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7 Tips to Prepare B2B Marketers for the New Reality

DemandBase

The Coronavirus is continuing to have a major impact across our society and economy. As companies deal with the repercussions and try to assess its impact, we are also facing the difficult realization that demand is likely to decline across most sectors. But as B2B marketers (and sales practitioners), the fact remains that we’re still on the hook for generating and delivering on pipe goals that may now seem impossible.

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How to Outsource Content Marketing Without Losing Your Brand Voice

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to scale up your content marketing efforts, you need to create more content. For most businesses, that will mean investing in outsourcing. Outsourcing all or part of your content marketing is more cost-effective than employing a full-time in-house team. But, how do you make sure external contractors and freelancers produce content with a consistent brand voice ?

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Don’t Duct Tape Your Demand Generation Right Now: Adopt a Strategic Approach to Demand Marketing

ANNUITAS

The crisis that’s emerged from the coronavirus pandemic has forced B2B marketing teams to look at their demand programs in a new light, and an ugly truth has emerged. Most B2B companies have inefficient sales and marketing motions. In fact, nearly three-quarters of businesses in this segment succeed because they have a strong product or service. They succeed ‘in spite of’ their sales and marketing investments, not because of them – spending much of their time and resources on ‘random acts of mar

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Weathering Market(ing) Uncertainty

Kaon

Sustaining Predictable Revenue and Customer Engagement. Several economists and analysts are forecasting significant global macroeconomic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic. The UN is estimating economic costs of $1 trillion in 2020. The BBC reports that an intensified, sustained outbreak of the Coronavirus could halve global market growth this year.

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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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How to Brainstorm Great Lead Generation Content

Contently

Last night, I dreamt I was being chased around New York by a “free e-book!”offer come to life. There it was, hovering in the air like a Thanksgiving Day balloon, threatening to retarget me to death. This speaks to two things: my crippling inability to maintain work/life boundaries and, more importantly, the ubiquity of annoying lead generation content.

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Bookings vs Profits: Can They Co-Exist in B2B Marketing?

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. The CEO of a venture capital-backed start-up once told me he was willing to spend 100 percent of a target customer’s lifetime value if we could get them signed and add their logo to his fundraising deck. He was, quite literally, hoping to break even on his customer relationships just to live another day.

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Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist

Content Marketing Institute

Let’s make this simple. Factually wrong content is bad. Accuracy is a necessity for trust from your audience. Welcome to the content creators’ and editors’ fact-checking checklist. Continue reading → The post Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Don’t quarantine your B2B Sales and Marketing

xiQ

As the Coronavirus pandemonium continues across the world, we are all experiencing a calamity-induced global lockdown. Governments have declared a state of emergency by shutting down public spaces and offices have decreed a ban on gatherings, slowing down business activities by huge margins. . Let’s evaluate what this means for B2B Sales and Marketing.

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How We Rank #1 Get a Million Visitors (And Win All Our New Customers)

Marketing Insider Group

The battle for customer attention is real. Even more so now, with everything going on in the world, we are seeing a massive spike in new client requests for thought leadership content. While some companies chase people around the web with ads and fill their sites with product promotions, we believe in the power of consistent content marketing to reach, engage, and convert relevant audiences to your business.

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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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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #23: Nicolas Wegener, AdBase

Webbiquity

Marketing technology can be tremendously powerful, both in enabling marketers to do innovative things and in allowing them to automate common tasks. But there are two big problems marketers face in working with their technology stack (or more accurately, their marketing technology matrix ) today. The first problem is that most of the tools simply aren’t very smart.

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The Power of “What If?” in Strategy Planning

Vision Edge Marketing

The future is unknowable, which is why there is so much merit in the scouting motto coined by English soldier Robert Baden-Powell : Be prepared. He believed that one must “always be in a state of readiness.” Organizations invest in strategic planning initiatives as a way to peer into and be prepared for the future – to decide on an outcome or set of outcomes to pursue and the corresponding course(s) of action.

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Marketing to Gen Z | Come for the Authenticity, Stay for the Experiences

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketers must always be evolving and adapting to markets and consumer trends, and digital marketing to Gen Z is no different. We’ve seen Generation Z coming for a while. But it’s still important to understand what makes them tick. Where do they hang out? Maybe most important: what do they value? Sure, it’s easier said than done, as many things are, but if you plan to market effectively to Gen Z it’s time to get to know your audience.

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How Should We Even Think About Marketing In Times of Fear?

Marketing Insider Group

In times like this, it helps to name what we’re feeling: fear, anxiety, uncertainty, grief. But we also have to stay positive and prepared in order to survive and thrive. If you’re a regular reader of our content, you may have noticed that in light of my own feelings, I’ve been focused on basically a “business as usual” approach.

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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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Content Fluency: Why You Should Write For 4th Graders

Contently

The first class I ever took in college was called “Drugs, Society, and Culture.” It was taught by a 29-year-old adjunct professor named Luther, who had spent the previous five years on an all-expenses-paid trip “studying” the psychedelic ceremonies of aboriginal tribes in Australia and southeast Asia. It should have been the most fun class ever—and in some ways, it definitely was.

