By Scott Dame, Content Specialist Although their methodologies differ, marketing and sales teams share a fundamental objective: to increase revenue. It’s logical, then, that those teams would share information and align themselves strategically toward their common goals. Unfortunately, this isn’t...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer Most salespeople are all too familiar with the experience of spending time working a lead only to realize they’re not a good fit. Their budget might be too small, their business might be the wrong...
Account-based marketing covers a set of strategic tactics to bring in precise leads and accounts into your sales funnel. ABM has become increasingly popular; it enables you to optimize your marketing spend and resources towards fewer leads, increasing the chance of closing qualified sales and...
While B2B companies typically have a good sense of their target market, they often struggle to get in front of the right prospects via marketing channels. A common mistake is pushing out a company-centric message to a generalized audience with the hope that a qualified lead pool finds its way to...
By its nature, IoT is a decentralized investment. It crosses traditional organizational barriers and breaks down silos. As a result, IoT often impacts several different departments, ranging from executives to IT and operations. Each stakeholder needs to understand their individual role in an IoT...
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B2B growth often breaks down between marketing and sales. Marketing may be generating leads and engagement. Sales may be working opportunities and pursuing revenue. But when the two functions operate with different definitions, data, messaging, and...
High-performing teams do not treat demand generation as just another campaign function. They treat it as a system that supports how complex buying groups evaluate change. Organizations that consistently generate pipeline design their systems around...
B2B buyers are exhausted. Their inboxes are full. Their feeds are flooded with ads. Worst of all, everything sounds the same. Generic messaging makes it difficult for buyers to understand what makes brands different from each other, creating...
Customer-centric messaging — where narratives center buyer needs and concerns over descriptions of the product or the brand — is an effective way to engage buyers navigating complex market forces.
AI has made it easier for B2B marketing teams to produce content, launch campaigns, and scale outreach. But producing more stuff doesn't necessarily generate more good stuff (qualified leads).
Buyer expectations have shifted. Traditional tactics may still capture attention, but they fail to create the clarity buyers need to move forward. Lead generation isn’t underperforming because of a lack of effort or tools. It’s struggling because...
Lead generation used to be a numbers game. Push traffic, capture form fills, and hand everything to sales. But the modern B2B landscape is more complex than ever. Marketing and sales teams are battling longer sales cycles, intensified risk-aversion,...
The Internet of Things is reshaping and defining markets, so much so that it has been dubbed “the next Industrial Revolution.”
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