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MAY 5, 2021

Imagine showing your advertisement to a stadium of 50,000 people. If you were a marketer 20 years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2022, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. For marketers, that’s essentially six days too late.” But times have changed.

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. We surveyed nearly 250 marketers , and while 59% of respondents said they either were not adjusting their budgets or weren’t making significant changes, almost 40% said they were cutting back on marketing spend in anticipation of a recession. You get it.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? Direct mail marketing makes direct contact with individual consumers, as opposed to reaching a large audience with mass media, such as advertising.

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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. We say yes!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 19, 2024

This data loss needs to be made up for, and brands are updating their content marketing objectives to do so. New Content Marketing Objectives: First-Party Data Collection Cookie-Based Third-Party Data Isn’t Recovering If your client thinks data privacy is just a fad they can wait out, they’re sorely mistaken.

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Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

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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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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2024

As B2B prospects demand increasingly personalized experiences, incorporating account-based marketing (ABM) throughout the customer acquisition funnel becomes increasingly important. Here are some practical steps that marketers can take to improve outcomes at each stage of the ABM integration process.

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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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SalesFuel

JUNE 5, 2024

Is your client trying to grow their business but they don’t know which digital marketing investments will make that happen? Digital Marketing Investments to Fuel 2024 Business Growth Digital Video According to a report by IAB , the digital media format that saw the strongest growth in 2023 was digital video. of digital ad revenue.

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Women Sales Pros

JANUARY 4, 2019

Often sellers don’t get to what’s of most interest to a prospect until 10, 20, 30 minutes or more into a demo. analyzed 67,000+ SAAS demos and found that “Following a linear path or going through a series of workflows before getting to the end result is an unsuccessful approach.” Who will be in the demo?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Those three little letters that can stir up so much debate in the marketing and go-to-market world. What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. Now, let’s take this idea and apply it to the world of marketing metrics. There are still marketing teams that don’t own a revenue number, which is crazy.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You know what’s a colossal marketing mistake? While every new marketing venture requires due diligence, the nuances of international communications are often overlooked when marketers try to gain traction in a new region. You can’t simply “copy and paste” your marketing efforts from the U.S. into another market.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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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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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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Here are four ways our new platform empowers marketers to effectively and efficiently land their target accounts.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, ZoomInfo discussed the emergence of video as an effective vehicle for B2B marketing communications. Today video remains a hugely successful tactic in the B2B marketing world. In fact, nearly 76% of B2B marketing professionals report including video content in their overall digital strategies ( source ).

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Zoominfo

MARCH 30, 2023

Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. A B2B marketing funnel is unique because it often involves multiple people from a single business moving through each stage of the funnel in a haphazard fashion.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2019

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. A fine-tuned YouTube marketing strategy won’t yield much success if your videos don’t offer compelling content.

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SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Unfortunately, not all businesses are using Facebook marketing. In this post, we explain why every company needs a strong Facebook marketing plan if they want to succeed with their branding efforts. billion monthly active users and 9M advertisers , Facebook is currently the most popular social networking platform.

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Apptivo

JULY 19, 2022

In a digital world, every aspect of business has transformed; marketing is no exception. Marketing in the past had always been a hit or miss: it was not customized for any group or individual. This made marketing both expensive and ineffective. Features of CRM Marketing. Benefits of CRM marketing. Introduction.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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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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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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Nutshell

JUNE 5, 2024

With so many people on their phones, it’s no wonder SMS marketing is surging in popularity: According to Statista, worldwide spending on SMS advertising is expected to reach $870 million by 2029. But is SMS marketing worth it for your business? Learn the benefits and best practices for engaging in SMS marketing in this guide.

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SocialSellinator

AUGUST 31, 2021

Snapchat is a powerful social media marketing tool for reaching new audiences. It presents an enormous opportunity for marketers to tap into this platform's market potential and establish a strong brand presence among millennials. But it's essential to making the most of social media marketing on Snapchat.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That’s why trade shows and industry events are so valuable to B2B marketers. of their total marketing budget to events and exhibiting ( source ). With so much money being spent on trade shows, how can marketers get the most bang for their buck? Learn more about influencer marketing best practices here: B2B Influencer Marketing.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. Recently, I was trying to understand how we could venture into the advertising space. I thought: “ We have all of this data. Why don’t I hear about Bizo?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2019

That’s why trade shows and industry events are so valuable to B2B marketers. of their total marketing budget to events and exhibiting ( source ). With so much money being spent on trade shows, how can marketers get the most bang for their buck? Learn more about influencer marketing best practices here: B2B Influencer Marketing.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That’s the idea behind inbound marketing—an essential marketing strategy for today’s businesses. In this guide, we cover everything you need to get started with inbound marketing. Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? How does inbound marketing work?

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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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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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