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MarketingProfs B2B Nuggets of B2B Wisdom

ANNUITAS

This year’s MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2016 is a whirl-wind of data, inspiration, marketing advice, how-to’s and more than a little fun. What makes an event a success from an attendee’s perspective? Is it the sessions you can attend (by attend I mean find a seat for), the activities you can engage in (morning mixers or yoga), the quality of content (first-rate speakers and presentations) or the accessibility of VIPs and speakers to further your education.

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Agencies Have a Morale Problem

Contently

Like most industries, the agency world is in an intense period of transition. As competition heats up from media and tech companies, and brands turn to in-house teams , agencies are being forced to evolve or die. That pressure has had detrimental effects on agency employees. According to a new study by Campaign US, the American offshoot of a British ad trade magazine, morale in the agency world has sunk to dramatic new lows.

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7 key roles in digital marketing

Biznology

I recently had the opportunity to speak at a Fairfield County, CT, AMA event. It was a lot of fun presenting Outside-In Marketing to local executives and students at UConn Stamford, which hosted the event. In the lively discussion that followed, the best question was about talent. “What kind of team do you need to create outside-in marketing content?

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Why Marketing Automation Can’t Be “Set It and Forget It”

Hive9

Enterprise marketing organization s are past the point of considering marketing automation optional. The availability of marketing automation software is the primary industry development that makes account-based marketing (ABM) on a large scale possible.

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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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MarketingProfs B2B Nuggets of B2B Wisdom

ANNUITAS

This year’s MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2016 is a whirl-wind of data, inspiration, marketing advice, how-to’s and more than a little fun. What makes an event a success from an attendee’s perspective? Is it the sessions you can attend (by attend I mean find a seat for), the activities you can engage in (morning mixers or yoga), the quality of content (first-rate speakers and presentations) or the accessibility of VIPs and speakers to further your education.

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MarketingProfs B2B Nuggets of B2B Wisdom

ANNUITAS

This year’s MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2016 is a whirl-wind of data, inspiration, marketing advice, how-to’s and more than a little fun. What makes an event a success from an attendee’s perspective? Is it the sessions you can attend (by attend I mean find a seat for), the activities you can engage in (morning mixers or yoga), the quality of content (first-rate speakers and presentations) or the accessibility of VIPs and speakers to further your education.

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Why Every Content Strategy Needs a Managing Editor

Kapost

Jane, a director of marketing at SaaS company, eagerly opens the email attachment. She is charged with designing and implementing a content strategy that will grow the startup’s user base, and she’s relieved to have this first draft—delivered on time—from Dan, a freelance writer she hired to develop blog posts and white papers. It’s been a long road to this first article.

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Making Industrial Content Marketing Engaging for Engineers and Industrial Buyers

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial content marketing is facing a big challenge because manufacturers are struggling to make it more engaging for their target audience. They have a good grasp of industrial content marketing’s contributions at the top of funnel but can’t quite connect the dots when it comes to measuring its effectiveness in driving sales. The problem is […] The post Making Industrial Content Marketing Engaging for Engineers and Industrial Buyers by Achinta Mitra appeared first on Industrial Marketi

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Take Part in Hinge’s 2017 High Growth Survey

Hinge Marketing

Here at Hinge, we are excited to launch our annual High Growth Study for 2017. And we’d love you to participate. The study is open to all professional services firms and your responses will be completely confidential. The study will look at a variety of factors that impact growth and profitability. Frankly, I can’t wait to see what’s changed over the past year.

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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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How the Evolution of Digital Marketing Strategy Has Brands Questioning Agencies

Content Standard

Just when you’ve come to terms with the fact that you need to be proactive about your blog, some are saying you may already be too late. Marketing is evolving at a frenetic pace. How can you keep up and hone in on what matters for your digital marketing strategy without wasting time and resources on here-today, gone-tomorrow fads? First and foremost, you focus on visuals.

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A Simple Guide to Creating an Expert Roundup Post

Hubspot

Want to drive traffic to your blog and boost your social activity? Well, I've got a simple solution to help you achieve just that: An expert roundup. And the best part is, you only need to write 20% of the content -- the other 80% is written by experts in your niche. Sounds easy, right? It is, well, as long as you have the right process. Luckily, I've successfully applied this approach multiple times -- and I've learned a thing or two about how to drive the most traffic, shares, and engagement i

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You Really Don’t Know What Your Customers are Thinking

Genroe

Just because you’re on the front lines of your business, small or large, talking to customers all day doesn’t mean you really know what they think. In fact, being so close to your customers can cause you to be blinded to what they are really thinking. Why? There are several good reasons… They Don’t Think […].

