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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Research from eMarketer released in August projected B2B ad spending to grow by 22.6% Expertise-based thought leadership (55%). this year as well.

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Link Thought Leadership to Intelligent Client Discovery

Ambal's Amusings

" Britton Manasco helps firms become thought leaders and trusted authorities through value-rich content such as white papers, success stories and executive presentations. Britton is the producer of the thought leadership marketing blog Illuminating the Future. eMarketing for the Complex Sale. Britton Manasco.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

The brilliant Ardath Albee provides the missing piece, a reliable recipe marketing automation, demand generation and content marketing success in her new book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale. The book is a bit repetitive in places, but it’s repetition with a purpose; this is important stuff! Share this on FriendFeed.

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eMarketing Expert Ardath Albee on the Limitations of a Lead Gen Mindset

ViewPoint

Your thoughts? In a study done by Tech Validate , marketers report that thought leadership content is more effective than lead generation content and that 3rd party analyst content is more effective than content written in house. Crafting your own thought leadership content sets your company up as an expert.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: In defense of thought leadership

markempa

« Lead Generation Execution | Main | Small companies blogging for leads while big companies watch » In defense of thought leadership Trevor Cook and David Murray skewer the term "thought leadership" on their respective blogs. First of all, thought leaders dont refer to themselves as thought leaders.

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Pulling the thread on Threads: Meta’s new social network four months in

illumin

In the midst of leadership controversy, the new app was slated by many to replace Twitter, (recently rebranded as X). percent of Gen Z US Threads users downloaded the app “because they thought it looked fun”. According to eMarketer , Treads users are continuing to climb steadily, in pact with new Instagram users.

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Three Reasons Content Curation is Overrated

Digital B2B Marketing

B2B marketers are looking for a shortcut to thought leadership , but the shortcut many are taking lead somewhere else completely. According to a recent report on eMarketer , 85% of marketers curate content in order to establish thought leadership! Does sharing someone else’s content make you a thought leader?

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