Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

For the longest time, LinkedIn had a reputation as a site for networking and job searching. Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. Consider: You get more leads.

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Lead Generation Top of Funnel Linkedin Lead Scoring 148

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Demand generation just isn’t a subset of marketing. It’s the outcome of all kinds of marketing activities working together. Not just paid ads or ABM. The majority of B2B marketers still think about demand generation as a series of tactics, rather than a larger marketing strategy. Paid Media.

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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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Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

Televerde

AUGUST 22, 2022

According to many digital marketing experts, the average American can see as many as 10,000 advertisements every day. With so much saturation, many people have grown immune to marketing messaging. So, how do you get your message to shine through and capture the leads you need? How Important Is Lead Generation?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are you simply switching to a new template and adding some new CTAs, or are you migrating your entire website to a new platform? Our latest offer, 8 Free Budget Templates to Manage Your Marketing Spend , has got you covered. Click here to download your 8 free marketing budget templates. Beware Hidden Costs.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some recent and relevant insights with you. Staying on top of sales and marketing trends like these can help you gain a new perspective on your strategies and even help you initiate a campaign or channel pivot.

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Webbiquity

MAY 16, 2011

HubSpot last week released the Marketing Data Box , a 3.4 megabyte, 65-slide data dump of marketing facts and statistics from a variety of sources. Here are some of the most interesting observations for B2B marketers: Slide 10: B2B magazines continue to struggle. Content aggregation ?). Email is the #2 priority.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Marketers, can we be honest with each other for a second? On a scale of 1-10, how much do you really understand the world of paid advertising? Despite the fact that 45% of small businesses use paid ads , pay-per-click is still a concept that eludes many of us. When done right, PPC can earn you quality leads.

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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2021

As a marketer, you know how many avenues there are for your prospects and customers to interact with you throughout the buyer’s journey. PPC, your website, email campaigns, social media) and touchpoints (e.g. specific ads, blog posts, social media posts, emails). These avenues refer to channels (e.g. Attribution Modeling.

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Metadata

APRIL 25, 2023

We spared you the pitch slap in 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy Metadata to help demand gen marketers learn why Metadata might not be the marketing OS for them. To help demand gen marketers feel more confident about buying Metadata before the DocuSign email comes through. You just can’t do that natively in ad channels.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

It’s Q2 2019, do you know where your sales and marketing statistics are? We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some interesting insights with you. B2B Marketing Tactics. 91% percent of B2B marketers are doing content marketing.

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Stats Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 48

Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

Funnel imagery permeates marketing. Fill the funnel with a lot of sales leads, then move on to ultimately reach a narrow, well-defined goal. It’s like catnip for sales and marketing teams. Sales may be sending more emails than marketers. The Impact of Marketing Automation on Marketing and Sales.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2014

To read more content like this, subscribe to Insiders. Some people think content promotion isn’t complicated. It’s just making sure content is optimized for the search engines, sent to an appropriate email list, and then broadcast it socially, right? The Tactics of Content Promotion. Content Coverage.

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Envy

MARCH 25, 2019

Since the beginning of time, thought leaders have proclaimed that technology is transforming marketing forever, just like it has done for so many other professions. B2B tech marketing especially is seen as a fast-paced, ever-changing field where you have to keep up or get left behind. Tech didn’t kill classic marketing.

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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. At some point, no one can account for those leads. This means that the rest of the marketers are gambling with their marketing campaigns.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2011

I think it’s important to note that if you were to ask any businesses 4 or 5 years ago if they were marketing online , running PPC (pay per click) ads on Google Adwords would be the first, if not only, thing out of their mouth. Inbound marketing resonates with more businesses because it doesn't cost anything but your time.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Free - No Form - Excerpt from MarketingSherpa's 2011 Search Marketing Benchmark Report. If you think social media marketing has no impact on PPC performance, think again. We just had to share this free, no-form-required, excerpt from MarketingSherpa's 2011 Search Marketing Benchmark Report - PPC Edition.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are all living the marketing high life. Today, great inbound marketers can transform their business thanks to "free" traffic and leads from social media and search engines. Sure, this traffic isn't exactly free -- marketers have to invest in time and tools to take advantage of these inbound channels.

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Social Media Social Marketing Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy 28

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2015

In the new Digital Age, Marketers are constantly bombarded with a sea of information. One of the first questions most new HubSpot users ask is "What report should I be viewing?" While every company is different and every campaign as well, there are some tried and true analytics that every Marketer should be looking at.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 14, 2016

When my co-founder Dharmesh Shah and I first started talking about the concept of inbound marketing, it wasn’t an evolution -- it was a revolution. Marketing became much more about the width of your brain than the width of your wallet. Marketing became much more about the width of your brain than the width of your wallet.

