By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer Most salespeople are all too familiar with the experience of spending time working a lead only to realize they’re not a good fit. Their budget might be too small, their business might be the wrong...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist Agile software development is a popular methodology that prioritizes high-value features, frequent releases, and continual improvement over long development periods and full-scale releases. This methodology allows developers to quickly push their...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist You may have seen the phrases “marketing strategy” and “marketing plan” used interchangeably, but they actually refer to two different essential marketing tools. Understanding the differences between a marketing plan and a marketing strategy will make...
By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist One of the most common pieces of content marketing advice given to businesses is to commit to consistent blogging - and for a good reason. It's an essential marketing activity for building awareness of your brand, educating your target market, and...
By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist Sales and marketing software has become table stakes for B2B companies, big and small, over the past two decades. Today, 85% of B2B marketers use a customer relationship management system (CRM), such as Salesforce, and 57% use a marketing automation platform, like...
By Shawn Smajstrla, Content Specialist Mood boards have a long tradition in interior decoration, photography, and wedding planning, but their utility has carried into the digital design space. This is particularly relevant for brands because websites have become the most valuable real estate they...
By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist B2B professionals who once relied on in-person sales and marketing were forced to go fully digital for long periods when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early 2020. One effect of that digital shift that continues in 2021 despite the return of some in-person...
By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist In B2B sales and marketing, trade shows have long been considered an ideal way to generate new leads and gain new business. Trade shows, regardless of industry or sales cycle length, allow companies to speak about and demonstrate their products and services,...
By Nicky Cappella, Content Specialist What is a marketing research process? The information-gathering, strategy, and planning phase before a marketing campaign is implemented is known as the marketing research process. It is the critical time when a marketing team defines the issue at hand, takes...
By Omar Sofradzija, Senior Content Specialist. Life is change. So is marketing. It almost goes without saying that evolution is key to any successful B2B organization. But that can mean endless things. Obviously, the technology and tactics shift over time. Learning should never end. And there are...