B2b
Articles Tagged b2b:
- E-commerce and Retail
Prediction: Your Business Will Be an E-commerce Business
Have you seen our newly launched site? It’s quite incredible. We worked on the designs and development of our publication for over six months, and I can’t tell you how much time we spent. The issue was simply that we couldn’t develop fast enough or finish quickly enough. In my opinion, anyone building a theme from scratch today is doing…
- 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…
- Marketing Infographics
You Might Be Surprised Which B2B Referrals Are Closing
The sales machine at any B2B company has to be fine-tuned, well-oiled, and running full speed to truly make a difference to the bottom line. I believe that many companies suffer simply because they’re so dependent upon new business via cold calls, but their staff doesn’t have the right team in place to do the hard work to achieve success.…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The B2B Social Selling Journey: Building Trust and Closing Deals
Inbound versus outbound always seems to be a debate between sales and marketing. Sometimes, sales leaders think if they had more people and more phone numbers that, they could make more sales. Marketers often think that if they just had more content and a larger budget for promotion, they could drive more sales. Both may be true, but the culture…
- Email Marketing & Automation
What is B2B Account-Based Marketing (ABM)?
How does your sales team really feel about your marketing? Whenever B2B marketers are asked that question, the responses are universal. Marketers feel like they’re bending over backward to deliver a large volume of leads, and Sales just plain isn’t feeling the love. The exchange goes something like this. Marketing: We delivered 1,238 Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) this quarter, 27%…
- Content Marketing
And Now for the Dark Side of B2B Content Marketing
As a company applies the resources necessary for an effective content strategy, it’s sometimes a tough expense to swallow since it requires gaining momentum and authority in their industry. They truly don’t have any choice outside of purchasing expensive leads through advertising and paid search programs. And the wait isn’t the only challenge – this infographic from Scripted points out…
- Customer Data Platforms
Not Everyone Who Interacts With You Is a Customer
Online interactions and unique visits to your website aren’t necessarily customers for your business, or even prospective customers. Companies often make the mistake of assuming that every visit to a website is someone who’s interested in their products, or that everyone who downloads a single whitepaper is ready to buy. Not so. Not so at all. A web visitor can…
- Content Marketing
The 13 Most Popular B2B Content Marketing Tactics
This was an interesting infographic that I wanted to share from Wolfgang Jaegel. Not simply because it provides insight into what content marketing strategies are being deployed by B2B marketers, but because of the gap that I see in what content is being deployed versus what the impact of those strategies might be. In order of popularity, the list is…
- Marketing Infographics
Social Media for Unsexy B2B Industries
In all honesty, I’m not sure sexy really matters when we speak about social media. The ability to teach, observe, respond and promote in an unsexy business to business industry may not capture a ton of attention – but it can absolutely capture the right attention from the audience seeking your business, product, or service out. If you work for…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
B2B Marketing Guide to Drive Sales Results
This infographic from Introhive does a nice job in breaking down tactics to channels for business-to-business (B2B) marketing efforts that drive sales results. I’m not convinced that the advice here should be literally accepted by every B2B organization, but it does supply some great descriptions as to how the channels can benefit your sales efforts. This resource is meant to…
