30-second summary: For marketers, setting your sights on opportunities, pipeline and revenue ensures better alignment with your revenue team peers in sales and customer success. That shifts us away from MQLs, which are still the lifeblood of many marketing teams. MQLs typically require a hand raise or website form fill in order to provide enough information to qualify the lead. MQLs keep marketers stuck thinking about leads or contacts, not buying teams. This creates a split between sales and marketing and is a missed opportunity for marketing to surround and engage all the buying team’s members to build REAL pipeline. With an ABM platform measuring account engagement, we get a clearer picture of who’s ready to buy and then can send them the most tightly-honed campaigns to move leads into our pipeline and beat our goals. I was recently asked to participate in a webinar called “True Confessions of a …

30-second summary: Terminus is an award-winning account-based marketing (ABM) platform aimed at helping B2B marketers reach target accounts more efficiently and effectively. The platform, self-described as “all-in-one account-based marketing software” combines first and third-party data to help B2B companies target in-market accounts, manage audiences, and orchestrate marketing campaigns. With ABM, the goal isn’t to obtain more leads, but to be smarter about targeting the right prospects and nurturing those prospects throughout the sales funnel. Terminus developed a TEAM framework that includes five elements—target, engage, activate and measure (TEAM) which looks at ABM as a B2B strategy, not a tool. In 2018, Terminus acquired a company called Brightfunnel, a tool that measures marketing’s impact throughout the sales funnel. Meaningful ABM metrics are focused on business outcomes—improved acquisition, speeding up pipeline velocity, and expansion of existing accounts. Founded in 2014, by Eric Spett, Eric Vass, and Sangram Vajre, Terminus is a key …

Google AdWords can be both exciting and terrifying. If you get it right, AdWords could totally transform your business by driving high traffic , generating more leads and revenue, and boosting sales. But if you get it wrong, you‘ll end up spending thousands of dollars and get absolutely nothing in return. Let’s consider the following statistics: Google ads produce 3.5 billion interactions every day. Advertisers can expect around 700% return on investment for all their efforts. 90% of consumers say that ads influence their purchase decisions. 66% of shoppers prefer shopping online rather than from malls or stores. However, the tantalizing world of advertisements isn’t as straightforward as it seems. You see, neither the promises nor problems that come with Google AdWords can fully describe the dynamic mechanism of a marketing platform and how it works. Additionally, you may not have the time or may not be able to give …

A question: Do you know anyone who doesn’t have an email? Highly unlikely, right? After all, it’s mandatory to get an email address for all kinds of things – from opening a bank account to signing up for social media platforms to booking flights online. And that’s not it! Nearly 3.93 billion users have email addresses, out of which the clients you’re trying to target or retain already have active email addresses. What makes it even better is that most people don’t mind signing up for a product/service demo or a lead magnet in exchange for their email addresses. In short, you get a direct connection to your lead, where you can leverage your offerings and boost your chances of landing a sale. Let’s take a look at some email stats while we’re at it: Nearly 99% of consumers check their emails daily. 73% of millennials prefer receiving business communication …

In 2017, PPC advertisers invested over $10 billion dollars . If you stacked that many $100 dollar bills on top of each other, you’d have a nearly seven-mile tall tower of money. So, that’s a TON of money. But year after year, global ad spend across every major PPC channel is growing even higher. Source: Statistica And this explosive growth isn’t happening for no reason. It’s happening because PPC works. It’s the classic “spend money to make money” model. From social media to paid search, PPC is a smart way to see quick results. But that’s only true if you know what you’re doing. Which… is where an experienced PPC agency comes in. They spend countless hours experimenting and learning everything there is to know so you don’t have to. So if you’re looking to hire an agency to create and manage your PPC campaigns but aren’t sure where to …

Paid advertising offers a 200% ROI . So for every dollar you spend, you get two dollars in return. It’s no surprise that nearly 80% of marketers consider PPC profitable and beneficial for their businesses. But it’s not as easy as throwing ads up, seeing what sticks, and hoping people buy from you. There’s a reason PPC agencies exist — managing countless moving parts, and continuous algorithm updates take time. Plus… none of those things are easy to stay on top of, either. To make matters worse, choosing the best PPC company for your business presents a new set of challenges. So in this article, I cover my top recommendations, characteristics to look for, and what to expect working with an agency. Let’s get started! The 5 top PPC companies in the world PPC is an exciting type of digital marketing because you can quickly and directly evaluate your investment …

Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. What if I told you there was a single marketing channel through which companies are finding a 3,800% ROI? That’s earning $38 for every dollar spent . This magic marketing channel is called email. Yes, just good old email. And that insane average return on investment is one of many email marketing statistics that have held true for years now. The biggest surprise to me is how many companies aren’t taking advantage of email marketing. I hear it’s too much work to design newsletters, manage a growing number of contacts, personalize messages, and keep the campaign moving forward. There’s this perception that email is a time-sink, but it doesn’t align with the statistics. If it were really too labor intensive to run an efficient email marketing campaign, the average …

You have developed a killer website and drafted an effective marketing strategy to generate leads and drive sales. So what next? Considering paid advertising offers a 200% ROI , it’s a no-brainer that your marketing strategy should incorporate the same . “But I have no idea where to start with Google ads – in fact, I don’t know where to begin at all!” Well, even if that’s the case, you still have nothing to worry about. You can hire a PPC consultant who can enhance your paid advertising campaigns by offering a unique set of skills coupled with experience and expertise. Choosing the right consultant, however, can be challenging if you don’t know what to look for in a PPC expert, which is where we come in. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has created this handy guide to help you find the best PPC consultant for your business – …

30-second summary: We provide seven examples of enterprise-level providers of AI-enabled marketing solutions as well as case studies for each. Each of these companies are leaders in their respective category, with B2B and B2C organizations each benefiting from their AI-enabled solutions. This list is not inclusive of every enterprise-level provider, but is meant to give mid-to-enterprise-level organizations an sense of the best-in-class tools that exist in the market today, and how organizations are using them to improve their marketing, sales, and customer experience initiatives. As part of our ongoing coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing, we’ve compiled a list of ten enterprise-level providers of technology solutions that utilize AI in some capacity. This list covers key categories within the martech space including digital asset management, marketing and sales enablement, customer experience/engagement, and account-based marketing. This list is not – by any stretch of the imagination – comprehensive in terms …

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology. This list is not inclusive of every enterprise-level provider, but is meant to present an overview of best-in-class tools that exist in the market today, including tangible examples of how organizations are using them to improve their marketing, sales, and customer experience initiatives. It’s marketing automation week at ClickZ, and as part of our coverage of this game-changing technology, we’ve compiled a list of the top five enterprise-level solutions based on market share. The global marketing automation software market was $2.4 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach over $6.8 billion by 2026. Social Media Today’s 2019 State of Marketing Automation survey revealed that two-thirds of marketers are …