KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 17, 2017

When I think of the biggest rivalries, I think Red Sox vs. Yankees, Sega vs. Nintendo, Microsoft vs. Apple, and sales vs. marketing. Okay, so maybe the last item in the list is a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s a fact that many companies isolate their marketing and sales teams from one another. Topic Generation.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A study from Marketingprofs found that sales and marketing teams with high alignment saw a 36 percent increase in win rates compared to less aligned organizations. Readers will undoubtedly realize the importance of having strong alignment between sales and marketing. Have marketers listen to representative sales calls.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is especially important when there are many alternatives on the market. However, it’s a continuous process that involves many steps. This article shares 5 essential recommendations that all marketers should consider when positioning their product. The ultimate goal of product positioning. Over-positioning.

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Crimson Marketing

JUNE 7, 2013

This issue dominates every conversation the VP of Marketing has with the VP of Sales. . An important part of the marketing mix is to help the VP of Marketing address this issue by helping him provide the sales organization with leads. However, an exclusive focus on leads is a mistake.

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Brightedge

JANUARY 10, 2020

Use these points to elevate the understanding and position of SEO in the marketing mix. Your other marketing channels generate demand for people to query the search engine for products and services such as yours. If your website is not there to collect the demand you spent money creating, your competitors will collect it.

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NetLine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But beyond leveraging first-party data from a platform like NetLine, how can sales and marketing teams action engagement data to create meaningful, personalized experiences for their buyers? Misalignment between sales and marketing. First-party data is the core of what we use to understand buyer engagements.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The following excerpt is certainly important to sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. This post also appeared recently in B2C Marketing Insider. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 24, 2019

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Welcome Matt.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. So marketing sends more. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you want to learn about the latest best practices in the world of video marketing and where the industry is heading, this latest Demand Metric report is a must-read! Demand Metric, an independent marketing research and advisory firm, has just published the industry’s first comprehensive report on the video marketing landscape.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. Related Posts: Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?!

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. Related Posts: Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 6, 2009

  Mike is a leading sales and marketing executive, leading the growth of Green Leads while sharing b2b demand generation knowledge with others.    It's the function of setting appointments for sales execs so that they can focus on selling versus cold calling and prospecting. 

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Terminus

JULY 13, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is all about marketing to the entire buying committee at best-fit accounts instead of marketing to only one lead at an organization. Still, marketing technology (MarTech) plays a huge role in executing ABM at scale. One key piece of an account-based marketing mix is digital advertising.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. However, it is difficult for companies to gain inbound responders in large volumes, and too many companies do not have an optimal responder program in place to drive whatever responders they receive to an eventual sale.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 24, 2011

According to MarketingSherpa's 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Report , the effectiveness of email list growth tactics break down according to channel sales (B2B & B2C) and marketing processes. Into the funnel, and out a customer some three, six, nine months later. But what exactly is its role?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Terminus

MAY 23, 2019

Whether it’s your CMO, your head of sales, your CEO, or just that curious little reporting angel on your shoulder – we all want proof that our marketing is having an impact. But using tactical micro-metrics like CPC, CTR, CPL, and on-page optimizations is like looking at a Seurat up close. You manage what you measure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

To effectively project these kinds of statistics, B2B marketing teams need to look at a marketing analytics solution that provides features including: - Forecast deals and bookings before they enter the sales cycle. - Create analytic models that predict conversations between funnel stages over time.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle. Get Everyone on the Same Page.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 26, 2024

The answer to overcoming these challenges is a data-driven, full-funnel account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to identify and prioritize key accounts, surround all buying committee members with relevant content and messaging that resonates with them, and measure and optimize your approach for higher impact and return on investment (ROI).

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Digilant

JANUARY 28, 2021

Yet, with an omnichannel strategy , it’s more difficult for marketing managers and executives to determine which channel or advertising piece produced customer conversions. An omnichannel attribution model can help managers determine which advertising contributed to converting customers. Small Organizations. Data-Driven.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. Sign Up Free 3. ‘We It shouldn’t.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Here’s what marketing leaders find most challenging about revenue marketing and tracking ROI: Lead Quantity vs. Quality. Sales teams demand more leads but often complain they’re not the right ones. Most participants used a mix of digital, events, offline, and sales related channels. Sales Loves Events.

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LeanData

JANUARY 25, 2016

Suddenly, there are blog posts everywhere about ABM will be turning out the lights on Marketing Automation, Inbound, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, and on and on. You can’t open up LinkedIn or Twitter anymore without seeing breathless predictions that the end is near for various, proven strategies for marketers.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. Create, host, manage, and share your videos. It shouldn’t.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 28, 2019

Going forward, we expect to see more industrial marketers focus on improving their ROI measurement efforts by going beyond lead generation counts and examine their ability to track all prospect engagement through the sales cycle. It’s a rapidly accelerating cycle that shows no signs of leveling out.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Sales & marketing alignment. 1) We’re at a point where we have lot of data about marketing performance, but it’s a big challenge to turn it into actionable information (2) we’re actively tweeting, blogging and using LinkedIn, but how can that be effectively managed, and how can it be measured? (4)

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LeanData

JANUARY 25, 2016

Suddenly, there are blog posts everywhere about ABM will be turning out the lights on Marketing Automation, Inbound, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, and on and on. You can’t open up LinkedIn or Twitter anymore without seeing breathless predictions that the end is near for various, proven strategies for marketers.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If you are asking if we need to align with sales, go find a new profession. If you think marketing is much more important than sales, update your resume. If you think marketing is much more important than sales, update your resume. And…Marketing needed lots of help. In BtoB Magazine , Karen J.

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Attribute it to what you will, the paradigm has shifted for marketers as we shed Demand Era standards to fit our role to the era of Revenue; more specifically, marketing revenue accountability. Go Beyond Sales & Marketing Alignment. Need stats?

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LeanData

JANUARY 25, 2016

Suddenly, there are blog posts everywhere about ABM will be turning out the lights on Marketing Automation, Inbound, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, and on and on. You can’t open up LinkedIn or Twitter anymore without seeing breathless predictions that the end is near for various, proven strategies for marketers.

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LeanData

JANUARY 25, 2016

Suddenly, there are blog posts everywhere about ABM will be turning out the lights on Marketing Automation, Inbound, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, and on and on. You can’t open up LinkedIn or Twitter anymore without seeing breathless predictions that the end is near for various, proven strategies for marketers.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle.

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