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The Risks of Personalization: When Marketers Cross the Line

Zoominfo

Personalization. It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world today. Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But, what we haven’t discussed are the risks of personalization—or more specifically, what happens when a campaign is too personalized.

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4 Tips for Creating a Successful Link Building Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Nowadays, many businesses leverage search engine optimization (SEO) to boost their credibility, visibility and trustworthiness online. With the online market being so highly competitive and oversaturated, it’s important for companies to have a reliable way to stand out and become more visible. One of the best ways to do that is through SEO. That being […].

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6 Reasons CRM Users Should Embrace Social Media Management

Act-On

Are you getting the most from your social media marketing efforts? Learn 6 reasons why you should connect your CRM with your social media management tool.

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

Kaizen. The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing. “Kaizen is a daily process, the purpose of which goes beyond simple productivity improvement.

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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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The Definitive Guide to Talent Mapping for Recruiters

Zoominfo

Often, HR departments hire reactively— meaning they only seek to fill positions as they open up. Talent mapping, on the other hand, is a proactive approach used to forecast long-term hiring needs and subsequently cultivate organizational support for new roles over time. Essentially, talent mapping bridges the gap between a company’s goals and the personnel they must hire to reach them.

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The ANNUITAS Perspective on the Adobe Acquisition of Marketo

ANNUITAS

A Memo from CEO Adam Needles to ANNUITAS clients on the Adobe Acquisition of Marketo. Good morning. You probably saw that late yesterday Adobe bought Marketo. (And if you didn’t, now you know!). For those of you with Marketo in your Demand Process technology stacks, your next question is probably what does this mean for me ? And what does this mean for our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation ® (PDG) investments?

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How to Organize a Stand-out Marketing Planning Session

Vision Edge Marketing

If you’re like many of our customers, right now you are somewhere in the midst of your planning cycle, working with your partners in Sales, Finance, Product, and IT as you crystallize your Marketing plan. Here’s a bit of advice: Our experience has proven that a collaborative Marketing planning session is an essential step in this process. Focus on 5 Areas for Your Planning Session.

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Career Advice for a Young Marketer

The Point

A few weeks ago I gave an informational interview to a local university student looking for advice on the best way to jump start his marketing career. The conversation was a handy excuse to catalog some of the lessons I’ve learned over 30 years in marketing, and to document what marketing career advice I’d give myself – if I were suddenly transported back to the late 1980s – knowing what I know now.

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10 Digital Marketing Tricks Used By Famous Business Brands

Marketing Insider Group

There is no doubt that digital marketing or online marketing is crucial when it comes to the success of any business no matter what industry you are in. Unlike the past where businesses used traditional advertising, today, they are not as effective as online advertising and this has pushed many businesses to adopt online advertising […]. The post 10 Digital Marketing Tricks Used By Famous Business Brands appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Report: 70% of Marketing Executives Use Social Media for Business Purposes

KoMarketing Associates

Executives have a wide range of marketing channels to turn to in order to achieve their key objectives. However, new research suggests that marketers are most frequently turning to social media to meet their goals. Mission Control Marketing recently published the “Which Marketing Channels Lead to Sales? The 2019 Definitive Guide for Building a Marketing Strategy that Influences B2B Sales” report and found that 70 percent of marketing executives now use social media for business purposes.

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Find the Right Brand Voice With These 5 Brainstorming Exercises

Contently

What you say and how you say it matters. Brands love to talk about voice, but a lot of them end up sounding the same. Every company wants to serve the customer and be conversational—which is fine. Those aren’t bad things, but they’re not differentiators anymore. They’re just table stakes. If your team feels stuck talking in circles about brand voice , you can avoid arguing about tone and POV by playing a few brainstorming games.

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Does your customer experience track anti-conversions?

Biznology

Just about every digital marketer tracks conversions of some sort. They are those happy events where your customer buys something from you–or at least takes a big step in the right direction. But what do you track when there is no conversion to mark success? If someone comes to your website with a question, and finds the answer, there isn’t necessarily a conversion.

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Making The Financial Case For Your Brand Marketing Plans

Marketing Insider Group

Brand marketing is never easy. It’s a field that is part science, part art form, and part luck. It can also be one of the most capital-intensive parts of a business. That’s a big reason that you tend to see so many articles and strategies that revolve around marketing ROI – because marketing failures can […]. The post Making The Financial Case For Your Brand Marketing Plans appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Report: More Marketing Emails are Making it to Recipients’ Inboxes

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers are consistently turning to email to reach out to their target audiences, and new research shows that their emails are now successfully hitting the inboxes of recipients more than ever before. Return Path recently conducted the “2018 Deliverability Benchmark Report,” which found that the average global inbox placement increased by five percentage points this year (85 percent versus 80 percent in the previous 12 months).

