Tue.Nov 10, 2015

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Marketers Continue to See Benefits In Video Content Marketing [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

The “ Video Marketing Strategy ” report released by Ascend2 showed that marketers are beginning to see an increase in the effectiveness in video content. To learn more about the report and its results, we spoke to Todd Lebo , Chief Marketing Officer of Ascend2. WERE THERE ANY STATISTICS OR RESULTS THAT SURPRISED YOU? I was very encouraged by the level of success that marketers are having with video.

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What Is Pull Marketing and How Does It Add Brand Value? (with Gilad de Vries, SVP Strategy at Outbrain)

Crimson Marketing

Today’s buyers are able to respond to marketing with two choices they never had in the past: They can ignore, skip or block ads through ad-blocking software or tools like Tivo, and they can also talk back to brands through social media. Together, this is radically altering the go to market strategy required of brands. The paradigm shift, says Gilad de Vries, VP of Strategy, Products and Business Intelligence for content discovery platform Outbrain, is from “push” to “pull” marketing.

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10 Key Ingredients To Insanely Shareable Content

Marketing Insider Group

Ever wonder why some people’s content goes viral and gets tons of social shares? Is there some content marketing secret sauce you don’t know about? To try to answer this million-dollar question, for a period of eight months BuzzSumo analyzed over 100 million articles, and this is what they found out. Obviously the prerequisite to […]. The post 10 Key Ingredients To Insanely Shareable Content appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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3 Steps to Improve Marketing and Sales Alignment

ANNUITAS

Whether you’re more like Ham or Smalls, chances are you’ve had a conversation with sales that included some miscommunication. Whether it’s unfamiliar terminology, information overload or inconsistent rules of engagement, every enterprise marketer has been guilty at some point of creating more frustration than value. Ham Porter: Hey, you want a s’more?

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Your website is wearing mom jeans and shoulder pads

Biznology

Pearson Education reached out to me to read and make make notes on Mike Moran’s and James Mathewson’s upcoming book, Outside-In Marketing. I go through it, paragraph by paragraph, and write notes on what comes to mind. After three chapters, I am both excited and delighted by both how much I have learned and how much I already knew. The Language of Business is Moving Faster Than You Are.

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Does Your Team Have the Right Skills to Deploy Predictive Marketing?

Lattice

Predictive analytics skills are in great demand. In terms of skills sought, analytics/predictive analytics are in high demand at more than two-thirds of organizations. (Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from our research with Forbes Insights. Get your full copy of the report here.). The key to successful predictive marketing is the ability to pull together many parts of the enterprise.

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A Very Smart Way to Combine Search and Social

Convince & Convert

Scrupulously Social and Slangy SEO. With a decade of experience in writing blogs and using social to draw in consumers, Ricky Cadden has a wealth of experience in SEO and social refinement to share with Jay and Adam. By focusing on social returns, playing to the strengths of each medium , and finely tuning SEO, Ricky manages to find success with a variety of content in each arena.

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6 Key Lessons that Will Change How You Market in 2016

Vidyard

Last month I had the amazing opportunity to go to Space Camp! The Space Camp video marketing summit, that is. In addition to helping host the event, I got to put on my modern marketing hat, attend some sessions, and learn from some the best in the universe. Here’s my mission de-brief on some of the most inspirational learnings that I took away from the event.

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7 Deadly Sins the Best Professional Services Websites Never Make

Hinge Marketing

Professional services websites often suffer from a number of common problems that hurt a firm's ability to compete and engage its audiences. Let’s examine some of these problems so that you can begin to improve your own firm's online presence. 1. Generic Look & Message. The majority of professional services websites don't do a particularly good job of distinguishing themselves.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Should You Prioritize Lead Generation for Your B2B Content Marketing Goals?

Content Standard

For B2B marketers, qualified leads look like the panacea for every corporate campaign. The thinking goes that if you deliver leads to sales, then you’ve made your company more money and justified your budget in the process. Data backs up this perception: Content Marketing Institute (CMI) recently came out with their B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America report, and 85 percent of respondents called out lead generation as the most important of content market

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SWOT Analysis: Is Instagram Right for Your Media Brand?

