Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Exo B2B

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

You’ve heard a lot about B2B content marketing. But if you look up from your computer for a moment, inside your small to medium-sized business workplace, you quickly begin to wonder how you could collectively scrape up enough bandwidth to even sit down and talk about these kinds of strategies, let alone budget and implement them.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Learning to maximize my bandwidth is an ongoing journey, but it’s been one of the most important ways I’ve found more time and space to grow. According to this year’s Sprout Social Index , 59% of marketers say they don’t have enough time in the day to build out their social strategies. How will you maximize your bandwidth?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 5, 2024

I was surprised to learn the team behind Nelnet’s vast social presence is only a team of two (who work with customer care and marketing groups across the company). Keep reading for his tips to allocate social resources—especially for nimble teams with bandwidth constraints. The big misconception about social is that it’s easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

‘Tis the season to believe in the holiday spirit AND the power of content marketing. If you’re new here, content marketing is a business opportunity to reach and convert new customers. Chances are, you believe in content marketing. You’re ready to hop on the Content Marketing Express. But is your team?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s take a closer look at the global fintech market structure and the role fintech marketing plays today. What is fintech marketing? All industries require specific marketing that builds brands, connects businesses with their target audience and complies with the various rules and regulations that govern that industry.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. If your company isn’t harnessing the potential of content marketing , then you could be losing valuable opportunities to attract, interest, and convert buyers. Build a Content Strategy. Quick Takeaways.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Advocacy programs help social marketers extend their brand’s reach beyond their bandwidth—without additional paid spend. More than two-thirds (68%) of marketers report their organization already has an advocacy program. The pillars of a content strategy for employee advocacy platform.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 19, 2022

There’s a universal truth behind the rise of conversational marketing: People miss talking to other people. To provide the best customer experience possible, invest in conversational marketing. Let’s dive into what conversational marketing is and how it will help your social media strategy evolve. Conversational commerce.

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Only B2B

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s critical for a business to succeed in the B2B market by cultivating long-term partnerships with other businesses through B2B appointment setting via quality leads. Salespeople who schedule B2B appointments have a talent for articulating value, recognizing market trends, and understanding the needs of their prospective clients.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

In e-commerce, investing in multi-channel marketing can help you quickly take your business to the next level, but it can also come with a number of challenges that you may or may not be aware of. To overcome multi-channel marketing challenges, you have to know how you’re going to address these challenges when they appear in front of you.

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Martech

AUGUST 8, 2022

A recent study of senior Marketo managers reveals their marketing automation teams are small, highly productive and focus predominantly on executing campaigns. Read next: 16 marketing automation platforms your organization should consider. Download the full report , Marketo Experts: Their Goals, Challenges, and Strategies.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The goal of conversational marketing is simple: help encourage a dialogue with customers quickly, seamlessly, and on a large scale. In fact, companies automating conversational marketing witness a 10 percent increase in revenue after a 6-9 month period. What Is Conversational Marketing?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As senior marketing leaders, you’re undoubtedly well-acquainted with the challenge of doing more with less. But here are a few secrets that savvy marketing leaders should know to help deliver exceptional results despite resource constraints. Re-evaluate who you’re marketing to and how. It’s good advice. Skills development.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 7, 2021

As we kick off our marketing plans for the new year, entering what to me feels a bit like an unknown abyss, it’s hard to make any sort of predictions. 2020 threw us (by us , I mean “the collective marketing leaders of the world,” us ) a freaking curveball that we’re all still feeling a bit crippled by.

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But the truth is, a robust manufacturing brand creates a strong foundation for attracting the right prospects, building trust, converting Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) into Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) and shortening those long sales cycles. You need a clear roadmap instead of implementing hit-or-miss marketing tactics.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you’ve created relevant, high-quality content and implemented a solid search engine optimization (SEO) strategy , it’s likely you’re seeing website traffic growth. However, as you begin to scale, you’ll quickly outgrow the hosted plan, as they are not designed to handle the bandwidth needs of high-traffic websites.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. There has never been more customer, competitor or industry data available to marketing teams. At its core, automation cuts out redundant, time-consuming tasks so your team can focus on strategy.

