Sat.Nov 25, 2017 - Fri.Dec 01, 2017

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12 Habits of Wildly Successful B2B Content Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

Wouldn’t it be helpful if you knew what habits the best content marketers have in common? If you knew what tricks and practices were working for them, imagine how much you could improve your own content marketing strategy. A new report released by the Content Marketing Institute has put together the goals, priorities and the […]. The post 12 Habits of Wildly Successful B2B Content Marketers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The 1 Secret to Effective Customer Engagement at Any Scale

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Customer engagement is the key to effective digital marketing in the Engagement Economy. The internet is saturated with content marketing, people’s inboxes are full of well-designed emails , and account-based strategies are quickly becoming a B2B standard. Improved customer engagement is the only answer to increasing customer expectations, but it can be a complicated strategy.

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War and peace — managing the agency-client content marketing relationship

Tomorrow People

Stop flirting with your content marketing agency — have a loving relationship with them and get the most out of your marketing investment. We all think about success metrics. Almost every day. We think about how can we make our clients successful. How can we deliver a successful. content marketing strategy. How we can get better each time. How we can have a. successful working relationship with our customers and partners.

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How to Use Google Optimize to Find AdWords Success

KoMarketing Associates

When it comes to being successful in Google AdWords, it is essential to test and change elements in the account on a regular basis. There are many different areas in AdWords that advertisers can alter in order to optimize an account, including adjusting bids, changing ad copy and adding negative keywords. One of the most important elements advertisers must consistently test is the user’s landing page experience.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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What Channels Are You Using For B2B Lead Generation?

Marketing Insider Group

It’s crucial for marketers nowadays to adopt multichannel strategies and be where their customers are. However, not all lead generation channels are created equally, and businesses need to focus on what works specifically for them to increase efficiency and maximize returns. Every business has specific dynamics and unique requirements in terms of their sales and […].

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Five Situations Where Marketers Should NOT Use Automation

Webbiquity

Guest post by Godwin Adoga. Automation has been a big win for small and large businesses alike. Any one of us can think of many things we’d rather do instead of laboring over repetitive tasks that a computer could easily take care of. You could have spare time for lunch breaks, hangout runs and whatever you love doing once your tasks are handled by a machine.

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Report: High-Tech Marketers Turn to ABM to Meet Rising Customer Demands

KoMarketing Associates

New research suggests that marketers in the high-tech industry are facing more obstacles when it comes to meeting customer expectations. Adobe and Ovum recently published the “Digital Marketing in the High-Tech Industry” white paper, taking a closer look at how high-tech industry marketers are adhering to customer demands. Their research showed that 24 percent of high-tech businesses are unable to keep pace with changing customer expectations.

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6 Steps to Create Content that Converts

Marketing Insider Group

Fantastic content, whether it is insightful, helpful, inspiring or entertaining, is only worth so much to your brand if it isn’t converting. Good content will almost always yield increasing website traffic and social media engagement. However, these metrics can be distracting. With content marketing, too often we lose track of the end game goals in […].

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Measuring Success in Sales Operations

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. In sales operations, we do a lot. Putting out reactive fires, supporting reps, managing territories, reporting, building new functionality and processes in the CRM, and much more. However, trouble may come in actually measuring our success in these things. A sales team typically has a quota so their success is easily measurable, but how do you measure your success?

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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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This Year, Tackle These 3 Demand Generation Priorities First

The Point

After more than two decades in the agency business, I’ve seen dozens of clients and hundreds of campaigns succeed and fail. Sometimes great people, a great product, or pure market demand can cover up all sorts of marketing sins, but more often the clients who succeed consistently at demand generation are those who have their act together. In this context, by “act” I mean that the client and his/her company have built a solid foundation on which virtually every campaign or program has a reasonabl

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6 Steps for Getting Your B2B SEO Link Building Plan in Place for the New Year

KoMarketing Associates

While most marketing teams understand the importance of link building in coordination with a search engine optimization strategy, few are able to prioritize it on an ongoing basis. As we covered earlier this month, even though link building is the third most effective tactic when it comes to meeting SEO objectives, marketers also indicated link building was by far the most challenging.

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How to Increase Your Website’s Page Speed Dramatically in 4 Easy Steps

Marketing Insider Group

Want to learn how I improved my site speed by 20% for desktop viewers and 59% for Mobile? Sure you do! What’s the one thing that has the power to make your conversion rates plummet and turn your site traffic away? Slow page speed. No matter how well developed your content marketing strategy, if your website […]. The post How to Increase Your Website’s Page Speed Dramatically in 4 Easy Steps appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s the time of year when people make predictions. It’s not my favorite exercise: the best prediction is always that things will continue as they are, but what’s really interesting is change – and significant change is inherently unpredictable. (See Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and Philip Tetlocks' Superforecasting on those topics.) So I think instead I’ll take a look at surprising changes that already happened.

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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 Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

ViewPoint

“Our numbers are off substantially,” he said over lunch some time ago, “but our individual salespeople are making quota for the most part. What is killing us is turnover in salespeople. It’s been irritating, surprising and very difficult to over-come.”. Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling.

