Digital B2B Marketing

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Marketing’s Broken Foundation: Measurement

Digital B2B Marketing

Data is the foundation for analytics. Analytics is the foundation for marketing driven by data and insights. Even though the importance of starting with good data should be obvious, B2B marketers are analyzing and optimizing marketing from a broken foundation. You Don’t!

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Remove the Barriers to Strategic Planning in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

The goal is to create a strategy that survives the full year (and beyond) and gives you a framework for more tactical planning, execution and optimization. I am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. What are the most significant challenges? About Eric Wittlake.

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Five Signs Your Content Marketing is an Illusion

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers that approach content marketing this way optimize promotions, not content. I am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. Yes, the content might be valuable, but it doesn’t improve the position of the company offering it. This content marketing is about promotion, not content.

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Optimizing Digital B2B Marketing Campaigns

Digital B2B Marketing

When should you optimize your campaign? Here are three guidelines I have used over the years to cut through emotions and focus on optimization opportunities in digital campaigns. For a brand campaign, some have the impulse to optimize based on click rate. What guidelines do you use to determine when to optimize campaigns?

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The Real Reasons Programmatic Ad Buys Fail in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

Time and time again, B2B marketers fall prey to a wonderful sounding sales pitch for their demand generation plan that goes something like this: “We use 100′s of data points and sophisticated technology that optimizes every single impression in your campaign. Cost-effective, constantly optimized, highly targeted.

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4 Mistakes Marketers Make With Audience Research

Digital B2B Marketing

For example, what if you optimized your website content based on the average time spent on site? Using analytics data from my blog, B2B Digital Marketing , more than 90% of all visits are shorter than the average time on site, which is biased upwards by a handful of people that must just leave it open all day.

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42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations

Digital B2B Marketing

SEO : Search Engine Optimization. LPO : Landing Page Optimization. GA : Google Analytics. A marketing approach that treats every company individually rather than as a mass of similar companies TAP : Targeted Accounts Program. SEM : Search Engine Marketing. Includes both SEO and paid search. PPC : Pay Per Click.