Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

TopRank Marketing has worked with clients in both the B2B and B2C realms over the last two decades. In that time, we have definitely witnessed the much-discussed convergence of these two previously diametric categories; the so-called consumerization of B2B. A company’s SEO content strategy should be built around this core distinction.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2024

For the past eight years, NetLine’s annual analysis of B2B content consumption and demand has stood as a lighthouse for marketers navigating the stormy waters of content strategy and lead generation. million first-party content registrations and offers a map for marketers in search of treasure (aka new business).

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ClearVoice

APRIL 17, 2024

Enter the magic of collaborative content. Collaborative content is all about breaking down silos and sparking a culture where communication and cooperation aren’t just encouraged — they’re the norm. Sixty-eight percent of B2B businesses struggle with lead generation. Pretty nice, huh?

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 3, 2018

For B2B marketing measurement , only about 25 percent of these reports will hold valuable insights into the effectiveness of your marketing programs. That’s why I’ve pulled together this collection of 27 Google Analytics reports that are sure to provide value to B2B marketers. Site Content >> All Pages.

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Biznology

MAY 17, 2021

Sure, it’s helpful that there’s a “buy” button at the end of the marketing process much more often in B2C sales than in B2B. But that’s not universally true, and “simple” B2C marketing has an entirely different set of challenges the B2B marketers never have to think about. Promotion Are you getting the word out about your content?

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Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

B2B Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing—however you badge it, it’s a numbers game. Many marketers shy away from social media because they don’t understand how to measure social media return on investment (ROI). Measuring the ROI on social media is easy once you know what you’re looking for.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). Bad content isn’t going to propel a company forward. The findings?

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you can’t measure it, you can’t make sense of it. But don’t mistake that to mean it doesn’t make a real, concrete, and measurable revenue impact. You’ll find an assortment of performance and optimization metrics listed in our forthcoming comprehensive guide to B2B search engine optimization.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re a business owner, marketing professional, or digital enthusiast, you already know how important it is to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy. If you’re ready to perfect your B2B digital marketing strategy, you’re in the right place! What Is B2B Digital Marketing?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 13, 2023

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. Here, we’ll go over what that means, how to measure it and provide steps you can take to improve your sales process.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing. So, why not let B2B marketing automation take care of the rest? What is B2B Marketing Automation? What are the Benefits of B2B Marketing Automation? What are the Challenges of B2B Marketing Automation?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 31, 2017

In both B2C and B2B marketing, about a third of the marketing budget is spent on content. By 2019, experts believe we’re looking at a $300 billion dollar industry, which means dollars spent on content marketing will have doubled in less than four years. […]. . […]. Many successful brands invest even more.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

For businesses, understanding the nuances of B2B SEO is essential, as it significantly differs from B2C SEO. The Distinct Focus of B2B SEO B2B SEO operates within a distinct paradigm, primarily due to the nature of the target audience. Content tailored for B2B audiences. Relationship building and lead generation.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Content marketing can be a powerful way to build a foundation for your overall marketing strategy, create lead generation opportunities, and engage with your target audience. So it’s critical to take the time to create a strong content marketing strategy that can deliver relevant content to your audience.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As B2B marketers measure the success of their content, new research indicates that those in the tech sector are starting to develop more of it to unlock its full potential. Additionally, 29% are developing three to five times more content than they did just 12 months ago. This was followed by video content (49%).

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Given the business case on which most Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategies are founded – namely, that ABM increases opportunities and revenue from high-value accounts – the temptation for marketers is to measure the success of those programs on similar, high-value criteria: namely, opportunities, revenue, and average deal size.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2023

Image credit: Headway on Unsplash It’s not just consumer brands working with content creators; B2B companies are also increasingly leveraging video content to engage with their target audiences and drive demand for their products or services. Customer testimonials tap into the deep-rooted psychological principle of social proof.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

B2B marketing has never been more personalized and to continue to be effective, it must incorporate many trending and emerging tactics moving forward. We hope this content will help you make 2024 your best year yet. But it is difficult to create a webinar that gets it right. There are even a few secrets that can make it a huge success.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 14, 2023

B2B marketers have been focused on making customer experience (CX) improvements, but new research suggests that they are still having difficulty tying their performance to business outcomes. This is followed by measuring and proving return-on-investment (40%), delivering quality leads (37%), and producing quality content (36%).­

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2022

As B2B marketers look for more impactful ways to resonate with their customers and prospects, new research indicates that content may be the key to making a lasting impression. About 19% claimed they consume between five and seven pieces of content, and 11% said they consume more than seven pieces.

