Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

2023 looks like a tough year for marketing budgets. Overall, 58% of marketers project flat or reduced budgets for 2023, up from just 26% in 2022. But very small companies (11-50 workers) were actually most likely to increase marketing budgets this year. Here are seven findings from the report worth highlighting.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 6, 2021

As more B2B marketers experiment with account-based marketing (ABM), new research suggests that they are diverting more of their budget to this tactic. This was followed by content marketing (60%), sales enablement (48%) and personalization/customization (43%). COVID-19 and Changing Marketing Investments.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Report B2B Marketing B2B 243

Marketing Interactions

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Links to the next part of the story, process, or thinking about how to solve the problem or, in the case of customers, what to do now that they’ve solved the original problem. The Job of Sales Content. Sales content must focus on creating buying intent.

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Effectiveness Work Management Content Marketing Management 122

Sprout Social

MAY 5, 2021

As a marketer, you know getting customers’ attention can be tough, but actually closing those customers is just as much of a struggle for sales reps in your org. That’s because the average sales process is more complex than ever. And that’s where marketers can save the day. Landing pages.

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Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads 113

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A sales funnel, stretching from early-stage brand discovery to final purchase, represents the customer journey. Most companies use the funnel to track prospects as they move through sales stages, adjusting strategies and marketing methods in response to their behaviors. Why is the sales funnel important?

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Top of Funnel Marketing AI Digital Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking 98

Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 16, 2024

This powerful combination offers unprecedented opportunities for organizations to enhance their processes, innovate their products, create customer value, and quickly adapt to dynamic market conditions. Because these processes are key to scaling growth, we are often asked about the best ways to approach process optimization.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marketers who understand how these behaviors are evolving can set up their companies for success in the coming decade. Those who don’t risk misallocating marketing budgets by focusing on the wrong tactics. The 63-page study provides a wealth of insights for B2B marketers and product managers.

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InsightSquared

MAY 25, 2021

Industry-first Benchmark Study from InsightSquared and RevOps Squared Reveals Top Avenues for Boosting Forecast Accuracy include Improved Data Quality, Increased Sales Rep Accountability and Automation . Following are key takeaways from the research: Sales Rep involvement and data quality are key to improving accuracy.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Some of them are free while others are paid – but all bring in enormous value to the sales process. Investing in a random sales tool is a waste of time, money and effort. What are Sales Tools?

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Marketing Automation Services B2B Sales Enterprise Management Work Management 97

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. In this guide, we share practical content-related advice and examples that you can use to resolve specific ABM challenges, ultimately increasing the efficiency of your marketing campaigns. Sharing relevant data points and case studies.

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Lake One

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Introduction to Account-Based Marketing and its Benefits Account-based marketing has developed into an extensive strategy that every company wants to integrate, whether they are large giants in their space or simply hitting the ground running.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Understanding sales means comprehending the roots of the profession as well as looking ahead to the future of sales strategies. While basic philosophies still stand the test of time, social media tools and video-based platforms have turned sales into a totally new ballgame. Guest post by Sean Gordon. 1: Start At The Beginning.

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Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 314

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 18, 2020

The question of why Sales and Marketing need to be in sync is a no-brainer. Studies have shown that companies with “good” sales-marketing alignment achieve. 108% more acceptance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). But how exactly can sales-marketing alignment benefit YOUR organization?

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Sales Management Lead Ranking B2B Sales Top of Funnel 287

Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2018

Marketing automation has become an increasingly effective tool in today’s technology-driven business landscape. In fact, studies show that the use of a marketing automation platform produces, on average, 60% revenue growth for B2B businesses ( source ). Marketing automation improves sales and marketing alignment.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Case studies help you build a story around your customers, products, and services. Case studies are one of the most powerful forms of content to have in your marketing repertoire. Case studies can help your business generate leads, educate consumers, boost your credibility, and display your success. Source: BrightLocal.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention.

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Top of Funnel Deliverability Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 279

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2020

Lead generation and nurturing often take center stage for digital marketers. They are commonly the top goal for most businesses, with the majority of their budget being funneled in this direction. But when the numbers at the bottom of the funnel refuse to budge it can be incredibly frustrating.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Conversion Process 266

The Point

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The analysts at Demand Gen Report just published their “ 2018 Lead Nurturing & Acceleration Survey Report ” and one conclusion is no surprise: many B2B companies are still really bad at lead nurturing. Curiously, the survey also documented the percentage of leads that companies reported as being “returned for nurturing.”

