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The Future of Marketing and Rise of the Data-Driven CMO

Smarte

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) have traditionally overseen campaigns, content, communications, branding, advertising – they still do. However, advanced tools like CRMs and sales intelligence platforms in data-driven environments have caused their role to be constantly evolving. Imagine a data-driven CMO. If you pictured someone on a desk crowded with several computer screens obsessively checking his […].

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How To Gain Trust From Readers With Credible Content

Brandpoint

Our Senior Content Writer Michelle Miron wrote this post with the perspective that comes from being a longtime Brandpoint contributor. She shares our philosophy on how we create our MAT releases and marketing content and how this tactic fits into an overall marketing strategy. If you’re relatively new to content marketing and finding yourself baffled by some of its key strategies, you’re far from alone.

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How Social Media Impacts Small Businesses

BenchmarkONE

Social media needs no further introduction, as over half of the world’s population currently uses various social platforms. With its tentacles spreading across every facet of modern life, it comes as no surprise that small businesses are tapping into its huge potential. As a digital marketplace teeming with a potential audience of about three billion people, social media is a place for you to find potential clients and promote your brand and services. .

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One Click That Mattered

SendX

Our domain ‘sendx.io’ was set up 4 years ago and we have been using GSuite to communicate within the team. We would never expect our emails to land in the spam box… We have been in the email deliverability space for over 2 years now. Proper authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC records), maintaining server/domain reputations, etc, have been like the back of our hands.

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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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Why the Future of Marketing Depends on a C-suite Partnership for Long-term Growth

Marketing Insider Group

With new trends, customer behaviors, and technologies transforming the industry at top speed, there has never been a better time to be in marketing. While marketing has frequently fueled big consumer product enterprises, its influence is now growing through B2B companies, start-ups, new products, and more to create long-lasting customer relationships.

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Pick The Right Plays: Using the Go-To-Market Framework

Zoominfo

Today, businesses across the country are scrambling to adapt, doing everything they can to rework their operating models in weeks and months, not years. Even those at the top are always at risk. In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company.

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Building and Optimizing a Stellar Customer Journey

Influitive

We kicked off this year’s Influitive Live 2020 conference with a hot topic: the customer journey. In his Opening Keynote, Influitive CEO Dan McCall presented this important finding: 84% of customers say that the experience a company provides is as important as its products and services. “A company that listens and engages with their customers […].

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Retargeting Explained: What It Is And How Does It Work

Marketing Insider Group

Retargeting – sometimes referred to as re-marketing – is an effective form of online promotion that helps businesses reach people who have previously visited their website. Typically, most websites convert 3% of users on their first visit. Retargeting allows brands to get in front of the 97 percent of visitors that haven’t yet converted – whether they weren’t ready to buy or got distracted during the checkout process.

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Everything You Need to Know to Create a Perfect Thank You Page

SendX

Saying Thank You matters a lot whether you say it to your boss, your colleagues, your clients, or your friends, it’s a gesture of gratitude. A Thank You page is known as the page where subscribers are allowed to get redirected immediately after they buy a service or product from you. Some other Thank You pages or pop-ups are also found upon submitting information in an opt-in form, subscribing to the newsletter, or downloading a free product.

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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 to Use Email Automation to Nurture Prospects

Zoominfo

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Though email is an extremely effective communication channel that’s ever-evolving, it’s one of the most time-consuming. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Email automation takes more tedious tasks off your hands so more effort and resources can be put into impactful brand messaging.

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Report: Lead Generation Remains a Top Challenge for Marketers Focused on Building Relationships

KoMarketing Associates

Many marketers excel at lead generation, but new research shows that they still face a number of challenges when it comes to establishing relationships for lead conversion. Ascend2 recently published the “Building Relationships for Lead Conversion” report, and statistics suggested that the top challenge for marketers looking to build relationships for lead conversion is lead generation itself (50%).

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How to Set And Align Goals for Agile Marketing Teams

Marketing Insider Group

Agile software development teams measure their progress by delivering useful features and functionality. The Agile Manifesto , in fact, explicitly values “working software” as “the primary measure of progress.” But what happens when you don’t create software? How do we accurately measure the progress of other kinds of Agile teams? Each individual team will work out their own precise success metrics, but overall Agile teams need to focus on regular value delivery.

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Why and How to Send A Personalized Discount Email

SendX

Personalized email campaigns work much better than generic ones. That’s because they simply work for both sides—you and your prospective buyers. One-to-one email campaigns can boost sales, maximize profitability, increase customer lifetime value and help you build a loyal customer base. In this blog, you’ll learn. What’s a personalized discount email.

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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 Will Advances In Artificial Intelligence Change The B2B Data Industry?

Zoominfo

It’s been called everything from the ‘ too dangerous to release ’ and the ‘ Robot Apocalypse ,’ to ‘overhyped,’ to ‘shockingly good.’. Originally developed by OpenAI, a research lab in San Francisco, GPT-3, the hot new language model, has gained significant traction as the hottest new language processing model in recent memory. An (admittedly) oversimplified explanation of GPT-3 is as follows: a language processing tool that can do everything from creating poetry, writing code, or answering ques

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Inclusive Communication: What are YOU Saying?

