Valasys

AUGUST 30, 2019

Prologue. Several experts argue that the next generation is always smarter & probably we have enough reasons to believe that as well. For a major part of the last decade, the marketers invested numerous time & effort to attract the most inscrutable generation that ruled at our times – the Millennials. According to a report by Accenture Millennials empower the US economy, spending $600 billion annually, an amount which is projected to rise up to $1.4 trillion by the year 2020.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 30, 2019

B2B marketing, an acronym for Business to Business marketing. It is often referred to as corporate sales too. Coined from the fact that the B2B segment exclusively caters to the. The post Benefits and Opportunities in B2B Marketing appeared first on ONLY B2B.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 30, 2019

AI-powered bidding is one of the most popular and valuable applications of artificial intelligence in advertising today, yet it’s an extremely complex technology to master,…

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 30, 2019

Visual platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram are the hottest social media trends for audiences, marketers, and advertisers. Let’s look at why these platforms are attracting more advertising investment. The exponential growth of Instagram and Pinterest has established that visual marketing is a key element of today’s social media marketing strategy.

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Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

It’s a common scenario in the business world. The head of marketing is tasked with modernizing the marketing strategy but with limited to no budget or resources to do so. While some see may see it as an impossible challenge, I saw it as an opportunity. And it resulted in one of the highest ROI-producing […]. The post How I Helped SAP Achieve 7x Content Marketing ROI (With A Little Help From My Friends) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

It’s a common scenario in the business world. The head of marketing is tasked with modernizing the marketing strategy but with limited to no budget or resources to do so. While some see may see it as an impossible challenge, I saw it as an opportunity. And it resulted in one of the highest ROI-producing programs my last company ever saw. This scenario is exactly what happened when I was asked to take on the job as SAP’s very first Vice President of Content Marketing.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 30, 2019

Considering the fact that it is very simple to gather market qualified leads data through CRM it is considerably easy for businesses to avoid subjecting themselves to the problems that. The post Understanding Market Qualified Leads To Boost Your Business appeared first on ONLY B2B.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. It suggests that one can’t be done without the other, and to do both correctly, strategy […].

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2019

Inbound marketing is in the middle of an interesting evolution. Historically, search has been a major source of traffic and leads for businesses leveraging online marketing. But, with the growth of social networks, social media marketing is even more heavily embraced today. But, you might ask, which is more important? The answer? Both can be key to your strategy.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

It’s a common scenario in the business world. The head of marketing is tasked with modernizing the marketing strategy but with limited to no budget or resources to do so. While some see may see it as an impossible challenge, I saw it as an opportunity. And it resulted in one of the highest ROI-producing […]. The post How I Helped SAP Achieve 7x Content Marketing ROI (With A Little Help From My Friends) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 30, 2019

Net Promoter Scores offer a glimpse into customer sentiment, satisfaction, and pain points. Marketers can use this data to deploy targeted campaigns and strategies, increasing profitability for every customer. In this article, we discuss: Enlightening insights from Clearlink’s recent survey. Three tips to improve NPS and achieve higher profitability.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. It suggests that one can’t be done without the other, and to do both correctly, strategy must come first.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 30, 2019

With so many consumers primarily using mobile devices, you can’t ignore the power of intelligently placed mobile marketing campaigns. In this article, we look at three viral marketing campaign examples and what they imply for marketers. Scroll down to read how: Behr Paint provided highly personalized recommendations via AI. Domino’s offered rewards for rival brands, enabled by image recognition.

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In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Emplifi

AUGUST 30, 2019

Nowadays, paid social media is absolutely essential for businesses. Almost every business invests in facebook ads, instagram ads and other types of digital media buying. It’s the only way to scale your marketing quickly and get the results you need from your efforts. But it’s easy to make mistakes which could end up costing your company millions.

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SEMrush

AUGUST 30, 2019

Numbers (and people) can definitely misrepresent the truth. In the content marketing world, we see a lot of misleading statistics attempting to build trust with audiences. Even scarier, a lot of content producers don’t even realize they’re doing it. In this post, I use Google Trends to illustrate why critical thinking should be applied before you “trust“ data.

