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The Dangerous Allure of World-Class Marketing

The Point

Just as too much time on Instagram fawning after the photoshopped lives of internet influencers can create an unhealthy self-image, marketers too can fall victim to unrealistic standards and FOMO created by the marketing blogosphere and the breathy propaganda of martech vendors. Marketing attribution is a good example.

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The Beautiful Game: A Guide to Attribution Reports with Salesforce

SmartBug Media

Knowing which campaign touches influenced the buying process on an account basis can be tricky because there are usually multiple contacts under the account and opportunity, and they are all being marketed to. And the key to getting the best view of this is through multi-touch attribution models. The answer is: not easily.

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How B2B Marketers Can Solve the Intent Data ROI Conundrum

PureB2B

Pick a past campaign or initiative you’d like to enhance using intent data and review its existing performance analytics. This data will act as your “control” subject, so you can measure any future performance metrics against it to get an acute understanding of intent data impact. Set Your Intent Data KPIs.

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Why a Single Source of Truth Is a Huge Deal

Full Circle Insights

When marketing teams create leads and monitor their progress through the funnel inside the platform the sales team also uses, marketing can identify issues at critical points, such as MQL-to-SAL conversions, and address any problems to expedite lead progress through the funnel. Building a Solid Case for Attribution to the CMO.

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Interested in Leveraging Predictive Analytics? You’ll Need to Get Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Right First.

Full Circle Insights

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). In marketing, predictive analytics is about understanding the customer journey. Can predictive analytics help you accelerate the buying cycle?

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The Five Keys to Successful B2B Marketing

Engagio

Traditionally the primary metric by which B2B marketers have been measured is lead generation. The value of B2B marketing has often been connected solely to the quantity of qualified leads delivered per week, month, quarter. The proverbial MQL to SQL conversion has been the bane of many B2B marketers’ existence.

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What are the Most Useful Metrics for Planning Season?

Allocadia

It’s just a fact of life in marketing — some very worthy marketing efforts are not very quantifiable, yet they’re critical to our marketing plans. Truth 2 : Despite the above, a data-driven approach to marketing planning is truly the only viable, defensible one. Field marketers. Marketing attribution tools.