Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The past two decades have brought disruptive technological change and radically reshaped B2B marketing practices. Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. Cold calls, trade shows, direct mail, and print ads were the primary forms of marketing. Market size analysis.

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Paid Content Sales Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services 241

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

When you look at the value a company blog generates, not having one is one of the biggest mistakes a business can make in the digital age. B2B marketers who blog get 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. Business owners who create a blog and commit to posting regularly will see an increase in traffic, leads, and sales.

Top of Funnel 361

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Companies Marketing Automation Services 361

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 20, 2020

The lack of rightful accountability is often quite prevalent in marketing and sales. Since most B2B organizations use a wide range of digital strategies to generate leads and convert customers, it is hard to say which approaches are working better than others. Marketing tools and channels generate huge amounts of data today.

Multi-Touch Attribution 265

Multi-Touch Attribution Marketing Attribution Multi-Channel Lead Ranking 265

Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They must manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, while working effectively with partners across the globe. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. With B2B marketing, it’s all about value.

Marketing Budget 303

Marketing Budget Enterprise Management Sales Management Work Management 303

markempa

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most of us are solving sales and marketing problems. According to Brent Adamson, Principal Executive Advisor, Gartner, “empathy” is the one word that matters most to sales [and marketing] success. I find both of those attributes of empathy to be potentially hugely powerful for anyone in sales or marketing.

Sales Management 307

Sales Management Buy Research Lead Ranking 307

Sales Engine

OCTOBER 8, 2015

For decades, the B2B marketer has been a manager of projects. They develop white papers, email campaigns, go to trade shows, and —well, you know, execute on lots of projects. Project-based marketing always has a beginning, middle, and an end. The buyer has WAY more control than they used to.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Process B2B Thought Leadership Work Management 120

ViewPoint

MARCH 19, 2018

“But why,” she asked, “do I need to master deep digital analytics? The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. I have people to do that and we get website stats. We know geo distribution, client and platform by user.”.

Marketing Management 197

Marketing Management Analytics Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services 197

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Business owners and marketers have had to quickly and repeatedly adapt their strategies , redefine how they do branding , and adjust their infrastructure in these unprecedented times. Among the aspects proving to be particularly challenging is content marketing. Content drought and lower ROI in the world of B2B marketing post-COVID.

Top of Funnel 268

Top of Funnel ROI Marketing Automation Services Work Management 268

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Thanks to the internet, there are seemingly endless ways for B2B marketers to reach their audiences. According to the “B2B Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America” report, 71 percent of today’s B2B marketers leverage ebooks/white papers for content marketing purposes.

Paper 120

Paper Promotion B2B Marketing Top of Funnel 120

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 130

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

They need tactical videos that support their sales and marketing content strategy. Tactical videos have specific objectives: establish a value proposition in the prospect’s mind, put across a memorable product differentiator, describe a new use case. Different kinds of tactical video.

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Tactics RFP Top of Funnel Video Marketing 150

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2018

A little bit of humor can go a long way– even in the marketing world. Today’s marketing professionals must juggle a number of high-priority tasks throughout the day, and often, they find themselves under a significant amount of stress. In these cases, a few lighthearted jokes can ease the tension of the day-to-day marketing job.

Planning 272

Planning Zoominfo Top of Funnel Churn Rate 272

NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Marketing these days is full of jargon, which can be confusing for senior executives and others who aren’t fully immersed in it on a daily basis. We’ve put together this primer to help you identify primary characteristics and key tactics of these disciplines, so you confidently develop a strategy that includes all three.

Demand Generation Agencies 206

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Inbound Marketing Lead Generation 206

The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges. Failure to Nurture Leads Correctly.

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Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Campaigns Cost Per Click 231

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Are you feeling your well of content marketing inspiration running dry? There’s still time left before the end of the year to make sure your content marketing efforts have an impact on your revenue. If you’ve seen success from a certain blog post, consider enhancing and expanding it into an ebook or white paper.

Top of Funnel 363

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Generation 363

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Statistics B2B Marketing Marketing Budget Creation Planning 255

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs?

Top of Funnel 245

Top of Funnel Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 245

Sales Engine

APRIL 27, 2016

It’s not hard to develop a piece of content —say, a video or an infographic, an article or a white paper—on a topic that somebody might find interesting. Funnel-based content In the middle of funnel, they’re usually looking at vendors , so the content can shift to talk about the advantages of your solution, including demonstrations.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency Companies 120

Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 149

Tomorrow People

APRIL 10, 2018

A content marketing strategy is dead in the water if it can’t deliver significant sales-ready leads. The B2B sales cycle has undergone a complete change and the length of the B2B sales cycle is shrinking as prospects engage later after doing their own research. Going micro with content marketing.

