BOP Design

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The only constant about marketing is that it’s always changing. B2C marketing strategies and tactics change at break-neck speed, whereas B2B marketing changes at a more manageable pace. What works in B2C marketing, doesn’t always translate well for B2B marketing – regardless of what generations the target market includes. While we can’t always predict what is right around the corner for B2B marketing , we can take an educated guess at what critical skills marketing professionals need to have to

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Visitor Queue

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Wouldn’t it be nice to grow your business without worrying about where your next clients or customers were coming from? Most B2B companies know they want to scale to new heights, but struggle to create a steady stream of qualified B2B sales leads. But savvy business owners tap into tried-and-tested strategies and the latest lead […]. The post 20 Smart Ways to Generate More B2B Sales Leads appeared first on Blog Visitor Queue.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Unlike in the movie Field of Dreams, when it comes to CRM, year after year, users have proven, “if you build it, they won’t necessarily come.”. The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market is massive—expected to reach more than $80 billion in revenues by 2025 [1]. And yet despite all the investment, it’s a tool that’s failing sales. A tool that B2B organizations constantly struggle to get maximum value out of.

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Vision Edge Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

What Grilling Has to Do With Data Management. Good data stimulates good decisions. This takes good data management. Living here in Austin, we can pretty much use our outdoor grill throughout the year. While we were recently grilling we were also talking about data. It occurred to use that one of the concerns about food quality relates to data quality.

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Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As B2B marketers hunt for the tactic that will provide them with the most leads, new research suggests that email marketing may be the leading candidate. Chief Marketer recently published results from its “2020 B2B Marketing Outlook Survey,” and statistics showed that email (50%) is the channel that produces the most B2B marketing leads with the highest ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Leading from the front is one of the key strategies CMOs should use to earn the respect of their team and their peers. Put this strategy to work today. Of all the strategies CMOs should use, leading from the front is probably the least understood. All too many CMOs see themselves as a Napoleon, arms crossed imperiously for their LinkedIn portrait, barking orders from atop their digital white horse to the horseless troops in the rear.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customers are increasingly demanding more from B2B organizations. They no longer want to be treated just as “leads” in your system. They want simple, fast, and intuitive solutions to their complex problems. And they have options. This is where an advanced lead generation strategy comes in. The new generation of digitally savvy customers does a bulk of their product research online.

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The Daily Egg

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’d love to work with every team, but we know our platform isn’t for everyone. Here, we compare Crazy Egg, Hotjar, and Fullstory to help you find the right tool. The post Crazy Egg vs. Hotjar vs. FullStory: A Comprehensive Comparison (Plus Who Each Tool Is Best Suited for) appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The social media app of Gen Z, TikTok is a surprisingly friendly place for B2C marketers. Just look at e.l.f. Cosmetics’ campaign that sparked over 3 million videos on the platform. Learn the what, why, and how of TikTok. Continue reading → The post The What, Why, and How of TikTok for B2C Brands [Examples] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Biznology

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Time and time again we see that people are uncomfortable with the ways companies are using third party data. The latest move representing the new wave is Google’s recent adoption of ITP. In this episode of SearchChat, Steve Zakur and I discuss the rise of ITP and the death of cookies. We cover what this means for your business and offer some guidelines on how you can make personalization work for you without personal data.

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Marketing In Real Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Most sales and marketing pros focus on generating sales leads. “Just get people to the Website!” or “Just make the phones ring and our sales people can take it from there,” are common demands of marketing teams. Then the advertising and PR hit the magazines, the PPC keyword ad program tops the search results, the companion direct mail - email drops.

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BuzzSumo

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The post 7 Secrets to Successful Brand Reputation Management on Social Media appeared first on BuzzSumo.

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Televerde

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Legal and enterprise technology executive with strong corporate social responsibility expertise will help guide strategic growth and mission to transform lives. PHOENIX, AZ – February 11, 2020 – Televerde , the first and only fully integrated sales and marketing technology organization with a proven execution model for generating demand and accelerating sales, today announced the appointment of Amy Fliegelman Olli, senior vice president and general counsel of VMWare, to its board of directors, e

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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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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The days of trusting your gut and rolling with it when it comes to marketing efforts are gone. For optimum inbound marketing success, marketers should always be testing, analyzing, and adjusting their programs to achieve the optimum conversions. There are many methods you can employ to test various elements of your marketing campaigns and see which variations perform better, but here are the most used and most valuable.

