Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A few months prior, I lead an initiative to switch survey vendors to the Qualtrics platform which offered capabilities superior to our past vendor. speakers were able to tell compelling stories based on insights derived from survey data. Relationships Between Research and Growth. The purchase was still fresh in my mind. .

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2020

Source: Seismic, Hinge Research Institute. Content is king. Everyone is creating content. According to LinkedIn , there are more than two million posts, articles, and videos added to that social media platform every day. Yet, content creation is still a top priority for most B2B marketers. Shooting for the Stars.

Research 118

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 26, 2021

It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight. What is social media market research? Social media market research is also: Affordable.

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Social Media Research Social Marketing Media 143

Excelsior Research

JANUARY 3, 2022

Market Research Guide. A step-by-step guide to completing your own market research. Also, companies have realized the importance of market research for the business. A snippet from Statista , Research plays a pivotal role in the product line and audience segmentation. Why Market Research? Types of Market Research.

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Exo B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

I recently published on LinkedIn, part of the results of CMI’s annual content marketing study, “B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Outlook for 2024” This publication focused on LinkedIn’s dominance as the social network of choice for the vast majority of those who publish B2B content on social networks.

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PureB2B

MAY 19, 2022

Using LinkedIn for lead generation has become a staple of B2B marketing. Given that business owners and decision-makers use LinkedIn for networking, self-promotion, job hunting, and more, it’s an ideal platform on which to reach them. Why You Need LinkedIn Lead Generation. 4 Ways to Use LinkedIn for B2B Lead Generation.

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The Point

JULY 17, 2017

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. IMPACT : Use ABM strategies to deliver personalized, relevant content to specific buying roles within large accounts.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

The biggest mistake in content marketing is making the content all about you. In fact, I’m not even sure promotional content qualifies as content marketing. On the other hand, the survey of more than 500 global business executives also showed that the buying audiences are looking for helpful content.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Valasys

JANUARY 30, 2024

To truly unlock this understanding, tapping into the power of market research is crucial. Market research, in the context of social media marketing, involves gathering and analyzing data about consumer behavior and trends on social media platforms. These strategies are not born out of sheer luck or spontaneous creativity.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 4, 2018

Sales teams push back on content development to ensure that individual customers are treated as partners rather than demographic targets. Sales pushes back on content development to ensure that customers are treated as partners. Shouldn’t sales trust the content that marketing produces to do more of the initial relationship building?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

To establish your place as a thought leader and trustworthy authority in your industry, you need to publish original, high-level content. But writing effective thought leadership content is no easy task. Taking the time and effort to learn how to create high-authority content is worth the effort. Quick Takeaways.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Hinge Research Institute has released a special consulting industry version of its breakthrough study of professional services buyers and the firms that they hire. Using phone interviews and online surveys, we researched 362 buyers and 369 sellers of consulting services. Why This Study is Needed.

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Hubspot

MAY 4, 2020

When we consider all of the social media platforms available to support sales efforts, LinkedIn remains the top social platform to help salespeople connect with prospects. Here are the important statistics you need to know to help you crush your social selling efforts on LinkedIn. Social Selling LinkedIn Stats.

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

LinkedIn articles expand your text real estate to as many as 125,000 characters —an ideal way to supplement your paid LinkedIn ad strategy or simply to build brand awareness and connect your thought leadership among key audiences. The power of LinkedIn is undeniable. A New Home for Valuable Content. Keep It Social.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2018, 40% of people used social media channels for aspects of product research. With younger generations getting more and more connected to social media platforms, the amount of product research done on these platforms is likely to grow. In fact, 16 to 24-year-olds already conduct product research more on social than search engines.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

Providing the right information and support at each stage can guide potential customers toward purchasing and ultimately improve your sales success. For instance, during the awareness stage, providing educational content can help attract and engage potential customers. Foundational research plays a crucial role in this process.

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Trade Press Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For many years, “creating enough content” was cited by marketers responding to the Content Marketing Institute’s annual State of Marketing survey as their top challenge. Today, “creating the right content for their audience” represents the biggest communication challenge for 57 percent of marketers.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

To create highly relevant, high-impact email messages, you’ll need to collect and use more information from your prospective customers. Benefits of personalizing your email marketing messages include: Higher open and click-through rates; Greater engagement with your email content; Increased conversion rate of prospects to buyers; and.

