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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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What are the 5 stages of sales and marketing alignment?

Showpad

While many elements factor into the experiences a customer has with your company, experiences are primarily driven by your marketing and sales organizations. After all, these are the teams interacting with buyers on a daily basis and developing content and experiences to effectively reach them at all stages of the buying cycle.

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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

SBI Growth

Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. Marketing not only has to stimulate demand, it has to nurture buyers until they are ready to engage with a rep. How buying decisions are made.

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Cold Calling Never Went Out Of Style

Partners in Excellence

Yet, most data I’ve seen indicates these alternatives fail to consistently generate the volume of opportunities necessary to achieve our goals. I’m not suggesting we not expand our methods of generating new opportunities. Marketing must look for new ways of generating awareness and interest.

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

Pointclear

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?