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If content is king, why is treated like a pauper?

B2BMarketing.net

How many pieces of content have you seen today? 10? 50? 100? Forget about your own marketing team’s output for a second – just think about the sheer amount of digital content you’ve seen on social media, TV or your laptop today alone… the volume is staggering. What’s even more staggering is just how forgettable and aimless some of that content is. Whilst B2B marketers know that content is important to their strategy, the truth is that pressure from above, the internal perception of marketing’s r

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Four Reasons Why a Strategic Messaging Framework Is Important for B2B Marketing Success

Launch Marketing

Reaching the right audiences with the right messages is fundamental for B2B marketing success. Without clear and consistent messaging, it can be a challenge to engage ideal buyers and highlight why your solution is the best one for them. That’s where a strategic messaging framework comes in. A messaging framework is a tool that helps embody and communicate your strategy and story across all different lines of business.

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More Millennials Are Making B2B Purchasing Decisions: What That Means for Your ABM Strategy

Madison Logic

According to Forrester research, millennial buyers aged 25-44 are increasingly shifting into purchase decision-making roles and are expected to make up three-fourths of business buying teams in 2024. As a result of this shift, marketers and sellers can no longer rely on what has always worked to reach them. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach will increasingly become obsolete as B2B marketing and sales teams must deliver more personalized buying experiences to engage millennial buyers.

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The State of B2B Publishing 2024: A Conversation with ASBPE Leadership, Cory Sekine-Pettite and Davide Savenije

Trade Press Services

Trade Press Services recently sat down with Cory Sekine-Pettite and Davide Savenije of the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Industry editors and society directors, they have 37 years of B2B publishing experience between them. They offered insights essential for brands, professionals, journalists, and thought leaders looking to share thought leadership and establish their expertise in today’s constantly evolving marketplace.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

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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Demystifying Content Syndication ROI: A Guide for B2B Leaders

Only B2B

“It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” Think of your content as seeds of knowledge. Your website is the initial fertile ground, but content syndication allows you to sow those seeds across a wider digital field, reaching afr broader audience for potential growth and harvest, yielding the bounty of revenue. Is content syndication worth the effort?

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Unlocking Marketing Budgets: Strategies for Success

CMSWire

Marketers need to rediscover innovative ways to make the most out of their existing budgets, protecting and increasing investment for next year and beyond. Continue reading.

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The Future of Telemarketing: How Data-Driven Insights Drive Success in B2B Campaigns

Lake B2B

In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, where digital channels dominate the landscape, telemarketing remains a potent and effective tool for driving successful campaigns. Despite the rise of social media, email marketing, and other online strategies, the personal touch and direct communication offered by telemarketing play a crucial role in building meaningful connections and generating […] The post The Future of Telemarketing: How Data-Driven Insights Drive Success in B2B Campaigns appe

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Martechopia 2024: What did we learn about marketing technology in 2024?

B2BMarketing.net

2023 was the year that B2B marketers realised the potential of AI, but it didn’t take long until the mere mention of the word led to rolling eyes and a collective sense of ‘here we go again’. Perhaps this was best illustrated in our recent community sprint, in which we brought the Propolis community together to work out how we can use AI to overcome challenges around team productivity and efficiency.

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How Has Email Marketing in B2B Evolved in 2024? And What Can You Do About It? 

PureB2B

Email marketing is one of your main channels to grow your sales. Are your strategies still effective for your B2B audience?

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What's Working Now: ABM + Demand Gen

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Are you struggling with a stagnant pipeline? Discover how combining ABM and demand generation can help you get more qualified opportunities and grow your pipeline. Learn the latest trends and tactics for 2023 and gain the confidence to implement a successful strategy that aligns with sales to drive revenue growth. Join this interactive live session with Paul Slack and learn how to: Identify the best accounts for ABM Personalize at scale Run paid campaigns that actually work Tackle and optimize r

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How to Write Great Winback Emails

SendX

Know how you can leverage segmentation, personalization, compelling offers, and multi-channel coordination in your winback email approach. Examples included.

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Why Your Business Isn’t Seeing New Leads Online

Marketing Insider Group

All customers you get to the bottom of the marketing and sales funnel begin as leads. Somewhere, you attracted their attention and somehow, you propelled them to interact with your brand. Once they do, your company has the information it needs to make contact. In today’s environment, your digital presence offers the best opportunities for generating leads.

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Measure, Test, Measure: A Proven Framework for Better Data-Driven Decisions

Vision Edge Marketing

A high maturity level of customer-centricity enables more cost-effective initiatives related to recruiting, retaining, and growing the value of more customers; and creating relationships to build trust, loyalty, and advocacy. This, in turn, results in both top and bottom-line benefits. A well-crafted customer-centric growth strategy is the compass that guides us to profitable, sustainable growth.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Brand Benefits Playbook” by Allen Weiss

The Forward Observer

The Brand Benefits Playbook: Why Customers Aren’t Buying What You’re Selling–And What to Do About It by Allen Weiss and Debbie MacInnis About the Book From two of the world’s leading experts on branding, brand benefits, and positioning, this strategic guide reveals how focusing on brand benefits can transform organizations and help them win in the marketplace.

