Contently

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Very quickly, high-quality, engaging content became an absolute necessity for most businesses. This awoke a sleeping giant: content marketing. The Content Marketing Institute’s 2022 Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report gives an interesting insight into the new post-pandemic landscape.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2024

[Survey] 90 percent of B2B marketers have said that their roles have become increasingly complex, while 62 percent of marketing leaders have indicated a change from sales-owned to marketing-owned customer relationships — two of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data.

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Contently

JULY 27, 2020

In-person events make up over 20 percent of B2B marketing budgets on average, and upwards of 50 percent inside many organizations. Smart marketing leaders are planning to shift that budget to content, as it’s more or less impossible to do good digital marketing without great content.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You can probably guess the top two social networks for B2B marketing pretty easily, but do you know which platform is #3? What the biggest missed opportunity is for B2B marketers? How your social media marketing budget stacks up to your peers and competitors? The Biggest Challenge in B2B Social Media Marketing.

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 29, 2022

As you quickly discover, content marketing takes a lot of effort and involves a lot of different skill sets. To scale your content, you need to strategically plan your content calendar and execute on proven best practices. Here are some reasons to prioritize scaling content in your next promotional boost.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. Often, this happens as the budget year nears its end and your team needs to spend the designated dollars or lose them.).

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Content is vital in B2B marketing, especially in a long purchase cycle. Yet, most B2B content marketers face challenges demonstrating their work’s ROI (“return on investment”). The best way to quantify content ROI is through demand generation and sales. Proactive co-own key success metrics.

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Tiecas

AUGUST 14, 2023

I recently downloaded the report Manufacturing Content Marketing – Insights for 2023. The results are from the survey done and published by the Content Marketing Insititute. Understanding the audience for the manufacturing content marketing survey Let me first talk about the respondents for this survey.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, it’s necessary to budget for your content marketing program, so that you’ll know exactly what funds and resources you’ll be working with in the new year. And you don’t have to start from scratch, as we’ll be sharing how to budget for your content marketing in 2020. It can be stressful and chaotic.

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Contently

MARCH 30, 2020

Given how the coronavirus has changed our jobs as marketers , there’s a good chance you should too. The compounding returns of content. The biggest mistake people make with content marketing ROI is taking a short-term view. The vast majority of advertising and marketing is fleeting. The logical move?

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Pam Didner

AUGUST 16, 2020

Daniel Benyo sent me a list of questions after listening to my presentation “New Rules of Marketing” in Hungary. Q1: How can a marketer understand segments that he never interacted before? . A: If you want to sell something to a different country, the best way is to travel to that country to see the market first hand.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Additionally, B2B businesses do this through long-term organic lead creation techniques. Companies are trying to maximize their marketing budgets when markets slow down. In contrast to the first few months of COVID-19, most businesses are not completely reducing their marketing spending. Content Marketing.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

MarketingCharts Influencer Pay Equity Guide The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), PR Council, and 4As have published a new guide to influencer marketing which has focused on achieving greater pay equity, with report data showing a pay gap of some 29 percent for black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) influencers.

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B2B Digital Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this episode, you’ll learn: Data-Driven Business Insights: The importance of customer insights reports for understanding consumer behavior and driving effective marketing strategies, focusing on psychological drivers like trust and certainty to enhance messaging and branding.

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Altitude Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This post covers how to set a B2B marketing budget, including breakdowns of how much you’ll need to invest on executing your preferred strategies and vision. What percentage of revenue should I spend on marketing?” “How much do companies spend on marketing?” Step 1: What to Budget for Strategy.

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The Mx Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As a savvy B2B marketer, you know why content marketing is critical if you want to connect with modern customers. As you start creating and presenting your plans for next year (yes, it’s that time again!), The B2B space is embracing content marketing — so B2B buyers expect it. CMI and MarketingProfs ).

