Mereo

APRIL 6, 2023

The new B2B buying journey that cuts salespeople out of all but 5% of the process has already made things hard enough. And with economic pressures, many B2B companies are tightening budgets, increasing efficiencies and not taking a second look at products and solutions not deemed vital. This is not a time to show off.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

(This month's Research Round-Up features a study by Boathouse that reveals what CEOs actually think about marketing and CMOs, and a survey by Informa Tech that addresses how much trust B2B technology buyers actually place in marketing.) CEOs regarding the performance of their marketing function and their CMO.

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Trust Marketing Marketing AI Research B2B Thought Leadership 55

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2020

How much do your customers and colleagues trust you? If you haven’t thought about this question, then you should because it matters and impacts if they buy from you. One of the best ways to gain trust and credibility is through thought leadership. What Is Thought Leadership? Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s now been 20 years since the team at ITSMA coined the term Account-Based Marketing (ABM). I was very fortunate to work with ITSMA (now Momentum ITSMA after their merger) during a good part of my nearly two decades with SAP Marketing (and beyond). Not surprisingly, ABM is the top B2B marketing tactic.

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Trade Press Services

MAY 13, 2024

B2B video marketing is a staple for today’s businesses with more than 90 percent of companies leveraging the medium to reach target audiences. The dynamic and versatile medium helps B2B companies connect with decision-makers effectively. Case studies take testimonials a step further.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

Marketing AI 124

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Influencer marketing is increasingly popular in the B2B space, for the simple reason that buyers trust experts more than ads. But many B2B marketers are approaching it in the wrong ways, missing the mark with both the influencers and their audiences. B2B Marketers are Misaligned With Influencer Preferences.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Thought leadership content marketing is one of the most effective ways of establishing your name and company as an authority in your industry. Thought leadership marketing means going beyond the same blog posts and regurgitated ideas that everyone seems to be publishing. Quick Takeaways.

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Exo B2B

JUNE 5, 2018

As experts in marketing strategies, ExoB2B recommends, in some cases, to assert itself as such through an inbound or inward marketing strategy, to demonstrate thought leadership and, to be integrated into a process of digital transformation. The Thought Leadership approach according to ExoB2B. see below).

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Online marketing has changed significantly in the last few years—we’ve already discussed these developments in previous articles. But in this post, I’d like to focus on employee advocacy in B2B marketing specifically, because it comes with its own unique challenges. 90% of customers trust recommendations?from

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I cannot exactly remember when I started working with ITSMA, and leveraging their work in B2B solutions and services, but it was sometime in the mid-2000s when I led the SAP Services Marketing team for SAP North America Field Marketing. Not long after, I attended my first ITSMA Marketing Vision event.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Trust plays a crucial role in generating leads and sales for businesses of all kinds. When potential customers trust a brand, they are more likely to take the next step and make a customer or sale. Professionalism : A well-designed and professional-looking website conveys trust and credibility. It’s what I preach.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When a company illustrates in thought leadership that it understands an industry – its strengths, weaknesses, problems and opportunities – buyers stand to reason their products are probably pretty good too. Thought leadership is more important than ever in B2B. Why decision-makers consume thought leadership.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). B2B content often fails because it’s not written for the audience, readable, or interesting. The Hallmarks of Bad Content Marketing.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 23, 2024

Yet a new study by Bain and Google brings something new to the conversation. The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2023 is just around the corner and now is the perfect time to prepare your strategic marketing plan for the coming year. Although a documented strategy is a key indicator of marketing success, only 41 percent of B2B marketers take the time to develop a written plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

As data analytics grow in sophistication, measuring the results of your marketing efforts becomes even more critical to your company’s success. So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing?

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Top Rank Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this environment, marketers are under pressure to drive impact and bolster the pipeline. In turn, LinkedIn’s research found that 18% of these leaders felt “uncertain or pessimistic about the likelihood of their marketing team’s efforts to drive revenue next year, higher than all other industries.”

