Sat.Jun 08, 2024 - Fri.Jun 14, 2024

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Transforming B2B marketing with LinkedIn’s Kim Bolsoni

Oktopost

Kim Bolsoni, LinkedIn’s Senior Partner Manager, explores LinkedIn’s dynamic ecosystem, which owes much of its vitality to strategic partnerships, and celebrates all LinkedIn partners with an exclusive look into the B2Believe partner event in NYC and reveals the winner of the 2024 Transformation Partner of the Year award. Listen to the podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode Summary LinkedIn has undeniably become a powerhouse for B2B

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“Change” and “new” are two great words — so long as they don’t apply to you

B2BMarketing.net

I coined this title phrase some years ago, having often observed strong resistance to innovation and change in the corporate world. This was especially so when it comes to internal change management. So it was with particular interest that I recently read a NYTimes article, “ We Have a Creativity Problem” that provides a likely explanation. It very much comes down to human nature.

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AI in Digital Marketing - SmartBug Media’s Ethical Roadmap

SmartBug Media

AI and machine learning tools are the Swiss Army knives of the New Tech Renaissance—and forward-thinking people in every industry are figuring out new ways to use these tools daily. We’re right there with them! Using AI in digital marketing has helped our team save time and reduce stress while serving our clients better—while staying true to the quality of work that SmartBug is known for.

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Increase Customer Retention: Why Multichannel Marketing Is an Underrated Tool

Act-On

Winning new customers is an exciting accomplishment. But most marketers also know the real work begins after that. The cost of acquiring a new customer is estimated to be five to seven times more than retaining an existing one. Retention issues translate to lost dollars and more work for marketing teams who strive to battle the vicious cycle of churn.

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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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What Pega GenAI tools might mean for marketers

Martech

This week, CRM and BPM software company Pega announced new generative AI capabilities, including enhancements to its new product, Blueprint, and to its AI assistant or copilot Knowledge Buddy. Before understanding what value these products might deliver for marketing or the CX organization in general, it’s worth taking a closer look at what they are and how they work.

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Attributing your brand vs market impact

ScanmarQED

This is the last part in our Master Class series and we hope you have had interesting insights following this series so far. We began the series by investigating price analytics and price elasticity, then looked at revenue optimization and choosing the right KPIs. In this series we will go a step further and explore brand vs market impact. Some brands already steer on the right KPIs, but still might have issues with one of the most important questions: how much of the revenue change was due to m

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How to Stay Productive as a Social Media Manager

Oktopost

Social media managers do it all – literally. Sheldon Bruck went Behind the Post to reveal how he stays productive while juggling multiple responsibilities as a Social Media and Community Manager. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode Summary Social Media Managers wear many hats.

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How to Use Product Analytics to Boost Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Sales are one of the most vital aspects of running a business and aren’t something you’ll want to take lightly. Every transaction represents revenue and growth, and luck isn’t enough because boosting your sales requires insight, strategy, and precision. Fortunately, product analytics can guide you along the path to sales mastery. This powerful tool reveals the mysteries of customer behavior, preferences, and trends, so you don’t have to go blindly into the abyss.

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How To Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday Marketing

Optinmonster

Are you looking for the best and easy-to-follow Black Friday marketing guide? Look no further! For eCommerce businesses, holiday sales marketing like Black Friday represents more than just dates on a calendar. They are golden opportunities to skyrocket sales, attract new customers, and improve brand loyalty. But with great opportunity comes great competition.

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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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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How ZoomInfo Copilot Reveals Hidden Buyers

Zoominfo

In today’s intensely competitive market, the coveted first-mover advantage is no longer good enough. To truly sell smarter and win faster, sales and marketing professionals need to be the first to reach their targets precisely when buyers are ready to engage. Sure, they might be the perfect fit for your solutions. The ROI for their business may be clear and convincing.

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How to bridge the gap between creative marketers and marketing analysts

Martech

Data-driven marketing organizations must create a conduit of information between their data teams and creative teams. However, legacy organizational structures, specialty skills and a lack of shared information often hinder this flow. Let’s explore the roots of the divide between creative marketing teams and marketing analysts and uncover practical solutions to bridge this gap.

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Is 2024 the year of Reddit for Google SEO?

SmartBrief - Marketing

Google is always looking for new ways to engage with users and facilitate stronger searches. Often, this comes via regular algorithm updates. Other times more extensive changes are made to alter how searches are conducted and the kinds of information that are disseminated to users, as seen in the Helpful Content Update and the recent AI Overviews addition.

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Email Scrubbing: How to Clean Your Email List & Skyrocket Conversions

Optinmonster

If you’ve grown your email subscriber list to a number you’re proud of, it can be painful to purposely reduce that number through email scrubbing. However, maintaining a clean email list, free of incorrect addresses and lapsed subscribers, is an essential part of successful email marketing. In my 15 years of sending promotional emails , I’ve seen just how important it is to clean your list regularly.

