SmartBug Media

JUNE 17, 2020

As a healthcare marketer, you may already know that a solid inbound marketing program is the key to sparking consistent, long-term growth. Unfortunately, if you’ve been in the B2B healthcare industry long, you’ve probably run into a handful of marketing challenges that are unique to the sector.

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Envy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Will content marketing agencies yield measurable results, or are inbound marketing agencies at the end of the day that all-around better approach? Burning Question #1: What is Content Marketing? Burning Question #2: What is Inbound Marketing? Content marketing is essentially a subset of inbound marketing.

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Strategic-IC

MARCH 5, 2018

By aligning marketing and sales, and focussing campaigns around personas, statistics show that Inbound Marketing is the way forward in the modern marketing world. However, it is essential to devise a detailed inbound marketing plan to ensure performance, the best lead quality possible and definite ROI.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Senior care sales can be a rollercoaster, with some sales cycles ranging from a few weeks to two years. One way to navigate this roller coaster is by implementing sales enablement strategies for your sales team. The quickest, and simplest, sales enablement strategy is to automate as much of the process as you can.

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 18, 2022

To calculate your pipeline velocity, multiply your number of deals by average deal size by win percentage, then divide the resulting number by the number of days in your sales cycle. Your sales pipeline velocity tells you how many deals you are closing and how much revenue is moving through the pipeline each day.

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Strategic-IC

AUGUST 14, 2019

Inbound has been the go-to tactic for many B2B marketers over the last few years. Working to attract, nurture and convert quality prospects over time, it aligns well with longer sales cycles, positions a brand as a thought leader and creates meaningful customer relationships for reduced churn.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The fact that Inbound Marketing is taking over traditional marketing methods is not news. It seems that every eBook, blog post, and webinar is now touting content marketing and inbound marketing as the go-to strategies for the new marketers. Marketing is evolving , there is no denying that.

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Leading Results Rambings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Inbound marketing is a discipline, when used correctly, can solve your sales lead shortage, but by itself, it doesn’t solve the lead generation issue. Specifically inbound marketing and what a lead is. Inbound marketing – Hubspot uses the graphic below to define the overall inbound marketing process.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. Phoebe Fasulo, Director of Digital Marketing & Web Strategy at AlphaSense. LinkedIn, Twitter.

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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

Low search volumes: Relevant industry keywords may have less search traffic compared to broader consumer markets. Long sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders: The decision-making process typically involves engineers, executives, and procurement, making for longer sales cycles.

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KEO Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2017

Generating high quality leads and expanding target accounts in a way that generates more sales ready opportunities is more challenging today than ever. That is why successful businesses are leveraging an integrated approach with both inbound marketing and outbound marketing to generate the best results.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 4, 2018

What results can you expect from an inbound marketing campaign? We review three inbound case studies as an example of what can be achieved. Why Inbound Marketing? Inbound marketing puts customers - your best-fit buyer personas - at the heart of your marketing strategy. Quality Lead Generation.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 3, 2022

Many hands make light work, which is why sales organizations employ a pretty sizable stock of talented people who come together to drive efficiency across the sales cycle. From business development representatives to account executives, everyone does their part to ensure a high-performing, successful sales team.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 19, 2010

What is Inbound Marketing and why is it important to B2B marketers? Why should you consider Inbound Marketing in your 2010 marketing programs? Inbound Marketing Is… …the art of creating inbound marketing interest from your prospects when they have a need or interest in your product or service.

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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. How good is your content strategy?

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

Leads are now email addresses, conversation is written dialog and content, and the phone is saved until later in the sales process. So let’s review the tools needed to manage an inbound marketing and conversion optimization campaign. Our favorite marketing automation tools that we recommend are linked here.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Yet Another Marketing Buzzword? Every few years there is a new buzzword in B2B marketing. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.” The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The inbound marketing for B2B landscape of 2018 is a brave new world for business – one virtually unrecognizable from years past. Go back to the start of the decade – concepts like content marketing, social media marketing, influencer marketing, and inbound marketing were years away from conception.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

by Seth Resler Did you miss our webinar on inbound marketing? Inbound marketing can be a very effective marketing strategy, but when used in isolation it tends to produce limited results. The key is to combine it with other marketing techniques. An outbound marketing strategy. Want to know more?

