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Who Are B2B Creators and Why Do They Matter?

Marketing Insider Group

The creator economy has really changed everything. It’s affected what we watch, how we shop, and the paths we choose in our careers. We’ve all seen the impact of YouTube stars and TikTok influencers. But now, there’s something new on the scene: B2B creators. We’re not just talking about any influencers. These are B2B creators, and they’re changing the rules of how businesses talk to their audiences and make choices.

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Nurture Real Estate Leads With an Email Marketing Platform

SendX

In the world of real estate, nurturing leads is crucial for success. This process involves building and maintaining relationships with potential clients from the first contact until they're ready to make a decision.

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How BODs Can Architect Better Strategic Customer-Centric Designs | What’s Your Edge

Vision Edge Marketing

Customer Success! Coined in the early 2000s, it’s more than a buzzword—it’s the essence of customer-centricity. Why has this concept expanded so rapidly across all industries? Because customer centricity isn’t just a growth strategy; it’s THE primary strategy for driving value and building lasting connections. In this episode What’s Your Edge?

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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

Act-On

Imagine going on a blind date. All you know about the person sitting across from you is their name, maybe what they do for a living, and that your cousin Susan thinks you might get along. But before you have a chance to ask any questions or get to know them better, they give you a big smile and say, “It’s so nice to meet you. I’d love to show you around my apartment.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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The Marketing Book Podcast: “Immersion” by Paul Zak

The Forward Observer

Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness by Paul Zak About the Book No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences. Experience designers, marketers, entertainment producers, and retailers have long sought to fill this craving.

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What is Dynamic Marketing Strategy and How to Get Started

Marketing Insider Group

It’s a tough world out there. Brands are competing against one another to reach the same audience pool. Every company is looking to squeeze as much ROI out of each marketing campaign as possible, constantly searching for their next edge. The result? Marketers are looking to reach their intended audience in an innovative, never-been-done-before way. This is a big ask, especially with more and more brands entering the marketplace every year.

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The effectiveness crisis in B2B marketing: Why MOps must shift focus now

Martech

In our zeal to harness the tech part of martech, the ops part of MOps and the automation part of marketing automation, MOps professionals have failed to accomplish the most important part of the equation — marketing. B2B marketing is suffering from an effectiveness crisis, having chased efficiency gains for years. Effectiveness should be mastered and constantly invested in ahead of efficiency.

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Breaking Down Barriers: How Brands Can Harness Creator Content Across Digital Landscapes

illumin

When you think of TikTok, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps it’s the platform’s short-form videos, its entertainment value, or its reputation for authenticity and virality. Undoubtedly, the social network has experienced an explosive growth trajectory over the past five years and quickly surpassed the beginnings of other social media platforms.

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Anyword Analytics: Your Marketing Command Center – All Copy In One Place

Anyword

Data-driven marketing requires a clear understanding of what resonates with your audience. Our new analytics feature empowers you to do just that, by providing a centralized platform to analyze and optimize your marketing copy across all channels. Unified View of All Your Marketing Channels Efficiency in marketing is largely about visibility and control.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

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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Why Marketers Should Care About Google’s Potential HubSpot Acquisition

Content Marketing Institute

Google’s may buy HubSpot. But how likely is it the deal will get done? Why would Google want HubSpot? What would it mean for HubSpot customers? Understand the possibilities and take away the one reality for every marketer.

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Why Invest in Case Studies: What They Are and Why They Matter

Optinmonster

Have you ever wondered why businesses invest in case studies? Not sure if case studies are worth the investment? At OptinMonster, you’ll notice that we spend a lot of time conducting case studies and highlighting them on our blog. This isn’t a coincidence or a random occurrence. In fact, we make a regular effort to communicate with our customers to produce great case studies.

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The Ultimate Guide To Email Marketing

CopyBlogger

Email marketing is one of the most popular marketing channels because it’s relatively easy to use, highly effective, and cheap. Continue Reading The post The Ultimate Guide To Email Marketing appeared first on Copyblogger.

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How Attention Metrics are Redefining Success in Digital Marketing

ClickZ

The digital marketing landscape is experiencing a transformative shift from traditional metrics like impressions and viewability to attention-based metrics, which focus on the quality of engagement rather than mere exposure. This evolution has been driven by the need for more nuanced insights into consumer interactions in an increasingly cluttered digital environment.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Why relying on AI won’t improve the customer experience

Martech

What will customers remember after they have experienced your website, product, service or people? What will they tell their friends or colleagues about their experience — will they even mention it? A tremendous amount of investment and resources are being focused on integrating AI into the customer experience , from automating responses to comments on social media to improving the call center experience.

