Contently

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

There’s a line in Forrester’s latest report on content marketing platforms, or CMPs for short, that I love. It goes like this: “If content is the soul of digital, content marketing platforms are its church.”

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Seismic

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This week Forrester released The Forrester Wave TM : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022 report in which Seismic was named a leader. Forrester looks at three major categories – market presence, strategy, and current offering. Market Presence. The Forrester Wave : Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2020

In an omnichannel world, drawing the line from specific content initiatives to dollars earned can be tricky. To know whether your content initiatives are working as intended, measure the effectiveness of your campaigns, and prove the value of your work to your leadership team, you’ll need to tackle the challenge of measuring your ROI.

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PathFactory

JUNE 8, 2023

Fresh from Forrester B2B Summit, Anne Marie Kilgallon , Head of Partnerships at PathFactory, shares five key takeaways she learned after spending the week in Austin among some of the best and brightest in B2B. AI was all the rage at Forrester. What does this mean for B2B marketers ? AI is table stakes for GTM teams.

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PathFactory

JUNE 7, 2022

Toronto, ON – June 6, 2022 – With more than 20 years of experience in B2B marketing , content strategy, and operations, Christine Polewarczyk joins PathFactory from Forrester where she was an evangelist for content strategy, content marketing , and content operations. . About PathFactory.

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The Point

JULY 18, 2014

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing.

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markempa

AUGUST 29, 2017

Content marketing is booming. According to the 2017 B2B Content Marketing Trends, 39% of companies are increasing investment in content marketing. And yet most companies are not creating effective content. The post How to Attract B2B Buyers with Killer Content appeared first on the B2B Lead Blog.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a marketer or B2B business owner, it is extremely important to take advantage of visual communications to accommodate this portion of society. Believe it or not, there are many movies that have a lot to teach us about the world of business and the essential traits needed in order to become a successful marketer. Forrest Gump.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The most powerful tool B2B marketers have in today’s hyper-connected world is genuine word of mouth from their customers—such as reviews, social media shares and recommendations. And brands that use advocate marketing programs to inspire and encourage their customers to create social proof for their products will be the ones that thrive.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 3, 2020

More B2B marketers are finding opportunities via content marketing , but new research suggests that they still face challenges when it comes to achieving their top objectives. About 57% of the same group said they have seen an improvement in their ability to tie content assets to business outcomes.

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Navigate the Channel

JULY 27, 2023

Content and database marketing have emerged as indispensable tools in the modern marketing landscape. According to a recent study by Forrester Research, Inc., Content Marketing: Crafting Customer-Centric Messages Gone are the days when generic marketing messages could sway B2B customers.

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Contently

AUGUST 22, 2017

Let’s talk about the content marketing industry’s favorite chart. It pops up in about 75 percent of all content marketing talks, showing the explosive growth in searches for “content marketing” this decade. We love this chart! I use it in three different presentations.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 22, 2023

As marketers look for new ways to make an impact on their target audience, new research suggests that they need to continue to focus on improving the customer experience (CX). Despite this increase and mounting pressure on marketers, there may be potential to improve by shifting to personalization.

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Kapost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Content is critical for B2B marketing success. Planning, creating, distributing, and analyzing all this content is a big challenge that is only getting bigger. The post Kapost and Forrester Live Q&A: Are Content Marketing Platforms the Answer? That’s nothing new. That’s also nothing.

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ClickZ

JULY 18, 2019

Forrester evaluated and scored the top 11 B2C commerce suites in late 2018 in their Forrester Wave report. The report summarizes this as “the ability to target content and products with shopper incentives across the shopper journey.”. Content produced in collaboration with SAP. Of those, SAP and Salesforce led the pack.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

A definitive agreement was reached between Forrester Research and SiriusDecisions Inc. SiriusDecisions will be acquired by Forrester for $245 million to aid in creating a robust platform that guides companies and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) to drive business growth in this customer oriented era. According to George F.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Content marketing is booming. According to the 2017 B2B Content Marketing Trends, 39% of companies are increasing investment in content marketing. And yet most companies are not creating effective content. Want proof?

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Contently

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A key part of my job as a product manager at Contently is talking to people. Earlier this year, as we were planning our 2021 product roadmap, I interviewed dozens of CMOs about their approaches to measuring content marketing ROI. “This is content ROI.” ” And in some ways, they’re right.