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2016

We look at what they’re doing to generate and nurture leads, how they’re utilizing their website and other digital (and non-digital) communication channels and how that all aligns with and connects to their sales approach. Inbound marketing is not a quick fix. 2) Website. 4) Poor Nurturing Strategy.

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BOP Design

JULY 20, 2021

If you target the correct buying terms, you will see your sales cycle shorten, objections lessen, and your close rate improve. What used to be “pull marketing” is now typically called “inbound marketing.” Think of industry jargon and technical terms when considering your keywords. Long-Tail Keywords.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Like most companies, our team at Adobe executes ABM campaigns to larger companies where our deal sizes are a bit bigger and the sales cycles are a bit longer. Because of the bigger deal sizes and longer sales cycle, we have found that a focused, ABM approach leads to better performance of our marketing department.

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The Point

MARCH 22, 2019

Marketing, in turn, sees no reason to fix the system because “sales doesn’t use lead scoring.”. The second reason has to do with the trend towards Account-Based Marketing (ABM). The classic business case for lead scoring has been a function of inbound marketing and the traditional lead funnel.

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ViewPoint

MAY 18, 2016

It works like this: Revenue desired (or required), minus revenue expected from inbound marketing, minus revenue possible from nurturing inbound leads, equals the GAP, or the shortfall that needs to be addressed. I developed this simple formula to illustrate the risks of overdependence on inbound marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

by Jason Miller Inbound marketing is a highly effective strategy, but in isolation it will fail for most companies. To be successful and maximize the impact of your inbound marketing efforts, you need to combine it with other elements in your overall marketing mix. How to Build a Better Inbound Marketing Machine.

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Hubspot

MARCH 29, 2017

Manufacturers have the chance to reach a wide audience, improve their sales, and increase their revenue with the help of inbound marketing and automation. Why is Inbound Marketing Important for Manufacturers? There are many ways you can utilize inbound marketing to enhance your overall marketing strategy.

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DealSignal

MAY 30, 2023

During a recent conversation about migrating from traditional inbound marketing to an ABM campaign strategy, a colleague noted that the optimal method was a hard cutover, but that this would put a serious hole in his pipeline. This colleague is a super smart leader with deep demand gen experience.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 11, 2022

Rule of workflow thumb: Workflows can be used to automate any manual and time-consuming task in your sales cycle or your customer success model. Here’s my shameless and natural plug for my awesome inbound marketing agency that is an elite partner with HubSpot (if that wasn’t obvious). Make your customers feel valued.

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Stevens & Tate

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

You’re likely already familiar with online marketing, and like most marketers, you’ve probably dabbled here and there in social media, paid ads, or something of the sort in an effort to get more exposure to your company. Learn more about how inbound marketing plays a role in closed loop marketing.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Successful inbound marketing is about more than just driving traffic to your site and converting it into leads. If the answer is "nothing," or "they get contacted by the sales team," then your inbound marketing strategy needs some serious marketing automation love. Image credit: quinn.anya.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

B2B marketing has evolved digitally as B2B sales have gone digital in the previous two years. However, B2B marketers are still undecided about whether to spend on outbound or inbound marketing channels. Marketers can be more creative and original by using inbound B2B lead creation tactics.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 5, 2020

An account-based marketing (ABM) strategy helps B2B manufacturers with finite addressable markets take a personalized approach to targeting, engaging, acquiring, and keeping best-fit accounts. Incredibly long sales cycles. With ABM, marketing’s involvement doesn’t end after they pass the opportunity to sales.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When it comes to B2B lead sourcing, there are typically three courses of action: outbound prospecting, inbound marketing, and marketing campaigns. The main benefit of adopting a referral program is that leads who were referred typically have a faster sales cycle because there’s already a level of built-in trust.

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ViewPoint

JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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