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Keeping your business alive and relevant: Digital Disruption for Professional Services Marketing

Hinge Marketing

The secret sauce is relevance. Digital just helps bring instant, 24×7, no travel required, cost effective visibility to that relevance. In 2013, more than 70% of buyers reported turning to their network when they needed a new service provider. It’s not that digital on its own is the secret sauce. Expertise seals the deal.

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2013 Year in Review: Top 6 focus areas for B2B marketers this year

markempa

With the quickly evolving nature of this medium, it is no surprise it was also the top category marketers wanted to learn more about in 2013. Read on for five more areas of focus that were top of mind in the B2B realm in 2013. Anna Lee (@annaleenyc) May 6, 2013. Grant Grigorian (@GrantG9) November 4, 2013. “We

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B2B Marketers to Spend More on Content Marketing in 2013

B2B Marketing Traction

A recent study by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute shows that over half (54%) of B2B marketers plan to spend more on content marketing in 2013 than in previous years. The study is the 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America. Buyers don’t want to be sold to.

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Email Marketing: 4 steps to relevancy 85% of B2B businesses probably aren’t taking

markempa

I realized this when I read MarketingSherpa’s just-released 2013 Email Marketing Benchmark Report. The top priority for the entire group is to deliver highly relevant emails – it ranks above even driving website traffic and revenue. This makes sense, considering highly relevant email will achieve the other two goals.

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9 YouTube stats to inform your marketing strategy in 2019

Sprout Social

This hasn’t necessarily been a well-kept secret, though, as in 2012 YouTube unveiled a focus on “watch time,” while its parent company, Google, has held a patent for “Watch Time Based Ranking” since 2013. TrueView in-stream ads can be highly targeted, and Google found that relevant ads get 3 times more attention than the average video ad.

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How Link Building Management Will Change in 2013 & Beyond

KoMarketing Associates

User-based link building includes the websites, social media profiles, and web assets that that individual manages, is associated with, and contributes to, as well as demographic, professional, and industry (or client)-specific information. I believe this is where link building management needs to go in 2013 and beyond.

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7 Of Our Favorite B2B Link Building Tactics in 2013 and Beyond

KoMarketing Associates

Here are 7 B2B link building tactics we used with success in 2013 and will continue executing and refining in the new year. A more comprehensive type of link acquisition is collaborative blog post development, which involves reaching out to various industry sources for feedback and contribution on a particular topic of relevance.