Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 4, 2024

With artificial intelligence (AI) generated content sending traditional SEO into a tailspin, converting traffic that does make it to the website is more important than ever to marketers. The challenge in our digital age is that traditional A/B testing methods are slow, resource-intensive, and miss hidden opportunities.

Marketing AI 67

Marketing AI Optimization Conversion A/B testing 67

Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

Ever since GDPR was rolled out in Europe back in 2016, the rules for how marketers can collect and use data have been getting stricter and stricter, but the real hammer blow will hit next year. This represents a huge change because third-party cookies have been a go-to solution for measuring digital ad performance. They shouldn’t!

Paid Search Agency 97

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FunnelEnvy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments.

Buyer Personas 67

Buyer Personas Marketing AI Account Based Marketing B2B 67

Moz

JANUARY 14, 2020

The annual study provides KPI benchmark data which allow digital marketers analyze their 2019 performance and plan their 2020. The most popular section in the report amongst Moz readers has always been the conversion correlation , where we crunch the numbers to see what sets the high-performing websites apart.

Studies 69

Studies Correlation Marketing Websites Top of Funnel 69

Valasys

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Your mission is crystal clear: to boost revenue, expand your market footprint, and cultivate enduring relationships with your clients. In this scenario, the significance of B2B growth marketing cannot be overstated. What is B2B Growth Marketing? Why do you need B2B Growth Marketing?

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Growth Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 52

Contently

MAY 23, 2018

In today’s digital media landscape, content distribution is often the step brands overlook the most. For Cardinal Health, a global healthcare services and products company that ranks among the top 25 of the Fortune 500, rethinking its content distribution model helped elevate its content marketing program to the next level.

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Distribution Top of Funnel Paid Social Agency Lead Ranking 158

Inbox Insight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

And this means that marketing departments are searching for new solutions to help them stand out. The IFP readership community is made up of senior managers in marketing, C-suite professionals and business owners. The marketing professionals we surveyed. We surveyed 250 senior marketing professionals across the US and UK.

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FunnelEnvy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Marketers began taking a data-driven approach in the 1920s, testing the performance of different paper coupons. Today’s marketers rely on A/B testing of digital advertising assets. A/B testing is powerful because it gives marketers unbiased data from real customers, not survey panels. Take headlines, for example.

Marketing AI 67

Marketing AI Multivariate analysis Allocation Conversion Rate 67

ClickZ

JUNE 29, 2022

However, whilst the importance of consumer data is unwavering, major industry shifts such as the death of the third-party cookie and the introduction of GA4 have left marketeers in the lurch. In the digital landscape of 2022, listening to customers requires a comprehensive data strategy. To do this, you need data.

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Advertising Agencies Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Advertising Mediums 107

Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Account Based Marketing, commonly referred to as ABM, has taken the B2B marketing world by storm. According to HubSpot , 70% of marketers reported using ABM last year, which is a 15% increase from the prior year. According to a survey conducted by ITSMA , 87% of marketers say that ABM efforts outperform other marketing efforts.

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If that last scenario applies, you were enticed by the company’s direct response marketing—a form of advertising designed specifically to elicit an immediate response from a prospect. So, what are the components of direct response marketing? What is Direct Response Marketing? The key here (as with all marketing, really!)

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Advertising Agencies Planning Paid Search Agency SMS 74

Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2022

Not 100% sure what Instagram influencer marketing is all about? As creators continue to dominate the platform, brands need to know how Instagram influencer marketing works. What is Instagram influencer marketing, anyway? The term refers to the level of influence that these social media creators have on their audiences.

Paid Content 108

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Top of Funnel 108

Tiecas

JANUARY 27, 2024

Industrial blogs are an integral part of manufacturing content marketing. Industrial blogging is an essential digital marketing tool for manufacturers looking to establish themselves as thought leaders and engage with engineers and technical professionals. For manufacturers, creating industrial blogs is a challenge.

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Top of Funnel Planning Content Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 59

Porch Group Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Join us as industry leaders and experts discuss important marketing topics and share actionable insights and unique perspectives on the latest marketing, strategies, technology, and trends. Really understanding if it provided a direct correlation and an interaction for that brand. Welcome to the Movers and Shakers podcast.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For decades vanity metrics have been the guiding light for measuring marketing success – largely because the capabilities didn’t exist to measure closed-loop KPIs. As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. .

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Blast Campaigns Elasticity Eye-Tracking B2B Thought Leadership 147

Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Local marketing has inherent challenges. However, as more budgets move to giant digital publishers (Google, Facebook, Amazon), the immense reach and streamlined workflow of these platforms are bringing unprecedented power and efficiency to local advertisers, says, Joshua Dreller, Director of Content Marketing, Kenshoo.

