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How to Create and Align Your Content with the Buyer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. It is a top tactic.

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Why bottom-of-the-funnel SEO is the game-changer your B2B needs

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Too often, companies focus SEO efforts on driving traffic with top-of-the-funnel content and keywords. While this approach can generate traffic, it often fails to convert them into leads and sales. In B2B, the opportunity is in optimizing for bottom-of-the-funnel queries and conversions. Get more leads.

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2020 Content Marketing Trends – Content for the Buyer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. It is a top tactic.

Top of Funnel

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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

With higher traffic and more page views, it’s only reasonable to expect a bump in conversions and sales. Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. What is the search intent of those visitors? The challenge is that fragmented intent doesn’t deliver targeted traffic. We’ll give you an example.

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Maximize Your ABM

Speaker: Jeff Marcoux, VP Product Strategy & Marketing at TTEC

Utilize fit, intent and engagement data to maximize your efforts. Achieve full cycle ABM: Moving beyond the top of the funnel. In this session, Jeff Marcoux, VP of Product Marketing and Product Strategy at TTECH, will share how to: Start with the minimum viable ABM tech stack and scale up.

Account Based Marketing

What Is Bottom of Funnel Sales Content and How to Create it to Boost Conversions

Scoop.it

JANUARY 26, 2023

Experienced marketers and sales experts understand that each stage of the sales funnel is equally important in guiding potential customers on their journey. Keep in mind that quality content plays a vital role in nurturing and retaining customers as well, turning them into lifelong brand advocates down the line.

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4 Ways to Optimize the Middle of the Funnel | Lead Management

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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The Marketing, Sales, and RevOps Guide to Using Intent Data for the Full Sales Funnel

SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Sourcing, Shepherding and Retaining Bottom-of-the-Funnel Leads with SEO Content

seo.co

APRIL 28, 2021

Most marketing efforts only focus on top-of-funnel leads. This means that leads are not being properly moved through the funnel and on to the next stage of conversion. The marketing funnel must be addressed from a multi-staged approach and not an in and out approach. Yet, the top of funnel gets all the attention.

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How Sales Teams Can Use Intent Data To Improve Their Sales Prospecting

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. Still, there are plenty of questions surrounding intent data. How can intent data help sales teams identify high-potential prospects more effectively? The good news?

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Taking a full-funnel approach to paid search

Choozle

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Paid search advertising is a highly effective lower-funnel channel that reaches potential customers when they are close to conversion. When you restrict your paid search campaigns to the lower funnel, you are missing the vast majority of your potential customers. every click is part of the purchase journey. Think about it….

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Converting Leads Through the Marketing Funnel – Middle Funnel Best Practices

PureB2B

MAY 5, 2021

The middle of the marketing funnel is the most challenging part to convert leads through. Well, as we stated in a previous blog ; you’re catching your buyers in an information heavy stage, often times riddled with viable options they can choose from. Overview of the Lead Generation Marketing Funnel. Top of the Funnel.

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Nine Important Things to Know About Intent Data and AI

Webbiquity

JANUARY 18, 2022

The promise of B2B buyer intent data is simple and compelling: get the right information in front of the right buyer at the right time. That quote is taken from the State of Intent Data report, published by Demand Gen Report and sponsored by DemandScience and TechTarget. What’s in the Intent Data Report.

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Converting Leads Through the Marketing Funnel – Middle Funnel Best Practices

PureB2B

MAY 5, 2021

The middle of the marketing funnel is the most challenging part to convert leads through. Well, as we stated in a previous blog ; you’re catching your buyers in an information heavy stage, often times riddled with viable options they can choose from. Overview of the Lead Generation Marketing Funnel. Top of the Funnel.

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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

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How to Capture Buyer Intent in B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Similarly, your business can benefit from understanding the age-old yet somehow underutilized buyer intent concept. Buyer intent comes down to understanding what makes an excellent lead for your business. Buyer intent data will help you learn “why” a lead is looking for a solution to their problem.

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If it’s not a sales funnel, what is it?

Martech

MAY 5, 2023

Marketers know this as “the sales funnel”. The advent of AI and the avalanche of data has distorted the shape of the funnel. If it is not shaped like a funnel any more, then what is it? Think about a spider web Ryan Brock, chief solution officer at marketing strategy platform DemandJump, no longer sees a funnel.

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Ultimate Guide to the Data-Driven Sales Funnel

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion?

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CX Mid Funnel: Getting Past Traffic to Conversions

Biznology

MAY 16, 2019

We’re in the process of joining Conductor’s partner ecosystem because our clients see the value of the intersection of SEO and behavior-based personalization to improving mid-funnel progression. If Google is doing its job correctly, that content will be highly relevant. What does it mean?

