A well known quote from marketing icon David Ogilvy: “Don’t count the people you reach; reach the people that count”. This would be the perfect approach for account-based-marketing; you focus your efforts on a selected group of accounts. […] Read more
Marketing automation can be great tooling in order to achieve your marketing KPIs. However, marketers often find themselves confused about how exactly to use marketing automation to the fullest. When results don’t show overnight, we blame the tool. […] Read more
The world of a B2B marketer has changed considerably in the past years. Not only for marketers, but also for customers. We see that buyers go through the buyer and customer journey in a different way. Buyers are better informed than ever before and leave an extensive digital footprint behind. […] Read more
A core driver for many companies is revenue growth. For marketers, this means that you want to keep on optimizing all your activities. Can we model out conversion optimization? This would help in growing, because it helps in knowing where to focus our energy. Websites and landing pages should be conversion machines. I speak to Scott Tousley, one of the growth hackers at HubSpot, during his visit to The Netherlands. […] Read more
Is your business all set? Or, are you still busy organizing data, privacy actions and your opt-in campaign? In both cases it could be good to look at the best practices of others. Because why would you reinvent the wheel?
When we start thinking about a GDPR-compliant way of working we often start with an audit: what data do I already have, what can I do with it and who gave me permission to start mailing and who didn’t? Now we can launch our opt-in campaign, right? In the end that would be the easiest way to reach out to our contacts in the database. […] Read more
Data protection and privacy regulation is on our doorstep. In this article we look at the positive side of things and we describe a case of how an international company, FIS, implemented all that was needed in order to be ready for the new regulation. […] Read more
D-day for the GDPR, the new data and privacy regulation is approaching and many of us are talking about it. In a conversation with data expert Colin Day, we explore the top priorities for B2B marketers. […] Read more
Whenever we are to research anything about improving sales or marketing processes, it is virtually impossible to escape the unavoidable “creating better alignment between marketing and sales”. Sales enablement is a process that allows for sales to gain access to the necessary information, content and tools that will increase effective selling. […] Read more
Marketing teams come in all shapes and sizes. Do you do everything yourselves? Or, are there tasks you would rather leave to an external agency or freelancer? There probably are. […] Read more
Keeping up with new features and product updates is time-consuming. Marketing automation tools are constantly evolving, and choosing which new tools are worthy of your time can be especially difficult. I recently visited an Act-On event to learn more about Act-On’s product road map. The event, called Adaptive Journeys, A Look Into the Future of Marketing, introduced three new machine learning based innovations for 2018. For all B2B marketers, these will be total game changers. […] Read more
