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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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Tips for Transitioning from Outbound Marketing to Inbound Marketing

More and more companies are realizing the benefits of inbound marketing over outbound marketing and are therefore transitioning campaigns. Outbound marketing tactics include trade shows, direct mail, email blasts, cold prospecting, and other efforts that push the company message out to the world in...

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Best Channels for Account-Based Marketing Campaigns

Ironpaper often works with clients to generate leads from a tightly targeted “wish list” of accounts — a strategy often called Account-Based Marketing, or ABM. The advantages of this approach are: Clearer utilization of marketing budget Better sales handoff process (sales were excited about the...

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Techniques for Writing B2B Case Studies

Business-to-Business (B2B) case studies are a way for companies to showcase the value their solutions provide to clients. The goal is to establish proof and build trust so the prospect feels comfortable progressing down the funnel. Since the solutions behind the B2B company is sometimes...

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How to Optimize a Blog: The Blog Optimization Checklist

Blog optimization is key to maintaining consistent traffic and engaging readers. Instead of simply posting and moving on, businesses should take time to optimize each post to ensure user satisfaction. It’s not just new posts that need optimization; older blog posts too should be revisited to ensure...

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How to Improve a Blog's Conversion Rate

Building a cadence of publishing with a company blog is only half the battle. Share your blog content on LinkedIn and other platforms where your tech buyers are interacting. Writing and posting quality content is important, but getting people to see the content and then convert is even more...

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How to Improve Lead Nurturing Results (The Basics)

Some 42% of marketers told DemandGen they’d been practicing lead nurturing for more than two years. Nevertheless, there's a lot of room for improvement. Savvy marketers are always on the lookout for best practices. Here are some tips on how to improve lead nurturing results. Benefits of lead...

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5 B2B Content Marketing Stats that Tell What Buyers Really Think

Based on a Statista report, “Content marketing in the U.S.,” B2B and B2C marketers may not know exactly what their buyers are thinking. The company interviewed both marketers and consumers to put together this report dissecting content marketing trends in the United States. Given the results, there...

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Top Strategies to Manage Marketing Data Overload And Increase Success Rates

Marketing executives can no longer complain that that data derived from marketing technology lacks actionable insight. Instead, with the majority of CMOs embracing new and fast-evolving marketing tech, the outsized concern is feeling overwhelmed due to the amount of data available today. This blog...

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SEO for Technology Companies – Best Practices and Practical Tips

Search engine optimization is important for every B2B company. However, SEO for technology companies is especially crucial, because in the tech market, you're competing against many companies who also have a strong online presence. Your leads are tech-savvy, and in a very saturated market, they...

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