Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The past two decades have brought disruptive technological change and radically reshaped B2B marketing practices. Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. Cold calls, trade shows, direct mail, and print ads were the primary forms of marketing. Market size analysis.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. The Pillars of Content Marketing and How They Improve Sales. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The beginning of the final quarter of the year always signals a re-evaluation of old strategies and the hunt for newer ones to stay competitive in your industry. Understandably, B2B marketers are hard-pressed to recalibrate their lead generation strategies in this ever-shifting landscape. The Top B2B Lead Generation Strategies.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

As video marketing continues taking the world by storm, more businesses adopt it as a pivotal strategy to educate consumers, generate leads, and boost ROI. Video marketing can be a powerful way to reach new prospects and provide extra value to new and long-term customers alike. 93% say it’s an integral part of their strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. With a holistic perception of buyer intent in your business, your marketing and sales teams can improve the lead-qualification process and enhance sales conversions. The Shift to Customer-Centric Marketing. using the right channels.

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Buyer Intent Intent Work Management Marketing Management 363

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Content marketing is a journey, and it’s not easy. Too many of the marketing professionals we know are miserable. Marketing that works! So we asked our clients to tell us what are the biggest content marketing challenge s we help them overcome. In order to succeed, you need to support every pillar of content marketing.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2024

Understanding sales and marketing frameworks is crucial for success as you grow your company. One such model, the AIDA Model, or Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action, continues guiding marketers as it has for over a century. Quick Takeaways The AIDA Model is one of the oldest marketing frameworks on record.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Of the marketers who responded to Wyzowl’s State of Video Marketing 2023 report , 92% say video gives them a good return on their investment. In return, you’ll feature them on those channels.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Being at the forefront of marketing sometimes requires shifting resources away from old practices. That’s why 52% of outbound marketers say their marketing efforts are “ineffective”. In fact, inbound marketing is starting to be used more than outbound marketing. What is Inbound Marketing?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 19, 2024

What are the best tactics to use in your B2B marketing funnel to efficiently grow your sales? It starts with marketing plans that are specific to your business model and target audience’s requirements. What is a B2B Marketing Funnel? Guest post by Eduard Klein. What You Should Know.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 22, 2023

If we weren’t testing out the best ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing, could we really call ourselves digital marketing experts in 2023? More specifically, we understand the importance of crafting effective ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing to receive a well-rounded, quality response.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2020

The aim of marketing has always been to get and keep new customers to drive growth for our business. In the past, traditional product-led marketing techniques were used to great effect. Does that mean we need to abandon product marketing and fully embrace the idea of content marketing alone? Now let’s see why.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Content marketing has never been more effective, as 74% of organizations report that it plays a key role in increasing lead generation. Many times, this happens because of which channels are being utilized. Many times, this happens because of which channels are being utilized. Here is a quick snapshot of each category.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Today, video content dominates the marketing landscape. With online videos reaching 92% of audiences and 91% of businesses using video as a marketing tool in 2023, its impact is significant. However, while video leads the pack, other formats like blog posts, images, and audio still play a critical role in B2B marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Programmatic Native Advertising: Zemanta Image Source: Zemanta At Marketing Insider Group, we use Zemanta , an Outbrain company, for all our clients. Zemanta revolutionizes programmatic advertising with its comprehensive native advertising platform and Demand Side Platform (DSP). It is advertising for the modern internet.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. So how do you create a foolproof GTM strategy? What is a GTM Strategy? A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. Specifically, it’s a plan that maps out the way a company introduces a new product or service to the market.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It’s also what customers prefer – 70% of people would rather learn about a company through its articles rather than advertisements. B2B marketers who blog get 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. Key Takeaways: A company blog can play a key role in any business’s growth strategy. Configure Your Blog. Publish Frequently.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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DiscoverOrg

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 257

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

Sales Management 177

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

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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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There has been a major shift in the status quo in the past few years as companies try to hold marketing accountable to firm metrics. But while many have tried, Harvard Business Review estimates that only a quarter of marketing leaders are successfully showing impact. Instead, demand marketing KPIs should focus on outcomes.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2022

What’s the most important goal for any content marketer? Marketers have used the 6 principles of persuasion for decades to influence consumer behavior. Scarcity marketing influences consumer behavior by leveraging people’s natural aversion to loss. Marketers have been studying it for decades. But it’s also incorrect.

Top of Funnel 363

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

I’ve talked before about why I believe that marketing has a marketing problem. Most people think marketing is just ads. Marketing isn’t sales. Marketing is simply a way of helping these customers and businesses find each other and build a mutually beneficial relationship. People hate ads. Who wants to be sold to?

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Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Budget Programs 279

InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Marketing attribution is no buzzword. When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. The higher the value of the contract, the longer the sales cycle and the more complex the marketing machine, the harder it becomes to know where marketing spend is achieving ROI. ROI by Lead Source.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a lot of benefits to most B2B organizations. All of these things can clearly lead to a more profitable company and a better customer experience, which is why many companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budget towards this strategy. Why Sales Marketing Alignment Matters.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 19, 2021

But launching and marketing a new B2B product is difficult. Today’s market is highly competitive, so it’s essential to come out of the gates with something superior to and more enticing than the competition. Find comparable competitors who are already successful in the market, and dig into their launch journey.

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Product Paid Search Agency B2B Advertising Agencies 286

Webbiquity

AUGUST 30, 2023

This post outlines the stages of the customer lifecycle and the best strategies for how to manage each stage. Best strategies to manage the customer lifecycle In a highly competitive marketplace, standing out in each stage of the customer lifecycle is a significant challenge. What is the customer lifecycle? In the non-friction section.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. GTM strategies help specifically with expanding a brand’s new product or services. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers.

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Enterprise Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 147

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Customers do their research, ask questions, and even address customer service issues on social channels. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. Learn more about creating effective content – 10 Ways to Improve the Content Marketing You’re Creating.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2020

B2B advertising has a reputation for being dull, but it doesn’t have to be – especially when you’re advertising on social media. The more relaxed nature of social media platforms gives B2B marketers a valuable opportunity to be more approachable and relatable. So how many B2B marketers use LinkedIn ads?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing are two distinct types of marketing strategies with different focuses. For any marketing professionals to maximize the impact of their efforts, they must understand the differences between these two marketing strategies, and when to apply practices from each.

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