Sat.Jun 23, 2018 - Fri.Jun 29, 2018

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How to Understand Your B2B Audience Better

KoMarketing Associates

In real estate, it’s “location, location, location.”. In content marketing, there’s a similar mantra: “audience, audience, audience.”. If you can create content that both fits the needs of your audience, and meets your business goals at the same time, you will have hit the sweet spot of content marketing. But if you don’t understand your audience and don’t target your content for them, you might as well do broadcast advertising.

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How to Apply Your Marketing Data to Improve Results

Ontraport

With so much data at your fingertips, it's important to understand how to interpret it before you make a move. The post How to Apply Your Marketing Data to Improve Results appeared first on The ONTRAPORT Blog.

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How did marketers let GDPR happen?

Biznology

I teach classes for the Rutgers Business School Executive Education, so I cross paths with savvy digital marketers on a constant basis. I have been asking them the same question for the last three years, “If people are really getting creeped out by the way marketers are sneaking around with their data, how come no one has started a business around data privacy?

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How to Reduce, Reuse and Repurpose Top-Performing Content Into Visuals

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s just say it upfront: creating content is time-consuming. Many of us would like to think creating content was as simple as writing for an hour, sending it off, and being done with it. But as we’ve seen many times over, that isn’t the case. Consistent, quality content takes time and effort to produce. Ok, […]. The post How to Reduce, Reuse and Repurpose Top-Performing Content Into Visuals 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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4 Simple Reasons for Why this Webinar Invitation Works

The Point

Webinars are a dime a dozen. As a marketer, how do you make your Webinar invitations stand out from the crowd, a challenge made bigger when you’re presenting on a topic (say, GDPR) that is so commonplace as to be completely generic? The key to Webinar success, I would argue, isn’t about wild and wacky creative, though good creative never hurts. When Webinars succeed, it’s generally because a) the topic is compelling, and b) the hosts make a successful case for why that event is worth the reade

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Five Fatal Trade Show Mistakes You Must Avoid

Webbiquity

Guest post by Jessica Kane. Most B2B businesses depend (at least to some degree) on trade shows to generate leads, get media coverage, and attract customers. Each time you participate in a trade show, your business must invest (a considerable amount of) money, and you must invest (a considerable amount of) your time. Image credit: Joe Flood on Flickr.

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Why Content Marketing Is Important

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is important, not just because it works for building trust, generating leads, and cultivating customer loyalty, but because it has become the new normal from the consumer side. It is, in itself, helping to evolve what customers expect from the brands they interact with.Neglecting it is way more risky than investing in it.What […].

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How B2B Marketers Can Dominate Branded Keyword Search Engine Results

KoMarketing Associates

Branded keywords represent search queries that include the organization’s brand name or various product and brand-related information. While most B2B marketers assume their organization appears prominently for branded keyword search results, they need to consider the rest of the results that appear on a Google search page, both organic and paid.

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30 Shocking Influencer Marketing Statistics

Zoominfo

In today’s digital era, innovative marketing tactics have begun to overtake the traditional methods that have worked for years. Take influencer marketing for example. This strategy relies on the power of industry influencers and thought leaders to achieve critical business goals. Typically brands work with influencers who have a large, dedicated following, particularly on social media.

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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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How To Hack Influitive’s New Campaign Content Library To Create Custom Campaigns

Influitive

What if creating advocate marketing campaigns—that turn your best customers into vocal advocates—were as easy as waving a magic wand? Anyone who has ever built an advocacy campaign will tell you that it can take a lot of work. That’s where I come in. As Influitive’s Campaigns Specialist, I spend most of my time building.

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GDPR: What It Means and How to Make Your Website Compliant

Marketing Insider Group

In May, the EU Parliament rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new data policy that protects the personal information of EU internet users by tightening the guidelines associated with data collection and retention by websites. While the GDPR only affects citizens and residents of the EU, there’s a catch that American’s and […].

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Survey: Email Engagement Rises When Marketing Email Volume Dips

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers who send fewer emails may actually see more engagement, according to new research from Yes Lifecycle Marketing. Recently, the company conducted its “Q1 Email Benchmark Report 2018” to gauge how active email recipients are in correlation with marketing efforts. Statistics showed that the average number of emails sent per engaged subscriber declined 29.3 percent from Q4 2017 to Q1 2018.

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Influencer marketing done right can drive all the traffic to your brand-spanking-new freshly-launched website

Biznology

Unless you already have a bursting-at-the-seams Rolodex and a stable of superfans who are waiting impatiently for anything and everything you give birth to in the world, you might be cutting the ribbon of your new business, blog, site, app, community, or nonprofit to a fever-pitch crowd of bumpkiss. When You Build It They Won’t Come. Immediately after my client’s non-profit website launched, Gerris Corp’s Dan Krueger and I initiated a 4,000-influencer micro-influencer and inf

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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 Recruiting Blogs to Bookmark Today

Zoominfo

As a busy recruiter, you don’t have much time in your day to spend reading articles and recruiting blogs. After all, you’re sourcing candidates , scheduling interviews, and combing through resumes. We get that. But there’s something to be said for taking a quick break during the day to catch up on the latest trends, best practices, and breaking industry news.

