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Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven

Marketing Insider Group

In this day and age, there’s no excuse for not knowing what your customers want. There are now a wide variety of tools that enable marketers to capture a range of data at particular stages in their marketing campaigns. Gone are the days of mass, untargeted broadcasting. The digital age has brought about widened reach, The post Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven appeared first on PureB2B.

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An Introduction To Developer Relations: What It Is And Why You Need It

Influitive

Over the last several years, the dramatic shift from brick and mortar stores to cloud service offerings has made programmers, developers, and engineers some of the most sought-after professionals on the planet. However, unlike many market segments, developers seem to live in their own world, with their own values. As such, they’re not as receptive.

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2017 Is Officially the Year of the Podcast – Should You Start Talking?

Marketing Insider Group

Listen. Well, that’s what your target market may be doing right now. Listening to an interesting podcast on their smartphone or tablet. Podcasting is still a small piece of the content marketing pie overall. As of 2015, only half of all Americans even knew what a podcast was. Still, this certainly is a medium to […]. The post 2017 Is Officially the Year of the Podcast – Should You Start Talking?

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Chris Abraham joins Frank Eliason and Shel Holtz on FIR

Biznology

Every once in a while magic happens. Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). Yesterday was such a day. And yesterday was especially fun because it felt like the show was a bespoke suit of clothing. I recently wrote two articles relevant to the show, The Implications for PR if Twitter Goes Away and The Secret to Mastodon’s Success is Mastering

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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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How Reporting Can Improve B2B Blog Performance

KoMarketing Associates

At the end of each month here at KoMarketing, we provide in-depth online marketing reports to our clients that provide an overview of the program’s performance. While these reports are valuable to our clients, they’re also extremely valuable to myself and the rest of the content marketing team. Here are some metrics and other factors that help improve blog performance from month to month.

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Marketers You Know, Stories You Don’t: Tamsen Webster [Podcast]

Marketing Insider Group

Channel Links: iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play We continue our every-other-week series profiling names you know sharing stories you don’t. This week, we get starry-eyed over big ideas with Tamsen Webster. Stories include Tamsen’s love affair with speeches, space bags for her brain, and her latest big idea: the Red Thread. About the series: In an era full of content marketing.

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Video Measurement Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It

Contently

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Sign of Four , Sherlock Holmes says one of his most iconic witticisms, “I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.” Luckily for Holmes, he never worked in marketing. The famous detective may have had brilliant deductive powers, but even he would’ve struggled to make sense of today’s digital video landscape.

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Launching an Employee Advocacy Program: How to Train Employees in Less Than 2 Weeks!

Oktopost

Most of your employees are already vocal about their company on social media. However, some of your employees are going to be new to the ‘social world’. These guys will definitely require more guidance, safety, and tools to boost up their confidence.

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Social Media Automation Rules No Brand Should Break

Sprout Social

Automation gets a bad rap. Usually when you hear about social media automation, you picture the cringe-worthy automatic direct message that sometimes happens after you follow a new account. “Thanks for the follow, Bob! Check out our new product at this yourwebsitehere.”. When done right, automation isn’t awkward or off-putting. It may not even look automatic to an outside observer.

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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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10 Creative Ways to Improve Prospecting and Sales Emails with Video

Vidyard

Optimizing prospecting and sales emails is something you could probably dedicate the rest of your life to. You might even argue that that’s a good part of what you’ve been doing to this point. Because, if your sales team can’t stand out in the inbox, grab attention, and ignite a response from their prospects or accounts, how are they going to close a deal?

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Crisis Management: What You Can Learn From These 5 Brands

Brandfolder

We’d all like to think we respond well under pressure. That we rise to the occasion. That we handle criticism like the professionals we are. That we can respond appropriately.

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How you Can Help Improve Channel Partner Performance

Computer Market Research

Computer Market Research. How you Can Help Improve Channel Partner Performance. Practical Solution to Improve Channel Partner Performance. In the final segment of this 3-part series , we will wrap up on how to improve channel partner performance and how channel partners can better leverage Co-Op/MDF and use it to their strategic advantage. More importantly, the final installment will explore how manufacturers can be a catalyst for positive change; continuously improving their value as a strategi

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4 Strategies to Spark On-Demand Creativity

Hubspot

Back in the "Mad Men" days, only writers and artists were held accountable for driving an agency’s creativity. Today, that dynamic has expanded to include just about everyone. Whether it’s the account services team bringing fresh ideas to clients, the business development team finding new ways to engage with prospects, or creative services producing content, everyone has to be creative for the agency to succeed.