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Marketing Craftmanship

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Client newsletters are one of the most widely used, and often abused marketing tactic for B2B firms of any size. MYTH #1: Your B2B Firm Needs a Client Newsletter Marketers want you to believe that your firm needs a newsletter. In fact, at many firms their client newsletter is a marketing albatross. Chances are that no one will.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

“It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” Think of your content as seeds of knowledge. Is content syndication worth the effort? Is content syndication worth the effort? Absolutely, if you can measure its return on investment (ROI). Understand the costs involved.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, having a content marketing program tends to be a given. But one of the challenges of having a baseline assumption is that it can be easy to lose sight of why content marketing became such a cornerstone of B2B marketing in the first place. But that initial goodwill only goes so far.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

In B2B marketing, with the constant pressure to “do more with less,” optimizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial, especially regarding brand awareness. Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics.

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ROI Email Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services 172

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

As content marketing experts, we realize that not everyone has this superpower. That’s why we’ve done the groundwork for our fellow content marketers, and compiled a list of the 25 best marketing articles that everyone needs to read. Here’s 25 of the best marketing articles that every content marketing needs to read.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

Content marketing is not a new concept but it has evolved over the years, especially in the past few. With the rise in digital content, the impact of a pandemic and many workplace changes, new content marketing trends have emerged and evolved priorities. Looking for more on building an effective content strategy?

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Trends B2B Marketing Content Marketing Planning 118

Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 23, 2024

The results suggest there are three marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than their peers: they experiment with marketing often, they think about marketing measurement more and they do more marketing in-house. >>> Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? How do you get it right, measure it, improve it? Whether you are new to the riveting world of content or are a self-ascribed expert (i.e. content addict), there is always more to learn. When did content marketing start?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every seasoned B2B marketer knows that launching a new campaign can be a venture into the unknown. Tuning in to the desires and priorities of potential future customers and delivering content that really captures their attention feels like more of an art than a science at times. 6 B2B Marketing KPIs to Measure.

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For those of us in the world of B2B content marketing, we know that the customer journey isn’t always linear and the value of that content isn’t always easy to attribute. Content’s Non-linear Value: Content doesn’t always follow a straightforward path. Here are a few of my main takeaways.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics associated with B2B demand generation can be a pivotal factor in the success of your marketing efforts. Why should B2B marketers focus on demand gen KPIs? Content performance Content is a crucial part of any demand generation strategy.

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The Forward Observer

MARCH 29, 2024

B2B Social Selling Strategy: Connect with Customers, Build Relationships, and Drive Sales by Julie Atherton About the Book Social media, when deployed strategically and effectively in B2B channels, offers a uniquely personal long-term networking opportunity for sales teams and business professionals.

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The Point

JULY 30, 2020

Even as demand generation activity begins to pick up, most marketing budgets right now remain tight, and so B2B companies are looking for creative, low-cost ways to drive demand. But it doesn’t necessarily take all new content or a massive blog redesign (read: time and money) to have even the most PR-centric blog start generating real value.

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The Point

MARCH 24, 2021

A recent report by LinkedIn and research agency System1 found that the bulk of B2B advertising is ineffective. I’ve written elsewhere in this space about the sorry state of B2B creative in general, so the headline came as no surprise. B2B creative works when it generates measurable results and drives business, period.

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Top Rank Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Here’s what we’ve learned about B2B podcasting: B2B podcasting: What, why and how Let’s start with the easiest question first: What is a podcast? The benefits of B2B podcasting) It may surprise you how popular podcasts are for a B2B audience. The TopRank Marketing team has worked on podcasts with brands like SAP and 3M.

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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you ask most B2B marketers how they use chat platforms like Drift , the immediate answer would most likely be: converting Web visitors. And indeed, increasing Web engagement and Web conversion rates is still a primary use case for chatbots in a B2B context. 8 Surprising B2B Use Cases for Chatbots Click To Tweet. Retargeting.

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Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 350

Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Metrics to measure email outreach Here’s an overview of the core metrics we use to track outreach performance: Deliverability rate This metric is about ensuring your emails reach your recipient’s inbox. Response rate A healthy response rate indicates that your content resonates with your audience. Here’s how to calculate it.

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