Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. What is marketing attribution? 6 Types of Marketing Attribution Models.

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Lead Rank B2B Top of Funnel Marketing 236

Zoominfo

JULY 9, 2019

Welcome new readers and ZoomInfo regulars to the latest edition of our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. For those of you who are new to the ZoomInfo blog, we regularly publish monthly round-ups to feature top B2B content from industry professionals, leading brands, and subject matter experts. . Continue reading. Continue reading.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2019

In decades past, the world of marketing was dominated by print advertisements in newspapers and magazines. These antiquated marketing tactics had one thing in common: They put the product front and center, with clever presentations intended to entice prospects to become paying customers. Evoke emotions through storytelling.

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Marketing Advertising Advertising Face-to-face 202

The Pipeline

JULY 24, 2014

In the past, word of mouth was always considered the best form of advertising for business. Another way that companies have been able to generate revenue from word of mouth type advertising is through referral and affiliate programs. There are really very few downsides to referral marketing. Image via Shutterstock.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Smooth Sale

MAY 3, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Want and Know How to Get Free Advertising? Advertising is a crucial component of any successful marketing strategy, but it can also be expensive, especially for small businesses and startups. Design shirts that catch the eyes of others will feature your logo.

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Advertising Advertising Social Media How To 144

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before.

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B2B Social Media eBook Advertising 207

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. BLOG] Read it: Matt, Kyle, and the Less-Traveled Road to Customer Satisfaction. BLOG] Read it: How to Heat Up Cold Emails with Personalization.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 196

SBI Growth

JULY 16, 2013

Every Marketing Leader has asked the question: “Can Facebook be leveraged to drive leads?” LinkedIn is the gold standard for B2B social marketing. You need a marketing strategy and approach that works. Facebook entered the search engine market with the launch of “graph search”. What about for B2B? Why Leverage Facebook?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. The best B2B option until now has been LinkedIn ads. Case Study.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 11, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Guest blog posting is arguably the best method of inbound marketing that your team can employ. However, only 6 percent of marketers are using guest posting as the majority of their original content strategy. But that’s not the only benefit of guest blogging. Strengthen Your Backlink Profile.

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Strategy Marketing Real Estate Social Media 96

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns? Zero in on Your Target Market. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. Have a Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Google Analytics Scale 301

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As we regularly remind readers on the ZoomInfo blog—the inception of the Internet brought about the sharing of information at a never before seen rate. Today we’re closing out this three-part series with a post for our marketing audience. So, if you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. Go check it out!

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Channels Marketing Lead Rank Outsourcing Services 220

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2018

As such, mobile marketing is not just an option anymore. One way to boost your visibility and drive qualified leads to your mobile site is through paid advertising, such as Google AdWords or social media marketing. So, if you haven’t invested in mobile advertising already, then it may be high time to do so.

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Paid Content Small Business Small Business Marketing 185

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s no secret, the Internet has changed the way customers buy products and the ways marketers engage with their audiences. But, despite the constant change, the following statement has held true for hundreds of years: No marketing tactic can match the influence of word-of-mouth. Therein lies the power of word-of-mouth marketing.

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Social Media Referrals Marketing Influencer 210

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While it may be known for its popularity among celebrity influencers, it also is an important channel for brands that use it to advertise their products. But what does the introduction of this new tool mean for B2B marketers? What this means for B2B marketers. What Is IGTV?

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B2B Marketing B2C Video 205

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Buyer Persona Marketing Collateral Scale 214

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Let’s face it—it’s not easy to build a perfect marketing team. A comprehensive marketing strategy includes a number of different tactics and initiatives—which means your team must include members with a wide variety of skills. However, only 23% of B2B marketers claim to have a customer-centric organizational structure ( source ).

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Marketing Social Media B2B Scale 187

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Because marketers live on the very channels the customers are engaging with, clever marketers harness these channels to reach potential and loyal customers. More than ever before, the new reality of sales must rely on marketing to a higher extent. Marketing should ask sales about the customer.

