Sharpspring

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The phrase “marketing plan” can mean many things, from your social media/ad campaign schedule to your lead nurture pipeline to your overall strategic goals. And this will become your capital-letter Marketing Plan! With that said, let’s explore the core elements of a strong marketing plan — step by step. your goals?

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Hubspot

MARCH 25, 2020

But Google couldn’t have helped me discover these folks without those businesses investing in local marketing. In fact, 88% of mobile online searches for local businesses result in either a call or business visit within one day. In this guide, we break down local marketing and a slew of helpful strategies to help you get started.

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Marketri

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Before you commit a budget to marketing, you want assurance those dollars will drive the results you’re looking for. As our clients will attest, strategic marketing can drive revenue growth and generate a high ROI. That’s where it helps to have insights from veteran B2B marketers. It sounds like the most basic of questions.

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BenchmarkONE

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Understanding your target audience is step one for most small businesses looking to get their marketing and sales efforts off the ground. Doing a search for dog parks and pet-friendly apartment buildings can help you decide which neighborhoods are the most saturated with each and, therefore, would benefit most from your services. .

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Hubspot

JULY 10, 2019

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. Between creative demands, budget limits, and channel decisions, marketers have a lot to juggle when developing their marketing strategy. The biggest determinant of effective marketing, however, is your audience. You might as well not be marketing at all.

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Televerde

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

You develop a product, market it, and customers eventually make a purchase. Today’s modern consumers communicate with brands on at least ten different channels —from social media, email, paid ads, etc. Understand the differences between your buyer personas and attract a new customer base.

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Hubspot

JUNE 13, 2018

You’ve been spearheading your organization’s content marketing efforts for a while now, and your team’s performance has convinced your boss to fully adopt content marketing. Read on to get inspired by some of marketing’s top content strategies. 5 Marketing Plan Examples to Help You Write Your Own.

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Valasys

JUNE 6, 2019

B2B industry has recently started implementing & experimenting with the expanding & increasing trajectory of ‘Influencer Marketing’ , after comprehending its importance, particularly on social media platforms. B2B Influencer Marketing is important as it saves the huge expense on paid advertising.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Ever wonder what it’s like working with SmartBug Media? I’ll give you a hint: We’re passionate about Intelligent Inbound™ marketing. They will be your main points of contact over the next month as they explore all aspects of your business, including marketing challenges and growth opportunities.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2021

If you’re in the initial stages of building a new business, you may feel overwhelmed and underprepared to manage your ever-growing marketing to-do list. We’re here today to help simplify what can be a complex process: building a successful content marketing program. What is a Content Marketing Program?

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Hence, effective lead nurturing strategies are crucial to bringing your marketing and lead generation efforts to full fruition. Read more on How to Assimilate Competitive Benchmarking in Social Media. Leveraging Targeted Content Strategy.

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Albacross

MAY 21, 2019

This includes methods such as door-to-door sales, cold emailing, billboard advertising and pay-per-click advertising. Psychographics - Industry challenges, problems faced, concerns/anxieties about the product. You should also consider creating a ‘negative’ buyer persona , of people you don’t want to sell to.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 8, 2021

Have you ever scrolled through social media and noticed that the pair of shoes you were looking at yesterday is now an ad on your feed? Brands are using social media in both an organic and a paid way, to promote brand awareness as well as their products and services. the shoe ad I mentioned). Why Social Media?

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

B2B marketers think that if they are providing spectacular products or services, it’s more than enough as the services will speak for themselves. People feel close to the ones close to them & therefore, online as well as offline word of mouth marketing has a strong influence on driving the purchase decisions of the prospects.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I request that before you skim, you pause, take a deep breath, slow down the rushing world around you, and ask yourself: What constitutes the idea of “right” in justifying my paid media or social ad spend? Step 1: Determine what you want to market. Start with your amazing unicorn content. Unicorn content?

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Hubspot

APRIL 13, 2021

An audience profile can help you personalize your campaign's messaging to reach those most likely to convert, and limit the amount of spend you might've otherwise wasted on underperforming ads. Plus, we'll dive into a media audience profile and how that type of profile can help you increase the success of your paid ads campaigns.

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Spiralytics

AUGUST 3, 2023

In the 1980s, telecommunication company AT&T ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Reach out and touch someone.” Given our current marketing climate, truer words were never spoken. With ad blindness and tools like AdBlock, customers have become adept at ignoring marketing messages. So, what is a marketer to do?

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Single Grain

JUNE 30, 2022

Programmatic ads are one of the most efficient, cost-effective, customizable, and data-driven methods of buying paid media. By 2023, it's estimated that 91% of total digital ad spend will be on programmatic technology. We'll also share some tips on hiring the best agency to run effective ad campaigns for your business.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2019

Perform a Google search on “content creation strategy,” and you’ll get millions of results offering tips, ideas and templates to help you get started. What are your biggest challenges with content? Content created for the sake of content or to meet some self-imposed publishing schedule isn’t enough. Start here.

