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Do Self-Service Systems Really Lead to Better Results? Our Member Survey Offers Surprising Answers to Industry Questions

Customer Experience Matrix

The CDP Institute just published its annual Member Survey, which is always a treasure chest of interesting data. That has been true since the survey began in 2017 through last year’s survey: both CDP deployment and presence of a unified customer database have increased steadily. Martech departments are growing: true.

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7 takeaways from a study on B2B thought leadership; why it works or doesn’t

Sword and the Script | B2B

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Five Surprising Findings from the 2017 Marketing Strategy Report

Webbiquity

CoSchedule, a top content planning and research tool vendor, just released its State of Marketing Strategy Report 2017 , based on a survey of nearly 1,600 marketing professionals. There are other surprises as well in the State of Marketing Strategy Report 2017. But a few stood out as…unexpected.

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Survey: CMOs Struggle to Connect Marketing Efforts with Company Success

KoMarketing Associates

Korn Ferry recently conducted the “2018 CMO Pulse Survey” to determine how many marketing initiatives can be tied back to company success. Both analytics and personalization are in need of improvement, according to the survey, and previous research suggests that they go hand-in-hand.

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B2B Sales Cycles Require 27 Interactions both Digital and Human [Study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

That analysis is how the research firm sets up a paper that compares the results of several surveys over time. Forrester conducted a “buyer’s survey” in the years 2017, 2019 and 2021. Each survey polled at least 800 people making B2B purchases. That’s up from 17 interactions in 2019. Image credit: Unsplash.

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Study Finds Marketers Are Increasing Spend on Original Video Content

KoMarketing Associates

To find out, IAB recently conducted the “Digital Content NewFronts: Video Ad Spend Study 2018” report. This is an increase from 44 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. Marketers continue to increase the amount of money they spend on digital video content, but how much of it is original? million will go toward original content.

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Survey: Marketers are Dedicating More of Their Budgets Toward Digital

KoMarketing Associates

In the “Global Digital Outlook Study” from SoDA and Forrester, nearly half of surveyed marketers (43 percent) said that they intend to increase their budgets for digital marketing in 2017/18. About half of survey respondents also said that they currently spend 50 percent or more of their marketing budget on digital initiatives.