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  • Three Effective Ways to Address a Soft Marketing Pipeline in Challenging Times

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Let's face our tough new reality: It's not easy to drive demand during this work-from-home era. Now, it's all about building operational agility into your marketing and customer experience. Here are three effective, data-reliant ways you can address your soft pipeline.

  • How to Attract Buyers in the Modern Business-to-Business Market

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    B2B sales and marketing have evolved rapidly. Digitization has transformed the way buyers research and procure products and services. Sellers no longer have control over the flow of information, and buyers' expectations have changed. Here's what B2B suppliers need to do to attract today's buyers.

  • What Your Customer Wants (But Can't Tell You): Author Melina Palmer on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Behavioral economics expert and author Melina Palmer shares insights from her new book, What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You, and explains how you can use science to improve your marketing results.

  • Fewer Deals, More Video: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Sales Professionals

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Most salespeople say they're facing fewer deals and more missed quotas because of COVID-19, and a majority also say the pandemic has driven them to shift to virtual selling, according to recent research from LinkedIn.

  • How to Identify and Avoid Survey Response Bias [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    We often use surveys to gain an understanding of how our customers think and feel about our product or services. But a poorly crafted survey is vulnerable to response bias, which causes participants to answer questions inaccurately. Here's how you can minimize response bias.

  • Sales Presentation Skills: How to Measure and Evaluate Your Salespeople

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    If your salespeople aren't effective presenters, they'll never achieve their full potential—even if they're good at selling. Which is why it's critical to understand and monitor this vital skill. Here's how to measure and evaluate sales presentation skills.

  • Search Trends During COVID-19 and the Exit Phase [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: SEO

    Search data can be used to better understand audiences and make predictions for the near future. As some parts of the world begin to reopen their doors, what might the COVID-19 exit phase look like based on what search data is telling us?

  • B2B Decision-Maker Survey: COVID-19's Impact on Marketing, Buying, and Sales

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Most B2B companies around the world have already reduced their marketing spend because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent research from McKinsey.

  • The Seven Worst ABM Mistakes (And How to Fix Them)

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Account-Based Marketing

    These are some of the most common and costly mistakes that marketers make when adopting, implementing, and executing ABM. But you can avoid making these 7 mistakes. Here's how.

  • LinkedIn Stories Is Almost Here: Will It Reinvent the B2B Social Media Landscape?

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    LinkedIn has been testing a new conversational format—LinkedIn Stories—to be released "soon." So, what does the introduction of LinkedIn's own version of Stories mean? Will it "kickstart conversations" and "nurture relationships," as LinkedIn hopes?

  • A Direct Effect: Direct Mail + Digital = Better Marketing Results [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    How are marketers supposed to cut through the clutter when email response rates hover around 1%? All it might take is an offline nudge with the help of direct mail. Direct still works. It works better when combined with digital.

  • How to Generate Leads in a Competitive Digital Landscape

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    How do you generate more leads in what is the digital marketing jungle of today? It helps to understand current trends that on-the-ground practitioners are seeing in digital marketing. Here are some do's and dont's based on their advice.

  • Three Tips to Turn Initial Conversations Into Marketing and Sales Relationships

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    To turn your first encounter with potential clients into an effective account-based marketing (ABM) relationship, you must engage your audience, establish credibility, and ask them for an easy "yes." Here's what you need to know.

  • B2B Direct Mail for Marketing and Sales [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Particularly in ABM, offline engagement tactics—such as B2B direct mail—can make an impression and differentiate you from your competition. When, post-pandemic, businesses reopen their offices, B2B organizations should give direct mail a serious look.

  • ABM Is… These Three Things (And Why B2B Marketing Should Look a Lot Like Dating)

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Account-Based Marketing

    The idea of account-based marketing (ABM) isn't new. But recently we've moved beyond basics, shifting into full-on strategies and mindsets around how B2B marketing needs to get done. And when you think about that, it's a lot like dating.

  • Five Ways to Improve Product Marketing and Sales Enablement Collaboration to Drive Revenue

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Product marketing and sales enablement teams share an ultimate goal: to help sales teams sell. In many organizations, however, they plan and execute in silos, with misaligned efforts and priorities. And that simply undermines Sales. Here are ways to instead build collaboration and drive revenue.

  • Five Tips for Strategic and Compassionate Upselling in Times of Uncertainty

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Upselling makes sense when business is booming, but how about in times of economic uncertainty—like now? Companies that can strategically and compassionately navigate business development conversations in these times will be the ones that emerge intact and in good standing.

  • Five Simple Programmatic Strategies to Drive More Leads

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    B2B marketers who rely on in-person interactions to connect with clients and drive lead generation now need alternatives. One strategy to continue promoting our brands is digital advertising—including programmatic. And it doesn't have to be complicated.

  • How to Create and Optimize Content Marketing for the B2B Funnel [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Done well, content marketing can be a powerful weapon in the B2B marketer's arsenal, helping to generate leads, nurture them, and convert them into customers. Done badly, it's ineffective and a waste of time and other precious resources. Here are some ways to do it well.

  • Nine Key Sales Pipeline Metrics for Healthy Sales [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    Every salesperson wants a healthy pipeline, but many don't have a reliable way to take its temperature. Beyond just "healthy" or "dry," what do you need to look at to truly gauge the health of a sales pipeline? These nine important pipeline metrics.