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How To Get Unstuck With Generative AI in Your Content and Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Generative AI isn’t serving marketers well. All the options make it easy to apply, but all the options make it more difficult to decide what to do. To help, use this categorization chart that looks at capabilities and efficiencies.

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Can AI Put an End to Big Data’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Way back in 1914, engineer and data visualization pioneer Willard Brinton observed that while companies went to considerable effort to analyze and catalog their information, most failed to draw useful conclusions from it. “Known facts cannot be marshaled and presented in such [a] manner as to be effective,” he wrote more than 100 years ago. Yes, that’s how long companies have struggled to make sense of and extract value from what’s now called big data — datasets so large they can only be analyze

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Quality over Quantity: Why Data Accuracy Matters in Healthcare Marketing

Lake B2B

In the digital age of healthcare marketing, where precision targeting and personalized messaging are the supreme aspects to make impact on potential audience, the quality of data holds unparalleled importance. From target audience acquisition to retention strategies, every marketing decision hinges on the reliability and accuracy of data.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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7 Sure Fire Ways to Turn Social Media Followers into Customers

SocialPilot

If content is king, then conversion is queen -John Munsell Think about it. The fundamental aim of any activity performed by a social media marketer on social networks is to gain followers. But is that enough? Not quite. In fact, it is the first step of any social media marketing campaign. What follows is a powerful strategy involving gentle coaxing and convincing to monetize your social connections.

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Google’s Privacy Sandbox: What you need to know

Martech

Google’s Privacy Sandbox is a space where a series of complex proposals to protect user privacy have been developed and are undergoing (or have undergone) extensive testing. In short, Privacy Sandbox is an attempt to fill in the many gaps that will open up in the advertising ecosystem when third-party cookies are deprecated in the Chrome browser.

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How To Adapt Your SEO and Content Strategies for SGE and AI Experiences

Content Marketing Institute

Google’s rolling out its Search Generative Experience to the public. And that’s not the only AI-influenced impact on search results pages. It’s time to update your content strategy to better reflect these new search experiences.

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Trust in AI: Combining AI & the Human Experience

CMSWire

Trust profoundly impacts the human experience in numerous ways, shaping how we interact with businesses, loyalty and willingness to engage in transactions. Continue reading.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Talking Points: Your Data-Driven Messaging Bank

Anyword

Crafting high-performing marketing copy can be a challenge. You need to understand what resonates with your audience and tailor your message accordingly. This is where “Talking Points,” a new feature within Anyword’s AI writing platform, comes in. What are Talking Points? Talking Points is a data-driven messaging bank built directly within Anyword’s platform that leverages data from your existing marketing channels.

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How To Create A WordPress Survey Popup for Your Website

Optinmonster

Do you host your business website on WordPress? Want to know what your visitors secretly think of your site, products, and services? The best way to find out: add a survey popup on your site! If people land on your site, don’t like what they see, and go away, you could be losing a lot of business. As per SuperOffice research, only 1 in 25 customers complain directly to the brand if they are unhappy about their experience.

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ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity: The definitive AI chatbot battle of 2024

Martech

“What marketing technologies should a (fill in the industry) company have in their martech stack?” That’s a question I’m asked regularly, likely because all companies are curious about their competitors. So I thought I’d use it to test Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Perplexity AI. Gemini (formerly Bard) and ChatGPT returned similar content in a similar format to my query, “What marketing technologies should a luxury retailer have in their martech stack?

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5 Reasons Brands Should Adopt a Content Marketing Webinar Strategy

Scoop.it

A webinar is a virtual seminar. It is any workshop, tutorial, or demonstration taking place online. These digital sessions can be pre-recorded messages or live events broadcast to educate a specific audience. Current trends indicate marketers rate webinars as an effective channel for brands to connect with a target audience. According to On24 , 66% of marketers say their sales teams prioritize leads generated by varied webinar strategies.

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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.

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Shopping Cart Abandonment and How to Avoid It

CMSWire

Understanding why shoppers leave is essential for retailers aiming to streamline their checkout process and enhance the overall shopping experience. Continue reading.

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5 ways to be a better CMO for your social teams

Sprout Social

In October 2023, I interviewed for a VP of Social and Content Strategy role for a very well-known and established brand. I met with the executive recruiter and had a pleasant and positive conversation that made me initially excited for the role. As we were wrapping up, they asked if I had any questions for them. I replied, “Can you give me an idea of how involved the C-suite is with the social team?

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5 Things You Need to Master Emotional Intelligence in Marketing

Optinmonster

Do you want to drive more sales and increase customer loyalty while building stronger connections with them? Want to know how to apply emotional intelligence in your marketing? If you look up ‘emotional intelligence in marketing,’ online, you’ll come across countless articles that talk about the amazing power that emotional intelligence (EQ) has on marketing success.