Sat.Nov 04, 2023 - Fri.Nov 10, 2023

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Modernize Your GTM Playbook With These 3 Rules

Zoominfo

With a daunting array of tools, an endless list of growth strategies, and constantly evolving communication channels, there’s compelling evidence that modern work is facing a crisis of disconnection. And that makes a cohesive, connected go-to-market (GTM) strategy more valuable than ever. At this year’s INBOUND conference , I attended ZoomInfo’s session “GTM for All: Unlocking Playbooks for Every Company,” which provided valuable insights into how companies can connect these disparate thre

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Overcoming Segmentation Challenges in B2B Marketing

Top Rank Marketing

Every marketing strategy should include determining the best way to narrow down the total addressable market (TAM) for that particular campaign. Audience segmentation is critical for using your marketing resources effectively. It’s how you make sure your message is shown to the right people — and only the right people. Let’s explore what B2B audience segmentation is, some common challenges marketers face when segmenting, and how to overcome those challenges.

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The Best Email Deliverability Guide Ever

Act-On

Part 1: Mission Inbox-able Email deliverability isn’t yet a buzzword on the lips of every digital marketer out there. But it needs to be. Think about it. You work hard on your email marketing programs: developing copy, selecting supporting content, finding the right visuals, making sure the right people on your team have reviewed and approved.

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Humanizing B2B: The key to better customer experience

Martech

In the crowded B2B space, reaching your target audience is challenging. Product alone is not enough to engage and retain B2B buyers. But surprisingly, B2B businesses often overlook the importance of a great customer experience for their buyers, which is typically a top priority for B2C. B2B and B2C customers, despite their different needs, are still human decision-makers.

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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 B2B Marketers Need to be Careful With Purpose Marketing

B2B Marketing Directions

Many marketing pundits argue that companies should make environmental and social "purpose" an integral part of marketing communications. Read on to learn why you should approach purpose marketing cautiously. Purpose marketing can be defined as the use of messaging in external communications that expresses a company or brand's core mission and values.

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The Evolution of ABM: 3 Forces Driving the Future of Marketing 

Zoominfo

Keeping pace with today’s customer demands and competitive pressures requires an adaptable toolset and a compelling vision. By uniting the two, B2B marketers can transform a traditional account-based marketing strategy into a comprehensive go-to-market approach that can scale across an entire company. When we decided to launch our ABM platform just under two years ago, we heard that buyers were frequently frustrated with existing ABM offerings, feeling they over-promised and under-delivered.

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What will happen in martech in 2024? A no-BS report and webinar by two giant martech nerds

chiefmartech

Want to know what 2024 has in store for martech? I’m not talking about wild-eyed, hand-wavy, link-baity prognostications that proliferate in every year-end prediction season like that one Mariah Carey Christmas tune. I mean real-world, fact-based, happening-now trends that will inform your marketing operations and technology strategy for the next 12 months.

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5 marketing automation quick wins

Martech

Marketing automation allows marketers to speed up processes and increase efficiency. Many of these solutions take time and planning to implement. However, there are some quick wins your marketing organization can achieve by making small changes to your existing marketing automation program. They don’t take much effort to get going and they can bring good value to your business.

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Do You Want to Improve Lead Gen? Personalize Your B2B Marketing.

Navigate the Channel

Marketing as a whole is not a numbers game, but lead generation certainly is. We’re all blind going in. By the same token, our prospects only know what our marketing tells them until they try our products. At the beginning of the marketing process, namely during lead generation, the numbers game is in full swing. Lead generation is a crucial numbers game in marketing.

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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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Incorporating Google Ad Grants Into Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

If your nonprofit is ready to start advertising online , you’ll first need the resources to power your marketing strategy. One such resource is Google’s Ad Grant program, which offers eligible nonprofits $10,000 monthly in ad credits to promote their websites via Google Ads. But your nonprofit will have to go above and beyond its existing marketing strategy to make the most of Google’s grant.

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6 Reasons to Repost Your Content on Social Media

Act-On

Fact: Content marketers could be doing much more with their content. Way too many of us just publish, promote our content only briefly (if at all), and then move on to the next piece. We don’t republish our content. We don’t repurpose our content. Do you even repost your content on social media? We know that less than half of us do. 34% of us, to be exact.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “Content Marketing Strategy” by Robert Rose

The Forward Observer

Content Marketing Strategy: Harness the Power of Your Brand’s Voice by Robert Rose About the Book Do you know how to turn the attention your content receives into profit? With a meaningful content marketing strategy, you can. An organization’s content communicates everything to consumers. Content marketing is one of the most important pieces of the marketing plan, but many businesses do not approach it strategically.

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Building Buyer Personas: How to Drive More Leads for Your Startup

Launch Marketing

Buyer personas are a powerful tool that every business owner and marketer, especially those in the dynamic startup realm, should have in their arsenal. You might be wondering, what exactly are buyer personas, and why are they such a big deal? Well, you’re in the right place. In this blog post, we will demystify the concept of buyer personas for startups, shed light on their pivotal role, and equip you with the knowledge and skills to create them effectively.

