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Heinz Marketing Inc.
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2008
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Heinz Marketing is a privately held B2B marketing consulting firm headquartered in Redmond, Washington, founded in 2008 by Matt Heinz, who continues to serve as President. The firm provides go-to-market strategy, demand generation, account-based marketing, marketing orchestration, and sales alignment services to mid-market and enterprise B2B organizations operating primarily in SaaS, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services. Its flagship framework, the Predictable Pipeline Method, is a proprietary structured methodology for diagnosing GTM gaps and building consistent, repeatable, and scalable pipeline by aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around shared pipeline performance drivers; the firm reports having helped hundreds of companies accelerate growth. The integrated service portfolio covers target market consulting, content strategy and messaging, sales cycle optimization, AI and technology assessment, metrics and KPI refinement, campaign and program strategy, customer-led growth, and content development and promotion.

The company operates a pure professional services revenue model with custom consulting engagements typically running 3-12 months and staff augmentation requiring minimum 3-month commitments; no standard tiered pricing is publicly disclosed. Heinz Marketing has no proprietary software platform and is not an SaaS vendor — its differentiation sits in methodology and certified expertise across major marketing technology stacks, including Google Analytics, Marketo, Demandbase, HubSpot, NetLine, Salesforce, and 6sense. Go-to-market is sales-led with a heavy content and event component: a blog with 1,000+ articles, two podcasts (Sales Pipeline Radio; Coffee with Brent Adamson & Matt Heinz), webinars, downloadable resources, and active LinkedIn presence drive top-of-funnel inbound. The team is small (approximately 10-15 members per bios, within a stated 11-50 employee band), and customer engagement is direct via consultative strategy calls. The firm has positioned itself as a workflow-first AI integrator rather than a tool reseller, advising clients on responsible AI adoption and AI agent deployment inside existing martech stacks; a dedicated AI & Technology Assessment service line and a COO-led AI operating model function operationalize this thesis. Industry recognition includes the 2024 Top Sales Marketing Awards, 2021 Top 50 Sales Marketing Blogs, and 2021 Washington's Best Workplaces. The company is founder-controlled with no disclosed external funding, parent company, or M&A history.

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Heinz Marketing is a B2B marketing consulting firm offering go-to-market strategy, demand generation, and marketing orchestration services to mid-market and enterprise clients across SaaS, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services sectors.

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HeadquartersRedmond, United States
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Redmond
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North America
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Serves global market

Offices1 record

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B2B demand generation, pipeline marketing, marketing orchestration, account-based marketing, go-to-market strategy
Product category
B2B Marketing Consulting Services
GTM motion3 records

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Revenue model1 record
1B2B Consulting Services
TypeProfessional Services
Description

Professional services revenue from consulting engagements. Provides go-to-market strategy, demand generation, account-based marketing, marketing orchestration, and sales alignment services. Engagements typically run 3-12 months for demand generation programs, with staff augmentation at minimum 3-month commitment.

heinzmarketing.com
Marketing channels9 records

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Distribution channels2 records

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Cost components5 values
Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure
Pricing details1 tier
1Custom consulting engagements - no standard tiered pricing publicly disclosed
ModelOtherBilling cadenceMulti-year contract
Notes

B2B demand generation engagements typically require 3-12 month commitments. Staff augmentation requires minimum 3-month commitment. Pricing determined through consultation and proposal process.

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B2B
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Brand1 of 3 records shown
1Predictable Pipeline Method
Description

The company's proprietary methodology for helping B2B organizations consistently generate, convert, and forecast pipeline that leads to reliable revenue growth. It focuses on aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around core drivers of pipeline performance.

heinzmarketing.com
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Core offering1 text field

Heinz Marketing is a B2B go-to-market strategy and demand generation consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise B2B companies build predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales pipeline. Its core engagement is the Predictable Pipeline Method, a structured methodology spanning target market consulting, content and messaging strategy, sales cycle optimization, AI and technology assessment, metrics and KPI refinement, campaign and program strategy, customer-led growth, and content development. The firm also delivers Marketing Orchestration services and publishes a Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator tool.