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How to Build a B2B Sales Funnel That Rakes in Dream Customers

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

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Harness First Party Social Intent Data to Accelerate Sales Pipelines with Oktopost’s Social Signals

Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For this reason, utilizing intent data has become a pivotal strategy for B2B revenue teams, as more of their budgets become dedicated to generating new business. Intent data offers crucial insights into when prospects are actively seeking solutions and what they intend to purchase based on their online behavior. What is Social Signals?

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How to Leverage Intent Data to Drive More Business

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.

Intent Data

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B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Including: 5 benefits of B2B lead quality Intent checklist to determine baseline quality Techniques for nurturing quality leads into valuable customers Read on to learn how to speed-up your B2B Sales Cycle and reduce lead rejections through delivering a high standard of lead quality your Sales team will love.

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Revealing the True Intentions of B2B Marketers: Key Takeaways from NetLine’s 2024 Content Report

NetLine

APRIL 11, 2024

Having a pulse on the state of content consumption and demand is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. Fresh off of our recognition at the 2023 KIller Content Awards , we’re thrilled to announce the latest edition of our award-winning annual report. million first-party content registrations. An Analysis of 6.2

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Content + Intent Data: B2B Content That’s Relevant at the Right Time

Content4Demand

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We recently gathered 10 intent data experts and power users and collected their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection: 10 Top Marketing Executives Explore the Rewards of Integrating Intent Data into Content Strategies. B2B Content That's Relevant at the Right Time.

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How We Rethought Our Email Marketing Automation Workflow and Nearly Tripled Email Open Rates

Act-On

DECEMBER 9, 2023

One thing that stood out is that some of the programs had instances of duplicate content. Aligned with intent and the buyer’s journey Our goal was to create programs that closely aligned with a person’s intent and his or her journey. What’s working and what isn’t?

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Intent Data is a superpower. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Without benefiting from it through sales. The Basics: What Exactly is ZoomInfo Intent? But how does ZoomInfo Intent work? Oh, very interesting.

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Intent Data: How to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

B2B buyer behavior has shifted dramatically to independent, online research. Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team.

Intent Data

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Content + Intent Data: Informing Content Based on Interest

Content4Demand

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We recently gathered 10 intent data experts and power users and collected their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection: 10 Top Marketing Executives Explore the Rewards of Integrating Intent Data into Content Strategies. Informing Content Based on Interest.

Intent Data

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4 Ways to Avoid Mid-funnel Blind Spots

Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Explore the blind spots that occur mid-funnel and how to avoid them, says, Adam Little is the Chief Marketing Officer at Data Dwell. A well-defined and carefully monitored sales funnel is one of the most powerful tools any organization can have. Have you started to notice blind spots in your sales funnel?

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Why B2B marketing needs brand building more than lead gen

Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Especially in organizations with a sales-led motion, things have to be viewable on a dashboard within a quarter to satisfy leadership. It also allows for a very clean attrition path to revenue and keeps sales teams happy (initially, at least). Category interest — Middle of the funnel (MOFU). Brand recall.

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How to Build a B2B Sales Funnel That Rakes in Dream Customers

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

Top of Funnel

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5 Lead Nurture Campaigns that Build Pipeline and Support ROI

Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? Aligned with intent and the buyer’s journey. We’ve shared our favorite five lead nurturing examples and strategies.

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Customer Purchase Intention and Use in B2B Marketing

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketin g What is Purchase Intention and Intent Data? Purchase intention (or buyer intent) is a measure of each shopper’s propensity to buy a product or service. Intent data is the dataset that provides insight into the customer’s journey.

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What Makes a B2B SEO Content Strategy Unique?

Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth. A company’s SEO content strategy should be built around this core distinction. The content designed to fuel a B2B SEO strategy must then suit this purpose.

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Intent Data in your Marketing Funnel: The Challenges and Strategies

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2019

Technology has changed the way consumers behave, requiring companies to overhaul their sales and marketing strategies. The role of marketing and sales are intertwined – their work is complimentary and leads to collective revenue […].

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B2B Content, The Modern Buyer Journey, and Economic Headwinds: A Q&A With Marketing Leader Michael Schultz

PathFactory

MARCH 6, 2023

The B2B buyer journey isn’t the only thing that has undergone a transformation over the last several years. I sat down with marketing leader Michael Schultz who is no stranger to the changing tides of technology to discuss the importance of B2B content in the modern buyer journey.

Top of Funnel

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5 Intent Data Mistakes Holding B2B Marketers Back

Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 1, 2020

But so many B2B marketers are only scratching the surface with predictive-driven sales and marketing. If you want to take your demand gen and lead gen efforts to the next level with intent signal s , it’s vital to use data in the right way. Misunderstanding the value of third-party intent data.

