Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

Lead Qualification 71

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring 71

Thinkers360

MARCH 8, 2024

Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Business Continuity 2024 2024 Annual Ranking Find and work with the World’s Premier B2B Thought Leaders, Advisors, Analysts, Authors, Influencers & Speakers (100M+ followers combined). 3 Jason Forrest Forrest Performance Group Contact Jason Forrest Score: 75.12

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B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 126

Martech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations that want happier customers should look holistically at the entire customer journey. Marketers need the big picture when it comes to customer experiences. That’s because all the individual actions that customers take are now seen in context within the entire journey. asked de Quintanilha.

Lead Ranking 137

Lead Ranking Forrester Lead Scoring Cross-Selling 137

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

Speedy customer acquisition without a hefty price tag is the target, but doing it effectively can be a challenge without the right tools and training. How Sendoso’s GTM & RevOps Teams Are Adapting Sendoso , a leading direct-mail platform, has made a lot of changes in the past few months in a push to appeal to new industries.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Zoominfo Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing & Strategy 130

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2020

To know whether your content initiatives are working as intended, measure the effectiveness of your campaigns, and prove the value of your work to your leadership team, you’ll need to tackle the challenge of measuring your ROI. Don’t be fooled into thinking that pieces of content without direct dollar values are a waste of budget.

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Top of Funnel ROI Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 347

Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event. But ignoring MQL altogether is a costly mistake.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead 71

markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Sales Management Lead Management Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 326

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. But how does it work?

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Sales Qualified Leads Intent Data Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 71

Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 6, 2023

Today’s highly competitive business environment is driven by the always-moving customer-centricity goal post. It requires creating customer value which in turn requires a customer-centric approach. So, achieving sustainable growth requires more than just increasing revenue or market share.

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Touchpoints CMO Work Management Cross-Selling 182

Contently

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A lot of the CMOs mentioned attribution modeling , which attempts to assign a weighted value to all the actions and contact someone makes on the path to a purchase. There’s first-touch attribution, last-touch attribution, and custom attribution. “This is the holy grail,” they said. “This is content ROI.”

Lead Ranking 188

Lead Ranking Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Scoring ROI 188

Tomorrow People

MAY 30, 2022

Why customer retention should be your top priority. When it comes to B2B marketing, businesses often focus on customer acquisition. After all, you can’t build brand loyalty if you don’t have customers. But what if you already have a decent customer base? That’s where customer retention comes in. How to get started.

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B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management Cross-Selling 156

Drew Neisser

JULY 7, 2023

This special 350th episode was brought to you from Drew’s hotel room at Forrester’s 2023 B2B Summit and holds 12 key takeaways that B2B marketers can use to drive customer-centric growth. Long-time listeners will recognize Drew’s CATS framework and the enduring importance of being courageous, artful, thoughtful, and scientific.

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Forrester B2B Trust Marketing B2B Marketing 52

Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

The current business environment — increasingly omnichannel but with a heavy reliance on digital — requires successful marketers to capture, analyze and leverage data to deliver timely personalized interactions across every customer touchpoint. Fully 75% of global 100 organizations say CX is a top priority, according to Forrester Research.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing AI 95

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

This week’s show is called “ How Forrester is applying the SiriusDecisions frameworks both within the organization and across the revenue engine to drive results ” and our guest is Kelley Hippler , Chief Sales Officer at Forrester. She is the Chief Sales Officer for Forrester. Or, every week, excuse me.

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Forrester Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking 110

Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. The result?

Lead Qualification 62

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 62

Leadspace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This starts with leveraging your ongoing 1st party data with a variety of 3rd party data to create profiles (or a full buyer data graph) — combining what you know about the customer with what the world knows about the customer — for better lead to account matching, classification/scoring, context and insights.

Marketing Automation Services 71

Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 71

Leadspace

MARCH 9, 2022

Most often I think about it from the point of view of the company strategy rather than from the perspective of the customer. The phrases “actions speak louder than words” and “you are what you eat” come to mind as I think about the characteristics of a great B2B Customer Data Platform. A CDP is very personal to an organization.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Marketing Management Marketing Analytics Tools 62

Leadspace

MARCH 9, 2022

Most often I think about it from the point of view of the company strategy rather than from the perspective of the customer. The phrases “actions speak louder than words” and “you are what you eat” come to mind as I think about the characteristics of a great B2B Customer Data Platform. A CDP is very personal to an organization.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Marketing Management Marketing Analytics Tools 62

The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

And whereas Steve’s customers are migrating upstream, that is – to what they perceive as a more scalable, robust, enterprise-ready solution, we’re seeing many marketers do the opposite, namely moving to a less expensive, less feature-rich, easier to use platform. Why #MarketingAutomation Customers are Migrating Downstream via @spearmktg.

