Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2020

In a recent interview with our Director of Marketing, Hannah Mans, she outlines the successes that Directive has found with LinkedIn conversation ads. Conversations ads were launched by LinkedIn back in March of 2020, and since then has been an important topic of conversation (no pun intended). Sourced from Satheesh Blog.

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B2B Digital Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The role of CPCL in marketing. As the lifeblood of any B2B marketing strategy, leads represent potential revenue ; but not all leads are created equal. From sophisticated lead nurturing tactics to refining your sales funnel, we will explore how top marketers and sales teams bridge the gap between quantity and quality.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Appeal to the needs of the entire decision-making suite to move them down the funnel as a group. One of the most common errors B2B marketers make is not fully understanding their unique value proposition. First-party data is the cornerstone of B2B marketing. Understand the complexities of their relationships.

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. In fact, it’s often quite complicated, with multiple touchpoints and interactions along the way.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 22, 2020

As much as we all love inbound marketing, paid media is also an important part of the marketing strategy. Marketo’s advanced reporting tools allow you to set up either first-touch or multi-touch attribution to understand the success of your touchpoints. Once you’re tracking your digital ads, the next step is to report on them.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

B2B marketers are expected to wear many hats. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. For B2B marketers, staying on top of the latest digital marketing strategies is not just a job requirement, but a matter of corporate survival. Guest post by Sumeet Anand.

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Brandpoint

JULY 14, 2023

It quantifies the value generated from social media activities and helps businesses determine whether their investment in social media marketing is yielding profitable results. Align your social media activities with your overall marketing strategy. Generating leads and driving conversions. Enhancing customer engagement and loyalty.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. Craft Targeted Messaging Imagine sending generic email marketing blasts that land flat with your audience.

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illumin

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Journey advertising is a transformational shift in how marketers and companies reach their consumers with personalized, targeted messages unique to each stage of the marketing lifecycle. Journey advertising is extremely customer-centric and allows marketers and brands to react to consumers in real-time.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Well, for the same reasons you need a marketing automation platform, and to adopt SEO and market intelligence. In a world that is constantly evolving, in order to stay consistent, competitive, and current, we need to up our digital transformation game. That’s exactly where marketing automation comes into play.

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Bluetext

AUGUST 23, 2023

Similar to your brand or marketing strategy, it leverages channels to your audience to communicate who you are as a company and the value you bring to that specific audience. Optimize your job postings for the digital age There are endless digital tools at your disposal to make your job postings stand out.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 25, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, one strategy has emerged as a powerful weapon in the arsenal of marketers: Account-Based Marketing (ABM). Imagine a world where marketing isn’t about broadcasting your message to the masses, but rather crafting an exclusive experience for select accounts.

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DemandBase

AUGUST 21, 2020

What do the most successful B2B companies that sell into mid-market and enterprise accounts have in common? Is there a singular trait that unifies their go-to-market and determines their outsized success? At the heart of every successful B2B business is a truly unified Sales and Marketing engine that drives growth.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Listen to the podcast: For more thought leadership on measuring buyer intent check out our Radically Transparent podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , or LinkedIn. Watch the recording: Want to hear more from renowned marketing leaders? Julie has nearly a decade of cybersecurity marketing expertise. Meet Julie Preiss.

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The Lead Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To succeed with marketing campaigns in 2022, businesses will have to continue to adapt their strategies to suit buyer trends. Shift to A Digital Reality. According to the report, over 75% of buyers and sellers say they now prefer digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In this article we’ll dig into how to remove these digital silos, share tips on how to integrate the tools that matter most and share use cases to help you identify the right integrations for your team. How to remove digital silos in an ecosystem of tools . Marketing teams depend on an ecosystem of tools everyday.

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Content4Demand

JULY 31, 2020

For Retail TouchPoints’ Retail Remix series , we asked a number of guests about how they were staying sane (and inspired) when we were sheltering in place. If your series is focused on digital transformation, maybe you can do a weekly segment on a cool new app. Who doesn’t love The Daily Show’s “moment of Zen”?)

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As we approach the end of 2020, it’s time to take a look at key 2021 B2B marketing trends that will emerge in the year ahead. Continuing a pattern from previous years, 2021 will see the ongoing evolution of many B2B marketing trends from recent years, and the increasing influence of B2C marketing will make a big impact.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With the digital transformation continuing to skyrocket, there are always new software solutions popping up every day. But here’s the good thing—when you’re selling IT solutions, you already know that your target market is online and familiar with the workings of digital tools. Who says email marketing is dead?

