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The Wealth Behind B2B Intent Data

PureB2B

Intent data is the heir of big data analytics and lead generation. Modern technology can now predict and anticipate the “intent” of a user based on their activity and search strings. It’s now possible to find potential customers out of the 4.3 billion internet users worldwide. Intent data creates categories based on personal interest as opposed to traditional date; demographic location, age, and gender.

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Is It Time For A CRM Upgrade? Take This 10-Question Quiz And Find Out In Minutes

Square 2 Marketing

CRM And Sales Technology Have Changed In The Last Few Years; Is Your CRM Outdated? You go to the doctor for your annual checkup. You take your car in for regular service. You have your insurance policies reviewed regularly, and you talk to your financial planner annually, too. But how often do you review the state of your sales and marketing technology ?

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How to Use Pricing Strategy as a Competitive Advantage

Fusion Marketing Partners

Properly pricing products and services is always something of a challenge because it seems that everyone has a different view […].

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Burger King Teaches You How to Do Cause Marketing Wrong

Content Marketing Institute

Audiences are shouting at brands through the “silence, brand” memes to stick to their mission. Yet brands are still doing cause marketing. Unfortunately, sometimes they do it the wrong way. Here’s how the Burger King team ran amok when they did it their way. Continue reading → The post Burger King Teaches You How to Do Cause Marketing Wrong appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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How to Build Content Creation Into Your Company Workflow

Marketing Insider Group

A strong and consistent content creation workflow is essential to your content marketing success. Content creation should not only be the responsibility of the marketing department. For a well- rounded marketing strategy that brings maximum benefits both externally and internally, you should integrate content creation with your main business processes.

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8 Questions to Ask Before Investing in Marketing Attribution

The Point

[Thanks to Anne Angele, Spear’s esteemed Director of Marketing Technology, for this month’s guest post.]. Marketing attribution is a hot topic these days in B2B circles. Yet, for all the interest, precious few B2B companies achieve the holy grail of knowing exactly how – and where – their marketing investment impacts revenue. The reasons for this are varied, but many of them center on the quality of the underlying data, and the degree to which information about a particular lead, or opport

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6 B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Marketers Need to Try in 2019

KoMarketing Associates

When something is working, it’s so easy to get into a rut. As marketing professionals, we tend to stick with what works because our attention is always split between multiple projects and responsibilities. However, to stay competitive in digital marketing, we need to continue to try new strategies and research the latest trends to find more things that work for our clients or organization.

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Your Brand Is Your Culture – How That Impacts Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Your company culture forms the basis of everything you do. No matter how much time or how many resources you plow into marketing, if your audience and customers don’t align with your key values, your success will be limited. Company culture and brand are now merging and some experts already consider them to be synonymous. To put […]. The post Your Brand Is Your Culture – How That Impacts Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Three Golden Rules for Optimizing Customer Experience

Webbiquity

The most important element in your brand image isn’t your logo, tagline, color palette, or mission statement. It’s the customer experience (CX) people have when doing business with you. According to Gartner , “Providing a better customer experience (CX) is no longer just a competitive advantage; it’s a matter of survival. More than 80% of brands surveyed…said their success is mostly or entirely dependent on CX.” Image credit: Kenn W.

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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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Data Decay & B2B Database Marketing [Infographic]

Zoominfo

Data decay happens naturally because of how often people change jobs or titles, companies go out of business, and mergers occur. Because of this, many organizations are working with a B2B database that is cluttered with outdated, invalid, or incomplete contacts. Dirty data impacts all areas of an organization, including marketing, lead generation, customer relationships, and finance.

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Ask the Experts: 5 Tips for Getting Value From Your Online Community with GE Digital’s Mary-Leslie Davis

Influitive

A truth that marketing teams now have to contend with is that consumers simply don’t trust brands anymore. Companies need to adapt accordingly by making sure they’re in touch with what their customers are thinking, feeling, and saying. In light of this shift, we’ve seen new roles pop up throughout organizations that focus on bringing. The post Ask the Experts: 5 Tips for Getting Value From Your Online Community with GE Digital’s Mary-Leslie Davis appeared first on Influitive.

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How to Market an Event: 15 Event Marketing Tips

Marketing Insider Group

A well-planned promotional strategy is vital for a successful event. These event marketing tips will help you get the word out about your event, reach the right audience, and build buzz for your conference, trade show, or corporate event in the run-up to its launch. Quick Takeaways An integrated marketing strategy is essential to maximize […].

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What Happened at Ramp 2019? Highlights from the Ops Event of the Year

InsightSquared

Ramp 2019, the revenue ops event of the year organized by InsightSquared, returned this year with exciting news and insightful discussions. Over the course of 3 days from June 12 to June 14, Ramp 2019 brought together more than 400 sales, marketing and business operations practitioners to learn from the world’s most recognized go-to-market professionals.

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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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8 Best Practices to Protect Your Email Reputation

Zoominfo

You spend weeks developing your latest email campaign only to receive terrible results. Your bounce rate was astronomical and barely anyone engaged with the campaign. This is a marketer’s worst nightmare. The likely culprit? A bad email reputation. The best way to ensure the deliverability of your emails is to maintain a healthy email reputation.

