Tue.May 13, 2014

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Six Steps For Delivering On The New Vision In Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

'A recent report by The Economist Intelligence Unit called “ Visions in Marketing ” highlights the innovations in Marketing, marketing strategy and the practical applications of those marketing strategies in forward-thinking companies. The report states that “The role of marketing is changing” as companies further leverage data and customer insights to deliver content across a wider variety of consumer channels.

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Why Marketers Should Stop Telling Stories

ANNUITAS

'I am now back at my office after spending the better part of last week at the Content2Conversion Conference , hosted by DemandGen Repor t in New York City. It was a great two days of connecting with colleagues and hearing from some great content practitioners. One of the things that I heard many times at the conference was the whole approach to “story telling” with our content.

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Mute Represents Everything Wrong with Twitter Today

Digital B2B Marketing

'Finally, you can mute on Twitter. Everything that’s wrong with Twitter has been fixed confirmed. If you don’t want to see what someone Tweets, unfollow them. If they are spamming with mentions, favorites or retweets, block them. If that isn’t enough, report them for spam. But mute? The only reason Twitter needs a mute button is the platform’s addiction to reciprocity.

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Google integrating G+ Pages and YouTube Channels

Biznology

'Yes, Vic Gundotra is leaving Google+ and 1,200 Google+ employees are being moved to other parts of the Google , but Google+ isn’t dead. In fact, it’s becoming more and more embedded into everything that is Google. It’s Google’s hub, from which YouTube, Google Business Pages, Google Mail, and even Google Apps for Business (which looks like it’s rebranding as Google + Business — interesting).

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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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Jamie Beckland, Janrain’s Customer Success and Marketing VP: Does Marketing Technology Improve The Customer Journey? [Podcast]

Crimson Marketing

'The technology marketing landscape is a multi-screen world. Buyers are interacting with sellers on multiple devices and in a variety of usage contexts. For this reason, there is an emerging concern among marketers to observe. The post Jamie Beckland, Janrain’s Customer Success and Marketing VP: Does Marketing Technology Improve The Customer Journey?

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Don’t Talk Smack

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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What is Wasted Selling Time Costing You?

The ROI Guy

'There is a common complaint amongst sales reps: “We spent way too little of our time actually selling.” And the complaints are real. According to CSO Insights, up to 60% of sales time is spent on overhead versus selling time with customers. Only 2 out of every 5 sales days are actually spent selling! Instead of meeting with customers in person, on the phone and in on-line meetings, many Sales reps are often saddled with inefficient internal processes and tasks.

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Content Mapping 101: The Template You Need to Personalize Your Marketing

Hubspot

'Marketers hear it all the time: The content you create needs to be personalized. It needs to be aligned with the wants and needs of your customers (and prospective customers). It needs to resonate with them. It needs to feel like it was created just for them. On its surface, this sounds like great advice. Personalization, giving people content that they''re actually interested in … it makes perfect sense.

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How To Add Value To Your Organization With Interactive Content

SnapApp

Last week, we dove into the mechanics of interactive content to show you what it is and why it can work for you. And so this week, we’ll take a look at how interactive content delivers value to your organization. You know what they say – if you add value to your prospects, success is bound to follow. While delivering value to your audience is an essential step in the overall success that interactive content can convey, it must provide value to your organization as well.

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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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Simon Sinek Explains Why Leaders Put Others Ahead of Themselves

Hubspot

'This post originally appeared on the Opinion section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Opinion. Simon Sinek has one great claim to fame, and it’s a big one. In 2010 he gave a TED talk based on his book, Start With Why , and his talk became the second-most viewed video of all time on TED.com. That talk and the book launched Sinek into the stratosphere of author-slash-inspirational-speakers, that rarified world inhabited by deep thinkers like Malcolm Gladwell who

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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Want to Improve Your Email Deliverability? Watch This Video

Hubspot

'If an email gets sent out to your list, but it doesn''t show up in their inboxes, does it even count? Usually, the answer is no. You''re trying to get people to open, engage with, and click on your emails -- getting delivered is the first step. And it''s a big first step. If you have a poor sender reputation and low deliverability rate, you''re drastically cutting down your chances of being opened and clicked on.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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The Most Important Force for Increasing Leads and Sales

Webbiquity

'A version of this post previously appeared on MarketingProfs. There’s been a raft of articles recently proclaiming the “consumerization” of all things business: the consumerization of sales, of IT, and of business-to-business (b2b) marketing most prominently. McKinsey’s David Edelman has referred to the consumerization of b2b marketing and sales as a “massive disruption” on the horizon.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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How to Speak Like a Human (and Why It Matters)

Convince & Convert

'We’re living in the middle of an information explosion, which is preferable to a literal explosion, but still pretty bad if you’re a marketer. The sheer amount of information out there—online, in stores, in our inboxes—makes it extremely challenging to engage with customers and prospects. In fact, the average shmuck gets hit with almost 3,000 marketing messages per day.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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6 Distinguishing Traits of the New Age B2B Buyer —And 6 B2B Lead Generation Tips to Engage

LEADership

'I recently saw this interesting Infographic which offers a peek into the Marketing Mind. As B2B marketers, it would be of tremendous value to us to get a similar insight into the B2B buyer’s mind. There’s only one problem here—the B2B buyer is far more complex and changing more dynamically than the B2B marketer ever can or will. Companies try to study and analyze buyers in many different ways.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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7 Quick Ways to Curate Industry Content for Your Blog

Hubspot

'Blogging for your business is an important part of establishing your company as an industry thought leader, bringing in new site traffic, and converting that traffic into leads and customers. And while posts about an esteemed latest hire or an exciting product update are important pieces to help your readers keep up with company culture, the most impactful posts will be about your industry as a whole.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.

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Building Your Content Tool Box

Convince & Convert

'The following post is drawn from Duct Tape Selling – Think Like a Marketing, Sell Like a Superstar in stores May 15 th. Content is one of the most important (if not the most important) tools for marketing and sales pros today. (tweet this) Essentially, from a marketer’s point of view, content is about writing for the purpose of turning interest into purchase.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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He Views, He Scores! Learn What’s Missing in Your Lead Scoring Model

Vidyard

Marketing automation platforms (MAPs) are changing the way marketers create value within the organization. MAPs not only enable us to build automated nurture campaigns and sophisticated lead scoring models, but they also help us understand the digital body language of our prospects and customers. By tracking which online resources someone on your site has interacted with, you can gain some seriously useful insights into where your prospect’s interests lie, and how engaged each prospect is

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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The Importance of a CRM Implementation Strategy

GreenRope

You Need a CRM Implementation Strategy, yes you do. By Alessandra Ceresa. I am sure you have heard the saying, “just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.” Yeah, that does not work when it comes to CRM. Implementing a successful CRM strategy into your organization takes careful planning, effective training, and commitment to the cause.

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