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 17, 2014

for Your Expert Ebook" src="[link] width="300" height="225" title="How to Research Content for Your Expert Ebook" /> How should you research content in order to write your expert ebook ? The field of online research methods is new and expanding rapidly. In some ways, research has never been easier.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 21, 2021

Image Source: Grist Grist, a B2B thought leadership and content marketing agency based in London, recently published the results of its Value of Thought Leadership Survey 2020 (the "2020 Survey"). The 2020 Survey is the third installment of Grist's research regarding B2B thought leadership.

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Contently

APRIL 23, 2020

Since then, comments and questions have been the content metric I secretly value over likes and shares and views. I answered as many as I could live, but I also wanted to give the best of the rest some love in a content mailbag. However, don’t just create coronavirus content for the sake of it. Let’s dive in.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. However, strategic content creation and distribution are great solutions to these challenges. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword. Sharing relevant data points and case studies.

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Binary Demand

MARCH 26, 2024

In this article Overview Definition Buyer intent & content format Importance Intent-based marketing tips Benefits Conclusion [ps2id id=’definition’ target=”/]What is Intent-based Marketing, and How Does it Work? Signal 2: Visiting specific pages about features and pricing suggests active research for a purchase.

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Marketing Interactions

JUNE 23, 2017

While 89% of B2B marketers have embraced content marketing, only 37% have a documented content marketing strategy, and only 22% say they are extremely successful with their overall approach to content marketing. One of the key foundational elements to a content marketing strategy is a buyer persona.

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Buyer Personas Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy 74

Top Rank Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2023

and Canadian chief marketing officers recently noted that brands should disclose branded content that’s been created by AI , a sentiment shared by some 75 percent of consumers, while 60 percent of CMOs noted that brands should limit their adoption of AI over the next five years to help protect human jobs , according to 2023 data from Dentsu.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial. But how do you subtly engage your prospects when they are researching solutions online? Intent data is information about the online behaviors of your prospects and evaluates their interest in purchasing your product or service.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2023

Buyer personas are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy because not only do they define precisely whom you’re trying to reach, but they also inform so many aspects of your business. How do businesses use buyer personas to inform marketing strategy? Use surveys. How do you find data to create buyer personas?

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 25, 2019

A few days ago, Mantis Research and BuzzSumo published the results of their latest survey regarding the use of original research in marketing. The State of Original Research for Marketing 2019 survey was fielded in May and June of this year and produced 644 responses from global marketers. Here's why.

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Valasys

JUNE 12, 2020

ABM is a zero-waste marketing strategy of high significance to the marketers & running Account-Based Marketing campaigns on LinkedIn allows marketers to benefit from the essential element of strategic ABM on LinkedIn. Delivering Personalized Pieces of Content. Scoring, Selecting and Prioritizing Your Target Accounts.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 26, 2020

While that may sound like a trick question, recent research has produced tangible, practical answers that can help firms make smarter marketing decisions. And a notable theme of these findings is that every professional services firm needs a digital content strategy to address the way modern buyers look for professional advice and services.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Podcasts are now a top channel for B2B content , with 43% of decision makers saying they use them to get business related content, according to a new study. Second place went to industry-specific newspapers (39%), according to the study by Sapio Research, a market research firm. They don’t have to have unique content.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For today’s content creators and content marketing teams, unique original content is always the best route to take. The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 1, 2019

LinkedIn is quickly becoming a must-have tool for B2B businesses. In fact, a recent survey found that LinkedIn generates more than 80 percent of a business’s total social media leads. Although the benefits of building a LinkedIn presence are clear, one feature of this robust tool hasn’t always had the best rep—LinkedIn groups.

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Content4Demand

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re trying to serve content to multiple stakeholders, on a buying committee or otherwise, you’re going to run into the same problem. Where and how should we share content so it can be easily found and accessed? Approach your content like you’re feeding a football team. The lesson? How much will it take to fill them up?

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Ad Building B2B Content Budget Programs 82

Scoop.it

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Do you think content curation is just another term for content creation? Content creation means creating and publishing new content on your blog, social media, or website for your own specific purposes. But here’s the deal with content creation. Consider supplementing content creation with content curation.

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Top Rank Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2023

adults have said that they consider Twitter — recently rebranded as X — to be dominated by unpleasant people who hold extreme views, with a scant 12 percent considering the platform fun to use — two of several findings of interest to digital marketers contained in newly-published social media platform survey results.

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