2017 State of Digital Marketing

whitePaper | January 1, 2021

This week’s round-up comes just 3 days before #FlipMyFunnel hits San Francisco for our sold out account-based marketing (ABM) and sales roadshow! We are excited to challenge the status quo of B2B Marketing and this week’s round-up shows it. We start with the ABM checklist you need to bring perfect marketing and sales alignment. After getting ready to become an ABM hero, we move to learning best practices on to building your target account list. We finally wrap it up with a fun ABM quiz to test your teams knowledge of marketing and sales alignment. Check them out below! 1.The Account-Based Marketing Checklist You Need to Successfully Navigate the Waters This week’s round-up starts off with a must read account-based marketing article from B2C. In this article, Kelly Waffle does a great job at using a sinking ship metaphor to show how ABM can help your marketing team reach “smoother water”. Use this checklist to see where you can improve your teams chance at navigating the waters!

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.

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

Our “State of the Buyer Report: Future of Work Edition” illustrates how marketers can leverage data to develop a better ABM strategy that prioritizes the right accounts and engages them with personalized messaging and content. It examines five topic areas impacting purchase decisions surrounding today’s hybrid workforce—cloud infrastructure, hybrid work, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity—, and provides actionable takeaways for marketers to reach the buying centers that are researching and actively engaging with relevant content and advertising.

whitePaper | January 5, 2023

The B2B buyer’s journey is growing increasingly complex. At the same time, marketing is getting a bigger seat at the executive table with record-high technology budgets that are expected to surpass those of CIOs this year. To top off this added complexity and growing accountability, buzzed-about advances in data analytics have stakeholders assuming marketing can seamlessly report on the evolving landscape in which they operate.

whitePaper | May 5, 2023

With the latest advancements in technology, businesses can now oversee an entire financial transaction in a minute at the comforts of their offices rather than take a time-consuming trip to the bank. With far-reaching access to mobile technology, things have moved even faster than ever as businesses and entrepreneurs are able to deal with each other at the tip of their fingertips. The rapid evolution of B2B solutions has made it possible to find leads and nurture their interest in a product or service through an automated platform that integrates different marketing channels instantaneously. With such accelerated development of technology, doing business has gotten easier every day. However, this has also meant clients moving at a much faster pace. Instantaneous transactions have become the common thing in ways unimaginable just decades ago that “follow-up delays” has become the biggest deal killer today.

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.