Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s where marketing qualified leads, or MQLs, come into play. You might be asking, “What exactly is an MQL?” “How How do you identify an MQL?” and “Why do MQLs matter?” This blog post covers all you need to know about MQLs—from definitions to strategies for converting leads into paying customers.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. HubSpot’s Customer Journey Analytics at a glance Launched at HubSpot’s Inbound22 conference, Customer Journey Analytics is available to Marketing Hub Enterprise users. Want to go deeper?

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Cost Per Click tells you how much it costs to get one person to click on your paid ad. Churn rate.

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. Understanding lead generation ZoomInfo refers to lead generation as: “[T]he process of attracting prospects and getting them into the sales funnel, with the goal of converting them into customers. Let’s explore.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Making sense of marketing and engagement data is not easy. Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

Measuring ROI from paid marketing for B2B is a critical problem a lot of marketers are trying to tackle. B2B marketing is not transactional, and that’s easy to forget. In the past, tracking the ROI of a digital ad was similar to how billboards are still measured today–throw it up and hope for the best.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Most of my digital marketing career has been running campaigns for eCommerce companies. It took me some time to adjust to B2B marketing, where analytics have not always played a significant part in decision making for many of our clients.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Stevens & Tate

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once your buyer has been made aware of their problem, searched through your content, and become a lead, their true “shopping” experience begins. Email marketing and marketing automation are the primary avenues for marketing to your buyers at this point. Drip Emails. Lead Nurturing Campaigns.

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BOP Design

MAY 5, 2021

Phil, take a minute to see how this applies to B2B marketing. Here, we take a closer look at a few ways to evaluate your B2B marketing strategy to ensure you are focusing on creating a human connection with your prospects and clients, not just making a sale. The best marketing campaigns don’t start with a statement about “us.”

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Outgrow

APRIL 15, 2021

How to Create a Demand Generation Funnel - Strategy+Examples. The ultimate goal of a marketing strategy is to make the buyer’s journey and the demand generation funnel smooth. But, what is demand generation and how do you create a funnel that converts maximum prospects into paying customers? So, read up! . Why not try it?

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At Winning by Design, we help implement Sales as a Science by applying the scientific method to all areas of the customer journey which is, in many ways, the kaizen approach to GTM (go-to-market). Start simple and confirm MDR/SDR effectiveness and marketing targeting accuracy. Insight Identification: Three Ways to Kaizen Your GTM.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some recent and relevant insights with you. Staying on top of sales and marketing trends like these can help you gain a new perspective on your strategies and even help you initiate a campaign or channel pivot.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 28, 2019

You convinced leadership that inbound marketing was the way to go for your B2B company. You overcame your some of your lingering inbound marketing fears (and helped executives do the same). Few download your content and even fewer — if any — attend your webinars. A few grumpy sales reps complain that inbound isn’t marketing.

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Directive Agency

OCTOBER 2, 2019

One of the significant challenges within paid advertising is prospecting while staying within your cost-per-lead (CPL) or cost-per-action(CPA) target. Your total addressable market is not always searching for what you offer through search engines, and they may have never visited your site, leaving remarketing out of the question.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Here are five lead generation benchmarks that every marketing team should track month over month: 1. Marketing Qualified Leads.

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 7, 2020

79% of B2B marketers say that improving ROI of marketing activities is a key focus for 2020. And when it comes to inbound marketing specifically, proving ROI isn’t so straightforward. Why you need to measure your inbound marketing efforts. Successful inbound marketers don’t make decisions based on gut feelings.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

B2B marketing is a lot of what-have-you-done-for-me-lately and a never-ending game of follow the leader. Some marketers see ROI on TikTok ? Google PPC ads still drive a solid cost per lead (CPL)? People actually click on B2B ads on Facebook ? The team is growing and adding more specialized roles to scale quickly.

