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Cross-Channel Engagement Coordinate engagement across human and digital channels to engage your customers on the channels they prefer. Adobe is a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management As customer buying journeys become more and more complex, it's important for B2B marketers to choose a marketing automation solution that can keep up. Get report now Marketo Engage Interactive Tour Watch an overview of our engagement marketing solutions and an in-depth product demo covering email, nurturing, automation, and more. View product tour
Discover everything Marketo Engage has to offer Content Personalization Present best-fit content for 1:1 interactions and maintain personalization at scale using AI to impress your customers with compelling content that exceeds expectations. Experience Automation Dynamically nurture customers and score engagement through every journey stage so you can automate your entire customer experience and adapt quickly and stay relevant. Marketing Impact Analytics Prove and improve impact together with sales using multitouch attribution across every touchpoint so you can gain visibility into how your entire customer experience is working and what you can improve. Marketing Data Environment Enrich and segment AI-powered audiences using integrated profiles and engagement history so you can know the latest state of each customer relationship. Sales Partnership Arm Sales with prioritized leads, accounts and recommended content so you can achieve your shared, growing pipeline goals together as one revenue team.
Help buyers self-discover and evaluate you How? Ensure your marketplace profiles are 100% buyer ready. Conduct a top-down audit of your profile's contact info, messaging, links, resources – everything. Ask yourselves: is your best-of content up there? This includes new videos, downloadable assets, and platform imagery. Why? Your profile will be one of three top sources B2B buyers use before buying. It's critical – especially now – that it's polished, optimized, and trustworthy. Your profiles must be as representative of your product and solution as your own website. 2. Win buyer trust with authentic (and current) reviews of your software How? Ensure your marketplace profile's reviews are fresh, current, and contextual. If you're not auto-collecting new reviews, now's the time to set it up to keep reviews up-to-date and collection costs low. Why? Reviews are the number one information source for B2B buyers, and don't forget that 85% of buyers ignore reviews more than three months old. This means that keeping your reviews fresh and current – especially in software – will be the difference between buyers trusting or disregarding yours.
By Joe Pulizzi published April 3, 2013 Est Read Time: 3 min The Content Marketing Institute is excited to publish B2B Software Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budget, and Trends — North America, sponsored by International Data Group (IDG). This report, which reveals how business-to-business (B2B) software marketers replied to questions on our most recent survey on B2B content marketing, shows that this group — in many ways — has embraced content marketing with more gusto than any other industry we've studied. For example, nearly all software marketers (99 percent) are now using content marketing. They use more tactics (14) than their B2B peers overall (12) and they use those tactics with greater frequency. Here are some of the other key insights: Software marketers prioritize their goals differently than their B2B content marketing peers do Lead generation, thought leadership, and lead management/nurturing are more important goals for software marketers than they are for their B2B peers, who generally cite brand awareness and customer acquisition as their top goals.
Marketing automation platforms are available from many vendors — at a range of prices and feature sets — to fit the needs of all sorts of organizations. That said, to better understand what marketing automation can do in different industries and situations, we can sort all of the options into a few basic types: B2B, B2C, small business, and mobile marketing automation. Let's take a look at these four types of automation, and how each is suited to the specific marketing and sales needs of a given market segment. The business-to-business (B2B) arena has traditionally been the home of marketing automation. That's because B2B prospects and customers form a small, focused target market, which is usually: Engaged in a multistage procurement process Part of an ongoing relationship of repeat business This makes B2B a relationship-driven environment where product education and awareness building are vital. It's also an arena where purchases are not made by individuals on the spur of the moment; instead, buying decisions are considered and rational, and usually involve more than one person.
"I've known Josh for 10 years now and he continues to be one of the few operators I've met who has a genuine passion for the SMB software market. He was an early advocate for what we were building at SinglePlatform and can honestly say that our acquisition by Constant Contact would not have happened without him. " Kenny Herman Exec @ Olo, Entrepeneur, Angel Investor "Josh and team are the super connected, experienced SMB B2B software experts that I go to when we are thinking about strategic partnerships, capital or independent advice. It's tough to have access to this type of professional help in our fast paced, competitive environment. " Christopher Marentis Founder and CEO at Surefire Local My entire tech career – as both operator and advisor – has been spent exclusively within the SMB software market. As an operator, I was fortunate enough to work in leadership positions at market leading SaaS companies – most notably Constant Contact and inDinero. Most recently, I was Vice President at SurePath Capital Partners – the leading boutique investment bank focused exclusively on the SMB software market where we completed hundreds of millions in financing and exit transactions.
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Fifty-three percent will increase their content marketing spend On average, software marketers allocate 29 percent of their total budget to content marketing (their peers allocate 33 percent). Slightly over half of software marketers are planning to increase this amount over the next 12 months — a figure that is in line with the amounts we see marketers in other industries investing. Producing enough content is a challenge Like most other content marketers, the two biggest challenges software marketers face are producing enough content and producing the kind of content that engages. While most other challenges are similar to those experienced by their B2B peers, software marketers do struggle more often with lack of integration across marketing: 36 percent of them say this is a challenge, compared with 25 percent of their peers across all industries. Special thanks to MarketingProfs for their participation in the annual survey on content marketing and the overall B2B North America comparisons made here.