Tue.Mar 17, 2020

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How Important Is Automation in B2B Sales?

Webbiquity

Guest post by Kayleigh Alexandra. Ever since factory automation became commonplace, other business functions have embraced it as well. Automation removes laborious tasks from your workload and frees up your time to work on higher-level issues. Widespread Internet adoption introduced the concept of digital automation. Automation has become standard practice in B2C ecommerce.

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5 Ways to Generate Leads after Coronavirus Canceled Your Event

Zoominfo

In just a few weeks, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has become a globe-wide pandemic and changed our lives in fundamental ways. Naturally, a health crisis of this magnitude has also turned the business world on its head. No matter what industry you work in, you’ve likely been a part of these changes. Maybe your entire office […].

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Now is the Time to Revisit Data Literacy

Vision Edge Marketing

In their report, Gartner laments that “by 2020, 50% of organizations will lack sufficient AI and data literacy skills to achieve business value.” The Data Literacy Index – commissioned by Qlik and conducted by IHS Markit and a professor from Wharton School – found that “more data literate firms have a greater enterprise value of between 3-5%.

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The Direct No-Nonsense Relationship Between Employee Activation and ROI

Marketing Insider Group

Employers are all too aware that they need to do all they can to keep their employees. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. No matter what the economy does, there’s a statistical relationship between employee activation and ROI. Quick Takeaways: Employee engagement programs build employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction keeps employees on the job longer.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

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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Marketing, Are You and Finance Aligned? Five Evergreen Tips for Getting in Sync

Hive9

We’ve talked a lot recently about how creating the most effective marketing plan is a team sport involving departmental input across your organization, especially between marketing and sales - but collaboration between marketing and finance is certainly no exception.

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How Can I Help?

Biznology

This article, authored by our Member Consultant Kelley Haggert, continues a special series titled “Creating Resiliency During the COVID-19 Crisis.”. This series will feature articles, podcasts and additional resources from our Consultants Collective member consultants, advisors and coaches, whose experience and expertise includes risk and change management, Asia, China, offshoring, leading distributed global teams, managing crises and internal communications, deploying and managing online collab

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18 Expert WFH Tips for Marketers in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

Martech Advisor

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has led to companies across the globe asking employees to work from home. Social distancing, while effective in curtailing the effects of the pandemic, can lead to loss of productivity, miscommunication, and lower business output. We asked marketing and sales experts about the best tips, strategies, and tools to work effectively from home during this time.

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Should the News Disrupt Your Content Calendar? Here’s How to Decide

Content Marketing Institute

Your editorial calendar is set. Then, something happens that’s out of your control. At first, the headlines don’t impact your brand. Then they do. What should happen with your content marketing? Continue reading → The post Should the News Disrupt Your Content Calendar? Here’s How to Decide appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Top 20 Marketing Terms to Know in 2020

Martech Advisor

CLM, ABM, RPA, martech stack or marketing stack, and value metrics. There's no shortage of jargon in marketing. To help you keep up with the changing marketing ecosystem, we have compiled a list of twenty marketing terms you should know in 2020 and beyond. Marketing is full of jargon, terms, and acronyms. With the introduction of new trends, techniques, and marketing disciplines, this alphabet soup keeps on getting more and more expansive.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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New Influitive Virtual EventHub Managed Service

Influitive

Today we announced a new Influitive Virtual EventHub™ managed service that enables organizations to create and host a virtual event that offers an interactive, personalized experience for attendees. Leveraging the same SaaS platform that powers our customers’ advocacy programs, Influitive’s professional services team can design and build a branded virtual event hub that features custom […].

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Brands aren’t using the full slate of available first-party data

ClickZ

30-second summary: Invoca surveyed 500 B2C marketers within a range of industries, each of whom oversee a budget of over $1 million, to gain insight into how they view first-party data and what they’re using to access and collect data. 90% of respondents are confident or very confident with purchase history data followed by 86% with company website data.

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Virtual Event Options for Influitive Customers

Influitive

The post Virtual Event Options for Influitive Customers appeared first on Influitive.

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Kicking Things Up a Notch with Lifecycle Marketing

Spiralytics

Marketing was once restricted to flyers, newspapers, billboards, magazines, and TV. Today, marketing is a Facebook page, a lead magnet, or an Instagram Story.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Work From Home Like Someone Who’s Done It For Years

Conductor

As COVID-19 rears its ugly head, you get the email from HR: work from home. So, the sweet life, right? You can finally get those dishes clean and get to the laundromat. Well, not so fast. Without creating boundaries for yourself, your days can become a blur where you look at the clock and think It’s 6:00 P.M. and I feel like I didn’t do anything today.

