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Brandwatch Marketing
JUNE 20, 2019
chiefmartech
JUNE 17, 2019
Boy, did I kick a hornet’s nest. A couple of weeks ago, I shared an article from MIT Sloan Management Review , Implement First, Ask Questions Later (or Not at All) by Stephen J. Andriole. A quick summary: As a result of easy-to-acquire SaaS tools and pressure to harness the relatively unknown possibilities of emerging technologies before competitors do, companies are increasingly bypassing the heavyweight “requirements gathering” processes of classic enterprise IT and, instead,
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Buffer
JUNE 17, 2019
We wish for you to have the very best, most fulfilling career possible, doing work that you love. And one of the best routes to that dream job is having a dreamy LinkedIn profile ! We’ll show you how. Today we’re giving you a checklist for a LinkedIn makeover. We’ll provide many different ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile and boost your presence – and the presence of your brand – so that you can shine.
B2B Marketing Directions
JUNE 16, 2019
There is no longer any doubt that marketers overwhelmingly believe in the value of personalization. Most marketing leaders now view personalization as essential to marketing success, and providing personalized messages and customer experiences has become a top priority in many companies. Numerous research studies have confirmed that large majorities of marketers believe personalization improves marketing and business performance.
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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.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 20, 2019
We’re big advocates of setting SMART marketing goals at the beginning of the year. If you happen to work with HubSpot, or a HubSpot agency, setting goals can be even more lucrative due to the platform’s extensive set of tools for setting and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The tools let you set KPI benchmarks […]. The post How to Make a Mid-Year Marketing Review Worth Your Time appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Zoominfo
JUNE 20, 2019
Live streaming, or the transmission of live video, has taken the world by storm. Whether it’s a friend live streaming their workout routine or a celebrity answering fan questions, the personal nature of live video is innately appealing.live. But, because live video is unpredictable and strays from traditional marketing methods, many B2B marketers speculate whether live streaming has a place within their corporate social media strategy.
The Point
JUNE 18, 2019
1. What, Why, How. There are three things your email recipient should see almost immediately, and those are: WHAT the offer is, WHY it’s of value, and HOW to get it. Don’t make the reader hunt or scroll to learn what exactly you want him or her to do, and why. 2. Sell the Offer, Not the Product. The goal of any email is to generate engagement. You generate engagement by convincing the reader of the value of the information on offer, whether that information is a white paper, a Webinar, or a demo
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 18, 2019
Employee engagement is traditionally a concern of the HR department rather than the marketing department. Employees who are fully engaged at work deliver benefits, including improved productivity, higher retention, and increased employee loyalty. All these things are great for the business as a whole, and it’s true that if your marketing team is fully engaged, they’ll […].
Webbiquity
JUNE 21, 2019
Guest post by Michael Collins. We’re reinventing everything these days. It’s kind of the nature of not just business but the world. Everything we knew yesterday is outmoded today. And who knows what tomorrow will show us? In a constant, quickening cycle of transformation and disruption in technology and business, marketing is forced to be as nimble and inventive as the products, ideas, and brands it serves.
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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.
Zoominfo
JUNE 17, 2019
You don’t have to be in the B2B sales world to be familiar with the term “cold calling.” It’s a phrase that’s likely to elicit a negative response, whether you’re in the business world or an average citizen who has received one too many unsolicited calls. Though just about everyone knows of cold calling as a concept, it has been given several different definitions and interpretations as a sales practice.
Hive9
JUNE 17, 2019
A marketing plan with visibility (from multiple points of view) is one that’s designed to meet often complex corporate goals tied to specific strategies for growth. And while this might sound fairly obvious, a lot of companies aren’t hitting the mark when it comes to visibility in their marketing plans.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 17, 2019
Your content marketing strategy most likely focuses on your external audience – your customers or followers. This makes sense, after all these people are the ones who’ll spend their money and help your business generate income. However, there is another group of people who can be reached with content marketing that you probably haven’t considered […].
Webbiquity
JUNE 19, 2019
Guest post by Cassy Hathaway. In the digital economy, few things are as valued as quick and sustained business growth. Whether you sell products or services, your business needs to show continuous growth in order to attract investors, new customers and new employees. Image credit: Akil Mazumder from Pexels. Of course, that’s easier said than done. Growing a business requires financial investments, hard work, business savvy, creativity, and a little luck.
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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.
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 20, 2019
While marketing content remains critical to the buyer journey, new research suggests that it does not always address important pain points, specifically those of B2B customers. Heinz Marketing and PathFactory recently conducted the “Inside the Head of a Marketing Leader: The Buyer’s Journey” report and found that 92 percent of B2B marketing leaders claim that content plays a critical role in the decision-making process.
