Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As we wrap up 2023 and look ahead to 2024, now is the time to evaluate our marketing strategies to ensure we are fully prepared for what’s to come. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively. Tracking upper-funnel and B2B activities is challenging but feasible.

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Optinmonster

MAY 16, 2023

Marketing in today’s world is dependent on data. And when it comes to gathering marketing data, Google Analytics is probably the most important tool you will rely on. At a more advanced level, it’s what you use to gather insights about customer’ behavior in order to make better marketing decisions.

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a marketer at a B2B company, you’re always on the lookout for ways to drive more revenue and build a healthier lead generation pipeline. Depending on the demand for your product, Google ads are an excellent option. A common mistake is heavily relying on target audiences with Google Ads.

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a marketer at a B2B company, you’re always on the lookout for ways to drive more revenue and build a healthier lead generation pipeline. Depending on the demand for your product, Google ads are an excellent option. A common mistake is heavily relying on target audiences with Google Ads.

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Oktopost

JUNE 4, 2024

You’ll find one element in every B2B marketing success story: a high-quality lead is a lead that has true potential to convert. Generating high-quality leads is what all your marketing efforts come down to, and a lead generation landing page is a pivotal moment in the journey down your sales funnel.

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Bannerflow

MAY 12, 2023

Google Optimize, a powerful tool for website optimization and A/B testing, has long been a go-to solution for advertisers seeking to enhance their online marketing strategies. Google Optimize has been a longstanding product but lacked features that many marketers found essential.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 16, 2016

Google AdWords continues to expand and improve conversion tracking metrics, and without a full understanding of the data provided, your firm may not be optimized with regard to generating efficient quality leads and sales. Obviously search advertising is a must when the goal is to capture prospects in active research or buying mode.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s no stretch to say the marketing data landscape has changed quite a bit over the past two years. For one, the ways companies collect user data have been under the microscope, and policies from Apple and Google are forcing marketing data analytics changes across the board.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 5, 2019

Whenever you read a marketing piece or go to a conference, you will hear that the B2B buyer journey is getting longer and more complex. With so many advertising platforms available, it’s certainly a challenge to keep up with the space and create high-converting campaigns. 79% of marketing leadsnever convert into sales.

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Contently

APRIL 20, 2023

As content marketers, it’s our job to engage our audience , build brand awareness , and drive interest in our company’s products and services. In contrast, paid traffic refers to traffic that comes from paid advertising, such as Google Ads or Facebook Ads.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. How to leverage intent data in 8 steps Gone are the days when banner ads on a popular review website could funnel hundreds of leads to your business. Fortunately, intent data has become a mainstay among business analytics to do just that.

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Walker Sands

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) introduced several big changes for B2B marketers who recently had to switch over to the analytics tool from Universal Analytics (UA) , including how GA4 tracks conversions, the shift to events instead of goals, and the implementation of predictive metrics and audiences. What Is a Conversion Event in GA4?

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illumin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Data attribution is critical for marketers looking to understand the full impact of their campaigns. With that being said, what is data attribution and how does it help marketers make informed decisions? This means associating sales leads back to any and all marketing activities and touch points that brought them into the fold.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 22, 2018

At the start of online advertising, there was a “one-size-fits-all” approach to generating clicks. Since then, thanks to the sheer amount of data now available, the world of online advertising has become more about the individual than the big group. At the time, platforms such as AdWords didn’t offer much for ad personalization.

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Modern B2B

MAY 28, 2024

I recently wrote about technical debt , and whilst this is pretty common when thinking about systems and technology, it’s equally as relevant to digital advertising, conversion settings and conversion triggers and goals. Take for instance, Google and GA4. In addition, the default settings between platforms are not aligned.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 25, 2013

It you’re monitoring Google analytics, you’re measuring goals. Remember this significant difference: Pay-per-click and online display is ADVERTISING, and the goal of advertising is to generate leads, sales, and revenue, and that means CONVERSIONS. A subset of conversion page tracking is creating goal funnels.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to communicate directly with folks in the market, actively looking for solutions that your company offers? For example, if a user was comparing “Google Cloud” and “Amazon Web Services”, that means that they have the intent to purchase services related to those intent topics.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 24, 2022

We’re inundated with low-quality display advertising nearly everywhere we go online which has led to a phenomenon known as “ ad blindness ”–either people don’t see your ads, or what is said in your ads doesn’t register with them. You’re creating a hole in your marketing funnel. It all comes back to the funnel.

