B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide

Marketing automation use continues to climb, as B2B marketers try to leverage data and analytics into more personalized campaigns that create positive bottom-line impact. Marketing Automation Trends, published by Ascend2, found that 71% of B2B marketers already use marketing automation systems; another 23% intend to use marketing automation in the future. Nearly three-quarters of marketers expect their companies’ marketing technology (martech) budgets to increase in 2017, according to State of Marketing Technology 2017, published by chiefmartec.com and Walker Sands Communications (see Table 1). Another 28% expect their martech spending to remain level, while only two percent say their martech spending will decrease.

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How to Future-Proof Your Sales Funnel

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

What works and what doesn’t across sales has shifted dramatically over the last two years. But one thing is clear, if you’re only focused on direct sales, you’re missing huge opportunities to drive revenue and future-proof your sales funnel. It’s no secret that direct sales are limiting. After all, you’re leaving an entire indirect sales channel on the sideline. Direct sales typically reach only the prospects that are directly looking for your solutions or offerings. And if you have a data-driven sales organization, it’s likely your team prioritizes leads that fit certain criteria (such as industry, company size, revenue, etc.). This leaves countless deals on the bench – and those deals can make or break revenue targets

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Multi Channel Marketing Musts

whitePaper | February 2, 2022

As a result of a global pandemic and advances in telemedicine and other digital avenues of engagement, more and more patients are seeking options for remote care. The platforms and technologies that patients are using to engage with their healthcare are changing and the regulations are changing as well. This shift is creating a universal marketing challenge that healthcare brands must face today in order to remain competitive.

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Making Sense of Digital Experience Monitoring Solutions

whitePaper | September 17, 2021

As customers increasingly rely on web services, speed and dependability are crucial for their online experience — and your bottom line. With digital experience monitoring (DEM), your organization can achieve greater observability, keep up with an optimal customer-centric digital strategy and respond to problems more effectively. But it’s important to understand which monitoring solution best fits your business needs. Read Making Sense of Digital Experience Monitoring Solutions to learn how DEM can improve your web performance, including: Why DEM is critical for a great customer experience The benefits of front-end application monitoring solutions How to choose the right solution for your organization

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Achieving Channel Growth by Recruiting Influential MSPs

whitePaper | June 17, 2021

The expansion of managed services and MSPs’ increasing influence on enterprise technology purchases has created an urgency for IT companies to recruit the right MSP partners to support their channel organizations. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to define and execute successful MSP recruitment initiatives.

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Partner marketing goes mainstream and budget dollars follow

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

This includes traditional tactics as well as new approaches such as account-based marketing, behavioral analytics, and mobile and omnichannel marketing. Even as the landscape has shifted, however, the value partnerships offer has remained steadfast. Foundry’s third Partner Marketing Study (previously conducted in 2014 and 2019) set out to document the perceived value of partner marketing programs as well as how companies are implementing them. The survey of 379 professionals who give and/or receive partner marketing funds found that the value of such programs has grown over time and an uncertain economy has not influenced investment plans.

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Why Your Go-To-Market Strategy Matters

whitePaper | August 3, 2020

Defining and managing a strong go-to-market strategy is critical for your business. Unfortunately, too many companies fail to focus on their go-to-market strategy as a competitive advantage. After helping hundreds of companies accelerate their revenues, The Spur Group can definitively state this can be a costly mistake. Most companies get born through product innovation. They are founded on an idea—a new way of doing something. But as a market matures, it is harder to sustain innovation.

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