Differentiator
Functional benefit
Problem solved
Quantifiable outcome1 value
  • Helped hundreds of companies accelerate growth and build predictable pipeline
Product overview1 text field

Heinz Marketing is a B2B go-to-market strategy and demand generation consulting firm offering a unified service portfolio anchored by the Predictable Pipeline Method—a structured methodology for consistent pipeline and revenue growth. The core offering is B2B Demand Generation, which encompasses eight integrated sub-services: Target Market Consulting, Content Strategy & Messaging Development, Sales Cycle Optimization, AI & Technology Assessment, Metrics & KPI Refinement, Campaign & Program Strategy, Customer-Led Growth, and B2B Content Development & Promotion. Additional offerings include Marketing Orchestration (process optimization and AI integration across GTM teams) and supporting tools such as the Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator. The firm also produces the Sales Pipeline Radio Podcast and hosts events including Coffee with Brent Adamson & Matt Heinz. Heinz Marketing primarily serves B2B SaaS, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services companies, helping them align marketing, sales, and customer experience to build predictable pipeline.

Product and service5 records
1B2B Demand Generation
CategoryCore consulting service
Description

Full-funnel B2B demand generation consulting service that builds predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales pipeline for mid-market and enterprise B2B clients across SaaS, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services.

2Predictable Pipeline Method
CategoryProprietary methodology
Description

Proprietary consulting methodology that helps B2B organizations consistently generate, convert, and forecast pipeline leading to reliable revenue growth by aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around core drivers of pipeline performance.

3Marketing Orchestration
CategoryCore consulting service
Description

Consulting service that identifies marketing bottlenecks, harnesses team strengths, streamlines marketing operations, aligns people and workflows, and identifies ethical, practical ways to apply AI to accelerate time to market.

4Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator
CategoryStandalone tool/resource
Description

Proven sales planning tool that brings together marketing contributions and sales process effectiveness to help uncover insights for scaling pipeline. Available as a downloadable resource.

5Sales Pipeline Radio Podcast
CategoryContent/podcast offering
Description

Weekly podcast featuring conversations with sales and marketing experts on pipeline strategies, best practices, and revenue growth tactics.

Scale indicator2 records

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Recent move6 records

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Expansion highlight5 records

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Peers10 records
TypeDirect peer
Description

Long-standing B2B demand generation and marketing operations consultancy serving similar enterprise and mid-market SaaS/tech clients. Overlaps directly with Heinz Marketing's Predictable Pipeline methodology and ABM, content, and marketing ops service lines.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B demand generation consultancy built around a proprietary methodology (Demand Generation Framework), serving enterprise technology buyers. Closely comparable in approach to Heinz Marketing's framework-led, full-funnel demand gen model.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B marketing operations and revenue marketing consultancy serving enterprise clients with marketing tech, ABM, and demand generation services. Directly comparable in services, certifications, and buyer profile.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B marketing agency focused on demand generation, marketing strategy, and sales enablement for mid-market and enterprise clients. Comparable in methodology-led approach and target buyer profile to Heinz Marketing.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B technology marketing agency specializing in demand generation, ABM, and content strategy for SaaS and tech companies. Comparable in target verticals and full-funnel demand gen service offerings.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B marketing agency providing SEO, content, and demand generation services to SaaS and tech clients. Comparable in ICP (B2B tech firms) and integrated content-plus-demand-gen approach.

TypeDirect peer
Description

Go-to-market strategy consultancy serving B2B SaaS and tech companies with revenue operations and GTM operating model design. Directly comparable in the GTM strategy and revenue alignment niche Heinz Marketing targets.

TypeDirect peer
Description

B2B SaaS marketing agency providing fractional CMO, demand generation, and marketing operations services to SaaS companies. Comparable in serving growth-stage B2B SaaS clients with consultative, methodology-led engagements.

TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Global marketing services arm of Accenture offering end-to-end marketing transformation, ABM, martech, and content at scale. Competes with Heinz Marketing for enterprise B2B marketing budgets with much broader capabilities and bench depth.

TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Advisory and research arm serving CMOs and B2B marketing leaders with research, benchmarks, and consulting. Adjacent competitor for enterprise marketing strategy and AI/GTM transformation engagements that Heinz Marketing targets.