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10X Your Sales Pipeline with Data-Driven Coaching Insights: A Recap

InsightSquared

If there was ever a time to focus on coaching your reps, it is now. The sales processes of yesterday may now be obsolete. As reps adjust to this evolving sales environment, managers must do the same and explore more dynamic and structured coaching methods. In our latest webinar, “10X Your Sales Pipeline with Data-Driven Coaching Insights,” sales leaders Todd Abbott and Grace Tyson discussed how to adjust your coaching cadence and build a data-driven coaching culture to combat future uncertainty.

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How to Maximize Webinar Attendance and Engagement | 5 Strategies

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Live webinars are a powerful lead generation and engagement tool. Successful webinars drive revenue and establish your organization as a thought leader in its space. However, maximizing webinar attendance takes effort. Nothing is more disheartening than spending time and advertising money promoting your webinar—only to have a handful of folks attend.

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Hey CMOs: Culture Still Eats Marketing Strategy for Breakfast

Marketing Insider Group

The phrase “culture eats marketing strategy for breakfast” was coined by management consultant Peter Drucker 20 years ago and remains as true today as it ever was. If anything, culture has become even more important in recent years. The millennial workforce of today value company culture more than any other generation , and are more likely to put work-life balance, corporate values, and engagement and purpose over salary.

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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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9 Tips for Running a Great Virtual Business Meeting

Circle Studio

Virtual meetings have become a staple in the professional workplace, allowing for a simulated face-to-face experience that serves as a viable substitute for the real thing. With recent events surrounding COVID-19, many businesses find themselves utterly dependent on virtual meetings to conduct business, keep projects moving forward and communicate with remote staff and clients.

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InsightSquared Earns “Leader” Badge in New G2 Sales Analytics Report

InsightSquared

The customers have spoken! We are excited to once again be ranked as a leader in the G2 Grid® Report for Sales Analytics. In addition, we were honored as a Leader in Business Intelligence and Top Performer in AI Sales Assistant. G2 Crowd provides competitive analysis based on the voice of the customer. This enables solution-seekers to compare options with real user feedback.

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Digital Content Strategy for Today’s Professional Services Firm

Hinge Marketing

What’s the best way to market your firm? . While that may sound like a trick question, recent research has produced tangible, practical answers that can help firms make smarter marketing decisions. And a notable theme of these findings is that every professional services firm needs a digital content strategy to address the way modern buyers look for professional advice and services. .

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Shorter Workday Concept for Employee Retention | Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing automation has played a significant role in making our time at work more efficient. This is not a revolutionary or surprising statement – after all, it’s not hard to imagine that technology capable of automating repetitive tasks would be a time saver. What once took days now takes hours, and what once took hours now takes minutes. The revolution is that organizations are using the time that platforms like marketing automation have given them to rethink their workplace culture.

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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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A Simple Guide to Understanding and Creating a Website Conversion Funnel

The Daily Egg

An optimized conversion funnel can mean the difference between making a healthy profit and barely breaking even. It maximizes the profit you get from your marketing campaigns. If you run a sales-focused website, you do have a conversion funnel in place, whether you were intentional about creating it or not. Maybe it’s not optimized, but […]. The post A Simple Guide to Understanding and Creating a Website Conversion Funnel appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Battling burnout as a social media manager

Sprout Social

In the last decade, social media has rapidly evolved and become a major element of marketing in all industries. As a result, social media practitioners now play a role in more business initiatives than ever. They are key players in managing their company’s reputation, deploying customer service, acquiring customers, spotting trends and navigating breaking news. .

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16 Apps and Tools to Keep You Productive and Sane

Content Marketing Institute

Her workload felt out of control. The goal? Find worthwhile shortcuts and workarounds, and make life simpler. Here are the 16 tools she tested on her successful journey. Continue reading → The post 16 Apps and Tools to Keep You Productive and Sane appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How We’re Working for You During COVID-19

Unbounce

Here at Unbounce, we’re continuing to watch and adapt to COVID-19 as details emerge. But this isn’t business as usual for anybody —it’s uncharted territory, and it’s understandable that many of us are feeling anxious about what comes next. Landing pages are certainly not top-of-mind for you at this time. Right now, you’re concerned about your health, your family, and your community.

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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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The 15 Second Rule: 3 Reasons Why Users Leave a Website

The Daily Egg

How long do users stay on your website? Less than 15 seconds. That’s how long you have to capture someone’s attention on your website. I’ve dubbed this “the 15 Second Rule.” If you haven’t generated interest in 15 seconds, then you probably aren’t going to. How do you do that? Let’s take a look at […]. The post The 15 Second Rule: 3 Reasons Why Users Leave a Website appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Remote work: 5 steps to cultivate an environment where employees thrive

Sprout Social

Remote employees are becoming the new norm for companies across the globe. According to research from Global Workplace Analytics , employees benefit from the flexibility and mix of environments that facilitate both collaboration in-office and stronger focus on tasks when remote. However, shifting to remote work isn’t always an easy transition. Individuals’ personality types and working styles must be taken into account, and maintaining a healthy balance and separation between a work mindset and

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Which Content Marketers Will Do Well in the Post-Shutdown World? [The Weekly Wrap]

Content Marketing Institute

This week, Robert Rose talks which kind of content marketers will do well in the future. He discusses a non-pandemic moment that may offer a new model for content monetization, ponders when we can “say when.” Continue reading → The post Which Content Marketers Will Do Well in the Post-Shutdown World? [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.