Many consulting companies are plagued with websites that do not generate leads and poorly represent their brands. For many consulting companies, the company website performed some very critical roles, including lead generation, brand visibility, acts as a central hub for all marketing efforts,...
What is a buyer persona? Personas for marketing Why are buyer personas important to B2B marketing? Many marketing teams ignore the small planning tasks for creating B2B marketing campaigns. One of those often-ignored steps is the creation of buyer personas. Although missing this step may not be...
Business customers require a unique approach compared to consumers, and B2B marketers must adapt their approach accordingly. For example, the B2B buying cycle can be much longer than consumer buying cycles, and to make matters more complicated, in the B2B buying process the decision to purchase may...
Whether you describe it as a customer lifecycle or buyer continuum, defining the relationship stages for B2B marketing and sales is vital for teams involved in generating leads and revenue for B-to-B businesses. Defining the lifecycle your business employs and understanding the customer experience...
Product pages for eCommerce and within websites can rank in standard web search, but there is an alternative and additional way to gain search visibility for products. Ecommerce businesses should explore the Google product feed, which is a datasource of all your product meta data stripped from your...
Podcasts can be great marketing tools for both B2C and B2B marketing depending on your product or service. Success with podcasts requires more than just being an ace with technical details. It requires a good concept, experience with producing and thinking deeply about what would be interesting for...
Advertising for B2B is generally focused on building brand awareness and lead generation at the top of the sales funnel. Online advertising does not carry the same trust or traffic as organic search engine listings. According to a study by Chitika, the top listing in Google's organic search results...
Email can play a big part in conversion for B2B marketing. Whether the email mechanism is part of a marketing automation solution or the marketer sends out email, depends more on the size, scale and aggressiveness of the campaign--than the desire to improve conversion rates. Email can be used for a...
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WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? Presently, marketing teams & analytical groups have focused on aggregated data such as views, visitors, and time spent on site to help drive their initiatives. Although these variables are important at a high level, a more in depth look and research into key performance...