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How to Use Intent Data to Fuel Lead Gen Efforts

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. The B2B buyer journey has shifted, with sales reps now only having roughly 5% of a customer’s time. Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial.

Intent Data

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Five tricks for increasing B2B Sales velocity, from Katie Lang, VP of Mid-Market Sales

Engagio

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It comes as no surprise to anyone in Sales that there’s been a dip in the meetings we can generate when we use the same old tactics quarter after quarter. So we’ve had to get creative with video and LinkedIn posts and have been getting personal with our more important, top-tier prospects to get their attention (in a good way).

Top of Funnel

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Demand Generation vs Inbound Marketing: Marketers Must-Know

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. Here are some metrics to consider: High-intent Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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How to Use Personalized Content to Qualify Leads at Every Stage of the Funnel

SnapApp

JANUARY 24, 2019

Both sales and marketing want their pipelines to be overflowing with leads at all times, and more importantly, they want the right leads that are most likely to convert into revenue-generating customers. So, how can your brand break through the noise and bring in those quality leads that sales wants? Now, I know what you’re thinking.

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Maximizing the Marketing Funnel

Blue Flame Thinking

MARCH 28, 2024

A strategic marketing plan is like a funnel. Use a marketing funnel strategy. Guiding your target audiences’ journeys toward the steps you want them to take, you’ll start generating awareness by casting your message to a wide audience in a broad way. Three key phases of the marketing funnel drive this action.

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27 Exit Intent Popup Examples to Increase Conversions and Sales

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Do you need some exit intent popup examples to inspire your next popup campaign? Exit intent popups are an effective way to capture leads and increase sales on your website. What Is an Exit Intent Popup? An exit intent popup is a popup window that appears when a visitor is about to leave your website.

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How to Create and Align Your Content with the Buyer Journey

Why bottom-of-the-funnel SEO is the game-changer your B2B needs

Webinars

Trending Sources

2020 Content Marketing Trends – Content for the Buyer Journey

Webinars

Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Maximize Your ABM

What Is Bottom of Funnel Sales Content and How to Create it to Boost Conversions

4 Ways to Optimize the Middle of the Funnel | Lead Management

The Marketing, Sales, and RevOps Guide to Using Intent Data for the Full Sales Funnel

Sourcing, Shepherding and Retaining Bottom-of-the-Funnel Leads with SEO Content

How Sales Teams Can Use Intent Data To Improve Their Sales Prospecting

Taking a full-funnel approach to paid search

Converting Leads Through the Marketing Funnel – Middle Funnel Best Practices

Nine Important Things to Know About Intent Data and AI

Converting Leads Through the Marketing Funnel – Middle Funnel Best Practices

How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals

How to Capture Buyer Intent in B2B Marketing

If it’s not a sales funnel, what is it?

Ultimate Guide to the Data-Driven Sales Funnel

CX Mid Funnel: Getting Past Traffic to Conversions

How to Build a B2B Sales Funnel That Rakes in Dream Customers

Harness First Party Social Intent Data to Accelerate Sales Pipelines with Oktopost’s Social Signals

How to Leverage Intent Data to Drive More Business

B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Revealing the True Intentions of B2B Marketers: Key Takeaways from NetLine’s 2024 Content Report

Content + Intent Data: B2B Content That’s Relevant at the Right Time

How We Rethought Our Email Marketing Automation Workflow and Nearly Tripled Email Open Rates

Intent Data is a superpower. Here’s why.

Intent Data: How to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

Content + Intent Data: Informing Content Based on Interest

4 Ways to Avoid Mid-funnel Blind Spots

Why B2B marketing needs brand building more than lead gen

How to Build a B2B Sales Funnel That Rakes in Dream Customers

5 Lead Nurture Campaigns that Build Pipeline and Support ROI

Customer Purchase Intention and Use in B2B Marketing

What Makes a B2B SEO Content Strategy Unique?

Intent Data in your Marketing Funnel: The Challenges and Strategies

B2B Content, The Modern Buyer Journey, and Economic Headwinds: A Q&A With Marketing Leader Michael Schultz

5 Intent Data Mistakes Holding B2B Marketers Back

How to Use Intent Data to Fuel Lead Gen Efforts

Five tricks for increasing B2B Sales velocity, from Katie Lang, VP of Mid-Market Sales

Demand Generation vs Inbound Marketing: Marketers Must-Know

How to Use Personalized Content to Qualify Leads at Every Stage of the Funnel

Maximizing the Marketing Funnel

27 Exit Intent Popup Examples to Increase Conversions and Sales

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