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JUNE 19, 2018
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NOVEMBER 28, 2017
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JUNE 14, 2018
The 3M Company claims that the average person is never more than three meters away from its products (hence the name). They may be right. 3M is a $30 billion business with 91,000 employees. It does business in 200 countries with an expertise in 46 different tech platforms.
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In the sphere of sales, it helps to get your definitions down. You might have thought sales operations and sales enablement are the same thing - but there are important differences. Both have the objective of improving sales performance, and although there is some overlap, they do this in different ways.
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MAY 22, 2018
Is data science the key to marketing? In a word, yes! There was a time when statisticians did not have to be so scientific. The age of big data had everyone so thrilled about the volume of data they could collect that no one actually started to think about organization until a few years ago.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Influencer marketing has long been a staple in the B2C marketplace. However, many experts believe that it will soon rise in the B2B marketplace as well.
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DECEMBER 19, 2017
Trade show marketing just isn’t what it used to be. It seems like just yesterday that trade shows depended on paper registration, hard copy promotional materials, and exhibit booths featuring static displays of data and graphics. Thankfully, times have changed…for the better.
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MAY 31, 2018
Here’s a quick question: what’s the first thing that trade show attendees see? Answer: the trade show booth displays of the various vendors who are there. Your booth is your way of making a good first impression on those people whose attention you’re trying to attract.
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Among B2B communities, 2017 brought upon several new concepts, trends and technologies… But perhaps none captured more attention than the re-emergence of account-based marketing as a viable growth strategy.
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MAY 17, 2018
When you’re thinking about ways to marketing your firm, one of the ideas you may have is conversational marketing. It may not be the hot, trending buzzword it once was, but conversational marketing is a vital way to build your brand’s visibility, influence customers and grow within your industry.
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JANUARY 25, 2018
Marketing is an important element of selling products and is very visible for things like consumer goods. Well-known marketing examples for items like toothpaste, refrigerators, and clothing abound.
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APRIL 26, 2018
Whether your business is to sell cleaning products or dog treats trade shows can be an effective way to introduce your product to distributors that can help your products gain popularity and bring about success.
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MAY 11, 2018
Part of the reason that Amazon stock has gone through the roof is that people are finally beginning to realize its potential as a marketing platform as well as a retail space.
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JANUARY 16, 2018
Creating a trade show budget for 2018 is a skill that pays off in a better use of company resources. By following the tips below when making the budget for this crucial aspect of marketing your business, you’ll be able to develop a more accurate template of the necessary costs.
Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate
The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018. Much of what we’ve seen in B2B marketing publications, martech vendor blogs and from word-of-mouth borders on fear-mongering. Not to say this isn’t understandable – a lot of rather quick changes must be made to ensure GDPR compliance, and they can feel overwhelming. However, some of the wisest B2B marketing experts continue to reiterate one very important point: GDPR, while causing significant stress now, will lead to more efficient and effective marketing and sales down the road.
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MAY 9, 2018
You spend time or money getting the perfect webpage designed. Then, you write the perfect copy that is sure to captivate consumers and get them interested in your brand. You spend big bucks on ads or other methods to attract visitors to your site in the first place.
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MARCH 20, 2018
The world of business-to-business marketing continues to evolve in 2018. The trends and tactics that will move business forward may not be the strategies that experts thought would work months ago. What B2B marketing trends actually define 2018? Let’s take a look: Transparency.
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MAY 3, 2018
The business world is asking itself – has artificial intelligence finally moved beyond being yesterday’s buzzword of choice into an actionable solution for my marketing issues? The answer depends on who you ask.
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MAY 1, 2018
The Age of Information is old news – we are now in the Age of Local advertising. Just as big data now means nothing unless it has been streamlined and focused, information in total means very little unless it is immediately relevant.
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Discover critical data and insights with MarketingCharts' most popular B2B marketing charts of 2017. This deck covers both the buyer’s and seller’s perspective across topics such as lead generation, vendor relationships, and content marketing.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2018
There are plenty of new technologies to employ within your current marketing infrastructure. What good are they without a great sales team? This is especially true of the B2B marketplace – no one cares about your beautiful networks if you can’t tell people what your company is about.
