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B2B Marketers: If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail

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If you want your marketing to work, you have to first plan it, and then you have to execute the plan. Or, if they write one or hire someone to write it, they end up putting on a shelf or in a drawer, never to be read or acted upon. So I’m going to say it again. Simple, right? Measure results, improve the plan and repeat.

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Why Your Rant is Not Right for Social Media

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Clients behaving badly (or not the way I expected, LOL) or colleagues acting without integrity were some situations that made me want to rant. Focus on integrating private and work lives. He said that both sides involved could have acted differently: 1.) Watch/listen to the last few minutes.)

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3 Questions to Answer before You Click Send on Your B2B Marketing Email

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They are so focused on the one message for the email they are working on, they can lose site of the big picture. Do we have a compelling call-to-action that makes readers act? And, your call-to-action has to work! We’ve worked with hundreds of companies to plan, execute and measure the results of successful marketing.

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6 Ways Competitive Analysis Benefits Your B2B Marketing

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Knowing this you can work to compete on the same keywords or variations of the words and phrases that can give you a competitive advantage. strategy you should adopt and how much you will need to spend to succeed. For more about the different industry phases, see my previous post, What Should I Spend on My Marketing Budget?

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CMO Influence Rises But Most Are Still Not Social Media Ready

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Here are some of the IBM study recommendations for what CMOs must change in order to act on the digital marketing opportunity. CMOs can work more closely with CIOs to find and implement digital marketing solutions. CMOs need to focus on relationships, not just sales. The CMO reach must go through the entire supply chain.

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3 Tips for Creating Great Posts on LinkedIn and Facebook

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” People are busy, and if you don’t give them something to act on or answer, they may not engage with your content at all. We have worked with many B2B companies to create content marketing strategies and set up social media platforms for content distribution. Not so fast! Here’s how to do it right.

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2015 B2B Content Marketing Survey – 3 Takeaways You Need to Know

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Here are three things you need to act on to increase your marketing results. You will have to do a lot of hard work to get people at the top of the funnel ( see my post about Funnel Marketing here ) to an in-person event that you host. The survey results showed that B2B marketers still use tactics that are not that effective.