Rev

MARCH 8, 2023

Did you know that revenue generation isn’t just the responsibility of your sales team? In fact, all departments—including marketing, customer success, revenue operations and even finance—play a role in driving the growth of your business. So, if you want to ensure that your B2B company is profitable, it’s essential to have a strong revenue generation strategy that empowers each department to contribute to the bottom line.

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DivvyHQ

MARCH 7, 2023

Are you using storytelling in your marketing? You should be! Check out our latest article on the benefits of storytelling and how to develop a storytelling strategy that works for your brand.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 6, 2023

Thought leadership is one of those inherently appealing ideas. Who doesn’t want to be a thought leader? And for many B2B and professional services firms this makes a lot of sense. Thought leadership can provide the credibility and visibility for your offering. In this post we will explore how to make thought leadership content the centerpiece of your strategy and how to execute it successfully.

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2023

In today’s highly competitive B2B marketplace, generating leads and setting appointments is a critical aspect of any successful sales strategy. But with so many tasks to manage and limited time and resources, many businesses struggle to keep up with the demands of lead generation and appointment setting. One potential solution to this problem is outsourcing these tasks to a specialized provider.

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Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 8, 2023

To stay ahead of the competition, you must have access to the most relevant consumer data. After all, the more you know about your target market and their purchasing habits, the better you will be at meeting their demands. According to HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers say generating traffic and leads is their most difficult task. While the reasons for this conclusion may be overly broad, some of the most significant difficulties include inaccurate prospect records and content that fails to resonat

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 8, 2023

Some marketers are bracing for the impact of an economic downturn, but new research suggests that many of them still expect to increase their spending throughout 2023. RSW/US recently published its “New Year Outlook Report,” and statistics suggested that 61% of marketers expect their marketing spend to increase “somewhat significantly” in 2023. While this is a drop from the 68% of marketers who said the same in regard to 2022, it is a significant increase from the 41% who thought their spending

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 7, 2023

We all know that closing deals requires input from different internal teams to make sure that your business is matching your prospect’s expectations, and also to ensure that you’re providing the best customer journey possible. Throughout the customer/buyer journey a prospect is likely to interact with two different but complementary teams, that work together to ensure the best experience ever.

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chiefmartech

MARCH 4, 2023

We’re busy working on the 2023 edition of the martech landscape (interactive version at martechmap.com ) that will be released on #MartechDay, May 2. Spoiler alert: if you were betting this would be the year the martech supernova collapses into a black hole… well, you might think of hedging that bet. The number of weekly martech-related product launches on Product Hunt and new funding announcements on TechCrunch continues unabated.

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Ataccama

MARCH 9, 2023

Learn why automating data quality is a fundamental component of any successful data observability initiative.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 7, 2023

Long-term engagements are beneficial for consultants or agencies as well as the clients who work with them. But it takes the right mix of factors to build productive, lasting client-consultant relationships. Image credit: Amy Hirschi on Unsplash For consultants and agencies, long-term client relationships mean steady income. But more importantly, they mean you can spend more time doing what you love—delivering great results for awesome clients—and less time on business development and proposal w

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Now is the time to become an expert on creating video content. Not only are 91% of businesses already using video as a marketing tool in 2023, but 96% of marketers are placing ad spend on video. That’s because nowadays, consumers are spending an increasing amount of time on social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc. With all of the benefits that come along with creating video content, like building your brand identity and increasing your SEO , there’s no reason why yo

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Contently

MARCH 7, 2023

One of the biggest challenges to achieving content impact is a lack of people. That’s the word from the senior content marketers who answered the Contently 2023 State of Content Marketing survey. The Great Resignation that began in 2021 continued through all of last year, and Quiet Quitting added more pressure, stretching content teams thin and leading many to seek more content marketers for hire.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2023

We’re living in a marketing world that is inundated with buzzwords. Sometimes, they make sense. Other times, they’re trendy hype words that have lost their real meaning through overuse, misuse, and lack of understanding. In our new content series, Behind the Buzzwords , ANNUITAS will break down the complex jargon you see trending in go-to-market thought-leadership and help you cut through the noise to contextualize it for your organization.

