Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2020

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. Those differences are one area explored in How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing , a research report just published by B2B Marketing Zone and Webbiquity LLC.

Marketing Budget Creation 340

Marketing Budget Creation Paid Content Planning Peer-to-peer 340

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. They will consume content, but only if it’s valuable to them.

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Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Work Management 358

Oktopost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But budget limitations can make or break even the best, and most thorough plans you’ve set to accomplish in 2024. They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. Now that doing more with less is essential, strategic budgeting is the key to success for CMOs in 2024.

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Marketing Budget Budget Programs Paid Content Marketing Budget Creation 62

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. The data bears this out.

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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.

Cost per Lead 98

Cost per Lead Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs CPL 98

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

‘Tis the season to believe in the holiday spirit AND the power of content marketing. If you’re new here, content marketing is a business opportunity to reach and convert new customers. Chances are, you believe in content marketing. You’re ready to hop on the Content Marketing Express.

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Paid Search Agency Content Marketing Planning Budget Programs 274

Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Tight budgets and scrappy teams require innovation at every level — from the Founder and CMO, e-commerce Marketing Director to VP of Marketing, Social Media Director to Paid Search Strategist. A challenging digital marketing world. What platform do you advertise on? But let’s face it.

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Paid Content Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency SMB 135

Webbiquity

JUNE 13, 2023

Modern consumers are demanding. 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. It offers each buyer a customized experience through brand messaging, marketing, recommendations, and offers.

Loyalty 258

Loyalty Personalization Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services 258

ClearVoice

JANUARY 5, 2024

Allocating resources and setting a budget that reflects your content marketing goals is like having a GPS for your content strategy — it keeps everything on track. The question is, how do you budget for success and allocate resources to align with your content marketing goals? Content creation.

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Allocation Budget Programs Marketing Budget Resources 52

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. We are all tuning out advertising. We all know ads don’t work. The 3 Components of Content Marketing ROI.

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ROI Content Marketing Digital Asset Management Business 305

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Despite some of the challenges that come with content marketing, new research suggests that most marketers remain dedicated to this tactic, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After the pandemic started, the majority of marketers (47%) still said that content marketing led the way in ROI.

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Digital Asset Management Marketing Report Content Marketing Content 259

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I was the Director of Revenue Operations & Demand Generation Strategy. Like almost every B2B company on the planet, I knew my success would hinge largely on paid social advertising. So, I did what any demand generation marketer would do in my situation: DIY’d some LinkedIn ads using the platform’s native tools.

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Paid Content Paid Social Agency Cost per Lead Advertising Agencies 52

SalesIntel

AUGUST 14, 2023

As marketing leaders, we often find ourselves navigating the challenging landscape of justifying ad spending to our CFOs. The age-old debate of whether marketing efforts genuinely contribute to the bottom line can leave us feeling like we speak a different language. But fear not, my fellow marketers!

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Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency Tactics 40

The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges.

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Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Campaigns Cost Per Click 235

Velocity Partners

JUNE 7, 2024

Content as community: How content marketing is changing in the new B2B GTM This is one of a series of blogs about the changing B2B go-to-market. A few years ago, just after B2B content marketing morphed into, well, just B2B marketing , I got together with the senior team here.

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Communities Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools 81

EveryoneSocial

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing is constantly evolving and the way buyers consume also changes. But within marketing, there will always be channels that are part of the overall playbook. One of those being paid advertising, whether it’s paid social (LinkedIn, Facebook) or paid search (Google, Bing). Let’s explore!

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Ads 55

Oktopost

MARCH 10, 2022

B2B Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing—however you badge it, it’s a numbers game. Budgets and teams have been squeezed, but the targets keep growing. As someone specialized in Demand Gen, I have to ask myself hard questions. How to Measure ROI in Social Media. We are here to drive revenue.

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Social Media ROI Media Brand Identity 174

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Influencer marketing has become a really big deal in a relatively short time. According to Google Trends, average monthly searches related to influencer marketing have increased 6X since early 2016. As an industry, influencer marketing has grown by nearly a factor of 10 in that time, from $1.7 billion in 2016 to $16.4

Paid Content 267

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Work Management 267

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 13, 2023

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. How do you know which tactics work and who’s just blowing smoke?

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Marketers have traditionally been forced to make hard tradeoffs between their brand and demand activities and decide how to shift budgets when new challenges arise. In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Advertising Agencies Demand Advertisements 52

Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility.

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Digital Asset Management Paid Content Work Management Marketing Management 130

ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2020

A few weeks ago, my colleague Scott Parent wrote about the immediate impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on marketing. In it, Scott offered four actionable ways to quickly and effectively shift your demand marketing plan to accommodate the changing business environment. Paid Search.