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Why Don Peppers Advocates for His Favorite Brands & How to Become Besties with Your Customers

Influitive

Don Peppers, best-selling author of the book Customer Experience: What, How and Why Now, believes that like friendship, customer advocacy is priceless. Don is an inductee in the Data & Marketing Association Hall of Fame, and holds the title as SatMetrix’s “world’s most authoritative expert on customer experience” for 2015. So, he definitely knows a.

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The AI genie is not going back into the bottle

Biznology

It’s not a marketing story, but I noted the story of how deepfakes are a threat to national security. You should expect to see more of these stories asking how we can put the AI genie back in the bottle. Given the new suspicion around our massive tech titans, such as Facebook and Google, we should be prepared for more dystopian fears of Skynet. It wasn’t long ago that governments sought to curtail encryption in the name of national security, so expect a similar assault here demanding water

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Data Visualizations for Better Decisions

Marketing Insider Group

Data visualizations are more than pretty pictures, although a nice graph or chart makes the data more appealing. Data visualizations should support decision-making by drawing attention to relationships among data and relationships between your data and influential factors that may not be captured in your data. Data visualizations Take a look at the graphic above. […].

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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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Video: Why B2B Companies Have a Content Marketing Advantage

Contently

Nearly six years ago, Red Bull shocked the world and live-streamed daredevil Felix Baumgartner falling from space. It was an exciting time for two reasons: One, we hadn’t witnessed brands risking an involuntary manslaughter charge every day, and two, it was the moment marketers seemed to start taking “content marketing” seriously. But that moment also had some side effects.

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Adobe to Acquire Marketo to Place Customer Experience and Engagement at the Heart of Digital Transformation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There has been one common thread in each of my customer conversations throughout the past two years, and that is the desire to deliver—and be part of—a seamless and unforgettable end-to-end customer experience. Today, we’re one step closer to making this a reality for our thousands of customers and partners worldwide. I am thrilled to announce that Marketo has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Adobe.

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How to Optimize Videos Across Every Social Network

Oktopost

We’ve all heard the numbers: video is expected to make up more than 80% of all web traffic by 2019. From Instagram Stories to Facebook Live, more and more B2B marketing professionals are realizing the potential of social video in driving greater audience engagement, higher conversion rates, and more revenue. But as we all know, […].

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How to Optimize Content Marketing for an Ecommerce Retail Brand

Marketing Insider Group

When you think of businesses that could benefit the most from long-form content marketing, retail ecommerce brands aren’t generally the first that come to mind. But, online sellers can absolutely reap the benefits of blogging, vlogging, and other long-form in-depth content in the same way as many other brands. Longer content posts have nine-times higher […].

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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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How to Generate Demand from Senior Executives

Rev

Ever have to reach senior level executives in large companies? It’s no easy feat. That’s why salespeople ask marketing for help with those kinds of connections. Yadin Porter de Leon , Global Executive Content Strategist at VMware , has this very objective. He shared a story that illuminates the difficulty. “I was talking to a CIO and asked, ‘How do you consume content?

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Ann Handley on Why Jargon Can Be Detrimental to Your Brand Voice & Tone

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

One of the biggest branding mistakes that companies can make is to not pay enough attention to their tone of voice. “Voice” sounds high-minded, doesn’t it? More suited for the literary world rather than the business world? But tone of voice just refers to how you sound in your writing. In marketing, your tone of voice can be a significant differentiator.

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Only B2B - Untitled Article

Only B2B

5 Signs You Might Be Losing Attrition from ToFU to BoFU Consumer Insight Group says, 83% of social media customer service users do not buy because of bad experience. The post appeared first on ONLY B2B.

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How to Make Your Digital Strategy More Personalized

Marketing Insider Group

Personalization is the marketing technique that makes your brand’s messaging standout. Consumers are already ignoring most of the 4,000 to 10,000 ads they see every day. And, with the vast majority of companies using content marketing, there’s a lot of competition out there vying for your audience’s content consumption time. If you want to cut […].

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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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The 8-Step Podcast Promotion Plan For Your B2B Brand

Act-On

Creating a podcast is easy. Promoting it is where the hard work begins. Here is our 8-step prodcast promotion plan for each episode you produce.

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Growth Hacking Promotes Rapid Development—But Can You Sustain It?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Growth hacking strategies can provide rapid results, but if your company can’t carry that momentum, all your efforts will be for naught. You can’t employ growth hacking techniques if you don’t know how they’ll work in the long run. The entire point is to increase a measurable growth target—not to grow as much as possible and sort out the details later.

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How to Improve Your Google Ads Quality Score With Better Content

Brandpoint

People don’t like ads. A quarter of online ad views are fraudulent, and ad-blocking software prevents brands from reaching parts of their audience. Google’s Ad campaigns are a great solution to cut through the digital noise and target the people who are already searching for answers relevant to your brand. However, it can be tricky to master a successful ad.