Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Staying ahead of the curve is imperative for long-term success in B2B. As we wrap up 2023 and look ahead to 2024, now is the time to evaluate our marketing strategies to ensure we are fully prepared for what’s to come. This article discusses six pivotal areas B2B marketers should focus on to kick off 2024 proactively. 1. Getting real with upper-funnel expectations We need to rethink how we approach the early stages of marketing traditionally focused on brand awareness.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Who are some of the top B2B influencer marketing experts to learn from and follow as we head into 2024? Hot on the heels of the publication of our comprehensive 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report , plenty of questions that go beyond the scope of what can fit even into a robust 39-page report remain, especially when B2B influencer marketing has seen continuing record growth, such as: 85% of B2B marketers are working with influencers, up 34% from 2020 and 46% from 2022 93% of B2B marketers say

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 5, 2023

DemandScience's Periodic Table of Demand Generation presents you with a guide and glossary of demand generation terms and definitions.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Is your B2B strategy performing the way you expect it to? Is it giving you the results you want and need? In order to keep up with the competition, you need to constantly grow your team’s strength and define your brand. Modern marketing is constantly expanding, and your audience will change, requiring new marketing strategies and tactics. To stay on top of your game, you need to spice up your social media marketing.

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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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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every member of a procurement team is more than just a professional—they’re people. Parents, pickleball players, podcast enthusiasts—and those are just the P’s. On and off the clock, they research potential purchases just as everyone else might. There lies the magic of B2B influencer marketing. Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2023 was a year of adapting to new technologies, implementing new approaches, evolving practices and much more. As the world continues to adopt new technologies and incorporate them, it is instrumental to evolve yet keep customers the focal point of marketing efforts. B2B marketing has never been more personalized and to continue to be effective, it must incorporate many trending and emerging tactics moving forward.

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Generating leads is an essential part of B2B success. But what exactly is B2B lead generation and how do you successfully do it?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What’s ahead in content and marketing for 2024? AI gets a lot of attention in these predictions, but in surprising ways. Plus, these experts forecast the impact of social media and world turmoil and give a healthy dose of hope.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Imagine a world where machines pen our stories – sounds like sci-fi, right? Well, that future might be closer than we think. At Marketing Insider Group, we teamed up with Renegade.com and CMO Huddles for a groundbreaking study: ‘Man vs. Machine.’ We wanted to see how AI, like ChatGPT-3.5, measures up against the creativity of human writers.

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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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SendX

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Email marketing is an excellent and effective process for many reasons. It gives you many opportunities to interact with your followers, who become loyal to your business because of the frequent contact. This justifies that by the end of 2023, email marketing revenue will reach 11 billion.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

[link] Imagine the business world as an intricate puzzle, with each piece representing a different participant in the business community: prospective and existing customers, suppliers, channel partners, influencers and connectors, and competitors. Just as solving a puzzle requires fitting the pieces together, businesses can strategically connect the dots of their ecosystem to create a comprehensive picture of growth and success.

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Growth Leader: Strategies to Drive the Top and Bottom Lines by Scott K. Edinger About the Book Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue. However you define business growth–total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty–sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services.

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The Point

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A client asks: “We recently purchased a list of email addresses from a reputable vendor for use in a campaign targeting competitive installations. Do the new Google/Yahoo deliverability rules make using a third-party list too risky? How should we approach the campaign differently?” My response: First, whereas the new rules (see below) increase the potential risk from using purchased lists, they don’t necessarily render such tactics irrelevant.

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SendX

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If there's one type of email that can provide 3 benefits at once — enhance customer engagement, provide targeted information, and improve the overall customer experience — it's triggered email.

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Act-On

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The cracks in your marketing automation platform may have been showing for some time. It’s difficult to use. Your team uses tricky workarounds to bypass processes that aren’t working. Or the solution includes so many features that getting the most basic tasks done is more complicated than it should be. Sound familiar? Yep, it’s time to switch. But switching can seem like a daunting task.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Did you know 61% of customers are ready to walk away after just one unpleasant customer service experience? This leaves no doubt that your company’s success largely depends on your customer support. And it’s exactly why you should focus on providing holistic customer service through social media. On social media, most customers just want to be heard and understood.

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Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this two-part feature, Jade Bunke offers a step-by-step guide to building a successful brand. A brand is an organization’s most valuable asset. The art of capturing the hearts and minds of your customers starts with crafting a brand strategy that evokes emotions and behaviors that benefit your company. Brand is more than a collection of logos and colors — it’s the personification of your organization.

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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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SendX

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Step right up to learn how to hit the jackpot with your casino email marketing strategy! With more than 50% of players returning to casinos because of being emailed about promotions, it's a sure bet for engaging with your audience. We’ll deal you in with tips to craft targeted email campaigns that rake in new business and keep players coming back.

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xiQ

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Transforming B2B Sales with Generative AI: The xiQ Revolution Generative AI will Create $1.2 Trillion in Sales Productivity Annually. Source: McKinsey and Company This is more than just an evolution – it's a revolution. Join us in this exciting journey with xiQ! The B2B sales and marketing landscape is rapidly evolving, and the key to success lies in embracing transformative technologies.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI and LLMs (large language models) have turned the world of conversation design upside down. People were already on the fence about automation and chatbots. And now, they’re also learning about autonomous agents. When experimenting with conversational AI, it’s easy to get lost in the innovation and forget the principles behind it. That’s when resources, such as our recently launched Conversation Design Guidelines for Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) can provide direction in

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Martech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This February, Google and Yahoo will begin enforcing new requirements for bulk email senders. The guidelines largely focus on three areas: authentication of outgoing emails, reported spam rates and the ability to easily unsubscribe from email lists. Google defined bulk senders in an early-October announcement as “those who send more than 5,000 messages to Gmail addresses in one day,” which caught the attention of email marketers in both B2B and B2C circles.

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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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Ahrefs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Let’s get the criticism out of the way. There are bad actors in SEO, people who seek to extract money from the internet regardless of the cost to others. There are still scams and snake oil, posers and plagiarists.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Who do consumers think runs brand accounts?” That’s the question we set out to answer when we surveyed 1,623 consumers from the US and the UK. The results are telling: According to our Q4 2023 Sprout Pulse Survey, respondents believe the average social media manager is: white (65%), female (73%), 25-40 years old (55%), and a part-time employee or freelancer (40%).

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You have managed systems rollouts and cloud migrations. In the last decade, you have modernized legacy systems, connected and disconnected applications, and amped up cybersecurity. And now AI is in the public domain and in your industry. AI isn’t news to you or your IT team. But are you prepared to build AI apps that your business is asking for or are your teams’ hands tied with systems integrations?

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial intelligence. It is everywhere, or so it would seem. I was at a recent marketing conference and as I scanned the agenda more than half of the sessions, including my own, had AI in the title or in the session description. Two of the keynotes that I attended mentioned AI and the one was entirely on AI. While AI is all the rage , if you are not using it. there is no reason to feel left out.

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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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Ahrefs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create search-optimized content your readers and Google will love. If no one is searching for the topic you’re writing about, you won’t get search traffic no matter how high you rank.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If you are a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) user, you may experience some occasional glitches and choppy sounds. These can be. The post How To Know If SIP ALG is the Problem, and Steps to Disable It appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2023

With the rise of AI , everyone has seen how businesses can use AI to simplify and improve their processes. But how can we be confident that we are using AI to the best of our ability and pursuing AI excellence? First, recognize enduring principles, such as prioritizing customer success and ensuring a personalized user experience. Then, learn how to use AI to reach your goals.

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