Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 29, 2024

Here at Marketing Insider Group, we know the power of a solid customer acquisition strategy. But, when it comes to customer acquisition, the first thing you need to understand is this: There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. You’re the detective uncovering what makes your potential customers tick.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In MarTechs MarTechBot explains it all feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot , which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet. Heres a breakdown of the responsibilities, backgrounds, skill sets, and how these roles fit into marketing and marketing operations.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Marketers are often asked to do more with less. After years of struggling to prepare reports for my marketing campaigns, I discovered how AI reporting can truly transform the process — and empower creativity with data-backed strategies. I’m sure every marketer agrees that traditional reporting methods are complex and time-consuming.

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Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There are two extremes when it comes to driving better customer acquisition results: Expanding the team, hiring more salespeople or business development representatives (BDRs). Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising. But strategically, cost-effective acquisition isn’t about spending less or increasing the team.

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Martech

AUGUST 9, 2024

“Echo AI came onto our radar screen because we were looking for AI-driven consumer insight platforms that can help marketing, sales and customer service teams optimize and become more efficient. What we’ve seen are the traditional mediums through which marketing campaigns are pushed out — emails, websites, social media.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Those companies did below the line (BTL) marketing right. Email marketing, direct mail, events — below the line marketing includes these and similar targeted tactics to convince and convert buyers. Table of Contents What is below the line marketing? Answering “What is BTL marketing?” And where do you begin?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

To support advertisers navigating this environment, Google introduced a robust toolset designed to advance their AI-driven marketing strategies. ADH allows advertisers to integrate and analyze data from Google Ads and other sources, offering deeper insights into customer journeys and ad performance while maintaining privacy compliance.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. And it culminates in servicing and retaining existing customers to maximize profit. For more nearly 40 years, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has beeb software-based and data-driven.

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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

Whether thats adding complexity to a simple process or frustrating customers with needless back and forth, friction is bad news for deal velocity. Marketing teams play a crucial role in optimizing tools, content and communication throughout the sales process. Dig deeper: How to align sales and marketing for revenue growth 2.

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Litmus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

What is lifecycle marketing? By aligning your marketing efforts to each stage, you can build stronger relationships, keep customers coming back, and make the most of every interaction.In Lifecycle marketing is a strategy that involves engaging customers with the right message at the right time as they interact with your brand.

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Martech

JULY 31, 2024

Gmail’s new spam guidelines are putting email and CRM marketers in a bit of a pickle. As if that dynamic weren’t enough of a challenge, iOS 15 continues to throw a wrench into the works — any marketers using open rates to measure engagement are trying to make sense of a murky picture.

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Martech

OCTOBER 27, 2023

HubSpot has teamed up with TikTok to provide real-time lead synchronization between the social-media phenom and HubSpot’s Smart CRM. This is TikTok’s first CRM lead generation collaboration. So, clearly, the platform has a lot of potential for B2B marketers. While this is currently only available in the U.S.

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Rock Content

JANUARY 20, 2021

In Digital Marketing , there are few numbers more important than your Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). The Customer Acquisition Cost is a benchmark number used to establish how effective your marketing efforts are and, therefore, is a very important number to know by heart. What is Customer Acquisition Cost?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAPs) are two of the foundational elements of modern martech stacks. Marketing automation platforms help operationalize data on prospects and customers. In an ideal world, this is orchestration at its finest.

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Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Today: CRM. How to prepare for the GPT age in CRM and email by Brian McKenna. Done well, GPT-powered email marketing can lead to conversion lifts, long-term engagement and a bigger base of loyal customers. 5 ways CRMs are leveraging AI to automate marketing today by Gene Marks. Here’s how. Get MarTech!

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Heres a startling reality: while 88% of marketers believe AI and automation are essential for meeting customer expectations, theyre only using about 56% of the tools they buy. This disconnect raises important questions: Are marketers investing in the wrong tools, or are they simply not harnessing their full potential?

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 5, 2025

I primarily work with B2B clients, so Im getting very well-versed in B2B marketing analytics. Every month, I report on the marketing for the prior month, and I turn those marketing analytics into stories and actions. Believe it or not, B2B marketing analytics doesnt have to be boring. Measuring and analyzing data.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the technology brands use to nurture relationships with their customers. These solutions are designed to help sales and service agents communicate with customers more effectively. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into CRM systems and their impact on marketing teams.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many of these platforms include content libraries for marketing materials like flysheets or thought leadership pieces, but marketings involvement often stops there. While sales teams primarily use these tools, heres how integrating marketing into their execution unlocks even greater impact. Should this tool connect to your CRM?

