February, 2024

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8 rules to rock your B2B marketing campaigns in 2024

Envy

At the very end of 2023, along with Airfleet we held The Big Marketing Kickoff, an event during which we’ve spoken about the highs and lows of the past year in the B2B marketing world, and shared our plans for growth in 2024 with an audience of no less than 150 brilliant B2B marketers.

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10 Super Bowl Marketing Moments That Made History

CMSWire

How 10 iconic Super Bowl campaigns captured hearts and redefined marketing. Continue reading.

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B2B content marketing: Driving success through strategic content creation

Martech

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. In this article, we will explore the fundamentals of B2B content marketing, delve into effective strategies for creating impactful content, and examine the role of generative AI in enhancing content creation.

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Try These Top B2B Influencer Marketing Tactics

Top Rank Marketing

You’ve probably heard about B2B influencer marketing. The strategy has exploded in adoption, with a 2023 Ogilvy study finding that 75% of B2B businesses are leveraging influencers in their campaigns. Even if you have a general idea of how and why B2B influencer marketing works , you still might wonder how it plays out in practice. How do brands and influencers collaborate to bring these campaigns to life?

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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How to Make the Most of Five New Trends in B2B Buyer Behavior

Trade Press Services

For many years, “creating enough content” was cited by marketers responding to the Content Marketing Institute’s annual State of Marketing survey as their top challenge. In 2024, however, the top challenge for marketers has changed. Today, “creating the right content for their audience” represents the biggest communication challenge for 57 percent of marketers.

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Will Marketing Be Replaced by AI? Or Form a Dynamic Duo?

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Have you ever feared that AI could replace your job as a marketer? There’s no doubt that AI has become ever-present in the marketing space, but AI is not replacing you. In fact, AI and humans hold more power as a unit – the dynamic duo, as one might say. When used synchronously with humans, AI can be a resourceful and powerful tool incorporated into your B2B marketing strategy.

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How to Improve Lead Quality in B2B SaaS with Segmentation Techniques

Visitor Queue

Segmentation is one of the most underrated aspects of marketing. By properly segmenting your prospects, you can better understand your audience and cater to their needs. In fact, companies that segment their customers are 130% more likely to know their customer’s motives. In order to fully understand your customers and improve the quality of your […] The post How to Improve Lead Quality in B2B SaaS with Segmentation Techniques appeared first on Visitor Queue Blog | Identify Website Traffic

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Why GA4 Is So Awful and What to Do About It

Marketing Insider Group

“Welcome to the world of GA4 , where the future of analytics is as promising as it is perplexing!” That’s what we thought when we first encountered Google Analytics 4. As the team at Marketing Insider Group, we’re always knee-deep in digital marketing trends, and GA4 has been a hot topic on our radar. In this article, we’re diving into the nitty-gritty of why GA4, despite its advanced features, can feel like a thorn in the side of marketers.

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Urgent Email Subject Lines - Do They Actually Work?

SendX

Urgent subject lines have become a common strategy in email marketing, aimed at catching the attention of the receiver. At first glance, the effectiveness of using "URGENT" or "LAST"or "HURRY" in subject lines might seem straightforward. It's about getting more people to open the emails.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Sale Is In The Tale” by John Livesay

The Forward Observer

The Sale Is In The Tale by John Livesay About the Book John Livesay, a keynote speaker and author of the business book Better Selling Through Storytelling , presents us with a business fable set in Austin, Texas. It is about a sales representative whose old ways of selling are not working anymore. With the help of his colleague, he learns how to use storytelling in his sales meetings, which wins him more sales success than ever before.

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Training Your Workforce for ChatGPT: A Comprehensive Guide

Convince & Convert

Even if you have a rule against it, your employees probably use ChatGPT for work. We know this from observation and a few useful stats. More than 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using ChatGPT. That’s according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2023. College-educated workers and young professionals (64% of users are 18-35 ) are the biggest users of ChatGPT ( source ).

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Why B2B marketing needs brand building more than lead gen

Martech

B2B marketing has become overly focused on measurement and attribution, appearing and claiming to be more science than art. Everyone wants to believe it’s a science. Investors, boards and leadership expect marketing growth to be measurable, predictable and projectable. But the truth is that marketing is not a hard science. Experiments are not repeatable and playbooks are not fully transferable between companies.

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Enhancing Patient Care: 4 Strategies for Life Sciences Companies

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

For many people, a sudden tingling in the leg or a feeling of numbness in the arm isn’t too much cause for alarm. The tingling or the numbness goes away after a little while, and they go on with their lives. But for Brooke Eby, an abrupt limp on her way to a conference one day ultimately led to a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 33.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Meet the New Host: Alina Dallal

Oktopost

Alina Dallal reveals what’s in store for Behind the Post listeners in 2024. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Episode Summary Behind the Post is back and this time with a new host. Meet Alina Dallal , Oktopost’s Content Marketing Manager. In this episode, Alina introduces herself and reveals what you can expect this season.

