Animalz blog

MARCH 28, 2024

We love to invite content marketing pioneers to share the innovative strategies they’re using to drive results. In this guest post, Mark Rogers, Director of Content Marketing at Freshpaint and former Director of Strategy at Animalz, shares his framework for using a central idea to tie together all content efforts.

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

As organizations continue embracing AI-driven approaches, marketing leaders should be empowered to push the boundaries of innovation and drive better results with less manual, time-consuming effort — but it requires thinking beyond basic applications. Dig deeper: 9 best practices for AI tools in content creation 2.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

As data analytics grow in sophistication, measuring the results of your marketing efforts becomes even more critical to your company’s success. So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing?

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Contently

MAY 2, 2023

Every content marketer has heard the saying: “Content is king!” ” In fact, all great marketing leaders know that producing great campaigns starts with compelling content. Content marketers are asked to serve nearly every department in the business. The problem? So how do they do it?

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

Content marketing is not a new concept but it has evolved over the years, especially in the past few. With the rise in digital content, the impact of a pandemic and many workplace changes, new content marketing trends have emerged and evolved priorities. Looking for more on building an effective content strategy?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 13, 2023

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. How do you know which tactics work and who’s just blowing smoke?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 2, 2021

Event marketing and content marketing are typically the two biggest line items in B2B marketing budgets. Most B2B enterprises allocate 30% or more of their total marketing budgets to events; more than a quarter (26%) spend 50% or more in that area. How to Maximize Event Marketing Content ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In fact, these days, an increasing number of organizations are discovering it’s more important to focus their attention on retention marketing. As human beings and as marketers, it’s natural to want to focus on what’s new rather than what we’re already familiar with. How Content Marketing Can Improve Your Customer Retention Rate.

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. This technological advancement offers unprecedented opportunities for personalization, efficiency, and insight- and data-driven strategies, enabling marketers to meet the complex demands of the industrial sector.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

If you can master this skill, you’ll continually improve your digital marketing efforts and drive more brand loyalty online. Incorporating key findings that give you a deeper understanding of consumer trends into your marketing strategies can push you ahead of competitors in your industry. What is Predictive Marketing Analytics?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2023

Winning the battle means developing a solid strategy and tactics in operations and marketing. How can you gather intel to help you improve your content marketing strategy? Learn how to perform and ace competitor content analysis in this simple breakdown. Execute monthly or quarterly reviews of your annual analysis.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

B2B marketers who wish to optimize their social media spend should first invest in understanding the intrinsic link between these platforms and their users. The state of B2B social media marketing 2023 saw a 20% increase in social media marketing investment by B2B marketers. But content alone is not enough.

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Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. Those ideas can really move the needle. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 5, 2022

The phrase “content is king” was used by Bill Gates in 1996 to describe the future of the internet as a marketplace to share information. More than 25 years later and after countless innovations across both print and digital content, the familiar phrase continues to dominate business headlines. three to five pieces of content ?before

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

When you hear the phrase “product marketing,” what are some of the first brands that come to mind? Product marketing is all about the consumer. To be a successful product marketer, you must pull the consumer into your narrative. Product marketing is where sales, marketing, and product development overlap.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The job’s not over until the paperwork is done—or, for content marketers, until results are measured. For most Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), the holy grail of content measurement is return on investment (ROI). ” Evaluate new ideas by potential revenue. ” Evaluate new ideas by potential revenue.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 13, 2022

Content marketing has long been a staple of B2B marketing and continues to be so as 2022 brings more opportunities and challenges for content ideation, creation and distribution. What’s Changed for B2B Content Marketing? Here are some of the key changes in B2B content marketing we’ve observed.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 14, 2024

Source: Kogan Page Last November, I published a review of Robert Rose's new book, Content Marketing Strategy. Rose's book is one of the best I've recently read, and it's an important addition to our library of content marketing literature. This is also an excellent book, and I enthusiastically recommend it.

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Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Companies need to keep growing to succeed, and content is one of the most effective ways to do that.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 14, 2024

“Build it, and they will come” is a line we hear so often, and marketers know just how flawed that is. Observers point to several reasons , and one of them is weak marketing. Content distribution is a core component but often an underutilized aspect of content marketing. GoPro and Red Bull.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Email marketing is an impactful tool that all B2B organizations use for a variety of reasons. Nearly 84% of B2B companies have email marketing implemented in their marketing strategy with 29% rating it as their most effective marketing channel. a newsletter can include new content or news) 2.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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Brandpoint

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We’ve all learned the hard way that no matter how much you try to plan and prep and predict, sometimes the world throws a curve ball and suddenly you’re stuck with a marketing plan that doesn’t make the most sense. But, since we’re marketers, we thrive on the unexpected, right? Manage workflows and processes ahead of time.

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Exo B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was while reading a post on Mark Schaefer’s blog that I got the idea to write this post on B2B content marketing and especially on the importance of creating content on YOUR website or blog and then using social networks to spread it further. A social network like LinkedIn isn’t a content platform.

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Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Channel partner marketing means efforts to recruit and support third-party partners to expand a vendor’s market access. Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks.

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Launch Marketing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The number of content planning and marketing tools available to B2B marketers today is larger than ever. Some technologies help you create content, some help distribute content and others help you measure the effectiveness of content. Content Planning Tool: Moz.

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MKT1

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educating the rest of your company on marketing is often the hardest part of doing marketing. Marketing’s actual job is to understand an audience and communicate to that audience in a value-add way. Yet, when it comes to doing this internally, marketers often fall short–very, very short. Nor should you.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The content for the new product line needed revamping, and sales were carping about the lack of leads. Prompt: What are the challenges for marketing ops in 2024? She started by looking at what her favorite generative AI tool said about the challenges she and other marketing managers faced. Digital Marketing Knowledge.

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Contently

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2017, I shared a stage at Collision Conference with Alicia Hatch, the CMO of Deloitte Digital, when she captured the biggest problem plaguing most marketing teams. ” Over the past few years, I’ve found that this problem plagues most organizations when it comes to content strategy. That promise was flawed.

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Sharpspring

JULY 22, 2022

Digital marketing automation saves time but, if not done well, it can risk alienating your audience. Read on for the do’s and don’ts of how to use automation as part of your social media marketing strategy. Positive Forms of Digital Marketing Automation & Their Benefits. Scheduling great content shares in your industry.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I love working with them and they bring fresh perspective to (often) stale content marketing strategies—but they have two common areas of vulnerability: They can tend to approach content from an “inside-out” perspective, and they can be too quick on the content trigger.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As content marketers, the wealth of information driven by human language can help us understand our audience and impact our decisions. Integrating NLP Into Your Content Marketing Efforts As a content marketer, you may think of NLP as a term you would hear from your engineering friends.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2023

As marketers explore this generative AI tool without restriction, CMOs must assess its impact along three key functions: content production, ideation and market research. Assessing ChatGPTs impact on key marketing functions 1. Dig deeper: Does ChatGPT pose an existential threat to marketers?

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From seasonal upticks and downturns in sales to market trends to consumer behavior tendencies, ecommerce brands must manage a variety of factors when attempting to surpass the average CR of (approximately) 2%. Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. Let’s dive in.

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