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Essential Sprout features to help your brand maintain connection in an uncertain time

Sprout Social

During times of uncertainty, social media is the first place that people go to share opinions, look for answers or follow the news. Social platforms can quickly turn from a place to launch your next campaign or provide delightful customer moments, to a channel where critical communication and conversation is driving global impact. With the world’s attention focused on the emergence of the coronavirus, marketers are grappling with the role of their brands in this quickly changing landscape.

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How to Evolve Your Clients’ Content Strategy with Ever-Changing Algorithms via @lorenbaker

Search Engine Journal

Learn how to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to your clients’ content strategy. The post How to Evolve Your Clients’ Content Strategy with Ever-Changing Algorithms via @lorenbaker appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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30 Work From Home Tips to Maximize Productivity and Help You Stay Connected

Magisto

Hey team Cindy here, Head of Community and Social at Magisto. I’ve been working remotely for over 10+ years ( shockingly my entire career ) I’ve dredged through the trenches to learn the hard lessons so you don’t have to. Never worked from home? Great – this post is for you! My best advice? Try not to get overwhelmed and take things one day at a time.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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How to Maintain Business Continuity During Disruptions

PFL

Expert marketers are using PFL to create personalized brand moments. Cut through digital clutter and overcome social distancing with direct mail. The post How to Maintain Business Continuity During Disruptions appeared first on PFL.

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Eliminate Boredom: Free Experiences From Around the World

Magisto

Are you stuck inside? So is pretty much everyone else on the planet. That’s mind-blowing, and also touching. We’re all in this together, and it somehow makes it better. Especially for these strange times, many cultural institutions, artists, creators, and others around the world have chosen to support the public with free online experiences. While in quarantine, you can walk around a museum, sing your hearts out to your favorite artist’s live performance, explore a zoo, and more.

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A Guide to Using Dynamic Content in Marketo

SmartBug Media

As a marketer, you probably manage different audiences, regions, and even languages to make sure prospects, clients, and partners know what to expect over the next few months. How do you make sure the right person sees the right message at the right time, without doing so much customization that you might as well be emailing people individually? If you are a new Marketo user, or if you are evaluating Marketo as a solution , here are some tips for using Marketo’s dynamic content feature to save y

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Help: Virtual Event Options for Influitive Customers

Influitive

The post Help: Virtual Event Options for Influitive Customers appeared first on Influitive.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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A Marketer's Crash Course to Hyperlocal Marketing

Hubspot

A couple of weeks ago, I was planning a trip to New York. I'd never been, so I was excited to start planning and figure out my itinerary. Once my hotel room was booked, I started looking for things to do during my time. I wanted to stay close to my hotel so I could find my way back after a long day of exploring. This goal of mine meant that most of my Google searches would have "near greenwich village, NY" in the queries.

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The Hidden Cost(s) of Using the Wrong A/B Testing Tool

Convert

Are you aware that marketers spent a third of their marketing budgets on Martech in 2019? Gartner Inc reports that marketers are investing more in marketing technology to achieve improved efficiency and increased ROI. It comes as no surprise that optimization, personalization and experimentation tools have received more investments in recent years. The number of.

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Content Marketing Hierarchy: Building Your Main Content Hub

ClearVoice

Congratulations, you’re producing tons of amazing content. And so are 90 percent of marketers who are already using content in their marketing efforts. How you organize and present your amazing content is a brand differentiator. Expectations are at an all-time high and attention spans are at an all-time low for today’s content consumers. In this content marketing hierarchy overview , we took a deep dive into the importance of structuring and organizing your content for a positive brand experien

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3 Ways to Maximize Event ROI with Account-Based Marketing

Only B2B

Think about the last event or party you hosted. Whether it was your toddler’s birthday party or a dinner party with your folks, chances are a considerable amount of planning went into it — from picking a guest list and sending out invitations to selecting which food and drinks to serve. Now multiply the efforts by a thousand, and you’ll get a fair understanding of what it’s like to plan a B2B event.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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More with Less: 7 ways to sustain results with a smaller Q2 marketing budget

Heinz Marketing

With the uncertainty facing many/most companies heading into the second quarter of 2020, marketing budgets are receiving increased scrutiny. Smart companies are second-guessing every expense to preserve cash and ensure the best possible scenario heading through the current crisis. Fortunately, less budget doesn’t always need to translate to lower results.

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Protecting Inboxes is a Civic Duty

SendGrid

Since the 2016 elections there has been a critical focus on the mechanisms we use to engage with the political process, discuss issues, read news, and ultimately, engage in the constitutionally enshrined activity of voting. Although email is tangential to the voting process, it is nonetheless a critical component of our everyday lives, both personal […].

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7 Tips for the Ideal Home Office Setup

Oktopost

Whether you’re a freelancer or a team member working remotely, most people are looking for social interactions in order to be more creative. It’s not surprising, we’re social by nature, and this is probably the reason that co-working spaces are so popular these days. Even when not working remotely is only a temporary thing, there are times of crisis when some of us are obligated to stay in a safe zone and work from home.

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