SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

However, as it becomes more commonplace, many email marketing automation strategies have a binary approach in the form of a logic tree, relying on "yes" or "no" actions taken by the lead. Worse, some automated emails are sent out to an entire database of leads, making offers general, self-promotional, and boring to the receiver.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There was a time, not so long ago, when Marketing Automation went through a similar transition. In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Ignoring the buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you’re running an account-based marketing initiative in your organization but not using an account engagement tool, you’re missing out. Essentially, 6sense is a tool to help you figure out who is interested in buying your products and services so you can prioritize follow up at the right time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Lead Liaison

APRIL 18, 2017

When you’re immersed in your job, and understand the real benefits of marketing automation technology, you start to look for real life use cases for how this technology is used. A recent experience in my personal life made it easy to discover how a company is benefiting from the power of marketing automation.

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The Lead Agency

MAY 3, 2016

Marketing Automation programs have been around for a while now, but marketers and business owners alike still struggle to understand the concept; commonly asking ‘what exactly is marketing automation’ and ‘how can it help grow my business?’. So, What Exactly is Marketing Automation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

A great content marketing approach follows five clear steps. It also takes full advantage of the right technology to measure the impact of your marketing activities, including smart marketing automation technology that allows you to automate the content you distribute to individual leads according to their level of interest.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Ask yourself and answer these questions: Do I understand my buyers’ buying cycle? You need to be able to map out your typical buyer’s buying cycle. It is the basis of any good nurturing campaign since you will building your nurturing campaign content and messages on each step of the buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because of this there must also be change in how we market and sell to them. Today I’m asking if marketing automation is changing the world of B2B marketing? Marketing automation is the platform from which modern B2B marketers are launching their new programs and adapting to the changing environment.

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Crimson Marketing

JULY 23, 2015

Many marketing professionals would say it’s not possible or desirable to meet a quota. But a quota can improve alignment between Sales and Marketing. It can drive Marketing to stay involved throughout the sales cycle. And can help measure marketing effectiveness.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Given the imperative to add gravitational pull to your sales funnel under a changed marketing paradigm, you need a strategy and appropriate marketing technology stack that can help you discover, qualify, and nurture leads to the point of sales-readiness. One of those necessary tools is marketing automation software.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Given the imperative to add gravitational pull to your sales funnel under a changed marketing paradigm, you need a strategy and appropriate marketing technology stack that can help you discover, qualify, and nurture leads to the point of sales-readiness. One of those necessary tools is marketing automation software.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

However, CRM technology potentially includes multiple pieces including email software and marketing automation (MA) solutions. The role of marketing automation. Linda Athans, Marketing Manager, Tribridge , stated the size of the company might dictate how many pieces of CRM technology are deployed.

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Rev

JUNE 1, 2019

Laura is a demand generation expert with one mission: conjure up a positive ROI for demand generation marketing and prove it to the fire breathing CFO. Then, she got on board with marketing automation. Next it was Social Media marketing, then Content marketing. Laura has tried everything. ROI didn’t improve.

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Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Cohesion : In conversations with several B2B CEO’s, a recent issue is that while there have been new approaches related to areas such as demand generation, content marketing, and social media, there is a lack of cohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer experience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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Outreach

APRIL 28, 2021

Sales representatives have a complex job that often requires effective management of time-consuming and repetitive job tasks. Sales enablement enhances your reps' performance, equipping your team with tools to attract more high-value opportunities, accelerate sales cycles, and produce more revenue for your company.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The goal is to make sure that a Buyer who is on the cusp of making a decision will see your ad, and that your ads’ keywords and ad copy will be informed by a well-researched understanding of the pains and priorities of the Buyer at every stage of the buying cycle. Focus on lead management-.

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Engagio

JUNE 21, 2017

Marketers invest a ton of time and resources to acquire leads using a variety of tactics, from data acquisition to SEO to trade shows to paid ads. Part of the core issue with traditional lead handoff is its limitation to individual leads, scored until they reach a certain threshold, then passed to sales. …now what?

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Recently, I had an engaging conversation with Lauren Carlson, a CRM Analyst with   Software Advice , as well as read her article Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software posted on The Software Advice Blog.    However, in this cycle buyers may be seeking to make deeper assessments than in past downturns. 

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

We asked Stephanie Tilton "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Stephanie Tilton is a seasoned white paper and case study writer who helps B2B companies advance the sales cycle by engaging prospects and customers. Stephanie Tilton.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In a recent blog post from Software Advice's Lauren Carlson , this emerging CRM analyst indicates how hot the market for marketing automation software has become, and although the niche was timid several years ago, marketers are now adopting these systems aggressively. Sales cycles are longer in a down economy.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When Chris started work for Vapotherm back in 2017, he employed a lot of the traditional marketing tactics to grow revenue: collecting leads, pushing the leads through marketing automation, running lead scoring, and running lead generation among various channels. The attribution mirage.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  As Sirius Decision and CSO Insights have reported on often, buyers are progressing through 70-80% of the buying and sales cycle before engaging directly with sales.    Understanding what buyers are doing in the lead generation to sales cycle gap is proving to be a competitive difference maker.

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KEO Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2017

In today’s competitive business to business (B2B) technology environment, accumulating prospect names and contact information and sending out generic marketing collateral is simply not enough. Tech firms must take advantage of various methods and multiple channels to connect with leads throughout the buying cycle.

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Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 8, 2010

This has profound implications on marketing and the way companies engage with prospects. 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.

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Modern B2B

AUGUST 29, 2019

However, you’d need to look more holistically at what you’re doing as campaigns, marketing automation set-up and reporting would all be different. It’s easy to focus on a number, especially when it’s difficult to tie opportunities to marketing. Instead, what if the metric you measured was opportunities? Measure what matters.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 11, 2011

However this does not mean that sales is rendered ineffective in the early stages of the sales cycle as some would have you believe. In reality the shift in the buyers’ power make sales all the more important at the early stages of the buying cycle – especially in the consideration phase where buyers spend most of their time.

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6sense

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The first blog of our two-part series tackled the marketing use cases of predictive intelligence. We discussed how predictive-powered account-based digital advertising and account-based lead generation allows B2B marketing teams to target audiences in active buying cycles, improve conversion rates and optimize how they budget.

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6sense

JANUARY 20, 2022

And it makes sense that focusing effort on accounts that are actively in-market would yield better results, but there’s more to the story. Trend 1: The B2B buying cycle will increasingly be anonymous, with more people from more locations (including WFH) involved in buying decisions.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

An accurate needs analysis depends on knowing that you can use predictive analysis, and where your company is in the tool buying cycle. Unless you’re outsourcing to a knowledgeable agency that handles account-based marketing, this requires you: Have well-populated data systems already in operation collecting information to analyze.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. She is a pioneer in marketing automation—first as a beneficiary of the technology and now as an advocate and expert. But all is not lost.

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