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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. Build your channel. We say yes! Let’s get into it!

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MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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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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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

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Channels “partners” have been a part of sales ever since sales have existed. Channels are a high impact route to market, they enable us to connect with customers we can’t easily connect with. We train them, we provide marketing programs, content. This concept is called channel conflict/contention.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles. This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Software 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 25, 2019

Author: Ellie Chapman Content marketing used to be a tactic which was strictly reserved for B2C marketers, but that hasn’t been the case for a while. In order to prevent that from happening and to care for your audience, here are 10 content marketing methods you need to start relying on today if you are a B2B marketer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 15, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Having a powerful marketing strategy is vital to the growth and success of your business. However, most industries are highly competitive, and if you fail to launch effective marketing campaigns, you may find yourself in hot water real quick. A strong content marketing strategy should be priority number one.

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Maximizer Top of Funnel Strategy Social Media 192

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JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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MARCH 4, 2021

You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Some of the easiest methods of lead generation include increasing traffic to your social media channels and website. Develop email marketing campaigns – A one-size-fits-all approach to emailing leads is inefficient.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Whether it’s to access fast customer support, resolve a technical issue, or simply connect to a sales representative, more and more companies are adopting chatbots and conversational marketing platforms to their websites. Measure How Well Your Website is Performing.

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Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Engineering Top of Funnel 130

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JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. Today, we break down the most important categories of marketing tech.

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JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 9, 2024

Having no plans of becoming a CEO, engineer Marko Dinic shares his 18-year journey to becoming the leader of a company that excels in compliance solutions. Adapting Through Economic Turmoil Facing market turmoil and recession, Marko had to downsize and rebuild, showcasing resilience and adaptability in leadership.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As noted by my colleague Vince Koehler, Marketing has adopted new capabilities. These capabilities force Marketing to transition to new metrics for determining effectiveness. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” That’s a 5x bump. Content Production.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 326

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Their engineers take typical features in your average CRM and expand them to fill in enterprise operations’ numerous roles. Regardless of a company’s tech stack size, CRM systems are a staple for sales and marketing teams. Learn how your CRM can improve campaigns with automation – A Guide to Marketing Automation.

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SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

He was warning his Sales and Marketing leaders of the dangers of implementing change. This post is for Sales and Marketing leaders and their HR business partners who are implementing change. This is especially true when the solution is well engineered and attractive. It puts Kotter''s 8 steps in Sales & Marketing terms.

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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

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. What is a channel partner? Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. But by far, the option that could potentially bring you in the most sales is resellers and sales channel partners.

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MAY 7, 2018

Growth hackers skip the big-budget production of conventional marketing in favor of low-cost alternatives that grow and engage their user base. B2B Growth Hacking vs. Traditional Marketing. By definition, growth hacking and marketing are two separate entities; yet, they are undoubtedly intertwined. Stay ahead of market trends.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Scale Trends 227

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. I spent International Women’s Day (IWD) reflecting on women pioneers—trailblazers who paved the way for women in sales, entrepreneurship, engineering, law, and other male-dominated professions. But there is an answer to seller access. Back in the Black TV.

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Referrals Cold Calling Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 371

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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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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Joining us on the SBI Podcast is Stephen Thomas, SVP of Global Sales for Armor Cloud Security. Armor is a hybrid cloud security service that integrates advanced analytics, global threat intelligence, and continuous response capabilities into a single platform that bolsters.

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Analytics Marketing Sales Marketing Qualified Lead 248

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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Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Scoring 171

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. 44:07) One thing that is working for Elizabeth in go-to-market right now. It’s flexible, scalable ABM built for you.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. How to Grow Your Small Business with Marketing.

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Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 145

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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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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 147

SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Have you ever wondered what inbound marketing is? In this article, we’ll look at what inbound marketing is, why it’s important, and what 6 key elements you need to include in your inbound marketing plan. Inbound Marketing Plan - What Is It? Now that we’ve answered the question, “what is inbound marketing?”

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Tools Buyer Persona Social Media Inbound 126

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APRIL 24, 2019

As a result, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has stepped into the spotlight as a vital digital marketing tactic. For those who aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO is the art of increasing a website’s visibility and traffic through organic (non-paid) search engine results. Content farming.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Engineering Google 189

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By uniting the two, B2B marketers can transform a traditional account-based marketing strategy into a comprehensive go-to-market approach that can scale across an entire company. Once you define your ICP and set up your plays, an individual play is then triggered based on high-value signals surfaced by your marketing platform.

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MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Author: Rachel Downey Modern marketers are no stranger to showing a return on investment for their campaigns. Instead, it can be as simple as rethinking the engine behind their current strategy and utilizing existing content. . Podcasts have metrics surrounded by ambiguity, causing marketers frustration. Think Holistically.

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ROI Top of Funnel Channels Lead Nurturing 177

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Unfortunately, somebody in marketing gave you one day because “the agenda is packed.” This less customized approach is about speed to market in the field. This solves over engineered approaches when somebody in training design a new process. Problem 1—Poor Roll Out. You rolled out 2013’s initiative at sales kickoff.

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MAY 18, 2023

That’s because smart recruiters have learned to apply marketing principles to their talent acquisition process, helping them fill and nurture robust talent pipelines they can hire from at a moment’s notice. Here are the key components your talent team should have in place to make recruitment marketing work for them.

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Hiring Top of Funnel 130

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MAY 31, 2023

Industry surveys show that account-based marketing is consuming an ever-larger share of B2B budgets, and it’s easy to see why: smarter targeting, increased efficiency, and better ROI are enough to make any CMO’s eyes light up. The good news? Wondering how to incorporate AI and automation into your ABM strategy?

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Intent Intent Signal 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 20, 2020

Author: Kris Belau Is there anything more quaint in sales and marketing than the door-to-door salesperson? As was common at the time, the main sales channel was an on-the-ground sales force. Content can cover everything from your blog, your social media channels, or even the imagery you use to showcase your product.

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