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 […]
When your company is 97 years old and grows in part through mergers and acquisitions, you’re going to have a variety of technology products running the business — or as Bob Burkhart puts it, “We have just about one of every solution and several of many.” As the mobile and collaboration infrastructure leader at Nationwide […]
The work of B2B marketing team members will be replaced, at least in part, by artificial intelligence tools within the next three years as enterprises focus on things like personalized experiences for their customers, according to a research study from Episerver. In the Nashua, N.H.-based firm’s B2B Digital Experiences Report 2019: How Companies Are Meeting Rising […]
BrightTalk on Monday said it would help B2B marketers develop more relevant webinars to host on its platform by opening up a tool that uses machine learning to identify the most popular topics among its more than eight million professional users. The San Francisco-based firm has already been arming B2B marketers with Intent Leads, which […]
In a world of spell-check, autofill and auto-correct, it’s easy to underestimate the importance of good writing. Short-form text messages, videos, and infographics tell the story, right? Wrong. Good writing matters more than ever. Short attention spans and the massive volumes of information available online mean your writing must be clear and crisp – or […]
Customer churn tends to be marketers’ nightmare for good reason: if an organization’s average contract value is $50,000, losing even ten customers can cost as much as $900,000. What’s more, it won’t take long for leaving customers to resort to your competitors. In the end, it will strengthen their market presence and inevitably weaken yours. […]
Eighty-eight per cent of businesses say their technology budgets will stay the same or grow over the next year according to new research from Spiceworks, but but tech buyers at its SpiceWorld conference said they are juggling purchase decisions along with difficult communications issues with senior leadership and a quest to improve their personal brand. […]
Spiceworks used its 2019 SpiceWorld event to discuss its recent acquisition by Ziff-Davis B2B and introduce a console along with artificial intelligence tools it said would help its tech vendor customers create more relevant and engaging marketing campaigns to IT decision makers who are ready to make purchases. Austin-based SpiceWorld is nominally an event for the […]
Successful companies know that branding and building brand trust are the secrets to longstanding relationships with customers. In any industry, building brand trust means getting personal and starting meaningful conversations. The tone and subject matter of those conversations, however, varies between B2B and B2C. Data from the 2019 Trusted Brands Report demonstrates that the most […]
B2B firms should focusing on driving advocacy via their existing customers earlier in the marketing process, according to research from Yesler that shows 77 per cent of tech buyers are privately recommending vendors to their peers. The Seattle-based marketing firm released the results of its survey of more than 400 CIOs and similar decision-makers as […]
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 […]
Oracle on Tuesday used its 2019 Openworld conference in San Francisco to introduce ways for B2B firms to bring sales and marketing data together, as well as tools to personalize and customer experiences based on a variety of contextual data. Among the updates announced as part of its customer event this week, the business software […]
When it comes to new technology investments, businesses feel the mounting pressure to successfully complete their digital transformation yet recent research reveals that nearly three quarters (71%) of IT projects are perceived as failures and fewer than one quarter (19%) of IT projects go live within budget and timeframe. Considering that technology plays an essential […]
Contently’s new CEO Pearl Collings is focusing on moving the firm from break-even to full profitability by deepening its strengths in core subject areas, growing its services business and network of freelancers. Collings, who formerly served as the chief business and sales officer at Time Inc., was formally announced as CEO of Contently last week. […]
The majority of brands are still “playing the field” and farming out work to multiple agencies, particularly when they have bigger budgets, according to research from the Agency Management Institute and Audience Audit. Known as the Agency Edge research series, the two firms gave a first look at the results of a study that’s been […]
With organic search traffic becoming increasingly difficult to count on due, in part, to the rise of zero-click search results, paid search ads are currently the best way that businesses can expect to receive targeted search traffic from Google. But creating an effective B2B pay-per-click campaign on Google can be challenging due to several factors […]
B2B buyers who make the wrong purchase because they didn’t look at a piece of content might see their budget cut, get passed over for promotion or even lose their job — but at least they won’t die a horrible death like Johann Rall. The German colonel is best known to historians for his command […]
