Contently

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to a special Fourth of July edition of Ask a Content Strategist, where I finally answer the question: What’s the ROI of wearing an American Flag romper all weekend in the Hamptons? So, how do you—or others—use article content to influence leads in the B2B process? I’ve lightly edited our exchange.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. These could include LinkedIn, email marketing, content marketing, or SEO.

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2022

When lead-to-account matching specialists LeanData decided to withdraw their marketing attribution solution, one beneficiary was marketing performance measurement platform Full Circle Insights. “If you have a big sales organization and complex routing issues they have a really nice system.” Processing.Please wait.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. The result? So, what metrics should marketers report on

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illumin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Data attribution is critical for marketers looking to understand the full impact of their campaigns. With that being said, what is data attribution and how does it help marketers make informed decisions? What is data attribution? ” Lead attribution is also an important aspect of data attribution.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 13, 2021

Depending on how long your sales cycles and customer journeys are, attribution modeling can be the solution to all of these questions. There’s an attribution model for everyone that can help you get more out of your social metrics. What is attribution modeling? What is attribution modeling?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Parse.ly

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What is content marketing ROI? Content marketing ROI (return on investment) measures the revenue your business earns compared with what you spent on your content marketing efforts. Content marketing is a long-term game, and, unlike things like pay-per-click ads, attribution can be harder to determine.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This includes everyone from C-level executives to end-users, and each of them plays a vital role in the lengthy B2B sales cycle. As a result, B2B marketing has become increasingly complex, requiring companies to identify the most effective strategies for each stakeholder and funnel stage to acquire customers and deliver value. #1

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Your peers tell you it’s impossible: “You want to attribute revenue dollars to social? When it comes to attributing ROI to a top-of-funnel social media strategy, the challenge is often in having access to enough data points to correctly understand its impact on revenue. Good luck with that.” Time to run some reports.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Parse.ly

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Return on investment (ROI) from content marketing efforts is notoriously difficult for marketers to measure and track. To generate return on investment over time, content depends on a series of micro conversions—from newsletter sign-ups to asset downloads and eventual purchase events. Table of Contents. content analytics.

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Outgrow

MARCH 30, 2021

And, every stage of the marketing funnel involves some kind of demand generation strategy to make this goal successful. It’s important to evaluate every step we take to make the demand generation funnel smooth and more effective. This is the number of people who actually booked a meeting with your sales team. We’ll tell you.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Sales Development. More specifically: Account-Based Everything (ABE) is a strategic go-to-market approach that orchestrates personalized marketing, sales, and success efforts to drive engagement and conversion at named accounts. When focused on leads, the top of the funnel becomes the 1st target to analyze.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Why Campaign Attribution in Salesforce Is Important. Yet within all these touches is the holy grail of B2B KPIs: campaign ROI.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Whatever your situation is, one thing’s for sure: trying to figure out how demand generation really works and where marketing ends and sales begins can be downright tricky as a novice. TOFU means top-of-the-funnel, MOFU is middle-of-the-funnel, and BOFU is bottom-of-the-funnel.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel. CX is how your leads and customers see your brand throughout your funnel. What makes your CX stand out?

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Contently

JANUARY 3, 2017

Last month, before people went away on vacation and struggled to explain their jobs to their extended families, the editorial team asked everyone at Contently to think about the future of content marketing. Shortform social video is the biggest looming opportunity for content marketers. Kristen Poli, content strategy associate.

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Walker Sands

JUNE 25, 2020

In today’s digital world, the B2B buyer journey is increasingly complex, with a growing list of channels and touchpoints to track and measure. Understanding the Buyer Journey. The buyer journey is the path buyers take to reach different stages of the marketing funnel, from awareness to purchase and renewal.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 22, 2020

From text reminders to cart abandonment emails to multi-channel campaigns that span social media and in-app messaging, B2C marketing automation marries the power of personalized messaging and hands-off marketing. It’s important to note, however, that marketing automation shouldn’t replace human touch. And that’s just email.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This is where marketing attribution comes into play to help answer this question. Marketing attribution is a method used by marketers to analyze and understand the various touchpoints in a customer’s journey that contribute to a desired outcome, such as a sale, conversion, or another specific action.

