The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So why is marketing it so hard? Many SaaS companies struggle with marketing. In Forget the Funnel , Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop share the Customer-Led Growth Framework they’ve developed to help companies of all sizes solve their product marketing struggles and hit ambitious targets. Frustratingly inconsistent.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

Inbound marketing campaigns. What components should you include in your inbound marketing campaign? Before we dive into the anatomy of an inbound marketing campaign, it’s important to understand the answers to two questions: “ What is inbound marketing? What Is Inbound Marketing?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're a marketing professional, you've probably heard the term "buyer persona" more times than you can count. Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You can track their buying signals.

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2020

Most B2B marketers we talk to are continuing to plan, develop and execute campaigns and other initatives, for the time being at least. Consider shifting net new investment to inbound strategies: SEM, paid social, content syndication. Offer free information on how to cope, certainly. If nothing else, lead nurturing.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 4, 2023

In an increasingly competitive market, it is essential to maximize your brand’s impact however you can. One important way to do this is to have a comprehensive marketing and public relations (PR) strategy. The goals of inbound marketing are to build trust, establish credibility, and ultimately drive customer engagement and conversions.

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Stevens & Tate

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

With the proven success of inbound marketing, you might be wondering if there’s a point to some of the traditional marketing strategies you may have once leveraged–for example, direct marketing. However, you would be mistaken to dismiss traditional forms of B2B marketing such as direct marketing.

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Leadspace

AUGUST 16, 2023

A persona refers to a representation of a user or buyer segment that is created to better understand and design for the needs, behaviors, and preferences of that group. Persona creation is common in fields like marketing, user experience (UX) design, and customer service. Often job titles are incorrect and not up to date.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite some claims that email is dead, it is still a highly effective way for marketers to connect with consumers. It is an integral part of inbound marketing as well as attraction marketing , and is a great way to send nurture leads throughout the buying process.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. From poorly thought out plans to unidentified buyer personas, a small crack in the foundation can lead to the crumbling of the entire structure. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. GTM motions can fail for a variety of reasons.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. The inbound methodology is creating and distributing content utilizing marketing channels like organic search, social media, blogging, lead nurturing, and live chat, to name a few. Why is Inbound Marketing important to B2B marketing?

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 19, 2021

Are you looking to refresh your healthcare marketing plan with a focus on inbound marketing? Either way, when it comes to healthcare marketing, it’s crucial to have a well-detailed plan in order to get the results you want. Buyer Personas. Inbound Healthcare Marketing Plan Step 2: Set SMART goals.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. In this post, we cover the basics and then move on to the advanced insight strategies for B2B buyer personas that are now possible with AI. What are B2B Buyer Personas?

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In today’s ultra-competitive, fast-paced business environments, it’s essential to stay up to date with relevant technology and streamline business processes if you want your marketing, sales, and customer success teams to keep up. What Types of On-Site Business Training Workshops Does SmartBug Offer?

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Watch the recording: Want to hear more from renowned marketing leaders on data storytelling? It’s no wonder with a marketing leader like Jen, SmartBug Media® was recently named Hubspot’s 2021 Partner of the Year !! Radically Transparent is a podcast geared towards the modern-day B2B marketer. Catch all episodes here.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If you want to fill your senior care facility, marketing to the adult child of prospective residents is an initiative that you can’t ignore. Here’s how you can market to the adult child of prospective senior residents. Here’s how you can market to the adult child of prospective senior residents. Build Your Personas.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

They recently moved into the American market, where companies of all sizes are looking for help with Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish language skills. We spoke at HubSpot’s Inbound conference where he gave us a sales-side view of working with marketing, what tools are important to him, what he worries about and the impact of AI.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As the economy slowly claws its way back and marketers begin planning for the rest of 2020 and beyond, it’s more important than ever to reassess your marketing plan and focus on where you can make a big impact. One way you can bolster your senior care marketing strategy is by launching (or refocusing) an inbound marketing plan.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Has your inbound marketing agency embraced the idea of Intelligent Inbound® marketing being about a “culture of experimentation”? All this is part of the unique alchemy for inbound marketing strategy success for one former CMO turned SaaS co-founder. We see so many abandoned experiments in marketing.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 22, 2020

This blog could have easily been called, “Where Does Inbound Fit into Your ABM strategy?” If you are solely focused on inbound, you may not be giving your high-priority leads the attention they need. Thus, the creation of account-based inbound marketing (can I trademark that?).

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

What does inbound marketing have to do with your company’s share of wallet? The proven strategies of inbound marketing align with the only thing that will actually increase your company’s wallet share: knowing your customer. Try some inbound orange marketing strategies. Understand the inbound cycle.

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Leadspace

APRIL 19, 2023

Does their role at the company line up with the personas of your historical successes? Is their persona typically responsible for making decisions to buy your type of product or service? This is where an AI-powered persona scoring model comes into play. This is where an AI-powered persona scoring model comes into play.

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Leadspace

MARCH 31, 2022

As a leader in the Forrester Wave, Leadspace is fortunate enough to meet with hundreds of companies every quarter who are looking to tackle sales & marketing challenges. Their Go-to-Market team was tasked with doubling Sales Qualified Opportunities driven through both new logo capture and installed base customers. Profile Better.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

There are three distinct types of media that make up any digital marketing mix: earned, owned, and paid media. Inbound marketing traditionally couples the latter two; it’s a method to draw in your audience with stellar website content, blog articles, premium content, and social media engagement.

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 26, 2020

An inbound marketing campaign costs 62% less per lead than traditional outbound marketing, with much better return on investment. Successful inbound marketing requires a solid understanding of multiple digital platforms and channels, and therefore, good planning, strategy, optimization and measurement are vital.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

Most marketers understand this basic concept: You should create personalized content for your site visitors. One of the best things about inbound marketing is that you can offer content to potential buyers before they even raise their hands. It starts with buyer personas. How is this done?

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Lake One

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) aligns the efforts of both marketing and sales to target high-value clients. It’s a way to optimize the marketing process and create more value for all stakeholders (prospects included!). Advertising in Inbound vs Account-Based Marketing Most B2B marketers are leveraging an Inbound playbook.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Inbound marketing is a strategy that focuses on attracting customers using valuable content instead of traditional advertising methods (such as cold calling). Successful inbound marketing solutions help make your company easier to find online and nurture potential leads through the buyer’s journey.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 19, 2020

Because many manufacturers are taking another look at their current operations, why not take into consideration new ways to approach marketing as well? This is where inbound marketing comes into play. The same goes with inbound marketing. Define Your Buyer Personas. Create the Offer.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Generating More Qualified Leads with MQLs: A Pathway to B2B Success What Is Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)?

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

Because of this it’s essential to have an Account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on. beforehand.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

You’ve probably heard the phrase “write what you know” before, but that approach doesn’t quite cut it when you’re crafting inbound marketing content. Buyer personas—fictional representations of the ideal customers and target audience you’re trying to reach with your content—play an essential role in content strategy.

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Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers, we aim to confidently and repeatedly deliver effective campaigns to the best opportunities within our target market – at the lowest possible cost. Use cases include propensity to buy, inbound lead conversion, higher LTV, upsell/cross-sell, etc. and the higher the score the more engaged the buyer.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. To create an effective marketing, sales or social media strategy, you must first have a clear idea of who is consuming your content and why. What is a buyer persona?

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DealSignal

MAY 8, 2023

It’s the same with marketing play. Around this time, there are basically four weeks left for marketers to make an impact, given average B2B sales cycles. Leverage B2B intent data to identify in-market accounts using your ABM account list and run a campaign targeted at your target personas, with a Q4 imperative.

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