Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2019

B2B lead generation tools help marketers more effectively develop new prospective sales opportunities. Here’s why and how, as a marketer, you may want to integrate new lead generation tools and processes into your B2B lead generation strategy and campaigns. HubSpot helps in this realm with HubSpot sales.

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2022

Why then, in a world of on-demand, streaming, watch-where-when-and-how-you-like content, do we B2B marketers still insist on promoting live Webinars, and expect attendees to show up on a specific day at a specific time, fully cognizant they’ll have the option to watch the recorded event at a later date? Two, salespeople love Webinars.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. The expanded range of marketing platforms and pace of change require B2B companies to continually re-examine their strategies. Here are 10 B2B digital marketing strategies to help maintain a competitive edge. Guest post by Austin Cline.

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Contently

MAY 9, 2024

Writing a white paper is the heavyweight bout of content creation. And just like boxing, crafting a white paper requires strategy, finesse, and a game plan. Execute it well and your white paper can position your brand as an industry champion who’s adept at addressing your customers’ needs.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

Illustrations and photos also saw the biggest jump in content marketing tactic usage, from 69% last year to 76% this year. Some other interesting stats from the report: Search engine marketing (SEM) remains the top paid advertising method B2B marketers use to distribute and promote content, and is voted the most effective promotion tactic.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Hopefully most of these marketing stats will help you to prove that your content marketing strategy , digital and advertising campaigns are on-trend, relevant, and effective. Here are 199 Digital Marketing Stats to drive your marketing strategy… Content Marketing Stats. 79% of B2B buyers share white papers with their coworkers.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 20, 2016

It’s time to face some hard truths about B2B sales. People can filter through their email and decide who they're going to listen to. And most importantly, adding more sales people (or hiring calling firms) to prospect down a list won’t get you where you want to be either. The B2B sales process has changed.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

But it is what marketing was always meant to be: a conversation between your company and your target audience that attracts new customers. Once you get your content marketing strategy going, it’s that positive snowball effect in action. But, in order to get a competitive advantage from content marketing, you need to have a strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With a well-executed strategy, it’s possible to get your blog at the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs) and compete with high-authority sites. Key Takeaways: A company blog can play a key role in any business’s growth strategy. Execute a smart blogging strategy to compete with big, high-authority sites in your niche.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Your content marketing — think blog posts, email sequences, and whitepapers — nurtures the target lead, getting them interested in your product or service. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? Read several blog posts?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I was left a voicemail earlier this week by a sales rep that I talked to (briefly) about 6 months ago. As a sales professional or as a marketer, if you engage with a qualified prospect and that prospect doesn’t convert immediately to an opportunity, there’s every reason to stay in touch with that individual over time.

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2018

“ Tech Providers Will Pay Far More Attention to Sales Enablement” was one of “ 10 Fearless Predictions for B2B Tech Sales and Marketing in 2017 ” from Gartner technology marketing analyst Todd Berkowitz. The need for mid- and late-funnel video for sales enablement.

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Contently

OCTOBER 23, 2024

You probably remember learning about the concept of the marketing funnel and the need to create content for the different stages of the buyer journey. And you’ve likely either used the funnel — or may at some point — when building a content strategy or planning a marketing campaign. What is mid-funnel content?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2020

They must grapple with content proliferation; inconsistent and uncoordinated content creation; the lack of strategic direction in the content insights process; and the difficulty for consumers, customers and prospects to find content that is relevant and timely. Identify the sources of those metrics and pull into a dashboard using connectors.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But for sales reps, that mindless repetition isn’t just once a year, it’s happening weekly in the form of Pipeline Reviews. . Sure the intent is great—to work as a team to assess deal health, align sales forecasts and keep opportunities moving. Did you send the white paper? Meeting time. Have you done a demo?

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Which tactics do they disagree about? And what potentially powerful B2B marketing strategy is perhaps the most overlooked? Those are among the many questions answered in the new report from B2B Marketing Zone, How B2B Marketing is Changing , and their recent webinar highlighting some of the key findings.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. Our research suggests that the events of 2020 have made SaaS customers more demanding than ever. It’s about helping your sales organization do what they do best.

