MARKET WITH A MISSION A Quickstart Guide for your Account Based Marketing Strategy

A long, long time ago (ok, really just over a decade ago) B2C and B2B companies started realizing the need for more personalized marketing. Because consumers of all types were craving a more personalized buying experience, the ways of marketing had to change. Marketers needed to figure out how to take a more strategic approach in defining and targeting key accounts. Insert Account Based Marketing. In 2004, Information Technology Services Marketing Association, better known as ITSMA coined the term Account Based Marketing. According to ITSMA, “ABM focuses explicitly on individual client accounts … it is a collaborative approach that engages sales, marketing, delivery, and key executives toward achieving the client’s business goals.”

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4ventsgroup is an independent marketing and communication consulting agency specializing in HR, B2B and Corporate Communication. For nearly 20 years, in France, all over the world. A 360 ° approach, creative, highly profitable, is developed from the integrated expertise of the agency: digital, social media, media (managed by 4people, our agency 100% media), creation, direct marketing, event, study, standby and benchmark, outsourcing, editorial. 4ventsgroup supports its clients internationally through its partnership with - OneAgent, the leading international network of independent agencies specializing in employer marketing (www.oneagentglobal.com) Magnet, the leading international network of independent marketing agencies ( www.magnetglobal.

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10 Ways to Put Intent Data to Work

whitePaper | February 22, 2023

Here are the 10 ways B2B marketing teams are leveraging the power of intent to fill their pipelines, engage targets, and guide prospects all the way to a sale. Maybe your organization wants to leverage intent data but is not able to allocate the necessary budget or the manpower to build an in-house solution. A more workable alternative might be to import ready-to-work leads generated by an intent monitoring platform. When reviewing possible lead generation partners — like content syndicators and tele-prospecting sources — be sure to ask vendors whether they use intent data in generating the leads they send you, and listen carefully to their responses. The growing popularity of intent data is no secret, and many marketers have begun working the word “intent” into their marketing — including those who incorporate intent data only in the very loosest sense.

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How Content Distribution Enhances Data Clean-Up Efforts

whitePaper | May 14, 2021

A lead generation campaign presents exciting opportunities for a company pursuing growth, but erroneous data can produce disappointing results or worse: high cost with little to no return on investment. Cleansing your data is a necessary phase step, but is not a “one and done” activity. Read the whitepaper to learn how leveraging a data provider and your own content distribution efforts can help you not only reach your audience but keep your data accurate at the same time.

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Marketing attribution for the revenue-driven marketer

whitePaper | September 30, 2022

Life as a SaaS marketer (and a person) in 2022 feels uncertain, to say the least. An ongoing pandemic, talks of a possible recession, and tech companies laying off more than 24,000 employees in the first half of this year means it is definitely not business as usual. Operating with reduced headcount and budgets, marketers are facing increasing pressure to tie activity directly to revenue. Enter marketing attribution, a key pillar of revenue-driven marketing. Attribution enables marketing teams to track the effectiveness of their programs and showcase their impact on the business.

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Top Five Trends Revenue.io Sales Engagement Predictions for 2023 and Beyond

whitePaper | January 30, 2023

Since the beginning of the Pandemic in 2019 through the end of 2021, 75% of all sales roles that were terminated have been re-hired. At the current trend, we will be at or above 98% recovery by the end of 2022 even in a recessionary market. To offset these results, the best sales leaders are focused on using AI-assisted real-time rep support and are increasing their automation of digital channel engagement. Our review of 11.5M sales engagements and conversation outcomes from Sales Development Reps (SDRs) underscores the need for automated conversation guidance to improve seller performance.

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As ABM adoption spreads, marketers find new value in data-driven insights

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Conceived in the early 2000s as a way to bring marketing and sales organizations together around a teambased approach to nurturing their most important accounts, ABM is now used by 70% of marketers, up from just 15% a year ago, according to HubSpot. Technology marketers have taken a particular interest in ABM, given the complex factors that influence IT purchases. Foundry’s second global survey of 500 B2B technology marketers found that satisfaction with ABM continues to be high, particularly at the largest companies. While most organizations are still early in their adoption journey, the results to date indicate that ABM is on track to not only become a mainstream marketing discipline but even displace more traditional methods.

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Long Hold Times Are Killing Your Customer Experience

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

Waiting on hold to get help is inevitable. That being said, long wait times, being bounced around to multiple people, and inability to resolve issues contribute to overall poor experiences for customers and businesses. Time flies when we’re having fun, and it drags on when we’re bored. Sometimes it’s on our side, and other times it’s racing against us. 90-seconds can feel like an eternity when you’re sitting on the phone waiting for help, or answering automated voice prompts, or even waiting for a response from an agent on live chat agent.

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Spotlight

EPOKA

4ventsgroup is an independent marketing and communication consulting agency specializing in HR, B2B and Corporate Communication. For nearly 20 years, in France, all over the world. A 360 ° approach, creative, highly profitable, is developed from the integrated expertise of the agency: digital, social media, media (managed by 4people, our agency 100% media), creation, direct marketing, event, study, standby and benchmark, outsourcing, editorial. 4ventsgroup supports its clients internationally through its partnership with - OneAgent, the leading international network of independent agencies specializing in employer marketing (www.oneagentglobal.com) Magnet, the leading international network of independent marketing agencies ( www.magnetglobal.

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