Paul Gillin

JANUARY 26, 2016

With marketing now responsible for helping to nurture and advance the buyer through 70% of the purchase cycle, there are monumental inefficiencies if the sales team is knocking on cold doors rather than closing sales-qualified, warm leads.” – Debra Andrews (l.). “If I picked a few quotes from the e-book that I really like.

Peer-to-peer 50

Peer-to-peer B2B Marketing Trends Sales Qualified Leads 50

Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 8, 2010

In the “old days”, the mainstream marketing approach was to interrupt and engage prospects, educate them on the vendors offering and move them through the sale cycle towards a transaction – a very vendor and product centric approach. Customers are are in the driver’s seat today. And today’s customers are busier than ever.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Twenty-something buyers are twice as likely to use social media somewhere in the buying process (49%) that 31-40 year olds, and almost 4X as likely than those aged 51+. Responders said that “word of mouth” (WOM) is the most useful source of information, and it is used at every stage of the buying cycle.

Social Media 48

Social Media Peer-to-peer Word of Mouth WOM 48

The Mx Group

AUGUST 16, 2017

If you think your personas contain many critical buy-cycle insights, confirm that your sales team is aware of how and when to use them. Your Top Ten Questions About B2B Buyer Personas. Recently, we partnered with Demand Gen Report to present a webinar about the power of personas. Question #1. Question #2. Question #3.

Buyer Personas 84

Buyer Personas Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 84

Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2011

It’s more of a place to interact with peers than to engage prospects. Ultimately, both sides need to come to an understanding, with management conceding that not all of that peer interaction is a waste of time and employees focusing primarily on achieving business goals through social media activity during work hours.

Social Media 100

Social Media Peer-to-peer Media PR 100

PureB2B

JANUARY 30, 2017

Knowing which of your sales leads have the highest potential to buy is key to effectively allocating your resources and optimizing your sales & marketing spend. To develop a good lead scoring campaign , you first need to determine the criteria for assigning values that will gauge the quality of your leads. Criteria Setting.

Lead Ranking 62

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Effectiveness 62

Engagio

JULY 31, 2017

There’s data generated through people’s engagements with your owned digital content, such as the pages on your website a lead visits, the emails they open, the e-books they download and the links they click on through your social media posts. The B2B lead handoff process is broken. Expand and refine opportunities. Relate to individual buyers.

Intent Data 85

Intent Data Account Based Marketing Intent ABM 85

PureB2B

JANUARY 30, 2017

Knowing which of your sales leads have the highest potential to buy is key to effectively allocating your resources and optimizing your sales & marketing spend. To develop a good lead scoring campaign , you first need to determine the criteria for assigning values that will gauge the quality of your leads. Criteria Setting.

Lead Ranking 67

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Effectiveness 67

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Chairman and CEO of GPJ said, “This report suggests that engagement is now a key dynamic that should be considered when designing big-idea campaigns; without engagement, the message is quickly lost, its power diminished.” Nearly 97% of the respondents viewed customer engagement as very (67%) or somewhat (30%) important.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Why not create a downloadable library on your website?

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 24, 2010

Your B2B markets are changing rapidly. It is now harder than ever for B2B vendors to get the attention of our audiences. Power Shift Knowledge is power, and the balance of power is clearly shifting from vendors to the customer. B2B buyers are more sophisticated than ever. Now imagine the information customers are finding is yours.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Budget B2B Marketing 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2014

What campaigns do they respond to most? Author: Joe Benoit As anyone who has ever raised a child can tell you, parenting a toddler is challenging and rewarding, all at the same time. As any marketer who has decided to start truly engaging with their audience can tell you, those same feelings usually apply. Listen to their cues.

Multi-Touch Attribution 48

Multi-Touch Attribution Peer-to-peer Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 48

Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Here are four ideas and supporting examples for B2B corporate blog writing, designed to target specific audiences, help achieve Internet marketing goals, and build links for search engine optimization campaigns. More importantly, this type of strategy provides an opportunity to connect and share with social media friendly peers.

B2B Thought Leadership 40

B2B Thought Leadership SEM Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

As a business, you’re always looking for ways to sell your products or services. Content marketing is a great way to do so: When you generate informative, useful, and interesting content for your audience, you can also directly or indirectly sell your products or services to them. Let’s see how.

Work Management 362

Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management Content Marketing 362

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 16, 2017

They’re not in the buying cycle— research from Vorsight suggests that only three percent of your market is actively buying at any given moment—and marketers must use data to prioritize the leads they send to sales in order to avoid wasting effort and losing potential revenue. Let’s Make a Deal.

Top of Funnel 156

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Social Media 156

Engagio

AUGUST 27, 2018

You can’t just send more emails, expect more clicks, then expect someone to buy. There are usually two main types of personas in a buying cycle: decision-makers and influencers. Most direct marketing campaigns target the primary decision-maker, but what often gets overlooked is the important role of influencers.

