys point to resiliency in the SaaS products and services market.

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Contently

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While you know content is integral to your lead nurturing strategy, you need more tangible results from your content marketing teams. Are the demand generation marketers working hand in hand with content? After all, your brand narrative is an integral part of storytelling in content marketing. The end goal?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 7, 2020

The key to successful content marketing is always – and always will be – understanding your customers’ needs. That needs to be the axle around which all your content marketing turns. Look at Every Stage of Their Buyer’s Journey. At any one moment, your blog has readers who are at every stage of their customer journey.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth.

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While the focus of content marketing is to attract leads, it doesn’t necessarily help convert prospects into customers. The marketing team should also ask sales what content they use at each step of the buyers’ journey. Create new content to fuel both sales and marketing teams. Align content to the buyers’ journey.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2016

In most cases, that's not how purchases are made. And thank goodness, otherwise many of us marketers would be out of a job.). Although it's called a "sales" funnel, it's been at the heart of marketing for ages. It's a marketer's job to give them the fuel to move them along the funnel toward a purchase.

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Only B2B

JANUARY 25, 2023

Getting leads is quite simple, but getting marketing-qualified prospects that are likely to convert is more difficult. To achieve this, marketers must invest more time in their research and create an efficient lead generation funnel. On the other hand, they have already started the customer journey.

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Hinge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Many professional services firms still struggle with digital marketing. Others have invested half-heartedly in marketing technology but lack the knowledge, skills and commitment to make the most of them. In this article, we will not recommend specific digital marketing platforms or technologies. They cost less.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2020

The first two categories are nurtured to become the third category and finally, to become a buyer. You need a strategy and a detailed lead nurturing workflow to be able to convert marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads and then to a buyer. Marketing Qualified Leads are in their early phase of buyer journey.

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