Biznology
JUNE 19, 2019
Branding is the core of marketing, yet it is a strategic discipline that has been dramatically impacted by social media in recent years. It has opened the door to a great variety of activism and disinformation and as a result, companies are facing new types of brand risks. In light of this surge of threats to brands, it is important to stay updated with the latest trends and new research that can provide insights to help protect (and ideally build) brands.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 18, 2019
Ask the decision makers of any enterprise-level business which department should have responsibility for content marketing strategy, and they’ll undoubtedly name the marketing department. It makes sense at first consideration. After all, it’s a marketing strategy and that is what the marketing team is for. But restricting the responsibility of developing and carrying out your content marketing […].
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JUNE 19, 2019
When it comes to marketing and sales, the more precise and specific you can get with every customer, the better. Customers want to feel important and recognized by brands, and it is exactly why strategies like personalization are so effective. Account-based marketing (ABM) is when you target prospects by identifying a point of contact or persona within an organization which you believe you’ll be able to serve the best, build a lasting relationship with them, and then offer an increasingly wide r
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.
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 19, 2019
Most marketers are confident that they will reach their primary goals this year, but new research shows that their budget is still holding them back from exceeding expectations. Furthermore, many marketers remain unconfident in their ability to meet the needs of their customers. The CMO Council recently published a report titled, “Reshaping Global Engagement Operations,” and statistics showed that the majority of marketers (43 percent) are “fairly confident” that they will reach their strategic
Contently
JUNE 19, 2019
When we started Contently nine years ago, we had several ambitions. We wanted to change media and marketing by helping others produce high-quality content. We hoped to inspire brands to connect with their audiences by telling stories. But above all, we wanted to carve out a world where journalists and creators could not just survive, but thrive by doing what they love.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 17, 2019
As technology transforms the digital landscape, the top content marketing KPIs you need to monitor often change with it. In 2019, monitoring key performance indicators gets even more complex when you factor in the purpose of each piece of content, as SEO consultant Benj Arriola points out. Profitability, of course, is a constant. Yet when you dig […].
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JUNE 17, 2019
Interactions with prospects and customers before, during, and after an event don’t just offer a chance for engagement, but also a unique opportunity to further customize your follow-up, communications, and their next event experience, which in turn helps accelerate impact, velocity, and conversion. The problem? More often than not, event data is either being forgotten, spread out amongst several tools, or being inputted manually and inaccurately.
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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
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 18, 2019
B2B companies have certainly come a long way when it comes to content marketing strategy. As of 2019, 93% of the most successful B2B content marketers are extremely committed to content marketing, the vast majority of which put audiences’ informational needs above a promotional message. There’s good reason to focus on informational content: The B2B buyer’s journey is only getting longer and more complex, according to Demand Gen Report.
Circle Studio
JUNE 20, 2019
Prospective clients and new hires are not only scanning your company’s website, but your LinkedIn company page and employees’ pages too, from the C-suite to interns alike. There’s a demand for a holistic and comprehensive digital view of your firm—and this includes your employees. Many discussions on ways to bring a human element to corporate social media have focused on one individual–the CEO.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 20, 2019
While startups may have an easier time adopting Agile principles, large enterprises can’t afford to be discouraged by the difficulty of introducing new processes into their organization. In fact, enterprises have an urgent need to tackle their process problems or risk disruption by emerging startup competitors. The good news is that leaders of marketing teams […].
Rev
JUNE 21, 2019
“ It’s alive! It’s alive!” – Henry Frankenstein. History has given us many experiments and studies; often learning the hard way, colleges publish scientific papers regularly to prove or disprove hypotheses and theories – even Barack Obama wrote and published the most popular scientific paper of 2016. Within this type of content emerges real-life evidence of what worked, what didn’t, and what falls in this gray area that needs further definition.
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
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 18, 2019
Marketers have a wide array of data at their fingertips, and new research shows that their use of location-based information is helping them generate positive results. Factual and Lawless Research recently published the “2019 Location-Based Marketing Report,” and statistics suggested that utilizing location data increases the effectiveness of marketing and advertising campaigns.
Only B2B
JUNE 18, 2019
The term Digital ABM might have picked up momentum recently but that doesn’t mean it is a new concept by anyway. Account Based Marketing has been around the marketing industry. The post Marketers, Target the Right Audience with Digital ABM appeared first on ONLY B2B.
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