Sat.Oct 29, 2016 - Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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Why Polls Add Value to Your Website (And How to Make One)

Marketing Insider Group

A poll is a great way to give your users something immediate, easy, and engaging to do as soon as they arrive on your organization’s website. Polls are simple and easy to create, but don’t underestimate them! Polls and surveys are effective interactive content types because they’re essentially gates through which you can generate leads, […].

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How to Time B2B Email Marketing Campaigns for Success [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

Email marketing professionals know how important timing can be in terms of campaign success. That being said, a report from Yesmail revealed that in the second quarter of 2016, Thursday was the best day for sending email marketing campaigns. For more insight into what works specifically for B2B marketers, we spoke to Marie Honme, senior marketing strategist at Yes Lifecycle Marketing, about the report.

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Three Reasons Why Building an Online Community Is Essential for B2B Marketing Success

Tomorrow People

Online communities are highly effective places for engaging with your target audience. Find out how to harness their power and achieve marketing success.

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Improve Your SEO with Influencer Marketing

Onalytica B2B

Going into 2017, improving your SEO should remain hot on your agenda, as without giving it consideration, finding your website may well be like trying to find a needle in a metaphorical, saturated market haystack. Ranking number 1 on Google, is extremely important and effective in increasing organic web traffic. With all this said, whilst SEO is integral, it is very difficult to master.

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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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The State Of B2C Content Marketing In 2017 [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Earlier last month the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released their highly anticipated annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report, which painted a much more positive picture of content marketing compared to last year’s findings. 62% of B2B marketers reported that their organization’s overall content marketing approach this year is much more […].

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Kimberly-Clark uses a social media quiz to woo young talent

Biznology

Are you an original thinker? You can quickly find out by taking the Welcome Original Thinkers Quiz (WOTQuiz) —I’m an Adaptor : “You enjoy exploring every side of an issue and like a wicked great maestro you tease out the positive in each approach. Your resourcefulness and ability to easily adapt to the latest input often makes you the one who finds answers to the most challenging questions.” What did you get?

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Seven Ideas to Increase Sales (Reading time: Five minutes or Less)

ViewPoint

There isn't a senior executive at any company across the globe that doesn't want more sales. The trouble is, not every company truly understands what it takes to generate that additional revenue. Here are some best practices involved with increasing sales: Lead generation, lead qualification, lead nurturing: For every dollar you have closed, you have left two dollars on the table.

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How To Create Story-Driven Data Visualization In 5 Steps

Marketing Insider Group

For many people, data can be deathly boring, comoplex and dry. And for marketers, particularly those in the B2B space, this is one of the toughest challenges they face when producing content every day. Customers and prospects want to see hard data that proves why your product or service is superior and will help them achieve their […]. The post How To Create Story-Driven Data Visualization In 5 Steps appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Stop Yelling At Prospects: How To Build An Ideal Customer Profile

Kabbage

Think about finding customers like making friends at a party. Standing in the middle of the room with a megaphone yelling, “Be my friend!” won’t be very successful. It’s basically the equivalent of the traditional “spray-and-pray” marketing approach. However, if you can reach out to a few folks who are from the same city, have a similar stance on deep-dish pizza, and favorite NBA team as you, you may have a better shot.

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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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Is Your Organization Ready For Market Strategy In A Digital Economy?

Tony Zambito

Community Preparedness by Iconathon. The digitization of the global economy is resulting in a tidal wave of new business and operating models throughout the world. Sparking rapid forms of innovations and turning existing markets upside down with new market rules and design. Digital disruption means organizations must stay alert to how an existing market strategy may have to undergo reinvention.

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Google says no more Penguin releases–what does it mean?

Biznology

Google announced in September that their most recent Penguin release will be their last. For the uninitiated, Penguin is a four-year-old initiative that Google introduced to directly reduce spammy websites in the search results. Penguin targets over-optimized websites that use techniques such as keyword stuffing (dumping dozens of keywords into pages just to get higher rankings) and cloaking (sending a different page to the search engine than to the user).

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4 Futuristic Content Tactics You’ll Want To Learn

Marketing Insider Group

To truly succeed in content marketing, you have to adapt as new tools, tactics, and data all come out. Staying stuck in the past will only lead to declining returns and losing customer interest. Marketers need to look to the future to truly prepare for what’s to come. Not every predicted trend happens, but being […]. The post 4 Futuristic Content Tactics You’ll Want To Learn appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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4 Ways to Optimize the Middle of the Funnel

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Adam Hutchinson Like the middle child, the middle of the demand generation funnel receives far less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. At the bottom-of-the-funnel, we help close the sale by creating urgency and helping our prospects make the business case for purchasing our product or service.

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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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Stop Yelling At Prospects: How To Build An Ideal Customer Profile

Kabbage

Think about finding customers like making friends at a party. Standing in the middle of the room with a megaphone yelling, “Be my friend!” won’t be very successful. It’s basically the equivalent of the traditional “spray-and-pray” marketing approach. However, if you can reach out to a few folks who are from the same city, have a similar stance on deep-dish pizza, and favorite NBA team as you, you may have a better shot.

