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The Future of B2B eCommerce Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

While B2B vendors were initially slower to embrace eCommerce than consumer marketers, B2C actually represents a much smaller share of total online sales today. Today, B2B sales prospects turn to the Internet not just for product research but also purchasing. The B2B ecommerce market, however, accounted for $1.8

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Marketing Budget and Strategy Trends for 2023 – Seven Intriguing Insights

Webbiquity

Looking at marketing studies over the past several decades, the objectives topping the list for B2B marketing professionals have consistently been lead generation and brand awareness. But the #2 goal for all marketers (#3 for B2B) in this survey was “increase sales.” 4) The top marketing KPIs are (too?) short-term focused.

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Optimize your Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Strategy and Close More Sales

Only B2B

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales.

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Lead Generation vs Lead Qualification: The Dynamic Duo of Sales Success

Only B2B

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

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Empathy: Your Lead Generation Superpower

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The single biggest issue for B2B growth is effective lead generation: increasing lead quality and quantity. Today’s sales and marketing environment is a paradox. Empathy is not just a “soft” skill, it's an incredibly powerful tool to understand customer motivation and increase lead conversion.

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11 Digital Marketing Trends for Growing Your Business in 2021

Marketing Insider Group

We’ve compiled 11 crucial digital marketing trends for your businesses to follow as we step into 2021. Top B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2021. If you can successfully execute the following b2b marketing strategies , you’ll outshine your competitors, build lasting connections with customers, and win more leads and sales in 2021.

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Six Lead Generation Trends to Watch in 2021

Webbiquity

In a recent survey , B2B marketers and sales leaders were asked to name their most important metric for business success. Unsurprisingly, the metric that clinched the first position was “quality of leads.” This crisis response led them to identify several short- and long-term trends. Guest post by Dhruv Mehta.

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Seven Things Marketers Need to Know About Lead Generation

Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY

Lead generation is the process of attracting and converting strangers and prospects into someone who has indicated interest in your company's product or service. One of the biggest responsibilities and challenges for marketers is generating leads. In this webinar, you will learn: The fundamentals of effective lead generation.

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GDPR & Demand Generation: What Your Team Needs To Know

Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate

The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Join Jen Spencer, VP of Smartbug Media, as she discusses how to grow an inbound strategy and framework in your organization to attract leads and establish your brand. In this webinar, we’ll cover: How to establish an inbound program that will attract leads. And the best part is, it can apply to content for all stages of your funnel!

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Win Sales Calls with Webinar Production

Speaker: Dawn Baron, President, Passion Profits Consulting, and Shelley Trout, Webinar Producer, Aggregage

Smart webinars are one of the best way to address these challenges, efficiently reach your target audience and generate highly qualified sales leads. How to produce a successful webinar that guarantees you generate higher quality leads. Have you held back on doing webinars because of the level of effort required?

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Marketing and Sales Alignment for A Supercharged LinkedIn Strategy

Speaker: Candyce Edelen, CEO, PropelGrowth

Used properly, LinkedIn is the ultimate prospecting tool for B2B sales. It feeds a customer-centric sales process and enables a human-to-human interaction with very low cost compared to other prospecting methods. You will receive far more positive replies from this than from any other outbound lead generation strategy.