Contently

APRIL 9, 2018

“Content marketing is a marathon.” ” In the content marketing community, this phrase is our version of “there’s no place like home.” Great content marketing can absolutely deliver compounding returns over time , building loyal audiences likely to buy more from a brand.

Content Marketing 167

Content Marketing CMO Planning Paid Search Agency 167

MKT1

MAY 5, 2023

To succeed, startups must have a great product, founders, and win on go-to-market. And marketers don’t invest—less than 1% of investors are marketers. So, we have a huge gap in the startup ecosystem—investors who help founders with marketing. Yet founders don’t have this skill set.

Startups 59

Startups Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 59

Thinkers360

MAY 19, 2024

Help us grow the Thinkers360 community by participating and sharing your own content and experience today! We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst and influencer relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today !

Marketing AI 144

Marketing AI Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management 144

Contently

MARCH 11, 2020

Our main target was the Effies, the premier awards show celebrating advertising effectiveness. By addressing each point this way, we described how this success could only be attributed to the campaign at hand (and not any other marketing efforts from the brand). At Ogilvy, I was a member of the four-person case study writing committee.

Case Studies 210

Case Studies Case Study Studies Paid Search Agency 210

SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? There’s a lot to navigate when searching for the best marketing practices for your emerging company. Knowing when and how to get a realistic and effective marketing strategy off the ground may even seem daunting. Start-Up Marketing Fundamentals.

Paid Search Agency 97

Paid Search Agency Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Management 97

Launch Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Finding the ideal candidate for a VP of Marketing role is an ongoing challenge for B2B executive leaders. Marketing is a rapidly evolving field, necessitating a candidate who has a unique blend of skills and leadership qualities to thrive in today’s competitive digital landscape.

Marketing AI 116

Marketing AI Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 116

MKT1

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If you don’t seize the day, you’ll get left behind as a marketer and hinder your startup’s growth. So earlier this summer, I threw in a rallying crying of sorts at the end of my “Modern Marketing looks a lot like product ” Newsletter. We couldn’t turn all of our ideas into reality.

Curation 52

Curation Resources Tools Startups 52

Outbrain

AUGUST 22, 2021

Effective lead generation and startup marketing require smart goals and a clear vision of where you want to be, and how you will get there. This is particularly important, given that just 10% of startups actually succeed. Lead Generation Ideas for Startups. Free startup listing. Host a webinar to get new leads.

Startups 59

Startups Lead Generation Webinar Metrics Effectiveness 59

MKT1

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educating the rest of your company on marketing is often the hardest part of doing marketing. Marketing’s actual job is to understand an audience and communicate to that audience in a value-add way. Yet, when it comes to doing this internally, marketers often fall short–very, very short. Nor should you.

Planning 75

Planning Paid Search Agency Marketing Analytics Tools Advertising Agencies 75

Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 24, 2017

There are some truly inspirational brands out there in the world of content marketing. fearless content marketing spanning both B2B and B2C organisations. content marketing strategy. content marketing strategy. Community building is a crucial part of its content marketing strategy.

Marketing & Strategy 147

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Planning 147

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Webinar Metrics 130

Anyword

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For storytellers, 2018 was a year filled with change: publishers adjusted to platforms’ algorithm updates, content marketers pivoted (and pivoted back), and the industry made a collective push to diversify revenue streams. This year, we expect to see a noticeable shift in how publishers approach content distribution.

Distribution 40

Distribution Trends Storytelling Content 40

MKT1

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There’s no better time for me to share my thoughts on building a high-impact growth strategy–and what exercises you should go through that will actually lead you to the right growth marketing plan for your business. Part 1: What drives your growth marketing strategy?

Growth Marketing 59

Growth Marketing Paid Search Agency Marketing Analytics Tools Sales Management 59

MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Paid Content Marketing Analytics Tools Tools 52

Hubspot

JUNE 26, 2019

In fact, businesses make an average of $8 for every dollar they spend on Google Ads. If you’re a PPC marketer, you might know how time-consuming these campaigns can be. If you have a lot of other marketing tasks on your plate, this process can seem daunting. Integrations: Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Budget Programs 100

Budget Programs Enterprise Management PPC Paid Search Agency 100

Liveintent

MARCH 5, 2020

In just the past few years, they’ve been told to think like digital advertisers, marketing agencies, software startups, fashion brands, entertainment companies, gyms ( yup ), and, of course, Amazon. That’s why LiveIntent sat down with executives from The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Vox Media, and Ziff Davis.

Advertising Agencies 116

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Emarketing Custom Publishing 116

MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I love seeing what’s possible when marketers think like product orgs and use the modern tools available to them to make high-value content. So I wrote this newsletter and made a video with some early-stage marketers to help. This newsletter began when I saw a web project shared on LinkedIn from early-stage startup, Anrok.

CMS Development 52

CMS Development Top of Funnel Product Lead Ranking 52

MKT1

JULY 19, 2022

If the main goal of your content strategy is “producing 10 blog posts” you’re doing it wrong. You’re not thinking creatively enough about what content can be and you’re probably doing a lot of busywork making content that doesn’t move the needle. You need to expand your definition of content.

Planning 52

Planning Content Marketing Work Management Top of Funnel 52

Envy

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

And many startups are here to lead us to the new frontiers. A recent MoneyLive Banking Report concluded that a majority of executives in traditional UK financial institutions now see FinTech startups as a “significant threat” to their business model. The London-based startup has raised $4.3 ClauseMatch. SecuredTouch.