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Marketers have been forced into survival mode to keep their businesses afloat. 73% of CMOs interviewed in a recent Gartner study predict the pandemic’s negative ramifications on our society will be short-lived. However, we know that COVID-19 has forced the world to make significant shifts in business and marketing.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

B2B marketers who wish to optimize their social media spend should first invest in understanding the intrinsic link between these platforms and their users. And businesses aren’t just using social media to market their products and services. People around the world spend an average of nearly 2.5 But content alone is not enough.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 22, 2023

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, video marketing has emerged as a dynamic and engaging medium for businesses to connect with their target audience as opposed to traditional methods. The main objective is to drive immediate sales and create brand loyalty.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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Thinkers360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving B2B landscape, cultivating strong relationships with industry analysts and thought leaders (B2B influencers) is crucial for establishing brand awareness, achieving thought leadership status, and ultimately driving sales growth. The two are related, but distinct marketing disciplines.

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Velocity Partners

MAY 8, 2024

This is the seventh in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. This is an interview with Udi Ledergor about the real goal of content marketing and the 95-5 rule. Udi, we’ve been making the case that the inbound-driven era of Go-to-Market is morphing. How is the face of B2B marketing changing?

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B2B Digital Marketer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Join us as we engage in a thought-provoking conversation with Julian Lumpkin, the founder of Success Kit, a marketing agency specializing in case studies and video testimonials. Julian Lumpkin emphasizes the crucial but often misunderstood role of customer success stories.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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B2B Digital Marketer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Navigating the Challenges of Perspective in Digital Marketing Introduction In this episode of B2B Digital Marketer, John Gumas shares valuable insights on unlocking success in digital marketing. Thought leadership and targeted marketing campaigns are key strategies for success.

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xiQ

MARCH 1, 2023

The Power of Affinity Marketing: How xiQ's AI-Powered Digests are Revolutionizing B2B Content Marketing Cut Through the Noise and Capture the Attention of Your Target Audience In the world of B2B marketing, creating relevant and engaging content is crucial for building brand awareness, establishing thought leadership, and ultimately driving sales.

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Marketing Craftmanship

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The most noteworthy article on B2B selling was published in a 1966 Harvard Business Review article (#66213). Extrinsic selling is a “trust me” approach, employed by a great number of B2B product and service providers. In “How to Buy /Sell Professional Services,” author Warren J.

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BOP Design

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At Bop Design, we are big proponents of inbound marketing for lead generation. A major component of inbound marketing is content marketing and content creation. In this article, we take a look at B2B content marketing practices that work and why they are effective. Thought Leadership Articles.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 22, 2022

Consistently producing content that connects with potential buyers remains one of the greatest challenges facing B2B marketers. This challenge applies to all types of content, but it is magnified for thought leadership content because of the higher standards that effective thought leadership content must meet.

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The Lead Agency

APRIL 2, 2024

How to improve SEO for B2B blog writing In the digital marketing landscape, nothing stays the same for too long. Search engine optimisation (SEO) may still be paramount to business-to-business (B2B) blog writing, but my oh my, how the rules are constantly changing.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Businesses should strive to build trust by being ethical and responsible in deed – and candid, consistent and reliable in content. However, there’s been a flood of worthy ideas and studies on the topic of trust in business. So, trust is the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML].

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B2B Thought Leadership Ethics Thought Leadership Trust Marketing 74

Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The firm’s leadership thought that they knew their market well. Our annual High Growth research study on over 1000 professional services firms is pretty persuasive: High growth professional services firms are those that grow at least a 20% compound annual growth rate. A Final Thought. Let me share an example.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What does the future of B2B influence look like, and how will top global brands succeed with B2B influencer marketing in 2024 and beyond? Let’s jump right in and take a look at the future of B2B influence from 12 top subject matter experts. Ursula Ringham “Authentic engagement will be key in 2024 and beyond.

Work Management 140

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Sprout Social

MAY 18, 2022

Build trusted relationships. By 2025, Gartner expects “80% of B2B sales interactions between suppliers and buyers to occur in digital channels.” By 2025, Gartner expects “80% of B2B sales interactions between suppliers and buyers to occur in digital channels.” But, you can’t establish thought leadership without a network.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing When it comes to effective customer-led growth (CLG) strategies, most efforts focus on customer service and support. That’s where a thoughtful approach to website optimization comes into play. This transparency fosters trust and streamlines the negotiation process.

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