Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. I still believe that.

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Chris Koch

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you had asked me a few years ago whether the traditional marketing campaign had any place in social media I would have scoffed. Just more evidence of marketing’s old-fashioned, ADHD-driven, love-’em-and-leave-’em approach. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. I still believe that.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. To lead you along the right path, the CMI team created a new e-book: Craft Your Brand Adventure: The 2018 Guide to Essential Content Marketing Tactics. Inspiring brand examples of content marketing success.

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Bluetext

APRIL 8, 2020

“We need to be seen as thought leaders.” ” More and more, valuable website real estate is being dedicated to highlighting thought leadership content. Thought leadership is common on home pages and primary navigation items, especially as increased velocity benefits SEO. We need to do it too.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

The perfect Austin weather, thought leaders from around the globe, fantastic musical acts, and of course, the Uber pricing surges! We have taken over Austin’s hip Vulcan Gas Company on East 6th St and created the Engagement Lounge , where we will be helping marketers master the art and science of digital marketing.

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Walker Sands

APRIL 5, 2019

When we opened our Seattle office in January 2018, we were excited to be joining such a vibrant tech community and were eager to make our mark by working with some of the area’s most innovative B2B tech companies. The next award went to our campaign with LiveStories, which also won a PRSA Totem in the Marketing Communications category.

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markempa

AUGUST 15, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2007

Thought Leaders Need to Keep Thinking There are different ways that you can interact with prospects on the web but it's time that companies start to smarten up. Yes, thought leadership is also crucial. The idea around thought leadership is to draw people to your business but once they are there, then what?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The same is true of your content marketing strategy. As content marketers, we want to break precedent with cutting-edge marketing tactics that redefine the field. The Content Marketing Institute’s 2016 B2C and B2B benchmarking reports give us a helpful window into the most common goals for content marketers. .

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Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 29, 2009

There is a lot of talk these days that personalization is back in marketing but what does that really mean and what are some of the tactics you can use? The trick is to create this type of personalized experience that will drive sales but to make it easy for marketing to execute and not break the marketing budget bank.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 27, 2012

Additionally, as they build their brands and become influencers in your space, your company will be seen as even more of a thought leader. Focus on building your brand thought leadership through increased participation. Helping your company be seen as a thought leader. 2) Create a social media policy. Let’s Get Social!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Author: Jignesh Shah Whether you’re trying to close Q4 deals or set the stage for 2016, you should start planning a holiday marketing campaign now. Holiday marketing can also help grow your pipeline into 2016 as it sets a solid foundation for sales and marketing plans as they head into the New Year. Focus Your Holiday Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jim Burns, founder and CEO, as part of our ongoing B2B Thought Leader Interviews. Jim and his company have been helping B2B selling customers create and deliver content, especially multimedia content, for over fifteen years. To train, market, sell or brief (provide information).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

One of the great things about blogging is the opportunity to build relationships with thought leaders I would not otherwise meet. LeadSloth on Demand Generation: Smart Tools for Lazy Marketers. Here is his interview, part of the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series. What is easy to use?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 30, 2007

Viral marketing campaigns can be effective for B2B marketers—but they aren't easy to pull off. The next three posts here will offer some ideas about programs, promotion, and pitfalls to avoid that may help in developing successful B2B viral marketing campaigns, based both on my own experience and research by MarketingSherpa.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In a recent blog post from Software Advice's Lauren Carlson , this emerging CRM analyst indicates how hot the market for marketing automation software has become, and although the niche was timid several years ago, marketers are now adopting these systems aggressively.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had nearly 1,600 people sign up for our webinar last week on “ How To Plan And Build An Effective Content Marketing Strategy. We believe that content marketing is starting to have a dramatic impact inside marketing organizations for business both large and small. Content marketing and SEO are totally connected.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Content marketing is all the rage. Marketers are becoming publishers, writing valuable thought leadership and how-to content in order to build name recognition, credibility, and even sales pipelines. Content produced by marketers and PR professionals is always, of course, self-serving: that's their job.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 7, 2008

Blogs and Microsites Can Help with SEO—Eventually Creating a blog or topic-specific microsite can supplement SEO efforts by providing a venue to share thought-leadership content, in a more casual tone than a corporate site, free from content management or other technological constraints that may apply to a company website.

