MKT1

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the past couple years writing newsletters and working with hundreds of founders and marketers, we’ve developed a fairly-comprehensive approach to building B2B marketing. Ten Speed Ten Speed is a content optimization agency for early and growth-stage SaaS companies like Bitly, Workvivo, and Visible.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Once upon a time, there was a marketer named Randolph. Randolph, let’s call him “Randy,” lived in upstate New York as a marketer. Not just a marketer, though—Randy considered himself a growth marketer, and he had a vision. There was no time or appetite to revamp their entire marketing strategy.

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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. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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accelerate agency

MAY 24, 2021

There’s one tool that you simply can’t do without: Google Analytics. If that’s the case, use the links below to find the right information for you: What is Google Analytics? Why is Google Analytics essential to SEO? 20 tips to using Google Analytics to improve your SEO strategies.

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Goodish Agency

MAY 17, 2021

He joined an American digital marketing agency where he was managing a SEO team. When talking about CRO and growth marketing clients usually don’t have a lot of understanding or experience and since they always relied on the help of digital marketing agencies, they’ve never gained a deep understanding of CRO for SaaS.

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SmarkLabs

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you’re a professional marketer, you know that significant growth doesn’t usually happen overnight. Sometimes, it can take weeks, months, or even years of building up your marketing strategies to produce targeted goals and results. What is Growth Marketing? Why is Growth Marketing Important?

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2019

“Growth marketing” sound enticing–who doesn’t want marketing that leads to growth? While growth marketing has gained a lot of recent attention, it can be hard to know the potential it has for your specific organization. The Makeup of Growth Marketing. Testing, failing and succeeding.

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a recent study of over 1000 Go-To-Market (GTM) teams, over 90% of marketers said they want to target prospects and customers through a tailored approach with personalized campaigns and sales outreach. But given the shifts in buyer behavior over the last 18 months, ABM has quickly become a must for marketers.

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MKT1

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educating the rest of your company on marketing is often the hardest part of doing marketing. Marketing’s actual job is to understand an audience and communicate to that audience in a value-add way. Yet, when it comes to doing this internally, marketers often fall short–very, very short. Nor should you.

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MKT1

JUNE 5, 2023

“The marketing funnel is dead,” they say. I agree the marketing funnel isn’t exactly funnel shaped–it's sort of an hourglass. So, I still strongly recommend B2B marketing teams map their funnels. But all things go-to-market will fall better into place once you do it. I don’t agree.

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Marketing gets a bad rap. Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. And that’s partially because it’s incredibly misunderstood.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For over 22 years , TopRank Marketing has had the honor of helping a diverse selection of the world’s top B2B marketers and major global brands elevate beyond merely being competitive, to truly standing out from the crowd with creative and award-winning successes such as our recently-launched 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report.

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Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. B2B marketing expert Tony Zambito calls this the “ Great Buyer Resignation.” A reality check.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PLG and customer activation powered by advanced marketing analytics capabilities is among the top priorities for all business and growth marketing leaders across B2B SaaS organizations. PLG analytics is now seen as the part of the core B2B GTM analytics frameworks.

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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. Because of this, we see more GTM tech than the average human. Good news: This is basically our full-time job at MKT1.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Train a Journalist in Content Marketing. For example, the analytics software startup Mixpanel admitted it had been pricing its product wrong. And the CEO of messaging platform Drift publicly admitted its marketing had lost its way. ” Mixpanel. “If Click To Tweet.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. . A GTM strategy can make or break marketing plans. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis? GTM strategy best practices.

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Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies.

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MKT1

JUNE 16, 2022

I’ll cut right to it: SDRs should not be the default way to ramp up your GTM. They are part of a bigger GTM system, they aren’t THE system. So, you probably have too many SDRs and not enough marketers. SDRs simply cannot be effective without marketing as you scale past 1 or 2 SDRs.

