The Lead Agency

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

B2B marketing is evolving, and businesses need to adapt and update their strategy as consumer expectations change, or risk falling behind. Content marketing has been and will continue to be, an effective way to engage buyers. For more information on B2B content marketing , get in touch with the B2B marketing experts at The Lead Agency.

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Content serves as the primary vehicle for educating, engaging, and guiding potential customers at each stage of their journey to make a purchase. The type and the timing of content delivery matters, especially when marketers leverage it to move a prospect through the sales process.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The explosion of available data about customers and prospects and the expanding capabilities of marketing and analytics technologies have made some aspects of marketing easier than ever to measure. At the same time, however, measuring the impact of marketing on major business financial outcomes remains a difficult task.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Last year, Google published a white paper that addressed three of the most important - and still unsolved - challenges relating to the measurement of marketing effectiveness. This post will discuss the third "grand challenge" described in the Google paper. I covered two of these challenges in previous posts ( here and here ).

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Your approach will impact the decisions regarding which touches and channels affect customer behavior and deserve investment. The leadership team expects Marketing to understand which channels, touches and content have the greatest impact on generating conversations, consideration and ultimately consumption.

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Sana Commerce

MAY 2, 2022

By ranking higher on search engines for terms that prospects search for — such as products or solutions — marketers can drive more online traffic to their web stores. 2- Personalized customer interactions : Another trend that B2B businesses are borrowing from the B2C marketplace is personalized shopping experiences.

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Kaon

AUGUST 1, 2018

Georgia Pacific – one of the world’s leading makers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. Currently available on devices running iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows, Kaon Interactive’s solutions are used by sales teams and marketers in nearly 40 countries. Advertisements.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Traditional marketing techniques continue to be (and always will be) a big part of the marketing mix. Create one that equates to leads, sales pipeline and new customer sales revenue. Here are a few tips for how to make this successful as well as some metrics as proof points. The Landing Page is informative.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s no secret– many B2B companies are using Account Based Marketing (ABM) as a key strategy to target prospects, specifically with the aim of reaching specific accounts that fit an ideal customer profile. According to a survey conducted by ITSMA , 87% of marketers say that ABM efforts outperform other marketing efforts.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 18, 2023

A growing number of companies are conducting or sponsoring surveys and featuring survey results prominently in their marketing programs. The proliferation of surveys and survey reports has been driven by the growing importance of thought leadership in the B2B marketing mix. Illustration courtesy of epictop10.com

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B2B Marketing Analytics

APRIL 3, 2022

We live in a world wherein a multitude of marketing tactics and channels are used by organizations to engage with their customers. This data, if synthesized appropriately with key business outcomes in the focus can be leveraged to provide insights for continuously optimizing marketing execution.

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MarketJoy

AUGUST 24, 2022

While more leads on paper may look good to a marketing professional, the quality of leads is what a sales team is looking for. According to a recent survey, 70% of B2B marketers cite improving the quality of leads as the most important objective of a lead generation strategy. We’ll get to that in a minute. What is Lead Quality?

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ClickZ

MAY 25, 2023

Even the best copywriters know the terror of the blank white paper or screen. Here’s what popped up: Holistic email marketing is an approach to email marketing that takes a comprehensive, integrated, and strategic view of email communication. That’s where ChatGPT can save time, energy, and brainpower.

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Litmus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Customers want to be heard, understood, in control, and remembered. As marketers, we can provide that with relevant experiences—like offers, rewards, and most importantly, personalization. Lisa breaks down how marketing teams can shift from a product to a customer mindset. Driving Business Impact Through Email Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

We track the marketing mix (including PR) over time against trends in sales. So if you buy that leap of logic, let’s say that blogs are another channel, like PR, in a marketing mix designed to familiarize customers and prospects with our companies and us. If they happen to also be customers, then all the better.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

These pipeline correlations of the marketing activities provide valuable insights when it comes to understanding “when” the new opportunities were created in marketing engaged accounts and for the accounts with existing opportunities, how marketing was able to influence deal expansion and accelerate deal closures.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I hope you enjoy it … 4 C’s of B2B Marketing – We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing: Product, Price, Placement, Promotion. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix.”. Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing?

