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Electronic Components & High-Tech Products

Electronic Components: A Changing Market Requires a Change in Marketing

5 ways the industry is changing and what that means for marketers in the electronic components industry. Source: [1] IBISWorld Industry Report 33441b ...

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Medical & Life Sciences Products

Infographic: Marketing Medtech for the Value-Based Buyer

Medtech and pharma buyers are moving away from price- and features-based purchasing decisions and toward more holistic value-based purchasing models. Marketing messages to these buyers must be more co...

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Medical Devices

6 Major Disruptors in the Medical Devices Industry

The medical devices industry is changing rapidly, meaning sales and marketing are working overtime to keep up with a new class of buyer who operates within an uncharted set of market conditions.  ...

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Electrical Products

Infographic: ABM for Electrical Products

The electrical-products market has grown increasingly complex, but sales and marketing can still be simple. This infographic lays out 5 easy steps marketers can take to implement an effective ABM prog...

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Auto & Aerospace Parts

3 Challenges & 3 Opportunities Facing Auto Parts Manufacturers

The market for auto parts manufacturers is evolving, leading to new challenges—as well as new opportunities. 3 Challenges The car-buying boom is predicted to flatten, meaning fewer new auto parts w...

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Plastics & Specialty Chemicals

Specialty-Chemicals Manufacturers Capture Value with ABM

The specialty-chemicals industry faces unique sales challenges that continue to evolve along with their customers’ buying preferences. The industry is expected to nearly double by 2025, but to f...

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Industrial Parts & Equipment

Educating B2B Customers through ABM: IIoT Equipment Implementation

As the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is rapidly remaking the modern manufacturing facility, plant operations professionals remain plagued by the same key concern that has been top-of-mind for d...

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Fleet Industry

ABM in the Fleet-Management Industry

In the fleet-management industry, employees are the ultimate decision makers, but it’s the companies who write the checks. Today’s leading fleet companies are challenged to influence the v...

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Paper & Packaging Products

Leveraging ABM to Educate the CPG Industry

The rise of online shopping has revolutionized consumers’ buying experiences, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are considering how to make sure their products stand out to their buyers wi...

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MRO for Industry

Out with the Old: ABM for MRO

MRO manufacturers are integral in the continued operations of their customers’ facilities and products. Their product lines are varied, serving numerous diverse business needs across a broad spectru...

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Building Products & Materials

Get Known for New Things: ABM in the Building-Products Industry

Smart-home technologies are moving into commercial and industrial buildings, and building-products companies known for more traditional product offerings are challenged to market these new product lin...

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Food & Ingredients Production

Food for Thought: ABM for B2B Ingredients Companies

The consumer trend toward “clean ingredients” means product reformulations for food processors, often translating to recipe overhauls and costly downtime. In response, inventive smart-ingredients ...

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The Moment(s) of Truth

In a recent webinar with Jabmo and SiriusDecisions, Jenn Grabenstetter from Sealed Air discussed her revolutionary campaign to focus her target accounts on the Second Moment of Truth (SMOT), bringing ...

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Digital Marketing: Landing the Launch

When it comes to establishing an online presence, the jump into B2B digital marketing can be intimidating. This challenge was no different for Jen Grabenstetter, Executive Director of Global Marketing...

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Winning the Sale in a Field of Rivals

As manufacturing industry competitors merge to form larger, more powerful companies, rivalry grows fiercer among the remaining players. Your challenge has become not just making and selling great prod...

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Fleet Industry

Fleet Management - Influencing User-Choosers with Account-Based Marketing

The new, anonymous and digital buying journey in the automotive industry is alienating and distancing car manufacturers and distributors with buyers. Middle-men, or “gatekeepers,” like Carwow are ...

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The Power of Creative Personalization

“Personalized marketing and advertising is not about sales. It’s about building a relationship with the customer” —Julian Hillebrand   In the new era of B2B selling, marketers face increa...

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Getting Known for New Things through Industrial Account-Based Marketing

Account-based marketing (ABM) is catching on amongst innovative marketers and changing the rules of B2B marketing as we know them. ABM provides leading manufacturers the opportunity to tackle today’...

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Infographic: Beyond Lead Gen

The data tells a compelling story about how your customers are really shopping. How much are you willing to sacrifice for a MQL?   Sources: [1] Forbes [2] Think with Google [3] DemandGen ...

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Marketers Getting Back to Business

When did marketing become a niche department, responsible for nothing more than lead generation? Historically, marketing sat at the core of everything: Product: What will we make? Promotion: How will...