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Emplifi

AUGUST 30, 2019

Nowadays, paid social media is absolutely essential for businesses. It’s the only way to scale your marketing quickly and get the results you need from your efforts. But it’s easy to make mistakes which could end up costing your company millions.In 2018, CMOs spent more than 21% of their marketing budget on advertising with 66% of that going to paid social media digital channels.

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 30, 2019

Stephen King said: “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” While the author is renowned for such sentiments, he’s equally criticized for them. And he’s not the only writer to bad-mouth the part of speech. It may not be quite as heated as the Oxford comma debate, but adverbs have long been condemned by English professors, journalists and best-selling writers.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2019

By Josh Baez , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. It’s no secret today’s buyers are overwhelmed. 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. When 70% of buying decisions are made before ever talking to a salesperson, are we, as marketers, enabling those decisions or hindering them?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2019

Whoever said “You never have a second chance to make a great first impression,” makes a valid point. You only get one opportunity to have your first interaction with another person … and the last thing you want is for that first interaction to be a bad one. After all, humans are known to remember negative experiences more vividly than positive ones.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 30, 2019

This Weekly Wrap episode is all about people. Why aren’t superstars key to great teams? Is Allstate’s new content internal team in good hands? How do you create a content team powerhouse? And what’s Agile got to do with it all? Continue reading → The post The Weekly Wrap: Your Content Team Doesn’t Need Superstars. It Needs This. appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2019

If your business was a person, your brand would be its personality. It’d be how you introduce yourself to new friends (er, customers) and how you build a trusting relationship with them. Your brand is a living, breathing entity … and it’s your job to help it grow and improve. This is what we call brand management. Creating a brand is thrilling, but it’s not enough.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 30, 2019

Most of the time when people are searching for senior living online, they have just begun their journey to find the right community for themselves or a loved one. This means nurturing these leads is critical in order to move them down the funnel. If you are responsible for marketing a senior living community (or communities), here are four scenarios in which lead nurturing will work wonders. 1.

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Digital Marketing World Forum

AUGUST 30, 2019

By Greg Paull, Co-founder & Principal, R3. Technology has transformed marketing by making campaigns more personalized and immersive for people and creating ecosystems that are more integrated and targeted for marketers. And it’s not just the interface between brands and people that have been transformed. New technology in marketing has permeated the infrastructure and systems on which companies are built, delivering value to procurement and adding to the bottom line.

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ActiveDEMAND

AUGUST 30, 2019

Zoho is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform with very competitive pricing. Offering a free edition, as well as very reasonably priced standard, pro, and enterprise packages, it’s well-liked by companies that are moving towards more automation and technology to improve their businesses. As of today, ActiveDEMAND offers native integration with Zoho CRM , and just like Zoho, ActiveDEMAND offers full white-label capabilities.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 30, 2019

Bombora and LiveRamp announced their jointly developed digital advertising solution that enables B2B marketers to connect with their targeted small- and medium-sized business. Let’s understand the working of the solution and how it will help marketers target SMBs. Provider of customer management enterprise suite, LiveRamp helps organizations leverage data to deliver innovative products and meaningful experiences.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Get Lift

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many members of the GET LIFT team attended ConEx 2019 in Toronto last week. It was 3 intense days of education, networking and idea sharing on everything to do about content. We would recommend this conference to B2B marketers as there were plenty of excellent sessions that contained real world examples, engaging speakers and plenty of little gems worth writing down.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 30, 2019

Folloze, a Customer Engagement Platform, announced new data integration capabilities for its cutting-edge AI-powered personalization engine in partnership with Demandbase on Aug. 15, 2019. The purpose of this enhancement is to create highly engaging, data-powered experiences across every customer touchpoint. Folloze’s new integrations with Demandbase will help transform how B2B enterprises engage, convert and win target accounts.

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Bound360

AUGUST 30, 2019

One of the most common struggles for a destination is how to appeal to visitors with wildly different interests. With persona-based ad campaigns you can separate these visitors and send them to different landing pages, but how do you continue to speak to their specific interests as they explore the general site? Using Bound, the Visit Mooresville team created a homepage experience customized for each of their three target personas.

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