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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. Those differences are one area explored in How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing , a research report just published by B2B Marketing Zone and Webbiquity LLC.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Enough with the negativity and cliches.

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Marketing B2B to Gen Z: Web Content Marketing Strategies for Your Next Generation of Customers

Walker Sands

What does this mean for B2B marketers? The best place to start is your web content marketing strategy. Your move: Talk like an expert, but keep Gen Z marketing content conversational and authentic. Gen Z is bringing their more casual, authentic style to the workplace — and anyone marketing to them should follow suit.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

But my real faith in martech’s growth ahead is the profession that is growing up around marketing technology management. 15 years ago, when I started this blog, most marketing roles and most technology roles — IT, software engineering — were on opposite ends of the career spectrum. I’ve called them marketing technologists.

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

Contently

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. It turns out that advice is dead wrong.

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Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd

Webbiquity

How Internet marketing is like a ruptured disc. 10 Ways Internet Marketing Is Like a Ruptured Disc by Conversation Marketing. In another noteworthy post, Ian presciently warns readers about 11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009 , such as “Vertical Search. What do you have to do?

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Search Engine Optimization core differences between 2008 and today

Leading Results Rambings

I keep seeing “experts” talking about SEO today as it was in 2008. So here’s the really way to quick rundown of what those changes mean for you, with a focus on what changed since 2008. And rewarding those sites that add content to the internet is in Google’s interest. Content Marketing Search Marketing'