Act-On

JULY 25, 2016

Account-Based Marketing ABM account based marketing SMB SMB marketingAccount-based marketing continues to lure in marketers with the ever-seductive dance of engagement.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 30, 2012

This is part 4 of a series on the challenge of targeting SMB markets and how the use of buyer-based modeling and buyer-based marketing help organizations to grow their SMB customer base. . Next Up: Closing the deal in SMB with Buyer-Based Selling.

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B2B Marketing Insider

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The post Note to SMB: Stop Neglecting Marketing Automation! It can be hard for small businesses to get their marketing efforts off the ground. Keeping up with new trends and demands seem like uphill battles for many small to mid-sized businesses.

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Tony Zambito

MARCH 21, 2012

This is part 2 of a series on the challenge of targeting SMB markets and how the use of buyer modeling and buyer-based marketing help organizations to grow their SMB customer base. . That is of how to get to know the new SMB buyer. Getting To Know The New SMB Buyer.

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Salesfusion

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The post Salesfusion Launches Email Deliverability Monitoring Service for SMB Marketers appeared first on Salesfusion. Email Marketing News B2B Marketing email deliverability

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Salesfusion

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

As a matter of fact, the buyer’s journey plays an integral role in today’s digital, multi-channel marketing world and even SMB organizations can’t ignore it. The post Breaking Down the Buyer’s Journey for SMB Marketers appeared first on Salesfusion.

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Modern Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Brent Leary from CRM Essentials touches on what’s behind an increased adoption of Modern Marketing in this brief video : Most SMB marketing teams are lean with budget constraints. This is one of the key reasons SMB marketers are more reliant on marketing technology.

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Modern B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Now I’d like to take a closer look at the opinions of the SMB marketers who took part in this research and what they think the future of marketing looks like. SMB marketers are preparing for and expecting a lot more revenue responsibility.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

e-Commerce Internet Marketing Organic Search Slider Business Google Analytics Internet marketing Online shopping Search engine optimization SMB Image via CrunchBase. Small and mid-sized eCommerce retailers face many challenges online.

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NuSpark

MARCH 17, 2013

Paul: How does this translate to the SMB market? They may not need all of the functionality of a robust marketing to sales automation platform but there are some basic elements that can make any SMB successful. In some cases, SMB’s just don’t want to hire internally for the skill sets that are necessary to be successful. Learn About MindMatrix Marketing Automation; An Interview with Andrew Carlton, Director of Channel Sales at MindMatrix.

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NuSpark

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The other issue I’ve seen with the lead nurturing concept at SMB firms is the eagerness for salespeople to engage with leads who download content, even though those prospects aren’t ready to be engaged with. Overcoming lack of understanding, resources, and content .

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

According to SpiceWorks latest State of SMB IT report, there was a 9% increase in second half 2011 budget forecasts, the highest planned budget uptick over the past two years. According to the 962 respondents, SMB IT spending on hardware, software and services has increased from an average of $108K per organization in 2009, to a planned $143K in the second half of 2011. Tip #5: Prove Customer / Competitive Value: Each SMB has unique and growing customer and competitive challenges.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The post 6 Effective tools for SMB that integrate with your existing SaaS appeared first on Biznology. These days, the buzzword is “integration.” As in: how can small business tools work together to get more done?

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B2B Marketing Insider

JANUARY 19, 2017

Content Marketing Social Media content marketing ideas ideas newsjacking SEO small business smb video marketingWhen small-to-medium sized businesses actualize highly-creative content marketing strategies, many great things can happen.

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Opentopic

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

– When it comes to marketing technology, many small business (SMB) marketers are emphasizing flexibility as they try pick the right basket of tools to help them thrive in a rapidly evolving business environment. Increasingly, this focus on flexibility means that many SMB marketers are building their own “stack” of technology tools and services selected from a range of different.

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Great B2B Marketing

MAY 15, 2012

In his April 17, 2012 blog post at tellallmarketing.com, Ray Schultz addressed the issue of How Brands Are Failing Small Businesses. Schultz makes a number of important points in the post but one of the most interesting is the high cost of the disconnect that exists between how business owners learn and how marketers attempt to reach them. According to a major survey by Inc.

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Opentopic

JULY 22, 2016

The post 5 Top Marketing Automation Tools for SMB’s appeared first on Opentopic. Join us for a free, live webinar and learn how to drive revenue with content marketing. Tune in 8/4 at 10:30 a.m. Register Now » Marketing slowing you down? Tons of small to mid-sized businesses are using marketing automation tools to boost productivity, increase revenue and get rid of monotonous day-to-day tasks. GetResponse. Infusionsoft. Marketo.

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Marketing Action

JANUARY 3, 2013

SMB use a lot of tactics. Join Act-On’s Jeff Linton in a free webinar to learn seven actionable, achievable habits that any SMB can use to drive revenue, based on this research from Forrester Consulting.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 4, 2012

500 Mack Collier Pinterest SEO SMBDespite the many business benefits of blogging , it remains an underutilized tactic. Recent research shows that only 37% of the Inc. 500 fastest-growing companies and just 35% of the Fortune 100 enterprises maintain blogs.