Account Based Marketing 101

Account Based Marketing ABM Touchpoints Peer-to-peer 101

Engagio

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There is one source of truth for account activity, campaigns, and results. when those actions should be taken against a campaign or account. I’ve always found analogies to be helpful in explaining new ideas. You see, Marketing Orchestration is how you win the biggest deals ABM. Announcing Our All New Playbook.

Account Based Marketing 107

Account Based Marketing Class ABM Ideal Customer Profiles 107

Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. The content used to educate buyers of B2B products and services can be a very valuable asset when it comes to content optimization and acquiring leads via organic search. How many off site? How many off site?

SEO 40

SEO Top of Funnel AIDA Digital Asset Management 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company.

Social Media 149

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 149

BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Social media can provide engaged leads eager to buy—but only if you know how to start with effective outreach. Social media can provide engaged leads eager to buy—but only if you know how to start with effective outreach. To start off, social media users are more engaged with their networks than many other platforms, including email.

Social Media 76

Social Media Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 76

SalesIntel

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Personalization has become an important ingredient for B2B brands looking to generate engagement with prospective buyers and see a return on investment (ROI) over the long term. Getting the message right and fine-tuning the smaller components will allow brands to establish a presence in an untapped market.

ROI 40

ROI B2B Marketing Personalization Planning 40

LEADership

AUGUST 13, 2013

A 6-Point Email Marketing Checklist for B2B Lead Generation - Back-to-School B2B Primer—Part Two. Today I’ll focus on email marketing as Part Two in the series. HERE IS A 6-POINT CHECKLIST OF EMAIL MARKETING TECHNIQUES THAT ARE WORKING FOR B2B LEAD GENERATION TODAY. Correction—all human beings are like that, not just teenagers.

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Email Marketing B2B Marketing Peer-to-peer 40

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2018

You find out when your prospects open your emails, click your links. Paul: You know when the email gets open? We’ve featured an impressive list of guests and will continue to do so with awesome content and guests going forward. We’ll publish similar highlights here for upcoming episodes. Really excited to have everyone here with us.

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services InsideView 62

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 23, 2012

In a downturn, more people are involved in approving every B2B purchase, and the buying committee usually includes senior decision-makers who will not understand (or want to understand) the technical nuances of your product or service. As B2B marketing budgets have become strained, many marketers believe they should be doing more with less.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel Sales Management Planning Content 48

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Personal, Peer-Level Interaction. I've heard sales reps express discouragement over prospects not returning their calls or emails, but the underlying problem is that executives are just plain busy. This is a guest blog post by Mari Anne Vanella , one of the 20 Women to Watch in Lead Management in 2011. nur·ture /?n?rt??r/

Peer-to-peer 28

Peer-to-peer Effectiveness Work Management Marketing Management 28

Valasys

AUGUST 28, 2019

According to a report by Bizzabo, most event marketers (31%) believe that events are the single most effective marketing channel & surpass digital advertising which is preferred by 27% of the marketers & email marketing, being preferred by 25% of them. That’s the backbone to a really successful event.”.

Marketing AI 40

Marketing AI CMO Planning Paid Search Agency 40

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can listen to full recordings of past shows at SalesPipelineRadio.com and subscribe on iTunes. Our guest this time was Ryan Bonnici , CMO at G2 Crowd. I’m super impressed with how effective G2 Crowd lists have been, both the overall top XXX lists by segment as well as the metro area lists. Today is no different. Ryan Bonnici: Hey, Matt.

Sales Management 48

Sales Management Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 18, 2010

SBI is a strategic advisory firm that helps executives understand how well their sales forces are performing relative to peer group and World-Class levels. Try this – get a few emails of CEOs at your best accounts and draft your best message. My parents hard coded me with ambition at an early age. What have you learned from this? .

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 48

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Reports, surveys, studies and infographics are among the most popular content posted and shared across social networks. We’re all hungry for data. Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. But which networks are most effective for spreading the content produced? How are marketers measuring social media success? hours to 6.3

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Social Media Statistics Research 100

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Best Software List Badges are used on TrustRadius product pages to help buyers feel empowered to make intelligent software buying decisions specific to business needs. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Small Business by the reviewer’s business size. Best Software for Small Business. LEARN MORE. Webexpenses.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Digital Asset Management Work Management Marketing Management 52

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Best Software List Badges are used on TrustRadius product pages to help buyers feel empowered to make intelligent software buying decisions specific to business needs. . Best Software List Badges are used on TrustRadius product pages to help buyers feel empowered to make intelligent software buying decisions specific to business needs. .

Enterprise Management 98

Enterprise Management Digital Asset Management Work Management Marketing Management 98

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Best Software List Badges are used on TrustRadius product pages to help buyers feel empowered to make intelligent software buying decisions specific to business needs. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Mid-sized Market by the reviewer’s business size. Best Software for Mid-Sized Business. LEARN MORE. Webexpenses.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Digital Asset Management Work Management Marketing Management 52

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Not too surprisingly, Facebook is the #1 method for passing along content, followed by email and then Twitter. Or that a third (or more, depending on which study you believe) of all clicks go to the top result on a search engine query? Social Media Stats, Facts and Research Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine?

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