Digital B2B Marketing

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The Trick to Seeing Through Marketing Statistics

Digital B2B Marketing

One of the challenges with relying on research, particularly research companies use in their own marketing, is that the statistics used have been tortured. Marketing often isolates statistics, removing them from any context that would allow for appropriate comparisons. Barely better than a banner ad will never be a claim to fame.

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Inbound Marketing vs Outbound Marketing: The Real Difference

Digital B2B Marketing

Outbound marketing is about interruption. Inbound marketing is about discovery. So why is inbound marketing a better way to market? Outbound Marketing Outbound marketing interrupts what you are doing and asks you to change. In inbound marketing, discovering your content is natural. But so what?

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Everyone Hates Your Most Effective Online Ads

Digital B2B Marketing

Banner ads work. Banner ads don’t work. Banner ads are just wallpaper. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of banner ads, someone out there has a study that will agree with your position. As marketers, why do we have to wait for consumers to find a way to block ads?

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Is Anyone Left to Click Your Ad?

Digital B2B Marketing

In 2007, 68% percent of internet users did not click banner ads in a given month. Now Collective Media released new research showing 99% of internet users do not click ads. If your marketing plan is dependent on a click, your audience is getting smaller. Two things are particularly notable about this trend for marketers.

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Stop Advertising and Give Them Content! [The Numbers Prove It]

Digital B2B Marketing

Banner Ad: The top banner ad is outperforming the industry average 0.10% click rate [actual rate has been removed to protect client and publisher details, advertising has 'performed well' on a number of measures]. the click rate of the top banner ad. Use content as a catalyst to increase engagement.

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29 Signs You Need a Break From Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

Over time, your role in marketing begins to permeate every part of your life. If more than a handful of these describe you, it is time to get to know, again, what the world beyond your marketing bubble is like. You attempt to decipher the intent behind marketing and advertising you see. You like seeing retargeted banner ads.

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The Greatest Danger in Marketing: Metrics

Digital B2B Marketing

Without marketing metrics, marketers cannot manage investments or show the value of marketing. However, without careful selection of metrics, diligent analysis and a clear overarching vision, those same metrics can become the biggest barrier to successful long-term marketing programs. Is traffic a key goal?