Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? And when taking a deep look at marketing results, we were a bit surprised that the data actually helped to diagnose asales problem. While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges.

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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

If you’ve spent more than three months in a marketing capacity, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the mysterious, and most often problematic, phenomenon of lead leakage. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is one of the top goals for B2B marketers. It can lower customer acquisition costs by getting more ROI from existing visitors and users. Like a rising tide, when CRO goes up, it can influence other metrics and lead to higher revenue per visitor and more customers.

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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. .

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The tenure for a sales VP is much shorter, at around 19 months. Since the beginning of COVID, sales within tech companies has experienced massive attrition with an average tenure for all sales professionals at 21 months. Think Beyond the Funnel. Funnel imagery permeates marketing.

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Digilant

JANUARY 12, 2023

The past several years have accelerated the already speedy transformation of digital media. Ten years ago, digital media was primarily consumed on a desktop or laptop. Today, digital media is almost everywhere we look, with phones, tablets, laptops, connected TV, digital audio, and smart speakers.

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Content Standard

AUGUST 24, 2021

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter , Content & Context, to receive future insights and updates on the content marketing world from Skyword CEO, Andrew C. The feudal system is alive and well in digital marketing. Despite pandemic-induced budget cuts, digital ad spending grew to $139.8 billion in 2020.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every seasoned B2B marketer knows that launching a new campaign can be a venture into the unknown. Tuning in to the desires and priorities of potential future customers and delivering content that really captures their attention feels like more of an art than a science at times. Program metrics may be of the most interest to marketers.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. It also makes it necessary to employ traditionally B2C-oriented marketing techniques to attract new B2B leads and retain your current customers.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. Understanding B2B Demand Generation: B2B demand generation involves the process of identifying and engaging potential customers, nurturing them through the sales funnel, and converting them into loyal clients.

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Digilant

JUNE 17, 2021

At the start of 2021, the top priority among marketers worldwide was to generate more quality leads, according to eMarketer. This study indicates that nearly 80% of respondents are interested in growing their pool of leads and consumers, or rather, first-party data. What is performance marketing? Influencer.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

When it’s time to launch a B2B marketing campaign on social media, LinkedIn seems like the obvious platform of choice. There’s no mystery why B2B marketers keep flocking to it – it simply works. By the numbers , LinkedIn is supposedly the best social media platform for B2B lead generation. . Not so much. billion users.

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Televerde

AUGUST 23, 2021

Account-based Marketing (ABM) has been around since 2004 and after 17 years, it’s become an invaluable part of marketing strategy. Buyers expect personalization at every turn of the buyer’s journey. They’re exhausted with generic “fishing with a net” tactics that are go-tos for many marketers.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

KITCHENER, Ontario – November 11, 2016 – Vidyard , the video platform for business, today announced the winners of the 2016 Video Marketing Awards (VMAs), recognizing innovative marketing and sales leaders at Viewtopia, the company’s annual video marketing summit. Winner: Lenovo with agency partner Traction.

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Metadata

JULY 21, 2022

B2B marketing is tough. In fact, there are now over 9,000 companies in Scott Brinker’s 2022 marketing technology landscape. . With so much noise in the market, what’s the best way to get in front of your audience and hit your revenue numbers? Running legit demand generation marketing campaigns is a great place to start.

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Brandpoint

JUNE 18, 2020

As the business world continues to work its way through the effects of the coronavirus, savvy financial services providers are switching up their marketing strategies to reflect new priorities. leaders in banking and capital markets pointed to “decrease in customer confidence” as one of their top three business concerns following COVID.

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Content Standard

JUNE 27, 2018

I often wonder if other content marketers also suffer from Thanksgiving Guest Syndrome. With a smile and a glint in your eye, you fly into explaining content marketing’s value, the basics of SEO, how you’re changing the way brands interact with consumers. Digital ad markets are competitive and rapid.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2015

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. And we don’t care where the content comes from. And we don’t care where the content comes from. And creators love their content like a momma loves her baby.