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How Employee Advocacy Benefits Human Resources

Biznology

The following is a sponsored article from our partner, GaggleAMP. Implementing an employee advocacy program has a slew of benefits for your marketing team, but you might be surprised to hear it helps your human resources department as well. Your marketing department will always spearhead your employee advocacy program. A successful program results in a huge boost in all your social media marketing KPIs, including engagement, clicks, website traffic, and leads.

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How To Use Search Intent Data to Get More Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing as an industry has evolved greatly over the past years. The digital transformation has largely contributed to this growth. The internet and digital media are the source of advancement when it comes to sales and marketing. Since the internet has become accessible to a large portion of the global population, the opportunities for growth […].

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Statistics Show Digital Marketing Continues to Outpace Traditional Marketing Tactics

KoMarketing Associates

As marketers continue to shy away from traditional means of marketing, new research shows that digital marketing continues to grow. Statistics from eMarketer recently discovered that total digital ad spend in the U.S. is set to grow 19 percent to $129.34 billion in 2019, and account for 54.2 percent of estimated total US ad spending. Mobile, in particular, will also continue to grow in dominance – it will account for more than two-thirds of digital ad spending, at $87.06 billion in 2019.

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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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A Guide to Content Marketing Creativity

Zoominfo

Creativity is a tricky concept. As marketers, we all strive to be more creative —but what exactly does that mean? How can we measure creativity or generate more of it when it is a seemingly intangible quality? To prepare you for an upcoming webinar with Jay Acunzo, we provide you with a comprehensive guide to revive your creativity—not as a vague concept but as a tangible marketing skill.

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Wednesday Wisdom: Why Brand Strategy is a Must-Have for Consultants, Freelancers, and Solopreneurs

Biznology

Brand development is as important for a one-person operation as it is for a multi-million dollar corporation. In this week’s installment of Wednesday Wisdom, Consultants Collective senior consultant Douglas Spencer explores how brand strategy can be key to elevating your business. It has never been easier for people to become self-employed or take advantage of the emerging gig economy.

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10 Steps for Creating Remarkable Website Content

Circle Studio

Content is the magnet of your website and arguably the most important tool in helping achieve your firm’s marketing goals. Whether you’re looking to do a complete website redesign or just want to make improvements to your current site, it’s crucial to have a solid content strategy in place. A content strategy will guide your plans for the what, where and when of content creation.

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Marketers Face ROI Challenges When it Comes to Influencer Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers are still turning to influencer marketing to reach out to their target audience, new research shows that they continue to be faced with challenges in measuring the ROI related to this tactic. Talkwalker recently conducted the “Global State of Influencer Marketing 2019” report and found that 69 percent of marketers rank influencer marketing as an important or top strategic priority.

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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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5 Ways to Create the Optimal Customer Experience on Your Website

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I am sure most people have quit while waiting for a website page to load. Waiting is a hassle; we all expect fast-loading sites—anything less isn’t worth the wait in today’s time-poor world. If your website is like this, then you probably haven’t upgraded or even thought about your website for a little while now. And that’s why website speed is an essential part of your site’s performance.

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The Move from Closed Innovation to Truly Open Innovation in Three Phases

Biznology

Did you know that the Big Mac sauce recipe was once lost ? In the 1980s after McDonalds had reformulated the sauce recipe, an executive wanted to cash in on nostalgia value and bring the original recipe back… except it was gone. Fortunately, the original chef that created Big Mac sauce was still alive and willing to recreate it. Dozens of brands develop new ideas under such clandestine circumstances that corporate espionage will occur as companies compete for those secrets.

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Inside Sales Managers: 4 Ways to Motivate Your Team

Smashmouth Marketing

You'd think that in today's economy, a steady paycheck would be enough motivation to get the best out of people, right? Not always the case, nor should it be. Part of any manager's role is to make the people around them better. Whether it's mentoring someone to take over your role when you ascend the corporate ladder, or taking a rep with just enough potential under your wing, ultimately, the job of a manager is to improve his or her team.

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More Business and Marketing Emails are Hitting Recipients’ Inboxes, Avoiding Spam Filters

KoMarketing Associates

Many business marketers turn to email marketing to reach out to their target audiences, and new statistics show that their efforts may be paying off as time goes on. Return Path recently conducted the “2019 Hidden Metrics of Email Deliverability” report and discovered that the average spam placement rate for business and marketing emails in 2018 was 14 percent.

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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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How to Pair AI with Inside Sales to Grow Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Inside sales has always been a high-touch and highly professional strategy for reaching out to business buyers with a targeted message. And today inside sales reps are often a company’s first line of communication with existing customers and prospects alike. To make your reps as productive as possible, you want them focused on building relationships with high-value accounts…not dialing for dollars.

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Encouraging Engagement Over Time

Biznology

Rarely does B2B digital marketing convert prospects on the first point of contact. That means success will require engagement over time. . Building the required relationship is not always easy. Prospects often bounce from fire to fire, and even when the urgent does not crowd out the important, priorities change and, as marketers, we need to stay “on the radar” until our prospects are ready to make a purchase.

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What is Business to Business Marketing?

Only B2B

Business to business or B2B marketing is a model that includes two businesses exchanging products or services. The marketing involved in the B2B business consists of best practices and techniques. The post What is Business to Business Marketing? appeared first on ONLY B2B.