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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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Higher education social media strategy: How Gettysburg College makes the grade

Sprout Social

An effective higher education social media strategy has to appeal to various audiences: current students, prospective students, alumni, staff, donors, fans, families and more. Each of these communities is unique, yet they all contribute to one shared college experience. Addressing the needs and interests of multiple audiences calls for a commitment to data, collaboration and tailored messaging.

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AI is a game changer, but not generative AI

Martech

The generative AI arms race may be over before most people know it’s begun. Take the case of genAI as an assistant, helping users find their way around their dashboards, their messaging apps, their datasets, summarizing documents and chats and answering questions posed in natural language. Everybody’s doing it This week at PegaWorld I heard a lot about Pega’s Knowledge Buddy, an assistant trained on an organization’s own data and also plugged into an LLM, in this case Ope

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Top 8 Customer Experience Courses and Certifications

CMSWire

Reasonably priced and even free online customer experience courses and certifications is a route to happier, more adept employees. Continue reading.

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AI In Lead Generation – Scaling Revenue Like Never Before

Binary Demand

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/] B2B lead generation is vital for sales and marketing, driving business growth, expansion, and revenue. Without leads, businesses would struggle to thrive. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized lead generation, making the process faster and more efficient. AI-powered B2B lead generation solutions help businesses identify, engage, and nurture leads on a large scale, allowing them to connect with more prospects quickly.

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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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The MKT1 Guide to positioning

MKT1

We’ve all seen “positioning” docs that are 10 pages or 30 slides long. When you look at them your eyes glaze over. You finally finish reading, but it’s still not clear what the product does, why it’s better, or even who it’s for. I’ve seen one of these docs for most startups I’ve worked with. They typically all miss the point.

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How Personalized Marketing Keeps Customers Past the Honeymoon Stage

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Your guide to personalized marketing What is personalized marketing? The 6 do’s and don’ts of personalized marketing Personalized marketing in action How Salesforce uses Data Cloud to close deals faster It feels like you’ve found “the one” — a customer ready for a long-lasting brand relationship built on personalized marketing. But then, just as quickly as the sparks fly, they fizzle out.

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Automotive Search Engine Optimization Experts – GoBeyond SEO

Go Beyond SEO

Did you know that 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine? That means if you’re not ranking well on search engine result pages, you’re missing out on a significant amount of potential customers for your automotive dealership. That’s where GoBeyond SEO comes in as automotive search engine optimization experts. GoBeyond SEO is a team of experts specializing in automotive search engine optimization.

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Foggy Figures: Seeing Beyond Marketing Attribution's Mirage

CMSWire

Stop. Obsessing. Over. Marketing. Attribution. Take your lessons, get outta there and craft campaigns accordingly. Continue reading.

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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 Persuade Your Boss to Send You to Ahrefs Evolve

Ahrefs

But don’t worry—we’ve got your back. Here are 5 arguments (and an example message) you can use to persuade your boss to send you to Ahrefs Evolve. SEO is changing at a breakneck pace.

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Confessions from email jail

Martech

What’s on your email rap sheet? In my last MarTech column, “ Stop! Or go directly to email jail ,” I listed 10 crimes that could send digital marketers to the email Big House — from misdemeanors like sending transactional emails without even a line of business-building promotional copy to felonies like buying a list or skipping authentication.

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Is It OK for Platforms to Train Their AI With Your Content?

Content Marketing Institute

This past week, people grew outraged over Adobe’s update to service terms for its Creative Cloud, and Meta let UK and European users know their information can be used to develop its AI products. What should marketers make of all this?

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How a Creative Rebellion Forced Adobe to Rethink Its Terms of Use

CMSWire

Adobe changed Terms of Use. Customers lost it. Adobe will change Terms of Use again. Continue reading.

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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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Meet Curt Raffi: Acrolinx’s New Chief Product Officer

Acrolinx

Get to know Acrolinx's new Chief Product Officer, Curt Raffi, in this interview blog. Curt chats about the future of AI and content. The post Meet Curt Raffi: Acrolinx’s New Chief Product Officer appeared first on Acrolinx.

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7 value-added assets to engage and upsell customers

Martech

We know martech and demand generation strategies work best to engage prospects when brand recognition is present. So, why don’t we consistently use those strategies on existing customers with a higher brand understanding? Many marketing teams neglect the opportunity to engage and upsell customers using proven, data-driven prospecting techniques. Customer marketing and prospecting are not the same.

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How To Use Technology To Unlock Content and Marketing Potential

Content Marketing Institute

Don’t let fears around the tech revolution thwart your marketing success. See AI and other technologies as the opportunity to do things on behalf of your brand and audience that you could only imagine a few years ago.

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