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Pearl Digital Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

For example, fractional CMOs or outsourced marketing executives. These for-hire experts include fractional chief marketing officers (CMOs), chief financial officers (CFOs), vice-presidents for human resources, and chief information officers (CIOs). That trend is continuing into the C-suite. What is a fractional CMO?

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ActiveDEMAND

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It is the inability to align their sales and marketing teams to work together as one unit. Businesses spent a lot of money to generate leads they hope will convert to sales opportunities. But, sales are not always the result. At some point, no one can account for those leads. What is closed-loop marketing?

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Sharpspring

MARCH 7, 2022

There are many different metrics for marketers to potentially keep track of, and some aspects of digital marketing can be harder to quantify than others. That’s especially true for content marketing, where you may need to evaluate sales results that aren’t easily attributed. Cost per lead (CPL).

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Unbounce

MAY 8, 2019

After all, a lot of agency time (and energy) gets spent optimizing traffic to the top of the funnel, but you can squeeze only so much out of it. A 2017 study from SoDA and Forrester asked agencies which strategies would have the most significant impact over the next 2-3 years. That’s a tough ask. The Benefits of Landing Pages.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marketo is happy to be one of the partners contributing to this vision through our integrations with Facebook that connect the dots between seemingly disparate activities, digitally and offline. in-store purchases, event attendance, content downloads), to digital campaigns to optimize their program and spend.

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KEO Marketing

JUNE 29, 2017

Digital marketing is a fast growing and evolving industry. This year, it continues to meteoric rise among B2B and B2C companies alike, who are using it to connect with customers and make sales. digital marketing spend is predicted to reach almost $120 billion. Use Marketing Automation . By 2021, U.S.

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Valasys

JANUARY 20, 2023

B2B Marketing vs Traditional Marketing So, a disclaimer to begin with: This is not yet another blog talking about sales funnel or inverted funnel, or AIDA model! Probably, you’ve already learned about a thousand funnel structures. And to manage and execute, every aspect of the funnel is even more difficult.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Cost-per-lead.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARCH 15, 2024

Marketers have to find a way to capture attention and build genuine interest in their products and services. According to our research , chief marketing officers (CMOs) cite customer preferences and expectations as their number 1 influence on digital strategy. Our latest B2B marketing guide will show you how.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. So marketing sends more. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels.

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Single Grain

APRIL 1, 2020

Leads are the name of the game. More sales qualified leads = more sales. If you do lead generation for your SaaS business on a daily basis, you’ve probably noticed that leads don’t always result in thousands of sales. Quality of incoming traffic converting into leads. Email marketing.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And let’s not forget, most organizations offer solutions that address multiple problems to either expand their addressable market or maximize the lifetime value of its existing customer base. There is a fundamental difference between a Total Addressable Market (TAM) and what your true active market. Timing is everything.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2013

We live in a time when the heart of marketing has transformed from static broadcasts to engines driven by two-way customer communications and real-time data. Sorofman describes these individuals as "digital CMOs," the guys and gals who are leading corporate entities from their analog pasts to data-driven, cross-platform futures.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 26, 2013

Author: Mike Telem Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has been growing in popularity recently and it’s easy to see why. It puts the spotlight on marketing’s ability to land the big “Sales Whales”–those key target accounts that Sales is dying to land. Is your company looking to grow into new markets and/or territories?

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Single Grain

APRIL 24, 2023

With so many digital marketing tactics available, it can be challenging to know which ones will work best for your B2B business. That’s why we’ve put together a collection of eight B2B digital marketing case studies to inspire you. Buzzvil analyzed the 5.4 Buzzvil analyzed the 5.4

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Single Grain

APRIL 24, 2023

Case studies are one of the most important lead generation strategies. A good case study not only proves a marketing company’s success, but also zones in on the strategies used to identify leads, customer pain points, increase sales, convert leads, and accomplish other goals.

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Launch Marketing

MAY 11, 2023

Lead generation comes in many forms, and it can be hard to know where to begin if you are short on time and need a quick boost to your sales pipeline. Here are 3 tried and tested ways to begin generating B2B leads when you need them the most. Content may be hiding in unexpected places.

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