It seems that every day a new B2B lead generation tool emerges as another falls off the map, but there are a few that have stood the test of time. These tools have a proven track record for helping B2B businesses generate high-quality, high-converting leads, almost on autopilot. The great news is that they aren’t […]
How Your Content Marketing Efforts Can Benefit Your B2B Sales Team
Over 90% of B2B enterprise marketers use content marketing, the value is easy to see. Where most of us overlook the usefulness is the strategic application, it can serve the sales team. Creating and leveraging content can qualify leads quicker and shorten the sales cycle for your sales team. This allows them to focus on […]
9 Tips for Account-Based Marketing in 2020
Taking a one-to-many marketing approach has its perks, but it also comes at the cost of being time-consuming and, ultimately, less effective than account-based marketing. Could account-based marketing be the solution to all your marketing woes? Looking forward to 2020, all signs point to Yes. What is account-based marketing (ABM)? It’s a marketing strategy that […]
6 B2B Marketing & Sales Tips to Close More Deals During the Holiday Season
Tis the season to be jolly, well-fed, and fully booked with new B2B clients. While many businesses spend the holiday season resting and gearing up for the new year, savvy B2B companies know how lucrative this season can be. Business owners are flocking online to buy the latest gadgets and tools to help their businesses […]
How to Create a Marketing Automation Platform Using Zapier
As a B2B business owner, you have your hands full when it comes to staying on top of business operations, managing your team, and providing great service to your customers. But when it comes to marketing and lead generation, it may feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. To break the feast […]
When is the Best Time to Follow Up with Sales Leads?
Once your B2B lead generation strategy starts paying off, you’ll start to see a full pipeline of new leads for your business. But your hard work doesn’t stop there. You’ll need to follow up with your leads before they convert into paying clients or customers. When and how you follow up with your leads makes […]
How to Use Quora for B2B Lead Generation
With so many people competing for the business of the same pool of clients, you have to get creative when it comes to lead generation. Quora is an out-of-the-box way to connect with potential clients that are both easy and free. With a little strategy and application, you can use Quora for B2B lead generation […]
How to Ensure Your Lead Generation is General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliant
If you keep up with the times in the world of tech or marketing, then you’ve likely heard the buzz about GDPR. Marketers, bloggers, and business owners alike were sent scrambling to comply with the EU’s new consumer privacy laws in order to avoid major fines. But while many website owners are now up-to-date on […]
8 Ways to Resolve Conflict Between Your Sales and Marketing Teams
You know the cycle. Your B2B marketing team generates leads for your B2B business. Your sales team takes the leads, works their sales magic, and hopefully closes the sale. Since your sales team drives all the revenue and your marketing team drives all the leads, they go head-to-head over who is more important and who […]
5 Ways B2B Brands Can Use Facebook for Lead Generation
As a B2B business owner, you understand the importance of generating warm, high-quality leads for your business. Attracting leads – and converting these leads into paying clients or customers – is what allows your business to grow. But with so many marketing channels out there, it can be difficult to really hone in on which […]
10 Genius B2B Lead Generation and Marketing Channels to Focus on in 2020
As a B2B company, you have a major advantage by having access to loads of sales data from 2019. With this data, you can look at past trends, lead sources, and successful strategies to determine your lead gen plan of action for next year. Want to have a leg up on your competitors? Then you’ll […]
Short-term vs. Long-term Marketing Tactics – Which Should You Implement?
Determining whether to focus on short-term or long-term marketing (also known as transactional vs. relationship marketing) can be tough. However, when you’re building your marketing plan, it’s important to weigh the benefits of both forms. Commonly, marketers are drawn to short-term marketing tactics because they produce results quickly, justify spend immediately, and potentially lead to […]
Sales vs. Marketing/Product Driven Companies
When you look at your 3 favourite brands, do you ever consider what drives their revenue growth? For most companies*, it is one of the following departments that drives a majority of the company’s revenue: Sales/Business Development Marketing/Product You may now be thinking that “Hey, our company has both of those departments and they both […]
Average cost per lead (CPL) for different B2B marketing channels in 2020
The old days where you throw money into newspaper, radio or television and hope for the best are gone. As a marketer in 2020, being armed with data and optimizing your efforts correctly are critical for success. At the forefront of your data is a stat called cost per lead, or for short, CPL. Looking […]
Can you identify the people/users that visit a website?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it is not possible to identify the people/users that have visited your website. I have been asked this several times and there is no software out there that can identify this for you. People/users must give you that information via a live chat, contact form, […]
How to Identify Your Competitor’s Customers
There are several reasons you may want to identify your competitor’s clients – we won’t get into those here. Ethics aside, we will touch on 6 different ways you may be able to identify who your competitor’s customers are! BuiltWith For the marketers that know about BuiltWith, I think most will agree – this tool […]
B2B Marketing: 5 Master Class Tactics You Need to Know About for 2019
Wow, 2018 was a whirlwind, and B2B marketing has changed a lot. There have been a lot of changes that we haven’t seen before – Facebook’s new algorithm changes, influencer marketing hitting $1 billion per year, and new tools popping up every day. How can you keep track of all these changes, and stay ahead […]