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Why Sales Leaders Hate Your Advertising Agency

SBI Growth

Sales leaders perceive advertising agencies with the trifecta of doom; Expensive, Eccentric, and Frivolous. Why is it that most B2B sales leaders hate advertising agencies? They are irked when advertising agencies take too much credit for growth. Recognize when their advertising agency is ‘dead’ to sales, and 2.

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B2B Programmatic Advertising for Beginners

Zoominfo

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. The biggest change?

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Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI?

Pointclear

Of course, proving ROI was for many years difficult in spite of Claude C. Hopkins’ book Scientific Advertising , published in 1923. Yes, you read correctly - 95 years ago he took the mystery away: “The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is written as a text book for students and a safe guide for advertisers.

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

Pointclear

Following in 2nd through 7th place are paid search, email, branded communities and word-of mouth (tied), branded blogs, and online display advertising. is heavily weighted toward channels with more or less obvious ROI attached to them (email, search). 1 in providing the greatest business value to companies.

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Improve Your Trade Show ROI: A Guide for Marketers

Zoominfo

Today we give you six ways to boost your trade show ROI. Measuring Trade Show ROI. As with any other marketing campaign, the only way to gauge the financial success of an event is to track your ROI. If you don’t track ROI, you’ll never know if your strategy generates results, improves over time, or grows stale.

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One in Six Companies Plans on Investing in IT Security Initiatives

Zoominfo

Meanwhile,marketing departments find themselves challenged by how to effectively track ROI and generate more leads. Figure 4 : Of these marketing challenges, respondents often flagged ROI and lead generation as areas to resolve. In fact, one in six companies plans on investing in security initiatives. Source: ZoomInfo.

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B2B Advertising Done Right: What Makes a B2B Demand-Side Platform

Zoominfo

Let’s face it: programmatic advertising is hard. One of the biggest mistakes that B2B marketers make is relying on traditional demand-side platforms (DSPs) to launch their advertising campaigns. Unlock the Full Potential of B2B Advertising A B2B DSP empowers marketing teams to build effective advertising campaigns at scale.