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Jabmo named a leader by Forrester in ABM New Wave report

Why Read This Report?  This report details Forrester’s findings about how well each ABM Platform vendor scored against 10 criteria and where they stand in relation to each other. B2B market...

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What’s in a name anyway?

Quick, name these tech companies that were originally started with different names: Quantum Computer Services Back Rub Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Auction Web Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation Confi...

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FAQ: ABM and Manufacturing

The purpose of this blog is to provide a “Q&A” on account-based marketing (ABM), but from the perspective of people that have consulted us about this powerful strategy. As you’ll read in a l...

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Oil & Gas

Buying Changes in the Oil and Gas Industry

You used to be able to sell products to people you know. Now you have to sell solutions to teams that you don’t. Dealing with new cost pressures and unprecedented fluctuation in oil prices, companie...

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GDPR: Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but compliance isn’t the end of the world

Probably no IT-related deadline since Y2K has loomed as large as the impending implementation of the GDPR, the relatively benign-sounding acronym for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Som...

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Your content or your competitor’s?

Gated content is not always the best approach to building relationships Are you in the habit of locking in your high-quality content to force visitors to identify themselves with an email address or o...

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Enough about you. Let’s talk about me.

The dating analogy is probably overused when talking about marketing and sales techniques, but it actually is a useful one to illustrate how not to engage in a mutually satisfying relationship. How ma...

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Demand Gen Report: Manufacturers Extend Digital Transformation to Sales & Marketing

The old way of selling in the manufacturing industry was quite simple – manufacturers made competitive products in a cost-effective manner and sold to as many customers as possible. But the digital ...

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Abundance Marketing

Before the Golden Age of B2B Marketing, we had the Golden Age of B2B Sales. Sales was king because they controlled information, and the best salespeople figured out how to trade information for access...

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Five Tips for Winning the Manufacturing Customer in 2018

You’ve probably already heard about the ‘new buyer’ and how the world of B2B has changed more in the last 5 years than ever before. But what does this really mean and why does it matter? Below w...

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ABM Impact Analysis: Infographic

Although not an entirely new concept, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is gaining traction in B2B marketing as it adapts to the new buying cycle, and the “new buyer” in particular. According ...

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14 Benefits Of Account-Based Marketing

Posted by Forbes Agency Council on September 25, 2017 (forbes.com). Account-based marketing (ABM) is making a comeback. With its personalized approach and attention to detail, consumers are benefitin...

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Exclusive Interview: Jabmo President Addresses “Account Sensing” As ABM Solution Expands To U.S. - ABM In Action

Posted by Klaudia Tirico on December 7, 2017 (abminaction.com). France-based Jabmo recently landed in the U.S. to take its “hyper aware” platform international as B2B buyers continue to...

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The missing link in your B2B channel strategy

Impact your customer’s customers directly – and precisely If you are in a manufacturing industry it is becoming increasingly difficult to reach, connect with, and ultimately convince the end-buyer...

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Better insights provide real inroads for breakthrough ROI

Posted by John Steinert on 18 October, 2017 (martechtoday.com). Until I discovered the battery-sucking genius of Waze, my daily Connecticut commute was hell.  Now, thanks to its ingenious crowd-sour...

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Five Reasons To Implement Account-Based Marketing Into Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Posted by Elyse Flynn Meyer on July 21, 2017 (forbes.com). Are you familiar with account-based marketing? Account-based marketing (ABM), also known as key account marketing, is a strategic approac...

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What's It Take To Make ABM Succeed? Customer Obsession!

Posted by Laura Ramos on 19 October, 2017 (go.forrester.com). This past Tuesday evening (October 17), TechTarget and Discover.org invited me to share some wisdom about success strategies for accoun...

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Slow adoption shows marketers fear ABM when they shouldn’t

Posted by Meredith Brown on November 3, 2017 (martechtoday.com). In recent years, account-based marketing (ABM) has become the buzzword du jour among B2B marketers. The approach — which involve...

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The Customer Success Function’s Role on the Path to Value for Customers

Posted by Melissa Archambault on October 25, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). We often navigate toward reaching milestones or pinnacle moments in our life, such as graduating from high school, meeting a s...

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Reading Digital Body Language

The journey of the B2B buyer has changed radically over the past few years and smart marketers have started to use this to their advantage. These days B2B companies can use marketing tools to predict ...

