September, 2014

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15 New Facebook Advertising Statistics

Convince & Convert

'Our friends at Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud (a sponsor of this blog) recently released their boffo Social Advertising Benchmark Report , where they dug deep into the actual results stemming from more than one trillion (TRILLION!) advertising impressions on Facebook, purchased through their platform. It’s a fascinating report, and I suggest you download it (for free) , as there are a lot more statistics (including breakout for EU, Australia, et al) and many more nifty charts and.

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Vendor Selection Best Practices, Predictive Marketing Explained, Content Marketing Integration, and Other New Papers on Raab Web site

Customer Experience Matrix

'I''ve just gotten around to posting a bunch of new white papers in the Resources section of the Raab Guide Web site. Ordinarily you would need to register to view these, but I spent the whole afternoon putting this together, so I want as many people as possible to see them. Here you go: Technology Evaluation Best Practices describes the challenges that marketers face in selecting the right systems and lists best practices to follow for success.

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Report: The Ambitious SME

Savanta

'SME businesses are a passion of mine. I founded one (Circle!) and as a B2B specialist I regularly explore the opinions and behaviours of SMEs. But before I go on, let’s be careful with that label of ‘SME’. Even if we exclude sole traders, there are still more than one million SMEs in the UK alone. Inevitably with a group of that size, there’s a lot of diversity – different attitudes, behaviours, needs and opinions.

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Your Feedback is Needed! This Year’s B2B Website Usability Survey

KoMarketing Associates

'Earlier this year, we released findings from a survey we ran in conjunction with Dianna Huff, asking B2B buyers about the role vendor websites play in the B2B buying process. We’d seen many reports on how B2B buyers find information online and what tactics B2B marketers were using to reach target audiences, but we couldn’t find anything of significance when it came to the buying experience once that buyer actually got to the vendor website.

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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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6 Ideas to Create More Relevant Lead Nurturing Emails

markempa

'Tweet I’m writing this post while attending the ExactTarget Connections 2014 event. I’ve learned a lot from listening to the sessions and speakers here. As I listened to attendees and speakers, I frequently heard the same keywords, such as: Personalization. Segmentation. Customer focus. Data. Connection. Authenticity. But something I wanted to hear more about was relevance.

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How to Use the New Twitter Analytics Dashboard

Convince & Convert

'What if Twitter launched the most awesome analytics dashboard and no one really noticed? Well, that’s pretty much what happened over a month ago. I’ve been waiting for the posts that detail how much you can get from the tool and the different types of analysis you can perform. But… I’m tired of waiting. So here are some insights into Twitter’s new analytics platform: Twitter Analytics Dashboard.

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David Ginsburg, CMO of Pluribus Networks: How to use Marketing Technology to Market Technology [Podcast]

Crimson Marketing

'Creating an effective marketing system for technology products requires a combination of the strategic and the tactical, the creative and the data-driven. With the limited headcount and budgets of many marketing organizations, this is easier said than done. David Ginsburg took on such a challenge when he became CMO of performance oriented network virtualization company Pluribus Networks.

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Demand Generation – It’s Not That Easy

ANNUITAS

'*This post first ran in the ANNUITAS blog on March 27, 2014. As we go into event season-it’s good to remember that building a Demand Generation Strategy isn’t easy. Attend workshops, sessions and learn from industry experts and peers and keep in mind this is a complex process that won’t be solved immediately. It is a process to be learned, implemented and continuously optimized.

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It’s Back to School for B2B Content Marketing!

KoMarketing Associates

'I am not a native New Englander. But, with six years of living in the Boston area under my belt, I’ve pretty much become accustomed to the parking lot that is any of the major highways during rush hour. Traffic gets especially bad around this time of year, when school buses start popping up around every corner. I’ll be the first to admit that my road rage has a tendency to flare (hey, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em), but spending excessive amounts of time in my car can actually be a good thing

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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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Digital Marketing – What Are The Top Goals And Challenges?

Marketing Insider Group

'Last week I attended the ExactTarget Connections conference with nearly 10,000 other digital marketers. And all of us were looking to find out the best way to reach and convert new customers. Just ahead of the conference, MarketingCharts.com previewed this research from ExactTarget , conducted by Forrester and uncovered that “meeting the expectations of the always-connected customer” was the biggest challenge.

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A hodgepodge of content marketing ideas that are unique, compelling, and lead-generating

NuSpark Consulting

'Content marketing is vital to growing a business in today’s economy. With social media, email campaigns, eBooks, and other internet marketing tools, it’s important that your content stands out in an online sea of information. Creating content that will leave a lasting impression goes far beyond words. Internet users have extremely short attention spans, so unless your content includes varying features, many users will skip over it.

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Seven Communication Sins That Kill Simplicity and Business

Convince & Convert

'Image source: Mindaugas Danys, CC 2.0 The way you communicate with prospects and customers creates or destroys value. When communication is focused and simple, it can add value by challenging your prospects’ status quo, expanding their options, and helping them to see things in new ways. Yet, too often we complicate things and we may not realize it.

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How High Growth Companies Use Marketing Analytics to Their Advantage

Crimson Marketing

'Image: Courtesy of Birmingham Business Journal. By: Sylvia Montgomery. If you’re trying to identify the right marketing solutions for your business, it’s not enough to know what your competitors are doing – you need to understand what the most effective companies are doing. Recent research on the efficacy of web and marketing analytics tools like Google Analytics for professional services marketers makes the lesson clear.

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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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Marketers Turning to Analytics to Improve Campaign Performance, Boost Engagement

ANNUITAS

'September 24, 2014 – Demand Gen Report. Marketers Turning to Analytics to Improve Campaign Performance, Boost Engagement. Download the special report from Demand Gen Report and hear from industry experts at Lattice, LeadMD and ANNUITAS why analytics are playing a bigger role in marketing today.

