Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2023

Your clients are the heart of your business and it takes sincere dedication to gain their loyalty in return. They keep your operations flowing and are the reason you create value-centered products or services. For business-to-business (B2B) companies, in particular, the need to integrate lead generation efforts and guarantee client satisfaction is even more essential for retaining business clientele.

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DivvyHQ

MARCH 27, 2023

In a world with an ever-growing population and an overflowing amount of content, it's more important than ever to make sure your brand's voice is heard. Check out our latest article on content marketing saturation to learn how to overcome the challenges and make your mark!

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ClearVoice

MARCH 27, 2023

Case studies are a vital part of many marketing campaigns, providing concrete examples of how your business helps users. When carefully crafted, a case study becomes a cornerstone of your decision-stage content marketing strategy—creating leads, deals, and conversions. Unfortunately, many case studies lack structure, data, and clarity—leading to a time-intensive piece of content that ultimately yields little value.

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G2M Solutions

MARCH 26, 2023

Swimming, as your audience does, in a sea of endless content, creating emails that people actually read can feel like you're drowning; fighting a losing battle. The answer however is simple. Build compelling content. That's it really. Three little words. Thank you and have a nice day! If only it was that easy. Of course, those three little words are deceptively simple But with some clear thinking and planning it's perfectly possible, to maintain and indeed increase your email nurture open rates.

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Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?

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SalesIntel

MARCH 27, 2023

SalesIntel’s strategic partnership with Semcasting empowers B2B marketers with high-quality account technographic and job title data to leverage in their paid channel efforts. The integration of SalesIntel business intelligence into AudienceDesigner by Semcasting (ADS) brings actionable account technographic data to our clients to improve their top-of-funnel prospect quality, scale of coverage and digital reach.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 25, 2023

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 8 Failproof Tips to Start a Conversation with Anyone (and Make a Great Impression) BY Lydia Fenet Not that you will die if you don’t network, but if you don’t make networking a regular part of every day, your business surely

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Roketto

MARCH 27, 2023

Greetings, fellow marketing warriors! Are you tired of feeling like you’re fumbling around in the dark, blindly trying to connect with potential customers? Do you wish you had a magic wand that could help organize contacts and track interactions with them?

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ClickDimensions

MARCH 27, 2023

In our 5 Questions blog series, we profile our customers, partners and team members to help the ClickDimensions community become better acquainted. Today we will interview Barry O’Callaghan , Global Director of Marketing Services, to find out more about the Marketing Services team and their offering. 1. What is Marketing Services? Marketing Services is a team of ClickDimensions Power Users & Marketing Experts whose sole purpose is to provide our customers with the best possible experie

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Marketing Interactions

MARCH 25, 2023

Would it surprise you that a whopping 1% of decision makers believe that B2B marketing shows a meaningful understanding of the human experience? Read that again. This is a finding from The Power of Provocation Report. Granted, the report is based on responses from only 175 business decision makers. However, all of them are C-level (CMO, CFO, CIO, CCO, COO, CEO).

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SendX

MARCH 27, 2023

Email is one of the most commonly used forms of communication in the modern world. It is one of the best ways to communicate with our friends, family, and colleagues.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 28, 2023

As marketers continue to see the benefits of marketing automation, new research indicates that they will be allocating more of their budget toward this solution within the next year. Ascend2 recently published “The State of Marketing Automation” report, and statistics suggested that the majority of marketers (51%) intend to at least moderately increase their marketing automation budget in the coming year.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re a TV watcher, you know great stories — ones that hook us from the start and keep us watching until one, two, or (oops) five episodes have gone by without even noticing. Did you know that brand storytelling can have the same effect? When brands use content marketing to tell compelling stories, they can make us forget that it’s marketing at all.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 28, 2023

ANNUITAS has in recent posts covered the increasing shift we are witnessing within best-in-class go-to-market organizations from organizational silos and ‘ random acts ’ among marketing, sales and customer success teams to a true, Converged Growth organizational model. Research overwhelmingly supports this approach. “B2B organizations that unify commercial strategies and leverage multithreaded commercial engagements will realize revenue growth that outperforms their competition by 50%,” predict

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Speaker: Kate Marx, VP of State Street Global Advisors; Tara Quehl, Marketing Director at Demandbase; Lee Zucker, Global Head of GTM & Revenue Strategy at Drift

The world of financial services is shifting as clients demand online experiences that feel similar to those in B2C. What’s the key to meeting their expectations? Humanizing their experience on your website. By personalizing your client’s online experience, your firm can build more trust and value into every interaction. Your team can also go into conversations with more context around a client’s long-term objectives, resulting in a faster time to investment.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest post by Natasha Lane. A well-rounded content marketing strategy will rely on several different types of content to achieve its goals. Understanding how each different content format works, which audience segments it appeals to, and how it fits into your overall sales and marketing funnel is key to success. Image credit: Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Here’s a look at seven content types that will help you attract more website visitors and convert more of them into leads.

