July, 2020

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You’ve Built A Great Brand Voice. Here’s How to Maintain It.

Acrolinx

If your brand was a person what would it say, and how would it say it? It’s no secret that good branding builds businesses that last, but what … Continue reading "You’ve Built A Great Brand Voice. Here’s How to Maintain It.". The post You’ve Built A Great Brand Voice. Here’s How to Maintain It. appeared first on Acrolinx.

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7 Key Stats That Point to the Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

I just read that in the year 2100, Nigeria will be the 2nd most populous country. And that by 2100, populations will plunge a lot across what we call the “developed world” (hate that term – it’s so condescending isn’t it?). Statistics can help us see into (and plan) for the future. This is true for life and one of my favorite things to do for marketing.

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LinkedIn for Business: 4 Ways B2B Marketers Can Reach Their Target Audience

KoMarketing Associates

I recently wrote about 5 ways B2B marketers can optimize their LinkedIn advertising, including tips around ad copy, creative, targeting, and utilizing specific types of campaigns. In this post, we’re going to take tips around targeting on LinkedIn a step further, exploring a few key options LinkedIn has to offer, and why this matters for B2B marketers.

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10 Top AI-Based Tools for Marketing and Sales

Webbiquity

There’s a lot of excitement and new technology developing around artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing. There is also a bit of nervousness and some dangerous myths. Here’s what you need to know, along with several tools that can help you enhance your marketing efforts with AI today. Myth #1: AI is going to take my marketing job. Not to worry.

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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 Improve Communication Between Marketing and Sales

Zoominfo

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. But in practice, there are bottlenecks and a serious lack of communication. Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well. It’s not the biggest issue, right? Wrong. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year?

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Breathe Life Into Your Data | Tell Compelling Stories Via Data Visualization

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Time and attention, as ever, are at a premium. Especially when we must work within the limitations of speed and resources while information and markets move and change ever more rapidly. AI and machine learning make it possible to gather, analyze, and interpret data into actionable insights at inhuman speed. But this data must be understood, translated, and shared.

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Your Complete LinkedIn Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

LinkedIn is undoubtedly one of the best social platforms for B2B marketing. With 675 million monthly users and 30 million companies active on the platform, it lends itself well to promoting business services, networking, building an audience, and content marketing. Just like any other social network, you need to have a good strategy in place to succeed with LinkedIn marketing.

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8 Tips by B2B Marketers for LinkedIn Lead Generation

Oktopost

For the longest time, LinkedIn had a reputation as a site for networking and job searching. When Microsoft bought the site in 2016, many joked that this was the first time someone had actually accepted a LinkedIn request. Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too.

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How the Tech Sector Has Adjusted to COVID-19: Five Findings from Research

Webbiquity

Studies early in the pandemic showed the tech sector (along with healthcare) holding up better than most industries in this coronavirus-induced economic slowdown. Is that still the case? And how has the tech industry responded to COVID-driven changes? The latest research from TrustRadius answers reveals some interesting insights. Image credit: engin akyurt on Unsplash.

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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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Q2 2020 Recap| Work Smarter, Not Harder

Zoominfo

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t have …. an unusual second quarter. At ZoomInfo, the story was no different. With Covid-19 hitting the US hard, we had to pivot in a lot of different ways. We adjusted goals. We reset expectations. We said goodbye to the office (for now). Oh yeah, and we IPOd. Saying this quarter was eventful would be the understatement of the decade.

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How Healthcare Brands Can Publish Timely COVID Content That Audiences Need

Contently

A global pandemic impacts everyone and everything. As cases started to spike, it wasn’t long before it seemed like every article, video, and social post tied back to the coronavirus. For many companies, especially in healthcare, covering the topic was vital. They had an obligation to share their knowledge with the public. For others, though, it was just another trending topic to jump on.

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13 Things You Should Do When Filming Remote Interviews

Vidyard

An interview with a compelling person is nearly always an entertaining thing to watch (it is, after all, the premise that many a late night or daytime talk show is built on). But what happens when it’s not feasible to be in the same physical space as your interviewee? Whether that’s due to cost concerns, scheduling issues, time restraints, or even travel restrictions and social distancing orders, it means you need to get creative to get the footage you need to make your video.

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B2B Sales In A Slow Economy: How New Business Relationships Can Fortify Your Future

Marketing Insider Group

There’s no denying that the recent pandemic has affected many businesses, big and small. Some have experienced a slow down in sales while others, unfortunately, had to close down. . COVID-19 has impacted the world in so many ways. It’s not just people’s health that’s hurting. Supply chains and businesses are greatly affected too. Just like the virus, these changes are likely to evolve in the coming months, and we can expect to see newer ways of doing business in the near future.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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3 Ways to Move Faster and Be More Strategic with Marketo Engage

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

“The times they are a-changin’ ” With more people working from home than ever before, in-person events replaced with digital experiences, budgets are being rescoped, and brands are focusing more on serving rather than selling. It’s a time of reflection for many personally and professionally. It’s also an opportunity to pause, take stock, and prepare for the new normal that is quietly emerging.