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How to Find the Essential Ideal Customer Profile for ABM

Posted by Mike Rose on September 21, 2017 (mojomedialabs.com). You might be asking yourself what an ideal customer profile is. Simply put, it is the quantitative and qualitative parameters used to id...

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How to Craft Your Content to Support Your Account-Based Marketing Efforts

Posted by John Rampton on October 23, 2017 (blogs.oracle.com). A central component of your Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy is content. Regardless of the account, content is one of those needs ...

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ABM vs. Inbound

Although you may think so, inbound marketing and account-based marketing are not mutually exclusive. Both, when done correctly, have as a core principle to provide personalized, relevant messaging and...

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What CMOs Should Know About Account Based Marketing (ABM)

Posted by Jared Dodson on October 30, 2017 (business2community.com). ABM has been the most over-used acronym in B2B marketing over the past year. Vendors in this space have been busy racing to publis...

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Six Key Areas That Should Drive Portfolio Marketing’s Agenda in 2018

Posted by Rachel Young on October 16, 2017. (siriusdecisions.com). Across the b-to-b landscape, organizations are recognizing the need to be audience-centric to stay ahead of the competition and driv...

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Enter the Golden Age of B2B Marketing

Rolf Andersson reminds me of the white-bearded-version of Ernest Hemingway. Rolf has written copy for B2B companies for the last fifty years and has seen B2B marketing go from an afterthought to the m...

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3 Reasons a CRM Just Became a Must-have for SMB Sales and Marketing

Posted by Salesforce for SMB on 19 October, 2017 (smallbiztrends.com). The relationship between sales and marketing has always gotten a bad rap. After all, both teams share the same ultimate goal, wh...

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The Five Audience Levels That Drive Messaging Resonance

Posted by Tim Kimber on 19 October, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). As organizations move from being product- to audience-centric, there’s a realization that their past messaging and value proposi...

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How to Use Account-Based Marketing Wisely in 2018

Posted by Mark Schmukler on October 20, 2017 (martechadvisor.com). If you work in marketing or sales, you’ve likely heard the term account-based marketing (ABM). It’s not a new strate...

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The Persistent Disconnect Between Marketing and Sales

Posted by David Dodd on October 6, 2017 (business2community.com). A couple of days ago, I performed a Google search using the term “sales and marketing alignment. ” My search produced 16...

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Three Advantages of Prioritizing Planning Efforts

Posted by Cristina DiMartini on August 1, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). It is beneficial to marketing operations functions to emphasize planning activities before marketing-related processes are execut...

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Why Subject Matter Experts Crush Salespeople And Order Takers

Posted by Ian Altman on October 11, 2017 (forbes.com). In my 2017 Trends article, I described the rise of the subject matter expert — a unique kind of sales professional who serves more as a tru...

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B-to-B Marketing Lessons from Mario and Luigi

Posted by Jessie Johnson on 28 September, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). Video game concepts and techniques applied in non-game contexts increase reach, engagement, compliance, loyalty and advocacyB-to-...

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Confessions of a Research Director: The First Month

Posted by Simon Jones on 11 October, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). B-to-b demand creation is not just an academic subject that you study once and know – it’s a living, breathing discipline that...

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ABM + Demand Generation: Finding the Right Balance

Posted by Heather Eng on September 18, 2017 (insights.newscred.com). Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot industry topic. ABM is the practice of narrowly focusing your marketing efforts on just a f...

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Real-time customer insight, B2B: Nurture your prioritized accounts 24/7

Today, traditional marketing research rarely seems to fit in with the accelerating pace in B2B marketing and sales. It is simply too slow. Fundamental customer needs and priorities may not change that...

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The Salesman in the Gloaming

The tragedy of the salesman Shelley “The Machine” Levene, the sympathetic figure played by Jack Lemmon in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross has never been more relevant. In Mamet’s play-turne...

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3 Key Figures to Understand how Industrial Buying has Changed (And What You Can do to Beat Your Competitors)

The chaos of B2B buying in today’s business landscape is creating more new challenges than ever before for manufacturing companies. In three figures, we tell the tale of how industrial buying is cha...

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How do we Build a Customer Experience Ecosystem?

Posted by Barb Mosher Zinck on September 20, 2017 (diginomica.com). Who owns the customer experience? Marketing, Sales, the CEO, someone else? Does it matter who “owns” it? The ecosystem ...

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Sorry, Your Sales Team is Too Late

How ABM can help them catch up and win Do you really want tangible results from your B2B marketing? Then, focus on the accounts that your sales reps have a realistic chance to close in the foreseeable...

