Mon.Mar 03, 2014

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Why Empathetic Marketing Matters and 7 Steps to Achieve It

markempa

'Tweet I am at the earliest stages of developing a sequel to Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. It’s been a decade since the first draft and I’ve been contemplating how much business has changed since then. Today’s sales and marketing environment is a paradox: There have never been more opportunities to reach customers; yet reaching them has never been more challenging.

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The LinkedIn Publishing Platform Puts Power in the Hands of the B2B Buyer

KoMarketing Associates

'This past month LinkedIn announced they will be opening up the ability for every user to publish their own content on LinkedIn, through individual profiles. This functionality had only been open to a select group of “Influencers”, of which an initial 150 were selected to pilot the program and several more were added throughout the past year or so.

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3 Traits Of Superstar Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

'What separates the best marketers from the rest? A couple of recent articles and studies appear to be pointing to the same 3 traits you need to master to become a superstar in marketing. Are you looking for that elusive secret to success? I’m not sure it’s such a secret. Fortune has always favored the bold. And opportunity comes from preparation and the ability to lead people to a common goal.

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President Obama announces agile marketing approach

Biznology

'Photo credit: Wikipedia. OK, OK, he didn’t exactly do that. The president probably doesn’t even know what agile marketing is. But he certainly would agree with it based on the remarks I saw him make the other day when he announced the “My Brother’s Keeper” program. For those unfamiliar with it, the program is an attempt by the US Government to provide networking resources for a group of people that are least likely to have successful mentors, young African-American

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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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Why Marketing And IT Collaboration Is Possible [Infographic]

Crimson Marketing

'Text from Infographic; Marketing is leading the charge with collaboration and often faces resistance from IT: 36% of Marketing reports frequent collaboration with IT 25% of IT reports rare collaboration. The post Why Marketing And IT Collaboration Is Possible [Infographic] appeared first on.

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Is Your Company a Life-Long Partner, or a Short-Term Fling?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen Five years I ago, I fell in love with a body wash. Our romance began when one of the most captivating commercials I had ever seen came on: Old Spice’s now-famous “Your Man Could Smell Like” body wash ad. It was entertaining, visually appealing, and somehow managed to mock itself while seeming attractive. I was completely infatuated.

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Differentiation Strategy Not Working? Here’s How To Make It Better

Hinge Marketing

'Developing a winning differentiation strategy is a huge struggle for many professional services firms. It just got a little easier with the release of Hinge’s new Differentiation Guide For Professional Services Firms. This is the latest in our Executive Guide Series. Each guide is focused around a specific topic within the professional services branding and marketing field.

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Inbound Marketing Software

SugarCRM

'[one_half valign="middle"] Partner Portal. Why Partner With SalesFUSION. [/one_half] [one_half_last valign="middle"] [frame style="none"] [/frame] [/one_half_last] [divider style="simple"] Gartner Group and Forrester Research Group predict record levels in Marketing Automation (MA) spending and exponential growth in the field. Many agencies, firms and CRM solution providers already understand the importance of partnering with a MA Company.

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Why Marketing Automation Fails: 3 Common Reasons

Hubspot

'Human-to-human connections are the heart and soul of marketing. You don’t need statistics to prove the value of personalized messages, multi-channel marketing, and high quality content. It’s common sense -- consumers are more responsive to brands that care. That’s why marketing automation is such an important topic in 2014. As David Moth writes on the Econsultancy blog -- “It’s an important tool for bringing order to the warring worlds of marketing and sales by imp

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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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The Ultimate Sales Enablement Combo: Video and CRM

Vidyard

Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared as contributed content on the Salesforce.com blog. When you hear the words ‘video marketing’, you likely think about your efforts on YouTube or the latest video you’ve seen from a popular brand, but I want to get you thinking about using video for sales enablement and generating real pipeline.

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The CMO's Guide to Marketing Org Structures [SlideShare]

Hubspot

'The old playbook is broken, consumers are in control, and technology has enabled more marketing innovation and accountability than ever before. Today''s marketing leaders have heard that story, and many of them have been busy adapting their team''s strategies to match that new approach to the modern consumer''s purchasing process. But this all raises an important question that still needs to be answered: As marketing leaders adopt new approaches to address the modern buying process, how should

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Is the B2B printed brochure dying?

Integrated B2B

'Mark Hanley, president of Massachusetts-based consulting house I.T. Strategies , recently asked me for my opinion on the state of the market for printed brochures. Do printed sales materials have a future or are they on their way out? It’s a great question, and one which is brought up time and time again by marketers in meetings I attend. The vast majority of the companies I work with as a professional communicator are on the B2B side.

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Yahoo Is Testing Ads Which Sell You On Apps

readwrite

Yahoo has a strategy for making money on smartphones: The company is reportedly rolling out ads which prompt users to download other apps across its mobile properties. Mobile app-install ads are an increasingly popular way of making money off of mobile websites and apps. They typically appear in streams of content and help drive downloads to mobile applications.

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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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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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The Poem

LeanData

When new leads aren’t read, And the sales team is blue. Let’s get this problem fixed, With LeanData’s Lead2Account View. Matching leads to accounts, Is a hard thing to do. Salesforce cannot do it, Even though you want them to. What can you do, To fix this great error? Install us, then open Accounts, And your leads will be there too. Then the sales team is joyous, And revenue is through the roof.

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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Ebooks for Experts: 10 Questions to Ask Before You Write

Writing on the Web

'I’ve been blogging recently about how experts need to publish their own ebooks as part of their strategy to get found, get known, and get clients through online content marketing. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself before you write a single word of your expert ebook: Download the questionnaire here: www.Ebooks4Experts.com. Over 10 years ago, professionals started using blogs to communicate to clients.

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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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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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7 Reasons Most Enterprise Websites Fall Short

Hubspot

'What makes a website truly great? I mean so great that traffic is high and growing, bounce rates are low, and engagement and demand are off the charts. Is it a beautiful, award-winning design? A killer SEO strategy? Its interactive, cutting-edge user experience? Or is it simply tied to the amount of monetary investment? The bigger the budget, the better the website, right?

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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The Collaborative Economy Is Coming for Your Business. Are You Ready?

Hubspot

'This post originally appeared on the Opinion section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Opinion. Some 80 million people in the United States have already started using online "sharing services," like Airbnb and Uber. They are young, urban, affluent, and their numbers are growing. And soon these services, which are still relatively new, will become mainstream and part of everyday life for almost everyone.

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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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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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Marketing ROI: resetting the ‘value’ agenda

TaylorMadeIn KEW

These days marketers are under increasing pressure to demonstrate ‘return on investment’ for their marketing spend. Practically every meeting I go to within the marketing function has this on the agenda. But does ROI really measure marketing effectiveness? We’d all love to quantify our marketing activity with a single number – this amount of marketing spend generated this amount of revenue.

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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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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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.

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Content for Context

GreenRope

Content for Context. By Tatiana Ceresa. If you are reading this, you are probably like me, constantly monitoring blogs, online news publications, and social media conversations to remain informed and stay up-to-date with the dialogue. Doing so, you have seen countless articles that emphasize the importance of content, content, and more content. But really, at this point we don’t need more of the same, over-published content.