ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For decades vanity metrics have been the guiding light for measuring marketing success – largely because the capabilities didn’t exist to measure closed-loop KPIs. As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. .

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Outbrain

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Digital marketing is continuously growing, year over year. Brands are increasingly shifting their advertising spend from traditional to digital media. The core difference between classic and digital channels is the ability to measure the impact of your advertising on your bottom line.

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QuanticMind

MAY 23, 2019

Throughout the last decade, the rise of new technologies and the boundless growth of breakthrough solutions have together empowered digital marketers with a wealth of information at their fingertips that can be used to qualify the impact of marketing initiatives. Consider impressions and click-through rates.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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Outgrow

JUNE 20, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! . We recently interviewed Kieran Flanagan for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! The future of media companies. The future of media companies. Why a product-led funnel is easier to build than a community-led go to market . About our host: .

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Using vanity metrics to measure the performance of content campaigns on social media is perhaps one of the simplest things to do in marketing, but also one of the most difficult. It’s this second point that is the thorn in the side of many marketers struggling to discover the true value of a vanity metric to a business.

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Single Grain

APRIL 3, 2023

There are hundreds of active social media sites worldwide, and it can be tough to gauge which ones your brand should be on. Your brand’s target audience is already active on social media, whether you realize it or not. As of January 2023, almost 60% of the global population uses social media, averaging 2.5

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. And I agree with Craig Rosenberg at Focus, that “every organization should make the effort to depict its revenue funnel on one page. To our customers there is no funnel.

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Choozle

JUNE 10, 2024

In today’s fiercely competitive advertising landscape, where every marketing dollar counts, advertisers seek more than directional metrics like impressions and click-through rates. Enter Outcomes-Based Advertising (OBA). Its central tenet is ceding more control to advertisers by offering clarity and context.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. Companies have embarked on a content-based B2B digital marketing strategy in order to find, win, and retain new clients. Simply put, the market potential is huge.

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 24, 2017

QuanticMind is covering the latest trends and tactics in paid search and digital marketing at SMX East 2017 from search publishers and expert practitioners. Day 1 Keynote: “Google Unveils New Online-To-Offline Ads Innovations” by Kishore Kanakamedala. Featuring: Kishore Kanakamedala of @Google.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 29, 2024

Legislation, regulation, and an increasingly data-conscious audience have put an end to third-party cookies as a viable primary data source, pushing marketers to look for more sustainable ways to learn about their customers. First-party data — information volunteered by customers — is now a crucial source for the modern marketer.

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

With your inventory scores in hand (see Pre-requisite Work), we are ready to locate those gaps in knowledge, skills, or time and start considering what will be a priority in either hiring (as budget allows) or outsourcing in order to accomplish your now-progressing marketing mission. High-Level Marketing Tasks. Pre-requisite Work.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Influencer Marketing is a ray of hope for sore marketers’ eyes. More and more businesses are considering influencer marketing to promote their product and services on social media. It provides a fresh and impactful approach to connecting with new audiences in this digital era. Let’s take you through it all.

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Moz

JANUARY 28, 2019

You've created content that people are searching for, that answers their questions, and that search engines can understand, but those qualities alone don't mean it'll rank. That can be accomplished by earning links from authoritative websites, building your brand, and nurturing an audience who will help amplify your content.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 20, 2019

Marketing has changed significantly in the past years. Business to Business (B2B) companies have not escaped from the shift in marketing trends. You probably have had a company discussion at one point about the impact digital transformation has had on your company. We help them to achieve a wide range of marketing goals.

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ConvertKit

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

It’s cool when you hear content creators talk about how they doubled or tripled their email list, but you never really expect it to happen to you. You also don’t expect it to happen in ONE DAY with no social media or paid advertising. This is true for service providers and digital product creators alike.

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QuanticMind

JANUARY 17, 2020

Today’s eCommerce businesses have many options when choosing advertising platforms to work with, but the digital marketing landscape is constantly changing, along with the needs of advertisers. Rather than change platforms year after year, advertisers should invest in solutions that can tackle these changes and adapt.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

B2B content marketing is hard work, and it’s getting harder all the time… Marketers are blogging up to 800% more than 5 years ago, but getting 190% fewer shares. This is according to a study by the American Marketing Association. The Content Challenge. The internet is crowded with free content.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2017

Few digital marketers entirely neglect marketing analytics. The challenge is magnified in the social media realm. This tactic is called social media attribution. To get at the data, you need a robust social media management platform , such as Oktopost. There is no real correlation between that and ROI.