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Customer Retention Strategies for B2B Companies in 2024

PureB2B

Acquiring B2B leads is only the beginning, here’s a helpful guide about B2B customer retention strategies you need to keep your clients satisfied.

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An Ultimate Guide to Social Media Automation for Your Business

Spiralytics

We may want to stay away from artificial intelligence (AI) and automation for particular tasks, especially when it comes to the creative domain. However, there are several avenues where social media automation can be a game changer. From crafting engaging content, suggesting hashtags, analyzing posts, and several other tasks, it can help you reduce time spent on repetitive tasks.

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AI Content Is Short-Term Arbitrage, Not Long-Term Strategy

Ahrefs

But beyond the short-term dopamine hit of publishing a thousand articles at once, for most businesses, the negatives of AI content will very quickly outweigh the positives.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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5 Super Bowl LVIII takeaways for marketers

Martech

As the Kansas City Chiefs mounted a late-game charge to become repeat champions (three titles in five years!), Super Bowl LVIII proved to be a victory for fans, brands and the city of Las Vegas. Digital channels provided more options for audiences to engage with the Big Game, including an inventive stream on Nickelodeon called by SpongeBob SquarePants and friends.

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The role of artificial intelligence in business in 2024

Sprout Social

In business, artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a trend; it’s a crucial tool reshaping how we approach marketing and customer engagement. According to our research , nearly 9 out of 10 business leaders are gearing up to boost their investments in AI and machine learning (ML), especially in marketing. Why this surge? At the heart of this AI revolution is the ability to segment behaviors and target specific customer groups with precision.

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Fine-Tuning Your LLM? There’s a Better Way

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Ever get an email trying to sell you a product you’ve already bought? Or had a service interaction where you had to answer the same questions multiple times with different people? Large language models (LLMs) promise to eliminate these annoyances by providing greater levels of information-sharing and personalization within your company’s operations.

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9 Actions You Can Take To Get Better Content Results Without Spending More

Content Marketing Institute

Just because you have no more budget or a smaller team doesn’t mean you can’t up your content and marketing game. Follow these nine tips to strengthen your marketing success without asking for another dollar or marketing person to help.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Future of B2B Demand Generation: Trends On the Horizon

Binary Demand

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing. In each market, diverse choices cater to individual buyer nuances.

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How to Visualize Ahrefs Data with ChatGPT

Ahrefs

We’ve already launched some AI-enhanced features like search intent, but we made it even better by adding the traffic share for each intent. Check out this write-up from Si Quan for some more things we might add.

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EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses

Martech

The European Union’s Digital Services Act, aimed at preventing the spreading of illegal goods, services or content online, originally governed only very large online platforms reaching 10% or more of the E.U.’s population. That is now changing with all but the very smallest businesses coming under the jurisdiction of the Act. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees and less than 10 million euros in annual revenue will continue to be exempt.

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TikTok Promotion: Boost your visibility in 2024

Sprout Social

Are you consistently creating on TikTok without getting the views or engagement you’d like? Wish there was a shortcut to reaching your TikTok goals? TikTok Promote may be the answer. Like Instagram’s boosts and X’s (formerly Twitter) promoted post feature, TikTok created a tool that allows users to turn their organic content into a paid promotion quickly and simply.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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Will Amazon Prime’s switch to an ad-supported model lose viewers?

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Amazon Prime is switching to an ad-supported business model in 2023. As of February 2024, Prime will start airing commercials, leaving many television enthusiasts wondering if viewers continue to choose streaming services over traditional television options. Will audiences still choose streaming if they have to watch ads to do so? The answer? Yes. Even though the introduction of ads to streaming services like Amazon Prime may be fraught with unhappy users, they are still likely to pay for on-d

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4 In-Demand Skills to Grow Your Salesforce Career

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Use these four in-demand Salesforce ecosystem job skill trends — identified in the Jobs in the Salesforce Ecosystem report — to build your skill set. Fun fact: This report was visualized using Tableau Viz in collaboration with former Tableau Iron Viz champion Will Sutton. What you need to know When we say “Salesforce ecosystem,” we mean the thousands of companies and organizations worldwide who run their businesses on Salesforce.

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Marketing’s Musical Chairs: Why So Many Reorgs (and What It Means for You) 

Content Marketing Institute

Almost half of companies restructured their marketing teams in the past year, according to Marketing Week. About four in 10 restructured the year before that. Why? And how can you thrive despite it?