Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2021

Modern digital advertising can feel a lot like trying to speak to a stadium full of people from center field without a microphone. Many marketers have shifted their strategies toward programmatic advertising to improve their digital marketing performance. To understand this problem, we start with the data landscape.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2021

Modern digital advertising can feel a lot like trying to speak to a stadium full of people from center field without a microphone. No marketer wants to spend a single penny trying to reach somebody that’s never going to buy their product. Your message is mostly drowned out by tons of noise from competitors. The data landscape.

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Advertising Advertising Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As with nearly every other aspect of business— automation, predictive learning, and artificial intelligence have drastically changed the advertising landscape. Programmatic advertising. Yet, B2B marketers have been slow to adopt programmatic advertising, especially compared to their B2C counterparts. Keep reading.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 7, 2018

B2B Marketers take note: Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users ( source ). Instagram is unique in that it humanizes even the most niche B2B businesses—but in order to form a true connection with your target audience, you must learn from the strategies B2C businesses use. Feature your origin story.

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B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 178

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

The B2B market needs to become as customer-centric as the B2C market. A large number of customers make their purchasing decisions very early on in their customer journey, such as when visiting the company website, skimming a product brochure, or seeing advertising materials.

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B2B Segment Ideal Customer Profile B2C 254

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Aligning Sales and Marketing. Email Automation Tools.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

Zoominfo

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’ve worked in marketing for any length of time, you already know not every campaign is created equal—it’s inevitable, some campaigns will be more effective than others. Ultimately, the key to marketing productivity lies in your ability to pinpoint and scale your most successful marketing initiatives. Let’s get into it!

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 160

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If you’re reading this post, you already know it’s important to keep a finger on the pulse of marketing for new, innovative tactics. B2B influencer marketing. Proven to increase brand awareness and drive lead generation, influencer marketing is a vital marketing tactic for many B2C brands. One such tactic?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2017

The foundations to marketing started in the 1920s and developed to a point in the 1950s. From looking at many companies’ social media presence, marketing strategies have not changed much since then. Broadcast” marketing is a simple concept: You throw lots of “mud” at the wall, and some of it will stick. By Tim Hughes.

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Account Social Media Social Selling Twitter 288

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 277

The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Salespeople are quick to say how they could be more successful if they only had great advertising supporting them. Cry all you want, but using advertising as a reason for your success or failure does not make you a great salesperson. Quit trying to worry about whether your marketing plan is getting drowned by the big boys.

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Microsoft Advertising Advertising B2C 161

Increase Sales

APRIL 5, 2012

Marketing strategy can begin very well such as great headline be it on a website, a printed advertisement, a 10 second elevator pitch or even an email subject line. Then what was initially a good marketing strategy can very quickly turn bad and ultimately can become very ugly. The cracks are starting to show.

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Strategy Marketing Ideal Customer Profile B2C 169

Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

For most to overcome this sales challenge of “I need prospects,” begins with marketing. Yet there still is so much confusion about what is marketing; how to define marketing and what marketing actions deliver the best results especially with the influence of social media. Building relationships.

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Prospecting Advertising Advertising Face-to-face 145

Increase Sales

AUGUST 18, 2014

The 21st Century has changed how people market their businesses. To attract attention today requires this new channel of content marketing. Yet as in the previous century when paid advertising was King, many of those messages miss the mark and worse yet continue to miss the mark. visits per visitor with closer to 4.0

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Marketing Small Business Small Business Education 131

SalesFuel

AUGUST 2, 2024

Marketing budgets plummet, yet marketers are expected to do the same if not more with less. Many marketers are turning to SEM paid search to get results. Between 2023 and 2024, the average marketing budget has decreased from 9.1% Only 24% of CMOs say that their budget is enough to execute their marketing strategies.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This month we focus on the marketing technology stack, the power of direct dials, productivity myths, SEO, and more! Investing In Marketing Technology: 7 Key Considerations. The marketing landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Let’s get into it.

