Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Staying ahead and achieving business success requires more than just a superior product or service. Effective marketing is the linchpin that connects businesses with their target audience, drives growth, and sustains competitive advantage.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When efficiently optimized, social media is a great way to grow traffic, generate leads, and drive sales to a new business. Yet too many marketers and brands go about social media marketing the wrong way. They run social media campaigns haphazardly, without any solid plan or strategy. Generate sales and leads.

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Orange Owl Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

B2B Marketing Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Successful B2B Marketing Plan Vivek Goel December 24, 2024 Share : Table of Contents Introduction In todays dynamic B2B landscape, building a robust marketing plan is crucial for sustained success. What is a B2B Marketing Plan? Lets get started!

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

Faced with marketing budgets cuts, CMOs planned to spend less on live events (obviously) and online advertising, and relatively more on content marketing and online self-service. Something old, something new…use metrics to drive content strategy. On the down side, it can also mean longer sales cycles.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Within the past 5-10 years, B2B marketing has undergone extensive amounts of change. Marketers have switched their focus from sales and cold calling to digital content marketing strategies and search engine optimization tactics to attract new customers to our business. Especially if budgets are limited.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

Sales prospects have high expectations as well. They need solutions but have limited bandwidth and attention. How can marketers efficiently meet both buyer expectations and their own corporate objectives? B2B marketing teams will be held accountable for more of the lead-to-revenue process. LinkedIn Pulse ).

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As a business owner or CEO, you know that the changing seasons bring not only cooler breezes and football games but also the crucial task of setting your annual marketing budget. Over my many years of participating in the budgeting process, I’ve seen some great ways to approach it, and plenty of opportunities for refinement.

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MKT1

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Subscribe now I hesitated to write this newsletter because I thought a subject line including the words “marketing planning” might make people unsubscribe instantly—but I’m taking the gamble because I actually love the planning process. As a result, marketing planning processes miss the mark.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. While the two tactics share a lot of similarities, they are not the same thing.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2022

What is the best way to grow your professional services firm? Should you specialize and zero in on a specific market niche? For many professional services firms the answer is neither. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

What content marketing channel do B2B marketers pretty much all agree is highly effective? Which tactics do they disagree about? And what potentially powerful B2B marketing strategy is perhaps the most overlooked? B2B companies that regularly blog generate 67% more sales leads than non-blogging companies.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

An effective marketing strategy is a must for the success of even the best product of industry. Reaching the minds of target buyers in the right way is essential for making sales. There are two aspects of a marketing plan assignment: marketing strategy and marketing plan.

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Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 1, 2024

This is the second in a short series of posts discussing some of the basic principles of B2B brand management. In Part 1 , I described the ongoing debate in B2B marketing between the advocates of brand building and the proponents of demand generation marketing, and I observed that B2B brand building seems to be making a comeback.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The reason was mainly due to unspent marketing budget. Marketers, SaaS founders and startup CEOs were pulling their money from ads and events and doubling down on content marketing. So check out all our ways to use your unspent marketing budget on content marketing. You see, sales people are funny.

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Marketri

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Instead, a fractional marketing agency applies the appropriate resources at any given point in your marketing journey, based on your goals and objectives. Fractional marketing is especially effective for mid-sized companies that can’t devote a disproportional amount of the marketing budget on FTEs.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2019

A wave of digital technology is transforming industry after industry, and professional services are no exception to this trend. Potential clients now have new ways to learn about and vet potential service providers. This change is forcing firms to rethink their digital marketing strategies if they wish to remain competitive.

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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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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this article, we’ve curated a list of the top statistics to show how influencer marketing can expand your reach online and drive engagement with your target audience. of marketers saw influencer marketing as effective — a slight increase from 83% the previous year but a drop from 90% in 2022. by sales or conversions.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

The 16 th annual 16th annual Marketing Performance Management (MPM) benchmark study found that the group known as the Value Creators (those that earn 90 or greater grade by the C-Suite) are far more likely to have a strategic Marketing Ops function. MarTech still accounts for as much as 20% or more of the Marketing budget.

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Scoop.it

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With these numbers in mind, it’s clear that content marketing is a powerful lead generation method. An effective content strategy can help potential customers understand your product. Your SaaS content can also be used to engage buyers through the sales funnel. Speak with your sales and support teams.

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The Point

MAY 30, 2023

When a marketing budget get cut, certain line items tend to get immediate scrutiny: media spend, headcount, events. There are more creative methods for achieving marketing efficiency without sacrificing ad impressions, colleagues, or market visibility. Improve lead nurturing and funnel conversion.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Here are seven specific best practices to get there.

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Sharpspring

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The phrase “marketing plan” can mean many things, from your social media/ad campaign schedule to your lead nurture pipeline to your overall strategic goals. Ideally, you’ll bring all these tactics together in a cohesive strategy. And this will become your capital-letter Marketing Plan! your goals?

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Webbiquity

JUNE 8, 2021

Developing a concise, productive, balanced marketing budget usually always involves allocating limited funding—especially if that budget is for a startup or small business. Every department head in the company needs part of the overall budget (and most want more) for their specific team’s operations. 1: Branding.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The key to automating a consistent flow of qualified leads is setting up a quality marketing funnel. By guiding potential customers through a series of stages, from awareness to conversion, well-crafted marketing funnels can increase conversions, drive revenue and create loyal customers.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Marketers who are selling to accounts are typically dealing with a group of buyers who give off different behavioral signals, so predictive analytics, a programmatic method to assess big data and derive predictions about the future could be a powerful strategy to leverage. to continue nurturing leads through the funnel.

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Martech

JULY 3, 2023

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” Below, I share some of the strategies and tactics that were once popular in a well-funded environment, but which are no longer sustainable or deliver reduced returns.

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Sage Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2024

While most start-up founders focus on R&D, meticulously crafting their groundbreaking product or service, a critical, yet often overlooked collaborator is essential for achieving liftoff: Marketing. Here’s the startling statistic for 2024: 34% of startup failures are due to a poor product-market fit.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 prompted many companies to cut marketing budgets. B2B marketers have redirected budget dollars previously earmarked for in-person events to digital ads instead, driving a 22% increase in spending on digital channels. Process efficiency is the other key to marketing success.

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Optinmonster

JUNE 14, 2024

It also doesn’t make sense to promote your products without a detailed digital marketing plan. A solid digital marketing strategy is crucial for reaching potential customers, moving through your sales funnel, and achieving your business goals. What Is Digital Marketing? Set Clear Goals 2.

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The Marketing Blender

AUGUST 23, 2024

This is where the fractional CMO model emerges as a compelling solution. Unlike traditional marketing agencies that focus primarily on tactical execution, such as content creation, social media management, or advertising campaigns, a fractional CMO takes a more holistic and strategic approach.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Marketing is complicated. As the new year looms, planning your marketing budget and activities is top of mind for B2B marketers and leaders. What about expanding your marketing automation efforts or supporting sales and the channel? Create a Marketing Plan Focused on Key Goals.

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Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. Here’s how to make sure your B2B marketing strategy gets results. What is B2B Marketing? How Does a B2B Marketing Strategy Differ from a B2C Marketing Strategy?

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Hinge Marketing

JULY 18, 2019

What is the best way to grow your professional services firm? Should you specialize and zero in on a specific market niche? For many professional services firms the answer is neither. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There’s never a bad time to put together a marketing plan , especially if you don’t already have one. A thorough marketing plan is like a helpful guide for your team, and it comes in handy in more ways than one. Quick access to a blueprint for your specific marketing and sales goals. Market Analysis.

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