Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. How has AI impacted the market? Let’s look at these steps in detail.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As B2B marketers look for more ways to improve their lead nurturing strategies, new research indicates that they are turning to social media and personalization to do so. That being said, the majority of B2B marketers (46%) are now turning to social media as they look to enhance their nurture programs.

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Lead Nurturing B2B Marketing B2B Budget Programs 162

Metadata

MAY 24, 2023

This is the second post in our new content series, Meta With Metadata. We’re giving you an inside look at how our Marketing team uses our own product to automate paid campaigns and drive more revenue. That’s the question every demand gen marketer is asking themselves right now. How can I get something out of nothing?

Work Management 52

Work Management Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles Allocation 52

Brandpoint

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s no secret that video content is the name of the game when it comes to generating social media impressions, engagement and traffic. Marketers have been preaching its rising value for years, and the statistics overwhelmingly affirm the medium. 87% of marketers say that video has a director and positive impact on sales.

Social Media 118

Social Media Traffic Top of Funnel Media 118

Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2024

Influencer marketing has grown beyond getting a viral moment. It has become a core element of marketing and sales strategies. Our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey revealed 81% of US-based social marketers consider influencer marketing an essential part of their social media strategy.

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Metadata

MAY 8, 2023

This is the first post in our new content series, Meta With Metadata. We’re giving you an inside look at how our Marketing team uses our own product to automate paid campaigns and drive more revenue. What do Bigfoot, aliens, and stress-free B2B marketers have in common? They don’t exist. I know you have, too.

Social Media 52

Social Media Cost per Lead Campaigns Automation 52

Webbiquity

JUNE 13, 2023

A McKinsey report notes that 71% of customers expect brand personalization and 76% get frustrated if it’s not provided. Image credit: cottonbro studio on Pexels B2C brands (and B2B companies increasingly, as well) focus on personalizing their services to build recognition in a cutthroat market.

Loyalty 257

Loyalty Personalization Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services 257

Trade Press Services Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Content Marketing Institute’s 13th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report has just been released and has some excellent insights for marketers as we move into 2023. The best news from this year’s report? Content marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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Marketing Report B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Planning 130

Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Only 28% of B2B content marketers say they have the technology they need, according to a new study. Perhaps coincidentally, only 29% said their organizations are very successful with content marketing. Content creation/calendaring/collaboration/workflow tools decreased to 65% from 73% the previous year.

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Marketing Report B2B Marketing Content Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 108

Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

Social Media 52

Social Media Template Work Management Marketing Management 52

Contently

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Very quickly, high-quality, engaging content became an absolute necessity for most businesses. This awoke a sleeping giant: content marketing. The Content Marketing Institute’s 2022 Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report gives an interesting insight into the new post-pandemic landscape.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 20, 2022

Social media is essential to building brand awareness and increasing sales. Social media analytics is indispensable for improving social media performance and business growth. If you’re a small business or eCommerce merchant, free social media analytics tools can boost your social marketing strategy. Talkwalker.

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Social Media Analytics Work Management Media 116

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Go-to-market strategy and execution is rapidly evolving – driven by a combination of customer drivers, technology innovation and changing organizational strategy. Wordstream’s annual Google Ads benchmarks study for 2023 reported that average paid search conversion rates went down 10% and cost per lead increased 20%, year-over-year.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

Lake One

JANUARY 18, 2021

Typical marketing trends were thrown out the window! The same can be said for paid search trends. Campaign managers saw it all – data points changed dramatically, seasonal shifts came at new times, and certain benchmarks no longer applied, to name just a few. What does this mean for paid search trends in 2021?

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Trends Privacy Keywords Search Marketing 52

Tomorrow People

MARCH 13, 2018

Having well designed content isn’t good enough. You need to have an excellent digital content distribution strategy and your marketing agency has the experts who can help. A generation ago, digital was a rounding error in marketing budgets, with success measured in hundreds of pageviews rather than millions of customers.

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Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not exactly news that LinkedIn advertising can be expensive. Google that phrase, and you’ll see articles like “Why are LinkedIn ads so dang expensive?” and “LinkedIn is the most expensive digital advertising platform.”. Our customers’ LinkedIn ad experiments prove that out. Note: This data includes Conversation ads.

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Cost Per Click CPC CTR Conversion Rate 52

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Are you looking for sustainable ways to market your business? Not sure where to start: email marketing vs. social media? Both email and social media marketing are promising channels to grow your business. In this post, we’ll share important insights into email and social media marketing. That’s 61.4%

Social Media 111

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Marketing Budget 111

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 9, 2019

It’s 2019, after all – B2B marketers have evolved past “lead gen 101” They need leads that contribute to pipeline. But here’s just one example : 58% of marketers said their top priority was lead quality. It will give you suggestions for negative keywords, tell you who their top organic and paid competitors are, and more.

