Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The need for connection, personalization, and outstanding customer experiences will play into every facet of B2B and B2C marketing in 2021. Companies should position themselves as thought leaders to build trust and loyalty with target audiences. Top B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2021. Thought Leadership.

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Walker Sands

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Those four simple words encapsulate a conversation happening between B2B marketers and business leaders with increasing frequency. That’s according to our new survey, Outcome-based Marketing: The Case for a Perspective-Shift in B2B Marketing. What are stakeholders expecting you to achieve with your marketing initiatives?

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It requires deep thought, meticulous analysis and the ability to project your business into the future. In the world of B2B marketing, every decision must be carefully calculated. Here’s an overview of the key stages we focus on: 1- B2B strategic marketing analysis Before you can chart a course, you need to know where you are.

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Thinkers360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving B2B landscape, cultivating strong relationships with industry analysts and thought leaders (B2B influencers) is crucial for establishing brand awareness, achieving thought leadership status, and ultimately driving sales growth. The two are related, but distinct marketing disciplines.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 17, 2022

While webinars are being utilized across all industries, B2B webinars have certainly become one of the primary ways to distribute information, and even gain quality leads. Follow these “3 P’s” of creating and delivering stand out B2B webinars. Plan Activities in Advance. The best days to aim for are Wednesday and Thursday.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I cannot exactly remember when I started working with ITSMA, and leveraging their work in B2B solutions and services, but it was sometime in the mid-2000s when I led the SAP Services Marketing team for SAP North America Field Marketing. The Thought Leadership Journey is Here to Stay. Sales Enablement is a Key Core Competency.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. In this article, we’ll take a look at the process of social selling and how it can help B2B companies generate more leads (and ultimately more revenue). Which Channels Are Best for B2B Social Selling?

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Martech

JANUARY 12, 2024

As we slide into 2024, B2B marketing leaders face new challenges: deals are harder to close, budgets are shrinking, and expectations are rising. It’s clear prior tactics and internal tribal knowledge aren’t producing the needed results. This analysis can offer insights into potential areas for differentiation and improvement.

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ClickZ

JUNE 21, 2023

This interview with Tyrona Heath , Director of Marketing Engagement at LinkedIn’s B2B Institute, is aimed at celebrating and championing B2B excellence to drive creativity and excitement amongst B2B brands, marketers, and advertisers. When you talk about creativity in B2B, it can feel abstract.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. These HR approaches include the customization of their work-from-home policy, building a team that reflects community and opportunities, and differentiating their employee’s experiences.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 19, 2021

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. This week’s show is called “Why You Need To Be Part Of The Company Thought Leadership Trend” and our guest is Karen Tiber Leland , CEO of Sterling Marketing Group.

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Engagio

APRIL 12, 2024

Here are several key tactics to set your team up for success: 1. B2B customers value personalized experiences and solutions that precisely meet their business requirements. Customization can differentiate your offerings and make your customers more likely to remain loyal. Here are a few (10) ways. Easy, right?

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 11, 2021

How many other marketing tactics that you use can be documented as helping companies grow faster and be more profitable? They include: A high-performance website that provides thought leadership, differentiation, and calls to action to continue engagement. Blogging is a must when it comes to showcasing thought leadership.

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There’s no denying that the attributes of a B2B buyer differ greatly from a B2C consumer’s. B2B buyer journeys are much longer and more complex with a higher average purchase price, compared to buyer journeys in B2C which tend to be much shorter, more impulsive and lower value purchases. Employee Advocacy in B2B.

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Tomorrow People

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The Content Marketing Institute found that success in content marketing lies in changing your views on content from it being a marketing tactic to a strategic business activity. Lack of data was cited as one of the main reasons why content marketer's don't differentaiate in the 2017 B2B Marketing Report on Content Differentiation.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“We’ve experimented with new forms of storytelling to really humanize the typically stale world of enterprise sales, SaaS, and B2B.” Here are four tactics Melissa and her team used to catapult ClickUp to stardom and go toe-to-toe against an industry giant with a head start of more than a decade. Psst…we’re talking about Jira.)

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B2B Digital Marketer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Introduction In this episode of B2B Digital Marketer, the conversation delves into the intersection of data and creativity in marketing. Maynard highlights the shift in B2B marketing strategy, urging marketers to move away from a narrow focus on target audiences and instead consider the wider decision-making unit or buying committee.

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Circle Studio

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s always a good reminder to commit to putting strategy ahead of tactics and execution. Lose some (tactical) weight. So evaluate your firm’s marketing practices and look for tactics that are no longer effective, or not as effective as other tactics you could be investing in. Put strategy before execution.