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Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 179

Contently

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Contently ‘s industry-leading platform makes end-to-end content marketing easy with the tech, talent, and strategic insights you need to attribute efforts back to revenue. One of the best parts of the platform is the ability to create workflow templates that can be customized each time you outsource a story.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Enterprise Management Lead Scoring Work Management 130

Leadspace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This starts with leveraging your ongoing 1st party data with a variety of 3rd party data to create profiles (or a full buyer data graph) — combining what you know about the customer with what the world knows about the customer — for better lead to account matching, classification/scoring, context and insights.

Marketing Automation Services 62

Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 62

Leadspace

MARCH 1, 2022

In finding a CDP solution with a product vision in line with your organization, consider leading research and advisory companies like Forrester, who recently published The Forrester New Wave : B2B Standalone CDPs, Q4, 2021. We’re proud to say that Forrester differentiated Leadspace as a leader in Product Vision.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Forrester Lead Scoring 62

Leadspace

MARCH 1, 2022

In finding a CDP solution with a product vision in line with your organization, consider leading research and advisory companies like Forrester, who recently published The Forrester New Wave : B2B Standalone CDPs, Q4, 2021. We’re proud to say that Forrester differentiated Leadspace as a leader in Product Vision.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Forrester Lead Scoring 62

Leadspace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To overcome that hurdle, sales & marketing teams are implementing Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) with reporting functions to analyze and measure operational data management activities using AI — all within a user-friendly, point-and-click analytics dashboards. and if clients customize and build their own reporting.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking 62

Leadspace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To overcome that hurdle, sales & marketing teams are implementing Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) with reporting functions to analyze and measure operational data management activities using AI — all within a user-friendly, point-and-click analytics dashboards. and if clients customize and build their own reporting.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking 62

Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 7, 2020

A study by Forrester found that companies committed to customer experience (CX) have higher brand awareness, higher average order value, higher customer retention, higher return on spending, and higher customer satisfaction rates. So, when customer experience goes awry it can be extremely detrimental.

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Customer Satisfaction Work Management Forrester Lead Scoring 170

Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

When the Metadata Marketing Team read through the Forrester Wave : B2B Advertising Solutions report, we were…a little surprised. Here’s our hot take on where Forrester got it right and where they missed the mark with B2B advertising. What Forrester got right. What Forrester got wrong. Dear Forrester: what gives?

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Forrester Lead Ranking Account Based Marketing ABM 52

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 24, 2021

Unsurprisingly, the majority of the same respondents (80%) said that they use revenue and sales growth to measure their marketing team’s value, contributions and performance metrics. Marketers’ Continued Focus on the Customer Experience. The mandate is clear: marketing is expected to drive revenue,” wrote the authors of the report.

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Demand Demand Generation Forrester Budget Programs 276

Martech

JANUARY 12, 2022

But what if you were to persuade the customer to just give you their data? A marketer will have a better sense of what a customer likes via the zero-party route, rather than trying to guess what they will buy next based on what they bought last. said Nirish Parsad, privacy/martech lead at performance marketing firm Tinuiti.

Lead Scoring 121

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Psychographics CMO 121

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. The heaviest weight goes to lead generation and nurturing campaigns – a combined 40% across all buyer types.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. When asked, the typical B2B marketer will say that 80-85% of their effort goes to customer acquisition. This is a mistake. this opportunity?

Top of Funnel 205

Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Churn Rate 205

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. We were doing it all back then, with very little playbook guidance: Lead magnets. Lead capture forms. Lead scoring. Lead ranking. Lead routing. Lead nurturing. It was empowering.

Marketing AI 112

Marketing AI Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing 112

Madison Logic

JULY 25, 2023

The industry-leading ML Insights unifies datasets from multiple sources to score accounts on purchase propensity, empowering enterprise B2B marketers to prioritize key accounts, drive higher account engagement, and accelerate conversion across the sales cycle. “The

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Account Based Marketing 52

Madison Logic

JULY 25, 2023

The industry-leading ML Insights unifies datasets from multiple sources to score accounts on purchase propensity, empowering enterprise B2B marketers to prioritize key accounts, drive higher account engagement, and accelerate conversion across the sales cycle. “The

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Account Based Marketing 52

Martech

JANUARY 17, 2024

At a time when uncertainty about everything from war to global warming to economics dominates the headlines, the customer data platform is increasingly seen as one of the must-have elements of the martech stack. Fully 75% of global 100 organizations say CX is a top priority, according to Forrester Research. Click here to download!

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Marketing AI Enterprise Management Features Marketing Management 91

Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

It is what the customer gets out of it. ” According to research in 2020, customer experience has now overtaken product and price as the key differentiator between brands. For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale.

Paid Content 101

Paid Content B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Work Management 101

Influitive

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The most powerful tool B2B marketers have in today’s hyper-connected world is genuine word of mouth from their customers—such as reviews, social media shares and recommendations. And brands that use advocate marketing programs to inspire and encourage their customers to create social proof for their products will be the ones that thrive.

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Forrester Marketing Management B2B Marketing Word of Mouth 100