Sat.Dec 01, 2018 - Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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5 Ways to Reimagine Your Content Leftovers

Content4Demand

by Tonya Vinas, Director of Content Strategy. It’s that time of year when Ralphie bemoans the loss of his family’s turkey after the Bumpus’ hound dogs abscond with it in the movie A Christmas Story : “ The heavenly aroma still hung heavy in the house. But it was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey hash!

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Report: Customers Seeking Less Promotional Email From Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

As marketers continue to target their audiences with email, new research suggests that they may benefit from leaning more on the informational side than the promotional when it comes to content. Adobe recently conducted the “2018 Adobe Consumer Email Survey” and discovered that the majority of customers (39 percent) would prefer brand emails to be less promotional and more informational.

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The ties that bind us: content marketing proven to foster trust and comfort with customers

Tomorrow People

When content marketing is done well, successful companies will build trust and comfort with an audience — without the hard-sell treatment. This infographic puts in the numbers, but successful marketers agree it’s all about the relationship. As any successful sales executive knows, selling isn’t about the sale. In today’s competitive world, where the customer has a thousand choices and a million sources of information, the hardest part of the customer journey is simply persuading the customer to

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6 Examples of AI Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Technology is evolving and the world of online marketing is evolving along with it. Artificial intelligence and machine learning now make a wide variety of marketing tasks easy; even those which would have been impossible only a few years ago. We’re still in the very early stages of using AI in marketing but even so, there are some […]. The post 6 Examples of AI Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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The Impact of Bad B2B Marketing Data

Zoominfo

There’s no way around it – prospect and customer data is one of the most valuable assets a B2B organization has access to. Think about it: without accurate information, how can you market, sell, or provide customer service to your target audience? Unfortunately, low-quality data is a real problem for many companies—simply because B2B data decays so rapidly.

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How Marketing Operational Excellence Facilitates Growth

Vision Edge Marketing

IBM’s Modern Marketing Mandate posited that “CMOs have always needed to take their industry’s pulse and devise appropriate competitive responses … today, the mission needs to extend beyond market research and marketing campaigns. CMOs have a broader responsibility to analyze and predict trends.” Betsy Rohtbart, vice president of Digital Marketing at Vonage, described this as being “prepared for the expected unexpected.

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How to Give Yourself Profit-Building Clout with Blog Posts

Marketing Insider Group

“I should write a book,” said one exasperated pediatrician whose patients’ after-hours questions kept her up practically all night. She meant, perhaps, that she should chronicle her trials and tribulations with an autobiographical work—as British country veterinarian James Herriot (of All Creatures Great and Small) did with great success. As someone who specializes in marketing, I’d […].

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Customer-Powered Success: Why Advocates Play a Crucial Role in the Post-Sale Journey

Influitive

Modern B2B enterprises must provide a flawless post-sale customers experience to drive high customer satisfaction and growth. “Instead of only focusing on internal metrics like churn, retention, and NPS,” says Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, “the most sophisticated companies are looking from the outside in, starting with the customer’s experience and desired outcomes and working.

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How to Avoid Common Website Design Flaws

Webbiquity

By David Gutierrez. A lot of work goes into building a website. No matter if you’re starting from scratch or using a template—creating a unique design, populating your site with compelling content, and optimizing all elements—takes time and energy. No one wants to go through that whole process only to end up with a subpar web presence. Image credit: The Blue Diamond Gallery.

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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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Report: One-to-Three-Month Mark is Most Critical During the B2B Buyers’ Journey

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers have an ample amount of time to reach out to their target audience, but new research suggests that the first one-to-three months of the buying process are critical. Demand Gen recently conducted the “2018 B2B Buyers Survey” and found that the first one-to-three months of the buying process are critical to getting customers’ attention. By this specific mark, 38 percent of B2B buyers have already developed an informal list of potential providers.

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What is Content Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is a strategic marketing and business process focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience, and ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. Good content resonates with the viewer because it fits with their goals or general interest. Great content maps to their desire, […].

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The B2B Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to Reddit

Zoominfo

Since Reddit’s creation in 2005, the platform has earned its title as the “frontpage of the Internet.” Reddit, a popular social networking site and forum, has over 300 million users, 140,000 active communities, and boasts over 14 million monthly pageviews ( source ). Considering this expansive reach, it only makes sense for marketers to wonder how they can use Reddit to their advantage.

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Deloitte CMO Annabel Rake on why staff need personalization just as much as your customers

Tomorrow People

“80% of my budget goes on people, which is a lot. I want people who are happy and engaged. If I don’t create the right environment, they’ll leave,” says Annabel Rake CMO of Deloitte. To deliver any of the above, marketing leaders must build and grow a strong team set for the future. Annabel Rake, partner, and CMO, Deloitte explains that to retain and motivate the best employees, you must cater to their individual needs.

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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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Pitch Perfect: Selling to Legal Operations

DiscoverOrg

A candid interview with Jill Konrath and Synchronoss’ Director of Legal Operations, Dana Huppert. Legal Operations might work behind the scenes of the General Counsel … but ops wears the pants on tech purchase decisions. And we’ve got an insider’s look at how capture their attention and win them over. If you sell services or technologies to the legal department, you’ll want to catch this: We’re partnering with author and sales speaker Jill Konrath to interview the Director of Legal Operati

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Make the Most of the Holiday Marketing Season (and Beyond)

Marketing Insider Group

By Steve Olenski In the middle of this holiday shopping season, there are some strong indications that it could be record-breaking for many companies. Amazon reported a Cyber Monday shopping record, surpassing its own previous record earlier this year on Prime Day. And for the five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, the retail giant […].

