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Respect the Funnel: Why B2B Marketers Can’t Shortcut the Buyer Journey

The Point

Why B2B campaigns that attempt to short cut the buyer journey are destined to disappoint

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How to Create and Align Your Content with the Buyer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Act-On

With higher traffic and more page views, it’s only reasonable to expect a bump in conversions and sales. Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. One thing is for sure, though: search intent isn’t aligned with marketing automation, which is what we do here at Act-On.

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What is Mid-Funnel Content Marketing & Mapping it in the Buyers Journey

NuSpark Consulting

From the time they first hear about your offering or realize they need a solution, to the purchase and after-sales relationship, they are moving through your sales funnel. At every stage of the buyer’s journey, it’s important to understand what information they need when and to find ways to provide it.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. Apply tested plays to your funnel - Use real-world scenarios, triggers, actions and expected results to improve your entire funnel. Close more deals with these winning plays!

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How to use conversion data to enhance top-of-funnel marketing

Martech

Leveraging marketing data is key to continual optimization and driving growth. This article explains how feeding bottom-of-funnel analytics back into top-of-funnel activities boosts acquisition and reduces costs over time. Data flows throughout the growth loop so the bottom-of-funnel data (i.e.,

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What Is Bottom-of-Funnel Marketing? Validating the Purchase

ClearVoice

What is bottom-of-funnel (BoFu) marketing? Bottom-of-funnel marketing is a strategy that aligns with the latest “decision” stage of the buyer’s journey. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life.

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Maximize Your ABM

Speaker: Jeff Marcoux, VP Product Strategy & Marketing at TTEC

If you are considering implementing account-based marketing, chances are you have also explored technology options. The process of buying new tools along with the massive organizational shift required for ABM can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned marketers. Achieve full cycle ABM: Moving beyond the top of the funnel.

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Why Marketers Must Shift Conversations from Replacing Customers to Retaining Customers

Speaker: Ardath Albee, B2B Marketing Strategist and CEO, Marketing Interactions

More and more companies are offering a subscription-based model or shortened contracts, which means marketers and product managers need to change how we think about our relationship to the customer. Join Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, as she takes you through lessons learned going through this change at many different companies.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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How to Use Video Throughout the Buyer's Journey

Speaker: Zach Basner, Director of Video Training and Strategy, IMPACT

Forrester Research Group reports that on average 70% of a buyer’s purchasing decision is made before engaging with a sales team. For many of us, that means we must become great educators and provide the best answers for our prospects at every stage of their journey. Why top-of-funnel "explainer-style" videos aren't enough.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Recent studies have shown what a lot of B2B marketers already know - it’s hard to build a successful inbound marketing program. And the best part is, it can apply to content for all stages of your funnel! In this webinar, we’ll cover: How to establish an inbound program that will attract leads.

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Flip My Funnel - Guide To B2B Account Based Marketing

As modern B2B marketers, we have been lucky enough to witness some of the most dramatic shifts in marketing strategies and technologies.

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Creating B2B Engagement, Not Just B2B Content

Speaker: Kate Jacobsen, Marketing Programs Manager, BrightTALK

Marketers are generating more and more content to educate and nurture prospects through the sales pipeline. But for many, it’s becoming harder than ever to identify and implement effective methods to connect with the ideal buyer. The solution isn't creating more content—it’s getting the most out of what you have on hand.