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Rev

JANUARY 18, 2023

Whether you’re working at a startup or a large enterprise, demand generation marketing is too good for business to ignore. You have no doubt that it’s the best on the market, sure to revolutionize your industry. So, despite being the best on the market, you struggle to hit your sales goals. Like, at all.

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seo.co

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You’ve got a content marketing strategy, but is it working? If you want to be a successful content marketer, it’s not enough to do what you think is effective—you need to objectively measure whether what you’re doing is effective or not, and then take the appropriate corrective actions. Why Analysis Is Important.

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Valasys

AUGUST 9, 2019

The best practices in Search Engine Optimization have evolved over the years to coalesce the ever-evolving research methodologies of the B2B prospects. With the start of mid-2010, SEO & content strategists started working in conjunction , to complement each other. Before that, the role of content was viewed as secondary.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In the modern marketing era, there is no place for “winging it”. For instance, a B2C company might prefer to use social media to capture leads for its new course in a cost-effective way, whereas a B2B company with a bigger budget would be happy to shell out on a targeted PPC (pay-per-click) ad campaign. Average income.

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Metadata

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You’re actually a very famous marketer, but for the ones who don’t know you, maybe a quick intro will do. I do B2B marketing. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. Guillaume Cabane: Sure.

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Metadata

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You’re actually a very famous marketer, but for the ones who don’t know you, maybe a quick intro will do. I do B2B marketing. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. Guillaume Cabane: Sure.

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Oktopost

JUNE 9, 2020

Table of Contents. By sharing company-related content to their personal social media profiles, employees amplify a company’s message. It can take months for a B2B marketing team to build up a company’s presence and credibility online. What is Employee Advocacy. Why Employee Advocacy Matters for B2B.

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Hinge Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

Improving your website’s search engine ranking has become more challenging than ever. Each time search engines update their algorithms, website traffic experiences a drop. Ads now dominate search engine results pages and offer higher click-through rates. The marketplace of digital content is more crowded than ever.

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Biznology

AUGUST 10, 2016

As I mentioned a while back, I keynoted at Search Insider Summit in Key Largo earlier this year. One of the main threads of that conference was on attribution, which attempts to give the proper credit to marketing tactics.We discuss this at some length in Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing.

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Single Grain

MARCH 2, 2020

This post was refreshed with new content for 2020. If you’re an experienced digital marketer, then you know that when it comes to content, video is increasingly more important. And not just on social media, either. 81% of businesses use video in their marketing strategy, a 63% increase since last year.

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Convert

MARCH 2, 2022

You have a lot of window shoppers browsing, making comparisons, soaking in your content, but they’re just not ready to buy. You’ve probably poured gasoline on running ads instead. While revenue optimization should ideally focus on increasing customer lifetime value, marketers are throwing money at ads to increase the topline.

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Convert

MARCH 2, 2022

You have a lot of window shoppers browsing, making comparisons, soaking in your content, but they’re just not ready to buy. You’ve probably poured gasoline on running ads instead. While revenue optimization should ideally focus on increasing customer lifetime value, marketers are throwing money at ads to increase the topline.

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Strategic-IC

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

How can you streamline your B2B sales funnel for improved conversion? The B2B sales funnel depicts how marketing and sales teams see the journey of the buyer from an initial visit, through converting as a lead, and progressing all the way to a customer. Related: How Long Does it Take to Convert at Each Buyer's Journey Stage?

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Parse.ly

MAY 7, 2019

Research and on-the-ground examples increasingly show that building a habit is a big predictor of digital conversion (of any type) when it comes to how to measure content. Especially since content discovery tends to be focused on earlier stages of conversion paths. Reader depth and loyalty patterns in the Parse.ly

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Sharpspring

APRIL 30, 2020

With customer expectations for seamless service in the digital age continuing to rise, how can you ensure that you’re offering the best possible experience on every channel? In order to offer this level of service, you need to adopt an omnichannel customer experience mentality for your marketing and sales strategy.

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