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Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

B2B Content Marketing Strategy. 91% of B2B marketers say they use content marketing in their overall strategy ( source ). 37% of B2B marketers have a documented content marketing strategy, while 38% have a strategy without formal documentation ( source ). 25% say they have a young maturity level.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 130

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Your brand’s mission should go beyond making sales and generating profits and get to the root of the wider impact you want to have on the world. If you’ve seen success from a certain blog post, consider enhancing and expanding it into an ebook or white paper. So how do you uncover that true purpose? Source: [link].

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 5, 2018

Content marketing has blazed a path through the marketing world in the past few years, offering great ROI for those who fully understand the process. Tomorrow People and B2B Marketing’s research reveals that 51% of marketers do not have the correct content in place for each stage of the funnel. The Buying Process.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We’ve shared our favorite five lead nurturing examples and strategies. Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? Of course, this is a quick summary of the process.

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The Point

APRIL 23, 2020

Audit your existing content library and map each asset by form factor, persona, vertical and funnel stage (early, mid, late). Here’s a recorded Webinar that provides tips on how to get leads and more from your blog. Assess social media strategy. Talk to sales. Your sales team is probably hurting right now.

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The Point

JANUARY 30, 2018

Define who you are, what you do, and why it matters, validate those points, and ensure that everything you communicate into the market, from a Google Ad to a sales script, is based fundamentally on that same, consensus message. Plus, you can repurpose that same white paper into blog posts, slide shares, infographics, and more.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Add in the fact that B2B sales cycles are typically long and complex (meaning that advertisers may not see ROI for weeks or months), and it becomes clear that thriving in today’s SEM landscape requires getting a lot of things right. Yet, many B2B companies don’t take the time to compute these numbers, or even basic funnel metrics.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 14, 2021

Checklists, product demos, webinars, e-books, and whitepapers are some of the most popular types of B2B lead magnets. B2B marketers and sales teams must collaborate to implement a lead magnet follow-up plan. Good lead magnet teaser : Download our proven 10-step checklist for creating high-converting B2B webinars! Accessible.

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Martech

AUGUST 5, 2024

Prompt: What’s the best campaign tactic today for new contact discovery? Answer: In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, one of the most effective campaign tactics for new contact discovery is leveraging targeted content marketing combined with data-driven social media advertising. Here’s a breakdown of this approach: 1.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. How Does Dirty Data Affect Sales?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 19, 2021

You might see results more quickly, depending on how much effort you put into strategy, production, and promotion. Goals and strategies. It’s a long-term strategy. Content marketing is a long-term strategy. With CM, your business can realize exponential growth if you properly execute sound strategies. Engagement?

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

These two concepts came into play in a recent conversation with a CGO of a B2B Identity and Access Management company who asked : “ What are the pros and cons of using the waterfall versus the intent approach for developing a new opportunity scoring model and which approach would I recommend.

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Onalytica B2B

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Last month, I co-authored a white paper called The Definitive Practical Guide to Influencer Relationship Management. This week, we try and help you start creating your own influencer marketing strategy. You strategy focus- earned, paid or owned? Great, now we can start talking strategy! Owned Media.

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ATAK Interactive

JULY 21, 2020

This is where sales enablement comes in. In fact, 74% of buyers choose to move forward with the sales rep that was the first to share value and insight. So with sales enablement, the marketing and sales teams are able to work together to deliver this value and convert their prospects into actual buyers.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The digital-first strategies many companies are adopting have removed countless in-person interactions and sped up sales cycles. Marketers have their work cut out for them in terms of making an impact on buyers well before the sales stage. Focus on audience engagement. This is where webinar engagement tactics shine. “It

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Sure, it’s all important for your sales pipeline, but the truth is, your customers might not care. Because let’s face it, the shorter the buyer’s journey and sales process, the better for everyone involved. What if they had access to better content earlier in their decision-making process?

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Contently

APRIL 18, 2023

To maximize the effectiveness of their content marketing strategy and ensure a healthy ROI, organizations can benefit from analyzing the latest content marketing ROI statistics and applying best practices for leveraging them. Lead scoring can help sales and marketing teams determine which leads are most likely to become customers.

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Oktopost

APRIL 7, 2022

Enter the sales funnel: a theoretical representation of a customer’s journey towards a purchase. A sales funnel is a crucial part of any successful marketing strategy. The funnel is a multi-layered inverted triangle that offers a visual representation of how people become customers.

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