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Is Your B2B Marketing Provider Showing Jazz Hands or Results?

B2B Marketing Traction

If you’re not getting analytical reports on your marketing results, it’s time to re-evaluate your marketing provider. ” What the author means is that still, in this day of big data and analytics, too many agencies are still just doing a dog and pony show when it comes to talking about results. Some Rights Reserved.

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7 Must-Have Skills for Today’s CMO

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The role of the CMO has changed dramatically in the last six years as companies struggle with new buying paradigms and increased competition. Analytical. With the rise of marketing technology and big data, a knowledge and appreciation of analytics is critical. Persuasive. Marketing has always required persuasion.

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5 Skills Your Marketing Consultant Must Have

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I wrote about this, too, in previous posts, In The Rush to B2B Social Media, Don’t Forget Strategy, Analytics , and Why Lack of Strategy will Kill your B2B Blog. An understanding of your company and industry. Since 1997 we’ve worked with hundreds of companies to reduce marketing waste and increase results.

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Why CMOs and CIOs Are Different and How to Bridge the Gap

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The reason is the need for CMOs to adopt technology and embrace and implement digital marketing, including social media, analytics of social media tools and data, and social response mechanisms throughout the entire supply chain. Now CMOs must learn and implement company-wide technology programs that heavily use technology.

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B2B Marketers: Why It’s Time to Commit…

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Your audiences want it, your competitors are probably not doing it, and, there’s proof that digital marketing works for B2B companies. The digital marketing success stories keep getting told as more and more B2B companies are getting on board.

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Case Study: Getting Results with Social Media Marketing

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Blogging started in June of 2014, and we installed Google Analytics in August (oops, the client didn’t know about this either, and the web developer didn’t make it happen with the site update). Then a manager can edit, optimize and publish all posts, which appear with the author’s bio and photo. The results came in!

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Is Marketing Staffing Going the Way of IT?

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The old static models of full-time marketing employees may not be serving your company anymore. Your website and Pay Per Click (PPC) ad campaigns need someone who knows Google and other web analytics. With new marketing tactics and the rise of marketing technologies, there is a growing need to be flexible in marketing staffing.