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How to Create a COVID-era Event Marketing Plan

Webbiquity

Guest post by Lexie Lu. As event professionals know, even the best-planned gathering can fall flat without the right marketing. Image credit: cottonbro from Pexels. To maximize the impact of and business results from your online or real-world event at a time when some people might be hesitant to travel, it’s vital to start with a comprehensive event marketing plan.

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How Social Media Is Transforming the Customer Experience

Oktopost

When you are trying to reach a potential new customer, how do you do it? Phone call, email, LinkedIn? What you’re probably not doing is using social media data to find out and understand the person you are trying to engage with and their business situation at the time. Why, then, are we still focused on email blasts? And how can social media transform the customer experience?

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In Tough Times, Self-Aware Marketing Helps You Stand Out & Save Money

Contently

The DC superhero Deadpool has many superpowers, but his strangest one is completely unique—he is the only superhero aware of his comic book status. In one issue, when asked why he did something, he retorts, “Because this is my book.” In his movie, he calls a particularly cliched comeback from his nemesis “lazy writing.” Fans love it because Deadpool subverts expectations by being self-aware.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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How to Create Irresistible Facebook Landing Pages (Examples)

Unbounce

Imagine a potential customer is sitting in their car, waiting to pick up their kids from school. They’ve got 15 minutes to kill, so they pick up their phone and (because they’re 46 and don’t know about TikTok yet) scroll through Facebook. Between checking out their best friend’s pictures from a tropical vacation and trying to untangle their Aunt Ida’s… uh, “unorthodox” political insights, they see your Facebook advertisement for gorgeous, handmade

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Content Marketing: Your Solution Is Solving Your Customers’ Problems

Marketing Insider Group

I can’t say it enough. Successful content marketing is all about solving your customers’ problems. And that requires a culture shift inside businesses. We need to think of content marketing as our solution, more than our products. Because when you show customers how to face their challenges and come out victorious on the other side, it builds trust.

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Social media silence: How to know when your brand should stay quiet

Sprout Social

“Think of the end at the beginning, always.” That’s what my previous boss and mentor constantly asked of me. As a young social media manager, getting into the habit of thinking through each pitfall and every improvement opportunity was critical in helping me grow my career. My boss also taught me the importance of social media silence, a strategic measure we take during times of crises—local or national—and halt all social media publishing.

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6 Things to Improve Your Content Performance

Content Marketing Institute

High-performing content is good for your brand and for your readers. But how do you create it? Here are six steps to go from “just OK” to high-powered, massively successful content. Continue reading → The post 6 Things to Improve Your Content Performance appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Best Blogging Platforms

The Daily Egg

Ready to start a blog? Whether you’re blogging as a hobby or starting a blog for your business, the benefits of blogging are seemingly endless. It’s an excellent way to drive traffic to your website and build authority in your niche or industry. But you need to choose a blogging platform before you can write […]. The post Best Blogging Platforms appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Freelancer vs. Content Marketing Agency: The Pros and Cons

Brandpoint

So you recognize that your company could really benefit from a solid, well-conceived content marketing strategy. But perhaps you don’t know where to find the writing, design and marketing strategy professionals who can help make that happen. If so, you’re far from alone. Many organizations come to the realization they’re missing out on potential customers if they’re not publishing relevant, engaging content to their websites and social media sites.

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Marketers and Landing Pages: Behind the Scenes for 2020

Unbounce

As part of our new Conversion Benchmark Report , Unbounce ran a survey of marketers, working in dozens of industries, in early 2020. We wanted to know about your plans when it comes to running a high-converting campaign—as well as the role played by landing pages in supporting your post-click strategy. How do our expectations line up with the insights revealed by a machine learning analysis of 19 million conversions ?

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Beyond COVID-19: 10 Benefits of Hybrid & Virtual Events

Marketing Insider Group

If there is any positive trend the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the events industry, it is the adoption of virtual event platforms as a viable alternative to in-person events. This adoption has helped many event organizers to prevent event cancellation, thereby minimizing their revenue loss. They have also been able to retain and engage their audiences through the use of virtual platforms.

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The Marketer’s Guide to B2B Swag Strategy

Everything is digital these days – making it harder to grab and keep people’s attention. But smart swag is different. Swag enables your sales and marketing teams to connect with their audiences in a uniquely tangible way. It reinforces relationships with your brand and persists for years. Plus, amidst a barrage of advertising messages that tend to interrupt and distract people, swag is the only marketing medium that consumers actually thank companies for!

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5 ways to develop a long-term strategy for diversity, equity & inclusion on social media

Sprout Social

As the United States is experiencing the largest social movement in history, it’s become clear that inaction and silence are no longer options for brands. People expect the companies they shop with and the organizations they support to take a stand—in fact, 70% of U.S. consumers say it’s important for brands to take a stand on social and political issues.

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Overcome a Boring Blog With These 5 Techniques

Content Marketing Institute

If you think blogs are past their prime, think again. They still can be one of the best ways to attract a trusting, engaged audience. Consider these techniques used by brands that make their blogs stand out and excel. Continue reading → The post Overcome a Boring Blog With These 5 Techniques appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Best Agile Project Management Tools

The Daily Egg

Leading agile project management teams can be challenging if you’re not using the right software to stay organized. Agile project management tools help you jump from daily scrums to your next sprint while providing your team with collaboration features to accomplish the common goal. In addition to collaboration features, the best agile project management software […].

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