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Oktopost

APRIL 7, 2022

Senior Director, Global Marketing at VISA, Avnita Gulati, talks about Account-based marketing and how to apply it properly with buy-in from the whole team. Watch the recording: Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? Account-based marketing (or ABM, since every marketer loves an acronym) is all the rage.

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MKT1

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A great product, team, and market have become table stakes requirements for startups to succeed. With the proliferation of B2B startups and the lower barriers to building great products, marketing is now the differentiator. Founders need to value and enable marketing as they do other teams in the organization.

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Liveintent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To break down exactly how this first-party data can be used to drive growth, LiveIntent CMO, Kerel Cooper, led a recent discussion for IAB Audience Connect featuring: Peter Chang, CRO, Likemind Paige Govoni, Growth Marketing Lead, ThirdLove Jessica Muñoz, SVP of Product Marketing & GTM Strategy, LiveIntent.

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NetLine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Three R’s continue to be the common thread found throughout each answer and insight within Momentum ITSMA & ABM Leadership Alliance’s 6th annual benchmark study for B2B marketers. As ABM has matured, one of its greatest challenges has been graduating from being a functional, marketing-led program (i.e.,

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of the key ingredients to achieving growth goals in demand marketing has always been the customer experience. That formulaic approach is still widely applied today, but organizations that offer a considered purchase with a long sales cycle are finding that traditional growth marketing isn’t working for them.

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Hack Your Email List Growth With Exit Intent Email marketing is one of the best ways to connect with your visitors, and encourage them to become subscribers and customers. Best of all, email marketing is affordable. After that, you can always try one of these email marketing services.

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SalesIntel

JULY 13, 2021

Effective marketing is no easy feat. Throw in the complexities of marketing to other organizations, and it’s tricky to know where to start. Your overarching growth marketing strategy needs to speak to your sales goals and objectives as a business. Read More: B2B Content Marketing: The Quick & Easy Guide ].

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Martech

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Auseh Britt, vp of growth marketing at account-based marketing platform Terminus, recently hosted a webinar that discussed her organization’s 2021 State of Modern Marketing Report. The study polled over 1000 go-to-Market (GTM) teams — groups tasked with identifying the best ways to reach specific marketing. “It

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MKT1

AUGUST 7, 2023

Who : This workshop is for marketers, web developers and designers, founders, & other leaders at early & growth stage B2B startups or agencies. Why we recommend 42 Agency: They’re one of our go-to agency recommendations for early & growth stage startups for all things growth marketing and demand gen.

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MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I love seeing what’s possible when marketers think like product orgs and use the modern tools available to them to make high-value content. So I wrote this newsletter and made a video with some early-stage marketers to help. Part 2: Why marketing orgs need to become more like product orgs. 250,10% off for paid subscribers.

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Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

B2B Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing—however you badge it, it’s a numbers game. Many marketers shy away from social media because they don’t understand how to measure social media return on investment (ROI). How to Measure ROI in Social Media Marketing. We are here to drive revenue.

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Terminus

JUNE 14, 2023

Forrester’s B2B Summit North America proved to be an invaluable gathering for B2B sales, marketing, and product leaders. With a laser focus on driving sustainable growth by prioritizing customer-centricity, this event provided attendees with a wealth of insights and actionable strategies.

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Terminus

JUNE 14, 2023

Forrester’s B2B Summit North America proved to be an invaluable gathering for B2B sales, marketing, and product leaders. With a laser focus on driving sustainable growth by prioritizing customer-centricity, this event provided attendees with a wealth of insights and actionable strategies.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the next week, we’ll be publishing a series of INBOUND 2022 recap blogs about: Business growth. Marketing trends. Creativity and culture in B2B marketing. Presentation by: Cameron Bale NFT.Kred, Director, Marketing and Product Development. NFT.Kred, VP, Growth. How AI Will Transform the Way Marketers Work.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 13, 2024

Want to learn how to use digital marketing hacks to generate more leads? Marketing has become extremely competitive in recent years. In this post, I’ll share 13 digital marketing tips that will give you a leg up over the competition and help you improve your lead generation. Do you want to grow your business rapidly?

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