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JULY 24, 2023

Your B2B marketing strategy can only succeed with accurate data capturing your efforts and how well they worked for you—and all that information needs to be stored and analyzed somewhere. That’s where Google Analytics 4 (GA4) comes in. As the replacement for Universal Analytics (UA), GA4 offers new features, including better data collection, upgraded privacy controls, and predictive capabilities.

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JULY 24, 2023

Google’s tech gurus have been busy working on understanding language and how words connect on a webpage. They’ve come up with tools like ‘neural matching’ and ‘BERT’, and with every Google update , the search engine is becoming more and more sophisticated. But just because Google’s getting smarter, doesn’t mean businesses are keeping up. A lot of website owners are still stuck using outdated tactics, optimizing their websites with just a handful of keywords.

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JULY 20, 2023

AI generated content and chatbots have taken the world by storm this year. After a few months, though, the seemingly flawless piece of technology is starting to lose its credibility as it continues to be proven lacking in certain areas. Source: Fortune (July 19, 2023) Read on to find out how and why the hype behind AI is fading. Quick Takeaways: AI-generated content has limitations such as misinformation, lack of creativity, and biased information.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Gone are the days when Google reigned supreme, because social media search is on the rise. More and more users are asking TikTok and Instagram to answer their questions. Are social media’s conversational, personalized responses leaving Google’s SERPs in the dust? TikTok alone has ended Google’s 15-year streak as the world’s most popular search engine.

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MAY 24, 2023

No matter what tools you have, you probably do a lot of your marketing research on good old Google. The search engine giant stomps the competition with over 90% of the market share, while the closest challenger barely gets 3%. As a result, combing for data on its billions of pages can be harder than finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. That’s the reason you need advanced Google search strategies.

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MAY 24, 2023

For the last 25 years, Google has ruled the digital space, guiding our searches and shaping our online experiences. So, we can only imagine how shocked Google employees were when they learned that Samsung, a powerhouse of consumer electronics, considered swapping Google as their devices’ default search engine for Microsoft’s Bing. Bing, once considered a smaller player in the search engine game, has been quietly integrating advanced AI technology into its platform.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s now been 20 years since the team at ITSMA coined the term Account-Based Marketing (ABM). I was very fortunate to work with ITSMA (now Momentum ITSMA after their merger) during a good part of my nearly two decades with SAP Marketing (and beyond). Looking back, ABM has risen in parallel with key concepts and practices including Thought Leadership, Marketing Analytics and Data, Marketing Technology (MarTech), and Marketing Transformation.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’ve been working in B2B Marketing long enough to remember how we started as the folks who work the booths at trade shows and created brochures for sales. B2B Marketing has certainly evolved from those simple beginnings. Soon B2B marketing industry is expected to be worth almost $19 billion by 2027, meaning that this growing digital space is full of opportunity for all of us.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

With 2023 on the horizon, the chatter of a recession, and a marked increase in reports of poor client retention , it’s more important than ever that B2B marketers focus on retaining reliable clients. Aside from increasing lead generation efforts, ensuring client satisfaction is vital to keeping your business profitable. No one likes losing customers, but it does happen.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Does your business consistently share several types of marketing collateral? If not, you’re missing out on major opportunities for conversion. Sure, the product descriptions and prices on your website are important – but they’re not enough to convince prospects that you offer trustworthy, high-quality products and services. That’s where marketing collateral comes in.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How does a relatively small marketing organization scale its content strategy and deliver more valuable content to its customer base? Customers crave useful and informative content, but in a busy company, there are only so many hours in a day—and often not enough to produce the quantities of content it needs. The solution is to outsource content creation to a marketing firm experienced in writing compelling, high-powered articles.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Google’s helpful content update sets the stage for gaining more site traffic. Understanding the search engine’s latest algorithm adjustment is key to ranking well, growing your online presence and avoiding loss of visibility. Google aims to maximize user experience by identifying sites with both helpful and unhelpful content. Engaging content is boosted to rank higher and irrelevant content is knocked down the ladder.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Do you want to be known as a leader in your industry? For Oberer Homes, a full-service real estate company and semi-custom home builder in Dayton, Ohio, it was one of their top goals. As a family-owned and locally-focused business, Oberer also aimed to be considered a local expert by current and potential residents. The team at Oberer, headed by Marketing Director Traci Bohn, has long known that content marketing was the right approach to establish this reputation.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When the pandemic started, our content marketing agency actually gained customers. The reason was mainly due to unspent marketing budget. Marketers, SaaS founders and startup CEOs were pulling their money from ads and events and doubling down on content marketing. So if you are looking at some unspent budget for the remainder of the year, and facing a “use it or lose it” marketing budget situation, we got you covered!