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PureB2B

APRIL 25, 2019

It’s Q2 2019, do you know where your sales and marketing statistics are? We like to keep a finger on the pulse of the B2B marketing funnels and sales pipelines world and thought we would share some interesting insights with you. B2B Marketing Tactics. 91% percent of B2B marketers are doing content marketing.

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PathFactory

MARCH 12, 2020

If there’s any constant in marketing, it’s change. Early 2020 has seen no shortage of this with many industry events being cancelled, forcing marketers to quickly pivot and adapt their demand plans. Many marketers are moving in-person events online, which helps replicate the event experience digitally.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you consider yourself a modern SaaS marketer with your salt, then it’s safe to assume you’ve heard the term ICP marketing before. But in an industry as jargon-and-acronym-heavy as SaaS marketing, it’s easy to hear about a term without truly grasping it. The Precursor To Customer-Led Marketing.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

B2B SEO and B2C SEO have one major commonality: the ability to be seen and found in online search results. As digital marketing and search engine optimization become increasingly important, it’s necessary to understand that the strategies for each should differ. But what about the differences? What is B2B SEO . What is B2C SEO?

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Unbounce

MAY 15, 2019

Hey there , marketer. I’m your target market. I just Googled your solution, clicked your ad, and I’m on your landing page. Your ad promised me something you didn’t deliver. You’ve likely heard about the importance of “message match” (also known as “ad scent” or “congruence”).

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) requires more than a consultant spewing out recommendations in hopes that their client will implement them. However, with a lack of the following resources, this becomes a Sisyphean task doomed to wasted advertising spend and frustration. Search Engine Friendly Website.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Here are five lead generation benchmarks that every marketing team should track month over month: 1. Marketing Qualified Leads.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 17, 2019

Traditional email marketing is a rinse-and-repeat process that we’re all familiar with: you get a list of target accounts, validate their contact information, send emails, review results and repeat until you get your desired results. It allows marketers to see when a need arises based on buyer behavior.

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Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

For B2B marketers, that means the challenge of effectively reaching, engaging, and converting their target audience is more complex than ever. As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. What is B2B Marketing?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The same might be said for for the transition from product-market fit to the growth stage of a SaaS company. This is a daunting challenge, but in today's post we're going to look at the four core tenets of a marketing plan (goal setting, tactics, resources and evaluation) that can help you achieve these goals. Marketing budget.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 7, 2023

Building a technology stack to support your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy is no easy feat. Doing this upfront work will save you from one of the biggest mistakes marketers make when it comes to ABM: targeting broad groups of people in a large company. Inaccurate or generalized targeting means wasted time and money.

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Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising. Let’s explore tactics to make your customer acquisition efforts more efficient with improved sales and marketing processes. Keeping marketing and sales data in a single space facilitates efficient lead management and communication tracking. Clean and clear pipeline.

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Vision Edge Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Let go of the outdated sales funnel. The sales funnel model is a 112-year-old tool used by Sales organizations to understand the flow of business opportunities and the culprit behind misalignment. It permits and even encourages the Marketing and Sales teams to operate as independent, unrelated silos of business activities.

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Ledger Bennett

APRIL 6, 2022

The future of B2B paid advertising, as with most marketing mediums, is now largely based on data and machine learning and less and less on manual bidding. B2B marketers who get in front of this and evolve to leverage tech-enabled best practices will realize best-in-class results while gaining a sustainable competitive edge.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content Paid Search Agency Work Management 52

Choozle

JULY 26, 2021

Marketing metrics are the key performance indicators (KPIs) used by marketing teams to quantify a campaign’s results. Marketing metrics are used to measure a campaign’s performance and represent how effective it was in reaching specific goals. Jump to: Marketing qualified leads (MQL).

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Rev

JANUARY 18, 2023

Whether you’re working at a startup or a large enterprise, demand generation marketing is too good for business to ignore. You have no doubt that it’s the best on the market, sure to revolutionize your industry. So, despite being the best on the market, you struggle to hit your sales goals. Like, at all.

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