Thu.Mar 05, 2015

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When Bad Things Happen to Good Leads - Part 4

ViewPoint

'So far over the course of this series we’ve covered how marketing to non-lead outcomes, such as pipeline and nurture dispositions*, can substantially increase return on marketing programs. Yes, we have a problem in that sales has a tendency to ignore leads from marketing. Be that as it may, marketing is not exactly making use of the valuable data that results from their efforts either.

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How B2B Marketers Can Leverage Social Media Product Advertising

KoMarketing Associates

'Social media advertising has been making leaps and bounds in the level of sophistication, targeting capabilities and opportunities being presented to marketers. While my colleague Mike Pickowicz detailed some of the innovation in social media advertising earlier this year, new opportunities continue to arise. The latest evolution is with the advent of product ads.

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Business Blog Writing: How to Avoid Time-Suck

Writing on the Web

'How do you avoid time-sucking traps when it comes to blog writing ? If you’re anything like me, you may have found yourself (a time or two!) with nothing to show after sitting in front of your screen for 90 minutes. Yup. It happens to the best of us. You sit down with your coffee, open email, and an hour later still haven’t posted on your blog.

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It’s Up To Us – Marketing Enablement

ANNUITAS

'The job of a B2B Marketer is hard and continues to get harder when trying to keep up with today’s sophisticated buyer while obtaining and maintaining the skills needed to do our jobs effectively. Marketing enablement is not something most marketers have heard of…because most organizations don’t invest in it. I take that back, some organizations might have a quarterly marketing meeting, but that is to more synchronize marketing plans, not to train marketers or help teams develop skills to become

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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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5 Things Marketers Need to Examine Before Integrating Marketing Technology

Crimson Marketing

'Image: courtesy of Dplus visuals. There are endless marketing technologies available to the modern marketer, but how do you know which are the best tools to help achieve your goals? Let’s look at 5 areas marketers need to consider in the marketing technology landscape that support a customer-centric marketing model. 1. Struggling to Adapt. “Over the past decade, consumers have transformed from being, as Mayur Gupta puts it, ‘tech-savvy to tech-dependent.’ And as a result

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The Power of Word of Mouth Marketing & How You Can Do It

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Lizzy Funk Last week, I attended the MarketingSherpa Email Summit in Las Vegas. It was a great show, and marketers gathered to discuss the latest trends in email marketing. Since I am on the Demand Gen team at Marketo, this was right up my alley and I was thrilled to get some expert tips from email marketing thought leaders. One of the top takeaways I learned was from Jonah Berger, a professor at The Wharton School of Business, on Word of Mouth Marketing.

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Salesfusion Announces Carol O’Kelley as Chief Executive Officer

SugarCRM

'The post Salesfusion Announces Carol O’Kelley as Chief Executive Officer appeared first on Salesfusion.

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Top Twitter Marketing Techniques to Connect with Your Audience

Hinge Marketing

'With just 140 characters to work with, it’s somewhat surprising that Twitter has turned into such a marketing powerhouse. Yet, the fast-paced network has firmly solidified itself as an integral addition to any successful B2B social media marketing strategy. Much of Twitter’s appeal lies in the direct connection it allows between your firm and your target audience.

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Why Journalists Are Outranking Marketers in Search (And How We Can Compete)

Hubspot

'In the shifting sands of SEO, there’s one constant: It’s much better to top the SERPs than it is to rank on page two. How much better? Nearly 800% better. And, as you’ll see in the tables below, when it comes to ranking in search, publications -- that is, actual news sites -- still do it best. The inbound marketing movement, however, has helped bridge the gap that divides brands and publications.

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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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Google Makes Mobile Usability a Must

KEO Marketing

'Most marketers have long ago realized the advantage of making their web pages mobile-friendly, given the huge increase in the use of mobile devices. That’s how many people are now accessing your content, so it only makes sense that you would want to ensure that they have a good user experience. But for those who have been slow to implement a mobile-friendly web design, there is no longer any question about when this must be done.

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The 3 Pillars of Consumer Confidence

Hubspot

'No matter what your ecommerce strategy involves, gaining consumer confidence is crucial to achieving success in 2015. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts: consumer confidence can only be earned through hard work, but it''s a whole heck of a lot easier when you use these three easy steps as your guide. Honesty. The first step to gaining consumer confidence is by accurately representing your products.

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Now Available: Guide to Blending Search and Display

KEO Marketing

'It’s here! The essential guide for marketers entitled “ How to Leverage a Strategic Mix of Search and Display Advertising for Maximum ROI ” is now available from KEO Marketing. The days when business-to-business (B2B) marketers could treat search and display as two distinct and separate entities are long gone. Consider these statistics: Search for related brand terms saw an average lift of 278% among consumers exposed to display advertising. ( Specific Media ).

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Native Advertising vs Traditional Advertising: The New Frontier

Circle Studio

The post Native Advertising vs Traditional Advertising: The New Frontier appeared first on circle S studio.

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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 and Marketing Team Alignment Slow to Develop, Study Finds

Content Standard

Despite research pointing to the opportunities created by fully integrating sales and marketing departments, most professionals in those respective fields say they aren’t fully aligned with one another. Outside of the small percentage of businesses that have fully implemented sales and marketing team alignment, most organizations only benefit from a partial working relationship, if any.

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Steal This Idea: How Top Brands Maximize Event ROI with Social Marketing

The Freeman Company

'New Data—Using Social Media Marketing to Amplify Events'

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Social Media Secrets To Build Your Personal Brand

Marketing Insider Group

'Brands used to be just for businesses. Companies hired consultants and agencies and spent millions of dollars to determine what color their logo was, what fonts really set them apart, what messages covered the key value of their products. But then the internet happened. All kinds of information started moving around the world. Companies and governments and institutions became less important.

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How to Prove Your Social Media Impact

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. For too long, social’s contribution to business success has been ignored and undervalued. In this post, we are going to start changing that by walking through the steps necessary to finally measure social’s business impact and give social the credit it deserves. Inspired by Jay Baer’s post , I want to share with you how you can prove the value of social media with well-known tools and a little creativity.

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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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How has SEO changed in 2015

Biznology

'Search engine optimization in 2015 was just one of the topics in a fast-moving SEMrush Twitter chat that I was invited to recently on how to integrate SEO into the marketing mix. This was my first time as the guest on the SEMrush chat and it was a dizzying experience–hundreds of participants and thousands of tweets. I hustled to try to keep up with the pace, at one point missing one of the questions (which I figured out when other people started answering it), and I did my best to answer

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Parallax Websites: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

EMagine B2B Blog

'If you have been keeping up with what is trending in Web Design this year, one word (and many nicknames) keeps topping the list: parallax. For those unfamiliar with it, parallax is the shortened moniker for a scrolling technique implemented on a website. What started in video games has turned into the must-have feature for a new website. But, is parallax scrolling really all it’s cracked up to be?

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3 Ways to Leverage the Skyword Platform as a Freelance Content Creator

Content Standard

Since our beginnings in 2010, Skyword has studied the science and evolution of content marketing and storytelling, and how they impact the way people engage with brands in the digital age. Along the way, we’ve watched our clients grow to understand the power of storytelling—and quality storytellers. We recognize that brands today need both for a successful content strategy.