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How long does content marketing for events take you? And how much of your marketing budget do you spend? If you’re like most other enterprise event marketers, probably a long time and a ton of money. There’s so much to do and pay for – planning, researching, developing, designing, producing, and launching.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re like most companies, you realized in 2020 that annual marketing budget planning doesn’t work anymore. Annual budgets aren’t flexible enough to keep up with your audience’s dynamic behavior. Quick Takeaways: Annual marketing budget planning isn’t ideal anymore. Don’t overcomplicate things.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 19, 2018

As I was relaxing this weekend and watching a few of the matches on TV, I couldn’t help but to notice some striking similarities between the World Cup and something I am much more familiar with – B2B content marketing strategy. Qualifying. When the qualifying tournaments concluded, the 32-team field was set for competition.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

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. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 6, 2015

55% of B2B marketers say it is unclear what effective content marketing looks like at their organizations. This was one of the key highlights of the sixth annual B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released last week.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 1, 2015

One of my favorite aspects of being in content marketing is seeing the next generation of leaders emerge. This post comes from Liz Bedor, a Content Strategist we hired just under a year ago. In that time, Liz has totally upped her game on her personal blog , Twitter , Linkedin and Instagram (pretty amazing photos there Liz).

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 1, 2013

Last month, Content Marketing Institute (CMI) released its report , “B2B Software Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends – North America,” sponsored by the International Data Group (IDG). The report, which highlights responses from more than 1400 B2B software marketers across the U.S.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Only 10-20% of a company’s website content drives 90% of its Web traffic, and only 0.5% of a website’s content drives more than 50% of its traffic. The answer is easy: content marketing. Content marketing is the process of creating content that our customers actually want or need. InboundWriter ).

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2015

Very few content marketers hit a home run each time they step up to bat. As the content marketing space grows overtime, so have the number of trials and errors we’ve found many marketers make. NOT DOCUMENTING YOUR CONTENT MARKETING STRATEGY. The same principles apply to content marketing strategy.

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Exo B2B

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Just a short blog inspired by Lynda St-Arneault’s LinkedIn status on marketing content strategies. She writes, among other things, that being successful in content marketing, does not depend only on the budget that one invests in its production or by increasing its quantity.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 13, 2022

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a multi-step practice of communicating with consumers, posting branded content, and advertising on social networks. It requires plenty of research, creativity, content creation, and maintaining an active presence on social media platforms.

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Hinge Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2017

Even firms that have embraced marketing technology and content marketing can struggle to deliver a cohesive, well-coordinated marketing program. Download the Marketing Planning Guide and develop a robust marketing plan that generates leads and builds your reputation.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. As marketers lost access to traditional channels like live events and in-person meetings, many marketing budgets were redirected into demand generation campaigns. In other words, use personas.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One of the most challenging aspects of building a B2B website is to find the balance between designing for aesthetics and optimizing for lead generation. 2) Problem-Solve for Your Customer with a Content Marketing Strategy Before drafting copy, research your customer’s pain points and use your website’s content to solve those needs.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 6, 2009

Marketers are used to creating marketing plans, including advertising campaigns, trade show schedules, etc. Many marketers I know have calendars posted on the walls marking important dates, deadlines, events, and so forth. A great marketing plan is created! Spreadsheets abound, and ideas flow.

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Contently

MARCH 26, 2021

The marketers at these companies who discovered this waste and made a change are brave as hell. Display is an incredibly low-effort way to spend your marketing budget. This entitles us to strut into the CFO’s office with our “I’m a data-driven marketer, give me a raise! appears to come out.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 24, 2014

Here are some examples of how to squeeze even more SEO out of your B2B marketing initiatives, based on priorities outlined in MarketingSherpa’s research chart. Email Marketing. SEO can certainly be augmented through and augment email marketing campaigns. 5 Key SEO Action Items for B2B Marketers Optimizing For Mobile.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2015

One of the biggest questions we get from our customers is how to get the most value from their content marketing budget. So like any decent and respectable content marketer, we do our best to answer our customers’ top questions. My biggest secrets for SEO and your content marketing budget?

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