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How Messaging Upstaged Content to win the Heart of Enterprise Collaboration

Posted by Phil Wainewright on September 10, 2017 (diginomica.com). For a long while, it’s seemed that the best place to co-ordinate enterprise collaboration in a digital world was going to be...

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How Account-Based Marketing is changing B2B marketing

Posted by Hideki Hashimura on September 6, 2017 (redk.net). In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the availability of Marketing Automation tools that supports Account Based Marketin...

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Becoming Laser Focused

Magic is made when Jabmo helps a packaging solutions provider seal the deals. We talk to Jenn Grabenstetter, Executive Director of Global Communications for Product Care at Sealed Air. Where is Sealed...

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Should Marketing Have a Seat in the Boardroom?

Posted by Gary Slack on August 31, 2017 (b2bmarketing.net). It wasn’t too long ago that marketers did not have a seat at the proverbial table – the executive or c-level suite. They might be ...

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How Account-Based Marketing can Create Profitable B2B Relationships

Posted by John on August 31, 2017 (sixandflow.com). Account Based Marketing (ABM) can help B2B professionals target larger businesses and the people they most want to work with. It does this by compl...

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White Paper: The Chaos of Buying in Industrial Manufacturing

B2B buying has changed more in the last five years than any time in history. Your buyers are more numerous, more digital and more demanding. They do anonymous research and want it to stay that way. Wh...

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B2B Buyers Are Full Of Emotion. Is Your Branding?

Posted by Martha Mathers on August 28, 2017 (cmo.com). In today’s crowded marketplace, B2B marketers strive to build stronger brands by differentiating their offers, communicating crisp valu...

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3 ABM Campaigns That Produced 3x Results

Posted via sweetfishmedia.com. There’s been a lot of buzz about account-based marketing lately, but it can be difficult to find information on how exactly to get started with it. For instance, ...

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Make Each Route The Best Path For Buyers

Posted by Mary Shea on August 22, 2017 (forrester.com). Is your organization considering how to holistically optimize all of its routes-to-market? Curious how other firms are thinking about their dir...

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Publishing Killer ABM Content

Are you really interesting enough? Big deals mean big decision-makers and qualified influencers. To stay on top in their respective industries and professions, these people are very selective when it ...

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3 Obstacles Keeping You from ABM Success

Posted by Anna Fisher on August 18, 2017 (snip.ly). Account-based marketing (ABM) – you’ve likely read all about it. Chances are, if you’re not utilizing this particular brand of mark...

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Three Concepts for Data-Driven Adaptive Content Delivery

Posted by Jessie Johnson on August 16, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). B-to-b buyers control the buyer’s journey, and the content experience must adapt to individual interactions; A data-driven ap...

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Like Fine Wine, ABM Improves with Age

Posted by Julie Schwartz on August 14, 2017 (itsma.com). Nothing beats account-based marketing (ABM) when it comes to return on investment, but it often takes time to generate substantial returns. S...

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4 Things You Need to Know About B2B Buying Decisions

Posted by Bob Apollo on August 7, 2017 (business2community.com). If you think it’s hard to sell, you might want to spare a thought for your potential customers: depending on which research yo...

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Effective ABM Needs Effective Planning

Posted by Johanna Rivard on August 3, 2017 (marketinginsidergroup.com). Account-based marketing (ABM) is starting to gain a lot of traction in the B2B world. According to Information Technology Ser...

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Digital Transformation in B2B Marketing is Slowed by the Lack of an Adoption Strategy

Posted by Laurie Fullerton on August 10, 2017 (thedrum.com). Rapid advancements and adoption of technology aside, only one-fifth of B2B marketers find their businesses have adopt… Read th...

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B-to-Big B is Personal too

What can we learn from Amazon? Key Account Management is a vital part of B2B-selling organizations, and KAM sales typically make up a major share of their revenues. Many people are engaged on the buyi...

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How to Build Customer Consensus

Set the agenda and help it grow Every working day the people in your key accounts discuss your products or those of other sellers. They communicate with each other, without you, through emails, group ...

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Four Sales Enablement Facts That Will Make You Nervous About Taking Too Much Summer Vacation – Part II

Posted by Peter Ostrow on July 28, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). Sales enablement’s three main responsibilities – asset, talent, and communications management – offer room for continuous im...

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Using Digital Industrial Marketing for Reaching Younger Engineers

Digital industrial marketing is the norm these days, not because it is fashionable but because that’s how industrial buyers now prefer to interact with their suppliers. I’m sure you are a...

