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Decoding the Customer Journey: A Guide to Effective Marketing Attribution Models – Pt. 1

Heinz Marketing

This is where marketing attribution comes into play to help answer this question. Marketing attribution is a method used by marketers to analyze and understand the various touchpoints in a customer’s journey that contribute to a desired outcome, such as a sale, conversion, or another specific action.

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Experimentation in B2B Marketing Is Hell. Here’s How to Fix It

Convert

Experimentation in B2B marketing is much harder than in B2C, greatly because of the long sales cycle and its implications. In a long sales cycle, the metrics most closely correlated to revenue are lower-funnel metrics. B2B marketers can’t afford to wait months to know if their activities are working or not.

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Understanding Marketing Attribution Models: A Simple Guide for Marketing Directors

SnapApp

While vanity metrics like open rates and social shares are super easy to find, the important data — data that tells you which touchpoints assisted vs. closed the sale — is less obvious. . The modern marketer's technology stack removes the need for analytics guesswork. Why Attribution Matters for Marketing Directors .

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This Is My Story, and I’m Sticking to It

6sense

And ideally, they act on that feeling in the end by buying your product or service. The very tactics employed to drive revenue often distract marketers from their storytelling – and from being great marketers. The reason companies engage in marketing in the first place is to drive these kinds of results.

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- EPISODE 089: Building a Marketing Funnel That Understands Your Audience

Outgrow

Why traditional B2B marketing attribution is broken and what you can do about it. Boosting customer acquisition for SaaS through a freemium model. The software tells us and now we’re kind of you know, The pendulum swinging back the other way where people are like, yeah, the software’s wrong a lot.

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Interested in Leveraging Predictive Analytics? You’ll Need to Get Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Right First.

Full Circle Insights

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). In marketing, predictive analytics is about understanding the customer journey. Can predictive analytics help you accelerate the buying cycle?

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Marketing Automation as the Marketing System of Record

ActiveDEMAND

Most companies operate without an authoritative system of record for marketing, instead they have prospect information stored in: Email platforms. Website analytics platforms (anonymized). No System of Record = Incorrect Marketing Attribution, loss of marketing signals. Lost Performance Data.