Posts tagged marketing strategy
Seven B2B Demand Generation Trends To Fuel Your 2020 Marketing

At the beginning of this year, I predicted several business-to-business (B2B) marketing trends for 2019; as we wrap up the year, I wanted to share where I see the biggest opportunities for B2B marketers in 2020. Clairvoyance aside, the following covers seven trends to guide and inform your 2020 demand generation plans.

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F#*k Sales and Marketing Alignment.

B2B revenue marketers need to stop looking for alignment with sales and instead integrate efforts with sales. We need to shift the conversation from ‘here is what marketing is doing for sales’, to ‘here is what marketing has done with sales’. Because: You can’t have leads without marketing, you can’t have sales without a sales team, and you can’t have revenue without both.

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Say Goodbye To Your Buyer Funnel: 2019 Is The Year Of The Marketing Flywheel

While I still find the buyer funnel to be a solid starting point to introduce new marketers to the foundational elements of inbound marketing, I’ve started to experience the rub of the limits of the model. The funnel, like all models, is meant to be a representation of an idea, something to help you understand a phenomenon but not to be taken literally.

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B2B Marketing Trends You Need To Know For 2019

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that 2019’s business-to-business (B2B) marketing landscape will be more competitive, fuel the ever-growing list of marketing technology and pave the way for better and more engaging methods to reach prospects and customers. But with so many emerging trends on the horizon, where should time-pressed and resource-constrained B2B marketers focus their attention?

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