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The Secret Value of Site Search

Biznology

While rushing to close 2018 deals, business teams everywhere are also finalizing 2019 plans. Business cases have been calculated, lists have been prioritized and they’re getting to green light 2019 initiatives. All of these are focused on yielding the greatest return for businesses. Increasingly, site search is on the list because of the hidden value in this capability.

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SEO Best Practices for Internal Linking in B2B Websites

KoMarketing Associates

At KoMarketing we strongly believe SEO is most effective when educating client marketing teams in addition to providing impactful recommendations and tactics. Because content marketing is a typical area we implement SEO tactics, working alongside our client’s content marketing team is also common practice. Recently one of our client contacts asked for more guidance on the SEO best practices they should consider when linking internally between web pages.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis

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What Is a Center of Excellence and Why Do You Need One?

Convince & Convert

As organizations scale, they often have marketing functions sitting in many different areas. Perhaps there are social media people who work both locally and in the corporate office, like some of our hospitality clients. Or perhaps there are many different teams which produce content that should be used across digital properties, like a client of ours which is a trade organization.

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Building B2B Relationships With Trust and Empathy [Interview]

Marketing Insider Group

We have more sales and marketing technology and channels to reach our customers, but they’re increasingly tuning us out. In short: we’re getting more disconnected from customers. Something is missing. Even though our tools have become smarter with AI and machine learning, connecting and building B2B relationships has never been harder. The question is: How can […].

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November 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome back to our monthly B2B Blog Post Round-Up. We publish this series to recognize our favorite pieces of B2B content published each month. Similar to the content published here on the ZoomInfo blog, these pieces are intended to help sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals with their day-to-day job responsibilities. Today’s round-up covers the world of corporate social media policy, vanity metrics, candidate personas, and more!

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Report: B2B Marketers Still Lack Confidence in Their Data and Analytics

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look for new ways to reach out to their target audience, they are turning to data and analytics more frequently. However, not all marketers are confident in the data they are using to achieve their initiatives. Dun and Bradstreet recently published its “6th Annual B2B Marketing Data Report” and found that 89 percent of B2B marketers believe data quality drives the right B2B sales and marketing campaigns.

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?

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Short-Term Marketing Tactics Can Help You Reach Your Long-Term Goals

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketers approach long-term planning armed with data and strategic frameworks. Business school classes are filled with cases and proactive approaches for long-term decision-making. Alternatively, short-term marketing decisions must be made quickly to react to barriers, competitive threats , and opportunities. There’s little universal wisdom to provide guidance, and insights can be scarce.

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Do You Need an Agile Marketing Certification?

Marketing Insider Group

Agile marketing certification: a waste of time and money, or a crucial stepping stone on the path to true agility? This question is part of a larger, ongoing debate in the larger Agile community. So this Agile Marketing Minute video attempts to tame the certification circus, at least for marketers. Agile Training Options Some members […]. The post Do You Need an Agile Marketing Certification?

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B2B Product Differentiation Strategies – The Value Hierarchy

Fusion Marketing Partners

Cure Underperformance and Build Value by Traversing the Business Value Hierarchy Why Review Your Value Hierarchy? It is time to […].

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How Marketers Create and Distribute Great Content For ABM

Engagio

Today more than ever before, marketing departments are emerging as key revenue drivers whose work has a measurable impact on companies’ bottom lines. As such, marketers have scrambled to prove their contribution, attaching their reputations to goals centered around increasing efficiency and generating leads. But these early measurements of success—individual leads, specifically—have created their fair share of problems.

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Marketing Through Storytelling: The Secret to Building a Unique Brand Identity

Speaker: Amanda Wener, Award-Winning Content Strategist and Brand Storyteller

You know your company’s purpose, mission, and vision. You’ve got the elevator pitch down pat. You can even name the organization’s values. You’ve got a solid brand strategy… so now what? In this webinar, Amanda Wener, Senior Content Strategist at Iron Mountain, is here to teach us more about: The benefits of a strong editorial content strategy in building brand identity, and why that identity matters in your marketing Why functioning like a newsroom works How a structured approach to content cre

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Why a High Performing Product Marketing Team Is the Key to Growth

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Sales drives revenue. Demand gen creates leads. Customer success reduces churn. What does product marketing do? If you can’t answer, don’t worry. You’re not alone. Having built and led worldwide product marketing teams for over a decade, the question I most often got from employees across the business was, “what is it your team does again?”. It’s not a simple answer, and that’s likely what has led to the confusion.

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It’s Time to Retest Your Page Speed [Google’s latest update]

Unbounce

Back in October, we were the first to claim that 2019 will be the year of page speed. We’ve got our eyes on the market and lemme tell you: Google is sending serious signals that it’s crunch time to deal with your slow pages. Faster pages are a strategic marketing priority. And sure enough, Google has made yet another change to uphold that prediction.

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A Marketer’s Guide to Decoding Social Media Algorithms in 2019

Buffer

Social media algorithms play a very important role in the ability for marketers and business owners to make an impact online. And although algorithms are often difficult to understand, we need to learn to work with them and not against them if we want to find success. Luckily for us, big social networking sites often share updates on exactly what their algorithm prioritizes.