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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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Marketing Automation Like my Pool Guy

Lead Liaison

Background on Pool Shopping. Professionally, I work for Lead Liaison as a technical solutions specialist. Personally, I’m a father of two beautiful girls, 10 and 7, with an amazing wife that puts up with my shenanigans – for 12 years running now! Occasionally my professional career and personal life overlap. When you’re immersed in your job, and understand the real benefits of marketing automation technology, you start to look for real life use cases for how this technology is used.

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PART 3: Best practices for a competitive landing page

Exo B2B

This post is the last of a series of 3 about landing pages. You can also check out our two previous posts here: Landing page and lead generation in B2B marketing: best practices. What type of landing page should be used to generate leads? A landing page must be simple and attractive. For best results, there are good practices to consider. Here is a list summarizing some of them: Design of the page.

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A Year of ABM – The First Anniversary of “Account-Based Marketing for Dummies”

Terminus

April 18, 2017 marks the first anniversary of Account-Based Marketing for Dummies. One year ago today, Terminus Co-Founder and CMO, Sangram Vajre , published the first-ever book about account-based marketing (ABM). Our partners at Wiley publishing were a huge factor in making this book a success, as were the 50+ B2B marketing and sales thought leaders who were interviewed for the book.

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Design Inspiration from Salon del Mobile

The Freeman Company

Key takeaways and brand activations from the design event

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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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Walker Sands PROI Exchange Recap: A Week in Seattle and a Day in Portland

Walker Sands

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5 Ways B2B Tech Brands Can Focus on Quality and Drive Better Content Performance

Content Standard

A B2B tech company’s content manager is pulling data to build a quarterly report on the health of the company’s content marketing program, which includes a branded media site. As he looks over the stats, he realizes that performance is good—but it isn’t great. Even worse, the growth of certain stats have plateaued. Overall weekly social traffic is strong, but it isn’t trending upward the way it was a year ago, and while the content referral program has a conversion rate t

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A Simple Guide to Creating Interactive Ebooks (With Examples and How-To's)

SnapApp

Ebooks have come a long way since the Kindle was first introduced ten years ago. Back then, an ebook was simply an electronic version of its printed counterpart you could view on an e-reader or computer. Today, even non-publishers have the ability to easily craft PDF-style ebooks and post them to their website. And, there in lies the problem: Ebooks are so easy to create, everyone is doing it.

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10 Account-Based Marketing Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at Summit

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Anastasia Pavlova I joined Marketo three years ago, and my first day was at the Marketing Nation Summit 2014 in San Francisco. I still remember the incredible energy, passion, and enthusiasm shared by thousands of Marketo customers, partners, employees, and industry thought leaders to this day. This year’s Summit promises to be even bigger and better than ever before, featuring an incredible lineup of keynote speakers, including our very own CEO Steve Lucas and CMO Chandar Pattabhiram, T

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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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How to Use Canva: An 8-Step Guide to Creating Visual Content

Hubspot

Back in 2014, Peg Fitzpatrick and Guy Kawasaki penned a post for the HubSpot Marketing Blog that approached the topic of visual marketing as the “next big thing.” But since then, it's gone to “here to stay.” After all, articles with an image once every 75-100 words tend to get 2X social shares than articles with fewer images. But in the previous article, Kawasaki -- chief evangelist for Canva , a remarkably simple online platform for graphic design -- stressed the importance of including shareab

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The 15 Best Screencasting and Online Presentation Tools

Webbiquity

Screencasting tools are great for explaining how a software application works; demonstrating how to use it; or illustrating any online process. Combined with presentation tools, they’re also ideal for enhancing online meetings, as well as broadcasting and recording presentations. Early screencasting apps were clunky to use and offered little functionality beyond basic recording and editing.