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Beyond Beige: Ardath Albee’s Blueprint for Buyer-Driven B2B Strategies

Content Standard

Delivering the content we ‘think’ our customers want has proven ineffective. According to Forrester, a whopping 85% of marketers say their content doesn’t deliver business value. Ardath is the CEO of Marketing Interactions. What can we do to change that? Ardath Albee has the answers.

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Social media in B2B: from platforms to content… Ten years later.

Exo B2B

We were asking ourselves this question almost ten years ago in this blog post , with statistics from eMarketer dating back to 2009. – B2B companies were much more active than B2C companies, in terms of the marketing initiatives they put forward in social networks. Here is one of the graphs from the eMarketer study.

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How to Use ROI to Defend Your Content Marketing Efforts

ClearVoice

According to a 2018 Forrester Research report [original report is available here ], marketers in the United States will increase their spending on marketing technology by 27 percent through 2022. No matter the size of your monthly marketing budget, tips and tactics exist to help you be successful.

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How Technology Is Revolutionizing B2B Events

Contently

Per the report, 85 percent of B2B marketers say events are either “critical” or “very important” for accelerating the sales pipeline and driving revenue. In total, events make up about a fifth of marketing spend at B2B companies, according to Forrester Research and Boston Consulting Group. Data and ROI.

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Why Is Social Media Measurement So Hard?

Convince & Convert

” In fact, new research from eMarketer shows that less than 20% of B2B marketers know for sure that their social media is generating positive results, and I’d guess the B2C data is similar. And according to The CMO Survey, 44% of marketers haven’t been able to show the impact of social at all, much less point to real ROI.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. Does it sound familiar? United States License.

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You May Be Surprised At The Biggest B2B Marketing Responsibility Of 2016

Marketing Insider Group

All survey data is open to some interpretation (see this eMarketer writeup , and this coverage in MediaPost ) but from where I sit, this research is an encouraging indication of where B2B marketing is headed. My interpretation of these results starts with an understanding that the B2B buying experience has fundamentally changed.