Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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Return of the Audience Development Dilemma

Anyword

At this point, it’s common knowledge that The Great Upheaval in March caused a huge spike in traffic across the board for publishers. Whether that spike was going to result in long-term growth has been the subject of some debate. . The truth is that the answer isn’t clear-cut. As with most things in life, it’s a bit of a grey area. For example, as I’ve written in the past , paid subscriptions have clearly benefited in the long term, and costs and retention are in a really good place.

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6 Lessons B2B Companies Can Learn from Amazon

Fusion Marketing Partners

Let me start out confessing that I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. I bet a lot of you reading […].

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10 Tips for Better Behavior-Based Segmentation

Sharpspring

Segmenting customers based on their buying and decision-making patterns is essential to effective, personalized marketing. Human beings are creatures of habit, and those habits show up in the way people purchase products both in-person and online. To help your company streamline marketing tactics , here are ten helpful tips for enhancing your behavior-based segmentation.

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How Marketing Can Help Companies Thrive in Challenging Economic Times

Kaon

This article was originally published by MarketingProfs , May 18, 2020. Survive or Thrive? CEOs Must Invest Now in Marketing. When I was a teenager, a young friend who didn’t have his driver’s license “borrowed” his father’s car, taking it for a drive on the highway. A careful fellow, he turned on his headlights and obeyed all traffic regulations.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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5 Ways Badly Written Content Holds Marketing Back

nDash

It’s happened to all of us. You’re scrolling through your Twitter feed and come across a catchy headline. It’s timely, relevant, and seems like it will bring you to an article that offers some value. But instead all you get is badly written content. Luckily, you can hit the back button immediately and move on with your life. But for the brand publishing that badly written content, the impact runs much deeper than a high bounce rate on one post.

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Why Consumers Subscribe and Unsubscribe from Email [New Data]

Hubspot

Think email marketing is dead? Think again. Email marketing is actually thriving. In HubSpot's 2020 State of Marketing Report , roughly 80% of marketers said their brand's email engagement had improved in the last year. Our researchers also discovered that brands make an average of $42 for every dollar spent on email advertising. mail marketing is still widely used and continues to offer many benefits to marketers.

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Why and how you should organize your curated content

Scoop.it

You already know the impact curated content can have on your business. From marketing efforts to employee advocacy and hiring, content curation is a company’s superpower across the board. But curated content is only useful if you can navigate your way through it. Think about it. Would a talented fashion stylist do their job well if they couldn’t find the piece of clothing they needed in a wardrobe?

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How much can you save with the address validation?

Data Cleaning/CRM Appending

Imagine you going to visit someone and searching for the house in the area. When you think address search is done and you ring the bell, a door opens and you are greeted with a person with a questioning look, asking “Do we know you?” or a scenario when after searching every lane in the […]. The post How much can you save with the address validation?

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Your Complete LinkedIn Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

LinkedIn is undoubtedly one of the best social platforms for B2B marketing. With 675 million monthly users and 30 million companies active on the platform, it lends itself well to promoting business services, networking, building an audience, and content marketing. Just like any other social network, you need to have a good strategy in place to succeed with LinkedIn marketing.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Author Interview: Wendy Marx, Thriving at 50+

Webbiquity

Ageism, like other forms of group discrimination, is despicable, ignorant, and illegal. Yet it’s commonplace among business leaders, especially in the tech sector. And it is, as Bill Maher has pointed out , “the last acceptable prejudice in America.”. Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, told the New York Times in an interview that he was “trying to build a culture specifically to attract and retain Gen Y’ers,” because, “in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrat

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Q2 2020 Recap| Work Smarter, Not Harder

Zoominfo

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t have …. an unusual second quarter. At ZoomInfo, the story was no different. With Covid-19 hitting the US hard, we had to pivot in a lot of different ways. We adjusted goals. We reset expectations. We said goodbye to the office (for now). Oh yeah, and we IPOd. Saying this quarter was eventful would be the understatement of the decade.

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Now Is the Time to Plan Your 2021 Demand Marketing Transformation

ANNUITAS

To say that 2020 has caused us all to rethink our demand marketing approaches moving forward is an understatement. We all started Q2 having to triage and rapidly iterate at every level of our marketing and sales motions. For many companies, the focus initially was on preserving business with existing customers and adjusting expectations and plans for new customer acquisition.

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Content Marketing: Your Solution Is Solving Your Customers’ Problems

Marketing Insider Group

I can’t say it enough. Successful content marketing is all about solving your customers’ problems. And that requires a culture shift inside businesses. We need to think of content marketing as our solution, more than our products. Because when you show customers how to face their challenges and come out victorious on the other side, it builds trust.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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How to Outsource Digital Marketing the Right Way [Infographic]

Webbiquity

Guest post by PointVisible. For small and medium-sized businesses that have limited budgets and are short on staff, outsourcing marketing (or at least parts of it) can be a great way to get access to specialized tools and skilled workers. Instead of investing money in training existing workers or hiring new ones, companies get the ability to focus on their core business while a digital agency does all (or much of) the heavy lifting.

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41 Expert Opinions on Data Hygiene Best Practices

Zoominfo

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. How can it be that technology has come so far, and yet data quality issues still plague sales and marketing professionals?