Startups 85

Startups Work Management Marketing Management P2P 85

Anyword

JULY 17, 2019

Today, paid distribution is an essential part of a robust content strategy. Storytellers across the world leverage platforms and apps to not only reach their audiences across the web but also to find new potential readers, help drive paid subscriptions or hit other business goals. . Increased Performance.

Distribution 40

Distribution Facebook Top of Funnel Storytelling 40

MKT1

APRIL 6, 2023

Marketing at a B2B company with a self-serve motion compared to a sales-led motion is a different job–almost as different as B2C and B2B. Given this, y our marketing strategy, tactics, and team need to be 100% aligned with your GTM motion. You have more SDRs than marketers with a predominantly self-serve motion.

Marketing Analytics Tools 105

Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Lead Ranking 105

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 19, 2015

I have done a whole bunch of interviews in the last few weeks on content marketing questions. And since I believe one of the best content marketing hacks is to turn your most frequently asked questions into helpful pieces of information for your audience, I am going to try and demonstrate that approach in this next series of posts.

Advertising Agencies 100

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Planning Content Marketing 100

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. How Do Paid Ads Work, Anyway?

Landing Pages 145

Landing Pages PPC Paid Content Optimization 145

MKT1

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A great product, team, and market have become table stakes requirements for startups to succeed. With the proliferation of B2B startups and the lower barriers to building great products, marketing is now the differentiator. Founders need to value and enable marketing as they do other teams in the organization.

Marketing Analytics Tools 52

Marketing Analytics Tools Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Planning 52

MKT1

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you lead content efforts at a startup, are the only marketer at an early-stage startup, or even a founder, you should make a content roadmap. A content list has a bunch of ideas without much regard for the potential impact, required effort, and coverage of your marketing goals.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Content Advertising Funnels 52

Webbiquity

AUGUST 27, 2019

Twitter and LinkedIn remain the top two social networks for B2B marketers. That said, there are some disturbing signs developing for Twitter (and the B2B marketers who rely on the platform). Per recent research , though 77% of B2B marketers say they use Twitter to distribute content, Twitter use is down 8% since 2014.

Enterprise Management 228

Enterprise Management Twitter Marketing Management B2B Marketing 228

Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I learned content distribution, syndication, and SEO very much by accident. The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Now I’ve started my own company helping businesses of all types develop editorial and content strategies that make sense.

Traffic 87

Traffic Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency 87

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?

Budget Programs 290

Budget Programs Paid Content Planning Startups 290

Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Does your company look at content through customers’ eyes? Here’s one way to tell: Look at your marketing content. You’re also missing opportunities to streamline your content efforts throughout the organization, including distribution , management , and reuse. Audited the content for gaps and filled those gaps.

Enterprise Management 222

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing & Strategy Marketing Management 222

Martech

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Google is on trial for allegedly using underhand tactics to ensure it stays the world’s leading search engine. Justice Department claims Google, which owns a 90% market share in search, paid massive sums to companies like Apple to make it the default search engine on products like the iPhone.

Google 87

Google Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Paid Search Agency 87

PureB2B

JANUARY 15, 2018

If you don’t already syndicate your content in one way or another, you really should. The online world is a big and cluttered space, so it isn’t reasonable to think that you can limit the distribution of your content solely to your own blog. By syndicating your content , you gain a whole new audience for your brand.

Paid Content 62

Paid Content Sales Qualified Leads Enterprise Management High Quality Lead 62

Albacross

MAY 21, 2019

With this guide, we’ll help you decide on a lead generation process that’s ideal for your particular situation and consistently produces leads that result in sales for your startup. The unique challenge of generating leads for startups. A brand new startup is a blank slate. Limited resources. No reputation.

Startups 40

Startups Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Qualified Leads 40

Contently

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to a special Fourth of July edition of Ask a Content Strategist, where I finally answer the question: What’s the ROI of wearing an American Flag romper all weekend in the Hamptons? So, how do you—or others—use article content to influence leads in the B2B process? I’ve lightly edited our exchange.

Top of Funnel 164

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Multi-Touch Attribution 164

MKT1

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Back in August, I tweeted one of my deepest, darkest marketing secrets, I hadn’t yet developed definitive definitions of growth marketing and demand generation. I included growth marketing, but knew I could provide more clarity on this part of the marketing org. 8 months later, and I’m ready.

Growth Marketing 69

Growth Marketing Organization Marketing Analytics Tools B2B Marketing 69

Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 22, 2023

Subscribe now Scheduling note: We’ll resume the “Kickstarting and scaling a B2B startup” series next week. Andrea is a partner at General Catalyst, investing in early-stage B2B startups, who loves helping companies think about product and growth strategy—you can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Lead Ranking 84

Lead Ranking Acquisitions Distribution Validation 84

Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Whether you are a small startup or an established enterprise, the ability to consistently attract and capture potential customers is vital for sustained growth and success. Forbes) The market size for digital lead generation in the United States is projected to reach $3.24 Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business.

Lead Generation 98

Lead Generation Paid Search Agency Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Budget 98

Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Whether you are a small startup or an established enterprise, the ability to consistently attract and capture potential customers is vital for sustained growth and success. Forbes) The market size for digital lead generation in the United States is projected to reach $3.24 Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business.

Lead Generation 98

Lead Generation Paid Search Agency Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Budget 98