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Teradata Sells Its Marketing Applications Business for $90 Million

Customer Experience Matrix

Teradata announced on Friday that it had signed a deal to sell its marketing applications business for $90 million to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners. The company had announced plans to sell the business last November. The sale involves the former Aprimo, eCircle, FLXone data management platform, and other cloud-based marketing products.

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Successful Marketing Nerds Are Ruling The World With Account-Based Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In the data-driven world we live in today, “nerds” are the cool kids people aspire to be. Tech and science nerds are changing our society as we speak – everything from improving the cities we live in to developing advanced technologies to make our daily life easier. Mark Zuckerberg, who is one of the world’s […]. The post Successful Marketing Nerds Are Ruling The World With Account-Based Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The New Normal – Responsive Design

ANNUITAS

According to a recent post in Litmus , the 10 most popular email clients have been listed for 2015. As an email developer, I can understand and respect the results of this study. It’s no surprise that four out of the top five clients allow for a great mobile experience when viewing emails. More emails each year are being opened on the mobile platform, and the numbers don’t lie.

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The 10 Don’ts of Twitter for B2B Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Twitter has transformed the way that B2B marketers communicate with their target audiences by providing another place to engage, address questions, and emphasize what they stand for. In fact, Twitter is now the top social platform for B2B brand mentions , with 73% of them happening on the site. Despite this, many B2B marketers struggle to progress on Twitter and demonstrate any significant results on the platform.

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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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What “Industry Presence” is — and Why It Matters to Online Visibility

Webbiquity

This post originally appeared on WPOinc. The web presence optimization (WPO) framework includes tracking and measuring online marketing metrics for five key channels or disciplines: Press (PR), Social, Website (SEO), Paid, and Industry. The first four categories are fairly self-explanatory, but what does “Industry Presence” consist of?

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Why Scaling Account-Based Marketing is So Important

Lattice

ABM processes help focus the marketing and sales efforts of any company, and push towards creating that kind of personalized engagement that will drive increased ROI for the business. Learn why Forrester analyst Laura Ramos and Lattice Engines CEO Shashi Upadhyay believe companies should be looking into ways to utilize ABM strategies for more than their top 50 accounts, and understand how companies can identify their top 1000 or 5000 accounts, to scale their ABM efforts to their broader account

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Why you should be a mentor

Biznology

You’re never done learning, and all successful entrepreneurs know that you’ll never truly feel like you’ve ‘made it.’ But if you’re lucky enough to be at a point in your career where someone greener is coming to you for guidance, you should strongly consider agreeing to be a mentor. Here’s why. The Long Game. Every argument I’ve ever heard against being a mentor have all been dazzlingly short-sighted.

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5 Ways Blog Analytics Improve Your Business Blog

Writing on the Web

How do you use your blog analytics ? There are many easy-to-use blogging analytics tools out there, but the really successful bloggers know their results and tailor their blogs accordingly. This is the fifth element in the CAST system for effective blog content : C ontent (compelling). A ssets (free). S ocial Media. T rack. Here are the top five practices in business blog tracking, using analytic tools, and what to do to improve the performance of your blog so that you and your business blog get

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5 Simple Ways Beginners Can Beat the Competition at PPC

Marketing Insider Group

Ever since the first AdWords ad hit SERPs in 2000 and offered live mail order lobsters to any gourmand interested, search engine marketing has had a tumultuous relationship with brands and marketers. Some swear by PPC. They believe that PPC should be a part of every business’s promotional strategy. There must be a reason why […]. The post 5 Simple Ways Beginners Can Beat the Competition at PPC appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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How Brands Are Using Live Streaming Video Successfully

Convince & Convert

I am a storytelling and comedy nerd, a marketer, and a comic improviser. I know how important preparing and letting go is. In the same way software nerds rule technology development (I say this with admiration, as I am married to one!), the future of streaming video success belongs to leaders that embrace conversation, being human, and letting go. (highlight to tweet).

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Launching your social campaign with guns blazing!

Biznology

When I have a client that needs something launched in a big way I go at it with guns-blazing, concurrently pimping their social networks using ManageFlitter, buying followership if their Twitter following is pathetic using FastFollowerz, sort out a following strategy based on keywords and hashtags using SocialOomph , then jump headlong into influencer and blogger research using GroupHigh , Audienti, and InkyBee.

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The Problem with Most Taglines

Direct Response Coach

Today, I spent a good 10 minutes in my car following a National Grid truck on my way home from an appointment. It was a slow, stop-and-go ride through several back roads with no way to pass. With each stop, I would come face to face with the National Grid logo – and its tagline, [.]. The post The Problem with Most Taglines appeared first on McCarthy and King Marketing.

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3 Lessons Smart Marketers Can Learn From Growth Hacking

Marketing Insider Group

Whether you’re a marketer at a Fortune 500 company or a small startup, limited budget and resources are probably one of the biggest challenges you and your team will face. So how you go about developing and executing effective marketing strategies on a tight budget that will help grow your business? One potential solution is […]. The post 3 Lessons Smart Marketers Can Learn From Growth Hacking appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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4 Ways to Make Your Mobile Marketing Stand Out

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Koustubha Deshpande Getting users to download your app is easy. Okay, I might have stretched the truth there. It’s not easy at all, but it is the easiest step towards gaining a strong and loyal user base. Getting users to continuously use your app is an ongoing battle. But, these engagements are crucial to the lifecycle of your app. Today’s mobile user picks up or glances at their mobile phones up to 200 times each day and 75% of those interactions are just to glance at who c

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Debunking myths around sales videos for business

Biznology

In this Biznology webinar recording, Robert Weiss gives tips for creating videos for all different types of situations. Robert wasn’t able to show the videos in the presentation because of technical constraints, but here are the videos he recommends watching in addition to the webinar: Video First strategy. How to budget and plan for a business video content marketing strategy .

