Marketing and selling to B2B customers used to be a lot easier, straightforward, and predictable. As marketers and salespeople, you were in charge.
B2B Buyers Have Changed. Have Your Marketing Tactics?
Topics: Marketing, Sales, Client relations, B2B, Marketing strategy, Tactics, Buyer's journey, Sales funnel
B2B Marketing: Don’t Confuse Strategy with Tactics
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Topics: Marketing, Persona, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Sales, Planning, Marketing strategy, Tactics
Email marketing isn’t just sending commercial after commercial. It’s focusing on “What’s in it for me” for your potential clients that will eventually lead to a commercial relationship. Each phase of the message and delivery should be structured to establish and grow this foundation.
Topics: Sales, Email marketing
How Account-based Marketing Relieves Five Marketing Headaches
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
Your ABM Needs and Our Marketing Communications Resources
Amy Kenigsberg, COO & Co-founder, talks about how K2 can up your ABM game
Ask any marketer: account-based marketing, which targets and engages specific accounts with personalized campaigns, is a powerful and profitable strategy.
Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM
How to Overcome the Five Barriers to Sales & Marketing Alignment
Build up ABM success by bringing down the silos
Account-based marketing (ABM), which replaces broad marketing campaigns with laser-focused efforts on key accounts, cannot happen when there’s daylight between sales and marketing.
ABM’s mission to identify and target specific prospects requires coordinating resources. This means replacing traditional sales and marketing silos with sales and marketing alignment and partnership: a task that’s easier said than done.
Topics: Marketing, Inbound marketing, Messaging, PR, Account-based marketing, Sales, ABM
Creating the Perfect Combination of Account-based & Inbound Marketing
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
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
Content That Converts: Maximize SaaS Analytics for Powerful Sales Enablement
In today's competitive SaaS landscape, closing deals requires more than just persuasive sales tactics—it demands compelling, data-driven content that resonates with prospects and clearly demonstrates value. The good news? Your platform already contains the analytics gold needed to create powerful sales enablement materials that drive conversions.
Unlocking Your Data's Sales Potential
Your SaaS platform continuously gathers valuable insights that can transform sales conversations. Usage patterns reveal industry-specific needs, adoption trends highlight value realization timelines, and performance metrics demonstrate concrete ROI. These analytics aren't just operational data—they're the foundation for sales content that speaks directly to prospect pain points.
Topics: Marketing, Sales, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Sales funnel, Sales enablement content, Data
Plan for success.
Trade shows are one of the few places where you can meet many potential buyers personally, putting your solutions center stage and making a great first impression on potential customers.
You need to remember that successful trade shows and getting great ROI from your enormous investment depend not only on having the best exhibit space, attention-grabbing graphics, high-tech demos and free takeaways. It also depends on avoiding common mistakes often made by both new and veteran marketers. Even seasoned professionals could fall into trade-show traps.
Instead, here are our tips about how to be prepared.
Topics: Trade show, Conferences, Sales