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I think I must have had my head under a rock as I hadn’t heard that B2B acquisition costs had gone up until recently, and I certainly hadn’t noticed that much – yet I work in B2B acquisition and live and die by cost-per-lead campaigns. For a recent new business...
Over the last few years there’s been a significant push to embark on Account Based Marketing (ABM) programmes, whether one-to-one focused programmes, one-to-few or one-to-many, and organisations are clearly generating success and seeing the benefits. I’m going to put...
In times like these, it's so important to have the confidence to rip up the process to suit your customer. Our MD Nicola Ray talks to Kim Jones of hgkc about data protection on a global scale, platform integration and innovation through people and technology....
If you asked your sales team what they wanted most, how do you think they’d respond? The most obvious answer is sales, and of course, commission, but then they’d think about it… and the next most common answer is ‘more insight about the buyer’. Give them insights and...
Too often, B2B digital advertising and PPC accounts in particular, are set up and left to run with a limited check on how they’re doing. In most cases the ads just keep running, but in some cases the budget gets exhausted and you’re done – left underwhelmed with...
When we look under the hood of B2B digital advertising accounts, I’m often surprised by the set-up or structure of what’s going on. You can usually tell in an instant that the person, team or agency behind the account hasn’t really given much thought to the B2B buying...
Too often, we see marketers implementing marketing automation platforms without really thinking through the marketing automation strategy and the impact on the business. In most cases, it’s simply time – there’s an urgency to get going with the set-up and transfer of...
It’s no big secret that digital strategic direction can fall between the cracks in many organisations. It’s estimated that 85% of a customer’s relationship with a business will be digital by 2020. So, it’s easy to see why the priority to go digital has become such...
In B2B marketing we are tasked with lead generation, but is quantity over quality really the best approach? Generating top of funnel leads is expensive and often uses a scattergun approach. Having to review and qualify all those leads – good and bad, is extremely time...
I recently bought a Nintendo Switch for my son and it’s all about power-ups, battles and other techniques used to boost health and extend game play. The marketing equivalent of a power-up? Intent data. Many of the campaigns our clients are running are simply doing the...