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9 Digital Marketing Lies You Should Stop Believing

Marketing Insider Group

We all lie to ourselves in one way or another. And this is equally true in Digital Marketing. Fortunately, we are facing the truth that consumers don’t want our banners or need our ads. We know those aren’t helping anyone. We are also facing the truth that marketing has value. And executives expect to see us deliver […]. The post 9 Digital Marketing Lies You Should Stop Believing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Five steps to high-performing B2B promotional campaigns

Tomorrow People

Find out how to plan, manage and optimise B2B marketing campaigns for success with our new content series: The CMO's definitive guide to high-performing promotional campaigns.

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MarTech: Top 100 Influencers and Brands

Onalytica B2B

Martech is the blending of marketing and technology, with the aim of streamlining processes to achieve marketing goals and objectives. In this digital age, there is a huge demand for marketing technology to provide marketers with the tools they need to succeed. In 2016 the number of MarTech vendors grew to 3,874 up from 2,000 in 2015 according to chiefmartech.com , and the number of MarTech deals rose from 256 ($5.7bn) in 2015 to 291 ( $8.96bn ) in 2016 according to financial advisory firm Res

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Success of Digital Marketing Tactics Dependent on Generational Differences

KoMarketing Associates

Companies use a wide range of tactics to reach out to their target audiences, but the “AdReaction: Engaging Gen X, Y and Z” report from Kantar and Millward Brown suggests that digital marketing techniques resonate according to generation. For example, the report revealed that the majority of Gen Z (74 percent), Gen Y (66 percent), and Gen X (55 percent) used mobile devices for at least one hour per day, highlighting a key channel for digital marketers.

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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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What Is The Best Time To Publish Thought Leadership?

Marketing Insider Group

We wanted to understand when senior executives preferred to read thought leadership content. With the help of our first Value of B2B Thought Leadership Survey this is what we discovered. The post What Is The Best Time To Publish Thought Leadership? appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to simultaneously attract new prospects and retain loyal customers

Biznology

One of the challenges business owners face is attracting new customers while trying to retain current customers. Choosing where to spend your energy and how to divvy up your time between the two can be challenging. B2B companies tend to focus more resources on attracting new customers than retaining current customers. Because it’s much tougher to “switch brands” when it comes to complex B2B products and services, B2B companies make the mistake of taking their customers for granted.

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The Results Of 3 B2B Account-Based Marketing Campaigns: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Influitive

Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the hottest marketing trends right now—and with good reason. Today’s customers don’t want to be treated like just another email address. They expect personalized, relevant experiences. According to a study by Walker, the customer experience is expected to overtake product and price as a company’s key brand differentiator by.

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5 Efficient Content Marketing Ideas for SMBs

Marketing Insider Group

When small-to-medium sized businesses actualize highly-creative content marketing strategies, many great things can happen. From molding the voice, image and reputation of the brand to driving SEO and social media initiatives, brilliant content marketing can often have profound implications for companies on the local level. Because SMBs often lack the creative talent and personnel to […].

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Content Marketing and Sales Alignment: 5 Mutual Benefits

KoMarketing Associates

When I think of the biggest rivalries, I think Red Sox vs. Yankees, Sega vs. Nintendo, Microsoft vs. Apple, and sales vs. marketing. Okay, so maybe the last item in the list is a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s a fact that many companies isolate their marketing and sales teams from one another. The isolation doesn’t necessarily result in a rivalry, but it can lead to some contention and the effects on the organization can be noticeable.

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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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Is your marketing focus internal or external?

Biznology

If your marketing focus is on your products, your sales prices, your funnel, and your outcomes, you’ve got a problem. All the “yours” in that last sentence should be a pretty obvious clue. Your (ahem) primary focus as a marketer has to be on the needs and attitudes of your target market. Every other decision flows from what you know about your clients and their needs.

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5 Content Marketing Lessons from Top Digital Marketing Blogs

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Ellen Gomes In the world of content marketing, it’s inescapable: Success comes down to engagement. You can have thoughtful branding, great products, and a hard-working team, but if you’re not engaging your buyers through each step of the customer lifecycle, you’ll never reach your full potential. Simply put, without engagement, a key component of your marketing strategy will be missing: your audience.

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4 SEO Tricks You Must Try in 2017

Marketing Insider Group

Every second, Google handles more than 63,000 searches, which, according to Search Engine Land, accounts for over 2 trillion searches per year. Seeing how so many people across the globe use the search engine, it’s no wonder why SEO is more important than ever. However, the world of SEO is ever-changing. Search engine algorithms are […]. The post 4 SEO Tricks You Must Try in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Define Content Marketing Objectives in 3 Simple Steps

KoMarketing Associates

If you build it, they will come. It’s not just that familiar mantra from one of the greatest movies of all time. It’s also the mentality of many content marketers – in other words, if you put together a rockstar blog post, your audience will flock to your website to read it. Unfortunately, things aren’t quite as easy in the real world as they are in Hollywood.

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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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Secrets of the fastest growing B2B marketing agencies

Savanta

B2B marketing agencies are in rude health. The B2B Agencies Benchmarking Report reveals that 62% of agency leaders (we spoke to 75 of them from the UK’s leading players) describe their commercial performance in 2016 as ‘good’ and a further 26% report that it was ‘strong’. Their financial numbers reflect this confidence. 85% of agencies have grown revenues year-on-year, with an average increase in Gross Income of 9% and an average rise of 31% in Net Profit.

