Product Management University

MAY 16, 2017

To this day, white papers are still largely viewed as more educational than propaganda. For all the white papers produced, many B2B organizations fail to get the maximum marketing value for their efforts. The Playbook: White Papers 101. White Papers as a Hook. Don’t stop there.

Lead Rank 40

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 40

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Challenge Akamai wanted to deliver thought leadership insights, value messaging and justification to prospects of its Kona Security Solutions. The deliverable white paper is customized and delivered to directly reflect the prospect’s priorities. A guaranteed leads program assured quick payback and ROI on the investment.

Fashion 45

Fashion ROI Guarantee Lead Rank 45

Membrain

OCTOBER 12, 2022

We discover whether potential prospects are the right size, in the right industry, and are located in the right geographical location. We might also have additional qualifying information, such as marketing data, like digital footprints from websites, and white papers they downloaded.

Ideal Customer Profile 126

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 126

The ROI Guy

MAY 15, 2012

To fuel the demand generation program, Alinean developed the Better Way to Go Mobile Interactive White Paper , which unlike traditional static white papers, leveraged the prospect’s profile to completely personalize the white paper content, creating a customized analysis as to the prospect’s return from mobile strategy.

Demand Generation Targets 70

Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 70

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. You might already have a generic white paper, for instance, entitled “How to Increase Efficiency with Enterprise Content Management.”

Account Based Marketing 174

Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Account 174

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

Marketing 192

Marketing eBook Social Media Trade Show 192

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content? I’m sharing my summaries here.

Cold Calling 195

Cold Calling Lead Rank Intent Data Marketing Qualified Lead 195

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2018

We don’t always pitch our product or service, sometimes we’re helpful enough to send over a white paper or blog post that may be of interest. I mean how many blog posts or white papers can a buyer read in a week? White paper reading time…not large. White paper reading time…not large.

Webinar Metrics 170

Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Call-back Buyer 170

The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2012

Concur needed a way to communicate the current cost of travel and expense management to prospects, and the potential savings and ROI of automation. The more personalized and relevant interactive white paper is leveraged in marketing campaigns to drive better lead generation and quality.

Case Study 63

Case Study Travel Study System 63

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2018

We don’t always pitch our product or service, sometimes we’re helpful enough to send over a white paper or blog post that may be of interest. I mean how many blog posts or white papers can a buyer read in a week? White paper reading time…not large. White paper reading time…not large.

Webinar Metrics 150

Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Call-back Buyer 150

SBI Growth

MAY 10, 2013

The demands for content creation on today’s marketing team can take the form of a raging beast. Marketing teams are fighting to keep up. Too often Content Marketing leaves a wake of smoldering bodies as it devours every ounce of capacity. Chief Marketing Officers are struggling with guiding their teams on how to keep up.

Marketing 312

Marketing Case Study Webinar Metrics Harvest 312

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Iron Mountain needed to better connect and engage with busy executives, to help these prospects understand the potential risk mitigation and costs savings from improving eDiscovery best practices. Alinean worked with Iron Mountain subject matter experts to create the Cost Savings Advisor Interactive White Paper.

Sales Qualified Lead 53

Sales Qualified Lead Campaigns Sales Cycle Lead Scoring 53

BuzzBoard

APRIL 16, 2024

Explaining the Importance of Lead Generation Strategies for Digital Marketing Agencies Lead generation strategies serve as crucial tools for digital marketing agencies. These strategies are especially vital for agencies marketing to small and local businesses. One impactful strategy is offering free digital marketing audits.

Lead Generation 52

Lead Generation Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 52

Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Prospecting is one of the most fundamental sales skills. However, as the sales environment shifts, sellers must update how they prospect. Last July, we hosted the webinar, Mastering the Art of Prospecting: Key Strategies for Success. Here, we examined the fundamental principles of modern prospecting.

Ideal Customer Profile 62

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics 62

Pointclear

AUGUST 22, 2018

Both have their place in sales and marketing. The most effective sales people, appropriately nicknamed hunters, are laser-focused on results and seek the most qualified leads from their marketing team. They often bypass the shotgun blasted leads generated by broadly targeted campaigns, like webinars and direct marketing campaigns.

Sales Qualified Lead 113

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Cost per Lead B2B 113

eGrabber

JANUARY 11, 2024

B2B marketers, according to HubSpot , face a common foe: 61% struggle with lead generation. Let’s explore some of the most popular inbound marketing strategies that will help you to get sales leads for your business. Blogging: Blogs are the heartbeats of inbound marketing.

Paid Content 45

Paid Content Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 45

The ROI Guy

JUNE 8, 2012

ShoreTel wanted to generate more sales-ready opportunities, and elevate it’s engagements with today’s more skeptical and frugal prospects. To achieve better engagement, and fuel lead generation campaigns, the ShoreTel Sophisticated Simplicity Interactive White Paper was created.