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Catching anonymous buyers

Your easiest win in B2B sales and marketing It doesn’t matter what industry you are in: Right now, many of your current and potential customers are looking for relevant information on your website. ...

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Automation Will Give Human Insight A Boost, Not The Boot

Posted by Emily Kent on July 26, 2017 (cmo.com). In an era of data-driven marketing, automation can be seen as the triumph of AI over human efforts. But, in reality, it will free up the time for hu...

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One in Seven ABM Programs Is Doomed Because of This Single Factor (and What You Can Do About It)

Posted by Matt Senatore on July 20, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). Approximately one in seven account-based marketing (ABM) programs (13. 6 percent) doesn’t have an ABM leader in place. ABM activi...

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3 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Setting up a Marketing Automation Platform

Posted on July 20, 2017 (brandchemistry.com). So you’ve decided to get a marketing automation platform. Mazel tov! A marketing automation platform is a blessed addition to any company, giving y...

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3 Reasons Why Marketing Operations and ABM are the Perfect Match

Posted by Heidi Bullock on July 19, 2017 (business2community). The role of marketing operations has evolved significantly from the 2000’s when the sharp rise of marketing technologies and data...

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ABM Beyond Revenue: The Other Two R's

Posted by Rob Leavitt on July 19, 2017 (itsma. com) . The exploding interest in account-based marketing (ABM) is mostly about revenue, but new research from ITSMA and the ABM Leadership Alliance hig...

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Selling to the Modern B2B Buyer

Posted by Shelley Cernel on July 18, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). The ever-evolving B2B selling space, increasingly complex sales process, and changing buyer expectations present new challenges for B2B...

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Five Keys to Buyer Persona-Based Campaigns

Posted by Julie Schwartz on July 13, 2017 (itsma.com). The value of buyer personas is only as good as the messaging, content, and sales engagement that they spawn. Gaining full value from your pers...

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What do B2B Buyers Really Think When They’re Evaluating Vendors?

Posted by Katie Bullard on July 11, 2017 (discoverorg.com). Which selling style do B2B buyers prefer? When should a salesperson challenge a buyer’s assumptions about a product, and which indu...

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Let Content Do the Work of Selling

Posted by Laura MacPherson on July 7, 2017 (business2community.com). Salespeople are a pretty tenacious bunch. They send email after email, make call after call, meet with prospect after prospect, t...

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ABM is a Strategy, Not a Campaign.

Posted by Howard J. Sewell on July 5, 2017 (business2community.com). In the headlong rush to Account-Based Marketing, many B2B companies are, quite naturally, looking to implement ABM in a manner tha...

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Does Marketing Automation Have a Place in the World of Anonymous Buyers?

Introduction B2B marketing has embraced digital, leading to the adoption of marketing-automation tools that can save money on repetitive tasks. But they’re no panacea: they only reach the less than ...

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How to Conquer the 10 Hurdles to Successful B2B Marketing Strategies

Posted by Wendy Marx on June 19, 2017 (marxcommunications.com). A lot has changed in the realm of B2B marketing strategies over the past year. New technologies have entered the market. Executives hav...

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4 Tips for Boosting Customer Retention

Posted by Michael King on June 14, 2017 (b2bmarketing.net). Winning new customers may earn you kudos from your sales colleagues, but how do you keep hold of the customers you already have? Michael K...

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Namaste, Customer Engagement

Posted by Melissa Archambault on June 14, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). Customer engagement, like yoga, must use a continually evolving approach. If you invest in your customers, they will become your ...

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How Inbound Can Tie into Your ABM Efforts

Posted by Itai Elizur on June 12, 2017 (martechadvisor.com). Through account-based marketing, B2B marketers can combine their inbound and outbound efforts to attract more qualified leads. Itai Elizu...

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The Importance of Marketing and Sales Communication

Posted by Shelley Cernel on June 8, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). The tension, and sometimes even resentment, between sales and marketing teams is notorious. The silo mentality, where departments operate...

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How to Create a Customer-Driven Sales Funnel

Posted by Tim Jernigan on June 7, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). Your sales funnel is your secret sauce. It’s the ingredient holding the rest of your meal together, but it only works if your custome...

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5 Effective B2B Marketing Strategies for Nurturing Leads

Posted by Gregg Anderson on June 05, 2017 (41orange.com). Outside of a few rare cases, leads don’t convert to sales on their own. B2B customers face a number of challenges when it comes to ma...