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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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Performance Marketing: Tools, Techniques and Best Practices

Marketing Insider Group

Remember when shopping and advertising were simple? Then the internet came along and changed the game. In today’s world, with tools like omnichannel marketing, businesses aren’t just reaching consumers. They’re having full-blown conversations across various online platforms. What’s even more exciting is that marketers can now keep an eye on how their ads are doing, minute by minute.

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Nailing the Numbers: The Reports Your CMO Wants to See

Engagio

One of your most important jobs as a senior marketer is communicating the impact of marketing investment on business results. Without showing this clearly, it’s difficult to justify and defend the budget you need to be successful. The language, metrics, and reports you use matter. Choose the wrong ones, and you diminish marketing’s credibility across the organization.

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Key Digital Branding Tips to Dominate Your Online Presence

Navigate the Channel

In a competitive marketplace where analytics and conversion rates rank high among digital marketing tools, many businesses put the idea of branding on the back burner. Because it’s a relatively slow process, traditional branding is often overlooked in favor of the instant-gratification of PPC campaigns, Facebook ads, and AdWords. Establishing a brand can sometimes be accomplished in just months…but in many cases, an effective brand can take years to develop.

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How to Measure the Value of SEO

Top Rank Marketing

If you can’t measure it, you can’t make sense of it. This points to one of the biggest barriers facing business leaders when it comes to search engine optimization. There’s no question that SEO delivers a return on investment. That’s been proven over and over again. But the math is not as simple as, say, pay-per-click advertising with its straightforward transactional nature.

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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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Content Optimization: The Complete Guide

Ahrefs

In this guide, you’ll learn how to optimize content for SEO, conversions, and social shares. But first, let’s make sure we’re on the same page… Content optimization dramatically improves your content’s performance and helps you meet your marketing goals.

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Email outreach for marketers: Measuring and optimizing performance

Martech

The last two years were transformative for our team at Belkins as we chose to make a significant investment solely in marketing. For me, stepping into the shoes of a CMO without a previous background in marketing was like a roller-coaster ride. With a team of 50 members and an ambitious target of generating 400 new deals each month, the pressure was palpable.

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Effective SEO Strategies for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies in 2024

Industrial Marketing Today

As we approach 2024, I cannot overstate the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies for manufacturers and industrial companies. In this blog post, I will discuss the most effective SEO strategies for manufacturers and industrial companies for the next year and beyond.

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B2B Marketers on the Move: Spotlighting Autumn B2B Industry Leadership Talent

Top Rank Marketing

As November marches ahead towards 2024, so to do exciting new opportunities, and as B2B marketers adjust to the changes this year has already brought — from the rise of AI tools to the increasing power of personalization , the industry continues to offer growth opportunities as well as unexpected shifts that often seem to happen so quickly they can be difficult to fully appreciate.

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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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The Official Ahrefs Tutorial: How to Use Ahrefs to Improve SEO

Ahrefs

This tutorial will walk you through the most practical, repeatable, and actionable Ahrefs use cases from our six core tools that will help improve your SEO. Site Explorer is our competitive research tool.

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How to make your ‘ideal customer profile’ more ideal

Martech

B2B marketing success hinges on more than just innovative strategies and cutting-edge technologies. At the heart of top-performing B2B marketing programs lies a solid answer to the fundamental question: Do you truly know your best customers and where to find more of them? Understanding and leveraging customer profitability Every company has a finite number of target customers who hear their value proposition better, need it faster, will pay more money for it and will stay longer.

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How to analyze customer sentiment to improve customer experience

Sprout Social

Customer expectations are at an all-time high : 60% of customers will switch to a competitor after a negative experience. 73% of customers want companies to recognize their unique needs and expectations. 52% of customers expect an answer within an hour of posting on a brand’s digital page. As a business, you need to figure out how to deliver great customer experiences while keeping up with these changing demands.

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Why Most Video Content Fails To Reach Its Full Potential [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

An important tool for creating human connections, video stands as a top priority in most content marketing programs. New CMI research explores how marketers are using this format – and what they need to achieve better results.

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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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12 Essential Marketing Analytics Tools for 2024 (Free & Paid)

Ahrefs

In this guide, we’ll go through twelve tools that will help you identify your best-performing tactics, and content, enabling you to do more of what works.

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Here’s How I Advise Anxious C-Suites To Approach Generative AI

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

As a strategic account executive at Salesforce, I spend my days advising companies on how to use emerging technology to grow their business. I can tell you this: C-suite leaders are nervous about generative AI in business. They know they need to do something but don’t have clarity on what, or how. I’ll tell you what I tell them. But first, here’s a sampling of what they’ve told me: A chief technology officer said, “We’re well aware of the importance of generative AI, but we’re

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5 reasons why the martech landscape will reach its peak in 2024

Martech

One certainty for marketers over the last dozen years is that Scott Brinker’s martech landscape map would grow. The map, which started in 2011 with only 150 companies listed, now contains over 11,000 companies* — a ridiculous growth rate of over 7,000%! With investments bringing generative AI into every marketing area imaginable, it seems certain that next year’s map will continue on the same growth trajectory.