At first glance, account-based marketing (ABM) and inbound seem like polar opposites: ABM focuses on decision makers within particular enterprises and engages them with personalized communication. Inbound marketing takes a more expansive approach, attracting customers to products and services by creating valuable content.
Topics: marketing, inbound marketing, messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, sales, ABM
Build up ABM success by bringing down the silos
Not all prospects give you the best fit or highest value for your solution - thus, the growing popularity of account-based marketing. Approximately 92 percent of B2B marketers consider ABM a critical component of their marketing efforts; and 87 percent of ROI-measuring marketers say that ABM tops all other marketing investments.
Topics: marketing, inbound marketing, messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, sales, ABM
Taking an account-based marketing (ABM) approach pinpoints your focus on a few high-opportunity, high-value accounts who are more likely to pay attention to your communications because they actually need your product and have the budget for it.
Topics: marketing, inbound marketing, messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, sales, ABM
Hmmm…should this be a blog or rant?
We’re constantly amazed at the number of companies who’ve been around for years and don’t have a cohesive messaging document (MD).
While I understand the aversion – MDs are difficult to execute, with various stakeholders within the company trying to get their voices heard – a well-conceived MD creates a virtual paint-by-numbers scenario, where all of your USPs are well defined for audiences across the purchasing chain, smoothing the account-based marketing process.
Topics: marketing, brand, customer communications, message, messaging, corporate communications, client relations, integrated marketing
Marketing and selling to B2B customers used to be a lot easier, straightforward, and predictable. As marketers and salespeople, you were in charge.
Topics: marketing, sales, client relations, B2B, marketing strategy, tactics, buyer journey, sales funnel
Topics: marketing, persona, brand, customer communications, audience, sales, planning, marketing strategy, tactics
The tension in the room was palpable. The CEO was clearly an unwilling hostage to the situation; that seemed clear. Amy and I were invited to this meeting by T, the vice president of marketing. He wanted to pursue a more aggressive marketing campaign to help his underperforming potential monster technology.
Topics: Public relations, news value, Israel, marketing
Recent research indicates that influencer marketing can generate 11 times greater ROI than more traditional strategies. Unlike conventional tactics that push a message in front of sometimes reluctant audiences, influencer marketing delivers your message via credible, authoritative experts to audiences who trust their content over that from brands. Moreover, influencer marketing is more critical for B2B than for B2C: With B2B purchase price overwhelming B2C’s, word of mouth and endorsement is critical to the former’s success.
Topics: marketing, analyst relations, inbound marketing, messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, sales, ABM, influencer
A pitch-perfect pitch can get top influencers to cover your product
Topics: journalist, analyst, analyst relations, message, corporate communications, technology
Since starting our business more than a decade ago, we’ve seen companies
Topics: Public relations, blog, content, marketing, valuation