ANNUITAS
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
There is perhaps no more challenging role in the C-suite than that of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) within a B2B organization. While the data on average tenure for CMOs changes each year, the consistent trend is that – among the C-suite – CMOs typically have some of the shortest tenure, well shorter than CEOs, CFOs and CIOs. It is not surprising.
Act-On
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Marketing automation is a tool that promises to help streamline workflows, scale with ease, and get better results. But as with any tool, it’s only as good as the strategies behind it, right? Yet creating better strategies requires better data, and this is where many marketers get stuck. According to our State of Marketing Automation report conducted in partnership with London Research, 49% of marketers cite being unable to measure ROI as a key barrier, and 36% note that a lack of internal knowl
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Navigate the Channel
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, constantly churning out content to stay relevant. However, there’s a crucial element that often gets overlooked – the need for ‘room to breathe’ in your content strategy. In this article, we will delve into why providing space for your B2B content is essential, how it impacts your audience, and strategies to implement it effectively.
SendX
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is essential to turn people from just looking at your emails into actually doing something, like buying your product or clicking on your link. It's more than writing compelling emails and understanding your audience.
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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.
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
There’s a seismic shift happening in B2B buying, and it’s being driven by a powerful force — generational change. A recent Forrester report found that Millennials and Gen Z make up 64% of business buyers. While each generation brings its own set of preferences, demands, and expectations to the market, the report shows that younger buyers are much more likely to voice their dissatisfaction than previous generations.
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Forrester B2B
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Expansion is gaining focus across the board at B2B organizations. While large enterprises have long been focused on expanding their influence and share of wallet with top customers, more small and midsize businesses are now emphasizing cross-sell and upsell targets in their revenue goals. This is for good reason.
Sword and the Script | B2B
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Welcome emails enjoy open rates of 60% or more; for most marketers, this will be your best-performing email ‘campaign’ Anyone who follows me knows I harp on businesses to build their own list of subscribers. From where I sit, if you aren’t building subscribers, you aren’t really doing “ content marketing.” More importantly, absent subscribers, you are missing the benefits of producing all that content.
FunnelEnvy
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Who hasn’t had the experience of being chased out of a showroom by a pushy salesperson? Those experiences are tiresome because they don’t respect where we are in our customer journey. We see this mirrored in B2B landing page performance with annoying popups and premature calls to action (CTAs) that don’t offer prospects what they need when we need it.
SendX
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Email marketers face an inbox avalanche every day. Your subscribers receive a barrage of messages—newsletters, promotions, transactional notifications, and more as well! Just keeping up with email can feel like a full-time job for your customers!
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The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
An increasing number of businesses are seeing the value of a clear content marketing strategy. At the start of 2022, 57% had a defined process, and that number jumped to 66% the following year. However, your content marketing strategy doesn’t just involve what you’re doing but also who is doing it and how. If you’re going to succeed, you need to fill all of the essential content marketing roles.
Act-On
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Considering a new marketing automation platform? You’re not alone. 23% of companies switched their provider in 2022! Unnecessary complexity and low utilization are driving the “Big Switch.” Marketing orgs only use 33% of their martech capabilities. Is it time to make a switch? Signs You Need to Consider a Switch Do any of these sound familiar? If so, you may need to join the 23% who switched.
Vision Edge Marketing
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
In a fiercely competitive landscape, the importance of a growth strategy cannot be overstated. It is the blueprint that paves the way to a successful future for any size business. A well-crafted strategy anticipates market changes, aligns with the company’s vision, mission, and objectives, and drives growth through competitive advantage. Let’s explore five essential elements that are required to create an effective growth strategy.
SendX
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Timed popups are a specific type of popup window that appears on a webpage after a predetermined amount of time. Unlike immediate popups that appear as soon as a page loads, or action-based popups triggered by user behavior, timed popups rely on a set time delay to capture the user's attention. This delay can be calibrated to match the average time users spend on a page or tailored to appear at moments when engagement is likely to be highest.
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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
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Marketing is at its best when it’s like a science experiment. Think of your strategy as a series of tests where each result teaches you something new. It’s a cycle of trying, learning, and improving that keeps getting better, whether your ideas hit the mark or miss it. Why does this work so well? Because marketing is rich with data, goals are clear, and there are always more ideas than there are resources to try them out.