Biznology

Maya Angelou once said, “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”. Her words came home to roost for me this past week when I posted on LinkedIn about a course I had taken called, “How to become an Anti-Racist Leader.” I wrote, “So often these courses can be scary for White people – we are often afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing or become defensive because we don’t want to be accused of being a racist…If you are White leader who wants to be

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How SalesLoft Is Ruining Customer Experience (But It’s Really Your Fault, Not Theirs)

ANNUITAS

Let me start by explaining that this post is not an attack on SalesLoft. It actually has little to do with their technology, per se. This post ‘is’ however a shot across the bow of the concept that successful selling simply comes down to persistent, interruptive, automated ‘sales cadences.’ And it is an indictment of the poor Customer Experience that results when companies build their go-to-market around an (inside-out) sales interruption mindset, instead of operationalizing go-to-market a

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11 Email Preview Tools to Try Out Today

SendX

In email marketing campaigns, you don’t always get what you see. The point is that there are different email providers that people use, such as Yahoo, Outlook, or Gmail, and this can make the emails appear differently for email subscribers. Images can sometimes be blocked, fonts might not render, and alt text can be missing. If you continue to have issues like this, your credibility could be at stake, and you could lose some of your subscribers.

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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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Recruitment Productivity: Where Are You Wasting The Most Time

Zoominfo

Recruitment is an art and a science. It can be complex and time consuming. One badly sourced candidate can set recruiters back months, and cost a lot of time and energy. But the reward for finding the right candidate? It’s a feeling you won’t forget. So, while some recruitment best practices can be time consuming, they will undoubtedly save you time (and money) in the long run.

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The three components of an Experience Maker – and why they matter for modern business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Adobe’s recent Experience Maker’s Live two-day online event was insightful, thoughtful, and informative, just as I predicted. While I knew what kind of high-quality content I could expect from one of their events, I headed into the virtual conference with one pressing question: what exactly is an experience maker? It didn’t take long before the question was answered. .

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Influitive Experience changes the game to prospect future customers in a gamified platform

Influitive

Influitive believes it has created a better way for marketers to prospect future customers through its recently launched “Influitive Experience” hub. The platform allows users to conduct “activities” where upon completion they are awarded points. The activities include topics like “meeting Influitive customers,” “advocacy best practices,” and “discovering Influitive products.

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“Reaching out” with video

Biznology

“Social video generates 12 times the shares than text and images combined” has been a favorite stat of video makers since it was mentioned by Forbes in 2017. But what is “social video” anymore, now that socializing with video is an everyday thing for people in business? What’s not sociable? Commercial interruptions. Sure, competently produced video marketing messages video stand out compared to text and static images.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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How to Use Email Automation to Nurture Prospects

Zoominfo

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Though email is an extremely effective communication channel that’s ever-evolving, it’s one of the most time-consuming. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Email automation takes more tedious tasks off your hands so more effort and resources can be put into impactful brand messaging.

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Account Based Marketing: A Game Changer Of Marketing World

Only B2B

Account based marketing has always been a darling to many businesses. This takes efforts and time but provides a greater result. If we talk specifically about this pandemic period, many companies are struggling to re-establish their business. In the ABM world, many B2B giants are proceeding with smart moves. We know Demandbase, a titan lead generation company acquired Engagio.

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LinkedIn vs Facebook: Which Will be Better for B2B in 2021?

Oktopost

When it’s time to launch a B2B marketing campaign on social media, LinkedIn seems like the obvious platform of choice. There’s no mystery why B2B marketers keep flocking to it – it simply works. By the numbers , LinkedIn is supposedly the best social media platform for B2B lead generation. . However, that also means that the competition is getting steeper, and the costs to advertise and promote your business on LinkedIn keep rising.

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How to Use EAT to Outrank Your Competitors on Google

Spiralytics

No other than Google says E-A-T are very important factors for your site and webpages, so here's how to use them effectively. The post How to Use EAT to Outrank Your Competitors on Google appeared first on Spiralytics Inc.

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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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Pick The Right Plays: Using the Go-To-Market Framework

Zoominfo

Today, businesses across the country are scrambling to adapt, doing everything they can to rework their operating models in weeks and months, not years. Even those at the top are always at risk. In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company.

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8 Habits You Should Have for Quality Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Aristotle was right. Quality is not an act, but a habit. Over 20 content marketing experts echo that thinking with their advice on what you should be doing to create quality work. (Hint: There isn’t a one-and-done idea in the bunch.) Continue reading → The post 8 Habits You Should Have for Quality Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Top 5 ABM Trends For B2B Marketers – A Pathway For Future

Only B2B

It is quite evident, nowadays B2B marketers are finding trendy ways to connect with businesses. The old traditional way of lead generation is evolving, it is transforming into a cleverer and smarter way. The conventional or say long-established approach of generating leads is now captured by Account-Based Marketing. Over the last few years, Account-based marketing is grabbing the market.