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Roketto

MARCH 27, 2023

Are you exhausted of chasing down leads like a desperate lover trying to win back their ex? Do you feel like your marketing tactics are stuck in the Stone Age, and you’re just waiting for a dinosaur to come and end your misery? Well, my friend, it's time to evolve.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 28, 2023

It doesn’t matter if you’re a new company looking for a strong start or a town staple looking to break bad habits, you can always improve and grow your small business. For some, that might mean entering new markets. For others, it may mean creating deeper engagements with existing customers. Throughout this guide, we’ll look at four effective ways to use data to improve your small business practices to increase new and existing customer engagement and satisfaction.

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Contently

MARCH 30, 2023

This isn’t your typical search engine optimization (SEO) advice column. Think of it more like your SEO tough love column because real talk: Your SEO content probably sucks. By sucks, I mean it likely focuses on issues that don’t particularly matter to your target customer and talks about them in a generic and non-differentiated way that isn’t creating demand for your business.

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ATAK Interactive

MARCH 29, 2023

Are you looking for ways to enhance your marketing strategy and increase your returns? Look no further than Derivatives, a top-tier marketing strategy agency. Our team of experts can provide you with the tools and guidance you need to achieve your marketing goals. In this blog, we'll explore the benefits of working with Derivatives and how our services can help you maximize your returns.

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xiQ

MARCH 31, 2023

The Art of Defining Target Accounts and Crafting Your Ideal Customer Profiles Identifying target accounts is a crucial step in developing an effective Account-Based Sales and Marketing (ABx) program. The goal of identifying target accounts is to focus your sales and marketing efforts on a small number of high-value accounts that are most likely to generate revenue growth over the long term.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2023

AI and content marketing — if you’ve logged into Twitter in the past year, you know it’s all the digital marketing world can talk about. Every day, thread after thread is tweeted to tell us why ChatGPT is the future of content and how it’s going to replace the human writer altogether. So I did what I normally do when it seems like the world has gone a little crazy.

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Contently

MARCH 28, 2023

A few years ago, a client asked me to train a content AI to do my job. I was in charge of content for a newsletter sent to more than 20,000 C-suite leaders. Each week, I curated 20 well-written, subject-matter-relevant articles from dozens of third-party publications. But the client insisted that he wanted the content AI to pick the articles instead, with the ultimate goal of fully automating the newsletter.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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G2M Solutions

MARCH 30, 2023

Quick quiz.Which one of these cold email subject lines is the most effective? "Hey!" "Important message!" "Buy our product!" "Opportunity of a lifetime!" "You won't believe what we're offering!" "URGENT: Last chance to save!" "Quick question!" "Free stuff inside!" "Make money fast!" "Don't miss out on this amazing deal!" Answer: Of course, absolutely none of them!

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 29, 2023

Want to know a secret? You don’t have to be a marketing whiz to execute a B2B product launch that translates into revenue. All you need are a few key components to generate demand from your ideal client. Here’s everything you need to know to bring a successful B2B product launch to fruition. Create a Product Launch Timeline Before launching a new product, it is critical to create a timeline.

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Rev

MARCH 29, 2023

Marketing and sales teams use a lot of acronyms, and we throw them around like everyone knows what they mean. Most people in the field quickly catch on and come to understand the words associated with the acronym, but often only at a superficial level. That’s exactly the case with MQL and SQL. We know that MQL stands for marketing qualified lead, and SQL stands for sales qualified lead.

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The ABM Agency

MARCH 31, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Reading Time: 9 minutes To maximize the impact of your marketing efforts, precision demand marketing is a strategy that should be considered. In this blog post, we’ll explore how revenue marketing can be achieved by targeting specific buyers with personalized content and messaging throughout their buying process. We’ll start by defining what an ideal customer profile looks like and how it can help sales teams identify target buyers more effectively.

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G2M Solutions

MARCH 27, 2023

Marketing automation is especially important for non-profit organisations because it can help them operate more efficiently and effectively with limited resources. By automating repetitive and time-consuming marketing tasks and by using technology to better segment and personalise their outreach, non-profit organisations can save a great deal of time and simultaneously actually improve donation rates.

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 28, 2023

The Project vcfo is a professional services firm that provides fractional finance, HR, and recruiting leadership to make companies stronger. Founded in 1996, vcfo has helped and supported more than 5000 organizations nation-wide. As vcfo looked for assistance and guidance in building a content marketing process to promote their thought leadership surrounding issues important to their clients, they reached out to Launch.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 31, 2023

As the temperatures slowly start to rise and the days get longer, it’s a great feeling knowing that summer is on its way. E-commerce businesses begin their journey into the season by creating summer-themed collections, packaging, and deliverables, as well as strategies to deliver sales and new products via email and SMS strategies. That said, email marketing is an incredibly popular strategy for e-commerce businesses, which prompts an important question: How can you stand out from the crowd?

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