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Measure What Matters in B2B Marketing: 4 Tips for Creating Meaningful Metrics

Posted by Heidi Taylor on June 1, 2017 (b2bmarketing.net). Without a doubt, marketing impacts the bottom line. Yet we are consistently failing to quantify or communicate our contributions to the busi...

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The Challenges Facing Today's Global B2B Marketer

The world of B2B Buying has changed beyond recognition in recent decades. Today’s “hyper-aware” buyers do most of their research online—silently and anonymously—creating real challenges for ...

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7 Tactics to Ensure Your Next B2B Content Marketing Campaign is Successful

Posted by Amanda Dooley on May 28, 2017 (business2community.com). A recent Content Marketing Institute #CMWorld twitter chat inspired me to write this post bringing together important insights to ...

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How to Leverage B2B Influencer Marketing for Powerful Results

Posted by Wendy Marx on May 26, 2017 (business2community.com). B2B influencer marketing is the latest buzzword — an rightly so. In the past year alone, it has expanded its usefulness and effectiven...

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ABM Bringing Sexy Back To B2B

Posted by Mercedes M. Cardona on May 26, 2017 (cmo.com). Account-based marketing is a strategic approach that aligns sales and marketing to target key accounts and prospects with personalized engage...

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Less Jane and Blanche, more Bette and Joan: how to improve Sales and Marketing alignment

Posted on May 24, 2017 (brandchemistry.com). Much has been said about the importance of improving Sales and Marketing alignment, but there are apparently still those who haven’t gotten the memo...

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How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming B2B Marketing

Posted by Natalie Batchelor-Roleson on May 23, 2017 (b2bmarketing.net). Hands up how many of you are fed up with hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s going to transform the m...

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5 Strategies to Drive Sales Productivity

Posted by Shelley Cernel on May 23, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). Almost every company struggles with sales productivity, and this problem is only exacerbated by the rising pressure to meet or exceed inc...

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3 Easy Ways to Boost Marketing Content Quality

Posted by Cheyanne Ritz on May 19, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). In any definition of content marketing, we generally need to indicate that it’s free of cost. You create content that you give away...

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How to Reconfigure Your Sales Operations for Account-Based Selling

Posted by Danny Wong on May 5, 2017 (entrepreneur.com). As the B2B sales process becomes increasingly complex, it’s becoming obvious why so many companies are choosing to steer away from the t...

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Why "Do Nothing" is no longer an option for B2B Marketers

What’s the new norm? Change is. Heard that one before? Probably. But if you’re a B2C marketer, you’ll know how true it is. And the B2B world—once considered the “quiet man” of digital mark...

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The Biggest Faux Pas for Sales and Marketing Alignment

By Jennifer Dignum on 26 April, 2017 (salesforce.com). Making sure that sales and marketing work well together is a top priority for organizations. Without alignment, performance suffers, and compa...

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5 Reasons to Choose Jabmo as your Partner for ABM

We’re Jabmo. Here’s Why We’re Different. If you are reading this, the chances are pretty high that you already know the value of Account-Based Marketing. As a formal process supported by technol...

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ABM Brings Customer Centricity to B2B Marketing

Posted by Rob Leavitt on April 19, 2017 (itsma.com). For those of us in business-to-business marketing, 2016 was the year of account-based marketing (ABM) and the din has only grown louder in 2017. ...

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Why the Manufacturing Industry Needs Content Marketing

Posted by Cara May-Cole on April 13, 2017 (hallaminternet.com). When it comes to B2B content marketing, it’s time for the manufacturing industry to tap into some new skills and get themselves ...

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How Will Artificial Intelligence Change the Current B2B Sales Process?

Posted by Tukan Das on April 13, 2017 (business2community.com). Artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. From voice-controlled home systems that learn your behavior to applications in healt...

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Do not Contribute to the ”Content Chock”

Posted by Erik Annerberg on April 13, 2017 (accountbasedmarketing.org). Without a well thought-through plan for your content you will lose both money and time. If “content is king”, then...

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5 Reasons Why Your Sales and Marketing Teams Should Be Closer

Posted by Shelley Cernel on April 7, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). Sales and marketing teams don’t get along. They work in sequestered worlds without communicating their efforts, but both teams are...

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B2B? Then don’t measure like B2C!

Posted by Erik Annerberg on April 6, 2017 (accountbasedmarketing.org). Have you ever received an automated email where the subject line says something like: “Hi Erik! You know that you can get...