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Valasys

MARCH 4, 2019

ProKarma’s strategy and design division, Lenati, was recently named the top B2B marketing agency by the B2B Marketing Agencies, North America, Q1 2019 report conducted by Forrester Research Inc. About Lenati. About ProKarma.

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Conductor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Organic search has always been a key pillar in every digital marketing strategy. A truly great SEO platform functions as a partner to brands to scale their Organic Marketing program— ensuring teams create valuable content, that this content can be found, and that they can measure the effectiveness of their efforts.

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At Content Marketing World in Washington D.C., This sentiment is very much in line with what I’ve shared in my own presentations on AI and B2B content marketing. However, the silver lining is that brands focused on communicating with authentic narratives can pierce through the mediocrity of GenAI content.

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Marketing Interactions

MARCH 25, 2023

Would it surprise you that a whopping 1% of decision makers believe that B2B marketing shows a meaningful understanding of the human experience? Going back to the stat above – less than 2 respondents find B2B marketing meaningful for humans. If this doesn’t concern you as a B2B content marketer, it should.

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Content Science Review

JULY 7, 2022

Gain key statistics and insights from our content marketing fact sheet including research from IDC, Gartner and Forrester, among others.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2017

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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Vidyard

APRIL 12, 2016

The years change but the marketing plans pretty much stay the same, according to recent research from Forrester. Many companies have marketing mixes that are fairly set in stone. In-person events such as conferences have existed pretty much ever since the term marketing was invented. ” – Forrester Research.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 11, 2015

“If ‘mobile-first’ is the new rallying cry for digital design, then ‘sales-first’ should be the mantra by which marketing delivers and distributes content.” – Laura Ramos, Forrester Analyst. Research released by Forrester this month found some shocking information about sales’ use of marketing content.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2022

You’ll struggle to show content’s impact on revenue unless you focus on these five elements, according to Forrester analyst Phyllis Davidson. And (surprise) performance measurement is only part of the story – developing and tracking a strategic process matters, too. Continue reading →

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. Content marketing is dead. * Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead. .

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Vidyard

MARCH 11, 2016

Content marketing has cut itself a lion’s share in the marketing world. It’s pretty simple when you think about it, technically every part of your marketing mix should revolve around promoting content. It only makes sense then to see companies slowly ramping up their content spend.

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Vidyard

MARCH 14, 2017

Forrester Research has bad news for marketers. Well, thankfully Forrester has some answers on that as well. In Video Strategy for the Post-Digital Age , Forrester outlines three strategies for building engagement, whether your prospects are looking to buy, or just casually consuming content.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI is a transformative capability that has proliferated across the marketing technology stack, though most B2B marketers aren’t using it to its fullest potential. As B2B marketers gain a better understanding of AI’s capabilities, trust in these valuable solutions can grow.

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Biznology

JANUARY 13, 2022

Eager to attend in-person events, B2B marketers may have their hopes dashed again as new variants spread. February 28-March 2, Scottsdale, B2B Marketing Exchange. April 6-7, all virtual, Marketing Profs B2B Forum. May 2-4, Austin and “digital experience,” Forrester B2B Summit North America. And soldier on.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2023

B2B growth plan: perfecting partner ecosystem marketing 45 percent of B2B marketing decision-makers at typical B2B organizations have said that new or renewed ecosystem partners were their primary revenue source, as more B2B companies have moved towards broadening their partner ecosystems, according to newly-published Forrester Research data.

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6sense

JUNE 22, 2017

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave TM : Predictive Marketing Analytics for B2B Marketers, Q2 2017. In the first report of its kind for the predictive marketing analytics space, Forrester named 6sense a leader among predictive analytics providers. So you can reach and engage in-market buyers.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Ad Market Posts Third Consecutive Gain In September, Albeit Marginally September marked the third consecutive month that the U.S. advertising market recorded a rise in year-over-year ad spending, with a scant 0.1 What Makes B2B Tech Buyers Distrust Brands? Social Media Today U.S.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

My most recent blog posts have proposed a new approach for B2B go-to-market teams — a Converged Growth organizational model. This new organizational model represents a complete rethink of traditional B2B sales, marketing and customer service roles, with blended teams, organized around stewardship of customer journey phases.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. That collaboration is crucial because the content itself is so crucial.

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