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Tiecas

APRIL 14, 2024

Is industrial content creation your biggest challenge in manufacturing content marketing? You are not alone, 62% of manufacturing content marketers struggle with the same problem. For a more in-depth understanding of the hurdles and challenges in industrial marketing, read Struggling with B2B Industrial Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Technological disruption is par for the course in content marketing. We asked some experts presenting at Content Marketing World for their top AI tips and recommendations. Wendy Covey, co-founder and CEO, TREW Marketing The best way to use AI for content can be summed up by this phrase: “Say it better.”

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Engagio

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Market segmentation is the art and science of identifying smaller groups in your Target Account List based on similar characteristics. But if you are in a large, complex Marketing department, then you may need more. For more best practices on how to build a segmentation strategy, check out The Market Segmentation Playbook.

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BOP Design

MARCH 22, 2021

However, even once we do return to in-person meetups, the importance of digital marketing and online communications won’t disappear. In this post, we explore the crucial B2B content marketing activities you should be doing now…and into the future to remain relevant and reachable to your target audience.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 8, 2021

As AR comes of age, it presents a wealth of opportunities for marketers that go far beyond face filters on social media. AR-enabled smartphones and wearable devices open up incredible opportunities for marketers. As AR comes of age it presents a wealth of opportunities for marketers that go far beyond face filters on social media.

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 16, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore its importance in your content strategy and discuss how partnering with a content marketing agency can help your business achieve personalization at scale. The Power of Personalization in Content Marketing Personalized content goes beyond addressing a customer by their first and last name.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 26, 2019

It took time for technology and bandwidth infrastructure to iron out the buffering and quality issues that made streaming video somewhat underwhelming in the early days of the internet. More than half of surveyed marketing professionals believe that videos provide the best return on investment of any media format available to them.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Developing a communication strategy for your business will help you understand how your company best communicates, internally and externally, and can give you measurable results to better understand the efficacy of your communication tactics. What is a communication strategy? Determine current and potential problems.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 7, 2015

According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report, only 35% of B2B marketers and 27% of B2C marketers have a documented content strategy. Not surprisingly, those marketers who have a documented strategy also report being more effective in their content marketing efforts.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 9, 2018

From industry events, to blog posts, B2B professionals can’t stop talking about this trending topic and its potential to revolutionize marketing. In today’s post, we’ll take a further look into the concept of AI and see how this new technology can have a real impact on your marketing strategy. Or is it just another martech fad?

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Hinge Marketing

MAY 23, 2019

Let’s face it, marketing resources—whether part of a large or small team—only have a certain amount of bandwidth each month to build or strengthen their brands, generate leads or demand, enhance their customer experiences, or to reach all of these goals. Times Have Changed for B2B Marketers. This is where ABM can help.

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Martech

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As we look to 2024, advertisers are building their strategies—and their resourcing plans – to incorporate the most impactful and practical applications of both AI and automation. Delivery optimization: Developing and testing content can take up critical bandwidth. This integrated AI strategy saves time and guarantees accuracy.

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If you don’t have customer-centric score that includes the flow of your messaging, with messages that are compelling, and that resonates with your target market and customer base, you’ll end up with the opposite of very good music. Less friction in the customer buying journey and more alignment between the Marketing and Sales processes.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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BOP Design

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Creating a B2B marketing strategy can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you are crafting next year’s marketing strategy, refreshing an existing strategy, or starting from zero, we’ve got you covered. You may be thinking, “Wait, don’t I need a strategy before I gather my resources?”

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DivvyHQ

APRIL 18, 2019

For the past several years, Content Marketing Institute & MarketingProfs have been providing our industry with amazing research reports to help us benchmark and gain insights into the crazy world of content marketing. At the end of these engagements, inevitably, the strategy documentation would be lengthy, and very detailed.

Top of Funnel 71

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Martech

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Earlier this year, a study on advanced Marketo users revealed a common theme: Measuring impact is a challenge among marketing operations teams. More than half of respondents reported that measuring impact is a top operational weakness, followed by resourcing talent and alignment to goals and strategies. Dirty data is a culprit.

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