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High Quality Lead PPC Lead Generation Budget Programs 215

Conductor

MARCH 17, 2022

It’s one of the main reasons people are not as bought into SEO as they are with other marketing channels. It’s not like paid search where you can easily attribute a click on an ad to a keyword and measure the conversions against your initial investment to see if it was worth it. Creating content can cost a lot of money.

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ROI SEO Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking 104

Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place.

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Marketing Budget Advertising Agencies Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 92

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Social data is so important, in fact, that 33% of social marketers in a hiring position list reporting ability as the top skill they look for in candidates. Social media reports can help you synthesize your data succinctly and package it in an easily digestible format to share with a variety of stakeholders across your organization.

Social Media 131

Social Media Media Paid Social Agency Ideal Customer Profiles 131

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 31, 2017

Marketo’s “2017 Marketing Benchmark Report: North America” has found that marketers are implementing mobile marketing and optimization as a part of their multi-channel marketing strategies. These channels include websites, email, field sales, events and paid search.

Mobile Marketing 120

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Sprout Social

APRIL 9, 2020

One of the first things you learn as a marketer is that your audience is everything. It drives conversations around your brand, fuels your business and informs the content you create and share. . Backed by data, marketers can apply logical and results-oriented insights to their strategies. You can still test on a tight budget.

Social Media 137

Social Media Creativity Webinar Metrics Media 137

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 16, 2018

It can be argued that content marketing is the most important digital marketing strategy available today. Without new and fresh content, it’s almost impossible to achieve the results you’re striving for. The History of Content Marketing. The History of Content Marketing.

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Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy B2B Marketing Content Marketing 249

Metadata

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For demand marketers focused on driving sales and business growth, revenue is the ultimate KPI. And targeting your audience with paid social media campaigns is one of the best ways to do that. How to look at the data LinkedIn vs. Facebook for B2B marketing What are the best CTAs? How long should your ad text be?

Cost per Lead 78

Cost per Lead Paid Social Agency Advertising Benchmark CPL 78

Content Standard

AUGUST 24, 2021

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter , Content & Context, to receive future insights and updates on the content marketing world from Skyword CEO, Andrew C. The feudal system is alive and well in digital marketing. Despite pandemic-induced budget cuts, digital ad spending grew to $139.8 billion in 2020.

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Privacy iProspect Ad Exchange Paid Search Agency 126

Sword and the Script | B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Whether you are tallying up your results for the end of the year, or planning programs for the next year, benchmarks provide context for companions. Benchmarks give us a sense of how well we are resourced and what sort of results others in industry are providing. 1) Content marketing benchmarks.

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Advertising Benchmark Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Studies 91

SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Effective franchise marketing drives customer acquisition, maintains brand integrity, and facilitates sustainable growth. The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards.

Planning 64

Planning Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Top of Funnel 64

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Webinar Metrics 130

Valasys

JUNE 27, 2023

On June 7, 2023, LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, released a new B2B research report and introduced several B2B tools, including generative AI ad copy features. The launch was accompanied by a captivating advertising campaign led by Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Effort, showcasing these products.

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Atomic Reach

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We surveyed 54 marketers from different businesses and industries, giving us a better understanding of just how important content marketing is. Content Marketing is vital, but it's difficult to generate results. So, why is content marketing important? The biggest conclusion? Let's break it down.

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Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Content Marketing Eloqua 102

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 6, 2015

55% of B2B marketers say it is unclear what effective content marketing looks like at their organizations. This was one of the key highlights of the sixth annual B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released last week.

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Brandpoint

MARCH 28, 2023

After we received the results of our new research report, The Future of the PR Industry 2023 , one thing was clear once we started digging through the data. PR and communications professionals find thought leadership content and campaigns to be highly important, but metrics and measurement are a common challenge.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Just as CMOs and other marketing leaders started reaching into their pockets after more than two years of pandemic-restricted spending, they’ve hit another flaming hoop: uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Insert the collective sighs of marketers.]. Here are the top 3 things you can do right now to maximize your demand gen budget: 1.

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Cost per Lead Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs CPL 98

Martech

MAY 8, 2023

Creating a data-driven marketing strategy can be intimidating. In my experience, a marketing strategy hinged on first-party data drives better business results. I’ve supported clients across all stages of creating a data-driven marketing strategy — from discovery and implementation to measurement and optimization.

Marketing & Strategy 118

Marketing & Strategy Budget Programs Advertising Benchmark Loyalty 118

Martech

APRIL 26, 2022

You’ve heard about the results companies are getting with account-based marketing (ABM) and you want to know what it will take to make it work for you. In particular, will it fit in your budget? How to think about ABM budgets. Use the right budgeting methodology. Let’s break it all down.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Paid Content Cost 97

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Our continued client success allowed us to undertake new initiatives in the Asian market, specifically through Baidu search engine advertising. Today, we’re providing internet marketing solutions across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and we’re hoping to expand our presence in the new year.

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