Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This post explains how to integrate ChatGPT with your CRM software, expanding your use of AI tools for marketing and sales. #9: 9: A 10 Step Guide To Creating A Social Media Marketing Plan When efficiently optimized, social media is a great way to grow traffic, generate leads, and drive sales to a new business.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For marketing efforts, technology enables you to automate, track, personalize, and more. And what tools do you need to streamline your marketing? MarTech is a set of technology tools marketers use to assist with marketing efforts. Having the right MarTech stack is imperative for the modern marketing organization.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

You probably already know how powerful customer retention can be for your business. However, in today’s world, where we can utilize predictive analytics tools to create highly personalized experiences for customers, it’s critical to focus on delivering value over making a sale or focusing too much on cost. With content marketing.

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2021

In triathlons the registration list and course are published in advance of race day. Invest time daily, aim for 1-2 hours a day, in research by reading articles, listening to podcasts, attending webinars, participating in a peer group, talking and meeting with customers and suppliers. Plan to Win. Be Proactive. What’s Your Edge?

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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

2023 looks like a tough year for marketing budgets. Overall, 58% of marketers project flat or reduced budgets for 2023, up from just 26% in 2022. But very small companies (11-50 workers) were actually most likely to increase marketing budgets this year. 1) B2B marketers are faring (a little) better than B2C.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are many top and bottom-line benefits of a customer-centric strategy and selecting the right measures. The published research has compared customer-centricity laggards to their counterparts. Some think customer-centricity is only for technology companies like Apple or only for B2C, e.g., Amazon.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Enough with the negativity and cliches.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Many brands pour money into attracting customers. But it’s just as important to put effort into keeping these customers. In fact, these days, an increasing number of organizations are discovering it’s more important to focus their attention on retention marketing. How Content Marketing Can Improve Your Customer Retention Rate.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As part of your Facebook marketing strategy , a consistent publishing schedule is essential. Without the help of social media scheduling tools, that means you have to remember to go online each day (sometimes even multiple times a day) to manually publish your content.

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

It surveyed and interviewed over 500 data and advertising decision-makers at brands, agencies and publishers. Dig deeper: Why marketers should care about consumer privacy The decline of high-quality data and its impact on media planning The market is facing sweeping declines in accessible, high-quality data.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon has secured a landmark deal with Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, to access customer data for targeted advertising. The agreement, one of the first of its kind in Europe, comes in response to Google’s plans to deprecate third-party cookies later this year. government’s Competition and Markets Authority.

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Contently

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As LiveIntent’s SVP of global marketing, I came in with a comprehensive plan, ready to execute. Then the pandemic hit, and like other marketing leaders, I threw the plan right out the window. I feel fortunate, from a marketing perspective, that the year has been a good one—all things considered.

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Anyword

MARCH 14, 2024

In the dynamic realm of digital marketing, every word you publish carries weight, poised to make or break your brand’s online presence. This allows you to know how well your new content will do before publishing it. Integrating your marketing platforms with Anyword is your first step towards leveraging this powerful tool.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 13, 2024

Your content operations consist of the collection of processes you use to create content and encompass all the people, systems, and tools you manage to produce, publish, and distribute content. It involves the nitty-gritty of turning strategic visions into reality through meticulous planning, coordination, and execution.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

The gaming industry saw a lot of disruption over the last year, including the consolidation of major publishers, layoffs and canceled game releases. On the ad side, however, marketing budgets for gaming are growing. Updated creative guidelines were also provided to help marketers learn, and help promote, the rules of the gamers’ road.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To satisfy client demands, healthcare companies bolster their content marketing initiatives, doubling down on publishing interesting, value-packed content. 5 Trailblazing Healthcare Content Ideas for 2024 Check out the top healthcare content ideas to bolster your marketing initiatives for 2024.

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Martech

APRIL 16, 2024

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve been hearing the term “real-time” a lot lately. And you’ve probably been wondering, what is real-time marketing? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. What do marketers mean when they say “real-time”?

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Contently

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Content that builds connections with customers is important. For example, B2B content marketing may require more touch points throughout the buying journey, in part because the sales process can take months (or even years), and multiple leaders are usually involved in the decision. Ready to take your content to the next level?

