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Don’t Publish a Press Release. Create a Product Story Instead

Contently

In 2014, Microsoft pitched dozens of journalists a story idea about how a group of employees were analyzing sensory data to revolutionize the way the company used energy across its 500-acre campus. 88 Acres” is the platonic ideal of a product story. Salesforce has dozens of webinars about how it uses its own products.

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4 Marketing Tech Trends To Watch in 2014

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather than let my precious wisdom go to waste*, I''ll share below what I think will be most important marketing technology trends of 2014. Increasingly automated testing will allow incremental optimization despite constant changes in customer interests, product availability, creative executions, and offers. The privacy dog won’t bark.

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Seismic and Microsoft Copilot for Sales Integration: Enabling productivity where sellers work

Seismic

Streamlining workflows for improved productivity In today’s dynamic and fast-paced sales environment, organizations need to provide sellers with the tools that enable them to do their best work. Basically, my productivity just goes through the roof.” Or, if you’d like to see Seismic for yourself, request a demo here.

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Top Marketing Predictions For 2014

Marketing Insider Group

One of the biggest trends I am seeing involves brands acting as producers – going beyond the publisher mentality and setting up newsrooms and production studios. 2014 will be the year of brand publishing. 2014 will be about 3 things: culture, data and content. So there you have it. Strategy'

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Three Digital Marketing Trends for 2014 and Beyond

Convince & Convert

Social listening is also for proactive company actions like product innovation, marketing sideways, and sales. We will see more and more traction with Youtility as we roll into 2014. Secondly, social listening isn’t just for passive and reactive company actions like brand protection and customer service. Yes, you can hold me to that.

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The 2014 Content Marketing Imperative

Marketing Insider Group

And according to Harvard Business Review, “ Solution Selling is Dead ” because talking about our products and our solutions is no longer good enough. According to BtoB Magazine “Content Marketing” is one of the top priorities for marketing in 2014. Will you make 2014 the year of content marketing at your company?

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There are as many European-based martech products today (3,647) as there were globally in 2016

chiefmartech

In the previous years — 2011 , 2012 , 2014 , and 2015 — the landscape had grown exponentially, from 150 solutions to just under 2,000. The post There are as many European-based martech products today (3,647) as there were globally in 2016 appeared first on Chief Marketing Technologist. It was a harbinger of a software-eaten world.

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