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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently

How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Paid ads and content marketing have inverse reputations. In 2016, CEO Tim Cook told a crowded room, “We believe in investing during downturns,” as he reflected on Apple’s response during bleak times, like 2008 at the height of the Great Recession.

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Education as a Marketing Strategy: 8 Brands Doing Online Classes and More

Content Marketing Institute

“When you make accessible your thought leadership, your technologies, your innovation in an effort to educate people so they understand better how they can create greater efficiencies or greater sustainability within their operations, you become a trusted advisor,” says Susan Hartman, global program manager for Energy University.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Marketing Automation software is widely used to execute key marketing functions like lead scoring and routing, nurturing via drip marketing, creating email campaigns and landing pages, tracking, measuring and reporting using a unified dashboard. Or do we need to show a verifiable ROI? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

Only 11% said they did not do any tracking, compared with 40% of marketers using only traditional metrics. In addition, companies that reported using more sophisticated measures of ROI reported that their marketing efforts were highly effective and efficient at engaging than those not using financial metrics. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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ClickInsights: How B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content?

Ambal's Amusings

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. in January 2008. Ardath Albee.