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Why Doesn’t the Sales Department Follow up on our Leads?

Posted by Erik Annerberg on March 30, 2017 (accountbasedmarketing.org). A little more than a year ago I met a marketing director at a global company that was tasked with looking into the companyR...

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Change of Pace, B2B

Posted by Rolf Andersson on 28 March, 2017 (accountbasedmarketing.org). The main difference for sales and marketing directors now in comparison to earlier can be summed up in one word: speed. A term ...

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Inbound Marketing or Account-based Marketing?

Posted by Erik Annerberg on March 23, 2017 (accountbasedmarketing.org). During the past decade, inbound marketing has become one of the leading B2B marketing strategies for demand and lead generation...

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What is Account-Based Marketing 2.0?

Account-Based Marketing Account-Based Marketing is an approach that dedicates marketing resources to a list of specific accounts. It is a discipline that requires understanding target account behavior...

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If All Sales Are Account Based, Why Isn't All of Marketing?

Posted by Tom O’Regan on March 14, 2017 (adage.com). “There’s nothing new under the sun,” wrote the sage nearly 25 centuries ago, and it still holds true for B2B marketers to...

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ABM Success Requires “Unnatural” Teamwork

Posted by David Dodd on 13 March, 2017 (CustomerThink.com). One of the most formidable challenges related to account-based marketing is the need to build and sustain a high level of teamwork among bu...

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Why Content Marketing Urgently Needs to Think ABM

Posted by Peter Mollins on March 7, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). Account Based Marketing (ABM) is everywhere. And no wonder – it’s a powerful approach to B2B marketing that recognizes a glaring...

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7 Reasons You Are Losing Sales Deals

Posted by Shelley Cernel on March 2, 2017 (knowledgetree.com). Prospects will look for any little reason to dismiss your product from their consideration. If buyers have an unpleasant interaction wit...

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Connecting with Customers: The Four P's of Content Marketing

Posted by Julie Schwartz on March 2, 2017 (itsma.com). According to ITSMA’s recent How Buyers Consume Information study, a new Four P’s are emerging to guide content marketing that trul...

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Five Priorities for Account-Based Marketing Leaders

Posted by Matt Senatore on February 20, 2017 (siriusdecisions.com). Account-based marketing (ABM) leaders should focus on five specific priorities this year to grow their programsABM requires a go-to...

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The Marriage of AI and ABM: A Perfect Match for B2B Organizations

Posted by Shabana Arora on 16 February, 2017 (Martechadvisor.com) Over the past few months, B2B marketing and sales professionals have been bombarded with a wide variety of content on artificial inte...

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Using Content to Successfully Sell to Different B2B Buying Modes

Posted by Shelley Cernel on 15 February, 2017 (KnowledgeTree.com) Sales should not be a one-size-fits-all approach. Each buying situation is different, and today’s buyers expect an individualized p...

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THE HACKIES: How to hack your CRM for ABM

Posted by Scott Brinker on 14 February, 2017 (Chiefmartec.com) When any organization endeavors to implement account-based marketing, there comes a point where their reporting framework must follow s...

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Recognizing B2B Buying Triggers

Posted by Hank Barnes on 3 January, 2017 (Blogs.Gartner.com) As plans continue to be refined for 2017, there is one area that I feel needs to rise to the top of sales and marketing priority lists–t...

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Account Awareness: Revenue Navigation for B2B Sellers

Today’s marketer is under immense pressure to perform and demonstrate real business impact. Inside sales want more leads, field sales want better leads, account management wants deeper engagement a...

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3 Account-Based Marketing Mistakes you Can’t Afford to Make

Posted by Joe Paone and Vyoma Kapur on 2 February, 2017 (Blog.Marketo.com) Account-based marketing is gaining in popularity in large part due to its high potential for improving return on investme...

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The Slow, Necessary Death of the MQL

Posted by Todd Berkowitz on 1 February, 2017 (Blogs.Gartner.com) A lot of research notes and blog posts have been written over the years about the impending death of a particular technology or metho...

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B2B Buyers Make the Case for Better Marketing and Sales Alignment

Posted by Mary Shea on 6 January, 2017 (Blogs.Forrester.com) Are your marketing and sales teams caught in that endless loop of finger pointing? B2B sellers who complain about lead quality/quantity an...

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10 Fearless Predictions for B2B Tech Sales and Marketing

Posted by Todd Berkowitz on 20 December, 2016 (Blogs.Gartner.com) The work year is winding down and it’s a good time to take stock of what we’ve learned, and make some predictions for next year....