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Education Buyer Buyer Persona Social Media 330

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. It’s imperative for marketers to understand their customers’ journey and the role that each touchpoint plays in an eventual purchase — and marketing attribution is the one tactic that helps them do so.

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Trends B2B Marketing Channels 160

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. The most effective way to use B2B social selling is to create thought-leading content like blog articles (like this one), videos, and podcasts, and then share them to your social networks. It’s not advertising.

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Social Selling B2B Social Media Top of Funnel 263

Zoominfo

JUNE 7, 2018

B2B Marketers take note: Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users ( source ). In today’s blog post, we’ll teach you a few easy ways to effectively promote your B2B company on Instagram. The visual nature of Instagram provides B2B marketers with an opportunity to tell compelling stories through photos.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. Third-party reports show that companies advertising on TikTok are getting significantly higher ROI than legacy social media advertising. to go viral?—?or

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B2B Top of Funnel Social Media Advertising 285

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 23, 2018

Increasing sales via social media content, campaigns and outreach is really important part of a marketing strategy these days. Remember new regulations means sponsored posts and advertisements must be listed as so in some way. Consider paid social media marketing. Kostas Chiotis is a blogger and a content marketing specialist.

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Social Media Channels Media Advertising 233

Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

The world of B2B marketing underwent a dramatic transformation in recent years—and unfortunately for us marketers, we no longer have such rigid control of the buyer’s journey. But, how can marketers comply with the varying preferences of their individual buyer? Enter: Multichannel marketing. And the best part?

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Marketing Retail Channels Social Media 189

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What is referral marketing?

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Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Incentives 197

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Author: Josh Carlyle Since you’re representing a brand, you need to market yourself to your audience and potential clients. A media kit is a promotional tool that contains useful information about your product or service, website, current partners, advertising, or marketing opportunities. Mind your target advertisers.

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Media Advertising Advertising Ideal Customer Profile 224

Smooth Sale

MAY 17, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: The Underrated Marketing Methods To Be Considering. Our collaborative blog provides insight regarding ‘The underrated marketing methods to be considering.’. Some marketing methods, such as social media marketing, advertisements, and SEO, are likely to be part of most modern strategies.

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Marketing Direct Mail Hiring Social Media 148

SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Between invoicing customers, acquiring new leads, and managing your staff members marketing your business is a challenge that requires time and energy. With social media marketing networks, such as Facebook, and Snapchat, you can get that extra boost for your marketing department. How Facebook Marketing Helps Your Business.

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Paid Content Small Business Small Business Facebook 145

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

From emerging platforms, to hot new trends, there’s always something new that marketers must identify and adapt to. And for better or worse, this change is sure to have quite the impact on your B2B marketing strategy. Since the emergence of social media, Facebook has never been the platform of choice for B2B marketers.

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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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Paid Content Advertising Advertising Media 96

SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital ads may be making huge waves in the advertising industry, but TV broadcast advertising is still the king. TV Broadcast Advertising Drives 60% of Viewers to Research Online TV has the Furthest Reach According to a study by TVB , TV broadcast advertising has the highest reach of all ad types. Let’s discuss.

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Advertising Advertising Research Social Media 98

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 7, 2014

Most salespeople are the beneficiaries of a nice supply of leads from their company''s marketing, advertising and online efforts. If you''ve been reading my Blog for the past 8 years then you know that according to Objective Management Group (OMG) , 74% of all salespeople are ineffective. I know who I would rather call.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Cold Calling Referrals 282

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These predictions from B2B sales and marketing experts may impact decisions you make as 2019 comes to a close and 2020 looms. Companies will cut back on MarTech spend and focus on what actually works, says Adam Smartschan, vice president of innovation and strategy at Altitude Marketing. Think about search engine marketing.

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Cost per Acquisition Advertising Advertising Google Analytics 176

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with most business functions, technology is drastically changing the way we market our products and services. We’ve long since understood the power of one-to-one marketing, but without modern technology, it wasn’t always feasible, scalable, or affordable. So, how can we market to customers who are sick and tired of marketing?

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