InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

During a recent analysis of the available “operations” jobs on LinkedIn, we discovered a significant number of “revenue operations” jobs — 59,110 to be exact. It sparked the question, “Is revenue operations just another word for sales operations, or are the roles fundamentally different?”. We spoke to several operations professionals to help us better define revenue ops, and understand how the role fits into an organization relative to sales ops.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2018

Most CMOs know exactly what they are looking for when hiring marketers. Creative problem solving. Original vision. Leadership, perseverance, some grit. A mind brimming with brilliance. And, of course, skills and experience in the area you are hiring for. Great. What you want is clear. But, as every marketing manager and CMO knows, actually finding […].

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Millions of companies crowd the B2B universe, vying for the same share of business. As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 30, 2018

Google Analytics (GA) is the baseline in website traffic monitoring tools. It’s estimated that nearly 70% of the top 10,000 sites on the web use it, as do 55% of the top one million sites. But while GA is wildly popular (and free), it definitely has its limitations. Fortunately, there’s an expanding ecosystem of tools that supplement GA to give digital marketers much richer, actionable insights into what’s happening online.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 29, 2018

As marketers look toward their primary goals for the remainder of the new year, research shows that content marketing remains at the top of the list. Recently, SmallBizTrends conducted a survey to gauge what objectives marketers are focused on in 2018. The statistics showed that when marketers were asked which projects would be most important to them and their business, the top answer (20 percent) was content marketing.

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Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2018

Some of you might believe that site search is important to raise your conversion rates and what to make search work. Others might be more resigned to the fact that site search is hard and that you don’t really know what to do to make it better. You probably have thought of lots of reasons that you’d like it to be better: everything from higher revenue to lower support costs to better customer experience.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Guest post by Jessica Kane. If your business relies on trade show participation to at least some degree, you obviously want to optimize the time, effort, and money you invest in the undertaking. Accomplishing this objective requires properly preparing and staffing your trade show booth. Image Credit: JD Lasica. Designing an attractive booth and staffing it with sharp employees is a great way to generate leads, connect with buyers , and capture valuable data at trade shows.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Marketers continue to show an interest in account-based marketing (ABM), but research has indicated that they still face obstacles in achieving their key objectives with this tactic. A survey conducted by Demandbase discovered that although 66 percent of agency-based marketers are already deploying ABM, 45 percent of their clients do not fully understand ABM.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

If you’ve been keeping track of your marketing channel return rates, you might notice that your biggest ROI comes from – surprise – email marketing. Based on statistics, email is the main driver of leads and revenue for B2B marketers at 73 percent and 63 percent, respectively. Furthermore, email as a platform is said to […]. The post The Unwritten Rules of Email Marketing [Infographic] appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2018

If you’re not familiar with push notifications, here’s a very basic definition: Push notifications are messages that come from an app or website that appear on a subscriber’s desktop computer or mobile device—even if they’re not on that particular company’s website. Businesses everywhere use push notifications to deliver content and important updates to customers and website visitors.

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Biznology

JANUARY 30, 2018

When I travel or visit friends for get-togethers, dinner parties, or movie nights, I often ditch my laptop at home. However, there’s such a thing as herd immunity in computing: there’s generally a desktop or laptop not that far away. My SPYRUS drive. I generally have my ThinkPad Windows laptop, my Samsung S6 Active, an actual USB thumb drive, and probably my $50 Amazon Kindle Fire.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 31, 2018

More B2B marketers are investing in data and analytics, but how far have they come in terms of maximizing the potential of these assets? Radius recently teamed up with the Harvard Business Review to discover how B2B marketers are making the most of their data and analytics. In the “Why Your Data Strategy is Your B2B Growth Strategy” report, one-third of respondents (34 percent) said that their company’s data strategy is just “average.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 29, 2018

Imagine that cyber pirates have seized your business’s online identity. They now have control over your public communication channels, including your website and social media platforms. This deliberate takeover is brandjacking. It’s the act of assuming the online identity of a brand with the intention of ruining the company’s reputation. Brandjacking negatively affects your credibility. […].

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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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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Here’s content marketing secret number 2. We hope you’ve laced up your cleats, because in this part we’ll be nailing the kick-off process with your content marketing agency. In part one of Stripped Bare , we discussed the makings of a whirlwind client-agency romance, and how you can be sure that you’ve found “the one”. In this edition, we’ll be giving you the lowdown on how to conduct yourself in order to get the best out of onboarding processes.