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The fake news lesson for marketers: You will be a victim

Biznology

Fake news made headlines during the election, but the phenomenon is nothing new to marketers. Just ask Procter & Gamble (P&G). In early 2010, P&G’s rollout of the most dramatic improvement to its Pampers diaper brand in a quarter century was sidetracked for months by a loosely organized Facebook campaign that claimed that the new product caused diaper rash.

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8 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Business Blog

Marketing Insider Group

Lots of bloggers get discouraged when they first start out, because no matter how much they tweet, they just can’t seem to increase their traffic. If you’re in this situation, it’s time to start thinking outside the box. With so much content on the internet, you’ll need tactics much more creative than social media to […]. The post 8 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Business Blog appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Survey: Mobile Usage Growing Significantly in China

KoMarketing Associates

A new study illuminates the growing reliance on smartphones in China and the potential for businesses to target this engaged audience. According to Deloitte’s “2016 Global Mobile Consumer Survey – China Edition” survey , in the past year, the number of heavy smartphone users (users who check their phone 50 or more times per day) rose from 4 percent to 23 percent.

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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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B2B marketing agencies optimistic about BREXIT

Savanta

I’ve been rummaging around the data underpinning this year’s B2B Agencies Benchmarking Report and was pleased to see how healthy the agency community is. Ask agency leaders (we spoke to 75 of them from the UK’s leading players) about their commercial performance in 2016 and the response is overwhelmingly positive. 62% describe it as ‘good’ and a further 26% report that it was ‘strong’.

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Tools and Tips for Outbound Sales Prospecting

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Ernesto Castillo In my last blog , I explained why account-based marketing is important in outbound prospecting and how it should be used for account profiling and prioritization. In this blog, I’d like to take it to the next level and touch on the importance of adding outbound prospecting into your sales development structure and processes.

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Running Low on Inspiration? Read These Tips on How to Generate Content Ideas For Your Blog

Marketing Insider Group

From time to time, every site owner or blogger appears in a situation when it is nothing to write about. Yes, everyone knows this can be avoided if planning a content strategy. However, everybody still falls in this position. So, what to write about, if you forget to update the editorial plan? Check out this […]. The post Running Low on Inspiration?

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57% of US Marketers Say Predictive Analytics Will Be a Primary Martech Tool in 2017

KoMarketing Associates

As customers utilize more types of technology, marketing professionals are turning to their own resources to keep pace. Marketo recently surveyed global marketers to learn more about which resources are becoming more valuable in 2017. Approximately 57 percent of U.S. marketers said that they believe predictive analytics will be the primary technology resource they use to engage customers this year.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Social media strategy leaders: Robert Bochnak

Biznology

1. Hello, Bob ! Can you please describe your professional background? How has your education and career brought you to where you are now, a leader in social media strategy? I am the Director of Social Media for the Harvard Business School Office of Alumni Relations. Before working at Harvard, I worked in communications for the Boston YWCA and Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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12 Questions You Need to Ask Before Hiring an SEO Company

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Nate Dame Search engine optimization (SEO) is a constantly evolving practice, as search engines continue to update their algorithms to provide a better user experience. Where SEO could once be effectively done with keyword density equations and cheaply bought backlinks, modern SEO only works as part of a holistic, integrated digital marketing strategy.

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Google’s Biggest Search Algorithm Updates Of 2016

Marketing Insider Group

Our annual visual rendition of the most significant changes to Google’s search algo is out! This year, the search giant (if we can still call them that) has been more active than the last in tweaking the algorithm – especially the way results are displayed – in ways that anticipate and meet user intent better. … Continue reading "Google’s Biggest Search Algorithm Updates Of 2016".

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Why Marketers Struggle to Hire the Best Freelance Writers

Contently

“Get us a nurse or a doctor… who can also write.” While working as an account representative at Contently last year, I often heard this type of request from customers interested in our freelance network. Regardless of the industry, be it finance, insurance, technology, etc., many of our clients came in with a desire for that perfect hybrid of writer-professional.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Build a Foundation of Planning

Hive9

As marketers, a big part of the job is “doing” – e.g. coming up with creative ideas, creating content, and developing marketing campaigns. When you spend your days doing, you feel productive. You feel like you’re accomplishing something. And you are, but getting things done shouldn’t be all that your job’s about.

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Your Marketing Content: Is it Fake News?

Marketing Craftmanship

The marketing profession has a reputation for sometimes using less than reliable market research to promote a point of view. And this marketer has been guilty of that sin. Years ago, our insurance company client was introducing a new Directors & Officers liability insurance policy, and asked us to raise market awareness. With good intentions, but given no budget or time to perform proper market research, we interviewed a total of 6 corporate CEOs and board members to provide some validation

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Weekend Reading: “They Ask You Answer” by Marcus Sheridan

Marketing Insider Group

For the 106th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Marcus Sheridan author of “They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer.” Marcus Sheridan’s pool company struggled after the housing collapse in 2008; today, it’s one of the largest pool installers in the U.S.