Thu.Feb 16, 2017

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10 Tips for Increasing Your Influence

Onalytica B2B

Most content on our own site and across the industry has a strong focus on influencer marketing from the brands’ perspective: why B2B brands should do influencer marketing or how B2B brands can implement a successful influencer campaign – to name a couple. What we have neglected to explicitly mention is that the byproduct of more brands doing influencer marketing is that more individuals are earning themselves a living from being an “influencer” We’re not sure

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How to Improve Your Email Open Rates

Marketing Insider Group

Email marketing was a huge piece of the marketing puzzle in 2016. Virtually every company with any kind of CRM system was emailing their contact list on a regular basis. And who can blame them? It’s hard to ignore a marketing channel that averages a 3800% return. Despite the fact that email marketing has. The post How to Improve Your Email Open Rates appeared first on PureB2B.

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Why Measuring Success on Cost Per Lead is a Huge Mistake

ViewPoint

In the search for the holy grail of marketing KPIs, we want ones that correctly emphasize ROI over lead cost, tie lead generation to overall revenue and profits, identify the most successful marketing initiatives and deliver insights that can be leveraged to run future high-return activity. Cost-per-lead is not the correct metric for measuring marketing initiative success for the following reasons: It incorrectly incents volume over quality.

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Why You Should Hire Marketers With Strong Industry Relationships

Marketing Insider Group

Whether naturally empathetic and gifted in communication or fostered through years of experience, or a perhaps combination of both, it’s safe to say that there are talented marketing professionals available in every industry, across every vertical, and at every stage on the org chart. With today’s marketing landscape as diverse, distributed, and competitive as ever, […].

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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How to Run a Successful B2B Marketing Brainstorm [SlideShare]

Tomorrow People

B2B marketing brainstorms can boom or bust based on the quality of your preparation and how well you engage participants.

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Promoted Content: 5 Steps to Take Before Launch

KoMarketing Associates

Thanks to the digital age we live in today, it’s very easy for brands to get their messages out via free marketing channels like blogs or social media. Years ago, early adopters of these platforms reaped the benefits of what were relatively untapped markets. Oh, how the times have changed. Here’s what the digital content landscape looks like now: While marketers can still get their messages out with these channels, the competition for customer attention is fiercer than ever.

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8 Tips for Hiring B2B Marketing Talent

Hive9

Despite the powerful tools and technologies on the market, human capital is still a major factor in marketing success. Building out a solid marketing organization requires being able to both identify talent and cultivate and keep it once spotted.

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Survey: B2B Marketers to Invest More of Their Budget in Branding Initiatives

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers realize the importance of their organization’s brand, they are investing more of their budget in branding initiatives. “The B2B Brand Strategy” white paper from Spencer Brenneman recently showcased survey results of 150 B2B marketing executives to learn more about their brand strategies. Statistics showed that over the past five years, 86.7 percent have seen an increase in spending on brand investments at their organization.

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11 Tips for Starting a New Sales Role

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Chris Gillespie So you have a new sales job. The desk is clean, the laptop screen has shiny protective film, and your strategy is a blank slate. You feel giddy with excitement at what the future holds, and you can hear the cowbell clanging as other account executives ring in their deals. Quietly, you resolve to outsell them all. But once you create your new Outlook signature (no.jpg images now, that’s a rookie mistake) and open a fresh spreadsheet, people begin joking “When’s

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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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Industry Conferences and Seminars: How to Extract their Real Business Value

Marketing Craftmanship

Regardless of industry, conferences and seminars can be a significant waste of time, money and opportunity. But the conference sponsor is typically not at fault for the lack of return on this marketing investment. It’s often the result of poor planning, lack of creativity, outright laziness or unrealistic expectations by the companies that participate in them.

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8 Tips for Running Your First Influencer Marketing Campaign

Contently

This post originally appeared on Social Media Week. Did you know that most ads have an average click-through rate of only 0.06 percent? I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t seem like a good conversion rate for your hard-spent money. An area where we’re not seeing these kinds of rates of decline is influencer marketing. Just check out the stats : 74 percent of people use social media to decide whether they want to buy something.

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Push Notifications Generate More Leads Than Email

EveryoneSocial

One of the most effective ways to reach out to new leads is to use push notifications. Especially with the rise of mobile-first users , marketers have begun to seriously consider the effectiveness of push notifications, and the consensus is that, when used correctly, the push notification can be a very powerful form of marketing, even more so than email, traditionally considered the go-to medium for high conversions.

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Machine Learning Is Making SEO Marketing More Human

Content Standard

You can’t ignore the parallels between our reality and the realities of so many novels that were written decades ago. If you haven’t thought it, you’ve likely seen it: 1984 is flying off the shelves. Stories about how Infinite Jest predicted the smartphone , Netflix, our current president (and more!) abound. So, as I sit here at my desk, delving into research, getting up to speed on SEO marketing tactics, and reading story after story about chatbots, machine learning, artificia

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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The State of Video Marketing 2017 [New Data]

Hubspot

It seems like every year is labeled 'the year of video' by one expert or another -- but 2017 could well have the best claim yet. Of course, it's no secret that video content has become staggeringly popular. And, as with most marketing trends, the more consumers have watched, the more marketers have spent. Brand new research released by Wyzowl suggests that video is more effective, more widely used, and more popular among consumers than ever before.

