Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Act-On

JUNE 13, 2024

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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Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Zoominfo First-Mover Advantage Marketing Analytics Tools Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Martech

JUNE 14, 2024

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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Optinmonster

JUNE 14, 2024

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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CMSWire

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Sprout Social

JUNE 11, 2024

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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Social Media Education Media Marketing & Strategy 102

Binary Demand

JUNE 12, 2024

[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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MKT1

JUNE 12, 2024

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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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

B2B Sales

Go Beyond SEO

JUNE 13, 2024

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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SmartBrief - Marketing

JUNE 11, 2024

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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Martech

JUNE 14, 2024

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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Ahrefs

JUNE 11, 2024

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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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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 14, 2024

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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BOP Design

JUNE 14, 2024

Captivating a website visitor’s attention is done using various design techniques. In this article, we look at specific B2B web design and development techniques that are implemented to draw the visitor’s eye when scrolling down the website page. We’ll explore parallax scrolling, lazy-loading images, and animating-in elements on scroll down a web page.

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CMSWire

JUNE 12, 2024

What is DaaS (Desktop as a Service), and how does it compare to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)? Continue reading.

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Service 106

Martech

JUNE 13, 2024

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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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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Acrolinx

JUNE 13, 2024

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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 13, 2024

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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Content Paid Search Agency Marketing Brand Identity 84

Bannersnack

JUNE 13, 2024

16 minutes read Creating something visually pleasing does require a fair amount of talent and inspiration, but it’s not as subjective as we’re often led to believe. While tastes differ, human perception is programmed at a primal level to notice and admire harmony, whether it’s the sound of music or the shapes and colors that surround us.

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CMSWire

JUNE 12, 2024

Google's secret sauce isn’t secret anymore. Ready to spice up your SEO? Continue reading.

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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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Martech

JUNE 13, 2024

With one line in an earnings call on Tuesday full of positive talk around cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Oracle CEO Safra Catz put an end to a line of business Oracle built through acquisitions for more than a decade. “In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal year ’24,” Catz said.

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CopyBlogger

JUNE 13, 2024

There are so many AI writing tools on the market, and it’s hard to understand how they differ from each. Continue Reading The post The 12 Best AI Writing Tools (And How They’re Different) appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 12, 2024

Businesses are the most trusted entity today. Adding B2B influencer marketing to your owned media strategy can boost that advantage. Learn the benefits, influencer types, estimated pricing, and how to get started today.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 11, 2024

Trailblazer Community Forum Ambassadors help maintain a healthy and engaged Trailblazer Community by sharing their Salesforce expertise, moderating content, and creating a welcoming space for members. They’re superusers of the online Trailblazer Community who play a key role in helping Salesforce users speed up their implementations and increase their return on investment (ROI).

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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Square 2 Marketing

JUNE 14, 2024

Action Selling®, part of the SEG family of companies, has been included on Selling Power’s Top Sales Training Companies 2024 list. This list recognizes sales training companies with a track record of producing tangible ROI while also providing superior customer service.

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Martech

JUNE 12, 2024

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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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency Work Management 89

Bannersnack

JUNE 11, 2024

9 minutes read It’s estimated that the human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Moreover, when text is paired with images, comprehension goes up to 89%. Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? I think we can all agree that visual communication can boost your online advertising. Sometimes, in order to create a stronger reaction, advertisers go one step further and pair multiple visual elements to create a metaphor image.

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