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DECEMBER 12, 2017
Trade show planning for 2018 is in full swing. With budgets and strategy considerations on the table, we’re offering our take on tips to maximize your trade show ROI for the upcoming year. Technology is (still) king.
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MARCH 15, 2018
Smartphones are now the number one way that consumers access the Internet. People are no longer making buying decisions sitting at home on a laptop – they are actively doing commerce within the scope of their daily activities.
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MAY 15, 2018
When it comes to your trade show floors and appearance, you might be limited in the size and design of your booth by your budget.
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B2B marketers like you contributed their insights to Sagefrog’s annual B2B Marketing Mix Report, a valuable asset in planning your marketing strategy for the year ahead.
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JANUARY 30, 2018
The quest to convert target customers into clients is never-ending. The battle to connect with such clients has moved to the web across the past couple decades. It is no longer enough to advertise on radio, TV, billboards, magazines, and/or newspapers.
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MARCH 8, 2018
There are many blogs and headlines focused on how new tech is disrupting the marketing industry, but there is actually another area being disrupted that is just as important. Led by Millennials, new talent is moving unapologetically into tech companies from media.
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MARCH 27, 2018
The majority of experts fully expect the future of marketing to be hands-free, following in the footsteps of mainstream hands-free consumer technology, a la Siri, and Alexa.
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APRIL 12, 2018
Before attending a trade show, it’s important to hammer out what your goals for the event are. Only with that knowledge can you then put the strategies in place that help achieve those goals.
Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa
Today’s sales and marketing environment is a paradox. There has never been more marketing channels to reach potential customers. But, connecting and building trust with buyers has never been harder. That's why we need to go beyond rational-logic based marketing to understand how our customers feel. Empathy is not just a “soft” skill, it's an incredibly powerful tool to understand customer motivation and increase lead conversion.
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MARCH 6, 2018
The business landscape of 2018 has changed immensely from the previous year – perhaps more quickly and definitively than any year over year measurement before it. However, there are still many marketing tactics that work in any market, regardless of the technology spurring disruptive change.
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APRIL 24, 2018
New data privacy laws around the world are going to affect North American business more than ever, and savvy executives are taking note.
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DECEMBER 28, 2017
With the holiday season in full swing, it might not seem like you have enough time to add one thing to your to-do list. It’s not too early to start thinking about your public relations strategy for 2018.
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APRIL 18, 2018
While many forward-thinking B2B marketers aim for customer-centricity, according to a recent study commissioned by Squiz, many brands still have much work to do.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, CEO & Founder of VisumCx
B2B buyers are self-guiding their purchase journey, consuming more content along their purchase path and involving more stakeholders in the final decision. Therefore, it is necessary for B2B marketing teams to align to this purchase path and to the buying committees. This is not accomplished by creating more content or sending more communication, the key to success is establishing a conversation with your buyers that engages them in a meaningful dialogue and ultimately converts them to a customer.
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JUNE 5, 2018
The world of B2B is stereotypically based on an overload of reason and logic, almost to a fault. The stereotype comes from a good place – orders made to scale cannot afford to be wrong. Companies are spending more money, they are trying to find long-term supply chain partners, and the purchases have larger customer facing implications as well. However, the concept of relationship marketing has found its way into the B2B market.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Advertisers, in general, are overwhelmingly positive about the new Quora ad program, which came out of beta earlier in 2017. The new self-serve program allows advertisers to target and create text-based ads at their fingertips.
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JANUARY 4, 2018
Digital marketing has come a long way over the last few years. Big data means businesses have more data-driven insights than ever before, which translates to quality relationships with customers and (hopefully) increased conversions along with a better bottom line.
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APRIL 10, 2018
In order to have a successful trade show, you need to start with a timeline. Doing so helps to ensure that everything that is necessary for success is completed in a timely manner. It’s important to remember that the timeline noted below is for general purposes only.
Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY
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