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Breathe Life Into Your Data | Tell Compelling Stories Via Data Visualization

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Time and attention, as ever, are at a premium. Especially when we must work within the limitations of speed and resources while information and markets move and change ever more rapidly. AI and machine learning make it possible to gather, analyze, and interpret data into actionable insights at inhuman speed. But this data must be understood, translated, and shared.

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Publishing Blogs Articles Isn’t Enough – It Needs to Be the Right Content

Marketing Insider Group

You’ve read all the advice. You’ve started a corporate blog or a branded content hub. Then you published a ton of articles that run the gamut from your company’s response to the news story du jour to how your new gadget works. Then – crickets. It might be tough hearing it – but just publishing blog articles isn’t enough. You need to publish more of the kind of high quality content that your audience wants.

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Top B2B Email Marketing Tactics to Drive Engagement and Pipeline in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Ready to become the email wizard your team didn’t know they needed? Join our live webinar to uncover the secrets of mixing AI magic with human flair, crafting emails so good your audience can't help but write back. We'll spill the beans on: Scaling personal touches Tracking metrics (like revenue, duh) Building smarter campaigns that actually work Oh, and we’re throwing in multi-channel tips too—think LinkedIn ads and webinars that wow.

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10 B2B Marketing Strategies for a World Without Face-to-Face Events

Biznology

The pandemic has taken away one of B2B marketing’s steadiest, most reliable sources of lead generation and customer engagement, on a global basis. What’s to be done? It’s not easy to replace a marketing channel that represents on average 20% of our marketing mix—with many marketers devoting as much as 60% of their budgets to events. The last pre-pandemic study I saw pegged event marketing usage among B2B marketers at 91%.

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Report: Majority of Marketers Implementing Some Form of Account-Based Marketing Practices

KoMarketing Associates

Although some marketers have already implemented some form of account-based marketing (ABM), new research shows that many of them are still in the initial phases, while others have not begun to think about ABM at all. Canam Research recently published “The State of ABM Survey 2020 Trend Report,” and data suggested that the majority of marketers (27.31%) are in the middle of integrating ABM into their overall strategy, while 25.21% have an ABM program in place.

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7 Steps to Developing an Effective Content Strategy [Guide]

Roketto

You post on your blog once a month. The content is purposeless, without direction, and isn’t directly aimed at anyone in particular. “That should be good enough, these posts will drive some more traffic to my website”, you say to yourself. Customers then get stuck at the top of your marketing funnel, never to come out on the other side.

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10 Kanban Board Examples for Marketing Teams

Marketing Insider Group

Once a relatively unknown framework outside of IT, Kanban’s popularity in the marketing industry has recently exploded. Since Kanban is less prescriptive than its cousin Scrum, and many marketing teams struggle to confine themselves to sprints, it’s not surprising that this adaptive option is appealing. At the heart of this framework lies the Kanban board, which, depending on the specific needs of each team, can look very different.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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How to Improve Sales Forecasting with AI

InsightSquared

Most companies miss the mark when it comes to sales forecasting — in more ways than you think. The chronic inaccuracy of sales forecasting is well-documented by SiriusDecisions , noting that nearly 80% of sales organizations miss their mark by more than 10%. In most cases, it comes down to three primary causes: 1) flawed forecast roll-up processes 2) Poor sales execution 3) Lack of accountability.

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Report: The eBook May Now Be the Top B2B Content Marketing Asset

KoMarketing Associates

B2B content marketers are constantly producing new assets to resonate with their target audience. However, new research shows that eBooks may be the key to reeling in new prospects and customers. NetLine recently released its “2020 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report for Marketers,” and the data showed that the eBook was the top type of content requested from B2B content marketers.

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Why COVID-19 Had Made Digital Selling a Priority

Biznology

When it comes to digital transformation in B2B marketing and sales, marketing has led the way in recent years. But now B2B sales teams are finding that they need get up to speed with digital selling in a hurry. “The pandemic makes digital selling absolutely essential to hitting a goal,” says Glenn Eckard, head of client success and experience at Journey Sales (a long-time client of ours).

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Measure the ROI of Account-Based Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

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 within an organization that you believe you’ll be able to serve the best, build a lasting relationship with them, and then offer an increasingly wide range of serv

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Best Blogging Platforms

The Daily Egg

Ready to start a blog? Whether you’re blogging as a hobby or starting a blog for your business, the benefits of blogging are seemingly endless. It’s an excellent way to drive traffic to your website and build authority in your niche or industry. But you need to choose a blogging platform before you can write […]. The post Best Blogging Platforms appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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15 Mistakes You May Be Making in Your Content Development

Content Marketing Institute

When you talk mistakes, are you usually referring to typos, grammatical errors, and misspellings? That granular focus could be your biggest gaffe. Let’s look at 15 of the biggest mistakes in content creation, production, and promotion processes. Continue reading → The post 15 Mistakes You May Be Making in Your Content Development appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Win the “SEO vs. PPC” Debate

Unbounce

Believe it or not, some marketers are still taking sides in the “SEO vs. PPC” debate. I can understand the passion on both sides of the aisle, but I’d compare it to an argument about the need for “air vs. water.” Depending on your immediate circumstances, one may be more important than another—but both are necessary for survival.

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