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- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Mediafly Revenue360: The Evolution of Sales Enablement Technology
Before 2020, B2B buyer behaviors had already begun shifting to favor digital and self-service channels. With more buyers firmly cemented in the world of digital selling, there’s no going back. 71% of buyers willingly spend over $50,000 on a single transaction using a remote or self-service model, for example. McKinsey To remain competitive and relevant, revenue teams will need different…
- Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT: How To Utilize Generative AI To Develop Your Ideal Customer Profile
The Gartner Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) framework is a structured approach for defining a business’s most valuable customer segments. This methodology goes beyond basic demographics to paint a clear picture of the ideal customer based on their characteristics, needs, behaviors, and challenges. An ICP helps businesses tailor their marketing and sales efforts toward the highest-value prospects likely to convert, be…
- Content Marketing
Why Your B2B Marketing Needs an Early Warning System
The saying you snooze, you lose applies directly to marketing, but unfortunately not many marketers seem to realize this. Too often, they wait until the last minute to learn about valuable prospects or a customer that is on the cusp from leaving, and these delays can seriously impact an organization’s bottom line. Every B2B marketer needs an early warning system…
- Analytics & Testing
Infer Net New Leads: Identify and Send the Best Leads in Salesforce
Businesses are struggling to interpret mountains of data about their customers and what motivates them. It’s nearly impossible to see the forest from the trees when people are focused on their system of record vs. extracting useful insights from all the signals in disparate systems like Salesforce, Marketo and Google Analytics, as well as unstructured sources from the web. Few…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Three Reasons To Think About SEO In Terms of Topics, Not Keywords
In search engine optimization (SEO), it’s common knowledge that keywords are essential. However, topics can often be even more critical in driving traffic and achieving SEO goals. To understand this better, we must first define both keywords and topics. Keywords are the words that people use when searching for something online. They can be exact matches, broad matches, or phrases that match, and…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Three Sources for Finding New B2B Sales Leads in Social Media
At least three primary lead sources are available to you on which you can focus your B2B sales efforts to increase your revenues. They are … Your existing customers People that others know but who you do not Folks that you presently have absolutely no connection to Social media can and should play an integral part in your b2b sales efforts…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Integrating Email Marketing with CRM Systems: Best Practices and Tools
Integrating email marketing platforms with customer relationship management (CRM) systems is a game changer for businesses aiming to streamline customer communications and improve engagement. This powerful combination allows for a more strategic approach to customer management, where sales and marketing teams can collaborate effectively, share insights, and ultimately drive better customer experiences. Below, we explore the best practices, tools, and…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Video Marketing: Social Proof by the Numbers
Today I was meeting with a client and discussing the opportunity for them to overtake their competitors online utilizing video. The company has a strong brand that’s trusted online and there’s no doubt that video production will drive more direct traffic, more search traffic and – ultimately – help them better explain the value of subscribing to their service to…
- Content Marketing
Is Blogging Still Relevant? Or An Outdated Technology and Strategy?
I often review this site’s search performance and old articles that aren’t attracting traffic. One of my articles was about naming your blog. Let’s forget that I’ve been writing this publication that long… as I read the old post I wondered if the term blog even really mattered anymore. After all, it’d been 16 years since I’d written the post…
- Content Marketing
It’s the Most Wonderful Zeitgeist of the Year
It's with great anticipation that I await the yearly arrival of the Google Zeitgeist. Not just because I get to say it a lot, but also because it’s a fantastic yearly treat to look into the state of search from the past year.
