The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. In fact, it’s often quite complicated, with multiple touchpoints and interactions along the way.

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Choozle

JULY 26, 2023

Almost every sector is directly impacted by this, and digital advertising is no different, as brands and agencies may be considering reducing their ad spend or pausing it altogether. Many brands have been tightening their approaches to stay afloat – and in a time of unpredictability, it’s common to see marketing budgets trimmed.

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Contently

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to a special Fourth of July edition of Ask a Content Strategist, where I finally answer the question: What’s the ROI of wearing an American Flag romper all weekend in the Hamptons? So, how do you—or others—use article content to influence leads in the B2B process? I’ve lightly edited our exchange.

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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. In fact, studies show it takes an average of 6 to 8 touchpoints to simply generate a lead ( source ).

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Martech

DECEMBER 15, 2022

That’s why many teams implement an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. In doing so, marketers need to deliver the experiences and content that are appropriate depending on how advanced the prospect is in the buyer’s journey. Then, line these strategies up with actual companies in your target market or region.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in numerous digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. What is Marketing Attribution? Let’s get into it!

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Televerde

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You don’t have to convert a lead right away to have a successful sales strategy immediately. These brand interactions are called touchpoints. Every touchpoint a customer experiences increases the chances they will purchase from you. You won’t always be able to control touchpoints. So, what is a touchpoint?

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A common mantra at Content Marketing World, the aggressively orange extravaganza held in Cleveland every September, is that marketers need to think more like journalists. But for the past year, I’ve been a journalist trying to think more like a marketer. Content marketing remains obsessed with audience building.

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Optinmonster

JUNE 21, 2024

Did you know that 88% of people who search for a local business on their smartphones either call or visit the business within 24 hours? Or that 46% of the searches on Google have local buying intent? And if you are considering promoting your brand to local consumers, I have just the thing to suggest to you: Hyperlocal marketing.

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FunnelEnvy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

All SaaS and B2B marketers need tools that provide actionable insights into customer behaviors, marketing impact, and campaign performance. Since 2005, Google’s Universal Analytics (UA) has been a critical marketing data and analytics source.

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ClickZ

MARCH 2, 2020

Practical video marketing strategies that increase engagement on Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube. The new multi-channel, multi-device approach to attribution that accurately tracks consumer behavior through the entire buyer’s journey. Advances in machine learning (ML) have been equally important to marketers and advertisers alike.

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Digilant

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For the past few years, conversations regarding the increase in eCommerce sales have dominated industry news sites and headlines. With the steady incline of sales attributed to this online buying method, it should come as no surprise that there has been so much attention around the eCommerce boom. billion in the United States. .

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

Its potential for storytelling and marketing is undeniable, making AI in B2B marketing and sales a transformative force, reshaping interactions with brands, information, and services. The world of B2B marketing automation is on the brink of a full-fledged AI-driven revolution. That’s where strategy comes into play.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 8, 2019

In an industry where creating better brand-to-customer relationships is everything, demand generation is an umbrella term for a range of marketing activities that drive long-term engagement —including lead generation, demand capture, and pipeline acceleration. Field marketing events are also a very common tactic for pipeline acceleration.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2024

This phrase comes to mind when choosing between Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and Lead Generation. But in reality-your business likely has several marketing initiatives running in tandem- each with distinct goals and audiences. If you want to maximize your marketing impact, you should consider—combining ABM with lead generation.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Buyer-level intent data, specifically, is sourced from dozens of intent signals that are gathered from multiple touch points throughout the customer journey, from the content prospects consume to the conferences they attend. This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy.

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Brandpoint

JULY 14, 2023

Social media has transformed the way businesses engage with their target audience, and manufacturing companies are no exception. However, for manufacturing companies, quantifying the return on investment (ROI) of social media efforts can be complex. What is Social Media ROI? Focus on what you want to achieve.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 13, 2021

Maybe you have a general idea, like they saw an ad and clicked on it, or that someone told them about it. But what if they saw an ad multiple times across different platforms? Or it was a combination of newsletter information, social media posts, and word of mouth? Why marketing attribution models are important.