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Litmus

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this article, we’ll cover what customer lifecycle marketing is and how you can implement it to convert casual browsers into loyal brand advocates. What is the customer lifecycle? The customer lifecycle outlines the journey from first contact to loyal advocate. What is customer lifecycle segmentation?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Establishing a martech center of excellence (COE) is essential for navigating modern marketing challenges. Think of it as the core of your marketing strategy, where all tools and processes support your business goals. It might use martech to disrupt the status quo and capture market share quickly.

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Use Insider

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore the intricacies of email marketing automation, a pivotal strategy in modern marketing that, when executed effectively, can transform your engagement metrics and optimize your marketing workflows. When it comes to selecting a premier email marketing platform , Insider stands out.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Being a marketer is hard — I feel it’s always been this way, but now the pressure to deliver results is even higher. Companies are cutting their marketing budgets and watching every penny before deciding what to spend it on. Understand customers better — and faster. Table of Contents Why use AI for conversion rate optimization?

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Litmus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

You want to personalize your emails more and try the latest trends, but something stands in your way: customer data management. For many marketers, coming up with creative email ideas is much more fun (and less confusing) than cleaning up data, tracking new metrics, and finding customer insights.

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Rock Content

MAY 11, 2024

In Digital Marketing , there are few numbers more important than your Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). The Customer Acquisition Cost is a benchmark number used to establish how effective your marketing efforts are and, therefore, is a very significant number to know by heart. How to Calculate CAC?

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 12, 2019

A majority of businesses are using some form of marketing automation nowadays -- in fact, studies cite around 51% of businesses currently use the technology, and that number continues to grow. All of which is to say -- if you're not using marketing automation software in 2019, you might want to reconsider. HubSpot Marketing Automation.

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Martech

JUNE 21, 2024

HubSpot’ s LinkedIn integration boosts sales efficiency with real-time data sync but presents new challenges for SMBs in marketing and consolidation. Salesforce has had a tight integration with Sales Navigator for a while, dominating the market by using LinkedIn data to target the right decision-makers.

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Customers.ai

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Thats what separates brands with loyal customers from the ones stuck chasing their next quick sale. Enter relationship marketing. Relationship marketing is the not-so-secret strategy behind turning one-time buyers into lifetime fans. According to studies, a 5% increase in customer retention can boost profits by up to 95%.

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Lynton Web

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Marketing metrics can feel like navigating a complex maze of numbers, percentages, and acronyms. But when you strip away the complexity, effective measurement boils down to one fundamental question: Are your marketing efforts driving meaningful business results? Consider your marketing metrics as a pyramid.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many B2B companies spend a large amount of their marketing budget on customer acquisition. One area companies often neglect to invest in is customer marketing. And many modern marketers know this. In this blog, we share how you can build trust using a customer marketing strategy.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The four stages of the marketing and sales funnel. But what was once a clear-cut process has become a complex collage of touchpoints thanks to the rise of digital marketing and social media. As Scott Feldman, Customer Intelligence Practice Lead for Canada at SAS describes, “Buying is not linear, and successful brands know it.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But it’s just as important to put effort into keeping these customers. In fact, these days, an increasing number of organizations are discovering it’s more important to focus their attention on retention marketing. This results in disgruntled customers who feel let down and ignored – and a good chance they’ll leave and go elsewhere.

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Sprout Social

JULY 7, 2021

Is your marketing tech stack actually helping your company grow? This phenomenon results in wasted time for your team, not to mention little to no sense of cohesion between your marketing tools. This phenomenon results in wasted time for your team, not to mention little to no sense of cohesion between your marketing tools.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2008

This was because it takes time for the recurring revenues to build up enough to cover the fixed and semi-fixed costs of development, marketing and sales. However, one trap that companies run into is investing in marketing automation that is not as fast, nimble or flexible as tools like salesforce.com or WebEx.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, spending on social media marketing spiked by 74% to reach 23% of marketing budgets according to The CMO Survey , and marketers anticipate spending will remain close to this new high level as we enter the new year. Are you using social to recreate lost customer experiences?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 16, 2011

One of the major problems at technology start up’s today is the lack of understanding of how much sales and marketing principles have changed. “If Sales and marketing has changed so much it’s amazing. Salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, they fulfill it. Use CRM religiously and track, track, track.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Digital marketing goals and challenges – every business has them. The goals we’ve set for our Digital Marketing programs also change constantly, depending on internal and external factors. Digital marketing goals often focus on new customer acquisition, better leads, and brand awareness. Key Takeaways.

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