The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. I spoke to Daniel Kushner, CEO of B2B social media management platform company Oktopost , for his perspective. (HS)

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 15, 2021

The marketing attribution process can be confusing, especially to those new to the inbound marketing process. Marketing attribution tracks the ways consumers interact with products or brands before making purchases, determining the specific touchpoints that moved them to the next steps in the purchasing process. Great news!

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. But generating qualified leads isn’t – because the number of qualified leads is the most immediate result of your effective B2B lead generation strategy or tactics.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. How to Optimize Chatbots for B2B Lead Generation. But what do you do with the clicks you generate? The result?

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Here’s what I see: Marketing is consistently exceeding their SMART goals; return on marketing efforts and progress towards key performance indicators (KPIs) are simple to track; and sales and marketing work side by side as a well-oiled machine. Lack of technology to align marketing and sales efforts. ABM Funnel Metrics that Matter.

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LeanData

JANUARY 20, 2021

Succeeding in a competitive marketplace requires the extraction of the full value of every lead, and as such, B2B go-to-market (GTM) functions need absolute best-in-class lead management strategies. . Poor lead management contributes to a 25 percent reduction in potential revenue (Gartner). Developing a Lead Management Strategy.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. This process was inefficient, time-intensive, and unpredictable. Today, sales is driven by insights. Why Do You Need a Sales Engagement Platform?

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

It has brought focus to both customer experience and revenue outcomes – and the relationship between the two – and resulted in growing attention to the science of optimizing conversion. This is how (tactical) growth hacking for a product evolves into (strategic) growth marketing for the enterprise. Yet the reality has lost some steam.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

This post will provide some strategic tactics marketers can use to better measure B2B advertising effectiveness, and provide a list of KPIs expert marketers are measuring to help them hit their ROAS goals. That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. Track Every Dollar. So don’t stop at MQL.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Here at Oktopost, we love Marketo. As always, getting to spend time with the Marketo team was awesome. As Marketo users ourselves, finding new b2b marketing tools to enhance our own experience is a win and we wanted to share that with our readers. Marketo always finds a way to take partner events to a new level.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 17, 2020

For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. But its potential goes far beyond email and event management. Here are five popular Marketo add-ons for mid-sized businesses, along with a few considerations for each. Sales Insights. Sales Connect.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Closing more sales. Ultimately, your marketing automation platform can guide leads through the marketing funnel, setting them up to eventually make a buying decision.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We are in Q4 and moving into 2021, so the stakes are high for sales; meaning it’s probably time to look for the next lever to optimize selling capabilities. COVID-19 has made it clear that sales strategies needed to evolve. New Salesforce data has revealed the top sales challenges for 2021. The New “Buying Process”. “No

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 20, 2021

That’s why the Marketo and Bizible Integration has become a reporting lifesaver in recent years. Here’s all you need to know about the Marketo and Bizible Integration, including how to use it to drive more leads to your site. Why Marketo Engage & Bizible Integration Is Important for Your Marketers. Track Behaviors.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 22, 2020

I’m writing this because it’s the year 2020 and we’re still having trouble attributing onsite campaigns/testing to Marketo MQLs/Opportunities/Revenue. As a result, this guide is very tactical in nature, with the end goal of helping you answer the question ‘What impact is my onsite campaigns/tests having on revenue?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Can it handle the processing demands of complex trigger actions and large numbers of data record updates – in real time? ADOPTING ENTERPRISE DEMAND PROCESS.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You know, Marketo and Engagio founder and CMO at Demandbase (and, it just so happens, serial Velocity client). In the last decade, sales activation became the new religion. But an obsession with sales activation strategies frequently bites B2B marketing teams on the backside. That Jon Miller. Few are paying attention.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 14, 2021

This is true regarding learning Marketo as a beginner. Marketo is a marketing automation platform that provides “ end-to-end engagement for modern demand marketing.”. If you are ready to begin your Marketo journey, there are three learning paths for Marketo beginners that we recommend: Marketo’s own resources, Udemy, and YouTube.