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Lead Nurturing Marketing Report Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 178

Webbiquity

AUGUST 31, 2021

Millennials are changing the B2B tech market. Tech buyers really hate B2B marketing tactics. Those were a few of the findings from the 2021 B2B Buying Disconnect report, published by TrustRadius at the end of 2020. The B2B Marketer-Buyer Disconnect. Analyst reports don’t. Free trials/accounts.

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Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales. Benchmarking Your Success: Where Do You Stand?

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead 71

Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Industrial marketing for manufacturers offers solutions that allow us to maximize our resources.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 14, 2023

Today’s buyers come to the sales process more informed than ever, looking for in-depth information specific to their needs. In fact, 81% of sales reps say buyers increasingly conduct research before they reach out, according to the latest State of Sales Report. But not always. The next step?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

All these years later, a new report by 6sense, penned largely by a former Forrester analyst, has come to the same conclusion: when buyers first contact a seller, they are “69% of the way through a buying cycle.” The report did not state a margin of error that I observed but it did say the report had a confidence interval of 95%.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Have you ever lost a big sales opportunity without knowing why it slipped away? Those lost sales opportunities can actually be great learning experiences if you take the time to conduct a win/loss analysis. We’ll also share seven tips to prevent losing sales so that you can increase your overall win rate. Let’s get started.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Top of Funnel Intent Data Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Convince & Convert

MAY 16, 2024

In a world where confidence in marketing strategies is scarce and economic uncertainties loom large, small businesses are on a quest for resilience, seeking to fortify their marketing efforts amidst the relentless pressures of running a business. Finding #1: Marketing channels and tactics are also increasing.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I love working with them and they bring fresh perspective to (often) stale content marketing strategies—but they have two common areas of vulnerability: They can tend to approach content from an “inside-out” perspective, and they can be too quick on the content trigger. Content marketing is a conversation.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

I understand that generating high-quality SQLs is crucial to your job as a business owner or marketer. Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. These high-quality leads are known as sales-qualified leads (SQLs).

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. Low-quality leads make their way to sales, and some of the most qualified leads fall through the cracks.

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Hubspot

JULY 9, 2019

Specifically, the managers who lead your sales teams — they oversee the reps who communicate directly with your prospects and customers daily. Think about it this way: If you're a sales manager and you help each of your 10 reps sell 20% more, you've essentially just "created” two new salespeople.

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seo.co

MARCH 28, 2021

Typically, you have to let them gently slide down the funnel. And though a bottom-of-the-funnel (BOFL) lead is the most fun kind of lead, every BOFL starts as a TOFL, or top-of-the-funnel lead. By learning how to generate and manage these leads, you can accelerate your results. Quick Funnel Primer.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Sales Management Lead Nurturing Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 62

Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. But how does it work?

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Sales Qualified Leads Intent Data Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 71

Rev

AUGUST 30, 2023

A disorganized sales process. That’s why sales enablement can be an invaluable tool to help you navigate the choppy waters ahead and build a more efficient sales department. What is the goal of sales enablement? Are they investing in a new sales process or customer service platform?

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Practices Work Management Marketing Management Best Practices 78

Valasys

JULY 14, 2020

Sales funnel marketing is all about the orchestration of your branding and business development endeavors in a way that helps salespeople acquire new potential customers and ultimately prompt those leads to make a purchase decision. Read more on How Retention Marketing Paves the Way to Business Growth.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Enterprise Management Work Management 78

BenchmarkONE

JANUARY 12, 2022

Countless research studies have proven that businesses that connect with their customers on a more personal level are much more successful than competitors that don’t. The journey your customers take when interacting with your brand is synonymous with the sales funnel. What Is a Sales Funnel? Social media posts.

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Top of Funnel High Quality Lead Funnel Advertising Work Management 65

SalesIntel

MAY 13, 2024

This scenario is all too common in B2B sales, where complex solutions and lengthy buying cycles can lead to frustrating interactions. The truth is, B2B sales doesn’t have to be a slog. B2B selling experience encompasses how businesses market and sell their products or services to other businesses.

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