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15+ B2B Marketing Statistics: What is Relevant for 2018

B2B marketing statistics and trends show the industry’s shift towards a more digital strategy. B2B marketers now heavily rely on content market tactics to bring in leads and grow the lead pool. Below are 15+ statistics that show how B2B companies are shifting and changing towards more digital,...

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20+ Sales Statistics that Matter for 2018

Sales tactics have changed over the past few years. Companies that have shifted from intensively relying on cold prospecting to improving on inbound tactics and lead nurturing to be more competitive in the marketplace and win more clients. Understanding the buyer is crucial to success, and using...

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How to Nurture Content Leads

Many organizations invest heavily in lead acquisition but fail to nurture the leads they acquire. What happens often is a prospect will download the content (say an eBook, white paper, infographic, etc.) and then never take an interest in your company or its solutions. They want the content, they...

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Where Should You Focus B2B Marketing Strategy? Builder Versus Driver Activities

“If you build it, they will come.” While this motto worked well for baseball enthusiasts in an Iowan farm town, it doesn’t work so well for a results-driven B2B marketing strategy. Building marketing assets is only half the puzzle to generating traffic, leads, and growth. Yet many companies focus...

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Small Business Marketing Trends for 2018 - 10 Stats and Insights

Most small business owners and employees play many roles within the company. In some organizations, different members of the team jump in to help with marketing, and in other organizations, a single person must develop and execute the entire marketing strategy. To find out how small businesses...

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Inbound Marketing Statistics: 10 Stats That Demonstrate Impact

As we move towards a new year, businesses often take time to reflect on what strategies worked and what didn’t work. Organizations think about what tactics to implement in Q1 and what tactics to retire with 2017. If your company is still performing more outbound marketing than inbound marketing,...

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Using Lead Data to Improve Your B2B Close Rate

Platforms that automate marketing and collect contact data are helpful to marketers, naturally. But did you know marketing automation has immense value for sales teams, too? By using the marketing data collected on your leads, you can craft a sales message that has a higher chance of receiving a...

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The Best Content Types for the Bottom-of-the-Funnel

As buyers move down the sales funnel their discovery process changes. It’s often thought that midway through, and especially at the bottom-of-the-funnel, salespeople take over, leaving marketers to worry only about top-of-the-funnel contacts. While buyers may have more interaction with a...

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Guide: How a Shift in Mindset will Improve Brand Growth

By Katie Surace, Senior Marketing Director When I feel stuck in business or personal life, I find a good way to move forward is looking at things objectively. Being objective is hard because we're so close to our own creations, beliefs, and opinions. To overcome it, I talk to people, hear different...

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How to Nurture Leads from the Awareness to Consideration Stage

Lead nurturing is essential for every company who seeks to expand the number of sales opportunities in their sales pipeline. Especially for B2B companies, who confront longer stages cycles with a group buying decision, it’s important to establish a robust nurturing strategy to improve sales...

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