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When it comes to what is, and isn’t, Account-Based Marketing (ABM), there are as many opinions out there as there are ABM experts. The reality is that ABM (now ABX, in some circles) is ever-evolving and so what qualifies as ABM is a moving target. Also, does it matter? Well,… Read More
Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. That’s not simply because prospective customers will engage more readily with content that better aligns with whether they’re… Read More
A client asks: “We’ve been told that we should use a separate and unique domain for email that’s different from our main Web domain. Is this something you’d recommend?” The most common business case for using a separate email domain is that doing so can help protect a company’s main… Read More
A recent report by LinkedIn and research agency System1 found that the bulk of B2B advertising is ineffective. I’ve written elsewhere in this space about the sorry state of B2B creative in general, so the headline came as no surprise. What was surprising, however, was the criteria by which the… Read More
In an era of Instagram, TikTok, and Clubhouse, few marketing channels are more “old school” than the humble email newsletter. And, yet, newsletters are still thriving as a B2B marketing channel, driven in part by data privacy regulations (CCPA, GDPR) that push companies to adopt a more permission-based, subscription model… Read More
2020 was a year of change for marketers worldwide, much of it not for the best of reasons. Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months… Read More
A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? What best practices should we put in place? There are multiple, legitimate reasons to suspend or even delete non-responsive leads from your mailing lists or CRM database: * Non-responsive leads can weigh down… Read More