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Lake One

JULY 27, 2023

Most companies measure the success of their marketing efforts by how prospects move through the funnel. But between awareness and a signed deal, prospects take several more actions that move them from one stage in their journey to the next. But that changed when HubSpot introduced its new Customer Journey Analytics tool.

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New North

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Marketing operations is the foundation that supports every effective B2B marketing team. But most marketing teams, especially those without a full time marketing operations manager, don’t know how to get the right tools in place to do the job.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A marketer’s job isn’t done once a visitor converts on a landing page. As data-driven marketers, we’re keenly aware that most visitors won’t ever convert to a lead or sale. As data-driven marketers, we’re keenly aware that most visitors won’t ever convert to a lead or sale.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 8, 2021

Experienced B2B marketers understand that no two campaigns are identical; each one requires a customized approach in order to reach a target audience and achieve the desired results. Programmatic display advertising—also referred to as programmatic marketing—is one way to create an effective touchpoint with the customer.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To succeed with marketing campaigns in 2022, businesses will have to continue to adapt their strategies to suit buyer trends. Buyers have gotten used to remote interactions, and in many cases, have realised that this type of interaction makes it easier for them to get information, place orders, and arrange services.

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Outgrow

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

20 Effective Growth Hacking Strategies for the Growth Hacking Funnel. Or as he explained, “growth, not with traditional advertising but rather with programming smarts on a shoestring budget". Lo and behold, came growth hacking strategies that EVERY marketer started talking about. Growth Hacking Funnel.

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ConvertKit

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Email marketing is more than just writing the contents of each email. It’s about understanding your audience’s journey and curating the experience you want for them. You have to consider where this subscriber learned about you, what products they’re interested in, what content they’ve engaged with. Engage your audience.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 15, 2020

Is there a link between GDPR and social media? However, the impact of GDPR on digital marketing is ongoing and businesses in the EU aren’t the only ones affected. Marketers should take the time to understand the implications of GDPR, privacy laws and what it all means when it comes to social media. Good question!

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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2021

As a marketer, you know how many avenues there are for your prospects and customers to interact with you throughout the buyer’s journey. PPC, your website, email campaigns, social media) and touchpoints (e.g. specific ads, blog posts, social media posts, emails). These avenues refer to channels (e.g.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 12, 2021

For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. It also makes it necessary to employ traditionally B2C-oriented marketing techniques to attract new B2B leads and retain your current customers. What makes your CX stand out?

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ClearVoice

MARCH 7, 2020

In the industry of social media marketing, jargon is used loosely and things can change quickly. Social media is the thing that every brand acknowledges they need, yet many companies struggle to crack the code of success or lead conversions on the platforms. General social media marketing terms.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They see your ads, interact with you on social media and explore your website before they buy. All these interactions—from the first ad impression to every “Please help” DM customers send—define your customer journey. Along the way, you might find pain points or touchpoints you didn’t know existed.

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Digilant

JUNE 28, 2022

Consumer privacy became top of mind with the introduction of the Global Data Protection Regulation in 2018 and the California Consumer Privacy Act in 2020. Many are finding real promise in cookie-free solutions like connected TV (CTV) and over-the-top (OTT) advertising, as well as digital audio and podcast ads.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

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ClearVoice

MAY 21, 2021

Once you complete this calculation and determine the most profitable marketing channel, you can precisely allocate marketing funds to surge ahead of the competition. Linear: Focuses on each touchpoint in the overall customer journey. W-shape: Focuses on all touchpoints from beginning to end.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Intent data can be used to drive B2B marketing efforts through a multi- or omni-channel strategy, giving you invaluable insight into what prospects are about to do next. It’s all about being in the right place, at the right time, offering the exact solutions that buyers are looking for; and intent signals help you do just that.

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Choozle

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But what does this mean for your digital advertising strategies? To find out more, we sat down with Madden Media to better understand how they adjusted their digital advertising strategies for their clients in the travel and tourism industry. Q: Let’s start with an explanation of your role at Madden Media.

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