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Top of Funnel Demand Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 147

NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The name of Google is practically synonymous with search, to the point that few people even realize alternatives exist for paid search in places other than Google. While Google Ads struggled to regain the 11% that search clicks were down in 2017 over 2016, Yahoo grew by 10% in paid clicks and Bing grew by 19.7%

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Paid Search Agency CPC Cost Per Click Ad Exchange 100

Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Companies need to keep growing to succeed, and content is one of the most effective ways to do that.

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Marketing Budget Content Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency 208

Envy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Dissecting the very short lives of the B2B marketing budgets in 2022 will not take long. Q2 2022 - Ukraine war and crazy inflation means reality shocks the world, some marketing budgets tightened. Marketers need to show their contributions to the bottom line. 2023: The B2B marketing stakes are high.

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Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs B2B Marketing 106

Digilant

APRIL 23, 2024

In today’s screen-obsessed world, digital audio isn’t always at the forefront of marketing conversations—but it should be. People spend more time listening to digital audio than they spend on other popular digital channels, including viewing subscription OTT content, watching videos on their phones, or scrolling social networks.

Advertising Agencies 52

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Top of Funnel 52

Digilant

APRIL 23, 2024

In today’s screen-obsessed world, digital audio isn’t always at the forefront of marketing conversations—but it should be. People spend more time listening to digital audio than they spend on other popular digital channels, including viewing subscription OTT content, watching videos on their phones, or scrolling social networks.

Advertising Agencies 52

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Top of Funnel 52

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Business owners and marketers have had to quickly and repeatedly adapt their strategies , redefine how they do branding , and adjust their infrastructure in these unprecedented times. Among the aspects proving to be particularly challenging is content marketing. Content alignment with the buyer journey.

Top of Funnel 260

Top of Funnel ROI Marketing Automation Services Work Management 260

Digilant

APRIL 23, 2024

In today’s screen-obsessed world, digital audio isn’t always at the forefront of marketing conversations—but it should be. People spend more time listening to digital audio than they spend on other popular digital channels, including viewing subscription OTT content, watching videos on their phones, or scrolling social networks.

Advertising Agencies 52

Advertising Agencies Advertisements Advertising Top of Funnel 52

Martech

AUGUST 23, 2022

Recent announcements from streaming giants on their intent to introduce lower-cost, ad-supported offerings are shaking up the streaming TV landscape. In a reversal of its initial commitment to keep its service ad-free, Netflix declared its intent to explore lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plans and partnered with Microsoft to do so.

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Paid Search Agency Ads Advertising Agencies Planning 96

readwrite

DECEMBER 17, 2021

While the pandemic has had a huge, disruptive impact on marketing, it’s still crucial to observe what will happen in the digital marketing and advertising spaces. The more accurately marketers understand trends, the more chances they have to beat the competition. of all digital display ad spend by the end of 2021.

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Paid Content Trends Paid Search Agency Ads 119

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Sometimes not investing in the right tools can cost you a lot more in the end. The same is true in marketing. Ads and Attribution. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Measuring B2B Marketing Performance.

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Linkedin Sales Management Paid Search Agency ROI 154

Valasys

JUNE 4, 2024

What is an Ad Exchange? An ad exchange serves as a crucial intermediary in the world of digital advertising, connecting advertisers with publishers through a dynamic marketplace known as real-time bidding (RTB). Conversely, publishers utilize SSPs to showcase their available ad space, ready for monetization.

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Ad Exchange Paid Search Agency Allocation Ads 40

Metadata

JULY 21, 2022

Paid social ads can guarantee exposure, drive traffic, and encourage revenue. Organic social media is often positioned as the be-all and end-all of social media marketing. However, to really maximize your social media efforts, you need both organic posts and a paid social media strategy.

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Paid Content Paid Social Agency Paid Search Agency CPC 52

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are you simply switching to a new template and adding some new CTAs, or are you migrating your entire website to a new platform? Our latest offer, 8 Free Budget Templates to Manage Your Marketing Spend , has got you covered. Included in our eight budget templates bundle is a template to manage your website redesign.

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Budget Programs Marketing Budget Paid Content Marketing Budget Creation 101

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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Paid Content Marketing Analytics Tools Advertising Agencies Marketing Budget 93

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As the digital market space rapidly evolves, customers are seeking authenticity and human connection from brands like never before. To meet this rising demand, your marketing team needs to be agile, think out of the box and keep up with deadlines—all while operating within limited budgets and constrained team bandwidths.

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Marketing AI Paid Content Work Management Marketing Strategy 121