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We’re making a (year-end content marketing) list and checking it twice
As 2018 draws to a close, clients often ask us for advice on spending year-end budgets in the most effective way. We all know that once January rolls around, work kicks into high gear. So, what can you do now to make 2019 a little easier? Our advice? Get your content marketing ducks in a row.
5 Considerations for Implementing a Marketing Automation System
B2B Marketing, Growth Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Automation, Sales & Marketing Relationship, Strategy & Planning
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Fact: 53% of B2B organizations are using marketing automation technology and another 37% plan to implement it in the near future. With 9 out of 10 marketers using or implementing a marketing automation system, it’s safe to say that nearly everybody’s doing it. But why? If you are wondering what marketing automation is, or why you should spend part of your budget on it, you are not alone.
Gearing up for 2019 Marketing Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
Few words can inspire as much trepidation as “it’s time for annual planning!” Visions of late nights trying to pull the previous year’s expense data, anticipating what marketing resources you’ll need to execute your strategies, and then putting it all together in a compelling package to sell to your leadership team – it’s enough to put even the most seasoned B2b marketing professional into a tailspin.
Oh, ABM, You Are The One
If you’ve been reading marketing blogs, listening to marketing podcasts or attending marketing conferences over the last few years, ABM, or account-based marketing, isn’t a new term to you. In fact, you may be employing this strategy in your organization right now, and for that we commend you. Read on for the definition of ABM and five tips for implementing this B2B marketing strategy.
3 Cool Summertime B2B Marketing Hacks
Summer: soaring temperatures, summer vacations, slower pace. Yes, there is much to love about this time of year. As a B2B marketing professional, you may be tempted to ease up on marketing activities – everyone is out of the office, right? While there is some data to support that online search traffic tends to decline in the summer months , experienced marketers know this is often the calm before the
Growth Marketing: Why it’s a Thing in B2B
Each year more than 30,000 new products are launched and 80% of them fail, according to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. It’s an understatement to say that competition – in nearly every market – is fierce. Whether you’re launching a new product, trying to capture market share or simply trying to maintain your market leading position, growth matters. Companies that don’t adapt their solutions and focus on growing don’t
5 Telltale Signs Your B2B Marketing is Missing its Mark
Marketing is sometimes explained as “part art, part science.” When you have the gut feeling that your marketing efforts aren’t working, is that the art part? Then the science part must come into play when the numbers aren’t stacking up, right? Human nature certainly comes into play when assessing the success of your B2B marketing program. If you are accountable for the marketing results in your organization, it’s natural to
6 Checkpoints for a Winning Product Launch Strategy
It’s been many intensive months since your great product concept first emerged. Hundreds, maybe thousands of hours have been invested in shepherding an innovative concept to a ready-for-market product or service. Scrambling to meet the launch date, teams from across your organization are doing whatever it takes and you have to admit you’re pretty proud. The big day comes – your product is live, the concept has become reality, and
Top 5 Reasons B2B Companies Invest in Marketing Outsourcing, Marketing Augmentation & Growth Marketing
If your company has aggressive growth goals, you may find yourself challenged with how to quickly and cost effectively ramp up marketing efforts to fuel your anticipated growth. It’s a common struggle for B2B companies, especially those who are in growth mode, or who are looking to incorporate growth marketing strategies into their current marketing mix.
The Anatomy of a Good Lead
Having spent many years collectively in marketing roles and working with Sales (our favorite department!), we have compiled a list of key considerations that will help drive a healthy lead funnel for your organization. Time for a gut check! Knowing who your ideal leads are is an important step to crafting your message and establishing key data points to collect and analyze against your marketing programs.
10 On-Page SEO Factors You Can’t Forget
Creating an entire SEO strategy takes many steps. With so many different parts of your optimization plan, it’s not uncommon to forget about one or two. But if you’re skipping over the most important parts of optimizing your website, you’re going to struggle to find your content on the top of a results page.
4 Key Components to Creating a Strong Brand Identity
There’s a major factor that can make or break your company, and that’s whether or not you have a strong brand identity. This doesn’t just mean having a professionally-crafted logo and a signature color palette, although these elements are important. The brand identity of a successful company relies on a singular vision for the future direction of the organization. It means having a clear, honest grasp on who the client is and what
Drive Greater Revenue With Effective Lead Scoring
In a previous blog post, we focused on the Anatomy of a Good Lead – the characteristics of a lead that make it valuable to sales and marketing for additional nurturing and sales follow up. But how do we determine the value of these characteristics? With marketing automation advancements, lead scoring has become an essential piece to grading the readiness of your leads, ensuring proper hand-off at the right time
The Marketing Budget Puzzle: Making All The Pieces Fit
It’s that time of year. The leaves are falling, football is in full swing, and… it’s budget planning season. Over the years, many clients have enlisted us to help them with the strategic planning and marketing budget process. We love this season! Strategic planning and budgeting is like a puzzle – one must collect all the pieces and put them together in a way that perfectly fits.
5 Steps to a Comprehensive Content Marketing Strategy
Remember the concept that it takes about 21 days to form a habit? While that number has proven to be a myth (and scientists are trying to determine a true number!), the point is that habits are formed from consistency. Forming good habits through consistency applies not only in your personal life, but in your professional life as well. In fact, according to McKinsey & Company, “the 3 Cs of
Aligning Sales & Marketing: It’s A Two-Way Relationship
Relationships are complicated. It requires hard work, support, dedication, an open mind and a commitment to make the partnership mutually beneficial. No, we’re not talking about the relationship with your spouse or significant other. We’re talking about Marketing’s relationship with Sales – which has become notorious for being difficult and contentious.
Buyer Personas: 6 Keys to Better Understand Your Prospects
Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals were 2.4X as likely to use buyer personas for demand generation than those who missed lead and revenue goals. How well do your sales and marketing teams understand buyer pains? We mean REALLY understand them? If getting prospects to move through your sales funnel is a struggle, chances are that somewhere along the line you may
4 Reasons Why It’s Time to Engage a B2B Marketing Agency
“There are too many leads in our sales pipeline,” said no one ever. When it comes to growing revenue, the job is never done. In addition to revenue growth, you are likely also managing sales support, events, social media, digital marketing, public relations, product launches and at least a couple other “top priority” initiatives. As B2B marketing professionals, we are a very busy bunch with a lot of stakeholders relying
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