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FMG Suite

AUGUST 18, 2021

When you search using Google, you’ve probably seen the ads at the top and side of the resulting pages. That means Google Ads for financial services target users who are curious about, interested in, or even ready to purchase financial services. Here’s how financial advisors can use Google Ads to grow their book of business. .

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ClearVoice

MAY 31, 2023

Let’s face it: Running a successful content marketing campaign isn’t cheap. You need to invest a significant amount of resources and time to see meaningful results from your content marketing efforts. If you plan to invest thousands of dollars in content marketing, you need to learn how to measure content marketing ROI.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 20, 2021

Some B2B tech companies, especially in early stages, are eager to make a splash in their respective markets. B2B tech companies are on the right track by investing in their marketing at launch, but in order for that marketing to be effective, they need to build a full content funnel for each stage of the buyer’s journey.

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Content Standard

APRIL 16, 2024

With advertising costs continuing to rise, marketers are leaning again into SEO as a more sustainable and cost-effective solution to overshadow the competition, grow brand awareness, and feed the digital funnel. In fact, 90 percent of enterprise marketers reported SEO as a key focus in 2023 and beyond, according to BrightEdge.

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Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not exactly news that LinkedIn advertising can be expensive. Google that phrase, and you’ll see articles like “Why are LinkedIn ads so dang expensive?” and “LinkedIn is the most expensive digital advertising platform.”. Like any good marketer, we’ll tell you: it depends. Looking for a bit more?

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Refuse to be B2B-oring Most B2B marketers read from the same script: LinkedIn ads with similar messaging. Marketers are stuck swimming in a sea of sameness, and that’s making B2B marketing oh-so-bland. Create multiple brand funnels by tapping into your executives and employees. Blog posts targeting the same keywords.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It used to be simple: Selling on Amazon meant you advertised on Amazon. To sell on your direct-to-consumer website, you advertised on the rest of the internet. The result of using off-Amazon channels is an advertising cost of sales ( ACoS) measured by cost per action (CPA), which can be lower than with Amazon Sponsored Product Ads.

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Parse.ly

JULY 29, 2021

Understand content marketing for top of the funnel. Incorporate multiple channels in marketing funnel stages. Build successful marketing funnel stages. When we talk about The Content Marketer’s Funnel , lead generation gets a lot of attention. Understand content marketing for top of the funnel.

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MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

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Unbounce

JUNE 1, 2021

Experiences like this can make you think that retargeting ads—those ads that resurface products and services you looked at but didn’t take action on—are too pushy and sales-y to be worth including in your marketing strategy. Nobody wants to be that type of marketer.). Request a demo. What Is Retargeting, Really?

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Digilant

MAY 6, 2021

The best way to begin this is by using the best online marketing analytics tools. These tools help support the digital marketing strategy by measuring and managing performance. What do these online marketing analytics tools provide? Revenue funnel analysis. This platform offers an integration with Google Analytics.

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Digilant

MAY 6, 2021

The best way to begin this is by using the best online marketing analytics tools. These tools help support the digital marketing strategy by measuring and managing performance. What do these online marketing analytics tools provide? Revenue funnel analysis. This platform offers an integration with Google Analytics.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re still on the fence about social media advertising, we get it. Research shows that one of the top goals for marketers is increasing brand awareness, which is why more and more brands are achieving this with a paid social presence. How does advertising on social media work? Why run paid social media ads, anyway?

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ConvertKit

JUNE 21, 2021

After all the work you put into creating your incredible product, you need a proper marketing plan. If you already have an email list, you can send out a survey with tools like SurveyMonkey or Google Forms. Pro tip: Further along our product launch timeline, you’re going to pick advertising channels to focus your efforts on.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In a digital age where audience behaviors shift with each new trend and technological advance, it’s paramount for marketers to introduce their content campaigns directly into the spaces where their target audiences are most engaged. Now, content marketing boundaries are stretching far beyond these traditional confines.

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