Sat.Oct 08, 2016 - Fri.Oct 14, 2016

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3 In Demand Skills Every Marketer Should Have In 2017

Marketing Insider Group

It’s not easy being a marketer today. Marketing is an ever-changing industry, and to be successful today, marketers must possess a diverse skill set, everything from writing to editing, analytics, social media and even graphic design. So what skills will you need to know to keep up with this ever-evolving field? And what killer skills will be in […].

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12 Memorable Memes for Salespeople

DiscoverOrg

Sales is hard. Not hard in the standard sense — sales requires emotional fortitude to survive the daily barrage of objections and quotas. We have a soft spot for sales reps at DiscoverOrg because we sell too. Take a break from the cold calling and writing emails, and enjoy some light-hearted empathy to get through the day. The Life of a Salesman in Memes.

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Personal Traits Versus Business Skills: Creating the CMO Fit for the Future

Tomorrow People

When today's CMOs started out their first marketing roles, they couldn't possibly have predicted the challenges that they would face when they reached this milestone in their careers. So what does the modern CMO look like?

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What is Inbound Marketing? The Idiot’s Guide [Infographic]

Webbiquity

Guest post by Andy Beohar. Over the past decade, inbound marketing has climbed to the top of the marketing latter and claimed its place as (arguably) the most beneficial approach for business campaigns—both online and off. But you may be wondering, why exactly have inbound practices become so dominant in marketing? And how can you apply them to your own business?

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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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Jumpstart your 2017 Marketing Plan with these 10 Tips

Marketing Insider Group

In January, many businesses sit down to review and renew their marketing plan. But is January really the best time to begin your revisit? Probably not. In fact, now is the time to start reflecting on what worked for you and what didn’t. It takes time to build a good plan, so instead of waiting […]. The post Jumpstart your 2017 Marketing Plan with these 10 Tips appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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What Percentage of Marketing Leads Should Be Accepted by Sales?

ViewPoint

The biggest disconnect between marketing and sales is the hand-off of marketing qualified leads (MQL’s) to sales and the acceptance of those leads (SAL’s) by sales. Unfortunately, the baton gets dropped more frequently than it is successfully passed. My solution to this is having a lead definition agreed upon by marketing and sales, and the establishment of a judicial branch to evaluate leads that are not accepted and passed back to marketing or dead in the funnel.

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Micro-influencer marketing is the new long tail

Biznology

I have been doing long-tail blogger outreach since 2006. Ten years later, I am still at it in earnest. Even more, I play so far down the long tail of influence that I can still create micro-influencer marketing campaigns that are earned media campaigns. What this means is that I can go so far down the long tail that I can find absolutely perfect matches for just about any client’s products and services.

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9 Content Marketing Tips For Highly Regulated Industries

Marketing Insider Group

Whether you are working for a company in health care, pharmaceuticals, finance, insurance or alcoholic beverages, developing a successful content marketing program within a highly regulated industry is hard. But it’s not impossible. While there may be more stringent rules to follow in order to secure legal approvals, there are many best practices you can […].

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Overview of the AdWords Structured Snippets Extension for B2B Advertisers

KoMarketing Associates

Structured snippets is an AdWords extension that allows advertisers to highlight additional and relevant details about their business from a list of predefined categories. Like other ad extensions, there are some common benefits: Your ad will take up more space and you’ll be able to utilize additional characters in your ad text. You have an extra layer of control over your messaging.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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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Datorama Applies Machine Intelligence to Speed Marketing Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned a couple of posts back , I’ve been surveying the borders of Customer Data Platform-land recently, trying to figure out which vendors fit within the category and which do not. Naturally, there are cases where the answer isn’t clear. Datorama is one of them. At first glance, you’d think Datorama is definitely not a CDP: it positions itself as a “marketing analytics platform” and makes clear that its primary clients are agencies, publishers, and corporate marketers who want to measur

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3 Rules To Drive Change

ANNUITAS

At times, organizations enact change because they want to take advantage of a competitive situation. Other times change occurs out of necessity, it may forced for one reason or another or conversely, it happens organically. Change is a natural occurrence both in our personal lives and in business. In business, when change within an organization occurs, the most successful endeavors are as a result of leadership from the top.

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Need to Explode Your Marketing ROI? This Is How You Do It

Marketing Insider Group

According to marketing specialists, video content is the most popular type of content marketing to date. In fact, by 2018 it will account for around 80% of all consumer internet traffic (as predicted by Cisco). Other reports corroborate these facts and figures, showing a clear preference towards video and live streaming from Internet users and […].

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Integrating Google AdWords with Salesforce to Measure Your Sales Funnel

NuSpark Consulting

Google AdWords has recently integrated with Salesforce so that you can import Salesforce leads and opportunities into AdWords and thus measure the performance of your Salesforce campaigns within Google AdWords. Google of course has been tracking ecommerce data for years, but never the complexities of a B2B sale. This will help B2B firms with products that have longer buying cycles better measure how paid search investments are generating offline value.

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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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10 Reasons why branding is even more important for start-ups

Biznology

True branding can be a bewildering challenge for many managers: either they don’t completely understand the strategic benefits of authentic branding, and/or they assume that branding simply consists of a name, logo and proprietary graphics. And most certainly don’t realize the full potential for applying relevant branding principles to improve their marketing and communication practices, especially when faced with new competition, changing customer preferences or other market-based trends.