Advertising Agencies 56

Advertising Agencies Top of Funnel Advertisements Advertising 56

Conversica

JULY 20, 2022

AI in Marketing: The New Frontier. The article features Conversica CMO, Carl Landers, along with other Marketing leaders in the technology industry, on their perspectives on how marketing AI will positively impact the way Marketers work. However, it is most certainly on Marketers’ radar.

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Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management Planning 98

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Marketers have become very focused on measuring the effects of their work—which is both good and bad. According to Salesforce’s 2014 State of Marketing Leadership report , 48% of senior-level marketers rate “quantifying marketing’s ROI” as a major challenge, second only to “budgetary constraints.”

Top of Funnel 151

Top of Funnel Best Practices Click Rate Digital Marketing Funnels 151

Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Using vanity metrics to measure the performance of content campaigns on social media is perhaps one of the simplest things to do in marketing, but also one of the most difficult. It’s this second point that is the thorn in the side of many marketers struggling to discover the true value of a vanity metric to a business.

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Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Correlation Lead Scoring 92

Digilant

JANUARY 5, 2023

From content creation to implementation, AI continues to prove itself a practical resource that has a place in almost any marketing strategy. Before the introduction of AI in contextual advertising, most marketers had to rely on keyword or topic targeting strategies. Drive consumers down the funnel? Increase conversions?

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Advertisements Advertising Ad Frequency Paid Search Agency 52

Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) First up, we have Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 52

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. Social media intent data can help fill this blind spot. Many of your leads are leaving “digital footprints” online. Social Media Coverage is Too Low. What type of client is the “right fit” for your business?

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Intent Data Intent 134

Convert

JANUARY 17, 2024

So start by building a brand others are referencing, including into lists, discussing on social media, etc. What is NAME’s competitor doing for marketing? What NAME should change in their marketing strategy? Set up your GA4 conversion tracking and A/B test your landing pages to identify better-performing conversion funnels.

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Optimization Generation Top of Funnel Multivariate analysis 80

Circle Studio

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs recently released their B2B Content Marketing: 2018 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America research. The eighth annual report is packed with findings collected from B2B marketers representing a full range of industries, functional areas and company sizes.

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Statistics B2B Marketing Trends Content Marketing 116

Hubspot

JULY 6, 2021

We live in a digital era, and people are still checking their emails daily, so strong email marketing strategies are essential, especially for Black-owned businesses. When thinking about creating the best email marketing strategies, make sure you are authentic and tell your community your story. Myers adds, "Be vulnerable.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 17, 2014

As a marketer, you’re looking to create a feeling with your content. But before you can get your target audience feeling all the feels, your content marketing needs to attract an audience in the first place, and this is why we invited Scott Alexander to speak at Vidyard Ignite. Attention is the name of the content marketing game.

Brand Identity 52

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Biznology

JUNE 5, 2013

Last month, I argued that your marketing investments should not be influenced by measurement limitations. The higher you get in the marketing funnel, the harder it is to demonstrate the value of your content marketing. At base, awareness marketing content is a great branding vehicle. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. And I agree with Craig Rosenberg at Focus, that “every organization should make the effort to depict its revenue funnel on one page. To our customers there is no funnel.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We’ll keep it simple, Sales Automation in the process of leveraging software and artificial intelligence (AI) along with other digital tools to automate time-consuming sales tasks that normally take significant time away from selling activities. The rise of B2B sales automation is directly correlated with the operationalization of data.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 2, 2019

When marketing multiple senior living communities , it often makes sense to introduce as much consistency as possible across locations. As a marketer, this is hugely appealing to me. Here are some scenarios that the SmartBug Media™ team has run into over the years. Just click play below.

Communities 61

Communities Top of Funnel Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 61

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Optimizing revenue growth is by far the toughest assignment for sales and marketing today.    While the concepts of the pipeline and the funnel have been around for a very long time, what is different is that finding the right formula for revenue growth predictability is getting tougher and tougher. 

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

SmartBug Media

JANUARY 4, 2019

If you’re like most of today’s B2B marketers, you probably recognize that account-based marketing (ABM) has become an important element of any effective go-to-market strategy. So, what role does ABM play in your existing content marketing strategy or how can you get started? Sales and Marketing Alignment.

Account Based Marketing 75

Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Marketing Strategy 75

Moz

AUGUST 7, 2019

Posted by Gaetano-DiNardi-NYC Disclaimer: I’m currently the Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva , and writing this case study post-mortem as the former VP of Marketing at Sales Hacker (Jan. Every B2B company is investing in content marketing right now. 2017 - Sept. Organic Growth Highlights. January 2017–June 2018.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. million followers on Twitter? Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline.

Social Media 150

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 150

Lake One

MAY 23, 2019

Inbound marketing has an exciting, rich, and still somewhat young history. The timing of factors like the internet gaining steam, creation of social media, and the mobile phone boom have all played a part in the creation and rising popularity of inbound marketing. What is Inbound Marketing?

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