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SpotMe Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

This collaboration allows joint Marketo Engage and SpotMe customers to design, measure and run smarter events in any format: hybrid, virtual or in-person. “We Get started with the Marketo integration by following this setup guide. With today’s announcement, SpotMe integrates with Marketo Engage, part of Adobe Experience Cloud.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in. Map Your Sales Journey and Touchpoints.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 10, 2021

If you are in a marketing or sales role, I’m sure you have. Gathering lead lifecycle data in Marketo can be done a few different ways. If you are reporting on lead lifecycle stages as a Marketo user, one of the first steps you will need to take is building a Revenue Cycle Model (RCM). Lead Lifecycle Reports in Marketo.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Establishing shared processes for both teams. Clients benefit more when the agency thoroughly grasps their organization’s sales goals. This leads to a more strategic campaign optimization throughout the buyer funnel. For example, suppose the client is using Bizible/Marketo Measure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Author: Adam Hutchinson Like the middle child, the middle of the demand generation funnel receives far less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Yet, the sales metric that reveals the most about both time and money—sales velocity—is commonly overlooked. What is Sales Velocity? Sales velocity is a measurement of how fast you’re making money. Why is it so Important to Track Sales Velocity? The 4 Key Variables That Impact Sales Velocity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. CRM holds hostage all of your sales opportunity, pipeline, and order value information and it’s built to track sales reps instead of buyer behavior. Manager, Marketing Automation, Hyperscience.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

But with the right tools and processes, automation also breaks down silos and makes your whole business a well-oiled, data-driven machine. Bringing the marketing automation process into your team How does marketing automation work? It’s a combination of many key business operations and processes that impact and feed entire orgs.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lead scoring, a critical component of any successful sales and marketing strategy, can be the bridge that guides your leads towards conversion. So, let’s embark on this journey of understanding and optimizing lead scoring to drive your business towards success. This is where lead scoring enters the picture.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Conversion Rate Sales Qualified Leads 62

Vidyard

MARCH 5, 2021

Video for Sales 1.3 Are you looking to help marketing with video management and data collection? Are you searching for a platform that allows your sales team to create personalized videos or network at virtual events ? Video for Sales. For sales, using an online video platform is a no-brainer. Contents 1.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 4, 2020

For many organizations, Marketo serves as the real-time customer database for marketing. While CDPs are becoming more popular in organizations of late, more often than not the latest and greatest profile and segmentation data still lives in marketo. 3 Ways to Use Marketo to Drive Site Personalization.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But what is a substitute for the old-good (yet no longer effective) marketing tactics? Source: Marketo That’s why you should thoroughly examine the topic before getting to implementation. This process has become even more straightforward with the appearance of intent data. Benefits of ABM for SaaS companies Still not convinced?

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Martech

MAY 2, 2024

However, with B2B buying journeys now occurring primarily online before sales’ involvement, marketers are turning to new data-driven technologies to pinpoint potential buying group members earlier in the process. Titles like finance VP, IT manager, CEO, engineer, plant manager and purchasing agent come to mind.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. When you find them apply the same tactics and rules to similar contacts who've just entered your lead nurturing funnel. Seek out funnel leaks and work to plug them. Add only the right leads in the funnel.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

They engage with companies on their own terms, conducting extensive research across various channels long before they want to engage with sales teams. In my experience, only 2% of the people who register for an event or download an ebook are ready at that moment to talk to a sales rep. So, which approach is more effective?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Inside sales has always been a high-touch and highly professional strategy for reaching out to business buyers with a targeted message. And today inside sales reps are often a company’s first line of communication with existing customers and prospects alike. AI has the power to process vast amounts of data quickly.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

But those are just two out of a handful of website builders that are trying to incorporate artificial intelligence into the website building process. At the heart of the AI website building process is the artificial intelligence algorithm. How AI Is Making the Website Building Process Better in 2020. Conversion optimization.

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That starts with optimizing the data intake process. The first thing that I always tell people in optimizing the intake process is that garbage in is garbage out,” Sharaf said, speaking at The MarTech Conference. “The Processing. You have to understand how to use and extract value from it. Consolidating web forms.

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Valasys

APRIL 20, 2023

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) improves the percentage of website visitors who take a desired action, such as purchasing, filling out a form, or subscribing to a newsletter. CRO analyzes data from user behavior, such as heat maps, click-through rates, bounce rates, and conversion funnels, to identify areas of improvement.

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