Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Automation is truly revolutionary and offers numerous benefits that every CMO needs to be aware of.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 12, 2020

Within the past several days, however, research has been published that provides several important insights about how COVID-19 has affected marketing. And the findings about marketing spending are particularly interesting - and a little surprising. The average change in budget reported by survey respondents was +5.2%.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really? Image source: [link].

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Parse.ly

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Customers today demand rich, personalized digital experiences with brands, and businesses are continuing to invest in optimizing their digital presence to keep up. Content is at the heart of how customers learn about and interact with brands, and having an effective content strategy has never mattered more than it does today.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. Often, this happens as the budget year nears its end and your team needs to spend the designated dollars or lose them.). Invest in success.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The first series of posts (available here , here , and here ) discussed the findings of a special edition of The CMO Survey that was fielded in May. In July, I published a post ( Research Highlights How COVID-19 Has Changed B2B Buyer Behavior s ) that described the results of an April survey conducted by Wunderman Thompson Commerce.

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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As businesses gear up for 2022, executives are looking to invest in strategies that yield the biggest results and cut funding to the ones that don’t. Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year.

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Envy

JANUARY 28, 2018

Of course, AI-based marketing and social media videos are still firmly on that upward trajectory. Needless to say, the GDPR is also poised to make a big impact on B2B marketing and the way we manage customer data. Marketing Automation. We expect this trend to continue. The secret to success?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 14, 2023

Management thought leaders have applied the yin-yang concept to a variety of situations where business leaders need to pursue objectives that, at first glance, seem to be contradictory. For example, should business leaders try to develop game-changing business strategies, or should they strive for operational excellence?

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LEADership

JULY 7, 2015

The process allows people to put their ideas forward in a safe environment. Picture this—a traditional industry, a legacy spanning over a century, a landscape filled with publishers and media companies closing their doors—that is some very strong and unsettling turbulence. Instead, they had to focus on the customer.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&#

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Content Standard

JANUARY 25, 2018

Since then, it has become one of the largest marketing platforms for brands to engage with their consumers, advertise, and publish content. Social media marketing, like social media itself, has come a long way, but social media marketers still struggle to get buy-in from the executive level to fully invest in their success.

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Valasys

JULY 12, 2019

Capturing & relying upon the intent signaling of the prospects, the B2B marketers are now in a position to run better-targeted campaigns than ever before, to attract, engage & convert the prospects – leveraging omnichannel marketing. The conventional sales funnel has also changed for good.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Automation is truly revolutionary and offers numerous benefits that every CMO needs to be aware of.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the year is quickly approaching an end, content marketers are scrambling to secure that 2022 budget. Content marketing budgets are expected to grow in 2022 – yay! Content marketing saw substantial growth after the pandemic, a slightly bittersweet feeling for the industry. Research Based Strategy.

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markempa

MAY 23, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It was clear that each executive had a completely different vision of lead generation and how to measure marketing peformance. Why or Why not?

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ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She is a founding member of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog , and contributes regularly to the Content Marketing Institute blog.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2019

By Josh Baez , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. The average consumer experiences tremendous marketing fatigue, and with the proliferation of available marketing channels, content formats, and competition, buyers are bombarded from every angle—and the experience isn’t always a positive one. Key Findings.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

So you’ve managed to get 60,000 YouTube views on that video you posted last week… I know, pretty exciting hey? Now, if you’re like most marketers, you think, “YES! My video marketing is kick ass!” This will help you find out who is watching your videos so you can market to them effectively.

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Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. Here’s how to make sure your B2B marketing strategy gets results. What is B2B Marketing? How Does a B2B Marketing Strategy Differ from a B2C Marketing Strategy?

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 13, 2022

30-second summary: Erica Gunn, CMO at Canto, offers a guide to maximizing your marketing budget in tough economic circumstances. Walk in your customers’ shoes and understand their needs better. Make smart investments into your martech and make it work harder for you. Rethink customer attitudes.

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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2021

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is a crucial position for every organization, but hiring a CMO is more challenging than any other C-level position. In this article, I will discuss what a CMO is, the different skills needed to become a great CMO, and how you can hire the perfect CMO for your organization.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2017

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. Late in 2015 we started producing a bi-weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio , which runs live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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LEADership

JUNE 17, 2014

Are we working towards enhancing the Lifetime Value (LTV) of our customers? It is typical to arrive at marketing costs stacked against the percentage of sales achieved. In our immensely empowered times of predictive analytics, however, a better way to calculate this would be to measure the Lifetime Value of our key customers.

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Single Grain

AUGUST 17, 2021

Since the VP of marketing role requires an solid understanding of the market, vast knowledge of sales generation, demand generation and overall brand building, hiring the perfect person for the job can be challenging. VP of Marketing vs. CMO vs. Marketing Director.

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2023

Over the last several years, I’ve written frequently about the lack of CMO engagement in technology strategy and management. I’m now starting to see CMOs actively participating in strategy discussions, working hand in hand with their tech lead to make decisions about what to acquire and what to retire.

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Kaon

JULY 10, 2020

This article was originally published by MarketingProfs , May 18, 2020. CEOs Must Invest Now in Marketing. A recent study found that chief sales officers and chief operations officers are particularly doubtful of CMOs’ ability to demonstrate a financial impact. Survive or Thrive? ” Spending Smarter.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The top problem in content creation probably comes from the fact that too many B2B marketers haven’t had a single conversation with a customer Most B2B marketers (57%) say creating the right content for their audience is their top content creation challenge in content marketing. This is a marketing leadership problem.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The B2B sales funnel has changed a lot. . Until recent years, the traditional selling process looked something like this: Marketing would hand leads off to the sales team. The sales team would attempt to close those leads. . Marketing did their thing. Sales did their thing.

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The Marketing Blender

APRIL 14, 2022

Our Services. . Your Go-To Guide to Creating a B2B Marketing Strategy Framework. Are you looking to create a successful marketing strategy but don’t know where to start? This blog post will outline the steps you need to take to create your own B2B marketing strategy framework. See Our Work. .

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Online Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The Six Building Blocks of Digital Transformation -Optimizing Your Website for Voice Search & Position 0 -The Road Forward for Social Media Marketers – A New Reality -The Rise of the Algorithmic CMO See all Webinars ⟶ Newest Classes -Intro to Scrum -Are You Future Ready? Do you have valuable information to share?

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Envy

AUGUST 31, 2017

Mature, well-established companies often have large marketing budgets at their disposal and heavily rely on outbound marketing techniques. It is all well and good, but young innovative startups are often forced to spend a large chunk of their marketing budgets towards brand awareness and market education campaigns.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This is the fourth category I’ve created in my software career. I’m kind of a hybrid Product Manager, Product Marketing geek. I’ve spent my life building software for big companies. He joined HP Software and became my boss and he’s why we’re talking. We do spend and travel management.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Gone are the days when the content marketer was the enfant terrible of the marketing department. These days, our rebel with a cause is wearing fancy suits and golfing with the CMO. But there’s no doubt that the bounds of content marketing are stretching each year. Delivering Content-Centric Marketing at Scale.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Originally published on Marketing Tech News. Marketing leaders are betting on a digital-focused future by adopting martech solutions at an accelerated pace. In the Gartner CMO Spend Survey , nearly 70% said they expected to increase martech investments over the next 12 months. Focusing on the customer experience.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

But it is what marketing was always meant to be: a conversation between your company and your target audience that attracts new customers. Once you get your content marketing strategy going, it’s that positive snowball effect in action. ” It’s the solution to the dwindling impact of traditional marketing techniques.

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