Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2020

What Does Content Marketing ROI Include? You can’t convert leads that don’t exist. Measuring content marketing effectiveness (and discovering the ROI beneath your campaigns) makes the difference between frustration and confidence when presenting on your progress. Calculating Content Marketing ROI.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2024

Are you feeling the pressure to prove your marketing team’s ROI? In our 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report , 93% of the marketers we surveyed said they’re being pushed to prove their ROI. Of them, nearly a quarter reported a “significant increase” in pressure. If so, you’re in good company.

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The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

All this and more is documented and analyzed in an informative new report from TrustRadius: “ 2022 B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer ”, the latest version of an annual survey that reviews changes in business technology buying and selling. ( Visit the TrustRadius blog to read a detailed summary and to access a free download.).

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Who are some of the top B2B influencer marketing experts to learn from and follow as we head into 2024? Let’s jump right in and take a look at 25 top B2B influencer marketing professionals to follow and learn from in the year ahead.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. Lauren Patrick, VP of Marketing at Curricula. Conversational marketing platforms, such as Qualified.

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Tiecas

MARCH 15, 2024

How can a B2B industrial marketing agency develop a strategic roadmap and help you execute it for success? Imagine an industrial marketing strategic roadmap with a laser-sharp focus, a plan that directly aligns with your sales goals and delivers a predictable flow of qualified leads.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s the difference between demand generation and lead generation? Many B2B marketers recognize the value of both and incorporate them into the same campaigns. Definition: Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation The difference between demand generation and lead generation is simple. If you don’t know, you’re not alone.

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markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Kicking off 2024 with a bang, HubSpot’s January updates are all about enhancing your team’s capabilities in lead management, content strategy, and data analysis. More robust lead management with leads object updates. Easily route inbound leads with conditional form confirmation pages. How has it been for you?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. If your company isn’t harnessing the potential of content marketing , then you could be losing valuable opportunities to attract, interest, and convert buyers. Quick Takeaways. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear. Conversions.

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The Point

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The analysts at Demand Gen Report just published their “ 2018 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Survey Report ” and one conclusion is no surprise: many B2B companies are still really bad at lead nurturing. It’s not just that 44% of respondents said that their lead nurturing “needs improvement.”

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. Yet industry surveys report that as much as 60 percent of available MDF funds go unused.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JUNE 27, 2023

A survey by the sales consultancy The Bridge Group found SDRs in B2B average 104 outreach activities leading to 3.6 B2B marketing tends to be quick to critique messages they get from SDRs, but the fact is this team is an important link between sales and marketing. For this latest report, they polled 365 B2B companies.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 4, 2018

I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost. For example: “The average cost per lead across all the companies surveyed is almost $200 ($198.44).Admittedly, see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ). per gross lead).

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SmartBrief - Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In fact, Adobe Analytics reported record ecommerce sales with $9.8 For its annual holiday shopping report, Coveo worked with RSR Research on a retailer-side survey that predicted some of the above shopper behavior as seen through the retailer lens. billion spent online on Black Friday and $12.4 year over year (respectively).

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Zoominfo

MARCH 27, 2019

Most importantly, you’d have a list of highly-qualified, sales-ready prospects to reach out to. So as any great marketers would do, we decided to do a little digging and conduct our own investigation. Thus, The 2019 Technographic Data Report for B2B Sales Organizations was born. In fact, a staggering 72.3%

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To communicate your vision in a clear and concise way, you need to lead with numbers. The employee advocacy statistics your boss needs to see According to The Sprout Social Index™ , more than two-thirds (68%) of marketers report their organization already has an advocacy program. And employees want to post about their companies.

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Only B2B

JUNE 19, 2023

In the current highly competitive business environment, generating high-quality leads and expediting the sales journey is of utmost importance. BANT qualification, a well-established approach in lead assessment, has revolutionized the game by offering a framework to evaluate prospects and identify sales-ready leads.

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Only B2B

MAY 23, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of B2B sales, generating high-quality leads and securing qualified appointments can be costly and time-consuming. This blog explores the transformative power of SDR-as-a-Service in reducing the cost of obtaining qualified B2B leads and appointments.