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Martech

APRIL 27, 2022

Measurement is a challenge to every aspect of marketing from attribution to campaign optimization. To meet that challenge, marketers need insights into the vast quantities of data being generated from the wealth of customer touchpoints. Data and analytics take the guesswork out of marketing. Types of marketing analytics models.

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Content operations bring stability and consistency to every level of your content marketing. One of the best ways to ensure that is to integrate analytics into your content operations framework. In this article, we’ll explore the critical role analytics plays in your content operations.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 21, 2011

If you have ever experimented with Google ads and Facebook ads, you may be curious to try out the New York Times self-service ads. The world’s leading publication offers custom ads for small businesses, and they might be well worth your time. Create or Upload Your Ad. Connect with HubSpot :

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Hubspot

MAY 19, 2020

Like any major marketing strategy of the past decade social media has had plenty of time to accumulate some big, inaccurate, myths. Yes, social media landscapes change dramatically every day. Yes, social media landscapes change dramatically every day. 19 Social Media Myths to Leave Behind. In 2019, over 2.39

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SmartBug Media

JULY 8, 2021

Have you ever scrolled through social media and noticed that the pair of shoes you were looking at yesterday is now an ad on your feed? Brands are using social media in both an organic and a paid way, to promote brand awareness as well as their products and services. the shoe ad I mentioned). Why Social Media?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 30, 2009

Understandably, as businesses begin to invest more marketing/PR dollars into social media, there is great concern over the ROI of these activities. A fundamental problem with this of course is that all marketing ROI calculations are imprecise, at best. Simple, right? Balderdash.

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Single Grain

APRIL 1, 2020

And when your lead-generation efficiency slows down, your sales take a hit. HubSpot recently revealed that the three best lead sources for B2B companies are: SEO. Email marketing. Social media. Dive Deeper: * MQL vs. SQL – Serve Up The Right Type Of Content To Your Leads. * Organic Traffic.

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Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Management Sales Qualified Leads 126

Hubspot

MAY 11, 2012

The difficulty with establishing ROI on Facebook has typically been tracking, but luckily, Facebook recently made a bunch of updates to help marketers tackle this problem. And while Facebook is heading in the right direction, SMB marketers (and all marketers) need more, and they need it now. Lead source. Lead quality.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Hiring a paid search manager is easy. Hiring a great paid search manager is not. Paid search managers, of which I am one, are notorious for living in their heads. The unfortunate thing about paid search is that it's one of the easiest skills to fake. First, let's briefly review this specialty.

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Paid Content PPC Paid Search Agency Cost per Lead 28

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Facebook has added a new option for marketers using its self-service ad platform, Sponsored Stories. Facebook's self-service advertising platform has traditionally allowed businesses to promote their fan pages and to create and display ads on Facebook. Sponsored Stories takes advertising on Facebook a step further.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 23, 2019

Facebook Pages with over 500,000 “likes” have an average organic reach of 2% or less for each post, according to research from Social@Ogilvy reported by HubSpot. Facebook Pages w/ over 500K likes have an average organic reach of 2% or less. Ogilvy #research @hubspot Click To Tweet. The ad quality score does.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Cost Per Click Promotion 101

Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2012

When you think about inbound marketing, PPC isn't the first thing that pops into your head. That's because PPC is traditional advertising -- you know, that interruptive stuff you've become adept at blocking out -- except it takes place on the internet instead of a billboard on the side of the highway.

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Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2011

Spring is around the corner and while we are in high season for marketing events and strategy execution, education is still important. In the middle of this busy week, we have collected seven inbound marketing stories for your review and reflection. Use the insights from these articles to improve your inbound marketing efforts.

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Hubspot

JULY 19, 2011

How should marketers adapt to avoid similar problems? 4 Marketing Lessons from Borders' Mistakes. It causes changes to markets that impact the business strategy for all companies in a given market. It causes changes to markets that impact the business strategy for all companies in a given market.

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Hubspot

MARCH 26, 2012

Closed-loop reporting is one of the most powerful tools that we online marketers have at our disposal. Not only does it allow us to demonstrate our work’s value to our bosses, organizations and clients, but it also enables us to improve our marketing. What Is Closed-Loop Marketing?

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Metadata

JUNE 9, 2020

If content is king, then thought leadership is the kingmaker. That feeling of limitless possibility and opportunity when you, awesome B2B marketer, get your hands on a new thought leadership content asset. You envision a future and funnel full of quality leads, pipeline, and revenue. Time to go-to-market!

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Oktopost

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even today, 43% of content marketers need help to develop consistency with measurements. Yet, marketers need these numbers to show the value of their activities and understand the strengths and weaknesses of their campaigns. Invite them to sign up for your mailing list or webinar or become a social media follower.

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