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You Need Marketing Insights Now. Why Wait?

Hive9

Marketing data has come a long way. The insights we can now glean from marketing analytics give us the power to make huge strides in how well we do our jobs. Of course, the path from marketing data to clear, actionable dashboards and reports depends on some pretty powerful tools.

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How to Craft a Killer Visual Strategy for Your Brand

Marketing Insider Group

If you’ve been in the marketing world for long, you know how important a strong brand identity is towards marketing success. And if you’ve been in social media for long, you know how important visuals are for visibility. Even as video surges as a marketing medium, there will always be a place for other formats in content […]. The post How to Craft a Killer Visual Strategy for Your Brand appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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3 Steps That Took Our Blog From 14,000 Readers to Over 400,000

Contently

A little over three years ago, Sam Slaughter, Contently’s VP of Content, asked me to run The Content Strategist. I’d been writing for the site for a couple years, and I often fantasized that Sam would notice me on the sidelines, admire my immaculate jew fro, and hand me the ball. In true Contently fashion , I ran the blog for the first month as a freelancer, working remotely from Tel Aviv.

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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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Design thinking

Biznology

In our days, design becomes the cornerstone of digital transformation projects. Regardless of the industry or the verticals companies or consultancies operated based on, (what does this mean exactly?), design takes its leading role not only in addressing client-facing problems but also in humanizing and simplifying complicated structures and technology infrastructures.

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Navigating the Digital Marketing Landscape in China

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Benji Lamb Venturing into the digital landscape in China is one of the most fascinating and unique propositions for savvy marketers. It’s a huge market with over 710 million internet users, according to China Internet Network Information Center—more than double the population of people in the U.S. It is, however, wholly unique. Due to internet censorship by the government, well-known communication channels and social platforms in the U.S. have not been able to establish themselves

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Content Marketing Trends That Defy Everything You Know

Marketing Insider Group

By Trisha Merriam, VP of Demand Generation at SWOPtimize In April 2012, musician Amanda Palmer (of the Dresden Dolls) launched a Kickstarter to fund her next album. Kickstarter is a crowd funding platform where creators, artists and businesses can directly connect to patrons and investors and pledge to invest in future work. Amanda reached her goal […].

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The One Email Tactic That Publishers Shouldn’t Ignore

Contently

The first email newsletter I subscribed to was Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations. Ellis, a writer and comic book author, has been sending these emails since the ’90s, and they haven’t evolved all that much since. His newsletter is mostly text, with a couple links to books he recommends or a talk he gave at a conference, and perhaps a preview of a comic he’s working on.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Cost areas that make up a business video marketing communication

Biznology

If you are planning to make an investment in business video marketing communication, but don’t yet have precedent of ROI and/or analytics, then you may be only looking at the purchase price as the main decision making criteria. Business video production services are a professional service and just like any professional services purchase there is a wide range of options.

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Embrace the Adoption of Marketing Performance Management

Hive9

Investing in a marketing performance management solution isn’t worth much if your team doesn’t embrace the change. Yet for all the promising martech tools that B2B businesses have been quick to invest in, difficulty implementing new products is a top obstacle to martech adoption.

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The Real Truth About B2B Marketing And The Social Media Platforms You Need

Marketing Insider Group

I’ve read a few articles about social media and B2B Marketing lately that have blown my mind. You won’t believe number three…OK, there is no number three. And this is not a listicle. However, I read an article recently that got me thinking as it raised some interesting points about social and B2B. In answer to […]. The post The Real Truth About B2B Marketing And The Social Media Platforms You Need appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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3 Rules To Drive Change In Organizations

ANNUITAS

Why or how do organizations drive change? At times, organizations enact change because they want to take advantage of a competitive situation. Other times change occurs out of necessity, it may forced for one reason or another or conversely, it happens organically. Change is a natural occurrence both in our personal lives and in business. In business, when change within an organization occurs, the most successful endeavors are as a result of leadership from the top.

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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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Skip the Marketing Plan. Try this “Easy-Bake” Recipe Instead.

Marketing Craftmanship

The first question we ask prospective clients is, “Do you have a Marketing Plan?”. Most prospects sheepishly acknowledge that they don’t have a formal Marketing Plan. This group earns big points with us for honesty. Some less forthright prospects will claim they do have a Marketing Plan, but when asked to show it to us, this group responds with, “Our plan isn’t written down,” or “It’s being updated,” which really means that they don’t have a plan.

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Infographic: How Consumers Feel About Branded Emojis

Contently

In 2015, for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year wasn’t a word. It was an emoji—specifically, the “face with tears of joy” emoji. You know the one. As Oxford University Press wrote of the decision, “Emojis are no longer the preserve of texting teens—instead, they have been embraced as a nuanced form of expression, and one which can cross language barriers.” That’s why brands have been so quick to use emojis in their messaging.

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Why Businesses Need Marketing Qualified Leads

Marketing Insider Group

In marketing and sales, we’re always on the lookout for leads. However, not all leads are created equal. Leads that have the biggest impact on your bottom line are Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). But what exactly are they and what makes them so special? In this article, we’ll give you the low-down on what MQLs […]. The post Why Businesses Need Marketing Qualified Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.