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Is Minneapolis Becoming Event-apolis? The (Still) Booming Minnesota Event Ecosystem

Webbiquity

An Expanding Event Ecosystem The state’s affinity for conferences, trade shows, forums, festivals, meetings, and events of all types has spawned an active and expanding ecosystem of event-related vendors. The agency’s portfolio of success events spans an impressive range of corporate events (e.g.,

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B2B Events – What Does Demand Generation Have to Do with It?

ANNUITAS

Great until you come back to the office and have 200 emails and voice mails from people (vendors) you have not met. The idea behind integrating events into an overall Demand Generation Strategy is something that most marketers believe in. What events do they attend or blogs do they read?

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The Big List of Must-Attend Marketing Events of 2015

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Where do you find your inspiration for the next big thing in marketing? And, where do you meet other innovative marketers? But events that only cater to the latest product features from sponsors and vendors simply won’t cut it anymore. Is there a killer event that we missed? Or a personal favorite from 2014?

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What Is Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and Is It Right for You?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Typically that means leveraging a range of owned, earned, and paid marketing channels to amplify a product message and build as much awareness as possible across a wide swath of a target market in order to maximize the number of leads brought into the funnel and deliver the most sales possible out of the funnel. Benefit 1: Clear ROI.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

ViewPoint

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences.

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104 Fascinating Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014 (and 2015)

Webbiquity

And although digital is taking an increasing share of marketing budgets, the move to online is paradoxically making some old-school tactics even more valuable. What do buyers say is the most important signal of vendor credibility? What do marketers rate as the single most valuable SEO tactic? 3 LinkedIn Marketing Stats.

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How Social Media and Influencers Have Radically Changed B2B Marketing

Webbiquity

Many of those ex-business journalists moved into consulting roles or went to work writing content for vendors. Shindig (2009) turned virtual event attendees into participants with the ability to network freely using video chat, and interact directly with presenters “on stage.” 2) It makes influencers easier to find.