Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. The goal is to target the right prospects, as well as bring them along the buyer’s journey.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While benchmarks and leading indicators help guide our decisions, the variables that can change outcomes are unique to each company, category and audience. Category interest — Middle of the funnel (MOFU). Pain point interest — Top of the funnel (TOFU). But the truth is that marketing is not a hard science.

Lead Gen 141

Lead Gen Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies B2B Marketing 141

Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. And that brings us to strategically aligning keywords with the marketing funnel and, more specifically, lower funnel keywords. We’d argue that when you can sprinkle in solid bottom-of-the-funnel keywords, you’ll get more focused and profitable traffic.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Keywords Marketing Automation Services 130

Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s business environment, the ability to discern and act upon a potential customer’s needs and desires can be transformative, enabling businesses to engage with prospects more effectively and convert them into loyal customers.

Intent Data 124

Intent Data Top of Funnel Intent Urgency Marketing 124

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Too often, companies focus SEO efforts on driving traffic with top-of-the-funnel content and keywords. In B2B, the opportunity is in optimizing for bottom-of-the-funnel queries and conversions. Higher conversion rates The bottom-of-the-funnel (BOFU) content is all about conversions. So, why start from the bottom in B2B?

Top of Funnel 121

Top of Funnel SEO B2B Paid Search Agency 121

Only B2B

APRIL 17, 2024

This includes a team of professionals reaching out to your prospects and clients, setting up the meeting according to their convenience. The 5 Benefits of B2B Appointment Setting B2B appointment setting tackles these challenges head-on, offering a range of benefits to optimize your sales funnel: 1.

Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Service 71

Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

In the demand generation, marketers use a mix of active strategies (webinars, email marketing, paid ads) and passive strategies (content marketing, SEO, podcasting, social media marketing) to capture prospects’ interest in making a purchase. They help create brand awareness and generate interest among potential customers.

Demand Generation Agencies 71

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel 71

NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Technology and data—specifically buyer-level intent data —take a lot of the guesswork out of sales prospecting, making it more precise. How can intent data help sales teams identify high-potential prospects more effectively? These signals can help later on when your sales team approaches a potential buyer. The good news?

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Top of Funnel Intent Outreach 52

Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Understanding the Stages: MQLs, SALs, and SQLs Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) might sound similar , understanding the distinctions between these lead types is crucial to boosting up your marketing funnel. Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Sales, armed with qualified prospects, thrived.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Closing deals in 2023 has been a challenge for many sales teams, but we’re uncovering little-known tips to help you keep your sales pipeline flowing. The buyer journey has changed, making it difficult for sales teams to guide leads through the sales funnel. Here’s the solution: harnessing social media engagement insights.

Top of Funnel 135

Top of Funnel Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 135

Blue Flame Thinking

MARCH 28, 2024

A strategic marketing plan is like a funnel. Use a marketing funnel strategy. The 3 Critical Phases of the Marketing Funnel There are many models varying in sophistication levels that offer ways to approach the marketing funnel. Three key phases of the marketing funnel drive this action.

Marketing Funnels 65

Marketing Funnels Top of Funnel Paid Content Paid Search Agency 65

Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Martech has exploded in recent years, with over 11,000 solutions available to help marketers automate and optimize operations. However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. We might have a decent operation for the 5% of in-market prospects.

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Branding 103

The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

These are our best tips for helping you focus on what matters. This can help position your business as a thought leader in your industry. We find it is OK to use for helping create outlines, dig up research, and give you a starting point. Remember that the goal is to help your audience make progress toward their goals.

Paid Content 97

Paid Content Sales Management B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy 97

Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

From bylined articles to informational videos, content helps prospects learn about brands and gather information about their products and services. It also helps companies position themselves as experts in their fields, building credibility and trust with target audiences. This is a key attribute of any thought leader.

Top of Funnel 80

Top of Funnel Trends B2B Thought Leadership Buyer Personas 80

Launch Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

A messaging framework is a tool that helps embody and communicate your strategy and story across all different lines of business. Messages should be succinct yet deep enough for prospects to know what your company stands for as well as what you do. That’s where a strategic messaging framework comes in. Then, dig into their solutions.

B2B Marketing 117

B2B Marketing Buyer Personas Paid Search Agency B2B 117

Martech

JANUARY 9, 2024

The AI-powered MAPs help businesses identify potential customers and automate the process of capturing leads and nurturing them to sales readiness using channels like email, social media, webpages and display ads. Understand frequency with which prospects are being emailed. Help discover new unique audiences and prospects.

Marketing Automation Services 126

Marketing Automation Services Marketing AI Marketing Automation Automation 126

Contently

MARCH 22, 2022

By following the conventional SEO best practices above, you may be able to grow your organic presence, get top-of-funnel traffic, and help your customers a little. Create bottom-of-the-funnel content. Hear me out: I know content marketing is often used to push top-of-funnel awareness. What is bottom-of-funnel content?

Top of Funnel 188

Top of Funnel SEO Branding Brand Identity 188

Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. This will help you understand how well your post is ranking in Google. You can track Unique Page Views via Google Analytics.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 129

Scoop.it

APRIL 11, 2024

The inevitable increase in engagement is also ideal for developing an online community as it helps the audience to trust the brand more. It’s an ideal platform to introduce your brand’s offering to prospective customers. Most brands opt for traditional content approaches involving sales funnels for generating and nurturing leads.

