Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 22, 2021

To build or grow a startup in 2021, you need to invest in tools that can help you optimize, automate, and improve every working part of your business – from sales and marketing to employees and customers. In marketing alone, you have over 8,000 tools to pick from. Marketing Tools for Startups. Startup Tools for Sales.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

This can be a difficult challenge, as they are responsible for creating and executing marketing strategies that drive sales and revenue growth. However, there are several strategies that B2B marketers can use to work around budget cuts and continue to achieve their goals.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marketers who understand how these behaviors are evolving can set up their companies for success in the coming decade. Those who don’t risk misallocating marketing budgets by focusing on the wrong tactics. The 63-page study provides a wealth of insights for B2B marketers and product managers.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While much of this change is negative and the long-term consequences are yet to be fully understood, it has also introduced many new opportunities for businesses and marketers. Most marketers already have the experience of adapting quickly to new technologies and changing conditions. Quick Takeaways.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2023

Learn everything you need to know about decision-making strategies. Image Source Key Takeaways: Decision intelligence tools process data to give you predictive analysis and solid recommendations. CRM software, buyer intent data, competitive analysis, automation, CMS, and web analytics are vital decision intelligence tools.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As the year draws to a close, marketers face a crucial task: allocating their remaining marketing budget to drive the best return on investment (ROI). Whether you're an experienced marketer or just starting out, we've got you covered. Let's dive in and make those marketing dollars count! What’s working well?

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. However, the best organizations are figuring out how to maximize the yield on their lead flow.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Strong, positive engagement strategies can keep existing customers happy and help you attract new ones. We’ll explore the features and strategies your enterprise should consider for customer engagement. Customer Engagement Platforms are essential when it comes to building a customer engagement strategy.

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The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Our Services. . Your guide to building a marketing budget template. Looking to create a new marketing budget template for your business? Although a marketing budget template can take some time and thought to build, it’s not as difficult as you may think it is. See Our Work. . Who We Are. .

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Engagio

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Marketing programs are often the first thing to get cut, leaving many teams with shrunken program budgets. This hampers company growth, and if not managed well, can trigger a cycle of cuts and stagnant growth. We recently explored the challenge of defending marketing budgets at the Demandbase Smarter CMO Forum.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yes, this practice is frowned upon by many software providers, and often discouraged by multi-factor authentication – but there are sometimes ways around it. Focus on Strategy The spray and pray method of advertising and emailing is costly in more ways than one. Button up your strategy and SLAs to make the spending you can do count.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many B2B companies spend a large amount of their marketing budget on customer acquisition. While this is a great way to help your company grow, it isn’t the only way to keep your business and products or services top-of-mind. One area companies often neglect to invest in is customer marketing. What is Customer Marketing?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

Unfortunately, that’s not really an actionable business tactic. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. But cutting back on marketing isn’t always what’s best for your business. Should You be Cutting Back on Marketing Spend? In fact, it could be catastrophic.

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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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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Executives can also convince themselves that sales will provide enough “air cover.” Eighty-four percent of B2B buyers start the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. Winning marketing organizations self-regulate.

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Martech

JULY 3, 2023

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. Tens of millions of dollars in venture investments and enterprise budgets were wasted on failed category creation. That’s a very high risk strategy.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 14, 2022

But before you can ask for more resources, you need to properly manage the budget you already have. We’re here to help you determine what your marketing budget should be, how to distribute and manage it, and ultimately how to advocate for more when the time comes. Easier said than done, right?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 6, 2021

Marketers and sales reps can automate email campaigns, sales plays, meetings, and much more. The most successful organizations are gathering this information and using it to feed their go-to-market strategies and tactics. The permutations are infinite.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Inaccurate data means leads aren’t routed properly to sales. And disjointed platforms are painful to integrate and manage. Limited automation means many RevOps tasks are still done manually.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. The reason for this is simple.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The top 3 most effective marketing channels as reported by respondents were social media, organic search and content marketing. The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes.

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Martech

MAY 31, 2023

In the B2B marketing space, 70% of marketing executives expect digital marketing budgets to increase slightly or significantly this year. While 19% of marketers in general expect a significant increase, 24% of executives expect budgets to significantly grow. Aligning marketing and sales.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems function as the heart of customer engagement. It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Experts in B2B fields predict this new year will allow more room for digital strategies. Future Trends in CRM.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The cost of poor sales visibility. Today nearly 80 percent of sales engagements are digital. That means massive troves of data about customer behavior and buying cycles just waiting for a sales team to leverage. Would you coach a struggling rep differently? Evaluating Activity Capture solutions?

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DealSignal

JUNE 7, 2023

When a business experiences financial hardship, marketing budgets are usually the first to get cut. Even with fewer dollars (and resources) at your disposal for b2b data driven marketing, the expectation to generate revenue remains. Then, evaluate: Which solutions have worked thus far during the pandemic?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

They want to find convenient solutions quickly. They may even expect businesses to offer custom-fit solutions to their needs and personalized customer experiences unmatched by the competition. Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully.

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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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ClickDimensions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The past few years have brought about major changes to the way businesses operate, but SMBs that sell to other businesses are largely still reliant on the same B2B marketing and sales strategies they’ve always used. Lack of Defined Process 3. Page Contents Toggle 1. Affordability 2. Limited Resources 4.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But, in 2022, what are you going to do better to enhance your B2B lead generation strategies? Conventional lead generation tactics for B2B marketers will not work in 2022. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. Customers have always been at the centre of B2C marketing.

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SmarkLabs

JANUARY 3, 2023

Creating a marketing budget for the year can be a daunting task, but it’s an essential part of any business’s planning process. A marketing budget helps you allocate resources effectively, track the performance of your campaigns, and make informed decisions about your marketing strategy.

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Outreach

AUGUST 9, 2021

Great sales leaders know that calls aren’t just about relationship building: they’re a vital source of valuable insights into customer needs, rep performance, and team growth opportunities. That’s exactly the type of call analytics solution we use at Outreach—keep reading to learn more. What is Call Analytics?

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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Our Services. . Your guide to developing a social media marketing budget. However, with so many platforms and options available, it can be difficult to know how much to spend on social media marketing. Related Content: How to do B2B social media marketing. See Our Work. . Who We Are. . Resources. .

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 13, 2022

30-second summary: Erica Gunn, CMO at Canto, offers a guide to maximizing your marketing budget in tough economic circumstances. Make smart investments into your martech and make it work harder for you. It’s easy to give in and let your marketing budget be cut back to the bare minimum, with a reduction in headcount and spending.

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ClickDimensions

JULY 4, 2023

The past few years have brought about major changes to the way businesses operate, but SMBs that sell to other businesses are largely still reliant on the same B2B marketing and sales strategies they’ve always used. Lack of Defined Process 3. Page Contents 1. Affordability 2. Limited Resources 4.

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Madison Logic

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In B2B buying, every interaction with target accounts should be meaningful, impactful, and establish trust —so buyers select you as their best-fit solution. . To capture attention and unify the buying committee experience, marketers must dynamically target, nurture, and convert accounts through a “full-funnel” cross-channel strategy.

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Aberdeen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Businesses today are constantly looking for ways to improve their sales performance. Aberdeen research suggests that using data and analytics to navigate the economic downturn can be a powerful way to optimize your sales strategy and stay ahead of the competition. ” — Derek E. . ” — Derek E.

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