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What is the Internet of Things? IoT definitions in flux and perspective

i-Scoop

Everyone speaks about the Internet of Things. So it’s important to know what we’re really talking about in order to understand eachother. There is no universal Internet of Things definition (IoT) and it is not that easy to define IoT because it has become an umbrella term for many realities which, in the end, have […].

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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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Case Study: AC Lens Ditches Their Old DAM, Finds Efficiency with Brandfolder

Brandfolder

Did you know that employees without access to a DAM solution spend [5x longer]([link] looking for the right assets? Or that businesses with well-managed, consistent brands are worth up to.

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Speed Dating In Miami — Or What I Learned At The Forrester B2B Marketing Forum

Forrester B2B

Now that I’m back from Forrester's B2B Marketing Forum in Miami last week, I thought I’d share a few observations. This was my second Forrester event as an analyst, but my first at a B2B Marketing Forum. It’s worth noting that my perspective as an analyst is completely different from that of an attendee, because […].

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Blog #5: Why Cognitive Technologies will Transform our World as we know It

SalesChoice

Earlier in October, I defined Cognitive Technologies and provided an introduction to the different approaches of Cognitive, a market growing by 65% CAGR according to IDC. In June 2016, the WhiteHouse published a formal request for information , or RFI , about the possibilities and risks of AI. IBM ran with this consideration and published Preparing for the Future of AI.

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How We Built Our Content Marketing Stack to Drive 10x ROI

Contently

Five years ago, the term “marketing stack” was barely used outside of discussions between the most tech-savvy CIOs and CMOs. There were roughly 150 tools you could use to manage how people interacted with your brand. If you were enough of a marketing geek, you could memorize them over your morning coffee. The scene has changed dramatically since then.

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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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Scale Your Content Marketing Effectively with These Tips

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing professionals understand the amount of time and effort that can go into planning, creating, and promoting content. A single article can take weeks or even months to move from ideation to publication—and the complexity of moving processes can often cause frustrating delays. Successful content marketing can be inherently difficult to increase in scale. […].

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Get These B2B Video Secrets – Before They Self-Destruct!

Vidyard

Just before the first big tech bubble burst in the early 2000s, my co-founder, Bill Wittenberg of Humongous Media, started a different business, one that had an unintended side-effect: whenever he described his new enterprise, it made everybody laugh. To be fair, sometimes they’d frown. Or shake their head. Or kick him out of their office. “Seriously,” he’d say to stone-faced bankers and dubious retailers as the door swung shut behind him: “People will want to watch video on the Internet!

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How a Content Refresh Can Help You Stay Relevant

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Elaine Ip If you’re a savvy digital marketer, you’ve probably been on the content marketing train for years. Bonus points for you, but is that pile of existing content starting to look a little stale? For those in a fast-paced industry, some of your best content might start to look stale after only a year or two. How is a content marketer supposed to keep up with that kind of change?

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All of the Social Media Metrics That Matter

Sprout Social

Did you know that when it comes to social media metrics, there are hundreds you could be analyzing? But the real question is, do you know where to find them and are they all necessary for your business? In this post, we’re going to look at the metrics you can gather from the top social networks and which ones matter most for your business. What Are Social Media Metrics?

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Migas!

Ambal's Amusings

Today. Morning. Just single cup of coffee. Crazy Monday morning routine. Then, errands in the afternoon. By the time I started driving back home… was starving. My sakha (friend) Rohit told me to stop by for late lunch. He had this waiting. God bless the hearts of those who feed the hungry (and too lazy to … Continue reading Migas!

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How to Defeat Your Most Dangerous Writing Habit: 7 Ways to Lift 'The Curse of Knowledge'

Hubspot

When I was eight, I became stuck on a particularly tough Where’s Waldo scene. It was so difficult that I became convinced that Waldo -- the character I needed to find -- wasn’t in it at all. I began thinking the whole thing was a joke, full of red herrings. And then I found him. And after that, I could never un-see him. And, strangely, whenever I saw a classmate struggling with that same difficult scene, I’d become frustrated, even angry.

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Sprout’s Q3 2016 Reporting Updates

Sprout Social

In Q3 2016, Sprout’s reporting squad launched a variety of new reports and revamped several others. The team implemented design tweaks for a better user experience, updated metrics for data parity, introduced new dynamic charts and data visualizations and added even more data to better meet users’ needs. Here’s a look at some of the ways Sprout’s Reporting tools enable brands to make more informed business decisions.

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15 Eye-Catching Resume Templates That Will Get You Noticed

Hubspot

While an eye-catching resume alone probably won't land you your dream gig, it doesn't hurt to put a little extra effort into how you present yourself on paper. The right resume design speaks to your individual skills and personality, and can propel your application to the top of the stack. But finding the perfect design can be a major hassle -- and applying for jobs is already hard enough.

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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