How To Double Your B2B Marketing ROI
Break free of the marketing silos. Search, email, social media and offline marketing campaigns all have to work together to maximize their impact on the bottom line.
Bill Leake, an award-winning speaker and best-selling author, will discuss the proper allocation of resources and people, among other topics, in this webinar, “Double Your B2B Marketing ROI.” Leake is a member of the digital brain trust for Televerde, sponsor of the event, which is being moderated by Andrew Gaffney, Founder of Demand Gen Report.
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How does a 126% increase in revenue impact sound? For marketing executives looking to improve their revenue contribution, the first place to start is increasing conversion rates at different stages of the funnel.
Most marketing teams are now being measured on their contribution to revenue, but to track this impact accurately companies need to track the dynamics of the buying process over time.
While the view of “prospects to leads to opportunities to wins” is still a relevant view of the B2B sales and marketing pipeline, traditional models for effective pipeline management is obsolete. A two-dimensional view of marketing-generated leads that sales reps then develop does not accommodate the dynamics of the new multi-touch, buyer-in-control process that requires continual inside sales/field sales/marketing/buyer interaction. Nor does it enable sales and marketing execs to have clear visibility into their pipeline strengths and weaknesses.
The business buyer’s journey has evolved tremendously over the past few years. Prospects are educating themselves earlier in the buying process, and starting conversations with sales much later. As new approaches to reaching and nurturing audiences have grown more sophisticated, along with enabling technologies, what are the latest and most effective strategies that leading B2B marketers can best take advantage of to stay in front of their prospects and ensure their brands rise above the competition?