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Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

PR is baked into myriad tactics, including company newsletters, brand experience layering, news releases, articles and white papers, sponsorships, social media and crisis management. It’s separate from a marketing plan but should support marketing efforts.”. Consistent messaging is a hard line. My team can help.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Knowing which campaign touches influenced the buying process on an account basis can be tricky because there are usually multiple contacts under the account and opportunity, and they are all being marketed to. In Salesforce, you will not be able to integrate UTMs natively unless you have Marketing Cloud. But the visibility stops there.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing. With eBooks and white papers, you can see that someone downloads the asset, but you lose visibility on how engaged they really are. So I would ask a simple question: who is your ideal customer? B2B Marketing: 3 reasons for adopting video content into your marketing mix.

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Bannerflow

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Congratulations to Telenor for it’s summer campaign for the Swedish market. Worldwide, Telenor Group has 188 million customers, with Sweden just one of its markets in the Nordic region. How does Telenor Sweden use display advertising as part of its marketing mix?

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

[v] How-to content, which describes solutions to problems, can come in the form of blog posts, articles, white papers, guides, webinars, newsletters and emails. vi] Clearly, they can be an important part of your marketing mix, but since they are expensive, you need to determine the ROI they deliver. Customer Engagement 2016.

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SnapApp

MARCH 27, 2014

What’s even harder to determine is what new marketing initiatives you need to add to your marketing mix. To help you decide whether interactive content marketing is right for your organization, we have answered three important questions we commonly hear from our own prospects. That is no longer the case.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

New Engagements – Volume and Quality: the only way to influence new deals is to have the right customers and accounts engage, actively qualify and nurture them before they are handed over to sales. Goals are the key drivers to ensure that marketing organizations put together aggressive plans for driving such engagements.

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

So, you could begin with clothes, then books, papers, ‘ komono ’ (miscellaneous items), and sentimental items. The idea is to look around your marketing mix to identify tools, technology, and processes that spark joy or add value to your customers and business and discard those that don’t. Over To You.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The reason I believe marketers are so confused about social media is because of this paradox. This misses the point, of course, since social media is about customer relationships and not really about the technology at all. They are: Customers: something that is missing from many social media plans is the focus on customers.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

New Engagements – Volume and Quality: the only way to influence new deals is to have the right customers and accounts engage, actively qualify and nurture them before they are handed over to sales. Goals are the key drivers to ensure that marketing organizations put together aggressive plans for driving such engagements.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 12, 2014

In our recently co-released white paper with Oracle Marketing Cloud , we explain how interactive content can help improve the overall buyer’s journey, how it works at each specific stage, and how it can enhance your existing marketing mix. They are having conversations and closing customers. Get started now!

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Those visitors will stay longer, learn more about your offer, and might even become customers. Content advertising, an important part of the marketing mix, combines content marketing and PPC campaigns. Doing this gives you the opportunity to recapture them on your marketing list and follow up accordingly.

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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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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If so, you can emphasize the trade agreements like the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) in your marketing mix. Educate your potential customers by answering questions they may have and providing them with data for the research they are performing. White papers. Build trust through customer testimonials.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

In this post, you’ll find out how B2B marketers are planning, executing and budgeting their marketing programs, so you can be sure your strategy falls in line with or zooms ahead of your competition in 2019. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Spend 10% of Revenue on Marketing. Use Retainer vs. Project Contracts.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth Stevens is Founder of eMarketing Strategy , a consulting practice that assists companies in building their customer acquisition and retention strategies. Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. Every business needs new customers. Business marketers spend an average of 18.6%

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Some of my early favorites consisted of: Managing Sales Leads: How to Turn Every Prospect into a Customer. Permission Marketing. Business to Business Direct Marketing. And nobody can deny that a clearly-defined marketing strategy is essential. So sure, take that 10% of your marketing time and do it now.

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Valasys

APRIL 10, 2020

The term personalization in account-based marketing means not just identifying and targeting the accounts of high-value, but also deploying account-based data and technology as key account-based solutions to help companies attract engage and convert prospects and then analyze their performances by competitive benchmarking. Using Retargeting.

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Some of my early favorites consisted of: Managing Sales Leads: How to Turn Every Prospect into a Customer. Permission Marketing. Business to Business Direct Marketing. And nobody can deny that a clearly-defined marketing strategy is essential. So sure, take that 10% of your marketing time and do it now.

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