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Contently

MARCH 21, 2023

We all want to attribute value to the content we produce. How did the output contribute to the overall customer experience and journey? The ability to map sales back to content is a practice known as attribution, and it’s the black box of content marketing.

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Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2014

The other day, I had the pleasure of discussing the challenges of marketing ROI with Jim Obermayer, CEO and executive director of the Sales Lead Management Association , on his Internet radio show. The sales process is also complex, involving not only the face-to-face account rep, but also sales engineers, inside salespeople, and others.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 15, 2023

As a marketer, you must be able to clearly measure and communicate marketing’s impact on revenue, likely using either multi-touch attribution or single-touch attribution. Single-touch models assign all the credit for a sale or conversion to just one touchpoint.

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SWZD

JULY 9, 2019

This can involve everything from an orchestrated digital campaign with our sales development team and account directors, to in-person experiences these senior leaders are looking for. We asked Rebecca how they develop engaging content to reach these Fortune 500 leaders: “I think the best way is by using other senior leaders.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

As a CMO, I’m not necessarily hands-on with marketing automation, but I went to the Summit to optimize my plan for content marketing and sales and marketing alignment. There’s no perfect answer for sales and marketing alignment – it’s about disciplined communication [Tweet This]. Sales says “those leads are junk”.

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Terminus

JANUARY 3, 2018

Terminus has acquired BrightFunnel , the pioneer in B2B marketing analytics and attribution. Our Journey to Joining Terminus and BrightFunnel. In mid-2017, we completely reworked the way we practice ABM at Terminus and dramatically improved the way our team works together. Shortened average sales cycle by 20 days.

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Outgrow

MAY 17, 2022

I think that, like, it’s easier said than done though in, especially in B2B companies that sell like a very expensive product that has a very long sales cycle. And there’s like a, a ply of like different users in the middle of that as well. But yeah, I, in an ideal world marketer should be driving revenue for sure.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

Your Salesforce Funnel Attribution Model is Broken: 5 Reasons Why Salesforce funnel attribution is a marketers roadmap to understand what works and what doesn’t in their campaigns, making it absolutely vital to planning. The benefits of a comprehensive marketing attribution strategy are undeniable.

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MKT1

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With the complexities of go-to-market motions, funnel mapping, and tooling, I understand why this is the case—but it’s definitely something you need to fix! And every marketing, growth, sales, and ops leader has a different recommendation on how to measure success and what tools to use.

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InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2019

Today’s marketing success relies heavily on deep analytics—analytics that allow marketers to act smarter, faster, and with more thoughtfulness than ever before—to not only gain the attention of today’s savvy B2B buyer, but to engage, nurture, and enable that buyer through the end of their decision-making process. Sales cycle velocity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Are you a sales leader? If so, when was the last time y ou spoke with marketing about attribution? If not recently, y ou know marketing is asking you about win rates and sales cycles – so why not ask about the #1 measure of marketing performance ? . Now, marketing attribution can track all the way to revenue. .

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the stories (maybe you’ve even told some yourself) of sales and marketing teams working in unison, launching hyper-targeted account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns that resonate with ideal customers — and drive the type of revenue that makes your team legendary. Let’s dive into each category.

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FunnelEnvy

JUNE 2, 2021

Revenue is a top priority for any business, no matter how big, no matter how small. We all know that a hard-working sales team is key for bringing in new business and increasing revenue. And revenue attribution can help you create more effective, successful marketing campaigns. What is revenue attribution? .

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Contently

MARCH 23, 2021

But this reality has a silver-lining for creatives—marketing leaders are shifting their budgets into content. The one thing that keeps me up at night, though, is how marketers measure content success. In a recent Contently survey, 95 percent of marketers told us they expected their budget to increase or stay the same this year.

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SnapApp

MARCH 2, 2018

If you can’t answer that, you'll struggle to make the right campaign optimizations and push leads further down the funnel. . While vanity metrics like open rates and social shares are super easy to find, the important data — data that tells you which touchpoints assisted vs. closed the sale — is less obvious. . W-Shaped Attribution.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Don’t pigeonhole your data scientists Data Scientists must think beyond marketing and sales. Step One: Align Funnel Stages To effectively analyze prospects and current customers, it’s important to have alignment and consistency in your sales and marketing funnels. They also must think beyond go-to-market. The problem?

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