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Biznology

JUNE 28, 2013

If you had $1,000 to spend as a marketing challenge, how would you spend it? We’ve all fantasized about what we would do if we won the lottery. But apply the same fantasy of coming into some money at a more realistic level.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

A major factor is how marketing automation can help optimize the SMB marketers time. The marketing department at an SMB is typically small just based on the size of the business, but at the same time the customer base – the database – can still be very large and automation software can help with activities such as lead nurturing. For the SMB marketer, let’s say you have a one-person staff. Creating a culture that allows for marketing automation implementation at an SMB.

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Sales Intelligence View

MAY 8, 2014

Content Marketing Marketing Small Business Social Media Tips Tips and Tricks best practices social media SEO Smb Market SMB SEO Businesses that only market during special promotional periods have an increased risk of failure.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

” B2B Marketing Content marketing Copywriting Creative Demand Generation email design email marketing lead generation b2b demand generation B2B email agency b2b lead generation email best practices email copywriting email copywriting tips email marketing agency Integra SMB marketing

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Of course, he is writing for his audience, but his audience is mostly SMB’s who are trying to market their way out of this economic train wreck we are living through. Depending on who you believe, 50% of SMB’s still don’t even have a website! Image via Wikipedia.

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Biznology

JULY 23, 2014

Despite the attention given to large enterprise marketing, it’s small and medium businesses (SMB) where the bulk of marketing investments go. SMB is where there’s enough volume to do plenty of testing.

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Vertical Response

AUGUST 2, 2013

Infographics Small Business Marketing Deluxe Corporation infographic Owner Small Business Owners smb smb marketing SMBs Most small business owners eat, breathe and live everything about their business on a day-to-day basis.

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Marketing Action

JUNE 25, 2015

Content Marketing blog blog post blogging growing your SMB small business SMBBeing the small kid on the block is never easy. Especially when you have a much smaller marketing budget than larger companies.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 21, 2017

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Study: Social Media Affects SMB Purchasing Decisions by HubSpot Blog. Younger buyers rely more heavily than their older counterparts on social media as key influence in SMB purchasing decisions–but not by all that much.

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Radius

MAY 5, 2015

The SMB economy is incredibly important to Radius, because our customers provide solutions to small businesses all over America. B2B Marketing small business week small business week 2015 SMBIn honor of National Small Business Week, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite small business resources. To bolster their growth, we’ve built the most comprehensive and up-to-date index of small businesses in America.

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Vertical Response

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Social Media business Facebook Facebook Account Facebook Features Facebook Stats Small Business smb Social Media Marketing Twitter Twitter Usage Did you read the predictions about social media use for small businesses in 2014?

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Radius

JULY 13, 2016

Many companies are turning to new technologies to not just survive, but thrive within the SMB market. B2B Marketing Payments POS POS technology predictive SMBRaymond Pucci is the Associate Director, Research Services, at Mercator Advisory Group. He focuses on merchant services and related payments topics. His most recent research publication is “Merchant Acquiring’s Ecosystem: Evolving Beyond Transactions.”.

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Radius

JULY 13, 2016

Many companies are turning to new technologies to not just survive, but thrive within the SMB market. A-Featured B2B Marketing Payments POS POS technology predictive SMBRaymond Pucci is the Associate Director, Research Services, at Mercator Advisory Group. He focuses on merchant services and related payments topics. His most recent research publication is “Merchant Acquiring’s Ecosystem: Evolving Beyond Transactions.”.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

B2B communities marketing Social Media budgets constant contact IBM IT SMB spiceworks

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Biznology

MARCH 18, 2011

As I follow the SMB market in the online space, I see something that I am not convinced the tech world is paying enough attention to. Image by michperu via Flickr. by Frank Reed.

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Marketing Action

JUNE 4, 2015

Marketing Automation marketing automation medium business small business SMB software adviceBack the old days (as in, several years ago) marketing automation was generally seen as a powerful technology that was available only for the really big companies with really big marketing budgets.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I am declaring 2011 the Year of the Online SMB. I like the definition of an SMB being under 100 employees, but up to 500 employees can be deemed an SMB also. There are no hard and fast criteria for determining SMB status but we all know one when we see one. Google Place Pages, Hotpot, Boost, Tags, and whatever else Google has up its wealthy sleeves are all pointed directly at the SMB market, both B2C and B2B. Image by Getty Images via @daylife. by Frank Reed.

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Sales Intelligence View

MARCH 27, 2014

Small Business Software Tools Technology Budget Hiring SMB The ‘Too-Many-Hats’ Problem. At launch, sustaining an influx of leads is is a B2B small business owner’s top priority — and by extension, engaging with current customers is priority 1.5.

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Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2014

2) 73% of people said they feel more confident in an SMB after following them and reading some of their Tweets. 3) 57% of people have discovered a new SMB on Twitter. 5) 32% of people found a new SMB from a promoted tweet from the SMB.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. From Web Analytics to Demand Generation.

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