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Greg Krehbiel had a decades-long career in B2B and B2C publishing during which he did pretty much everything short of hand-craft individual pixels. He is now president of The Krehbiel Group, a digital consultancy that solves technology, strategy, operations and process problems for publishers. I didn’t know how to write.

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Contently

APRIL 28, 2022

Many marketers use editorial calendars to plan their marketing campaigns and support their overall marketing strategy. The best ones are created and influenced by various perspectives, not just the view of the marketing department. They tend to think of their calendar as a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing.

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Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

percent expansion in 2024 that would see spending topping the $1 trillion mark, according to newly-published forecast data. Nearly $964B Ad Spend Forecast, 5 Companies To Have A Major Impact Worldwide advertising spending is expected to expand by some 4.4 percent during 2023, reaching $963.5 billion, with an addition 8.2 The Conversation U.S.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

More than a third of marketers (36%) say their company doesn’t have a “clear and actionable plan for AI integration into their marketing strategy,” according to a new report. On the plus side, 40% said they have “a clear plan and are executing it well.”

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2023

B2B growth plan: perfecting partner ecosystem marketing 45 percent of B2B marketing decision-makers at typical B2B organizations have said that new or renewed ecosystem partners were their primary revenue source, as more B2B companies have moved towards broadening their partner ecosystems, according to newly-published Forrester Research data.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automation is a close friend of any social media marketing strategy—Instagram included. Potentially miss out on important customer interactions. The more you automate on Instagram, the fewer opportunities you have to interact with followers and customers. We say no—but only if you do it right.

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Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. ” Thought Leadership vs. Content Marketing At face value, thought leadership and content marketing look similar. It should work hand in hand with other content marketing initiatives.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2023

[Report] 43 percent of software as a service (SaaS) leaders have said that they use competitive analysis for pricing research, with 34 percent turning to feedback from existing customers, while 14 percent utilize previous market research, according to newly-published B2B survey data.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2024

The launch of OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora highlights a broader AI problem that too many marketers ignore: With so much AI-generated content out there, customers don’t know what’s authentic. Consider these ways customers often react at different touchpoints when AI is involved. This might not seem like a big issue.

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Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 120

Tiecas

MARCH 15, 2024

How can a B2B industrial marketing agency develop a strategic roadmap and help you execute it for success? Imagine an industrial marketing strategic roadmap with a laser-sharp focus, a plan that directly aligns with your sales goals and delivers a predictable flow of qualified leads. So, why should a roadmap be your first step?

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

B2B CRM Users Are Highly Focused on Nurturing Leads and Customers 33 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have focused their customer relationship management (CRM) usage on the customer service, up-selling and cross-selling portion of the buyer journey over the past 5 years, closely followed by 32 percent who have targeted mid-funnel lead-generation (..)

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Social Media Today Industry Jargon Is the Silent Killer of B2B Marketing 88 percent of B2B decision-makers have said that jargon, marketing clichés, and tired buzzwords such as “disruptive” harm the credibility of brands, and Adweek recently took a look at how using the wrong words can have negative consequences in B2B marketing.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2024

It uses GenAI to autonomously generate highly contextual and natural conversational responses to customer inquiries from frequently asked questions uploaded to Talkdesk Knowledge Management. Once the campaigns are set up and approved, it can publish the restaurant’s campaign across email and social media channels.

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Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Finally, I’ll conclude with a guide to the most popular and powerful AI models available today, along with my short list of AI marketing tools worth paying for.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But these days, a more accurate statement is probably: customer experience is king. Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility. How important is personalization in content marketing? Why marketers should care about content marketing.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 31, 2023

A few days ago, I published a list of my ten most frequently read posts of 2023. I ranked posts based on cumulative total reads, which means that posts published later in the year were at a major disadvantage compared to those published earlier in the year. It's easy for marketers to fall prey to selection bias.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

AI is here to stay, poised to transform how your company operates and engages with customers. But as much as generative AI has captured the imagination, AI’s potential for transforming the customer experience across almost every industry and customer touchpoint is what will ultimately ignite excitement.

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Martech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This means marketers can use it holistically in omnichannel campaigns, due in large part to more programmatic DOOH and data from those campaigns. The $13 billion global market represents 37% of all out-of-home. DOOH is one of the fastest-growing ad channels because of its unique position, or positions, in a customer journey.

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