Lead Ranking 176

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 176

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Require an email address or contact information for big pieces of content, like ebooks and white papers. Before we get into the types of exclusive B2B content you can create, let’s cover the two main reasons to do so: lead generation and email marketing. Collect Emails for Marketing. Gathering Leads for Sales.

Top of Funnel 152

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Webinar Metrics Lead Ranking 152

Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2018

One thread that binds my career is top-of-funnel content. And I’ve written extensively about what success looks like for top-of-funnel content. But I have rarely led sustainable upper-funnel content efforts for a simple reason: It’s difficult to track the first touches in a multi-touch customer journey to revenue.

Lead Ranking 132

Lead Ranking Multi-Touch Attribution Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 132

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. Content marketing is the kind of marketing that delivers ROI you can measure. Unlike other methods of marketing, content marketing stands out because it is completely sustainable. And then some.

Marketing Budget 363

Marketing Budget Paid Content ROI Marketing & Strategy 363

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 9, 2024

Current marketing practices take customer needs into consideration when producing content for lead generation programs. Finding success with B2B lead nurturing in today’s market means profiling customers to identify the decision-maker. As well as, targeting your content marketing to the right buyer, at the right time.

Lead Nurturing 185

Lead Nurturing Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 185

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Propel them further down the sales funnel with white papers and webinars. But your marketing needs to be more than dry information, it should make people want to come back for more. The best relationship-oriented sellers place their connection with the customer above all other elements of the selling process.

Business 227

Business B2B Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Conference 227

Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

The sales funnel is obsolete. The sales funnel doesn’t help predict anything about buyers: Not their mentality, not their movement through the buyer’s journey , and not when they might make a purchase. But how do they fit on the old marketing charts? Enter the marketing lifecycle. Bold statement?

Top of Funnel 108

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking Digital Marketing Funnels 108

Single Grain

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This post on discovering the right content for each stage of the marketing funnel has been updated for 2019. Not some day in the future after navigating your complex purchase funnel, but right then on their first visit. How much easier (and more profitable) would your life as a marketer be? Modern consumers are savvy.

Top of Funnel 112

Top of Funnel Sales Management Marketing Funnels Paid Content 112

Oktopost

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the world remains mostly shuttered, businesses are turning to alternative digital channels to hock their wares. Sadly enough, even though social selling is proven to increase company revenue by upwards of 16% , 3 in 4 sales reps don’t implement the strategy. But who likes a challenge more than a B2B marketer?

Enterprise Management 160

Enterprise Management Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 160

Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Even as a CEO of a content marketing agency , I still get this pressure from my board and colleagues—and they all know how buyers have more control these days, buying on their own time frames, not ours. The sales rep could easily fill their calendar with appointments leveraging off of that branding.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Thought Leadership Demand Generation Agencies 120

Tomorrow People

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“ The manufacturing industry has welcomed significant opportunities created by digital technology. The extent to which manufacturing companies succeed is dependent on how those technologies are applied ”, says George Houtappel, Vice President of Marketing at Solvay. Don’t ignore your marketing automation.

Top of Funnel 184

Top of Funnel Trends Planning Content Marketing 184

Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

Business decision-makers LOVE online B2B marketing videos because it gives them the most amount of information in the shortest amount of time. So now that you are on board with the benefits of online B2B marketing videos, what does video content marketing really mean?

Top of Funnel 139

Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Video Marketing Lead Ranking 139

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. But the long-running effects of digital disruption, coupled with the sudden shock of COVID-driven remote work, have changed the game.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Management 130

Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). In marketing, predictive analytics is about understanding the customer journey. to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. And who wouldn’t want that?

Marketing Attribution 98

Marketing Attribution Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking 98

Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). The Sales Funnel. Sales Funnel.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 118

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. In this guide, we share practical content-related advice and examples that you can use to resolve specific ABM challenges, ultimately increasing the efficiency of your marketing campaigns.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The key to automating a consistent flow of qualified leads is setting up a quality marketing funnel. By guiding potential customers through a series of stages, from awareness to conversion, well-crafted marketing funnels can increase conversions, drive revenue and create loyal customers. Updated September 2023.

Top of Funnel 105

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Paid Content AIDA 105

KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

If you visit the About Us page on our website, you will notice text on the left-hand side that reads, “ Our Mission: Deliver strategic online marketing programs tailored to maximize results.” We frequently refer back to this document as we get the online marketing program launched. Complete a Client Discovery Questionnaire.

Online Marketing 175

Online Marketing B2B Marketing Buyer Personas Ad Building 175