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B2B Influencer Marketing in 2022: Seven Key Lessons from New Research

Webbiquity

Influencer marketing is increasingly popular in the B2B space, for the simple reason that buyers trust experts more than ads. But many B2B marketers are approaching it in the wrong ways, missing the mark with both the influencers and their audiences. B2B Marketers are Misaligned With Influencer Preferences.

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How B2B Content Marketing Has Changed and What To Do Next [Research]

Webbiquity

The way B2B buyers consume content has changed significantly in the past two years. But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. B2B tech buyers most highly value product demos, factual product information, and free trials. No surprise there.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. this year as well. Makes sense.

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B2B Marketing in Pandemic Times: Here’s What to Do NOW (Research)

Webbiquity

As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on, B2B technology buyers are adjusting to a new (hopefully temporary) type of “normal.” That’s where opportunity lies for B2B marketers today. But B2B marketers need to shift tactics and more important, messaging, in order to earn conversations with those prospective customers.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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. 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.

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The State of B2B Influencer Marketing [Research]

Webbiquity

Nearly four out of five B2B marketers believe influencer marketing will grow in importance in the next year. But only half integrate their influencer marketing efforts with their SEO programs, or use influencer marketing tools to identify industry influencers. How do influencers create value for brands?

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62% of B2B Marketers Cite Content Marketing for Producing Valuable Leads

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look for more efficient ways to engage prospects, new research suggests that content marketing is growing in importance to them. Despite the ROI of content marketing, however, many B2B marketers are still lagging when it comes to integrating personalization tactics.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. B2B organizations struggle with bad data. The primary takeaway? Forrester found “only 1.2%

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B2B Marketing Trends to Engage Target Accounts and Skyrocket Demand Gen

Speaker: Ari Capogeannis, Director - Revenue Marketing at NVIDIA

Since businesses can no longer engage key accounts through traditional channels, digital marketing and sales transformation has accelerated. According to a market research study, the top challenges that executives face when implementing ABM programs are execution, data quality, and efficiency. ABM Marketing trends.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

The benefits of Account-Based Marketing are clear, so what’s holding B2B professionals back? While B2B research suggests organizations are thriving through successful ABM programs, getting just one campaign off the ground is more difficult than it seems.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Recent studies have shown what a lot of B2B marketers already know - it’s hard to build a successful inbound marketing program. And while a good inbound program gets started with the marketing department, a great inbound program gets other departments involved.

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Mapping Personas in Your Marketing to Maximize Value

Speaker: Samantha Stone, author of “Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook that Drives Sales”

Marketers sink time into primary research, testing and documentation. Developing & utilizing Personas is hard work! We use Personas for messaging but then lose steam and focus regarding the segmentation part of our strategy. We rely on titles, company size and industry to define personas – but there is so much more!

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How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing Plans

Speaker: Tom Pick, Chief Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity

B2B Marketing Zone and Tom Pick, a well-known B2B Marketing expert, recently conducted a survey of over 450 senior B2B marketing professionals about the impact of COVID-19 on their B2B marketing plans. Top tactics and channels for reallocating event marketing dollars.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.