The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Our Services. The 11 undeniable benefits of marketing automation for B2B sales and marketing teams. How automation can transform your B2B marketing effectiveness and results. These days, when most consultants and gurus talk about technology transforming marketing, automation is what they’re referring to.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Case studies. Training webinars.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales team are active players in the blame game. While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Sound familiar? Remember: .

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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. How Do You Define A Lead?

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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PureB2B

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Whether you’re looking at it from a marketing or sales perspective, getting someone interested in a product or service you offer, and turning that interest into a real conversation can feel next to impossible. It all starts with enabling your sales team, and turning them into lead nurturing machines. Here’s how….

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PureB2B

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Whether you’re looking at it from a marketing or sales perspective, getting someone interested in a product or service you offer, and turning that interest into a real conversation can feel next to impossible. It all starts with enabling your sales team, and turning them into lead nurturing machines. Here’s how….

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RDIGS

JULY 11, 2023

It involves assessing and filtering leads to identify those that are most likely to become valuable customers or clients for a business. For instance, A digital marketing agency narrows down 5,000 leads to 15 highly qualified prospects. One of them, a struggling e-commerce business needing SEO services, becomes their focus.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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PathFactory

MARCH 10, 2023

New year, new ways to be productive! We sat down with Shelly Aufray , who leads Digital Marketing Campaigns & Lead Management at Siemens Industry Inc., Track naming conventions, tags, and proper folder set up makes managing your instance a breeze and ensures you can make the most of the rich analytics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 16, 2012

I have to politely disagree with them because “activity is not the same as productivity.” Here are the steps I go through to change their minds and have worked well for me: Step 1: Give them an overview of what inbound marketing is all about and how it differs from traditional outbound marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Author: Jingcong Zhao At this point, many marketing organizations have adopted a digital marketing platform. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. However, the top reason why U.S.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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The Mx Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Without a doubt, B2B marketers face challenges in creating meaningful marketing reports. In fact, according to Demand Gen Report’s 2018 Marketing Measurement & Attribution Benchmark Survey , just 7% of U.S. Marketing Reports with Meaningful Metrics. Campaign / Tactic Effectiveness. Territory / Rep Performance.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2016

The real potential of lead nurturing is ignored. Nonetheless, senior marketing and sales leaders stumble forward only to wake up and find themselves behind before they get to the end of the month or quarter. Moreover, waiting for the market to come to you can end up hurting your results. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Best of all, it can be implemented by any marketing organization as long as the effort, determination, and consistency is there. What Is Demand Generation Marketing? A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Best of all, it can be implemented by any marketing organization as long as the effort, determination, and consistency is there. What Is Demand Generation Marketing? A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 10, 2016

Author: Krysia Hepatica You might be familiar with Dunbar’s Number, but I bet you never realized how it affects your B2B marketing strategy. Marketing Automation. Marketing automation helps you keep your brand top-of-mind for your buyers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Steve is a thought leader in the world of marketing automation and lead management and is also a prolific writer on topics related to demand generation and the current transitions within the marketing profession. To dig into this a bit further, it’s first worth exploring what we mean by a marketing qualified lead.

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The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bear with me as I relate a quick story about lead nurturing: A few months back I became a sales lead. I sent an email to a marketing technology firm, one with whom I was vaguely familiar, about a client campaign for which I thought their technology might be useful. A question: at this point, what kind of lead am I?

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Quite often the number of marketing-generated leads exceeds the capacity of the Sales team to touch each and every one. How does your organization strategize the lead follow-up process to ensure the greatest number of leads are touched in an optimized and efficient manner? Understanding the Sales Capacity Challenge.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Author: Tanya Chu What do the marketing leads look like? Where are all our leads going? On the marketing operations team, we get asked these questions often by the demand generation and sales teams. We get asked all the time about the validity of a lead or why a lead was routed to a certain person or team.

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SnapApp

MAY 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series that explores best practices for nurturing prospects, generating qualified leads, and improving conversion rate. In part one of this blog series, we looked at the ways marketers can lay the foundation for an effective lead generation strategy. Who am I contacting?

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Lead management is defined as the methodology, process, and software used to reach prospective customers and convert them into buyers using targeted sales and marketing strategies. Lead management is essential for companies looking to grow their customer base and reach out to a wide audience.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Instead, I believe the case can be made to nurture at every stage of the funnel (initial contact, MQL, SAL, SQL and Customer). Those marriage relationships that stop the conversation rarely lead to ongoing growth. At first, there’s initial interest (they look at your product or service).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. But in between, we need to nurture and qualify our leads by encouraging them to engage with our content until they’re sales-ready.

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Capstone Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Note that this assumes a single product company (AKA a simplistic scenario) that has an inside-sales team. Multi-product companies will have similar status values, but of course the lead management process, specifically as it relates to MQL and recycling, must be adjusted.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The good news about inbound marketing is that it can help you attract high volumes of leads. The challenge then becomes, how do you separate the good, quality leads from the people who are just starting to look around? That’s where lead management , and specifically, lead scoring comes in.

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Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising. Let’s explore tactics to make your customer acquisition efforts more efficient with improved sales and marketing processes. Boosting sales team productivity Focus on two things: people and processes. In some cases, each of these tactics may work. Clean and clear pipeline.

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 5, 2020

“Marketing automation is defined as the process of using tools and technology to automate repetitive marketing tasks, track and measure campaign performance, improve productivity, and drive efficiency by minimizing manual actions.” What Is Marketing Automation? What is Marketing Funnel Automation.

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Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

For B2B marketers, that means the challenge of effectively reaching, engaging, and converting their target audience is more complex than ever. As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. What is B2B Marketing?

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any marketing team. The quest for quality leads has become daunting in a dynamic landscape where competition is fierce and budgets are tighter than ever. 61% of marketers rank lead generation as their greatest challenge in 2023.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

61% of marketers consider generating more traffic and new leads to be their biggest challenge. So what’s a marketer or sales rep to do? Use lead generation software — that’s what! In this article, you’ll find our curated list of the 10 best lead generation software to help you grow your business.

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LeanData

MAY 15, 2014

This strategic approach should go side-by-side with account based marketing to holistically allow the organization to succeed with account based selling. This is useful in Account based sales & marketing. Lead management is in many cases a precursor to sales management and customer relationship management.

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