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Make Marketing Personalization a Reality

Hive9

Getting the right message in front of a prospect at the moment it will make the most impact is the goal of every marketer. We now have the technology to get closer to that than we ever have before, but few marketing organizations have gone beyond high-level segmentation.

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10 Predictions On The Future of Retail

Marketing Insider Group

Keeping ahead of the curve is as vital in retail as in any other field. So what can we expect to see as we move towards a new year and beyond? Here are 10 predictions for the future of retail that you need to be aware of. Streamlined payment As we move forward into a brave new […]. The post 10 Predictions On The Future of Retail appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Dating and B2B – Swipe Left and Move on from Marketing Campaigns

ANNUITAS

By now, we’ve all heard the analogy “you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date” when discussing the ways we engage buyers in B2B marketing and sales. So how does this ineffective dating mentality map to methods too commonly used in demand generation? Let’s take a step back. You wouldn’t expect someone to even commit to a date based on only one conversation, text or even one really long email, would you?

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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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I Used Embarrassing Icebreakers at a Marketing Conference. You Should Too

Contently

Making connections at a networking event is awkward. They’re so forced, like bad blind dates. The internet understands; that’s why there are almost 400,000 Google results for “conference icebreakers” with suggestions for how to make a great first impression. But how can you know which one-liners will actually spark an interesting, memorable conversation?

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Identify and Leverage Your Most Valuable Customers

Hive9

You don’t need us to tell you how valuable customer advocates are. They’re one of your solution’s most powerful resources and offer living proof of your value. They’re also capable of driving high quality, net new leads.

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Which Came First: The Content or the Campaign?

Marketing Insider Group

“Which came first: The content or the campaign?” doesn’t always evoke a simple, black and white answer – even though it might sound fairly easy to answer on the surface. Here’s why: Content creation teams and Demand Gen teams do, indeed, often work within the same marketing departments. However, Demand Gen is focused on campaigns, […]. The post Which Came First: The Content or the Campaign?

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Dear Marketers, Buyer Personas Still Need A Makeover

ANNUITAS

*This post first ran 9.29.15 via ANNUITAS.com. There are a lot of misguided, well-meaning marketers working on beautifully crafted, useless personas. Now, I’m not joining the persona naysayers (you know who you are). It’s true that there are a lot of less-than-actionable personas being built, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. And, speaking of babies, even though no one likes to hear that theirs is ugly, unlike babies, those buyer personas aren’t going to get any cuter with

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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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Infographic: The Battle Between Instagram and Snapchat

Contently

Are you a Snapchatter or an Instagrammer? I’ve used both, but I’m more likely to carefully apply Instagram’s tilt-shift feature than to dress myself up in one of Snapchat’s cartoon filters. (I’m all about the artful blur.) Why? Probably because I used Instagram first, and more of my social network was already on Instagram by the time Snapchat showed up.

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4 Ways to really engage your customers on social media

Biznology

It isn’t too tough to get your fans to like and share your posts on social platforms, but it is trickier to get them to leave comments. Many businesses really want to interact with their fans and ignite more engagement on social media to build relationships and loyalty. The good news is that it’s easier than ever to increase customer engagement with videos or engage them in conversation through contests and thoughtfully-worded posts.

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300+ Campaigns Reveal How Data-Driven Content Can Improve Your Engagement in Every Vertical

Marketing Insider Group

By Ashley Carlisle, Brand Relationship Strategist at Fractl Some industries and verticals have a much easier time creating engaging content compared to others. Highly regulated verticals like finance won’t usually see viral engagement for a narrow, industry-specific content marketing campaign like a campaign for a travel brand would see, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to […].

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In Direct Response, All Roads Still Lead to the Offer

Direct Response Coach

You’re about ready to kick off a new direct mail campaign and you are hoping for the best response ever. Look at your offer. You’ve been running search ads on Google Adwords. You get plenty of clicks (sometimes expensive clicks), but your conversion of clicks-to-leads is very disappointing. Look at your offer. You [.]. The post In Direct Response, All Roads Still Lead to the Offer 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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RSVP for Our Chicago Marketing Innovation Seminar (Nov. 17th)

Kaon

Click Here to Register! Kaon has leveraged our global marketing community to create an educational seminar that will help you make the right decisions for your organization. This year we will discuss “digital transformation” and how CMO’s and senior marketing leaders will utilize technology to gain a competitive advantage, increase sales productivity and drive effective customer experiences.

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My favorite organic search posts from Biznology

Biznology

Whether you call it SEO or organic search, I’ve sure published a lot of articles on the subject here at Biznology. Below you can find a few of my favorite articles on organic search that still hold up today: Are you using social media for search keyword research? Do you use your website search to help your SEO? Why normal people do not trust SEO people.

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How Rethinking the Social Content Strategy Helped an Animated Video Marketing Company Drive More Demand on LinkedIn

Marketing Insider Group

An animated video creation, production and marketing service company for technology companies like Cisco, BMC Software, Compuware, IBM, UPS, Brocade, Oracle, CA Technologies and many others did not have the systems or processes in place to build and leverage relationships. They relied on “word of mouth” and on satisfied clients continually coming back without any […].

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