By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist In digital marketing assets, design is as essential as the message it conveys. The two must be paired to be effective. “When design and content work well together, they guide the journey you’re sending your reader on,” said Sara Backus, Ironpaper’s Design Director....
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist From a small bootstrapped startup to a large B2B organization, marketing and selling products and services to business buyers can bring many challenges. B2B lead generation is a strategy that drives ideal customers to a company's products and services using paid...
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist Your B2B marketing team just launched a gated e-book through paid Google and LinkedIn campaigns, and leads are starting to roll in. Now what? First things first: Don’t just forward all those contacts to the sales team. More work is needed to whittle down the list...
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist B2B marketing directors face unique challenges in their leadership roles at marketing and advertising agencies. They’re on the hook for managing strategy, relations and workflow for multiple clients, often in vastly different industries. They also manage – often...
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist Successful marketing teams today are more nimble and data-driven than ever before, launching minimum viable products and then utilizing performance data to tweak and optimize their strategies. This strategy is part of an agile marketing methodology, which can boost...
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 Matt Pilon, Content Strategist and Lauren Lyons, Market Analyst and Research Writer For companies marketing B2B products and services, accurately defining likely or ideal buyers is an early but crucial step on the path to sales. A strong understanding of what makes a target buyer tick will help...
By Matt Pilon, Content Strategist Selling B2B products has become an even longer and more involved process, thanks in part to more deliberative buyers and market forces accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research from Demand Gen Report, Forrester, and TrustRadius reveals the trends, which...