Tue.Aug 06, 2013

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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

Customer Experience Matrix

'One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. For example, a recent Gleanster report found that 73% of top performers listed lack of skilled staff as one of the top challenges to success. Marketing automation vendors have adopted different strategies to deal with their problem, including making their systems easier to use, offering extensive training, and providing services to run the systems for their cli

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Why Marketing Innovation Fails

Marketing Insider Group

'Why does marketing innovation fail? With all the changes in the content and consumer landscape brought on by digital, social and mobile technology, you would think that innovation in marketing is a foregone conclusion. Marketing innovation fails at most companies simply because it isn’t funded as part of a formal approach to testing new ideas.

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Email Deliverability Terms Every Marketer Must Know

ANNUITAS

'Understanding the ins and outs of email deliverability best-practices is an essential part of any Demand Generation Strategy and will soon become another skill set that best-in-class marketers must have.

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How to Be a Successful Social Seller

Crimson Marketing

'There’s a change in the air. No longer is the salesperson steps ahead of the curve. Buyers now have the same information, if not more information, than the seller! How then does a sales rep effectively do their job? . Enter social selling. . What this means is marketing needs to actively get involved in providing sales with better information than the buyer.

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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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Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me

Convince & Convert

'Regardless of how you define social business; it’s hard to argue that organizations today must change if they want to stay relevant and competitive. I have seen business change and lived through many of its ups and downs for many years. My first book, Smart Business, Social Business was my eyewitness account of living through this organizational change while working for large brands in Silicon Valley.

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How to Make a Marketing Video: A Beginner's Guide [VIDEO]

Hubspot

'When people talk about inbound marketing, most agree that in theory , video is a great tool to attract new visitors, connect and engage with your leads, and delight your loyal customers. but most marketers would say actually doing video is a whole other ball game. Why are we so afraid of doing video? Most of us get paralyzed by the "no time, too hard" fallacy.

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10 Commandments of Writing Headlines for Landing Page

LeadSquared

“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” – David Ogilvy, Hailed as the Father of Advertising. A well optimized landing page is perhaps the first funnel point and one of the most important aspects that decides whether a user becomes a prospective client or a lost opportunity.

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Facebook Announces News Feed Changes, Gets More Transparent With Businesses

Hubspot

'Facebook is changing the way stories are displayed in the News Feed, and trying to make life better for marketers, if only by communicating more frequently with them via its Facebook for Business page. That’s the gist of an event Facebook held today. “We’ve been working hard to simplify advertising on Facebook, streamlining the ad products we offer and also making them easier to use,” Facebook announced on the revamped Facebook for Business page, which now will become “the central destination f

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Video Production 101: A Marketer’s Guide to Digital Cameras

Vidyard

Hey folks, it’s Blake here to introduce our new five-part series about production – welcome to Video Production 101! Because marketing teams are now creating video content in-house , we figured it was a great idea to launch a series designed to give a high-level understanding of the equipment you’ll need to shoot professional footage and enhance your video marketing projects.

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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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What Is a Landing Page? [FAQs]

Hubspot

'You know how we talk about using your blog to answer common questions that your leads and customers have ? And sometimes even popping on over to Sales and Customer Service and asking them, "Hey, what kinds of questions do you get all the time?". That''s how this post was born. Because it turns out, a lot of people are asking over and over again. just what is a landing page?

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Yahoo!'s 30 Days of Logos: Branding Boom or Bust?

Brandfolder

You might have heard: Yahoo! announced [they will be updating their logo]([link] 5th. Except really, they're updating their logo today, and tomorrow, and the next day.

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A 3-Step Guide to Performing Prospect Research (Before You Pick Up the Phone)

Hubspot

'What''s the difference between a poor first-time connect and a successful one? One word: context. Researching potential prospects before you first email or call them can make a world of difference between a deal or a bust. By understanding the background of a company and the person you''re trying to speak to, you can better frame a conversation. And just like no two prospects are the same, no two prospects’ interactions with you should be the same.

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Best of PowerViews: Exciting Future for Inside Sales Experts

ViewPoint

'Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing over 30 influential B2B sales and marketing leaders. It has been a pleasure to interview each of them and share perspectives on topics ranging from B2B lead generation and inside sales to social media trends and personal branding. Each interview is available on our blog and YouTube channel.

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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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Why you must armor your online reputation

Biznology

'When high-end online reputation management experts like me get together and kibitz about prospecting new business we always talk about how much all our clients would have benefited from taking our calls well before their sundry crises struck. Long story short: hire me or someone like me if you don’t have a big pile of time but do have a small pile of money; otherwise, spend some of your own time, talent and treasure doing a serious domain name buy; setting up a comprehensive array of site

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Seller’s Remorse

Leading Results Rambings

'We’ve all heard of buyer’s remorse. Its that time after you make a purchase where you regret having made the decision. Sometimes it imagined – a form of a brief panic attack – and sometimes its real, like choosing a house (or anything else you need to live with for a long time) for the wrong reasons and truly coming to regret it. Seller’s remorse is something we don’t experience as much, but is just as real.

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Best Blog Posts on Mobile and B2B

EMagine B2B Blog

'While it isn’t new, mobile and B2B are the hot topics this summer. The following is a summary of some of the best articles, blog posts and videos out there on the subject: The Impact of Mobile Technology in B2B Companies. This blog posts attempts to answer the question: just how impactful is mobile technology in our lives? In the lives of our B2B companies?

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