Act-On
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
To paraphrase an old saying: You can lead a prospect to your website, but you can’t make them buy. On the other hand, you can improve your chances considerably with a lead nurturing campaign, helping your prospects every step of the way. Almost two-thirds of leads aren’t sales ready. But rather than ignoring the ones that aren’t ready yet, you can strategically nurture them to grow your haul of sales-qualified leads.
Webbiquity
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Guest post by Eduard Klein. Crafting an impeccable B2B sales journey isn’t straightforward. Many sales reps struggle with it, as if stumbling in the dark. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels On one hand, there’s a sales quota you need to fulfill within a short span of time. On the other, there’s pressure to build positive, engaging relationships with prospects, without being pushy about lead generation.
SendX
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
There’s something that is often overlooked in email marketing. Can you guess what it is? If you said IP warmup, you’re right! You may have guessed it because of the title of this post, or because an internet search landed you on this page.
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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.
Marketing Insider Group
DECEMBER 1, 2023
In the B2B selling world there is near universal appreciation for the value of sales coaching. Research indicates significant impact on forecasted deal win rates, revenue growth and other selling metrics. Research from The Sales Management Association show sales people believe it’s the most important, least supported sales resource. We are among many who believe how you sell is a primary way to create value for prospective buyers, and to differentiate from competitors.
Act-On
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Email marketing is a constantly shifting landscape. Service providers like Google and Yahoo regularly update guidelines and evolve their standards to protect their email account holders. If you’re using email as a marketing channel, you need to stay abreast of these 2024 email deliverability compliance changes to avoid a negative impact on your campaigns.
The Forward Observer
DECEMBER 1, 2023
DISCOVER Questions® for Connections, Clarity & Control: The 10th Anniversary Edition by Deb Calvert About the Book Field research, interviews, and practical application + updates for communicating effectively in these turbulent times. DISCOVER Questions® is a framework to make your questions more purposeful. This is the book that will help you appreciate questions, be more deliberate in what you ask and how you ask it, and prepare you for dealing with various conversational barriers like inf
Zoominfo
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Nearly 25 years after the introduction of cloud-based customer relationship management systems, go-to-market teams are equipped with more tools and more signals than their predecessors could dream of. But access to more data than ever still doesn’t mean better outcomes. Data warehouses, CRMs, and marketing automation tools that rely solely on first-party data still face unacceptable rates of decay — in one industry survey , data professionals estimated their CRM data degrades 34% a year without
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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten
Martech
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Generative AI is revolutionizing digital marketing by altering how we create, analyze and optimize marketing strategies. This technology leverages artificial intelligence for tasks like content creation, data analysis and customer engagement. Understanding and harnessing its capabilities allows marketers to achieve new levels of efficiency and creativity.
Ahrefs
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
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ANNUITAS
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Salelsoft has been calling itself an “AI-powered revenue platform” of late – an evolution of its positioning. The company has grown from a simple ‘sales cadence’ and ABM tool for nurturing and building insights around buying committees into a more insight-driven workflow platform that aims to enable more right place, right time engagement for sellers and prospects.
The Forward Observer
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Ship it. 2024 Day-to-Day Calendar: A Year Of Doing Work That Matters by Seth Godin About the Calendar Start your day with a motivating message from entrepreneur, bestselling author, and popular speaker Seth Godin. Be informed, inspired, and challenged with this new daily calendar. The 2024 Day-to-Day Calendar features over 300 of Seth’s specially selected and edited entries distilled from his popular blog on topics such as the world’s worst boss, making better tacos, the trap of list
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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.
Martech
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
In a move that may significantly impact some email marketers, Google is set to start deleting inactive email accounts this week. Google initially announced the plan, which only applies to accounts that haven’t been used for at least two years, in May, giving users six months to take action. Inactive email accounts don’t engage with marketing emails and don’t respond to messages or make purchases, which means on some level, Google might be doing email marketers a favor by presenting this pu
Ahrefs
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
There are many ways to do this; some take longer than others. In this post, I’ll share how I’d go from zero to SEO pro if I had to do it all over again.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Automation is a close friend of any social media marketing strategy—Instagram included. This is because automation can help take care of mundane tasks, like scheduling, compiling reports and even responding to common questions asked in DMs. However, there still needs to be a human element to your Instagram strategy. Instagram automation can alleviate some of the repetitive tasks while allowing your social mean more time to develop creative campaigns.
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