Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. While these leaders come from different industries, company sizes, and backgrounds, a few common themes emerged. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the hub and spoke content model is alive and well. It’s only one of the most effective ways to keep your content organized and ensure a positive content experience. In this blog post, we’re exploring the hub and spoke content model, its benefits, and how you can start using it today to enhance your content strategy.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 30, 2024

At the heart of business value lies customer acquisition and retention. Dive into the essential metrics of brand equity and customer value to uncover the keys to long-term growth and lasting business value. It is the intangible value that a brand holds in the minds of your customers. It goes beyond mere monetary value.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Yet, one of the most interesting features that I have been playing around with is lead scoring and grading. Essentially, this automation assigns values to your prospects to further segment and understand their intent. What is Lead Scoring and Grading?

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Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Content marketing ain’t easy… but isn’t that why it’s so valuable? Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Does your content alleviate a pain point?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 11, 2023

Before you succumb to the hype and hire a social media intern or go all out with paid search ads, you need to consider digital marketing services. Hiring in-house help is an expensive way to boost your social media presence, and paid search ads only generate about 5% of traffic.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 25, 2021

Many businesses turn to an SEO agency for support since this is a complex and ever-changing area of content marketing. However, as we’ve learned during the pandemic, well-skilled marketers can work from anywhere. Choosing an SEO agency based on their skills and achievements is more important than where they are.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2020

One way to ensure that marketing delivers quality leads to sales is to implement a lead scoring methodology. This is a process used by marketing and sales teams that determine how likely prospects are to buy your product or service. Why is it important to have a lead scoring model?

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Marketing leaders across industries are wondering: How much of my marketing budget should be allocated to SEO, and what can we expect to get out of it? Taking steps to track and grow the value of your SEO efforts is not easy, but it is very much worthwhile. Search engines are evolving around search intent.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Generating and acquiring leads can be really simple for most businesses. However, getting MQL marketing leads, the ones that are most likely to convert, are far more difficult since it requires you to put in a lot of research and develop a complex funnel. What is MQL Marketing? Plausible Content.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are two competing questions in search marketing that may not have obvious answers: Why spend money on a Google Ads campaign if I can just rank organically? Why try to rank organically if I can just run a Google Ads campaign? What is the difference between Google Ads and SEO?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. If your company isn’t harnessing the potential of content marketing , then you could be losing valuable opportunities to attract, interest, and convert buyers. Quick Takeaways. B2B Buying Isn’t Linear.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the world of marketing and sales, it’s really important to find potential customers in a smart way. This means sifting through lots of leads and focusing on the ones that are most likely to become valuable customers. A super important tool for doing this is called Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) criteria.

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Matchcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Providing Resellers and Agencies with Campaign Management and In-Depth Reports for Their Video Ads Los Angeles, CA, February 7, 2023 – MatchCraft, a leading provider of digital advertising solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its newest feature, YouTube Video Ads.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Revenue is the lifeblood of every company…without it, there are no resources to do the jobs we love, including creating content, collecting data, and everything else we need to do to keep the kingdom running.” So, what’s the opposite of tracking MQLs and holding on to demand gen tactics of the past? What’s revenue marketing?

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Making sense of marketing and engagement data is not easy. Especially when there are no tools available to store and organize this data. Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance.

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Act-On

MAY 1, 2018

What is a Marketing Qualified Lead really depends on each organization. Basically, it is when a prospect is ready to be handed to sales from marketing based on their level of engagement with your company. Engagement could be content downloads, webinars, or a badge scan at an trade show or event.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By Lisa Heay, Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. Lead scoring is defined as a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales-readiness. Organizations who implement lead scoring often experience lower marketing costs and higher conversion rates.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

These tasks take time away from the value we could potentially be adding in our business. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. Ideally, marketers focus their time on performing high-impact tasks that need our knowledge, expertise, and experience.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising. Here are 25 key findings, facts, and stats from these insight-packed content and social media marketing reports.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The measure of any marketing strategy is in its effectiveness. In content marketing, we measure effectiveness by the amount of organic search traffic and rankings we deliver for our clients. And that is derived from the value our content brings to a brand’s prospects and current customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

Over the years, we’ve read (and written) some of the best marketing articles, making our judgment pretty great when it comes to determining value. The best marketing articles are not only chock-full of valuable insight, but they also stand the test of time. 25 Best Marketing Articles No time to sift through Google SERPs?

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. Table of Contents Unlocking AI’s Potential: Top 5 Questions Answered for Improving B2B Marketing for Industrial Companies How Can AI Improve Lead Generation and the Qualifying Processes?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 13, 2023

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. Check out what’s working currently.

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Zoominfo

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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The Point

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Budgeting season is here again, and demand marketers are not immune. How big does your demand gen budget need to be in order to support your organization’s revenue goals in the new year? Define the percentage of that revenue (or pipeline) for which marketing is responsible. What do these budget numbers not include?

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is one who has acquired a piece of content or connected with your marketing team but has not yet approached your sales funnel. A Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) is a lead that has been verified as a possible customer by your sales team. What Exactly Is A MQL?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sales and marketing professionals understand the continual pressure to reach and convert new customers to a product or service and how easier it is to keep a happy customer than win new ones. What is a customer lifetime value model and how is it calculated? The former might be in years and the latter in weeks.

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

There are some rivalries that are just legendary: The Hatfields and The McCoys, Biggie and Tupac, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates… and in the marketing world, the rivalry is between MQL deniers and apologists. Are leads alive, are they dead or do they just need some life support?

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Thinkers360

MAY 19, 2024

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 thought leading companies on artificial intelligence for 2024. Congratulations to all organizations, thought leaders and experts who participated! To find out more about how we calculate the rankings, please visit our article: Understanding the Thinkers360 Leaderboards.

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Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the year ahead, consumer and B2B marketers will be focusing on first-party data strategies to replace their dependence on third-party cookies. As the year goes on, more users and marketers will scramble to find alternatives. This means they’ll be shaking things up in how they market and handle consumer data privacy.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Which, as a marketer, I found disappointing—and yes, a bit maddening—until I stopped to think about it. Shouldn’t sending people who actively engage and show interest in solving the problem be the core qualification for a marketing qualified lead (MQL)? And arguably for a marketing qualified account (MQA).

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lead generation for B2B has undergone quite a transformation. Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. But have we deviated too far from sustainable lead generation practices and become too reliant on pay-to-play databases to fuel outbound initiatives? Contradiction? Let’s explore.

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Martech

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement.

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Contently

APRIL 20, 2023

Content value is a superpower — and it’s not just because superpowers are few and far between. When you find the right metrics to prove the value of your content, you can showcase how important your work is to the organization. The analytics are crucial for providing insight into the value of your production.

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B2B Digital Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The role of CPCL in marketing. Introduction Welcome to another episode where today we delve into the critical world of Cost Per Closed Lead (CPCL) and how you can drive your CPCL down while maximizing lead value. Streamline communication and processes between marketing and sales for better lead handling.

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