Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

Every B2B marketer knows we are in a period of rapid change. Marketing technology (martech) is advancing quickly. But how can B2B marketers most effectively achieve those results? And communicate the business benefits? How can marketers efficiently meet both buyer expectations and their own corporate objectives?

Marketing AI 248

Marketing AI Enterprise Management Stats Marketing Management 248

Albacross

MARCH 19, 2019

Without a powerful lead strategy, your networking marketing endeavors will be stifled. Although warm contacts are usually the best way to start, the number of leads generated through online marketing far surpasses personal contacts exponentially. Advantages of Marketing Your Product on the Internet. Social Networking.

Lead Generation 58

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 58

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Social media is an integral component of any successful digital marketing strategy. With 74 percent of adults using social networking sites , the opportunity to increase your site’s online exposure to new customers cannot be ignored. Identifying the appropriate corporate persona and tone via social media.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Media Business 100

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2012

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+, a company’s online presence and brand is often enhanced through engagement and interaction on such social media sites. New social networks are born every day. Trying to keep up with the latest social trends alone is overwhelming. Let's get to it.

Social Networks 28

Social Networks Paid Search Agency Word of Mouth Companies 28

Webbiquity

AUGUST 23, 2011

Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent. This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs. Six conclusions that can be drawn from this graph: It takes time to build a blog audience.

Traffic 100

Traffic RSS Social Media Social Networks 100

Webbiquity

JUNE 16, 2015

Content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing (it’s not clear what the other 7% are doing). Sales are a top goal of content marketing—but website traffic is the most common metric used to measure success. Only about half of marketers try to connect content to sales.

Stats 100

Stats Content Marketing Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency 100

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Nearly every industry has its own specific directories and syndication sites as well; for example, B2B Marketing Zone for B2B vendor and influencer blogs, and Social Media Informer for social media-related blogs. Social media.

Optimization 100

Optimization Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For the next post in our series of B2B marketing thought leader interviews , we interviewed Matthew Schwartz, an independent journalist with more than 20 years’ experience working in the media, who is currently a contributing a writer at Crain’s BtoB and BtoB’s Media Business magazines. What is the strategy behind this?

Business Blogging 48

Business Blogging Zoominfo B to B Enterprise Management 48

Hubspot

MAY 12, 2010

Great business blogs have to walk a fine line: they have to create value for current and prospective customers while at the same time supporting a strategy that provides business growth. Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Practices Best Practices Business 28

Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Stats Social Media Paid Search Agency 100

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2012

and 300 posts, here is a quick look back at the 10 most-read posts on the Webbiquity blog to date. Again, thank you for reading the MarketingSherpa Readers Choice top b2b marketing blog for 2012. Without further ado, below are the 10 most-viewed posts on this blog to date. So which is best?

PR 100

PR Stats Social Media Twitter 100

Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2012

Creating remarkable content is one of the core components of inbound marketing, and one of the best ways to generate a steady flow of fresh content is by publishing a business blog. Mistake (And Why It Hurts): Your blog is published on its own domain, separate from your company’s main website.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Business Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

Writing on the Web

AUGUST 29, 2012

alt=" Content Marketing: What Are Your Target Audience’s Interests, Needs, and Wants?" />. width="210" height="139" /> Content marketing is all about quality content that grabs the attention of your ideal prospects and clients. Content marketing requires that you publish frequently on your site, your blog, and in social media.

Ning 100

Ning Content Marketing Wikipedia Work Management 100

PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It’s crucial for marketers nowadays to adopt multichannel strategies and be where their customers are. However, not all lead generation channels are created equally, and businesses need to focus on what works specifically for them to increase efficiency and maximize returns. 3 Social Media. A year later, email is still king.

Lead Generation 85

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Advertising Channels Word of Mouth 85

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 28, 2010

But here are three areas where many companies aren’t realizing the synergistic benefits of coordination with their SEO efforts: Blogging: given that less than half of companies —both small businesses and the Fortune 500—actively maintain industry blogs, this is an underutilized area for SEO benefit.

SEO 100

SEO Enterprise Management Digg Press 100

PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It’s crucial for marketers nowadays to adopt multichannel strategies and be where their customers are. However, not all lead generation channels are created equally, and businesses need to focus on what works specifically for them to increase efficiency and maximize returns. 3 Social Media. A year later, email is still king.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Webinar Metrics Word of Mouth 62

Webbiquity

MARCH 20, 2018

The original term “weblog” was shortened to just “blog” a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. Business blogging is now commonplace. Three-quarters of B2B marketers and 61% of their B2C counterparts use blogs as part of their social media content.

Stats 0

Stats Paid Content Business Blogging Ad Frequency 0

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2020

For instance, when you write product roundups, are you including all of the necessary information? Understanding millennial behavior is the key to learning how to cater to millennials blog readers. I use blogs for research, so I'd gravitate towards a blog that provides ample information in their product reviews and posts.

eCommerce 89

eCommerce Peer-to-peer Statistics Thought Leadership 89

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

What's the missing, yet critical element for successful B2B marketers? It is a common fact that many B2B marketers stay the path of the traditional and in the box techniques. To create a competitive edge to your business marketing, add some creative thinking and opportunities to attract and engage prospects and customers.

Creativity 48

Creativity B2B Marketing B2B Marketo 48

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 25, 2010

social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Create a plain text file, using Notepad or a similar tool, with the following information compiled: Blog name/title (e.g., Webbiquity B2B Marketing Blog).

RSS 100

RSS Promotion PR PageRank 100

PureB2B

AUGUST 28, 2018

As marketers and sales professionals, we have to adjust to behavioral shifts caused by a multitude of technological advancements and lifestyle transformations. More importantly, the information you have about your lead will not remain the same for long. Contextual Information You Should Be Looking For. Company Information.

Research 94

Research Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Automation Services Work Management 94

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. The report’s authors begin by noting that: “An important transition in the use of social media for marketing purposes is taking place. In business and consumer services, the figures are 54% increase, 1% decrease.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Without passion and expertise, you will have a hard time sustaining your business blog over the long haul.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

PureB2B

AUGUST 28, 2018

As marketers and sales professionals, we have to adjust to behavioral shifts caused by a multitude of technological advancements and lifestyle transformations. More importantly, the information you have about your lead will not remain the same for long. Contextual Information You Should Be Looking For. Company Information.

Research 62

Research Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Automation Services Work Management 62

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” Don’t sell.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. And they use different sources to get their information. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Hubspot

APRIL 6, 2014

While we of course found little ways to enjoy the sunlight and the April Fools'' Day pranks, we also got down to business -- blogging business, at least. This blog post will arm you with the information, data, and examples you need to optimize your landing pages for lead generation. Inbound Marketing'

Cost 28

Cost Linkedin Hubspot Landing Pages 28

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2010

Link to the new blog from your website, Facebook page, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles, other social networking and social bookmarking profiles, comments you leave on other blogs—anywhere you can create a link. Publicize the blog through offline channels. Write guest posts for popular blogs. Tweet This!

RSS 100

RSS Digg Tagging Blogger 100

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60