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Safer Internet Day promotes responsible, respectful, and positive use of online and digital technology on the internet. In an era where consumers are becoming increasingly anxious about their privacy, how can marketers be respectful toward their data and build trust? Data dignity could be the answer. Let’s explore. February 11 is Safer Internet Day this year.

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Kapost

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’ve been writing about content operations for a while now. Blogs, eBooks, white papers…we’ve done it all. And that work we’ve written has helped spark a new conversation about the ways B2B enterprises. The post We Wrote the Book on Content Operations (No, Really) appeared first on Kapost Blog. To find more please visit Kapost Blog - Challenging the Content Quo.

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Search Engine Journal

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Here are six reasons why publishing more content isn't better – and might, in fact, be worse. The post 6 Reasons Why More Content Isn’t Better (It’s Actually Worse!) via @thatbberg appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Anyword

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Storytellers , our series featuring candid interviews with executives from the publishing world, is part of our efforts to showcase successful thought-leaders and share their insights with the rest of the storytelling community. In this installment of the series, we were fortunate to speak with Dea Lawrence, Chief Marketing Officer at Variety. We discussed her atypical journey to becoming Variety ’s CMO, her role in launching the Variety Content Studio, how she and her team produce over 70 l

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DemandBase

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you’re like me and are brand new to ABM or even the marketing world in general, it can all seem a bit confusing. I equate it to hearing British English. I’ve heard all of these words before, but I’ve assigned them different meanings. Words like pipe, which I always thought was a metal rod used in plumbing, or SQLs, which I didn’t even know was an acronym for anything at all.

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Modern B2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Is your marketing automation platform letting you down? This is a “tale as old as time” – a company purchases a piece of software, such as a marketing automation platform (MAP), and expects it to immediately function to its maximum potential and be the unicorn system you were promised during the demo. However, a marketing […]. The post Is your marketing automation platform letting you down?

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Emplifi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Socialbakers Q4 2019 Social Media Trends Report reveals crucial insights into the changes and developments on social media.

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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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BuzzSumo

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The post Why I Use BuzzSumo: a Data Journalist’s Perspective appeared first on BuzzSumo.

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Eli Ash, Executive Producer at Mustache, a Brooklyn-based creative content agency, part of Cognizant Interactive, shares her advice on how to tackle the ins and outs of creating video elements for your company’s content strategy. Content still reigns king in 2019, especially audio and video content. According to the Content Marketing Institute, B2C marketers have increased their audio/visual content by 69% as compared to last year.

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DivvyHQ

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Creating a beefy, gated ebook or developing a webinar series that requires prospects to provide some contact info is simply gold for feeding the top of your sales team’s prospecting funnel. So is there a way to get these assets produced in an easier fashion?

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s just as critical to personalize the visual elements of marketing as the message served up with it. Since our brains are hardwired for images, personalizing the visual element of a message offers a major opportunity to add value, says, Gary Ballabio, Director of Business Development, Cloudinary. According to an early 2019 Gartner study , two-thirds of B2C marketers said they would be expected to show results from personalization investments in less than a year.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This blog post outlines the six advantages for why a startup should hire a marketing contractor. It is no secret that startup companies encounter significant hardships and setbacks when first launching their business. Between keeping ahead of the competition, maintaining a positive cash flow, and acquiring new customers, the list of challenges is seemingly endless.

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BuzzSumo

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The post Introducing The New BuzzSumo YouTube Analyzer appeared first on BuzzSumo.

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MarketMuse

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Even for seasoned writers, the task of creating long-form content that ranks and achieves business goals can seem daunting. We created MarketMuse to ease the pain points of content marketers, so we’ve learned a thing or two about how to simplify the process without sacrificing quality. In our long-form content guide, we’ll walk you through: [.]. The post A Foolproof Guide to Long Form Content appeared first on MarketMuse.

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