Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It’s that time of year again and I have to ask the only question that matters for those of us involved in marketing strategy and planning: Do you know which marketing programs have worked and which ones didn’t? Accountability is tough on B2B Marketing organizations. It should be followed by a business plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It’s that time of year again and I have to ask the only question that matters for those of us involved in marketing strategy and planning: Do you know which marketing programs have worked and which ones didn’t? Accountability is tough on B2B Marketing organizations. It should be followed by a business plan.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

As though the ever-increasing expectations of the c-suite from marketing teams to demonstrate the quantifiable impact were not enough and now we are in these unprecedented times, which have further highlighted the need for marketing to be more data-driven and efficient with their investments.

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Circle Studio

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As we enter the New Year, A/E/C firms have made (and are still making) plans for where and how to spend their marketing time and budgets in 2019. Just as people everywhere are making resolutions to improve their lives—both personally and professionally—in 2019, why not do the same for your firm’s marketing efforts?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re like most companies, you realized in 2020 that annual marketing budget planning doesn’t work anymore. Annual budgets aren’t flexible enough to keep up with your audience’s dynamic behavior. Quick Takeaways: Annual marketing budget planning isn’t ideal anymore. Don’t overcomplicate things.

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Inbox Insight

JUNE 16, 2023

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) relies on the successful identification, engagement and nurture of high-value accounts which form the list of key accounts to prioritize your ABM activities against. That is why identifying target accounts is crucial to a successful Account-Based Marketing campaign.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The most common ask from the marketing leaders these days is to demonstrate the quantifiable impact that their organizations are making on the pipeline. Goals are the key drivers to ensure that marketing organizations put together aggressive plans for driving such engagements.

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Hubspot

JULY 15, 2020

ABM is a Mindset, Not an Isolated Tactic. While ABM is often ranked among tactics like 'email marketing' or 'display advertising' or 'social media marketing', it's actually more of a mindset. Define your marketing mix and invest in the channels most likely to reach and engage your audience with the right messaging.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 14, 2019

A decade ago, digital advertising was mainly limited to display and search, and those programs were tiny compared to offline marketing. Today, the average digital marketing mix consists of a comprehensive social strategy, online video, programmatic display and search. Marketing mix modeling is too much for most.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The most common ask from the marketing leaders these days is to demonstrate the quantifiable impact that their organizations are making on the pipeline. Goals are the key drivers to ensure that marketing organizations put together aggressive plans for driving such engagements.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Mergers and acquisitions are happening at a breakneck pace, and marketing budgets remain historically high as government contracting firms struggle to compete in a new, digitally driven marketplace. Interestingly, workflow and process automation is the #1 topic that most firms want to learn about this year.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Marketing budgets vary by company, but any marketer will tell you, no matter how much is allocated, it is never enough! Marketers are often tasked to do more with less, wear several hats, work with limited resources, generate pipeline, and demonstrate that the marketing team’s efforts had an influence on revenue.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this.

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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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Circle Studio

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As we enter the New Year, A/E/C firms have made (and are still making) plans for where and how to spend their marketing time and budgets in 2018. Just as people everywhere are making resolutions to improve their lives—both personally and professionally—in 2018, why not do the same for your firm’s marketing efforts?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. " in the marketing mix.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Moneyball , a book by Michael Lewis and now a movie starring Brad Pitt, is an amazing story of how Billy Beane, the then Oakland Athletics General Manager, chose to abandon baseball’s collective wisdom and applied what many considered to be “outsider” thinking to develop a winning team.

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Sage Marketing

JULY 10, 2023

However, allocating the necessary funds to develop and execute an effective marketing strategy is often a challenging endeavor. With tightening budgets and increased pressure from management to demonstrate performance, finding the right balance becomes even more critical. Don’t let budget constraints limit your vision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

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Litmus

AUGUST 3, 2021

Doing more with less is a common theme for modern marketing organizations. According to our most recent State of Email report , 60% of marketing executives said they planned to send more email. But in that same report, more than 40% of marketers also said they were under-resourced when it came to email. Oh, to dream big.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?! Hard to explain.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2017

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. Late in 2015 we started producing a bi-weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio , which runs live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Hubspot

JULY 2, 2020

One of the first things you're taught in your Introduction to Marketing class is that marketing can be best explained using the marketing mix — also known as the four P's. Still, there's an undeniable benefit of marketing teams organizing their work into the marketing mix framework.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Author: Mike Telem This year, one of your top marketing priorities should be to take a long, hard look at your digital advertising strategy. Current digital advertising methods make it difficult to generate qualified sales leads with anywhere close to a reasonable cost-per-lead.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Modern notions of the “single source of truth” concept originated in the information system design world. A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. That’s why the company was built from the ground up on the principle that marketing data should reside in the CRM. Get Everyone on the Same Page.

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Digilant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While the concept of omnichannel marketing is a grand one, the implementation of such a strategy is, in fact, highly tactical. In general, there are four major pillars that support omnichannel marketing: data and insights, strategic planning, channel selection, and reporting and measurement.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Some of the scariest aspects of today’s ever-evolving B2B marketing world are nearly enough to make you want to hide under your desk rather than try anything different. Technologies like smart phones and social media have further complicated an already intricate system of attracting consumers and capturing sales. Accomplish Your Goals.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With marketers facing increasing pressure to demonstrate the value of the budget they’re allocated for programs, marketing attribution and predictive analytics solutions are tailor-made for proving how tactics and media channels contribute to the bottom line. Target customers. Product overview. A sophisticated UI.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 28, 2019

Pete Hoelscher, Acting CEO of IEEE GlobalSpec, provides research-based insight as to how trends in the industry will impact B2B marketers in 2020 in a piece entitled, “Five Industrial Marketing Trends that Will Matter in 2020. Also Read: How to Use Automation to Improve Marketing Personalization.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2014

Find the answers to those questions and many, many more here in more than 80 social, content, search, and email marketing facts and statistics from the past few months. 4 Marketing Management and Measurement Stats. B2B Marketing ). Analytics are least commonly used to fine-tune the marketing mix (14%).”

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

We’ve spent 750+ hours analyzing how our life science customers are using digital-first events as a powerful channel in their pharmaceutical marketing strategy. Read on to discover how to overcome the biggest pharma marketing challenges with events and how to create a successful pharma marketing plan.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 9, 2013

January is a great time to take a step back from day-to-day tactics and ask the Big Questions; or in cliché form, to look at the forest rather than the trees. How has the way buyers in your market make procurement decisions changed? Why Social Is So Disruptive to Traditional Marketing by Social Media Today.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

While some have predicted the consolidation of Twitter and Facebook or the demise of Foursquare, I am sticking to the practical topics most B2B Marketers I know are talking about: Marketing automation and automated lead nurturing will become a foundational B2B marketing activity as we are expected to accelerate deals through our funnels.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Velocity & Shortening Your Sales Cycle.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

For me, the strength of inbound marketing techniques lies in the power of giving up control to the customer. When we allow our prospects to tell us what words they use, where and how they search for solutions, what their pain points are, and when they are ready to engage, sales and pipeline opportunities appear- almost miraculously.

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