Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Business owners and marketers have had to quickly and repeatedly adapt their strategies , redefine how they do branding , and adjust their infrastructure in these unprecedented times. Among the aspects proving to be particularly challenging is content marketing. Content drought and lower ROI in the world of B2B marketing post-COVID.

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. According to our first party research conducted among our IFP audience, lead quality is the key focus for 40% of senior B2B marketers.

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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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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. But we also fully recognize the enduring factors that distinguish successful marketing in B2B versus B2C. Address the full funnel with your SEO content. This, in turn, will set up lower-funnel content to be more effective. #2.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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Lake One

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Successful full-funnel marketing strategies drive awareness, educate your audience and convert them to leads simultaneously using a variety of channels. Mobile devices (yes, your smartphone) make it easier for marketers to connect instantly with their audience. Read more below to discover top full-funnel marketing strategies.

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Biznology

AUGUST 10, 2015

With the majority of research being done online, the use of business online video production is increasing every day because video helps decision makers get the information they need very quickly. In June 2014, Aberdeen Research published a study called “Analyzing the ROI of Video Marketing.” Two of the stats revealed.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

The Growth Marketing movement (aka growth hacking ) – now nearly ten years old – has had a significant and positive impact on the efficacy of demand marketing. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. It’s time for Next Generation Growth Marketing.

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Modern B2B

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Are you using the right messaging for your buyer journey? On top of this, there is the added complication that a B2B buyer rarely travels this path alone. In today’s hyper-competitive environment, buyers are carrying out research up to 18 months before talking to sales. Intent Data. Nuancing your messaging.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

Just when you thought B2B buyer habits couldn’t change more dramatically, along comes the COVID pandemic. How should companies adapt their demand generation playbook to better serve the needs of the self-serve buyer? Key Finding 1: Buyers have all but replaced vendor-provided content.

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Martech

MAY 1, 2024

Rapidly advancing generative AI models promise to help scale marketing and sales functions by automating customer conversations. Are brands willing to trust digital assistants to take over the reigns for part of the customer journey? This means the engagements with the digital assistants advance customers in the journey.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recognizing the health threat raised by classrooms filled with students, schools and educational institutions are investigating how digital education and interactive learning can be extended and made more available in the midst of this global health crisis. 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study. 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Tomorrow People

JULY 21, 2021

As product marketing grows and business needs evolve, companies are pursuing a new multiskilled breed: the growth marketer. Marketers and the marketing skill set are always evolving as the business landscape changes, new technologies emerge, and customer expectations shift. What is growth marketing?

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Axel Kirstetter, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Guidewire. How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests? Buyers can enter and exit the funnel at any point, so content strategies must adjust accordingly.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 29, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Will Need To Activate Critical Buyer Insights To Meet New Buyer Behaviors in a New Era for B2B. Getting your hands on critical buyer insights that show how to gain the attention of buyers remains the most significant challenge facing B2B leaders. Resulting in ineffective buyer personas.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Novel formats, channels, and technologies like TikTok and ChatGPT are now driving forces behind buyer interest, opening up new ways for B2B brands to raise awareness about their products. 59% of marketers attribute revenue growth to marketing-generated leads , so demand-generation tactics remain a non-negotiable among marketing teams.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I said to her, “I know Sweety, but when you think about it – astronauts and marketers have a lot in common.”. Both marketers and astronauts are testers, explorers, and data scientists. For B2B marketers, especially, we’re both on a long complex journey, but we are not afraid to take bold steps. Above the Funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 8, 2020

Because digital technologies have disrupted the way we do business and customers have developed a distrust of brands, traditional advertising has lost its effectiveness. The growth of the internet has altered the customer journey significantly. Quick Takeaways: The buyer journey has changed. The New Buyer Journey.

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. But we also fully recognize the enduring factors that distinguish successful marketing in B2B versus B2C. Address the full funnel with your SEO content. This, in turn, will set up lower-funnel content to be more effective. #2.

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6sense

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Having been privy to the lead management processes of hundreds of B2B organizations of every stripe, I would estimate that at least half have internal demand funnel (AKA waterfall) stages that combine stages of their sales process with what are really stages of the buyer journey. Your Funnel Is Not Their Journey.

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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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Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? It’s been a long, but productive, journey. Enli is the market leader and always looking for ways to maintain their lead. I posed four questions to David about the journey to ABM. Fascinating stuff.

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Stevens & Tate

MARCH 7, 2023

The buyer’s journey has become a lot more complex over the years, especially since the advent of Internet. This is because consumers no longer rely on businesses to hold their hands and to guide them through their buyer’s journey. This also means that everyone’s buyer’s journey is different.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2022

This metric alone is not the measure of success, but it is a milepost on the way towards figuring out the return on investment (ROI) of the marketing spend. CPA “is not a standalone metric,” said Michael Brenner, CEO at Marketing Insider Group. What CPA really does is measure the efficiency of the marketing campaign, Brenner said.

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NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Here’s how it is done: Identify actively researching prospects: When prospects are actively researching a product or service, they leave a trail of digital footprints. Buyer-intent data captures these footprints (signals) and provides insight into the research buyers are doing and what their interests are.

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SalesIntel

JULY 28, 2023

Consumers nowadays are more tech-savvy and digitally driven than ever before. Yet, through the change, and diversification of the sales funnel, many seemed to have lost track of what is important to their business, and more so, how to garner engagement with their customer leads. Awareness First and foremost is awareness.

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. What is marketing automation?

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PathFactory

OCTOBER 12, 2022

She was featured in this Harvard Business Review article discussing how the modern B2B buyer journey is changing, and those buyers expect more than ever. I sat down with Caitlin to get her thoughts on everything from the buyer journey to sales and marketing alignment (and everything in between).

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ATAK Interactive

MARCH 12, 2020

Over the years, the B2B marketing landscape has noticeably changed. Driving this transformation is the B2B buyer journey, which has gotten longer and more complex. 82% of B2B buyers are spending more time in the research phase, using more sources to research and evaluate products and services.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Basically, intent data allows marketing and sales teams to focus on the accounts that are in the market for a product or solution,” said Dan Tabaran, CMO of account-based advertising company N.Rich, in his recent MarTech presentation. Understanding buyer intent. Act on buyer interest data.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. Buyers no longer trust faceless brands – they trust people, friends, and experts.

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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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Sharpspring

JUNE 3, 2022

If you’ve been running social media marketing campaigns, you may be obsessed with gaining followers. The solution, then, is to focus on turning more followers into clients… and knowing how to properly attribute those buyers’ journeys. For social media marketers, the follower count is a key metric. That makes sense.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 1, 2023

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. It’s your call … Three Ways Generative AI Will Change B2B Marketing By Christopher S. How will we be applying them in our work? Christopher shares 3 ways.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. It’s the next shiny object that is luring B2B marketers so they can gain and provide more insights into their prospects and have a better shot at closing a deal. Intent data allows marketers to know what prospects need as a next step to bring them closer to purchasing.

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