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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script | B2B

Yet a new study by Bain and Google brings something new to the conversation. The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Comment: Generally, companies that experiment always seem to do better than peers. click image for higher resolution) 2.

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ANA study finds 25% of programmatic ad dollars are wasted

Martech

Of the $88 billion spent on open web programmatic ads, $22 billion is wasteful or unproductive, a study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) found. The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study focused on the open web ad market and did not address the opportunity of walled gardens. Where does it go?

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4 Practical Tips to Avoid Confirmation Bias with AI

Vision Edge Marketing

Market and Customer Research: Danger Zones for Confirmation Bias Companies rely on customer research to develop new offerings, establish pricing models, and anticipate which customers are likely to purchase and which are likely to defect. If biased correlations exist in the training data, the AI model may learn and reinforce these biases.

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Brand Voice Study: Should Your Content Be Authoritative or Agreeable?

Contently

We found a correlation between a low agreeableness score and better-performing content, especially for stories about investing. The new fintech companies and B2B brands, on average, are more comfortable with this style than the big banks and their consuming-facing content. Scores range between 0 and 1.) appeared first on Contently.

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Do Self-Service Systems Really Lead to Better Results? Our Member Survey Offers Surprising Answers to Industry Questions

Customer Experience Matrix

The need for unified customer data has now been so widely understood for so long that we just naturally assume that more companies will have developed it. It’s hard to imagine companies have actually abandoned their unified databases, but even if growth has only slowed, that would be a big surprise. See this page for a compendium.)

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10 Companies You Need To Study if You Want To Build a Category

Metadata

“If a new founder or marketing team wanted to build a category, which companies would you tell them to study in B2B SaaS? Here’s a list of the top responses I got (and the top companies you need to study for category creation). The top 10 companies to study for category creation: 1.

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Survey: CMOs Struggle to Connect Marketing Efforts with Company Success

KoMarketing Associates

Korn Ferry recently conducted the “2018 CMO Pulse Survey” to determine how many marketing initiatives can be tied back to company success. About half of CMOs (52 percent) claimed that they could not make a direct correlation between their marketing team’s results to company performance.