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CMOs to Focus on Digital Marketing, Existing Customers in 2018

KoMarketing Associates

Looking ahead to 2018, CMOs already have an idea of how they intend to spend their marketing budget, according to new research. A focus on existing customers, analytics and digital marketing is emerging. Gartner recently released its “CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018: Budgets Recede Amid Demand for Results” report, providing a deep analysis how CMOs intend to utilize their budgets.

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The Ethics of Marketing to Children and Teens

Marketing Insider Group

Do you remember waking up early on Saturday mornings, grabbing a bowl of sugary cereal, and settling down in front of the TV to watch the best cartoons around? If so, you probably remember the wave after wave of commercials that attacked your senses. Crazy characters, bright colors, amazing toys, and catchy jingles, all designed […]. The post The Ethics of Marketing to Children and Teens appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Show, Don’t Sell: How to Use Empathic Marketing to Win More Business in 2018

Contently

I think today’s marketing is just a little too obsessed with data. Cue the gasps and snaps and oh no she didn’t s. At a recent networking event, I was talking to a marketer who’d just gotten married. Given her profession, she wasn’t surprised when her momentous life occasion triggered an onslaught of promos and offers. What she hadn’t prepared for, though, was when brands expected that she’d soon be expecting.

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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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Advocamp 2017 Activities For Newbies, Execs And Advocate Marketing Pros

Influitive

Advocamp 2017 promises to be the best year of the conference yet, with speakers like Sean Ellis, Jonah Berger, and Geoffrey Moore lined up and ready to share strategies for explosive, advocate-fueled growth. Advocamp is the largest customer advocacy, experience, and engagement conference, happening this year in San Francisco, December 6-8th. We want to make.

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Survey: 75% of Brand Marketers Say They Should be Doing More with Video

KoMarketing Associates

Brand marketers are utilizing video assets as a part of their content strategy, but new research suggests that they are still only on par with their expectations. Innovid recently released a new report titled, “Where are Brand Marketers Taking Their Video Strategy in 2018?” Statistics showed that the majority of marketers (55 percent) classified themselves as average for their industry in terms of how their video assets are currently managed to produce a holistic view of their activities.

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Weekend Reading: “BadMen” by Bob Hoffman

Marketing Insider Group

For the 151st episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Bob Hoffman, author of BadMen: How Advertising Went From A Minor Annoyance To A Major Menace. BadMen is a frightening and highly entertaining look into the hidden, corrupt, and dangerous world of online advertising where billions of dollars are being stolen; personal information about […].

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10 of the Best Ads from November: Elves, Llamas, and a Business Cat

Hubspot

If you think November is too early to be dreaming of sugarplum fairies and hanging the stockings with care, then consider this your official warning: this post is heavy on the holiday cheer. To everyone else, hello. November brought us a delightful crop of festive ads, including the much-anticipated annual Christmas spot from UK retailer John Lewis -- which dependably goes viral every year.

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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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Director of Sales Operations Job Description

InsightSquared

The director of sales operations position is one of the most critical hires a company can make. Their work has an enormous influence on business decisions. It’s their job to help sales executives make sense of results and pinpoint the reasons why they fell short of or hit their goals. When things go south, pressure is on the directors of sales operations to uncover shortcomings and solve for the future.

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When publishers connect with consumers, they solve the supply chain’s top 7 problems

Biznology

Lesson for leaders. Twenty-first century exponential growth publishing can change everything. It will transform the supply chain when it adds connected consumption. Vendors will know what connected customers want. Each customer will be served personally and efficiently with the products they need, when and where they’re needed. With this platform publishing and media can bring a new level of customer success and satisfaction to the world.

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9 Simple Tips for Boosting Sales on Amazon

Marketing Insider Group

As we quickly approach Cyber Monday and the rest of the holiday shopping season, many ecommerce retailers are focused on developing and implementing strategies that will help them boost sales on what has arguably become the most popular and most well-trusted online shopping store in the United States: Amazon. The numbers don’t lie: when people […].

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3 Ways Automation Can Accelerate Event Growth

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Hosting events is like growing a small business. You start with a shoestring staff and limited tools, but as your event gets bigger, so do your needs. More team members come aboard to handle the load, more technology and tools enter the fray, and what was once a straightforward task becomes a never-ending cycle of interlocking problems and solutions.

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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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Qualified Leads vs. Unqualified Leads

Zoominfo

The biggest mistake you can make in the B2B world is one that is all too common—chasing the wrong leads. You know the feeling—you schedule numerous calls, send emails, and hold meetings only to learn that the person on the other line isn’t interested in your product or service. First, let’s get this out of the way—a qualified lead is defined by three main criteria: Need: the prospect has a problem that your product can fix.

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How do you sell when your buyers can’t buy? Mounting dysfunction in the B2B buying process

Biznology

Everyone is aware that B2B buying is complex. It involves multiple parties over long decision-making cycles. In a large enterprise, this can take months, if not years, and involve dozens of individuals in the buying circle. But new research from CEB , now Gartner , suggests that things are even worse these days: it’s buying gridlock. I interviewed Brent Adamson , Sales Principal Executive Advisor on Sales, Marketing, & Communications, and got the skinny.

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The Need for Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Determining the Right Leads for Sales & Marketing Sales needs more leads, marketing provides more leads. Sales flies through those leads only to determine the majority won’t be a good fit. So sales needs more leads, marketing provides more leads, again. Sales flies through those leads only to determine the majority won’t be a good […]. The post The Need for Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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