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Let’s start with what a marketing strategy is not: hiring someone to manage your social media accounts and upload TikToks. It is also not about running banner ads no one wants or clicks on. A marketing strategy defines how a business grows through reaching, converting and retaining new customers. And a clear marketing strategy defines measurable goals, validates the business challenge your brand solves in the marketplace, and communicates the customer outcomes your company delivers.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

With the year drawing to a close, business owners – as is their wont – look towards the New Year and the opportunities it may bring. While it’s always tempting to cast a wistful eye back over the previous twelve months, what really matters is the events looming on the horizon: the coming trials, challenges and openings. In this article, I’m going to share 4 practical tips to get your small or medium business ready for next year.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the year is quickly approaching an end, content marketers are scrambling to secure that 2022 budget. Content marketing budgets are expected to grow in 2022 – yay! The problem now is making sure you secure your spot in that growth and apply it effectively. Content marketing saw substantial growth after the pandemic, a slightly bittersweet feeling for the industry.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s a perpetual game of tug-of-war going on between CEOs and their CMOs. CEOs want results. CMOs want to deliver results. So, what’s the issue? The most critical role of a CMO, according to CEOs, is to grow the business. CMOs want to deliver ROI and show real proof that what they’re doing works. Image Source. The problem is when CEOs ask CMOs to work on trivial tasks (like rebranding or a multitude of paid digital ads that won’t work ) and then get upset when there’s no business growth.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

At the core of humanity is dialogue. We’re taught communication at an early age, learning how to exchange feelings and ideas while listening to others equally. Conversations are key to relationship development—and in the B2B world, they fuel business and the exchange of crucial information. But not everyone in business development or sales can be 100% available to every existing or potential customer seeking answers, insight, and support at any given moment.

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JUNE 9, 2021

How can companies create content that is meaningful? It’s an important question to ask, especially when content marketing is part of your strategy (and we think it should always be part of your strategy). It’s easy to fall into a trap of churning out content without stopping to assess whether or not it’s really resonating with your target audience. And while consistent and high-volume content is a core part of content marketing, failing to make your content meaningful leads to overspending, low

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APRIL 27, 2021

Healthcare content marketers have a heavy burden. They deal with complex subjects and topics and strive to connect with sophisticated buyers. With all the challenges they face, they still do their best to create value for audiences and generate leads for their businesses. So, how can you do healthcare content marketing right? We’ve got some ideas and examples to help you strategize and optimize your content.

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MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Quick Takeaways: Conduct a market analysis to identify target segments. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Let’s talk about the term “logo acquisition.”. As you probably know, it’s a sales euphemism for landing a new client, as opposed to upselling an existing client. Acquiring a new logo is cause for celebration. It means you’ve broken through to a new organization and can include them in your roster of clients, and potentially be able to sell them more services in the future.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you’re like most content marketers, you want to get the maximum value out of every blog post you create. Evergreen content is a collection of content that is relevant to your target audience for years to come. In other words, evergreen content is timeless. Think of it as the Shakespeare of content marketing, minus the flowery language and complex tragedies.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Let’s be frank—there is a saturation of content marketing. Almost every brand is producing content, and competition to rank is fierce. However, it’s not all bad news because a lot of content out there is surface level—it’s generic and has no new angle or point of view. To stand out, brands are focusing on 10x content, which is content that’s 10 times better than the content ranking highest for a keyword.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2021, many top marketing agencies and tech companies are still hosting digital marketing conferences. Some are virtual, while others are still planning (and we are all hoping for in-person B2B digital marketing events later in 2021. With virtual events, you may think that we lose something that accompanies traveling, meeting marketing experts and peers face to face, and sitting in huge auditoriums with dynamically engaged marketing speakers.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

We have certainly all had our fair share of virtual events during the current global COVID19 pandemic. Whether it is Zoom meetings or physical events pushed on-line via webinars and virtual events, this element of digital transformation has become ubiquitous. It is easy to forget that webinars have been around for less than 25 years – the Internet and the World Wide Web created the technology and the venue for events to go on-line.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

You don’t always need to hire a specialist agency or invest a large part of your budget to improve your SEO. You don’t necessarily need a lot of time either. While it’s true that your digital marketing strategy should be long-term and ongoing to see the best results, you can also make a big improvement to your SEO in a short space of time. This seven-day guide will take you through some straightforward steps to improve your SEO that could make a big difference to your ranking.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It can be difficult to stand out from the competition—no matter what industry you’re in. But if you’re looking to differentiate yourself from your competition and attract new clients, you have to be unique. If you’re not sure how to make your brand stand out, see what kinds of marketing tactics other B2B marketing professionals saw success with this year in our 2021 B2B Marketing Mix Report.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Bad presentations are brutal. Unfortunately, we’ve all been there in some way, either as the presenter or as an audience member. Let’s paint a visual. As the presenter, you catch people nodding off in the back, scrolling on their devices in the front, and daydreaming about better days. Meanwhile, you’re sweatin’ bullets, time has conveniently decided to slow down, and you’re still talking too fast!

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Can you remember the last time you worked in your office? Not just to grab your mouse and comfy chair, but actually entered the office before 9 AM and stayed until after 5? For me and my NetLine marketing colleagues, it was March 14th; we’ve all been working remotely ever since. I’m sure the story for many of you is the same. Regardless of whether we’re talking about the commercial or residential side of the industry, the Real Estate profession certainly finds itself in a curious place.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Email automation takes tedious tasks off of your team’s plate and frees up valuable time for mission-critical activities, like answering customer questions and improving your product. How? By delivering the right message to the right person at the right time — all without manual input. “Email marketing remains one of the most effective and affordable ways to communicate with your customers, build credibility, boost your brand recognition, and increase sales.” — Forbes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The world of digital marketing is constantly changing. Whether it’s a global pandemic, racial unrest, political upheaval, new channels and apps, demographic shifts, or changing consumer dynamics – the job of today’s marketing leaders is not getting easier. A great way to increase your chances of success as a business and a brand is to understand the latest digital marketing statistics.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I recently had a conversation with an Account Director responsible for new market and existing customer growth for an Oracle Supply Chain and ERP partner that has offices throughout the US, Asia, and UK. I learned that the firm: Experiences 12 to 18-month sales cycle on enterprise accounts with most efforts leading to RFP automatically reducing margin growth.

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