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Why Employee Activation Is the Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

What if your organization was staffed by a team of experts – employees who are skilled, driven, and have a lot to offer, not only to your customers but also to society? Imagine what a powerhouse your company would become. We’re not just talking consumer trust here. This is about respect and your audience fostering […]. The post Why Employee Activation Is the Future of Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Once is Never Enough: How to Repurpose Content Like a Boss

Act-On

Good content is hard to do – and expensive. Learn how to repurpose your content to make the very most of your best content – and extend your budget.

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What kind of video do you need in sales communication?

Biznology

“Are Salespeople Relevant to the Modern Buyer?” is the question posed in an article by Tamara Schenck about about CSO Insights’ 2018 Buyer Preferences Study. At first glance, its results seem to say “Sometimes.” Most buyers only engage with salespeople after they have identified their needs. Many buyers have already identified a solution before engaging with sales.

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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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Original Research is Helping Marketers Achieve Top Objectives

KoMarketing Associates

New data suggests that more marketers are now conducting their own original research, but what are the key benefits of doing so? To learn more about marketers, their original research, and the advantages that come with conducting research in-house, Mantis Research in partnership with Buzzsumo recently published the “How Marketers Create and Publish Original Research in 2018” report.

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Why and How to Use YouTube to Promote Your Business

Marketing Insider Group

Most businesses, when they think social media promotion, they think Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the like. However, YouTube is one of the biggest and most popular social networks in the world – in fact, it’s the second biggest website in the world. Which of course means huge reach and immense possibilities for increasing awareness of […].

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15 Expert Opinions About Business Data

Zoominfo

In modern business, data is a hot commodity. Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. But, there’s a reason for all this talk. Data is a critical component of business success—no matter the industry, the size of the business, or how the business operates. Everyone needs data to compete in our modern business landscape—and we have the quotes to prove it!

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Why you need testimonials to persuade your customers

Biznology

Everyone knows they need testimonials, but I recently saw a graphic example of how true this is. I have been helping a very smart client in their RFP process to select a vendor for their marketing campaign. The client looked at a half dozen different vendors and brought a handful in for in-person meetings. One of them really stood out. Their technology seemed much better than anything we had seen before.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

ViewPoint

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Not 50 things. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Measure what matters. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. The more senior you are in your organization the more likely it is that you think these actions should be (whether or not they can be) handled by others in your organization.

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10 Simple Reasons Why Your Lead Nurturing Strategy Isn’t Working

Marketing Insider Group

When it comes to lead management, attracting potential buyers is only the beginning. Remember that for a lead to be considered successful, it must ultimately turn into a sale. To get there, you’ll need to be proactive about nurturing each step in the sales conversion process. Lead nurturing is the process of sending relevant content […]. The post 10 Simple Reasons Why Your Lead Nurturing Strategy Isn’t Working appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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CMOs Increasingly Turning to Social Media to Reach Customers and Prospects

KoMarketing Associates

Digital marketers have a wide array of channels available to them, but new research suggests that social media and search rise above the rest. Recently, Nielsen conducted “The Nielsen CMO Report 2018” to determine which channels CMOs, in particular, are turning to in order to reach out to their customers and prospects. In terms of importance, the majority (79 percent) of respondents said social media was the most critical digital media channel.

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6 sales tips from jewelers row

Biznology

The jewelry business may be easy to penetrate, but success is a difficult feat. With the intensity of the competition and the changing market demands, it is challenging to craft your own success story. To make things easier, keep in mind these tips. Be in the Know. It is important that you are knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the business. If you are a novice, it will help to first work on obtaining a certification.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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How to Perform a 2018 Mid-Year Marketing Assessment with Checklists

Act-On

On track to meet your annual goals? Well, now is a great time to evaluate your efforts with a mid-year marketing assessment. Here are some checklists to help you evaluate your mid-year marketing results in social, search, paid, website, more.

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Don?t Forget the Millennials Already: 4 Tips for Targeting the Biggest Customer Segment

Marketing Insider Group

Nope. This is not yet another article warning you about the scary Millennials who’re coming down the road (hey, they’re already here). In fact, the surge of articles “advising” how to deal with this group is now dying down. That doesn’t mean businesses have cracked this segment or that they fully understand how to market […]. The post Don’t Forget the Millennials Already: 4 Tips for Targeting the Biggest Customer Segment appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Sales Prospecting Results

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Prospecting is difficult. There’s no denying it. In fact, one study revealed that 40% of salespeople said prospecting is the most challenging part of the sales process. Why is it so hard? There are a lot of reasons. It’s hard to capture buyer attention and to stimulate interest and desire. It’s difficult to persuade buyers into action. Many sellers don’t have the right mindset around prospecting.