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B2B Marketing Exchange

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As we navigate through the dynamic landscape of B2B Marketing, it’s essential to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding achievements. Each year, the B2B Marketing Exchange team ends the conference with the Killer Content Awards, focusing on the best content in B2B!

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Valasys

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The only constants about the personality of the marketing & advertising campaigns for B2B businesses are that they are ever-evolving & dynamic, yet innovative. Read more: 8 Reasons why B2B Marketers should Prioritize Word-of-Mouth Marketing (WOMM).

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. CK’s B2B Blog ( SMS Mobile Marketing Mix Audience ). Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In the October edition of the BtoB Online Magazine, a series of companies were showcased in what they call the 2013 Content Marketing Awards. It is worth going down the list to get some inspiration for your own content marketing efforts. I’ve summarized below the list for you: 2013 Content Marketing Awards.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In the October edition of the BtoB Online Magazine, a series of companies were showcased in what they call the 2013 Content Marketing Awards. It is worth going down the list to get some inspiration for your own content marketing efforts. I’ve summarized below the list for you: 2013 Content Marketing Awards.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

70% of content marketers are creating more content than they did a year ago (source: Content Marketing Institute ). 35% say they have a documented content strategy (source: Content Marketing Institute). Content marketing is more important to B2B businesses. Here are 15 B2B case studies.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Business-to-business (B2B) companies use a variety of digital marketing tactics to achieve their goals. Although activities such as content marketing, SEO, and social media can produce meaningful results, you will get the most from your marketing if you develop an integrated inbound marketing plan first.

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Vidyard

JULY 18, 2017

That’s what modern B2B marketing lacks: the human factor. marketing world of the 1990s, brand was king. VPs of marketing would throw logos on pens and host company tradeshows, while sales teams basically cannibalized growth. Then came marketing automation in the early 2000s. Welcome to marketing 3.0:

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 3, 2017

When implementing a content marketing strategy for your brand, a primary objective is engage prospective customers. However, with B2B content marketing, rather than creating content that will be consumer-facing, your business is creating content for other businesses and the professionals who run them. Not daring to be authentic.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In the Email Marketing Industry Census 2017, conducted by Adestra in partnership with eConsultancy, 73% of email marketers considered the performance of email campaigns either ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ while SEO came close at 72% and social media at 44%. Code it Like it’s 2017. Keyframe Animation-Based Interactivity. Gamification.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Every day, we are seeing more overlap between marketing and technology. And between data and insights that lead to better marketing techniques. This post hits on all those topics and asks if Big Testing is the future of marketing. I wear two hats at the crossroads of marketing and technology. Between science and art.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 24, 2018

” Detroit’s dilemma should be familiar to content marketers. On the Detroit’s Neighborhoods microsite, Foley has a platform to develop stories from across the city. ” As more experts and thought leaders become familiar with the city and story, they share that image with their own networks.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

That's why there are formal marketing awards -- official ways of recognizing some of the most remarkable work done in the area, usually presented with some sort of trophy or plaque, as well as public proclamation as that year's "best of" something. The Ultimate Directory of Marketing Awards. 3) B2B Marketing Awards.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Some marketers may have it harder than others — instead of marketing retail products or snazzy B2B software, they sell paper, brake pads, or maybe even flood insurance. The following six companies, despite their less-than-glitzy markets, break through expectations and amaze audiences and peers alike. Take a look!

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ClearVoice

JULY 12, 2022

While numerous marketing trends have come and gone throughout the years, one of the most significant shifts in how companies sell may be in account-based marketing (ABM) and content strategy. Learn more about the true ABM marketing meaning and decide for yourself. What exactly is account-based marketing (ABM)?

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