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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing. Lead source attribution. ”[ 1 ].

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The Beautiful Game: A Guide to Attribution Reports with Salesforce

SmartBug Media

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. And the key to getting the best view of this is through multi-touch attribution models. The answer is: not easily.

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How B2B Marketers Can Solve the Intent Data ROI Conundrum

PureB2B

Intent data has become an increasingly important element of the B2B marketing stack in recent years. But despite 99% of companies reporting to use intent data in some way, it also poses significant challenges to marketers looking to integrate it into their lead generation strategies. Here are a few examples.

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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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Why a Single Source of Truth Is a Huge Deal

Full Circle Insights

At the 2020 Dreamforce conference, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff rolled out Customer 360 Truth, announcing that the company had built a single source of truth into its platform. That’s why the company was built from the ground up on the principle that marketing data should reside in the CRM. Get Everyone on the Same Page.

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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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Three Ways to Prepare Your Marketing Team for the Next Global Disruption

Full Circle Insights

One dilemma companies struggled with in the pandemic economy was whether to focus on customer retention or retool their approach to accommodate a changed marketplace. A generally reliable principle, and what companies tend to do in “normal” times, is focus on reducing churn because it’s cheaper to retain customers than to find new ones.