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Strengths4 records

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Weaknesses4 records

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Competitive moat3 records

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Key risks6 records

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Key highlights7 records

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Named customers17 records

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Segment7 records

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Ideal customer profile3 records

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Profile, Firmographic size, Sales motion, Sales cycle length, Buying structure, Purchase trigger, Buyer persona, Geography, Industry vertical, Primary use case, Description, Pain points, Evidence proof points, Target buyer

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Integration7 records

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AI capability5 records

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AI maturity
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Profiles10 records

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Round, Amount USD, Date, Pre money valuation, Total investors, Investors, News

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Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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Name, Acquisition type, Announced date, Completed date, Status, Website, News

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Name, Round, Announced date, Lead investor, Website, News

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Heinz Marketing

B2B Marketing Consulting Servicesheinzmarketing.com

Heinz Marketing is a B2B marketing consulting firm offering go-to-market strategy, demand generation, and marketing orchestration services to mid-market and enterprise clients across SaaS, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services sectors.

What Heinz Marketing does

Heinz Marketing is a privately held B2B marketing consulting firm headquartered in Redmond, Washington, founded in 2008 by Matt Heinz, who continues to serve as President. The firm provides go-to-market strategy, demand generation, account-based marketing, marketing orchestration, and sales alignment services to mid-market and enterprise B2B organizations operating primarily in SaaS, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services. Its flagship framework, the Predictable Pipeline Method, is a proprietary structured methodology for diagnosing GTM gaps and building consistent, repeatable, and scalable pipeline by aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around shared pipeline performance drivers; the firm reports having helped hundreds of companies accelerate growth. The integrated service portfolio covers target market consulting, content strategy and messaging, sales cycle optimization, AI and technology assessment, metrics and KPI refinement, campaign and program strategy, customer-led growth, and content development and promotion.

The company operates a pure professional services revenue model with custom consulting engagements typically running 3-12 months and staff augmentation requiring minimum 3-month commitments; no standard tiered pricing is publicly disclosed. Heinz Marketing has no proprietary software platform and is not an SaaS vendor — its differentiation sits in methodology and certified expertise across major marketing technology stacks, including Google Analytics, Marketo, Demandbase, HubSpot, NetLine, Salesforce, and 6sense. Go-to-market is sales-led with a heavy content and event component: a blog with 1,000+ articles, two podcasts (Sales Pipeline Radio; Coffee with Brent Adamson & Matt Heinz), webinars, downloadable resources, and active LinkedIn presence drive top-of-funnel inbound. The team is small (approximately 10-15 members per bios, within a stated 11-50 employee band), and customer engagement is direct via consultative strategy calls. The firm has positioned itself as a workflow-first AI integrator rather than a tool reseller, advising clients on responsible AI adoption and AI agent deployment inside existing martech stacks; a dedicated AI & Technology Assessment service line and a COO-led AI operating model function operationalize this thesis. Industry recognition includes the 2024 Top Sales Marketing Awards, 2021 Top 50 Sales Marketing Blogs, and 2021 Washington's Best Workplaces. The company is founder-controlled with no disclosed external funding, parent company, or M&A history.

Heinz Marketing firmographics

Firmographics
Name
Heinz Marketing
Legal name
Heinz Marketing Inc.
Website
https://heinzmarketing.com
Company type
Private
Founded year
2008
Operating status
Operating
Headcount range
11–50 employees
Short description
Heinz Marketing is a B2B marketing consulting firm offering go-to-market strategy, demand generation, and marketing orchestration services to mid-market and enterprise clients across SaaS, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services sectors.
Ownership category
akta.pro rank

Where Heinz Marketing is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city
Redmond
HQ country
United States
HQ region
North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

Heinz Marketing business model

Business model
GTM type
B2B
Offering type
Services
Cost components
Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

  1. B2B Consulting Services: Professional services revenue from consulting engagements. Provides go-to-market strategy, demand generation, account-based marketing, marketing orchestration, and sales alignment services. Engagements typically run 3-12 months for demand generation programs, with staff augmentation at minimum 3-month commitment.

Pricing tiers

ModelBillingPrice
OtherMulti-year contractCustom consulting engagements - no standard tiered pricing publicly disclosed

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels9 records

Heinz Marketing product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Heinz Marketing is a B2B go-to-market strategy and demand generation consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise B2B companies build predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales pipeline. Its core engagement is the Predictable Pipeline Method, a structured methodology spanning target market consulting, content and messaging strategy, sales cycle optimization, AI and technology assessment, metrics and KPI refinement, campaign and program strategy, customer-led growth, and content development. The firm also delivers Marketing Orchestration services and publishes a Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator tool.

