Making the Most of Inbound Marketing Efforts

Inbound marketing needs a strong marketing automation platform behind it to drive success. Otherwise, you’ll feed your funnel with premature leads who go stale without a strong nurture program in place. This guide explains the role marketing automation and inbound play in your overall marketing strategy. It provides three ways to use marketing automation to enhance your inbound marketing efforts and convert leads to customers.

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Kwanzoo

Kwanzoo provides an All-in-One platform for deploying full-funnel retargeting. account-based marketing and personalized display programs for B2B companies. Find new accounts, contacts and leads; target new accounts and contacts who have never visited your website; easily prioritize accounts for sales, or personalize the ad experience with account & contact profile data. Kwanzoo is an Oracle Marketing Cloud, Marketo and IBM/Silverpop partner, a Google-certified rich media ad platform, and supports a broad range of real-time bidding (RTB) platforms, ad networks & exchanges. Our customers include Lexmark, Paychex, SUSE and others.

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5 Areas That CMOs Struggle in Measuring ROI and Where to Focus

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Gartner has predicted that by next year (2022), profitability will overtake customer experience (CX) as a top strategic priority. This change is part of a longer-term trend. CFOs want rigorous measurement of marketing activities. Metrics like cost per acquisition are at a premium. These metrics are linear and atomic, much like accounting and financial data. This conundrum has led to a plethora of methods and tools to measure marketing effectiveness, and ultimately to optimize the marketing mix. But now this confusing landscape cries out for a more clear-eyed answer of “what’s really working and what’s not?” when it comes to marketing measurement and optimization. The answers are not simple or easy.

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CX Trends, Challenges, & Opportunities

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Brands can continue talking about customer centricity. They can continue exploring new digital options and workflow models. As far as today’s consumers are concerned, brands still have considerable work to do. What ultimately matters, however, is whether these mindsets and strategies are leading to better, more frictionless, more personalized experiences across all channels. In this report you will learn where are brands going wrong and what opportunities do they have to turn customer centricity into a reality.

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The Demand Orchestration datasheet

whitePaper | December 15, 2019

Demand generation leaders at global B2B organizations with a complex range of products and buyers use Idio to predict the interests of every individual, and automatically deliver relevant 1:1 experiences across digital channels.q

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How Marketing Operations Can Make the Most of a Multi-Channel MarTech Stack

whitePaper | September 27, 2022

Marketing Operation Professionals (MOps) are often the unsung hero overseeing the function of your MarTech stack ( marketing technology). Chances are, you already have invested in the tools necessary to ABMify it. But the real challenge is how your MarTech stack comes together to create one killer marketing operations strategy. In this guide we'll show you: Real customer examples and insights into how others approach MarTech in a way that works for them Examples of plays you can orchestrate when your multi-channel ABM stack is at its best Frameworks to design a stack that stacks up and simplifies Marketing Operations Why you need a way to integrate it all (and how to do it quickly)

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What's Working In Social Media Marketing & Selling?

whitePaper | October 13, 2022

Social media marketing and selling is deceptively easy - while it doesn’t take much to fire off a tweet or update a LinkedIn status, the posts that receive the most engagement, and ultimately help close the most deals, are interactive, thoughtful and personalized. But personalization isn’t easy on social media, as its reach extends across the world: 95% of B2B marketers utilize social media content in some form, making it the most widely-used content type. With such a massive reach, marketers often result to generic assets to hopefully cover everyone’s interests, whether it’s an up-and-coming intern or a seasoned CMO. But in a channel as loud, crowded and impersonal as social, blanket-type content won’t suffice.

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Why Account Insights are the Missing Link in ABM Success

whitePaper | January 27, 2022

ABM focuses on targeting the right accounts at the right time and treating your prospect as a market of one. But an often-overlooked component within targeting campaigns is understanding the customer — generating insights into account activities are the missing link. The challenge lies in figuring out which points of information are most relevant to your prospect and crafting a plan to fully leverage them to drive engagement. Enterprise buyers are increasingly protective of their time, while a potential vendor that still expects the luxury of a lengthy introduction and a recounting of what challenges stand in the way of the organization’s progress is unlikely to move the relationship forward.

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Kwanzoo

Kwanzoo provides an All-in-One platform for deploying full-funnel retargeting. account-based marketing and personalized display programs for B2B companies. Find new accounts, contacts and leads; target new accounts and contacts who have never visited your website; easily prioritize accounts for sales, or personalize the ad experience with account & contact profile data. Kwanzoo is an Oracle Marketing Cloud, Marketo and IBM/Silverpop partner, a Google-certified rich media ad platform, and supports a broad range of real-time bidding (RTB) platforms, ad networks & exchanges. Our customers include Lexmark, Paychex, SUSE and others.

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