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The lucky marketers registered for the 2023 B2B Marketing Exchange have some pretty fantastic sessions in store for them. You’ll meet plenty of your fellow B2B marketers at receptions and networking events—even in the marketplace, where of course you’ll find members of the Content4Demand team at Booth 309. to 11:15 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.

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Outgrow

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

6 Ways to Build Thought Leadership Using Social Media. Traditional marketing tactics are no longer as effective as they used to be. This is where thought leadership comes in - a content marketing tool that lets you establish authority in your niche, enhance credibility and build trust.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2020

The issue is that leadership, sales, marketing, and account management teams are pushing out more connection invitations, more messaging, and more stuff as they attempt to rebound and grow again. Profiles, content, and messaging do not have commercial insights as very few are teaching for differentiation and showing unique value.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Marketers know that they have to tolerate this dilemma because content development is proven to generate awareness, thought leadership , leads, engagement, and sales opportunities. that content development is the top priority of most marketers—edging out brand differentiation. In fact, our own research shows in Figure 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Yet the marketer’s trust in data has plunged to a new low that’s putting a damper on strategic marketing initiatives, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) recently released Sixth Annual B2B Marketing Data Report. Instead of creating opportunity it’s creating chaos.”.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 14, 2020

Marketing Isn’t What We Thought It Was. The messages are about features, benefits, and differentiators. A report found 60 to 70 percent of B2B marketing content is unused. I started with thought leadership content. She also knew that this tactic would not serve the needs of customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

Content marketing drives measurable results and ROI over more traditional marketing tactics. Content marketing allows any business to increase their presence in organic search because it focuses on sharing thought leadership. Well-written, insightful content draws your audience in and sets you up as a thought leader.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 14, 2011

Thought leadership is a common marketing topic, but unfortunately thought leadership is not a common outcome of marketing. Part of the problem is that thought leadership marketing has lost all notions of actual thought leadership. A company or individual cannot be a thought leader in a vacuum.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Potential customers do most of their research online before entering the sales funnel, and while the exact percentage varies from research study to research study, somewhere between 71% and 92% of B2B buyers start with a generic search. In B2B, this looks like an industry leader calling out a recent article or post from your company.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 3, 2016

The ability to measure the effectiveness of marketing tactics will further challenge B2B marketers and differentiate successful organizations. Right now, many B2B marketers are loosely or manually connecting metrics from multiple reporting platforms, to obtain a somewhat complete view of buyer behavior in digital channels.

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DealSignal

DECEMBER 28, 2021

These disciplines can include brand storytelling, differentiated messaging and positioning, account-based marketing, content marketing, digital marketing, lead-to-revenue processes, and the tracking of key metrics for ongoing optimization. Demand Generation Strategy and Tactics. Demand gen tactics. Demand gen strategies.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Company power – your company’s differentiation relative to its closest competitors. Offer power – differentiation of your company’s offer for each customer set. With the framework and process in place, three ICPs emerged, each differentiated by the complexity of their lead routing. Formulate tentative ICPs.

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B2BMarketing.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The result, far more than a cheat sheet, is a thoughtful, far-reaching, and highly insightful plan for how the CMO can achieve what is arguably their primary, yet so frequently elusive, goal: to be genuinely indispensable to the CEO and the management team as a whole. I is for impeccable: “With my thoughts, words and actions.”

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Enterprise Management CMO Work Management Customer Satisfaction 52

Golden Spiral

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Thought leadership is another buzzword that is used — in B2B technology and SaaS industries in particular — that often leaves leaders scratching their heads, looking to answer questions like: What is a thought leader? How do we become a true thought leader in our space? Is thought leadership worth the hype?

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DemandBase

AUGUST 10, 2020

What’s more, ABM as a category, strategy, and technology has shifted significantly among B2B marketers from being perceived as a nice-to-have to a strategic must-have. B2B firms see a 40 percent year-over-year increase in ABM budgets from 2019 to 2020. Some quick ABM adoption data from the 2020 ABM Market Research Study ).

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies.

Resource Management 100

Resource Management Work Management CMS Development Marketing Management 100

TaylorMadeIn KEW

JULY 9, 2017

In my last post , I wrote about the advice I’d give to those just starting out or in the early stages of a career in B2B marketing. Without a doubt, for me the best piece of marketing advice has to be: ‘Don’t let the Big Tactic get in the way of the Big Idea’ . This is how we create differentiation in an undifferentiated world.

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Mereo

MAY 28, 2020

At late 2019 and early 2020 sales kickoffs and strategy meetings, leadership came to the table with winning ideas for how to strategically employ sales and marketing budgets for greatest impact. trade shows, industry forums, user group events, thought leadership events), many of which are being cancelled, with good reason, left and right.

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