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Dreamforce 2014: Process Is More Important Than Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

The most impressive demonstrations were operational processes such as remote order-taking and customer support, which are far removed from traditional sales automation. They also illustrated how absolutely central mobile devices have become to most business processes, something we all vaguely realize but are still not necessarily acting upon.

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Three Digital Marketing Trends for 2014 and Beyond

Convince & Convert

Real Time Marketing is using data analytics with a process flow to shift marketing messaging in real time or near real time. The key words in my definition are really process, flow, and shift. Real-Time Marketing isn’t going to work without a documented and blessed process flow. What does Real-Time Marketing mean?

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Top Marketing Predictions For 2014

Marketing Insider Group

2014 will be the year of brand publishing. 2014 will be about 3 things: culture, data and content. In 2014 the content marketing imperative will become clear for more brands that want to survive (or at least stop wasting their marketing dollars.) My rank order for marketing trends to follow in 2014: Content marketing.

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The 2014 Content Marketing Imperative

Marketing Insider Group

It may even hurt us in the buying process. Content marketing is the process of creating content that our customers actually want or need. There are more potential buyers in the middle of the buying process than in the latest stages. It’s really a question of whether resources are aligned to the buying process.

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The Top 10 Most-Read B2B Marketing Posts of 2023

Webbiquity

Here’s a 10 step process to create a social media marketing plan that will produce measurable results. #8: Apparently Google thinks this guest post from November 2014 still provides valuable insights. #4: Yet too many marketers and brands go about social media marketing the wrong way.

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The Surprising Places Marketers Plan to Increase Budgets in 2014

Convince & Convert

Marketers are evidently enthusiastic heading into 2014… about everything. Called 2014 State of Marketing , insights from over 2,500 global marketers , the report is full of data about marketers’ outlook and plans for the coming year. I wasn’t a math major, but if everything is going up, what is going down?

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Best B2B Lead Posts in 2014: Lead generation, lead nurturing and content marketing

markempa

Read on to find out what B2B Lead Roundtable Blog posts were shared the most as well as the three topics B2B marketers valued most in 2014. Lead generation was a huge topic for 2014 and for good reason. Here are a few tips we learned this year to help you optimize this process. Topic #1 — Lead generation is king. The difference?