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Lessons from 2017 AEC Research: Marketing & Growth Insights

Hinge Marketing

It never gets old; with every piece of primary research we conduct at Hinge there are endless lessons to be shared. This years’ High Growth Study was no different. And today I’d like to share with you a few of the key findings from this year’s AEC research. We started by collecting financial and operational data across our core verticals: accounting and finance, AEC, government contracting, technology and management consulting.

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Online Display Advertising for Account-Based Marketing: How Much Does It Cost?

Kwanzoo

Recent developments in online ad technology have made B2B display advertising more affordable and easier to manage. Today more companies can do it than ever before. But does that mean your company can afford to do it?

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Global IBM Watson Internet of Things center opens with new collaboratories

i-Scoop

In a previous entry we mentioned that BMW will have a team at IBM’s brand new Germany-based (city of Munich) global Watson Internet of Things center. The BMW team will, among others, look at ways to enhance the driving experience and develop intelligent assistant functions for future cars, using the Internet of Things, an area […].

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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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10 Bad Writing Habits Everyone’s Guilty Of (Especially Us)

Contently

For more than two years, I read every single article on The Content Strategist. This loyalty was not borne out of rampant TCS fandom, though I did and still do love the publication, but out of a sense of duty. A self-proclaimed grammar nerd, I was Contently’s copy editor, a defender of proper grammar and style, and a bulwark against bad jargon and clichés.

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An Email is Not a Campaign: the Case for Integrated Marketing

The Point

The reality of life as a professional marketer is that there is rarely, ever, enough time, budget, resources or bandwidth to plan, design, build, launch and manage every campaign as we would if we could. I get that. We all make compromises. And yet it’s because of those compromises that campaigns often don’t perform as well as they should, and so, results fail to meet expectations.

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Zaius Offers Mid-Market Customer Data Platform Plus Analytics and Campaigns

Customer Experience Matrix

It wasn’t until the end of a long demonstration that I finally understood what Zaius is. Which is pretty ironic, since they’re an almost perfect example of a Customer Data Platform – that is, a system that assembles customer data from multiple systems and makes it available for marketing and analytics. If anyone should recognize a CDP when they see one, it’s me.

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Choosing a Video Platform: What to Evaluate for Marketing and Sales

Vidyard

As video is becoming more and more essential to how businesses communicate with their audiences—whether potential customers, current customers, or employees—a video platform (VP) has become a necessary and useful tool for many business teams so they can manage, optimize, and measure content, and learn about their audiences. Since teams have different goals and needs, what should marketing and sales teams (who are both focused on pipeline and closing deals) look for when choosing the right video

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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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Better built than bought – how to build your email marketing list

Biznology

Buying an email list may seem like a great short-cut for growing your email marketing reach, but the chances of doing so successfully are small, and the potential damage is not. Here’s why. First though, why should we even care about email marketing right now? Because email marketing, despite lacking the sex appeal of social media and even SEO, is still one of the most effective marketing techniques available.

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75 Interactive Infographic Examples to Inspire 2017

SnapApp

Infographics saw the the biggest increase in use of any content type among B2B marketers in 2016, increasing from 50% to 58%. And, for good reason. Infographics provide the perfect vehicle to present complex information in a concise, engaging and easy-to-understand way. . But, over the last few years marketers have been producing and promoting infographics at an increasing rate.

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How to Design a Pitch Deck that Doesn't Suck

Hubspot

It's no secret that creative agencies aren't big fans of the pitch deck. Gene Liebel, the founder of New York-based agency Work & Co , summed up his feelings about pitch decks pretty straightforwardly: "They're the worst.". Pitch decks have become increasingly reviled in recent years, with many agencies declaring their restrictive and unengaging format as an inherent enemy of creativity.

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The 17 Best Project Management Tools

Webbiquity

Effective digital marketing is a team sport. It requires collaboration between skilled writers, graphic designers, content strategists, SEO experts, PR professionals, social media specialists, and marketing analysts. Every individual on the team needs a clear view of their deliverables, deadlines, and all the information they need in order to complete their tasks.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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How to Write Effective Job Ads for Your Hiring Funnel

Hubspot

What's so hard about writing an online job ad ? On the surface, it seems simple enough. Just describe the job's responsibilities, label it with the role you're hiring for, and post the ad. While that strategy might get you a few results, there are some best practices that can maximize your ad's views and clicks. In turn, that can help attract the best candidates.

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Infographic: The State of Customer Marketing in 2017

Influitive

In the hyper-competitive world of SaaS products, building relationships with your existing customers is just as important as acquiring new ones—if not more so, since your customers can easily jump from one product to the next if they aren’t satisfied. However, many B2B companies remain focused on aggressive sales tactics rather than creating a more.

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