A Quick Start Guide to Planning Your Account-Based Marketing Road Map

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has been gaining much attention among B2B organizations over the last two years. A longestablished, originally sales-based strategy, ABM calls for marketers to focus on decisionmakers within specifically targeted companies that best fit for the marketer’s solutions and services. The promise of ABM is efficiency and effectiveness – it decreases the amount of time and resources spent on lessvaluable audiences, allowing marketers to generate more targeted leads and close a greater number of profitable deals with ideal companies.

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Campaign Stars is a Customer Acquisition Platform that enables B2B brands to find, engage, and sell to more prospects to accelerate revenue growth. Our customizable platform drives the creation and cadence of your funnel, shortening sales cycles and growing deal size by improving account targeting and lead quality. This is a demand generation machine that you plug into instantly as a service. It is built on a 4-part integration of market intelligence data, messaging development, demand generation, and performance tracking.

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As ABM Programs Mature, Practitioners Are Building Stronger Relationships & Generating Better ROI

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

ABM gets better with age - but unfortunately, practitioners don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. Demand Gen Report's "2022 ABM Benchmark Survey" uncovered that 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Lead Generation and Management for SMB Sales & 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!

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The Big Book of Intent

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

When teams are tasked with growing a more qualified demand pipeline, they look for software that can help. Questions like “Can we afford it? Will it integrate with our existing tech stack? What value will it add to our bottom line?” add to the anxiety of the search. They want to gather as much information as possible about the product experience, key capabilities, and competing solutions to make the best choice for their team and (technology) stack. Savvy sales and marketing teams know that the buying journey starts with online research and content that helps cut through the noise.

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Delivering Frictionless Customer Experience

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Our relationships with brands naturally change over time, and the radical, accelerated digital evolution of consumer behavior and expectations over the past two years only serves to underscore the need for instant gratification. Not long ago, CX professionals focused in large part on behavioral differences between generations—Millennial or Gen Z versus Boomer. But today’s CX behaviors and the challenges associated with them transcend generations. The pandemic has transformed most of us into digital natives.

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Go-to-Market Data Integration Playbook

whitePaper | November 20, 2022

As buyer shift their expectations and behaviors in response to a “digital first” world, businesses need to accelerate their digital transformations to keep up. Marketers and Revenue Operations have taken prominent roles in driving this transformation and are under increasing pressure to deliver maximum impact with every investment.

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

Selling or marketing to someone you have limited insights on is like trying to hit a piñata blindfolded. You have a general idea of where it is, but without knowing its exact whereabouts, you’re taking swings in the dark, and more often than not—you’ll miss your target. Gaps in buyer insights—pain points, account needs, and goals—are a huge issue for accountbased marketing (ABM) teams looking to deepen relationships with existing customers and target high-value prospects. Personalization lives at the core of ABM, and yet, personalization at scale toward target accounts (35 percent) and developing targeted content for accounts and personas (30 percent) are in the top five ABM challenges, according to Demand Gen Report.

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Campaign Stars

Campaign Stars is a Customer Acquisition Platform that enables B2B brands to find, engage, and sell to more prospects to accelerate revenue growth. Our customizable platform drives the creation and cadence of your funnel, shortening sales cycles and growing deal size by improving account targeting and lead quality. This is a demand generation machine that you plug into instantly as a service. It is built on a 4-part integration of market intelligence data, messaging development, demand generation, and performance tracking.

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