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8 Content Marketing Research Tools You Should Be Using

Marketing Insider Group

The digital marketing world may continue to change, but one thing’s for sure: content remains king. In-depth content marketing research. However, diving deep into research can sometimes feel impossible. However, diving deep into research can sometimes feel impossible. The secret weapon may be BuzzSumo. Site audit.

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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Those are among the findings from a trio of this year’s best research reports, from WordPress VIP , Hootsuite , and Metricool. How are goals and strategies for content marketing changing? Budgets are growing.

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B2B Influencer Marketing in 2022: Seven Key Lessons from New Research

Webbiquity

Influencer marketing is increasingly popular in the B2B space, for the simple reason that buyers trust experts more than ads. But many B2B marketers are approaching it in the wrong ways, missing the mark with both the influencers and their audiences. A new report offers a wealth of guidance for doing B2B influencer marketing better.

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How B2B Content Marketing Has Changed and What To Do Next [Research]

Webbiquity

But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Faced with marketing budgets cuts, CMOs planned to spend less on live events (obviously) and online advertising, and relatively more on content marketing and online self-service. No surprise there.

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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. 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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Event Marketing Trends for 2022 and Beyond: Insights from 10 Timely Research Reports

Webbiquity

In that light, marketers, event producers, and prospective attendees are all expressing optimism about the road forward. Here are key findings from 10 research reports released since the beginning of April, 2022. In a study conducted by Zoom and Qualtrics Research , 80% of U.S. Image credit: Zoom and Qualtrics Research.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Enough with the negativity and cliches.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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Mapping Personas in Your Marketing to Maximize Value

Speaker: Samantha Stone, author of “Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook that Drives Sales”

Marketers sink time into primary research, testing and documentation. Developing & utilizing Personas is hard work! We use Personas for messaging but then lose steam and focus regarding the segmentation part of our strategy. We rely on titles, company size and industry to define personas – but there is so much more!

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue.

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B2B Marketing Trends to Engage Target Accounts and Skyrocket Demand Gen

Speaker: Ari Capogeannis, Director - Revenue Marketing at NVIDIA

Since businesses can no longer engage key accounts through traditional channels, digital marketing and sales transformation has accelerated. According to a market research study, the top challenges that executives face when implementing ABM programs are execution, data quality, and efficiency. ABM Marketing trends.

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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.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Recent studies have shown what a lot of B2B marketers already know - it’s hard to build a successful inbound marketing program. And while a good inbound program gets started with the marketing department, a great inbound program gets other departments involved.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate. Not so fast, though.