Product overview

Heinz Marketing is a B2B go-to-market strategy and demand generation consulting firm offering a unified service portfolio anchored by the Predictable Pipeline Method—a structured methodology for consistent pipeline and revenue growth. The core offering is B2B Demand Generation, which encompasses eight integrated sub-services: Target Market Consulting, Content Strategy & Messaging Development, Sales Cycle Optimization, AI & Technology Assessment, Metrics & KPI Refinement, Campaign & Program Strategy, Customer-Led Growth, and B2B Content Development & Promotion. Additional offerings include Marketing Orchestration (process optimization and AI integration across GTM teams) and supporting tools such as the Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator. The firm also produces the Sales Pipeline Radio Podcast and hosts events including Coffee with Brent Adamson & Matt Heinz. Heinz Marketing primarily serves B2B SaaS, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services companies, helping them align marketing, sales, and customer experience to build predictable pipeline.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

  • Predictable Pipeline Method: The company's proprietary methodology for helping B2B organizations consistently generate, convert, and forecast pipeline that leads to reliable revenue growth. It focuses on aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around core drivers of pipeline performance.
  • Sales Pipeline Radio
  • Coffee with Brent Adamson & Matt Heinz

Products and services

  • B2B Demand Generation Full-funnel B2B demand generation consulting service that builds predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales pipeline for mid-market and enterprise B2B clients across SaaS, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services.
  • Predictable Pipeline Method Proprietary consulting methodology that helps B2B organizations consistently generate, convert, and forecast pipeline leading to reliable revenue growth by aligning marketing, sales, and customer experience around core drivers of pipeline performance.
  • Marketing Orchestration Consulting service that identifies marketing bottlenecks, harnesses team strengths, streamlines marketing operations, aligns people and workflows, and identifies ethical, practical ways to apply AI to accelerate time to market.
  • Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator Proven sales planning tool that brings together marketing contributions and sales process effectiveness to help uncover insights for scaling pipeline. Available as a downloadable resource.
  • Sales Pipeline Radio Podcast Weekly podcast featuring conversations with sales and marketing experts on pipeline strategies, best practices, and revenue growth tactics.

Quantifiable outcome

  • Helped hundreds of companies accelerate growth and build predictable pipeline

Companies that use Heinz Marketing

Customer profile

Named customers17 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Heinz Marketing technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API
No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability5 records

Feature1 record

Heinz Marketing partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Heinz Marketing competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

  • DemandGen International: Long-standing B2B demand generation and marketing operations consultancy serving similar enterprise and mid-market SaaS/tech clients. Overlaps directly with Heinz Marketing's Predictable Pipeline methodology and ABM, content, and marketing ops service lines.
  • ANNUITAS: B2B demand generation consultancy built around a proprietary methodology (Demand Generation Framework), serving enterprise technology buyers. Closely comparable in approach to Heinz Marketing's framework-led, full-funnel demand gen model.
  • Pedowitz Group: B2B marketing operations and revenue marketing consultancy serving enterprise clients with marketing tech, ABM, and demand generation services. Directly comparable in services, certifications, and buyer profile.
  • Square 2 Marketing: B2B marketing agency focused on demand generation, marketing strategy, and sales enablement for mid-market and enterprise clients. Comparable in methodology-led approach and target buyer profile to Heinz Marketing.
  • Velocity Partners: B2B technology marketing agency specializing in demand generation, ABM, and content strategy for SaaS and tech companies. Comparable in target verticals and full-funnel demand gen service offerings.
  • Stratabeat: B2B marketing agency providing SEO, content, and demand generation services to SaaS and tech clients. Comparable in ICP (B2B tech firms) and integrated content-plus-demand-gen approach.
  • GTM Partners: Go-to-market strategy consultancy serving B2B SaaS and tech companies with revenue operations and GTM operating model design. Directly comparable in the GTM strategy and revenue alignment niche Heinz Marketing targets.
  • Kalungi: B2B SaaS marketing agency providing fractional CMO, demand generation, and marketing operations services to SaaS companies. Comparable in serving growth-stage B2B SaaS clients with consultative, methodology-led engagements.