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Biznology

JANUARY 31, 2018

Everyone knows about digital ad fraud, but do you know how to protect yourself as an advertiser? I have to admit that I really didn’t really understand the magnitude of the problem and I didn’t understand what to do. If you are like me, then you need to listen to the interview Tim Peter and I recently did with Augustine Fou , an expert on ad fraud.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 30, 2018

Digital marketing is constantly changing and evolving – and as it does, more and more platforms are becoming part of the marketing mix. However, the problem then becomes where to find relevant, updated, and fresh sources of ideas, news, and solutions for beginner or advanced issues. Another layer of complication is that you will most likely have to go to different sources to find it.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2018

How often do you spend weeks or even months putting blood, sweat, and tears into a new marketing campaign, only to have it fall flat? You swear you did everything right, but when it comes time for the results to pour in, they never show. It’s a marketer’s worst nightmare. The likely culprit? Bad buyer […]. The post 5 Reasons Why Your Buyer Persona’s Aren’t Good Enough appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2018

Sales and football have a lot in common. If you’re among the many readers who just rolled their eyes—hear me out! Both activities are games of strategy and neither your reps nor your team will win big without the right resources. Among other factors, both require a good coach, lots of practice, a sense of urgency, the drive to win, incredible focus, and insight into the competition.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It wasn’t too many years ago that this would have been a silly question — if you drew a Venn diagram of marketing and technology, it would look like two circles that don’t ever touch. How times have changed! Back in 2012, Garner Group predicted that CMOs would outspend CIOs by 2017, but maybe were skeptical. The numbers for 2017 aren’t yet in, but last year, Gartner doubled down with data saying, “Yes, it is really going to happen in 2017.” Regardless of the outcome

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 30, 2018

New research suggests that more customers are turning to video content, and as they do so, marketers appear to be ready to adapt to the growing trend. Wyzowl recently conducted “The State of Video Marketing 2018” survey to gauge how both customers and marketers are utilizing video content. The research found that the average customer now watches more than an hour-and-a-half of online video content per day.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2018

Selling online without an SEO plan is like an unlit shop on a remote road. Buyers can’t easily find the store, so the merchant can never make a sale. SEO is the key to driving more customers to your online store. Some say that SEO is dead as search engines have changed their algorithms to […]. The post Build & Refine Your SEO Strategy: How To Optimize Your Online Store appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment.

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Outreach

JANUARY 31, 2018

Bitcoin. Ethereum. Ripple. Cardano. Stellar Lumens. No, this isn’t the beginning of some Star Trek fan-fiction, although the world of cryptocurrencies would fit right in on an episode of Deep Space Nine. Most cryptocurrencies are built on a revolutionary technology called the blockchain , which at a high level is an extremely secure, public ledger that is shared and verified by a distributed network of computers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It’s almost ten years to the day since I first wrote about Celebrus , which then called itself speed-trap (a term that presumably has fewer negative connotations in the U.K. than the U.S.). Back then, they were an easy-to-deploy Web site script that captured detailed visitor behaviors. Today, they gather data from all sources, map it to a client-tailored version of a 100+ table data model, and expose the results to analytics and customer engagement systems as in-memory profiles.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Here’s content marketing secret number 2. We hope you’ve laced up your cleats, because in this part we’ll be nailing the kick-off process with your content marketing agency. In part one of Stripped Bare , we discussed the makings of a whirlwind client-agency romance, and how you can be sure that you’ve found “the one”. In this edition, we’ll be giving you the lowdown on how to conduct yourself in order to get the best out of onboarding processes.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2018

Thought leadership can help you shorten your sales cycle and lend credibility to your brand. And research shows that B2B leaders are paying attention. Nearly half of the C-suite says they vet an organization by its thought leadership and 81% say their trust increases after engaging with thought leadership content. Our clients have had similar […].

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Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Last January, Uber declined to participate in an organized taxi strike amidst the immigration ban protests at JFK airport. In fact, the company even turned off surge pricing to and from the airport. But instead of leading to a quick boom in business, the move upset consumers. In a matter of days, Uber lost 200,000 customers, and people were boycotting the brand on Twitter with #DeleteUber.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2018

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). But, that’s only if you do it correctly. The days of batch and blast emails are long gone. It’s no longer good enough to send your entire customer database the same offers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Are you making the most out of the traffic coming to your online store? You may have several users, but if you’re not converting them to sales as best as possible, you could be leaving a lot of money on the table. Small tweaks and changes could very well make the difference between a customer purchasing or leaving your website. In this blog, I’ll show you five effective ways you can start increasing your ecommerce conversion rate to increase revenue and achieve your goals.

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