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leader's Guide

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

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Email Marketing Benchmarks You Need To Know

SendX

To truly harness the power of email marketing, it's crucial to understand how your campaigns measure up against industry standards. That's where benchmarks come in.

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Is Your Video Content Fulfilling Its Goals?

Marketing Insider Group

Video content is like the air we breathe – it’s everywhere, and there’s no escaping it. Love it or hate it, as marketers, we’re all aboard this fast-moving train. Each video is more than just a play button. It’s a chance to captivate, connect, and convert, turning each second of screen time into a memorable experience. It’s time to embrace the chaos and create video content that leaves a lasting impression.

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Choosing Your Ally in Growth: The Consultant vs. Agency Dilemma

Convince & Convert

So you’re at the point in your business where you’re looking to outsource support, whether it’s fixing an issue, auditing your current techstack, or attempting to scale, and you’re debating between hiring a consultant or an agency? There are many benefits to hiring both, however, there are some things you should first consider before making a decision.

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Google’s cookie deprecation: An essential marketing playbook for the post-cookie era

Martech

Google’s full deprecation of third-party cookies is right around the corner. Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

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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Sam Altman: AI Will Replace 95% of Creative Marketing Work

CMSWire

The OpenAI CEO says 95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists and creative professionals for will be handled by AI at nearly no cost. Continue reading.

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The Breakroom: Email Deliverability Explained

ClickDimensions

Summary: Email Deliverability changes are coming for bulk senders and email marketers need to be aware of these changes and adjust their best practices accordingly. But what actually is email deliverability, what changes are coming and how do you cater to them? This blog will break down all of these questions with actionable outcomes. Page Contents Toggle What is Deliverability?

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100 Blog Post Ideas to Get Traffic

Ahrefs

You need to write about topics with traffic potential. The proverb goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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How to protect customer trust when using AI

Martech

The launch of OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora highlights a broader AI problem that too many marketers ignore: With so much AI-generated content out there, customers don’t know what’s authentic. This might not seem like a big issue. Still, your company’s reputation plays an increasingly important role in influencing consumer decisions and any missteps with AI can damage it.

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Which ESG Topics Get the Most Attention?

People are focusing on how companies are responding to the headline issues of the day, says a report from 3BL Media on evolving interests in ESG subjects, which also found a mismatch between the stories brands publish and topics audiences want. So which emerging sustainability & ESG topics garner more audience attention? Download the guide to find out!

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10 Email Marketing Tips That Drive 80% of Email Revenue

CopyBlogger

Mastering email marketing takes years, but focusing on just a few key tips can significantly improve your ROI. This post. Continue Reading The post 10 Email Marketing Tips That Drive 80% of Email Revenue appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Navigating social media marketing in an election year

Sprout Social

The 2024 US presidential election is several months away, but social media is already politically charged. According to Sprout Social Listening data , from January 1 to March 6, 2024 there were almost 7.6 million conversations about the presidential election which garnered almost 45 million engagements and more than 103 billion impressions. Of these conversations, less than half were positive.

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I Replaced Google with AI For a Week. Here’s What I Learned

Ahrefs

It made me pause and think: Can you really replace Google with something else, like AI? I grew up with Google after all; it had never crossed my mind that one day I would stop using the search giant.

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Ad industry steps up to meet signal loss, privacy challenges: IAB

Martech

The ad industry is making major investments in order to adapt to the new privacy-by-design ecosystem, according to an IAB survey of 500 advertising and data experts at brands, agencies and publishers. The 2024 edition of the IAB’s annual “State of Data” report shows how the industry is addressing the new privacy-by-design ecosystem in which the deprecation of third-party cookies and other privacy-protective measures are expected to lead to significant signal loss.

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The Next Level of Sales Enablement: Sales Content Management

Speaker: Deniz Olcay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager

Modern Sales Content Management (SCM) platforms have become table stakes in the world of sales enablement. Sellers need one-stop access where all of their sales content is stored, organized, deployed, and measured. Today’s modern SCM platforms achieve just that. However, these various platforms also have key differences. In this value-packed webinar, Deniz Olcay and Jake Miller will unravel and debunk the top three SCM myths and explain how to get the most from your SCM solution.

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What a TikTok Ban Means for Marketers

CMSWire

Explore how a TikTok ban would reshape marketing strategies, impact influencers and prompt a pivot to new platforms for brands. Continue reading.

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Getting to Know Derek Edmond, Our Senior Vice President of Demand Generation

Walker Sands

In early 2023, we announced that Walker Sands had acquired KoMarketing in an effort to expand our growing demand generation capabilities. Fast forward to today, and our teams have come together as a unified demand gen team dedicated to driving important business outcomes for our clients. Former KoMarketing Managing Partner Derek Edmond recently stepped into a new role overseeing our Demand Generation function, which includes paid media, SEO and marketing operations.

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You Can’t Compare Backlink Counts in SEO Tools: Here’s Why

Ahrefs

For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B pages in our index as of December 2023. At a certain point, the quality of the web becomes bad.

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