Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Digital marketing and the technology that supports it is changing every day, and b2b marketing tools offer stronger support for lead generation efforts than ever before. Here are some of the cool fellow partner products and services we learned more about in August: Metadata. Set it up, and let the platform do the work.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

DECEMBER 14, 2020

MQLs are an important part of the marketing analytics frameworks across most of the modern marketing teams but the sales follow-up of the MQLs is critical. set of key metrics is the sales follow-up of the MQLs that are handed over to them. We will continue to discover more sales conversation ready MQLs but.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Marketing teams across the board are heads-down reviewing 2019 performance and coming up with strategy and budget for 2020. The topic of data quality is very broad in marketing analytics but for this discussion around marketing planning, we would like to. It’s about time for 2020 planing.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). Marketing Innovation. And no wonder. “We

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

These 2 KPIs are very influential when it comes to evaluating the market mix across marketing tactics and channels in different phases of the buying cycle. The approach to designating an opportunity as marketing sourced vs marketing influenced is purely data-driven.

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Marketing 261

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” Yep, the familiar battle cry from many online marketers… especially after seeing statistics such as “email marketing delivers an ROI of 4,400%! Here are just a few reasons why an email newsletter should be an essential component in your marketing mix: It’s very affordable. Image source.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 30, 2012

If you ever hired a recent college graduate for a marketing position at your company, odds are you were amazed at their lack of knowledge. Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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Valasys

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Over the years B2B marketing strategies have changing, in part because of the superfluous volumes of data being generated & employed by the business in their decision-making process & in part because of the evolution in the researching habits of the prospects. Retargeting helps in improving the reach of the marketing campaigns.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 3, 2014

KITCHENER, Ontario – December 3, 2014 – Vidyard , a global leader in video marketing and sales enablement solutions, today launched its integration with the Act-On marketing automation platform. It’s about giving our customers access to the right data to make smarter marketing decisions.”

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LEADership

JULY 28, 2015

Based on a quick survey within the group, here are the top 10 questions that a majority of these B2B companies appear to be struggling with: We want to uncover relevant industry/market insights and target the right customers—how can we do that? Is our marketing budget and campaign planning process making the right use of customer data?

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 6, 2019

We are enabling sales and marketing teams to do sorts of “MRI of each deal” on the fly. During one of the implementations, I stumbled upon a question related to lead scoring algorithm performance particularly in terms of driving sales efficiency. These trends are putting tremendous pressure on sales efficiency.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

With the ability to leverage data and analytics in real-time across the life cycle of all marketing campaigns irrespective of the channel and the source, all these data-driven strategies are transforming marketing into a revenue-generating function. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads). MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. displayed various studies that show that clicks are the preferred method to measure marketing performance. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

With the ability to leverage data and analytics in real-time across the life cycle of all marketing campaigns irrespective of the channel and the source, all these data-driven strategies are transforming marketing into a revenue-generating function. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads). MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

With the ability to leverage data and analytics in real-time across the life cycle of all marketing campaigns irrespective of the channel and the source, all these data-driven strategies are transforming marketing into a revenue-generating function. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads). MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads).

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. So marketing sends more. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I can easily come up with a good story to explain it: marketing technology has reached a new maturity stage where the data needed for good attribution is now readily available, the cost of processing that data has fallen far enough to make it practical, and the need has reached a tipping point as the complexity of marketing has grown.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And therefore, should absolutely be a part of a comprehensive marketing mix for any company going after B2B clients. The secret sauce in search marketing lies in customer intent. When a customer searches for something specific online, they are intent on buying that very product or service. What’s their seniority level?

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ViewPoint

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. To illustrate, Brian notes that in his book published six years ago, he said 90% of marketers didn’t have agreement between marketing and sales on basic things such as the meaning of the word, “lead.”

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 24, 2019

A few percentage points increase in email click-through rates or an increase in website traffic is considered a big achievement across marketing organizations these days. Investments are being made in marketing tactics and mar-tech tools to understand these customer engagements and continue to accelerate them. All good stuff!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Spend 10% of Revenue on Marketing.

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Altitude Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A B2B marketing campaign is a targeted, systematic set of efforts designed to achieve a specific goal. This could be generating awareness and buzz around a new product launch , lead generation for an existing product or service, a company rebranding , a response to major industry news or regulations, or just about anything else.

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Terminus

MAY 31, 2017

Display ads have the ability to integrate with various marketing platforms, such as account-based marketing tools , your CRM, and your marketing automation platform. Display advertising functions as an “always on,” full-funnel marketing tool. The fourth reason isn’t a very good one, is it?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ticket sales tip #1: Get John Legend to speak at your event. All of it comes down to planning — and part of that planning means driving ticket sales. We're going to share some of our secrets with you that helps us drive ticket sales for INBOUND every year. Just kidding. But the question remains the same. Add a date limit, too.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

From basic tools for measuring views and engagement to rich integrations enabling individual viewer tracking and video ROI reporting, video marketing has emerged as an active industry serviced by dozens of different technology vendors. Who are the different technology vendors and what do Video Marketing Platforms now offer?

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SnapApp

JANUARY 10, 2016

Consider incorporating one of the following 5 content types into your marketing mix this year. You’ll see improved lead conversion, faster lead qualification, and better profile data to fuel all your marketing programs. . The modern B2B buyer invests in a huge amount of research during the purchase process.

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Terminus

MAY 23, 2019

Whether it’s your CMO, your head of sales, your CEO, or just that curious little reporting angel on your shoulder – we all want proof that our marketing is having an impact. But using tactical micro-metrics like CPC, CTR, CPL, and on-page optimizations is like looking at a Seurat up close. You manage what you measure.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

Unsurprisingly, 46% of B2Bs say they’re paying closer attention to their marketing’s direct impact on sales post-pandemic as well. Use this guide to assess your company’s current marketing practices and discover the marketing methods you may want to introduce in this year’s plan. Don’t overcomplicate things.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 17, 2012

More and more marketers are recognizing the importance of incorporating social media into their marketing mix. Leverage Your Existing Customer Evangelists: Your business' current customers can have some serious leverage, helping to endorse your products/services and content, thus extending your reach. Are they on Twitter?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In fact, email will continue to be an important part of the marketing mix. Marketing emails will become less “batch and blast” and instead more personalized, relevant, and targeted based on real-time data. We’re all after the Holy Grail of online marketing: sales-ready leads. Prediction: Email Lives On.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle. Get Everyone on the Same Page.

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MLT Creative

AUGUST 16, 2011

As someone who’s always been an advocate of the power of print, I’m always learning about new ways to include print in the marketing mix – but things aren’t like they used to be. Our designers would look forward to visits from reps with all the latest paper stocks and sample books. What do you think?

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Hubspot

MARCH 14, 2012

According to Forrester Research , companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales ready leads at a 33% lower cost. If this is the case, then why are only 49% of marketers taking advantage of lead nurturing tools , as evident by Loopfuse's Marketing Automation Study ? What do they value most?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets. The sales or support representative should speak directly through whatever medium the contact prefers. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Marketing is not only about messaging.

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