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Marketing KPIs for 2023: What to Expect, and How to Measure it

By Michele Nichols on Wed, May 31, 2023

What to expect in 2023? After the last two years, we are prepared for anything! There are ongoing changes to privacy regulation and management that will impact what you can measure, and what you should expect in the year to come.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Lead Generation Marketing Mix Marketing Strategy Social Media Marketing Metrics Email Marketing Strategic Planning Digital Transformation
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Measuring the Value of Your Brand and Culture in B2B

By Mary Crowley on Mon, Feb 21, 2022

The organizational culture that you establish may be your most valuable asset and the key to your growth. Although culture and brand are both thought of as hard to define, measure, and manage, it’s important to understand the impact of brand equity on profit margin, customer acquisition, and customer retention. Being able to measure the value of your business culture will ultimately drive authenticity within your organization.

Topics: Business Insights Marketing Strategy Internal Communication Marketing Metrics Client Relations Branding and Identity
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9 Ways to Leverage Culture to Strengthen Your Brand

By Mary Crowley on Wed, Feb 09, 2022

Is your culture a true competitive advantage? In today's market, with little opportunity for face-to-face relationship building, your business culture matters more than ever to ensure a positive customer experience and win the war for talent. Brand development based on a strong culture supports connection, growth, and sustainability within the working environment. Take a look at 9 ways you can leverage culture in your company to help strengthen your brand and promote a positive company.

Topics: Business Insights Marketing Strategy Internal Communication Marketing Metrics Branding and Identity employee engagement
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2021 Success Stories: Website Optimization, Rebranding, Inbound Content, and Social Media Ads

By Mary Crowley on Fri, Dec 17, 2021

With a year full of new challenges, the ups and downs of the Pandemic, and managing hybrid work we wanted to take a moment to share some of our client wins from this year. Dive into the 2021 success stories of our clients.

Topics: Company News Marketing Metrics Client Relations
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3 Things to Consider When Creating Personalized Marketing Messages

By Alex Ormond on Mon, Apr 12, 2021

Personalized marketing messages add value. According to McKinsey, marketing’s holy grail is digital personalization at scale because “personalization can reduce acquisition costs by as much as 50%, lift revenues by 5-15%, and increase the efficiency of marketing spend by 10-30%.”

Topics: Marketing Strategy Marketing Metrics Email Marketing
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Defining Your Marketing Mix and Spend Based on Your Company’s Growth Stage | Webinar Recap

By Matthew O'Donnell on Tue, Jun 25, 2019

Whether you are in a start-up or second stage growth, taking your current size into consideration is important in evaluating and prioritizing marketing tactics and spend. In a recent webinar, Launch Team’s President Michele Nichols discussed the many approaches to developing your marketing mix and how companies in the technology space can help find leads and connect with potential customers. She also elaborated on:

  • Specific types of tactics that are working for customers
  • How to identify what tactics are advantageous and what are outdated.
Topics: Inbound Marketing Marketing Mix Marketing Strategy Marketing Metrics
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6 Annoying Tactics to Avoid When Creating Your Marketing Plan

By Nate Fuller on Fri, Mar 29, 2019

It's safe to say that in 2019 we are exposed to thousands of ads per day. Because of this, many Americans implement an ad blocker into their browser, causing an estimated $9.1 billion in missed revenue in 2019 alone. Getting inundated with intrusive advertisements is bad enough for consumer trust and attention, but when you add on annoying marketing tactics, it's clear why 72% of people dislike online popup ads, and 43% dislike native ads.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Lead Generation Marketing Metrics SEO
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Reviewing Q1: What Metrics Matter to Your Marketing Plan?

By Aimee Schenck on Mon, Mar 18, 2019

You kicked off 2019 with a well-developed and detailed marketing plan, but now that Q1 is over and revenue numbers are in, it's time to take a look at performance. Your first quarter marketing metrics are essential to answering the questions that will help you have a successful Q2. Key questions to ask include:

Topics: Marketing Metrics Strategic Planning
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Marketing Metrics Play a Role in Marketing & Sales Alignment

By Sarah Campagna on Fri, Oct 27, 2017

I often hear from companies that their marketing team collects data for data's sake—that they are mired in the minutia of marketing analytics, which have little to no impact on the sales team. The marketing team in turn complains that the sales team doesn't take the time to put the data into the CRM, nor do they learn to use the CRM well enough to make use of the available data. The finger pointing is cyclical and can leave leadership in a quandary. In this case, I believe it is up to the marketer to prove the value of the data to the sales team.

Topics: Marketing Metrics Sales Marketing and Sales Alignment
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Using your HubSpot Dashboard to Make Smarter, Data-Driven Marketing Decisions

By Mandy Bly on Fri, Aug 11, 2017

I like to start each day by opening up the HubSpot marketing dashboards for each of my client accounts. I take a look at the numbers, the most honest assessment of how an account’s inbound marketing activities are performing.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Marketing Metrics HubSpot
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Beer & Blog: Data-Driven Decisions in B2B Sales, with Tom McManus

By Michele Nichols on Fri, Feb 17, 2017

Tom McManus, CEO of KegWorks, has worked to build a global, multi-channel, multi-brand corporation committed to “everything in the bar except the alcohol,” including their Line Logic and Behind the Bar brands.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Marketing Metrics Sales Beer & Blog (interviews)
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3 Reasons Industrial & Manufacturing Companies Are Slow to Adopt Inbound Marketing

By Katie Steelman on Mon, Sep 12, 2016

 

More and more companies are realizing that they can get better ROI from inbound marketing than traditional outbound strategies. In an age when most buyers prefer to do their own research before engaging your sales team, providing informative content is key. Content marketing is especially important in technical industries, where sales cycles are longer and engineers are often making purchase decisions. Yet many high tech companies still rely on an outbound marketing approach.

Topics: Inbound Marketing Marketing Strategy Content Development Marketing Metrics