The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I may not be a market analyst, but from what I see working with our agency’s B2B clients , it seems to me that, in the language of technology adoption lifecycles, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) stands at that pivotal junction – what Geoffrey Moore calls the “chasm” – between early adopters and early majority.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

Author: Chandar Pattabhiram We’re just about to kick-off Day 3—the final day—of the Marketo Marketing Nation™ Summit 2015. We’re thrilled to have 7,000 of our customers, partners, colleagues, and friends here to talk about the evolution of marketing and the critical steps we must take to usher in the new era of marketing!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

They no longer want to be treated just as “leads” in your system. This is where an advanced lead generation strategy comes in. At the same time, the goal of lead generation has evolved to meet these changing customer habits. Now, lead generation is less about finding new customers than about making sure new customers find you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In reviewing the latest research on account-based marketing (ABM) best practices, it struck me that they mirror what sales and marketing leaders have tried to follow for decades. It reflects today’s technological capabilities as well as marketing’s new focus on accounts. They’re aligning sales and marketing.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

The difference is that marketing automation has made this process much more sophisticated. So, while the idea of traditional drip marketing may sound out of date, there are still plenty of key areas where it can come in handy. They’re also ideal for marketers just starting out their careers. Download What Is Lead Nurturing?

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 29, 2015

CEOs and marketing leaders often stand on opposite sides of a deep chasm in terms of their belief in the power of B2B content marketing. While marketers recognize that content marketing can boost ROI, many corporate leaders still live in a worldview where traditional direct marketing campaigns rule.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Lattice

MAY 24, 2016

The B2B world is moving fast towards Account-Based Marketing, Account-Based Sales Development…well “Account-Based Everything.” B2B sales and marketing have an imperative to be aligned on which accounts to go after and win. Figure 1: Create models for different target markets. in minutes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Author: Robert Pease Account-based marketing (ABM) is not going away anytime soon. In fact, Sirius Decisions found that 92% of B2B marketers worldwide consider ABM “extremely” or “very” important to their overall marketing efforts. Align Sales and Marketing. Know Your Audience.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Marketing budgets vary by company, but any marketer will tell you, no matter how much is allocated, it is never enough! Marketers are often tasked to do more with less, wear several hats, work with limited resources, generate pipeline, and demonstrate that the marketing team’s efforts had an influence on revenue.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Email marketing is a proven method to increase conversion rate, but it needs to be done deliberately to optimize its impact and cut through the noise that your audiences encounter as they seek solutions to address their business problems. Use the double opt-in feature on your email marketing software to avoid landing in spam folders.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Author: Jingcong Zhao At this point, many marketing organizations have adopted a digital marketing platform. Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

The goals of the modern marketer are timeless: create new opportunities to grow sales while keeping your existing customers happy and coming back for more. And content marketing plays a big role in this. Here are three ways that content marketing and marketing automation go hand in hand: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 15, 2019

Knowing how to effectively manage and segment your audience and direct the right resources to the right people at the right time is the principle by which all marketing campaigns live and die. As marketers, we’re competing in an environment where prospects are exposed to more content through more channels than ever before.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

That’s what account-based marketing (ABM) is all about—helping companies to target prospects with the highest propensity to buy. Account-Based Marketing and AI Working Together. Large, high-dollar transactions are complex sales with multiple decision makers and long buying cycles. Engage with prospects one-on-one.

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Your marketing metrics, or your scoreboard, should measure both activity and results. Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. To Jon’s point, marketers have to ask the right questions.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Your marketing metrics, or your scoreboard, should measure both activity and results. Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. To Jon’s point, marketers have to ask the right questions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

The extraction features are important – at least to me – because they determine whether 6Sense qualifies as a “ customer data platform ” (CDP), a type of system I see as fundamental for future marketing. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. Formal release was in May 2014.

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SalesIntel

JUNE 7, 2021

Data hygiene has become increasingly important to marketers, and the increasing volume of data has only made processing harder. Enriched lead data is required for accurate lead routing and assignment to sales. So, there’s no doubt that data enrichment adds a huge value to the B2B sales and marketing approach.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

A tough assignment for B2B marketers today is getting a handle on how buyers progress through the buying and selling cycles.    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. 

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

As such, for B2B marketers specifically, activity on Google Plus could potentially have significant effects on lead acquisition and brand trust. In one example , survey data shows that 77% of buyers indicate they are more likely to buy from a company whose CEO uses social media. per month, almost double that of Facebook (9.3%).

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner. The trending move to incorporate a revenue-focused position into companies has helped further align sales and marketing. Everyone has pivoted to an ABM/ABX strategy.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here are some statistics related to edtech marketing: According to GlobalData estimates , the EdTech industry will grow from US$183.4 Online education is the fastest-growing segment of the edtech market, with revenues expected to reach $350 billion by 2025 (Source: ResearchAndMarkets ). 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

And it’s the same with healthcare marketing. The promise and payoff of modern marketing often seems out of reach to healthcare marketers. It’s easy to buy software, but it’s difficult to transform. How do you maintain relationships throughout years-long healthcare buying cycles? It’s that simple.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 21, 2017

Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. And, that’s where account-based marketing and sales come in. 5: Account-Based Content Marketer. 1: VP of Sales. 2: Account Sales Executive.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

This week I had the pleasure of reading a new report from Smart Insights on the State of Digital Marketing 2015 and decided to dig in a bit further with an interview. 1) What do you think the biggest change to Digital Marketing for B2B firms will be in the next year?

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 17, 2010

Why should you engage prospects consistently across the complete buying cycle? Ardath Albee, B2B Marketing Strategist at Marketing Interactions , says that engaging prospects consistently drives more viable sales opportunities. We asked Ardath Albee "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Earlier this year I downloaded Silverpop’s lead management workbook , and I planned to write about it. Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

Odds are your sales and marketing departments have spent a great deal of time and money answering this question. Because there is more to lead scoring than just fit. The lead must also have a need for your product or service and be ready to research and evaluate solutions. That’s an important aspect of behavioral lead scoring.

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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. Savvy B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

by Maria Pergolino It’s one thing to generate leads. The industry wide statistic of 70% of leads never receiving effective sales follow-up is astounding. With the mass amount of resources devoted to lead generation, the act of following up on leads has to be improved to experience growth in conversion rates.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 27, 2021

From anywhere in the world, you have the power to gain interest in your product, gather valuable feedback from participants, and generate massive amounts of highly qualified leads. I think that’s something that we don’t often put as much thought into,” Babitz explained as a guest of The Event Marketing Show.

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markempa

JANUARY 28, 2008

It's surprising how many marketers now say they do “lead nurturing” but in reality they are just sending monthly email campaigns or monthly newsletters with some call to action. If all you do is send generic email marketing messages to your early stage leads over and over and over again, you're missing the point.

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