Tue.Jan 06, 2015

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Five 2015 B2B Demand Generation and Content Marketing Resolutions

ANNUITAS

'As we start 2015, the one thing that B2B marketers can be assured of is that our market and the approach our buyers take to purchase will continue to change and become all the more sophisticated. Marketers will again be challenged to keep pace with these advancements and will need to do more in order to connect with their buyers and show demonstrable ROI as a result of their Demand Generation and Content Marketing Strategies.

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There Is No One Size Fits All B2B SEO Program

KoMarketing Associates

'It’s (fortunately) not a surprise that as the fourth quarter drew to an end, our team was (and still is) engaged in several discussions with prospects about SEO projects kicking off in the New Year. A few weeks ago, I prepared for three, back-to-back-to-back, preliminary sales discovery meetings. As I reassessed those discussions, I thought about how different each program could be.

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How to Create Effective Competitor Campaigns Without Pointing Fingers

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. When it comes to lead generation, you’ve probably got your bases covered with digital ads, SEO optimization, and lead generation. But what if your competitor’s customers could become yours ? No, we’re not talking about poaching their satisfied clients. But what if you could introduce yourself to those already looking to leave your competitors?

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10 Marketing Terms You Need To Know – Pt. 1

EMagine B2B Blog

'The online world is full of industry jargon, and as marketers, it’s expected of us to know what every term, acronym and buzzword related to our industry means. While many have been around since the beginning of the Internet, there are still newer, advanced terms that pop up everyday. Even I’ll admit I’ve run into some that have made to turn to my fairy web-mother, Google, pleading: “PLEASE tell me what this means!

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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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New Year’s Resolutions for Your B2B Lead Generation Playbook

LEADership

'Whether you have had a great year or a disappointing one, the general sentiment at the end of the year is usually the same—“Glad this one is over” and “Hello New Year”. Around the world, people celebrate in different ways, from toasting and feasting to fireworks, cruises, music, dancing, and more. For me, personally, 2014 was an exceptional year—a truly transformational one.

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Best Batch of B2B Blogs from Ideas@Work All Year

MLT Creative

'2014 has come to a close. With the arrival of a new year comes a time of reflecting on past successes and failures in attempts to learn from the past and face the future, as a smarter B2B marketing agency. In the spirit of nostalgia, reminiscence, and improvement I have compiled a highlight real of the year’s 8 most successful Ideas@Work blog posts.

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How to Build an Unbeatable Content Marketing Plan

Hubspot

'Whether you''re just starting out with content marketing or you''ve been using the same content marketing strategies for a while, your content marketing plan needs to be better than ever for 2015. Why? This year, you''ve got even more competition -- according to Content Marketing Institute , 70% of surveyed marketers say they are creating more content than they did a year ago.

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Best of 2014: Assessments

SnapApp

Well, it’s the end of the year, so that must mean it’s time to reflect on the last 12 months. At SnapApp, we’re privileged to work with a host of truly impressive, inspiring customers who continually surprise us with the creative content they produce. Here’s our roundup of the best assessments from 2014. DemandGen: Sales & Marketing Relationship Counselor.

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Color Theory 101: Deconstructing 7 Famous Brands' Color Palettes

Hubspot

'Pablo Picasso once said, "Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.". Ladies and gentlemen, Picasso was wrong. You actually can figure out why “two colors, put one next to the other, sing.” Or, more accurately, you can figure out why some color combinations work (i.e., look good) and why other color combinations don’t work (i.e., look terrible).

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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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Obstacles that Prevent Sales from Closing Leads

Crafted Agency

As digital marketing agencies assist B2B partners in mapping their customers' journey from brand awareness to customer loyalty, a pattern has emerged.

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How to Build a High Performance Marketing Team

Hubspot

'Let''s face it: growing a company is as big a struggle as ever. The rules have changed, and will continue to change. What used to be effective, even just 5-10 years ago, no longer works. There’s an oversupply of vendors in most markets and customers have changed the way they buy. For inbound marketers, we’re ahead of the trend in many ways. We embrace the fact that advertising as the sole means of growth is no longer a viable option.

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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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6 Rules for Building Awareness for Your Brand with Offline Networking

Content Standard

I’m just returning to Boston from a Zendesk user conference, and I’m absolutely elated. I’m most excited about the great new metrics I’m going to be able to deploy, but I also managed to have some great conversations with other Zendesk users. I learned about other organizations while building awareness of the Skyword brand. A couple of weeks ago, I got an urgent text from a friend that I met at a dinner for local start-up employees.

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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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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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New Study Pinpoints Top Factors in Search Engine Rankings

Content Standard

User signals when interacting with a search query result have a positive correlation with that listing’s search ranking, according to a new report from Searchmetrics. The 2014 Ranking Factors Study examined user signals for the first time this year, coming away with valuable insights into how user engagement affects the SEO of a website and its pages.

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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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Executing Brand Experiences in a Global Market: A Seamless Solution

The Freeman Company

'An international logistics problem: solved!

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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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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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2015 is the Year of Message Boards and Forums

Biznology

'In the beginning, the Internet was populated by an infinite number of ad hoc communities. From ANSI BBS dial up communities in the 80s to the Internet Newsgroups of the 90s to the forums of the 2000s, there have always been private and personal virtual online communities have have served members honestly, openly, through trust, and protected by the power of anonymity or through members-only protection.

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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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Write Like a Pro: 5 Techniques Top Bloggers Use to Write Successful Blog Posts

Convince & Convert

'In all my years of experience working in the content creation space, I’ve received plenty of requests from bloggers, marketers, and even digital marketing agencies to craft amazing articles. To my dismay, the majority of these pieces end up buried under pages and pages on Google. Only a minority of them turned out to be successful blog posts. But what I noticed is that the ones that ended up being successful in generating social shares and creating hundreds of backlinks shared one common featur

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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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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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27 (of the) Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2014

Webbiquity

'In few professions has the emergence of social media been such a double-edged sword as public relations. On one hand, the “citizen journalism,” blogging, and content-sharing platforms for all types of media have fundamentally altered the traditional print-based business model of professional and trade publications. Information scarcity has been replace by information overload.

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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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What is the Best Content to Use for Each Stage of the B2B Sales Cycle? [Infographic]

Crimson Marketing

'Key takeaways include: Blogs and newsletters are most valued by B2B buyers early in the sales cycle, when they are starting to learn about a topic and evaluate products/vendors. Whitepapers are most valued in the beginning and middle parts of the sales cycle, when buyers are attempting to understand a problem. Videos, webinars, and detailed tech guides are most useful toward the end of the cycle, when buyers are considering specific vendors and finalizing selection. 80% of buyers want to contin

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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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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.

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5 2015 Predictions Only a B2B Marketer Would Care About

Digital B2B Marketing

'It is that time of year again. The time when predictions of the obvious abound and resolutions are quickly broken. I’ll spare you my New Year’s resolutions (well, most of them at least, read on). Instead, here are my five B2B marketing predictions for 2015. 1. Predictive Marketing Goes Mainstream. Predictive marketing is already a hot space, but it hasn’t hit its mainstream stride yet as a solution for B2B marketers to segment and prioritize leads for marketing and sales.

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Small Business: Hot Marketing Trends in 2015

GreenRope

Your Top Priorities for Marketing in 2015. By Alessandra Ceresa. Marketing continues to evolve. Marketers, just like you and me, are costantly searching for the right mix in our strategies. After a ton of research, I came up with the following trends. I think that these will be hottest trends of 2015, and something to focus on this year.