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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.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2023

The job market has been undergoing a major reset for the past three years. Before the pandemic, the talent acquisition process was largely commoditized, with too many companies treating people more like inventory than talent. That dynamic, like so much else, was turned on its head in 2020. While labor market signals remain mixed, employees still have a strong say in demanding better work-life balance, more flexibility, and competitive benefits from their employers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2023

As content marketers, we are always on the hunt for interesting data to grab reader attention and support our claims. It’s a beautiful thing when our employer is the data source. If you work at a SaaS company, you might hit the content jackpot by turning customer usage data into an annual report that attracts media coverage and leads, for example, Zuora’s Subscription Economy Index or Marketing Insider Group’s blog post frequency research.

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Go Beyond SEO

MARCH 9, 2023

I can’t be the only one who remembers waiting for a website to load for 5+ minutes, and when it finally did, the only way you could interact with the site is by scrolling and ingesting all of its content. The web has come a long way. Now, all the focus is on Web 3.0 , a way to decentralize the web, increase privacy for users, and AI-driven services.

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Search Engine Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

Glean insights into how your YouTube video performed directly using YouTube Analytics using this detailed step-by-step guide. The post YouTube Analytics: How To Find & Analyze Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Ahrefs

MARCH 8, 2023

If you just want a quick overview of the types, see the cheat sheet below. Read the full article to learn more about their importance and how to find them for your SEO projects.

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2023

Outsourcing has become a popular practice for organizations looking to streamline their operations and increase efficiency. One area where outsourcing can be particularly effective is appointment setting. Appointment setting is a critical aspect of many businesses, but it can also be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Outsourcing appointment setting services can help organizations to focus on their core competencies while still achieving their business goals.

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Oktopost

MARCH 8, 2023

Listen to the podcast: Or catch us on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? Catch all episodes here. Episode Summary The amount of time and energy it takes to get your brand featured in a top-tier media outlet is not for the faint of heart. It’s all about building meaningful relationships with the right people.

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Search Engine Journal

MARCH 8, 2023

Here are 5 paid media tactics that help you focus on getting the right traffic, not the most traffic. The post Smarter Ads: 5 Cost-Efficient Ways To Get Higher Return On Paid Media appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

You’re in a new content battleground. But it doesn’t have to be humans vs. machines. It can be humans AND machines to make your content better and please both Google search and the people in your target audience.

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Buffer

MARCH 6, 2023

An important part of growing your Instagram is connecting with other brands and accounts on the platform, and doing so just got easier with Instagram Collab posts. With this feature, you can share content in collaboration with another account. This means your content, whether it be photos or a Reel, will be shared from both accounts rather than just your own.

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Ahrefs

MARCH 9, 2023

After working with a number of SEO agencies and as a freelancer, I’ve found that asking the right questions at the start of a (potential) cooperation is key to getting started with a successful campaign quickly and easily.

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Search Engine Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

Catch up on this week’s top news stories in search marketing, social media, AI tools, and WordPress security. The post SEJ Sum-Up: Weekly News Recap for Search, Social, And AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Stevens & Tate

MARCH 8, 2023

You must invest in a robust senior living marketing plan if you want your senior living facility to stand out from the competition. Statistics show that approximately 2% of seniors live in assisted living facilities in the United States, translating to about 810,000 people. This population lives in nearly 30,000 assisted living facilities. Competition is stiff among service providers as the demand for assisted living facilities and services continues to grow.

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Martech

MARCH 6, 2023

Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines recently as the world began to play with a new tool: Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer, better known as ChatGPT. The tool quickly attracted techies and non-techies because one prompt can generate a response usable by editors, PR teams, developers or executives to create white papers, software programs, client presentations, press releases and more.

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Buffer

MARCH 9, 2023

If you’re looking to grow your career, make connections with people in your industry, and build a personal brand, you should be on LinkedIn. To get a little personal, nothing has been more valuable to my career than building a platform on LinkedIn. It’s difficult to get a remote job when there are many people, and it’s even harder when you’re outside the West.

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