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EMagine B2B Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The marketing industry, in general, has seen major shifts over the last few years. The biggest shift is one that may require a new mindset: the increasing importance of content marketing. The goal of content marketing is to build a relationship with the audience, establish trust, and ultimately drive profitable customer action.

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Scoop.it

JANUARY 3, 2023

Or perhaps you should invest in more costly paid ads? Here’s a better idea – a content mapping strategy. Content mapping is a process where you strategically align different pieces of your content to various stages of your customer journey. Creating an effective editorial content calendar.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Targeting is arguably the most important part of a marketing campaign. And that’s what targeted marketing is all about — knowing your demographics, finding a target audience, and igniting a marketing campaign that turns potential customers into actual customers. What is targeted marketing? The 4 major consumer buckets.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 18, 2024

A sales process is a series of steps that move a sales rep from product and market research all the way through to a closed deal — and beyond. Research your ideal prospect Many companies create a buyer persona that outlines the demographics, psychographics (needs, wants, and behaviors), and communication preferences of their ideal prospect.

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Circle Studio

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Marketing is no exception, with an ever-expanding vocabulary of terms and jargon that may at times sound like a foreign language to business executives in non-marketing roles. We’ve set out to help demystify some of the most common B2B marketing jargon: A/B testing – Testing two versions of an element with two separate audiences.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 29, 2019

“ E-commerce marketing pertains to activities that guide shoppers through the conversion funnel.” ” In this article, we will look at the concept of e-commerce, different e-commerce business models, top e-commerce platforms, and how to create an e-commerce marketing strategy and the tools required to execute it.

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Single Grain

MAY 30, 2023

If there’s one definitive theme word representing the climate of marketing so far this year, it’s artificial intelligence. If you don’t have the bandwidth or the knowledge yourself, the best thing to do is hire an AI marketing agency to do the hard work for you. Work With Us What Is an AI Marketing Agency?

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Valasys

AUGUST 26, 2019

Seth Godin, the famous American author & entrepreneur stated the importance of content marketeering as follows: “Content Marketing is all the Marketing that’s left.”. Having the brains for awe is something that lays the foundation for the marketers to introspect & think beyond the established patterns.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In a recent study we read, the role of marketing is changing to become the chief advocate for customers. In fact, the #1 priority of B2B marketers in 2016 will be “understanding buyers,” according to a recent survey from the IT Sales and Marketing Association. Buyer personas at my company are a passion.

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Unbound B2B

JANUARY 11, 2023

Focus on thought leadership content that can provide some value to your customers. Email marketing is always the best way to sell to B2B customers. B2B Social media marketing needs to be revamped in 2023. Then, you must revisit and revamp your B2B Sales Strategies to meet the new market dynamics.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 30, 2023

Reading Time: 12 minutes As a marketing professional, understanding the nuances of account-based marketing vs. inbound marketing is crucial for developing effective strategies in the B2B SaaS sector. What is the difference between account-based marketing and traditional marketing?

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Single Grain

MAY 18, 2021

According to research, a whopping 61% of marketers cite lead generation as one of the most challenging parts of their job: Yet without new leads coming in regularly, it’s impossible to grow your business. This is essential to developing your buyer personas and crafting personalized messaging. Let’s get to it then, shall we?

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Single Grain

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But it’s not just about being present on these platforms, it’s about optimizing your ecommerce marketing strategy to get the edge over the competition. If you want to build an ecommerce empire, your ecommerce marketing strategy is going to be the cornerstone of that growth.

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Single Grain

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

We've all seen one of those ads that just hits the ground running and before you know it, it's “gone viral” It almost doesn't even matter what the subject is; all sorts of people outside the brand's demographic will watch it, like it and share it – because a great ad is a great ad. What Is Viral Marketing?

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PureB2B

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

No matter how great or valuable your content is, it won’t be worth anything if nobody reads it. However, with all the content being published online, getting your message in front of the right people is a critical factor in how well a piece of content performs. Content Promotion vs. Content Distribution.

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PureB2B

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

No matter how great or valuable your content is, it won’t be worth anything if nobody reads it. However, with all the content being published online, getting your message in front of the right people is a critical factor in how well a piece of content performs. Content Promotion vs. Content Distribution.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How many times have you seen a killer marketing campaign and thought to yourself, "Wow, I wish I would've thought of that!". To help ease some of that uncertainty, we've created this guide that'll show you step-by-step how to create a marketing strategy that leaves no stone unturned. Create buyer personas.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Social media advertising is defined as a form of digital advertising that serves paid ads to your target audience using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Table of Contents. What Is Social Media Advertising?

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