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...
Updated March 2021. Inbound marketing best practices seem to change constantly. It's essential to follow the data and see where customers and competitors are heading to keep up with trends. Here are thirteen current inbound marketing statistics that highlight this ever-evolving landscape. Video,...
B2B lead generation involves fostering interest in your company, brand, product, or service in order to generate a sales inquiry. The prospect submits their contact information via call, email, chat, or form submission, becoming a lead, one that can be nurtured with content and communications until...
A successful content marketing campaign requires an investment in copywriting, research, editing, and often design and marketing distribution. However, this investment is well worth it. DemandMetric found that content marketing produces more than three times the amount of leads as outbound...
Updated February 2021. B2B sales is changing rapidly. Now with the pandemic pushing relationships online, companies are struggling to stand out in a crowded space. 40% of salespeople say earning a response from prospects is getting harder, according to HubSpot. In part, the reason for this...
To build a sales funnel that really works, sales and marketing teams need to set objective goals and agree on consistent lead qualification criteria that will define each phase of the buyer's journey. Organizations that don't get departments on the same page run the risk of losing highly-qualified...
Article by the Ironpaper team. Content marketers, beware: The people who buy technology products and services don’t care how many awards your company has won or how long you’ve been in business. Buyers crave valuable, educational content that helps them overcome challenges and make difficult...
While there are many types of content marketing imaginable and you are only limited by your creativity, sometimes it can help to start with ideas for inspiration. Content marketing doesn’t need to refer to just the written word (although “crawlable” text content is great for SEO.) Content can be...
Marketing and sales teams are understanding that they need to align their KPIs and goals to be successful. In fact, when sales and marketing teams work together, companies see 36% higher customer retention and 38% higher sales win rates, according to HubSpot. But planning and mutual agreements can...
SaaS marketing should be used to generate leads and new users who are a qualified fit for your business. Unlike shorter term sales, SaaS companies need to generate a large pool of leads who have a clear problem that can be solved by an ongoing investment. Because of this, SaaS companies should take...
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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.
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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