By Colby Cavanaugh Over the past few years, account-based marketing (ABM) has been a pivotal strategy for B2B marketers, and for good reason. ABM flipped the funnel upside down and forever changed B2B marketing by focusing B2B marketers on the accounts that are mostly likely to buy. Consider that B2B marketers primarily used to just take a volume-based, spray-and-pray approach where it was […]
In recent years, there’s been a significant resurgence in account-based marketing, and for good reason. ABM has historically shown a higher ROI, better success measurement capabilities, and improved customer retention. Companies that aren’t already using an ABM model are becoming more compelled to as their competition adopts this successful practice. Shifting to an ABM strategy […]
Every successful business owner knows how important it is to keep up with trends. If you want your B2B business to stay competitive, you need to keep an eye on new trends constantly. With new technologies coming out every year and all the challenges the B2B sector is facing, it takes a lot of […]
There are so many external factors that can influence sales success – the vast number of which an individual rep may not be aware of. Software changes within an organization. Patent awards. New leases. All publicly available information. But how do you find this information? Currently it’s a manual process of extracting data from a […]
Account-based marketing (ABM) pioneer Terminus announced Tim Kopp as its new CEO today. We exchanged emails with Tim about what this means for the company, how he sees the state of ABM and its next evolution. B2BNN: First of all Tim, congratulations! Is this a move focused on expansion or evolution? TK: The short answer […]
ABM has maintained its position as the biggest buzz phrase in B2B for years now with good reason. The term, coined by ITSMA back in 2004, realigns marketing’s core principles of segmentation, targeting and alignment. The result is that businesses effectively focus their resources on the top percentage of accounts that matter most to them. […]
Demandbase is offering to help the 70 per cent of B2B firms who describe their account-based marketing technology as “immature” with a digital questionnaire that will recommend tools to align with their strategies. The San Francisco-based firm last week released a report, The State Of The ABM Tech Stack, in partnership with Demand Metric. The […]
Many marketers might feel challenged or threatened by the notion that the value of marketing is defined by sales. However, it isn’t such a provocative idea. Remember, fewer than 1% of all leads turn into customers. That’s hardly a statistic you want to stand behind. If company leaders set a 100% growth goal for a […]
Terminus has updated its account-based marketing platform with artificial intelligence features and capabilities it said would allow B2B firms to improve customer targeting and reporting. The Atlanta-based firm this week paired its latest release with an expanded partnership with Bombora, whose intent data can now be tied to Terminus’ B2B Account Graph database and a […]
Demandbase on Thursday is extending what it calls its ABM Ecosystem with a channel program that aims to match B2B brands with agencies, consultancies, systems integrators and other service providers that can help them achieve their account-based marketing goals. Ogilvy, gyro, Quarry and Edelman will be among the first partners in the “premier” tier of […]
Engagio has launched a tool called Engagio Orchestrate which its CEO said will allow B2B sales and marketing teams to work better together on the activities that win more deals in targeted accounts. The San Mateo, Calif.-based firm announced Engagio Orchestrate last week, describing it as a platform that will combine traditional lead-based demand generation […]
Adobe’s Marketo on Wednesday said it would help B2B firms trying to turn account-based marketing programs into more holistic, “epic” customer experiences via increased AI capabilities and expanded integrations with LinkedIn and Vidyard. In a virtual event called Marketing Nation Live, Adobe senior vice-president of digital experience (and former Marketo CEO) Steve Lucas discussed the […]
RollWorks this week said it was aiming to address a common ABM challenge facing B2B firms with a machine learning model that could prioritize and score target account lists. The San Francisco-based firm said the predictive capabilities it is introducing in its Identification Solution would analyze data on a company’s closed deals or clients it […]
More than half of B2B marketers surveyed as part of a research project between PAN Communications and Heinz Marketing said their content marketing efforts aren’t being attributed to revenue, which may explain why less than 32 per cent said they feel confident in how they measure such work. Boston-based PAN Communications, which focuses on PR […]
IntentData.io will be using its own product to help identify B2B marketers who want to tap into its expertise in developing algorithms find customers ready to make purchases. Based in Boston, IntentData.io launched last week with what it has trademarked as Contact-Level Intent Data, which it said could reduce the length of sales cycles in […]
SAP is planning a deeper integration with LinkedIn along with the ability to use clickstream data to identify engaged contacts as part of an update to its Marketing Cloud later this year. Speaking at a user group session within its SapphireNOW customer event this week, SAP Customer Experience global VP Jackie Palmer said the integration […]
Demandbase on Monday announced what it is calling an ABM Ecosystem, a collection of both existing partners and new partners designed to faciliate common data, shared audiences and integrated workflows across account-based marketing software. Lauching as part of the SiriusDecisions Summit taking place in Austin this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase said its ABM Ecosystem arose […]
Terminus is promising B2B marketers a way to measure both traditional and ABM programs in a single Account-Based Scorecard and a way to manage account-level targeting of digital ads. The Atlanta-based firm said its Account-Based Scorecard will help marketers avoid creating attribution reports manually or after-the-fact for their campaigns. The expanded capabilities in the platform […]
Banner ads might be annoying or too easy to ignore on web sites, but Sigstr believes putting them within e-mail messages may hold the key to helping CMOs gain visibility in the marketing funnel, help sales teams hit revenue targets and stand out amid the noise in other channels. Based in Indianapolis., Ind., Sigstr this […]
The rising interest in understanding not only the challenges customers face but the technology they’re using in-house has led Forrester to partner with HG Insights to provide continuously updated technographic data to its research services. Based in Santa Barbara, Calif., HG Insights announced the partnership on Tuesday, whereby its data on technology adoption trends across […]
