By Chris Brunau, Content Specialist Marketing teams who don’t adopt an agile marketing approach may find themselves falling into a production trap. Traditional marketing practices require a considerable amount of planning and production work up-front, and too often they are based on guesswork and...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer While marketing is the most powerful tool businesses have to attract qualified leads, smart marketers can also use it to keep leads that are a bad fit out of the sales funnel. Last week, we showed...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer Before you can begin attracting better leads, you need to have a solid definition of what makes a lead “good.” Relying on salespeople to review and analyze every lead to determine if it’s worth...
By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist Think back to where you were two years ago at your B2B company. Chances are you were working at least some of the time in a “traditional” office space or building. Zoom or Teams calls probably weren’t the default mode of internal team communication, and you...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer There are many reasons that bad leads find their way into your sales funnel, but a fundamental problem for many teams is that marketing and sales do not have a shared buyer definition. Without working...
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...
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist Sales and marketing software has become table stakes for B2B companies, big and small, over the past two decades. Today, 85% of B2B marketers use a customer relationship management system (CRM), such as Salesforce, and 57% use a marketing automation platform, like...
By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist In B2B sales and marketing, trade shows have long been considered an ideal way to generate new leads and gain new business. Trade shows, regardless of industry or sales cycle length, allow companies to speak about and demonstrate their products and services,...
B2B companies use terms such as "sales funnel," "buyer's journey," or "buyer's lifecycle" to discuss how a potential client goes from a prospect (or someone who knows nothing about the B2B company) to someone who purchases the product or service. No matter which term you use, content plays a...
Content marketing is an efficient method for businesses to engage new prospects, nurture leads, and upsell clients. To create effective content, your business must speak directly to a buyer's needs and pain points and include SEO best practices to increase the likelihood the content will rank well...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag...
The field of digital marketing is evolving rapidly in response to new technology and changing buyer expectations. To help career-minded marketers, we’ve rounded up the top 10 skills needed to succeed in the field. These are skills marketers should...
Searching for a job in the marketing industry when you don’t have a degree in marketing can be discouraging, but getting a job without a degree is entirely possible. The industry is changing, and a traditional degree may not be necessary for all...
The software development market is competitive. Many organizations use sales development teams to attempt to hit their numbers. For most organizations, outbound lead generation isn't sustainable, and it often has diminishing returns if organizations...
By Nicky Capella, Content Strategist The role of marketing within an organization has undergone a significant transformation over the past several years. As businesses increasingly focus on customer experience as a competitive differentiator,...
2022 was a wild year for the job market. From on-the-spot offers to mass resignations, we saw a seismic shift in how employees articulated what matters to them in the workplace. Companies that offered limited flexibility lost out on talent, while...
The digital privacy landscape has been shifting more towards the individual's right to privacy for years, and digital marketers need to ensure they can work effectively without access to third-party data. Sam Ward, Associate Director; Tim Maurizio,...
Content marketers in 2023 will consider changing buyer behaviors, privacy concerns, and the need to measure content’s impact. We know that content marketing is no longer optional, but this method of reaching buyers will become increasingly important...
Consultants are in high demand as businesses adapt to a landscape reconfigured by digital transformation. Still, winning business in this environment requires effective marketing strategies that convey your value proposition. New business starts...
Just as technology continuously evolves, so does digital marketing for B2B technology companies. That's why SaaS, IT, and tech marketers must stay informed about demand and lead generation trends and how to convert prospects into sales...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist With the digital marketing revolution in full swing, there are more tools available to marketers than any team could need. When there’s seemingly a tool for every little task and activity, it’s hard to...
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