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Understanding Your Pipeline Velocity for Better Budget Planning

Hive9

Your marketing analytics have a lot to tell you. They can help you identify the customers worth the most to you, the marketing activities contributing the most to revenue , and the sequence of actions most likely to lead to a sale.

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Influencer Outreach versus Brand Advocacy: How to Divide Your Investment

Marketing Insider Group

Back in January, I wrote about influencer marketing – specifically, 10 strategies for getting it right. This is because I believe that influencer marketing, when executed correctly, is a seriously powerful tool. Working with an influencer in your industry can allow you to tap into huge, new, and relevant audiences that are more than willing […].

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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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Personalization and Oracle’s Modern Marketing Experience

ANNUITAS

After my second day at the Oracle Modern Marketing Experience 2016 conference (#MME16), I’m finding a very obvious common theme vendors, customers and speakers are talking about: personalization. The technology-driven world we live in is full of data–endless amount of data about your industry and your customers. It’s almost inexcusable to not leverage it!

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What is Outside-In Marketing?

Biznology

As Mike announced on April 21, 2016, we recently published a book together called Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing. It has been a long and winding road to get this book done, and we are very proud and more than a little relieved to see it in print. The Story of the Book. It all started with my other book: Audience, Relevance and Search: Targeting Web Audiences With Relevant Content (ARS), which I co-authored with Frank Donatone and Cyntia Fishel.

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Thinx’s CEO Talks Feminism, Advertising, and Conscious Capitalism

Contently

When I first asked people what they thought about the concept of ‘period panties,’ they responded with scrunched faces and genuine confusion. “Wait. How does that work?” “Why would anyone want to bleed in their underwear?” These are the questions that Thinx CEO Miki Agrawal has attempted to answer with content campaigns spewed across New York City’s public transportation system and embedded in our Facebook feeds.

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The B2B Customer Content Operations Manifesto

Marketing Insider Group

The custom content business is a difficult business. It’s a difficult business due to the economics of the underlying content operations model, as well as poor inputs from inefficient clients. If you’re a B2B CMO pursuing content dependent strategies such as content marketing, automated lead generation and nurturing, sales and channel enablement (among others), you are now […].

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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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Why B2B Marketers Need to Educate Buyers With Content

Convince & Convert

If it’s Friday, it must be my day to create some content. Marketers are busy planning, creating, optimizing, and analyzing, and for many of us, creating content is just one of many things on our to-do lists. We’ve all seen the stats that reveal B2B marketers are spending more time, budget, energy, happy hours, hackathons, and puppy time on content. But to what end?

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Financial Advisors Need to Get Personal or It’ll Cost Them

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Joe Paone It’s no secret that the financial services industry has been going through a transformation in recent years. Independent financial advisors, as well as large institutions, are moving away from commissioned accounts to a fee-based approach. Firms like Merrill Lynch that were once full of commissioned-based brokerage accounts now have a company roadmap to transition customers to fee-only accounts.

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Beyond the Blog

Contently

The SXSW program is always a great barometer of dominant buzzwords. Take “content marketing.” Four years ago, there were only a handful of content marketing panels, and they were all cordoned off at a Sheraton a mile from the convention center. This year, the term appeared nearly 1,200 times in the schedule. By comparison, “synergy” only got 18 mentions.

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How to Increase Conversions With a Cart Recovery Email Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

If you have an e-commerce website, you inevitably deal with the issue of shopping cart abandonment. In fact, it is quite possible that only around 30 percent of the customers who visit your website that add items to their grocery cart actually complete the checkout process. If you aren’t doing anything to deal with shopping […]. The post How to Increase Conversions With a Cart Recovery Email Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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The Real Way to Get More Customer Feedback

Convince & Convert

Last week I was in Nashville speaking at Marketing United , a fantastic event run by Emma , one of my sponsors and the company that powers our email program here at Convince & Convert. NOTE: I talked about this lesson first on Snapchat, as part of my new “ Baer In The Woods ” series. A few times a week, I create a Snapchat story with advice about digital marketing and customer service.

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Why Marketing Automation is the Key to Sharing Strategic Insights with Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Patrick Groover Have you been approached by your sales team within recent months asking for more leads or, in many cases, higher quality leads? (Where are my Star Trek fans?). As marketers, it’s no longer enough to be building the best communication with sales ; it’s vital that we deliver the highest quality prospects to the sales team and reduce the amount of time spent on unqualified inquiries.

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10 LinkedIn Messages You Should Never Send to Freelancers

Contently

This article originally appeared on The Freelancer. LinkedIn can be a useful platform for freelance writers to find clients, meet PR people with interesting pitches, and connect with others in the industry. But that doesn’t mean everything in our inboxes is useful. Far from it. From the recent college grad begging for a job to the editor with an “exciting opportunity” to produce free content, freelancers’ profiles can attract some presumptuous and outright ridiculous peop