Demand for Results Pushes Marketing Budgets Down

whitePaper | June 4, 2021

For B2B industrial and technical companies embracing modern marketing practices, we view the website as your most important marketing asset and lead generation tool. We’ve also said a great website can be like adding a few more people to your company’s sales team. The challenge, however, is to fine tune your website and other digital marketing strategies to provide a stream of marketing qualified leads. And, at the same time, establishing disciplined processes to promptly follow up on each lead. The role of marketing, including how marketing works with sales within B2B companies, has shifted dramatically within just the past few years. Emerging technologies and digital marketing tactics are also blurring the lines between traditional sales and marketing roles. And according to Aberdeen Group, sales and marketing alignment can lead to a 32% increase in year-over-year growth.

whitePaper | February 4, 2022

Finding new customers is a constant struggle for any business. Whether you’re launching a new product, entering a new market, or even branding your business, you have to get the word out. That’s why you need a GTM strategy. At its core, a go-to-market strategy is an action plan outlining the steps to be taken by a company so it can reach out to the right audience with the right message to grow and brand itself as a company. In a nutshell, it covers everything from product development to customer service, including business strategy.

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 | August 5, 2021

Most B2B marketers’ arsenals rely on third-party intent data, but the growing privacy restrictions affecting third-party cookies are forcing marketers to rethink the use of these popular tracking tools. Savvy marketers are recognizing the untapped potential of first-party intent data as a replacement for traditional tracking methods. First-party intent data is unique because it’s proprietary to the organization that harvests it from its prospects. This in-house data collection technique enables companies to have total control over the data and target specific accounts with tailored messaging. Coupled with the new privacy restrictions web browsers are implementing, it seems like a no-brainer for companies to increase reliance on - or get started with - this data set.

whitePaper | January 10, 2023

Today’s B2B buyer is better informed than ever before, which comes with a growing preference for self-service buying experiences (i.e., opting to research products on their own as opposed to connecting with a salesperson). In fact, when surveyed, 87% of B2B buyers said they would prefer to self-serve all or part of their buying journey – meaning by the time a buyer fills out a contact form from your website, they are likely in the final stages of their decision-making process.

whitePaper | January 13, 2023

With an uncertain economy, marketers at B2B enterprises are scrutinizing their 2023 strategy to get as much mileage out of their approach as possible. In our recent survey with Ascend2, we found that data is a major focus as is an investment in technology. We found that 78% of large B2B marketing organizations (those with more than 1000 employees) experienced growth of 10% or more in 2022. After two years of marketing during a pandemic, many B2B brands found their footing in 2022 with a heavier reliance on digital channels and renewed spending from clients ready to move forward.