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Should marketing operations exist?

Posted by Matt Heinz on 25 January, 2017 (HeinzMarketing.com) I’m convinced that marketing operations is only increasing in importance for B2B marketing organizations worldwide. The folks at In...

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Is ABM Right For Your Organization?

Posted by Majda Anwar on 18 January, 2017 (Business2Community.com) If your title even hints of marketing, chances are you have heard of account-based marketing, a huge trend in the B2B marketing ind...

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Does your Website have Prosopagnosia?

There’s one salesperson on your team who is always available, always ready to respond to prospects, has been around for a long time, and has a lot of content. Not surprisingly, it’s your numbe...

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The Economics of ABM Account Selection.

Posted by David Dodd on 16 January, 2017 (CustomerThink.com) From all indications, account-based marketing is quickly becoming a core marketing strategy for many B2B companies. The growing popularit...

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7 Ways to get Sales and Marketing Teams to Work Better Together

Posted by Armand David on 13 January, 2017 (www.B2BMarketing.net) We all talk a lot about integrated communications – a phrase that has different meanings to different people in different organisa...

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5 things sales hates about marketing (and how to make them better)

Posted by Oliver Matejka on January 11, 2017 (b2bmarketing.net). Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. We speak to those with experience on the dark side to understand how marketers can ...

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How Social Communities Anchor B2B Digital Programs

Posted by Jennifer Evans on 27 December, 2016 (B2BNN.com) Imagine a US football team on the field without a quarterback. That’s what it’s like to be marketing and communicating online without a ...

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A Short Guide on Social Media Timing

Posted by Melanie Tamblé on 19 December, 2016 (HuffingtonPost.com) If you sell or distribute your products on an international scale, you are faced with the demanding challenge to communicate acr...

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The CMO's Guide to Account-Based Advertising

Today’s world of selling requires understanding and communicating with the self-educated-buyer. Your buyers expect you to know their business, but refuse to speak to your sales team until they’ve ...

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The New B2B Buying Cycle

As a result of the buyer’s self-sufficiency and anonymous activity, it has become harder to influence the buying journey and decision. In order to be truly effective, B2B sales and marketing operat...

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Successful ABM: 10 Guidelines

According to 85% of marketing directors questioned, Account-Based Marketing is the strategy that delivers the best return on investment (Source: ITSMA 2016). What’s stopping you from making the swi...

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Account Expansion with ABM

I’m willing to bet every time you order that double bacon cheeseburger, and the smiling teen asks the infamous “Would you like fries with that?” you cannot resist. Despite the fact that you prom...

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Sales Not Closing? Know When to Panic!

Posted by George Deeb on 5 Augest, 2016 (Entrepreneur.com) Most B2B businesses are sales driven organizations, often with a team of expensive sales people in the market trying to hunt down and close...

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How Account-Based Marketing is Reinventing GTM

Posted by Tae Hea Nahm on 13 July, 2017 (Blog.StormVentures.com) In the early days of Storm, GTM success meant hiring superstar sales reps with deep rolodexes. That changed dramatically with Demand ...

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ABM, Complementary Leverage for Marketing Automation

Marketing automation alone does not generate enough qualified leads. Automated emails sent to leads who filled out a web form on your website simply don’t cut it any more. In fact, 95% of visitors l...

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The 'F-Word' in B2B Relationships

Posted by Aaron Orendorff on May 25, 2016 (entrepreneur.com). When the customer tells you everything is “fine” it is time to be alarmed. Ah, the “f-word”. A universal term char...

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You Had Me At Hello : Website Personalization that Makes a Great First Impression

People who are enthusiastic, welcoming, friendly, and engaging often create a great first impression. Why should websites be any different? They are as much responsible for forming a potential custom...

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Account-Based Retargeting: A Powerful Strategy for B2B Marketing

Account-Based Retargeting (ABR) is a new and very efficient B2B strategy for acquiring target prospects, and for strategically up-selling to your existing accounts. First, by pooling data collected ...

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Account-Based Marketing in a Nutshell: A Free Booklet

Your buyers now expect personalized content tailored for companies just like theirs.  Unfortunately it’s getting harder and harder to deliver what buyers want, because they are staying anonymou...

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The KPIs of Account-Based Marketing

New methods, fresh outlooks, and key pointers! By concentrating sales and marketing resources on a list of target accounts, ABM significantly changes the way you evaluate the performance of your B2B m...