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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Ecosystem Marketing, Growing Ad Markets, & LinkedIn Learning Expands

Top Rank Marketing

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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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Events Thrive, LinkedIn Adds Top Skills, & Google Business Gets Social Links

Top Rank Marketing

percent figure from the same period in 2022, while 2024 has been forecast as the year when B2B events will experience a full recover, according to newly-published report data. B2B Exhibitions Move Forward in “Dramatic Improvement” B2B events have continued on their steady return to pre-pandemic frequency, with a scant 0.3

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Deepening B2B customer relationships with “the funnel beyond the funnel”

Biznology

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. When asked, the typical B2B marketer will say that 80-85% of their effort goes to customer acquisition. This is a mistake. marketing program?

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The LinkedIn Publishing Platform Puts Power in the Hands of the B2B Buyer

KoMarketing Associates

This past month LinkedIn announced they will be opening up the ability for every user to publish their own content on LinkedIn, through individual profiles. Platforms and publishers like Linkedin realize (or are realizing) the influence they have in buyer markets.

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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: CMO Tech Budgets Hold Steady, Ad Index Grows, & LinkedIn’s AI Push

Top Rank Marketing

MediaPost LinkedIn Launches Live Test of Generative AI Posts Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has expanded its testing of optional generative AI technology for the creation of posts on the professional social platform, offering first-draft suggestions to certain users, LinkedIn recently announced. MarketingCharts U.S.

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Marketing Expertise: Our Top 20 of 2020

Exo B2B

This pandemic changed everything, including not publishing our top 20 this spring. As executive editor of TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog, he’s published over 1.4 million words on digital marketing since 2003 and is the author of Optimize : How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing.

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15 Stats That Prove the Power of Sales and Marketing Alignment

Hubspot

If one team isn’t carrying their weight or is out of step with the rest of the company, you could be missing out on customers or an opportunity to grow. Marketers should be attracting and nurturing leads with targeted content so that qualified prospects can be passed onto Sales, while sales reps should convert those prospects into customers.

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