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B2B B2C Marketing Demand Generation Agencies 124

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. You have to bring in more marketing qualified leads. Unlike B2C marketing, in the B2B world, not all the people who read your blog post or express interest in your product or service are a great fit.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 133

Zoominfo

JUNE 17, 2018

In the marketing world, brand storytelling refers to campaigns that use creative narratives to showcase a brand or product. Brand storytelling is a staple of B2C content marketing, but it’s less common in the B2B world. Google Adwords is a web advertising service that most B2B marketers are already familiar with.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Sure, the approach and tone might vary based on the audience, but B2B buyers behave quite similarly to B2C consumers. In much the same way that B2C consumers vet brands through social media references and online testimonials, B2B buyers are conducting more due diligence as well. Forge partnerships between sales and marketing.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 246

SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

SalesFuel® , renowned for its comprehensive market research and sales intelligence solutions, today announces the launch of its exclusive B2B BuyerSCAN. Marketing professionals: Tailor campaigns with data-driven insights on buyer behavior and preferences. Lee Smith, CEO of SalesFuel. Who benefits from B2B BuyerSCAN ?

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B2B Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Advertising 111

Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

For B2B marketers, that means the challenge of effectively reaching, engaging, and converting their target audience is more complex than ever. As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. What is B2B Marketing?

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Paid Content Report B2B Top of Funnel 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. With better profiles, demand generation teams can craft stronger advertising campaigns. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Social media is an integral part of every marketing strategy. However, there’s a myth that says B2B social media marketing isn’t effective. The sole reason is this myth that mentions the ineffectiveness of B2B social media marketing. So, how do you perfect your marketing strategy? Seth Price . Brittany Hardy

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in numerous digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Paid Content B2B Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Account Based Marketing Trends B2B Marketing 130

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 145

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

B2B Buyers vs. B2C Buyers Who Are Your B2B Buyers? B2B Buyers vs. B2C Buyers While B2C buyers tend to make smaller, transactional purchases to meet their immediate needs, B2B buyers are often making significant investments that demand complex decision-making processes. Table of Contents What Is a B2B Buyer?

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Hubspot B2B Buyer Data 116

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2022

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The value of sales and marketing automation rests on your resources' ability to provide mutually beneficial intel between departments.

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Benefit Lead Scoring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 105

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. Data is at the core of every go-to-market motion. It will be purpose-built for go-to-market teams to identify actual buying centers rather than legal entities with no purchasing power.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Oracle 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 23, 2023

But that’s only the beginning of how we help businesses go to market. We recently launched a new brand campaign to increase awareness of our broader go-to-market capabilities, which help sales, marketing, and operations teams find, acquire, and grow customers through a unified platform.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 7, 2012

“What Social Media does now, with brutal efficiency, is expose weak offerings, poorly developed programs, manipulative lead gen practices and BS laden marketing campaigns.” While the essay is aimed at school marketers, I think that the arguments hold true for every type of B2C business.

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Social Media Media Leads360 B2C 69

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Recent mail privacy protection changes in Apple’s new iOS 15 have put the crosshairs on email open rates, possibly ending that metric’s usefulness to marketing teams. Yes, open rate has been a long-touted measure for email marketing campaigns, but it’s also a flawed statistic, according to Kevin Hopkinson, deliverability manager at ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2C selling has dominated social media for the last 10-plus years. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. What B2B Social Selling is Not It’s not advertising. Nobody likes advertising, and people look for ways to avoid it. What is B2B Social Selling?

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Social Selling B2B Social Media B2C 100

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

Crunchbase

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Lead nurturing is widely recognized as a valuable marketing technique that can help teams drive an increase in sales. Implementing a successful lead-nurturing plan can significantly influence your marketing campaign’s outcomes, as well as customer loyalty, retention, revenue and more. Search less. Close more. Search less.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 98

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Let’s look at it through a B2C filter, where social media has truly impacted the sell/buy equation, they call these people shoppers. Sellers add value to their company and earn their commissions by engaging with non-self-initiated-buyers, people not shopping, and bringing them in to the market and selling them.

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