Webinar Metrics 85

Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 85

Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. SaaS is a particularly competitive market, so B2B SaaS-specific marketing is crucial to get your product in front of the right prospects.

Ideal Customer Profiles 62

Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy 62

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Most of us marketers are focused on a traditional revenue funnel – cone-shaped with awareness at the top and purchase at the bottom. At the top stage of the funnel, you have prospects who are aware of your brand. This stage is the widest part of the funnel with a large number of leads. What is a Bow Tie Funnel?

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Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And content that generates emotion and helps them overcome a challenge is key to converting them into buyers. As your prospects move through the buyer’s journey, good storytelling helps ensure your brand is top of mind, especially when it’s time to make a purchasing decision. Identify key metrics from the get-go.

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

Optimizing your funnel based on this difference maximizes your ROI. Must Read: Lead Nurturing Strategies for MQL Key Differences Between MQLs and HQLs Knowing the difference between MQL and HQL is crucial to determine what nurturing process requires to flow prospect through the funnel.

High Quality Lead 62

High Quality Lead Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL 62

Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To achieve these goals, nurturing strong relationships with your prospects will make all the difference in growing your pipelines and increasing your sales win rate. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

Top of Funnel 131

Top of Funnel Marketing Management Buyer's Journey Sales Cycle 131

Martech

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

B2B marketers use account-based marketing (ABM) strategies to engage the right decision makers within prospective organizations. These strategies can help marketers gain a competitive edge when they’re run with the right data. B2B brands can also gain important intelligence from top-funnel marketing campaigns around brand awareness.

Account Based Marketing 118

Account Based Marketing ABM B2B Marketing Practices 118

Contently

MARCH 30, 2022

Therefore, sales teams need to have the right knowledge and information at their fingertips when speaking to prospective customers. Sales battlecards provide that essential information efficiently, helping sales reps close more deals. And one way to produce more relevant and powerful battlecards is by repurposing marketing content.

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Top of Funnel Content Marketing Funnels Marketing Prospects 161

Square 2 Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Did you know that the traditional sales funnel was created in 1898? If you’re thinking it’s three steps and gravity that helps your leads flow through a funnel, you are woefully mistaken and using logic created over 100 years ago. It’s still shocking to me how many companies still think about sales in the “old way.”

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Top of Funnel Google Design Process 100

NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Intent data is a collection of behavioral data points that help identify prospects at the account- or buyer-level with a high propensity to convert based on their level of interest in a product or service. This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy.

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Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles 64

ClickZ

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I also discuss what makes it great for top-of-the-funnel brand awareness. Let’s find out how marketers can capitalize on Meta’s reach to help build their brand identity. Let’s take a closer look at Meta’s performance at different funnel stages, and how it delivers a strong top-of-funnel relative ROAS.

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Top of Funnel ROAS Digital Marketing Funnels Funnel Advertising 124

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Let’s take you through the journey that helps you explore and embrace the trends shaping B2B demand generation strategies in today’s intricate marketing landscape. This ensures campaigns are efficient, funneling only sales-ready prospects into the pipeline. Provide insights on nurturing engagement.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Faster buyer journeys- Getting your messaging through to leads before they’ve even made a move toward a purchase means you won’t need to spend as much time nurturing them and convincing them to progress further down your sales funnel. At any given time, most of your best prospects aren’t in the market to buy what you’re selling.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 62

Optinmonster

MARCH 27, 2024

They focus on getting as many “leads” as possible into their funnel. It’s no surprise they lose a high percentage of their prospects. If others are lazy with their marketing, and you put a bit more effort into how you engage with your audience and prospects, you’ll get ahead. Lazy marketing brings poor results.

Lead Generation 72

Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 72

Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. But between awareness and a signed deal, prospects take several more actions that move them from one stage in their journey to the next. Previously, we could only see where their prospects were along a basic sales funnel.

Hubspot 80

Hubspot Paid Content Analytics Top of Funnel 80

Velocity Partners

MARCH 28, 2024

Good ABM isn’t about hunting targets and herding them into a funnel. The missing ABM element In its early days, we thought about ABM in terms of targeting: using big data and automation tools to home in on top prospects. ABM pros have recognized we can’t strong-arm prospects into our funnels. Here’s why.

Account Based Marketing 78

Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Best Practices 78

Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

However, lead generation and lead qualification are often used interchangeably- they represent distinct yet interconnected stages within the marketing and sales funnel. Lead Qualification Optimizes the Funnel: Lead qualification is like eliminating the hurdles in the success path, identifying the most promising leads from the generated pool.

Lead Qualification 71

Lead Qualification Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring 71

Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

Cox Automotive has spent the past two years building a more complete picture of prospects and clients, including combining role, engagement and product purchase data from across its brands into a centralized location. At the top of the funnel we focus on which emotional benefits drive Canadian families to choose Sobeys.

Top of Funnel 67

Top of Funnel Analytics De-duplication Work Management 67

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Personalization Challenges Successful ABM campaigns depend on personalized communication tailored to each prospect’s specific needs. Share examples pertaining to situations and problems your prospects already know. Engagement and Conversion Issues Don’t rely on generic conversion funnels.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95