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Influencer Marketing: How to Identify Your Target Influencers

Onalytica B2B

But what every influencer has in common, is that their opinion and expertise carry weight and influence in the industry, with the brand’s and their competitors’ fate often falling into their hands. The Zoellas of this world may well be popular but are they actually relevant to your B2B topic? Key verticals (e.g.

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Facing the #1 B2B Deal-Killer: “Do You Have Any Clients Just Like Me?”

Marketing Craftmanship

In new business development efforts, B2B firms of all types are often challenged by prospective clients with this question: “Do you have any experience working for companies in my industry?”. This is also a way to test the business potential of a new industry vertical without hiring an employee.

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Inbound Marketing: The Biggest Shifts Happening in Marketing Strategy

SmartBug Media

Now we’re on to the fun part (in my personal marketing nerd opinion): inbound marketing. Leverage a vertical strategy. Your social media should serve a purpose: to showcase you as a thought leader in the industry by sharing evergreen content on industry news, as well as pushing out thought leadership content your organization creates.

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Insights for Professionals reveals winners of the IFP Content Awards 2020

Inbox Insight

With fierce competition in the world of B2B content marketing, Insights for Professionals (IFP) have set out to discover content trail blazers who have been leading the way on their global publishing platform. As experts in curating B2B thought leadership from leading brands, the bar was set high this year.

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The role of public relations in lead generation for B2B firms

NuSpark Consulting

There are two factors contributing to the importance of PR in B2B marketing strategies: B2B companies need more leads of higher quality. The experts have reached their conclusion, the reports have been published, and the facts speak for themselves: PR can have tremendous impact on B2B lead generation.

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Why bother with thought leadership? Five questions and answers.

Chris Koch

The questions display a healthy distrust for accepted wisdom, which I like, and provide a good test of the thinking behind thought leadership marketing. See what you think of my answers: How did thought leadership initiatives in companies begin? Is it only focused in knowledge intensive industries?

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Two CMOs talk ABM

Strategic-IC

There are plenty of voices in the world of B2B marketing who have their own opinion and definition for ABM - but here’s our stance. Another way to think about ABM is that it is a means of looking at one account or a group of accounts that have similarities – for example, business challenges, they belong to the same vertical, etc.