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2023

Does every B2B marketing organization need a marketing automation platform? There are many use cases for the solution; so many that it’s hard to imagine that most B2B marketing teams won’t find compelling reasons to automate at least some of their processes. The benefits of using B2B marketing automation.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights. How do you ensure your social media reporting is contextual to your organization’s overall objectives?

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DemandBase

JULY 23, 2020

The 2020 ABM Market Research Study from Demandbase is here. Nearly 900 professionals from Marketing to Sales, CS to the c-suite, participated in this annual study to understand the state of Account-Based Marketing at organizations of all sizes. What’s in the 2020 report? Greater efficiency from marketing investment.

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Depending on deal size, closing a lead can drag on for weeks and even months. Identify your ideal customers precisely Developing a solid ideal customer profile (ICP) is your starting point for B2B marketing success. Helped {{Company}} increase conversions from lead to opportunity by 67% and from opportunity to deal by 35%.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Not only are 91% of businesses already using video as a marketing tool in 2023, but 96% of marketers are placing ad spend on video. According to a recent report, 83% of professional marketers believe that creating video content is more important now than ever. But what exactly qualifies as video content?

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Televerde

MAY 9, 2022

Key Takeaways: Big data requires more complex systems for analyzing and reporting information than traditional data. The following image shows the results of Zendesk’s 2020 customer experience report and highlights what customers define as good customer service. Connect Qualified Customers to the Best Reps. Image from Zendesk.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In fact, Adobe Analytics reported record ecommerce sales with $9.8 For its annual holiday shopping report, Coveo worked with RSR Research on a retailer-side survey that predicted some of the above shopper behavior as seen through the retailer lens. billion spent online on Black Friday and $12.4 year over year (respectively).

Customer Surveys 52

Customer Surveys eCommerce Enterprise Management Work Management 52

Inbox Insight

AUGUST 15, 2022

Understanding the key Account-Based Marketing (ABM) metrics to report on ensures B2B marketers are able to truly gauge performance and make informed decisions with the ability to accelerate their B2B sales pipeline. Why is Reporting on Key Metrics Vital to ABM Success? Reading time: 4 minutes. What do ABM goals look like?

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Litmus

JULY 5, 2023

You’ve read the report , absorbed all the data, and it’s time to take action. Transcript: Your Go-to Email Workflow Checklist Want to improve your email workflow? #1 Bring snippets to production The majority of marketers believe that building an email with a library of standardized snippets is the best way to build emails.

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Sharpspring

JULY 27, 2021

With the term “lead nurturing” trending lately, you’ve probably noticed that a hot topic in conversations about sales and marketing recently has been lead nurturing funnels and programs. In case you’re wondering, lead nurturing is exactly what it sounds like! Current Status of Lead Nurturing. The data is clear.

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Top Rank Marketing

JULY 21, 2023

during 2019, while those B2B firms that increased their market share by 10 percent or more during 2022 have said that they delivered multi-channel experiences that were backed by personalized marketing — two of several findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published report data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There is much speculation as to why marketers have a shorter lifespan than their executive colleagues, but one stat from the Marketing Performance Management Survey, 2017 particularly caught my attention and could be related: only 23% of marketers earn top ratings from their C-suite on proving impact, value, and contribution to revenue.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I was there to report on the conference, doing person-on-the-street interviews and attending as many programs as possible to write blogs and live updates for the tech company that sponsored it. About half of content marketers are already using in-person events in their campaigns. My first in-person event was overwhelming.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. If you’re a marketer at a manufacturer, distributor, or engineering company, you know this firsthand. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant. But I’m not just another marketing consultant.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. It encompasses various marketing and sales activities designed to create awareness, generate interest, and drive actions.

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sagefrog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

1] So, while there’s no doubt that this sector is expanding, how much of the pie a facility management company can take depends largely on its marketing. With a growing market of sophisticated customers, understanding how to market to them is critical to the success of your facilities services business. billion by 2030.[1]

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