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With the digital transformation continuing to skyrocket, there are always new software solutions popping up every day. But here’s the good thing—when you’re selling IT solutions, you already know that your target market is online and familiar with the workings of digital tools. Who says email marketing is dead?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 15, 2020

However, the impact of GDPR on digital marketing is ongoing and businesses in the EU aren’t the only ones affected. Marketers should take the time to understand the implications of GDPR, privacy laws and what it all means when it comes to social media. How does GDPR affect marketing on social media? Good question!

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If that last scenario applies, you were enticed by the company’s direct response marketing—a form of advertising designed specifically to elicit an immediate response from a prospect. So, what are the components of direct response marketing? What is Direct Response Marketing? The key here (as with all marketing, really!)

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ClickZ

MAY 25, 2023

Some marketers say ChatGPT and its cousin, DALL-E for generating images will create content faster and more accurately than human creators. ChatGPT: finally, a tool just for copywriters… Every other marketing function has tools to help them succeed. Who’s right? Everybody, and nobody.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We’ll keep it simple, Sales Automation in the process of leveraging software and artificial intelligence (AI) along with other digital tools to automate time-consuming sales tasks that normally take significant time away from selling activities. Sales Automation directing impacts the daily operations of your go-to-market strategy.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve already established that every B2B marketer should be leveraging intent data, with 99% of B2B marketers already doing so in some way. This means that every search query counts, and digital signals can be mapped to see how users go from casual research to engagement. How to use it. Navigational queries. Why it matters.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Marketing, sales, and customer service teams embracing new approaches to using video content to cut through the noise, book more meetings, and accelerate revenue growth. Video helps marketers add personality while educating prospects in more engaging and memorable ways. Digital 22: Generated £1.6

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is imperative, so marketing drives business growth and delivers a great customer experience. There has been a shift in the CMO’s role – from being focused on external communications and new customer acquisitions traditionally, to owning the customer experience across all touchpoints today. How can this be achieved?

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Strategic-IC

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And the beauty of that focus on accounts is ABM’s ability to deliver truly unique, engaging, and personal buyer experiences that regular B2B marketing strategies simply cannot. Lisa is now Chief Marketing Officer at the Arbinger Institute. I think the remote environment has changed things and everything's gone digital.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 4, 2020

As the digital marketing landscape continues to grow, it’s crucial to take advantage of all the channels at your disposal, including pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. While some may view PPC as a B2C marketing exclusive, PPC can be an integral and valuable component of B2B digital marketing strategies—if executed correctly.

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SendinBlue

APRIL 19, 2021

Successful B2B marketing automation requires thought and preparation but once up and running, can do serious heavy lifting for your sales funnel. Now you might be wondering how exactly one should use marketing automation for B2B. But first, let’s make sure we’re clear on how B2B marketing automation differs from B2C.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When used as part of a comprehensive data-driven, multi-channel account-based marketing (ABM) strategy, display ads are critical in reinforcing key messaging and delivering content to target accounts. Here, we’ve rounded up the most popular display ad formats for B2B marketing.

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Outgrow

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

20 Effective Growth Hacking Strategies for the Growth Hacking Funnel. It was around this time that the Hotmails and the LinkedIns of the world were exploring what Sean Ellis eventually came to call “growth hacking”. Lo and behold, came growth hacking strategies that EVERY marketer started talking about. Growth Hacking Funnel.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

For the sixth consecutive year, video investment is up and 94% of companies say videos are valuable in their daily marketing mix. The survey consists of 218 B2B sales and marketing leaders, all manager-level and above. Two-thirds of sales and marketing leaders plan to increase their investment in video. Video is here to stay!

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Outbrain

JANUARY 11, 2021

Digital-first mindsets have been front of mind for many SaaS businesses this year, and while you might think what you’re doing is miles ahead of the competition, your strategy could be missing one important element: conversational artificial intelligence (AI). What is conversational AI and how does it relate to your marketing strategy?

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SWZD

JUNE 20, 2017

B2B marketers now have a plethora of channels, or media platforms, to choose from when planning their marketing campaigns. The goal is to be omnichannel with a seamless experience across all platforms and touchpoints but this presents challenges for B2B organizations. Direct Marketing/Promotional. It can be overwhelming.

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SalesIntel

JULY 12, 2021

Once you understand how to accelerate your growth, you’ll have a competitive advantage in the market. Although all departments contribute to the growth of your B2B company, sales and marketing lead the charge. In this article, you’ll learn about: How sales and marketing lead revenue growth. 6 growth hacks for B2B companies.

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