Broad incumbents

  • Accenture Song: Global marketing services arm of Accenture offering end-to-end marketing transformation, ABM, martech, and content at scale. Competes with Heinz Marketing for enterprise B2B marketing budgets with much broader capabilities and bench depth.
  • Gartner for Marketers: Advisory and research arm serving CMOs and B2B marketing leaders with research, benchmarks, and consulting. Adjacent competitor for enterprise marketing strategy and AI/GTM transformation engagements that Heinz Marketing targets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Heinz Marketing social profiles

Digital presence

Heinz Marketing financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Heinz Marketing leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Heinz Marketing funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Heinz Marketing M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Heinz Marketing

What does Heinz Marketing do?

Heinz Marketing is a B2B go-to-market strategy and demand generation consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise B2B companies build predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales pipeline. Its core engagement is the Predictable Pipeline Method, a structured methodology spanning target market consulting, content and messaging strategy, sales cycle optimization, AI and technology assessment, metrics and KPI refinement, campaign and program strategy, customer-led growth, and content development. The firm also delivers Marketing Orchestration services and publishes a Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator tool.

Is Heinz Marketing a public or private company?

Heinz Marketing is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was Heinz Marketing founded?

Heinz Marketing was founded in 2008. It employs 11 to 50 people.

Where is Heinz Marketing based?

Heinz Marketing is headquartered in Redmond, United States, in the North America region.

How does Heinz Marketing make money?

One revenue line is on record: B2B Consulting Services.

Who are Heinz Marketing's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are DemandGen International, ANNUITAS, Pedowitz Group, Square 2 Marketing, Velocity Partners, Stratabeat, GTM Partners and Kalungi. Broad incumbents are Accenture Song and Gartner for Marketers.

Does Heinz Marketing have an API?

No public API is recorded for Heinz Marketing.

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42DmTop 10 Account-Based Marketing Agencies That Actually DeliverThe article presents a curated list of the top 10 B2B Account-Based Marketing (ABM) agencies for 2026, highlighting firms such as 42DM, Heinz Marketing, and Pinnacle Marketing Group. It details their specific services, headquarters locations, and strategic approaches to helping businesses target high-value accounts. The piece also provides guidance on selecting an ABM partner based on criteria like industry expertise, technology integration, and data-driven capabilities.PR NewswireMarketers Lose Confidence in Content Marketing Effectiveness, According to New ReportHeinz Marketing, in partnership with sponsor ON24, released a study on March 14, 2019, revealing that fewer than 10% of marketers consider their content marketing effective, with 63% describing their strategies as not very effective or only somewhat effective—up from 35% in 2017. The survey of nearly 150 respondents found that two-thirds lacked confidence that their content was driving revenue results, while 75% identified lead or sales conversion as the most important content metric. The findings were presented at Webinar World 2019 in San Francisco, where ON24 highlighted its platform as a solution for improving marketer insights and engagement.PR NewswireSAVO and Heinz Marketing Release Complete Buyer's Guide to Sales EnablementSAVO and Heinz Marketing released the Complete Buyer's Guide to Sales Enablement on August 25, 2017, a resource designed to help organizations implement or improve sales enablement programs. The guide includes value messaging frameworks, ROI calculators, content organization templates, technology comparison charts, and peer success stories. The release targets sales and marketing professionals seeking tools to improve seller effectiveness and drive revenue initiatives.PrwebNew Research by Highspot and Heinz Marketing Reveals Performance Advantages for Companies Investing in Sales EnablementHighspot and Heinz Marketing's 2017 State of Sales Enablement Report found over 75% of companies using sales enablement tools saw sales growth, with nearly 40% exceeding 25%. Conversion rates also improved, with 23% of respondents reporting increases of at least 20%.GlobeNewswireNew Research: Marketing-Driven Referral Programs Accelerate B2B Revenue GrowthInfluitive and Heinz Marketing research finds B2B companies are 3X more likely to hit revenue targets with marketing-led referral programs. Formal programs generate 2X more high-quality referrals, and 55% of companies with such programs rank sales efforts as highly effective versus 35% without.