Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? We’ll Answer that question in today’s blog post. Obstacles to Marketing Productivity. Either way, there are a host of obstacles to marketing time management that can impede productivity. So, You Want to Improve Marketing Productivity?

Marketing 221

Marketing Campaigns ROI Scale 221

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. It’s imperative for marketers to understand their customers’ journey and the role that each touchpoint plays in an eventual purchase — and marketing attribution is the one tactic that helps them do so.

Trends 160

Trends B2B Marketing Channels 160

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. “It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

SBI Growth

MAY 14, 2020

You Chose to Work With Channel Partners for a Reason. At some point in your company’s evolution, you made the strategic decision to work with channel partners. Maybe these partners had better brand recognition. Perhaps you needed to scale without the.

Scale 344

Scale Channels Marketing Company 344

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2014

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. Some of it is direct marketing, such as email, display, and PPC search.

Paid Content 252

Paid Content Social Media Survey ROI 252

BuzzBoard

MARCH 6, 2024

Exploring the Cost of Customized Digital Marketing for Small Businesses Small businesses must determine the right investment for their marketing strategies. Customized digital marketing provides affordable and effective avenues to amplify their online presence. ROI optimization is a crucial factor when setting a budget.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business ROI Marketing 52

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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Email Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 231

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. You’ll get high ROI According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI.

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Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2018

Welcome to our eighth installment in our series of B2B Blog Post Round-Ups. Today’s edition features content about lead generation, data-driven recruitment, marketing influencer selection and more. In the world of B2B marketing, lead generation matters a lot—yet, it’s also one of our biggest challenges.

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Influencer B2B Hiring Lead Generation 157

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. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

Paid Content 130

Paid Content B2B Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Appbuddy

JUNE 14, 2021

Ray Tomlinson is widely acknowledged as the godfather of email, sending the first message way back in 1971, followed seven years later by Gary Thuerk who “hijacked” this largely government/military tool to send the first email marketing campaign. Benchmarks: ROI, budgets, and key challenges. The rest, as they say, is history!

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ROI Everest Channels Webinar Metrics 52

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. How to Grow Your Small Business with Marketing.

Small Business 145

Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 145

Appbuddy

JULY 14, 2021

Did you know the email channel is consistently top ranked for its return on marketing investment? The average email ROI is 38:1. So, how can marketers match and exceed these benchmarks while also overcoming the complexities surrounding email ROI measurement? The post Why Does Email Generate Strong ROI?

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ROI Webinar Metrics Campaigns Channels 52

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Welcome to our October B2B Blog Post Round-Up. If you’re new to the ZoomInfo blog, we use our monthly round-ups to highlight the work our writers have done for outside publications. This month’s round-up covers a variety of topics including email marketing, sales reporting, storytelling and so much more. Let’s get into it!

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B2B Buyer Persona Email Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 140

Allbound

JULY 25, 2018

I was speaking with a Chief Revenue Officer of a mid-market, mar-tech, SaaS company who was earning about $15 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and surprisingly enough, despite having the word “Revenue” in his title, he was shockingly disinterested in measuring the ROI from his channel team. What’s worse? ARR to $85.5k

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Channels ROI Marketo InsideSales 48

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 15, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Having a powerful marketing strategy is vital to the growth and success of your business. However, most industries are highly competitive, and if you fail to launch effective marketing campaigns, you may find yourself in hot water real quick. A strong content marketing strategy should be priority number one.

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Maximizer Top of Funnel Strategy Social Media 192

Nimble - Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

Email marketing is one of the highest ROI digital marketing channels out there with 2019 sales totaling $7.5 Email marketing software has evolved […]. Email marketing software has evolved […]. Moreover, even though it may seem like the inbox has lost its past vigor, the experts disagree.

Email Marketing 101

Email Marketing Campaigns CRM Marketing 101

Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? We’ll answer that question in today’s blog post. Obstacles to Marketing Productivity Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. So, You Want to Improve Marketing Productivity? You fall to the level of your systems.”

Marketing 130

Marketing Campaigns ROI Scale 130

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. My colleague John Staples wrote a great blog on hiring the best talent. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like?

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

BuzzBoard

JANUARY 24, 2024

As media consultants and marketing agencies, you are catering to the unique needs of small and local businesses night and day. Therefore, it’s imperative to craft personalized digital marketing strategies that seamlessly mesh with the needs and desires of your small business clients.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business Strategy Social Media 52

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. Not measuring ROI. Leaving your social media on autopilot.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media B2B Marketing 147

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes. Twitter followers.

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Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

One of the main responsibilities of your marketing team is determining which campaigns are the best campaigns. Even with the seemingly infinite amount of data spilling from your Salesforce instance, even with the growing number of available marketing enablement technologies, marketers are struggling to prove out their revenue impact. .

Marketing 94

Marketing Campaigns SalesForce ROI 94

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. Third-party reports show that companies advertising on TikTok are getting significantly higher ROI than legacy social media advertising. Good Content Gets Rewarded.

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B2B Top of Funnel Social Media Advertising 285

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing.

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Referrals Marketing Incentives Incentive 130

Pointclear

JULY 25, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Running A Successful Business Blog: Why It Pays to Post. The Five Cs of a Successful Blog.

Trends 200

Trends B2B PointClear Marketing 200

Apptivo

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Best Marketing Automation Examples. How does Marketing automation help the business? Creating efficient sales and marketing workflows eliminates the need for repetitive tasks. For this reason, businesses require sales and marketing automation, which will enable them to create reports, send messages, gain insights, and more.

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Benefit Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Marketing attribution is no buzzword. It’s a fundamental building block of achieving ROI. When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. That difficulty can have marketers sticking with tried and true, even as marketing channels saturate and returns shrink while dollars expand.

Marketing 91

Marketing Top of Funnel ROI Advertising 91

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? What is a Lead?

Lead Generation 240

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

SBI Growth

JUNE 15, 2021

Your CEO and board are asking you to quantify the impact of your marketing budget. As a CMO, your time, attention, and budget have competing priorities. You and your team are focused on building a strong and credible brand.

Marketing 250

Marketing Strategy Distribution Top of Funnel 250

Smooth Sale

MARCH 7, 2024

Our collaborative blog offers Four Ways to Build Your Local Audience for Growth. Specialists such as Armory Digital Marketing can provide you with the key benefits necessary to ensure that you see the right results from this type of campaign in the future. Create A Blog Next, think about creating a blog.

Hiring 101

Hiring Licensing Margin Influencer 101

BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Positioning my Digital Marketing Agency for Small Businesses Digital marketing agencies are uniquely positioned to fuel the growth of small and local businesses. The success of any digital marketing campaign hinges on a meticulously devised plan.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. As a marketing technique, sentiment analysis can be as complex or as simple as you make it. If you have a large following across multiple channels, this may seem like a daunting task. Why is sentiment analysis important?

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Marketers have a lingo all their own. While we marketing pros tend to keep things clear and simple with our clients, we’ll often use marketing slang terms as shorthand when trading tips with each other online or at networking events. Content Marketing. Hyperlocal Marketing. Demand Gen. Influencers.

Paid Content 98

Paid Content Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 30, 2020

In business, companies usually try to attribute the percentage of revenue that came in from marketing and sales. While marketing attribution might not be top of mind for a sales rep, it's important that marketing and sales work together for attribution. First, they might read a blog the marketing team wrote up.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Cost per Acquisition 92