B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 5, 2019

Given the recent focus on marketing's responsibility for managing customer experiences and driving growth, the topic is as relevant and timely today as it was in the fall of 2012.) The Original Post In 1960, Theodore Levitt wrote a landmark article for the Harvard Business Review titled " Marketing Myopia."

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Brandpoint

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

2022 is just around the corner, and that means year-long marketing plans, budget updates, Q1 campaigns, and making predictions the best we can. Here are trends and predictions that marketing leaders are anticipating in the months to come. What will our customers want? What will our stakeholders want? Heck, what will Google want?

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 9, 2013

With new online marketing tools, tactics, and channels cropping up daily, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with opportunity. Thankfully, as B2B marketers, we’re able to tap into the wants and needs of B2B consumers via online surveys, research reports, etc. Moz’s 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors. View the results.

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ScanmarQED

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This historical data forms the basis for optimizing media planning, understanding audience reach, and measuring advertising effectiveness. Are the ghosts of past writing, past planning, and trusted methodologies holding us back from being able to identify the true opportunities outside the boundaries of previous experience?

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 24, 2019

In the new era of digital-first and ever-shrinking attention span, marketing teams are fighting hard to get just an additional few minutes of attention from customers. A few percentage points increase in email click-through rates or an increase in website traffic is considered a big achievement across marketing organizations these days.

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Biznology

AUGUST 31, 2011

If you’ve finally gotten convinced of the effectiveness of search marketing yourself, it might seem a daunting prospect to prove its worth to your CMO, let alone your CFO or CEO. In this Webinar, I showed how to explain to senior executives why search marketing is important—in language that they will understand.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 27, 2023

SalesIntel’s strategic partnership with Semcasting empowers B2B marketers with high-quality account technographic and job title data to leverage in their paid channel efforts. How did you get started in the advertising/marketing/data industry? A: I was just about to graduate college with a Business Degree, not much of a plan.

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DemandBase

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Four days packed with keynotes, sessions, parties, meetings and concerts, planning your Dreamforce schedule is nothing short of Herculean! With ABM (Account-Based Marketing) increasingly becoming a must-have in every B2B Marketer’s toolkit, the number of ABM-focused sessions continues to grow at Dreamforce. Are you keeping up?

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Walker Sands

JULY 15, 2020

In the second installment of our two-part blog series derived from conversations at our Marketing Masters: 3 Essential Pillars of Communication for Achieving 2020 Marketing Goals online event, we’ll discuss effective external communication strategies for connecting with customers and prospects. Read part one here.).

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

How Marketing Can Drive More Customers, Better Experiences and Great Products. Marketing has a marketing problem. Ask most people to define what marketing is, and the answer will almost always come down to some form of a definition that is more closely related to advertising. Marketing is a conversation.

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This article by Greg Dolan, co-founder & CEO, Keen Decision Systems, explores the strategies and technologies that marketers should prioritize to ensure their data and decisions can bridge the marketing proof gap and demonstrate true financial value. Learn More: 6 Ingredients for a Successful Customer Analytics Implementation.

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Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2013

The numbers show marketers are rushing into mobile. 96% of marketers currently use or are planning to incorporate mobile marketing into their marketing mix (Source: ANA (Association National Advertisers) ). 59% of mobile websites are launched without testing or optimization (Source: Marketing Sherpa ).

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2011

Imagine for a moment that you could identify precisely the effectiveness of your marketing activities. Now imagine that the results of that data showed you that 70, 80 or even 90% of your marketing activity produced no measurable impact on those business results! Change isn’t coming to B2B Marketing. Here’s how: 1.

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Hubspot

JULY 2, 2020

One of the first things you're taught in your Introduction to Marketing class is that marketing can be best explained using the marketing mix — also known as the four P's. Still, there's an undeniable benefit of marketing teams organizing their work into the marketing mix framework.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 21, 2021

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I encourage you to check out my original post about the new era of engagement marketing for context. Also, don’t miss last week’s post — an interview with Seth Godin, who discussed the shift from transactional and mass marketing to an engagement model centered on building personalized, lifelong relationships. That means fast.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Listen in or read our conversation below entitled: Sales/Sales Development/Marketing: The Trifecta for Successful Pipeline Development.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In my last two posts, I’ve shared nine ways tech enterprises drive business-to-business (B2B) sales by content marketing with influencers and six content amplification tips to level up their results, both of which presented logical paths to revenue creation. Is Content ROI the Same as Marketing ROI? No, and yes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jon Miller Today I’m pleased to welcome Gary Katz, founder and chairman of marketing operations consultancy firm Marketing Operations Partners , as a guest blogger. Read on to see what Gary has to say about the virtues of what he has dubbed Marketing Operations 2.0. Marketing Operations drives this effort.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Could David Bowie's 70s hit be a marketer's theme song, or what? On a related -- but arguably more serious -- note, according to the 2012 CMO Survey by the American Marketing Association and Duke University, Marketing appears to be one of the early rebounders in the initial economic recovery.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

So marketing sends more. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. Maybe this works for your company as long as the number of marketing touches does not annoy the prospect to the point that they want to walk away.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2017

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We were thrilled this last time to be able to talk to Guy Weismantel , EVP Marketing at Marchex and our own Robert Pease hosted. Paul: All right.

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 22, 2020

In today’s market when it is becoming more and more difficult to capture the attention of potential clients, what can you do to foster meaningful dialog with your audience? How much you should invest in marketing and marketing resources? . Why outsource marketing? This is when hiring in-house becomes a major expense.

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Martech

APRIL 28, 2023

We started to wonder, and ask some big questions about how ChatGPT and technologies like it would shape the future of marketing, websites and customer experience. Will this technology have the capability to be useful, or helpful for marketers? So John Blanchard, our senior director of marketing technology, and I did.

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Litmus

AUGUST 3, 2021

Doing more with less is a common theme for modern marketing organizations. According to our most recent State of Email report , 60% of marketing executives said they planned to send more email. But in that same report, more than 40% of marketers also said they were under-resourced when it came to email. Oh, to dream big.

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Moz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

This could include their knowledge and capabilities for doing SEO, but also their organizational search program, the people, process, ability to plan, knowledge, capacity. We're one small piece of your client's much larger marketing mix. Put together a plan together. Build a bulletproof plan. Vertical buy-in.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Recently we worked together on an Event Marketing Playbook. We, a couple months ago, published together this Event Marketing Playbook.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. A lot of marketers make the instant assumption that videos are difficult to create. Video is here to stay.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. But, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Video is here to stay.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. But, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Video is here to stay.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Originally published on Marketing Tech News. Digital marketing accounted for more than half of ad spending in 2020 for the first time ever. Marketing leaders are betting on a digital-focused future by adopting martech solutions at an accelerated pace. CMOs use that same infrastructure to gather data and reach out to customers.

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