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6 B2B Marketing Lessons From #Inbound14 and #FutureM

KoMarketing Associates

'The collaboration of Inbound 2014 and FutureM brought together over 10,000 marketers and “tech geeks” from around the world. As you can imagine, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was oozing creativity and eagerness to exchange knowledge. This three-day extravaganza explored every topic from marketing strategies to leadership to data and analytics.

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A Quiz: Test Your Content Marketing and Blog Writing Knowledge

Writing on the Web

'Quality blog posts are key to your business getting found on the Web. While that may sound obvious – (“Of course, why would I write something ho-hum boring?”) it’s harder than you might think. Not everyone agrees on what quality content is. Quality content scores high with readers, your target clients, and with search engines. If you want to get found, get known and get clients online, you need to write and publish quality blog posts that resonate with your readers.

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Jobs Don’t Give Us Purpose and Meaning, Helping Does

Chris Koch

'Face it, few of us can say that our work has a high degree of purpose and meaning in the greater scheme of things. True purpose and meaning implies a degree of selflessness that few of us can afford when considered against rent, mortgages, college funds, or car payments. It’s one of the unstated frustrations in all the recent surveys that show how unhappy most employees are in their jobs.

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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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5 New Email Marketing Terms You Should Know

Convince & Convert

'I start off the just-released 2nd Edition of Email Marketing Rules by quoting EmailMarketingReports.com Publisher Mark Brownlow, who once said: “Wondering if ‘best practices’ were called ‘profit practices’ whether we’d be more likely to follow them. Words have power.” Since my book discusses 120 email marketing best practices, this quote is a great way to drive home the financial importance of these practices right off the bat.

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Nicolas Franchet, Head of Retail and E-commerce at Facebook: How to Combine Digital and Traditional Retail Marketing Channels [Podcast]

Crimson Marketing

'Last year in the USA, the public spent more time on digital platforms than they spent watching television, making for the first of such a significant channel shift since the 1950s. Much of the growth in digital is attributable to time that has been “created” by the convenience of smart phones. Whereas “one-size-fits-all” promotional tactics often drive traditional retail traffic, brands can now use digital marketing channels to segment and influence their target audiences.

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Three Things to Think About Before You Develop a Vertical Marketing Strategy

ANNUITAS

'I was recently leading a Demand Generation workshop where one of the attendees asked “what approach they should take to develop a vertical or industry aligned marketing strategy.” Besides discussing the need to align strategically to the buyer, we did have a longer conversation where I cautioned against taking a vertical go-to- market approach. I have worked in companies in the past and with other organizations that have taken a vertically aligned approach to their sales and marketing, and rare

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Direct mail vs. print advertising

Direct Response Coach

'Long before the Internet, direct mail vs. print advertising was the critical debate among both B2B and B2C marketers. For some, it still is. Even with so many online opportunities around them, many retail stores, restaurants and other local businesses still rely on their local newspapers, free standing inserts and solo direct mail to reach [.]. The post Direct mail vs. print advertising appeared first on McCarthy and King Marketing.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Why I Bet My Career On Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

'Last week I was honored to kick off the NewsCred Content Marketing Summit. So I decided to change up my standard Content Marketing Imperative talk. And explain a little more about why I bet my career on content marketing. I believe content marketing is no longer a question, but an imperative for every brand – large and small, across every industry, in B2B and for consumer brands as well.

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The 5-point plan: how to increase marketing ROI from call conversions

Webbiquity

'Guest post by Luke Rees. Every marketing executive wants to know when their efforts are getting through to consumers, and the online world is certainly making it easier to do so. Whilst there is still no way to track impressions from offline marketing (human interface programmes just aren’t that advanced yet…), the online world makes it possible to track real time results via impressions and clicks.

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5 Tips to Turbocharge Conversions on YouTube

Convince & Convert

'With over 55% of the US market share, YouTube is the largest online video platform in the country. It is also the 2 nd largest search engine in the world. It offers marketers a very relevant demographic – adults aged 18-49 years of age who consist of 67% of the total audience on YouTube, as compared to just 24% of the total audience on primetime TV.

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What Is Paid Social Amplification? [Infographic]

Crimson Marketing

'by Jennifer Landry. Having 50,000 bows in your quiver won’t do you a whole lot of good if you don’t have any aim, and trying to fire them all at once would be an awful mess. This also applies to social media advertising and organization. Those 50,000 fans, followers, or “likes” won’t get you far if you can’t target your content marketing system to a particular audience.

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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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Email Deliverability Testing – Why, When and How to Test

ANNUITAS

'Every marketer will tell you that testing is one of the most important aspects of a successful email program. There are so many tests to run – A/B testing, subject line testing, content testing, time of day testing, etc. The problem is that there is never enough time to run every test, and more often than not, most marketers don’t make the time to measure the success of the email.

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My Top-5 Most Compelling Apps

Biznology

'There are both a number of applications I use every day and several I have played with some that I thought I would share with you today. I have paid for some of these apps and others compel me but I don’t really have a use for them yet; that said, I keep on returning to them. Circloscope. After complaining about Google+ in such articles as Google+ on Its Third Birthday and Is Google+ the Antisocial Network?

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10 Tips for Choosing a CRM System

PureB2B

“My customers are my greatest assets.” Should be both mantra and battle cry for the modern business. In this day and age where word of mouth can make or break a business being there for your customers when and how they require just makes sense. Fortunately, being there for your customers has never been easier. If you’re ready to step up your customer relationship game then read on for 10 Tips that will make choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for your business an a