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Campaigns Lead Rank Lead Scoring 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

Lead Rank 40

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Eloqua Ideal Customer Profile 40

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data?

Data 251

Data B2B Churn Buyer Persona 251

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

You download that white paper, and because it’s gated, you’re required to fill out a lead capture form – your name, email address, Company, title, location, phone number, name of first born…Worse, you know you’re immediately going to get that lame phone call or email follow-up: “I see you downloaded our white paper, want to talk?”.

Lead Capture 126

Lead Capture Customer ROI Lead Rank 126

Zoominfo

JULY 21, 2019

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers. Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. In comparison, 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing ( source ).

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 100

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

Marketing 120

Marketing eBook Social Media Trade Show 120

Pipeliner

MARCH 7, 2021

Marketing a healthcare facility can be difficult. You need to attract patients to come to your hospital to do justice to your investment and properly marketing your brand is the key. Today, everyone relies on the internet for information and there is a need for healthcare organizations to improve their internet marketing.

Strategy 97

Strategy Marketing Social Media Case Study 97

The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2012

In a study of UK CIOs, IDG Research Services determined that CIOs desired to spend more time leading change efforts, over the next 3-5 years, driving business innovation and developing new go-to-market strategies. Click here to see the New UK CIO Interactive White Paper in action.

Case Study 55

Case Study Study Lead Generation Research 55

criteria for success

JULY 8, 2021

Are you struggling to make headway with indecisive prospects? When working with indecisive prospects, it can be extremely difficult to move forward in your selling process. The 5 following approaches can be your solution for dealing with indecisive prospects without seeming desperate and pushy. We can help! Lead with honesty.

Prospecting 98

Prospecting How To Guidelines Webinar Metrics 98

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

Outsourcing Services 293

Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

Shari Levitin

AUGUST 23, 2023

We litter them with ideas, metrics, and white papers; we pile on more information and clutter our slide decks. Sellers: Declutter Your Prospects’ Buying Process  Customers would rather make no decision than make the wrong decision. Then, it occurred to me that our junk drawers provide a perfect metaphor for how we sell.

Workbooks 118

Workbooks Decision Maker Case Study Sales 118

Pointclear

JUNE 6, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Trade Show Marketing Circa 2013: Everything is the Same, Everything is Different. Via BtoBMagazine.

B2B 190

B2B Buyer Trade Show PointClear 190

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 12, 2015

Most organizations spend a significant portion of their marketing budget on creating content to fuel demand generation programs, and to arm sales reps to have better conversations and engagements. This means that a typical company is wasting $1 out of every $7 spent on marketing each year. But this is only addressing ½ of the waste.

Demand Generation Agencies 88

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Survey 88

The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2016

Thus far in this series we have looked at two prospects segments that are popular among sellers, mostly because they are likely the easier of the three. While most sales people spend 80% of their time and effort pursuing these groups, combined they only make up at most 30% of any given market. Objectives over Pain or Need.

Segment 120

Segment Prospecting Vendor Objections 120

Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 17, 2020

The question as to which prospecting method is the most effective can be answered in two ways. The argument over the most effective way to prospect has been framed as a contest between Inbound and Outbound, also called cold outreach, as your dream client isn’t expecting your communication. The Prospecting Sequence.

B2B 117

B2B Prospecting Trade Show Inbound 117

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Never before have marketers had so much information about prospects, customers, the competition, and the markets they hope to reach. But say “Big Data” instead of “information,” and marketer smiles will turn upside down in a hurry. Marketers just need fishing hooks to find it and fish it out of the river.

Top of Funnel 239

Top of Funnel Opportunity Data Revenue 239

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2017

Email marketing is one of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing. Though not commonly used in logistics, email marketing has the potential to increase engagement and brand awareness amongst shippers, and can help your organization grow. Is it to get new customers? More business from existing customers?

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 100

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Sales enablement is the art of equipping your sales team with the things they need to articulate the value your product can bring to your prospect and their business. Sales enablement is a process that stretches across the sales cycle, from prospecting to customer success. The Elements of a Winning Sales Enablement Strategy for 2021.

Sales Enablement 130

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show. A recent survey done by the Content Marketing Institute shows 75% of respondents believe in-person events are an effective marketing tactic. Unfortunately, trade shows are expensive and time-consuming.

Trade Show 187

Trade Show Marketing Social Media Lead Scoring 187

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 7, 2015

The research is in and it shows some significant changes are in store for Marketing in 2015 – trends you need to be aware of to succeed: Trend 1: More Leads = Same Revenue? Your prospects are spending much more time researching, scrutinizing and justifying each purchase, and in turn, significantly longer to move from prospect to customer.

Trends 74

Trends Marketing Campaigns Lead Rank 74