Hubspot

Seemingly out of nowhere, Instagram took the world by storm and became a social media hub for hundreds of millions of people. As of October 2015 , there are 400M+ daily active users, 80M+ photos per day, and 3.5B daily likes. For publishers looking to build an audience, the opportunity on Instagram is massive —publishers like Mashable, National Geographic, and Vogue have all had success in growing their follower counts from zero, to hundreds of thousands, and even millions.

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What’s Your Thanksgiving Personality?

SnapApp

I think – if I really had to choose – I’d say Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. And I’m not alone: according to a Harris poll , Thanksgiving ranks 2nd in favorite holidays for American adults (Christmas took the top spot). It’s probably the food. Who can resist fresh roasted turkey covered in fluffy mashed potatoes, topped off with cranberry sauce and gravy?

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Which Marketing Tactics Are The Most Overrated? [New Data]

Hubspot

If you were to ask a room full of marketers from all over the world which marketing tactics they think are least worth the investment, you'd probably get a flurry of strong opinions. But what if you asked them to name the most overrated marketing tactic? Would their answers vary that much? We surveyed 4,000 marketers and salespeople around the globe for our 2015 State of Inbound report and found that, no matter where they came from, marketers agreed on the #1 most overrated marketing tactic.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Sales Training Is Practice, Do It Before the Game

Marketing In Real Life

Ready to sign the advertising contract, I called the sales rep to verify the numbers and get a premium ad position but the rep was out of the office for sales training. How ironic! Unavailable to close the sale to attend training to learn how to sell?

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Should You Prioritize Lead Generation for Your B2B Content Marketing Goals?

Content Standard

For B2B marketers, qualified leads look like the panacea for every corporate campaign. The thinking goes that if you deliver leads to sales, then you’ve made your company more money and justified your budget in the process. Data backs up this perception: Content Marketing Institute (CMI) recently came out with their B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America report, and 85 percent of respondents called out lead generation as the most important of content market

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Six Expert Guides to Measuring Content Marketing Results

Webbiquity

Seth Godin proclaimed back in 2008, “Content marketing is all the marketing that’s left!” Seven years later, that message clearly seems to have resonated, as 93% of marketers now say they do content marketing. Image credit: B2B Marketing Insider. Yet the question remains: can the results from content marketing be measured? That is, really measured—in ways that matter to the business?

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How Haptic Technology Can Improve Brands’ User Experience

Content Standard

Brands are starting to experiment with haptics in digital marketing, and the results aim to improve both user experience and brand engagement. Haptics refer to technology that communicates with a user via sense or touch ( haptikos in Greek means able to grasp or perceive). For example, when a smartphone keyboard vibrates when you type, that’s haptic technology, or haptics, at work.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Why Marketers Are the New Wingmen

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Michael Powers Chances are if you’re in events marketing at a B2B company, your schedule is full of trade shows. As someone who’s traveled around the world to hundreds of events, I’ve learned some very important tricks of the trade (pun intended): always give away good swag, plan ahead like it’s your wedding, and, most importantly, bring your A-team.

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There is No Such Thing As an Offline Business Anymore

Hubspot

Consumer behavior, from the city to the country, has changed. All of our consumer research begins online. Companies who fail to realize this are losing a lot of business. Over the last decade, there has been a massive shift in consumer behavior. Rather than reading ads, calling information lines, or speaking to sales reps, Google has become the research tool of choice.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Want to Grow Your SaaS Company? Track These 12 Marketing Metrics

Hubspot

Clearly defined and closely monitored marketing metrics are critical to the success of any SaaS company. N ot only do they help measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns, but they also help diagnose risk and identify opportunities to accelerate growth. How do I know? I’ve spent the last six years of my professional life tracking a small list of SaaS marketing metrics very closely -- maybe even somewhat obsessively at times.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.

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Using Data to Personalize your Marketing

GreenRope

Using Data to Segment and Target your Customers. Image Credit: Jeff Sheldon / Caption: Know where your customers spend their time. Data is all-important when it comes to successfully targeting your customers. There are many things that you can find out about them, even just from how they use your website. You can understand what kind of products they buy and what their browsing behavior is like.