Tue.Jul 11, 2017

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Tuning Up Your Marketing Metrics and Measures: What They Are and Why They Matter

Vision Edge Marketing

If you want to demonstrate the importance of Marketing to the rest of the organization you need to be able to quantify Marketing’s value to the business. A recent study by Ernst & Young found that only 13% of the CFOs said that the agendas of Finance and Marketing were completely aligned on the issue of measurement methodologies. An essential part of alignment is working from an agreed set of definitions.

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Get More Impact Out of Your Event with Repurposed Content

Marketing Insider Group

Most marketers will agree that events are one of the most challenging one-off content marketing techniques to successfully pull off. From creating the Twitter build-up and coordinating speakers, to getting the live video streaming to look professionally done, an event can require a lot of energy and organization. If you believe your work is done when the […].

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Exploring the Potential of Video Content Marketing [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

In June 2017, data from the “ State of Social Video: Marketing in a Video-First World ” report from Animoto suggested that more customers were being influenced by the video content on social media. About 84 percent of consumers said they now watch video on mobile devices, and 81 percent of marketers are optimizing their social videos for mobile. But how is this shift in content consumption and formatting impacting marketers’ overall strategies?

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The Dos and Don’ts of Controversial Marketing

Contently

In one of the most talked-about ads in recent memory, reality star Kendall Jenner walks off a photoshoot to join a crowded protest. The demonstration eventually comes to a halt in front of a line of policemen, so Jenner walks up to an officer and tries to make peace with … a can of Pepsi. People like to say there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Quick B2B Marketing Fixes to Tackle During the Summer

Marketing Insider Group

For a lot of B2B companies, summer means a slower pace. If this rings true for your business, consider investing your free time in refining your marketing materials and online web presence – a task that often gets pushed to the bottom of to-do lists during the first two quarters of the year. Here’s a […]. The post Quick B2B Marketing Fixes to Tackle During the Summer appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How Remote Working Has Changed Businesses Forever

Marketing Insider Group

Source: [link] In the age of technology and flexibility, the landscape of modern office is changing. Remote working has become one of the most popular modern working preferences. Also known as telecommuting and telework, remote working is when an employee carries out duties outside an office. In Hong Kong, where space is scarce and the prices […].

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What You Miss Out On When You Don't Have a Company Blog, Based on Statistics

Spiralytics

Much has been said about the importance of business blogging and yet some still question whether or not blogging is an investment worth making. Understandably so, considering that it takes a whole lot of work and dedication to maintain a blog.

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Why Interactive Content Matters: Part One

The Mx Group

I like to say interactive content is the quinoa of 2017. It’s the hot topic you hear in conversations, blog posts and webinars. It’s the apparent answer to all your problems, yet most of us are hard-pressed to say why. Or how much of it we need. Or if this kind is more or less beneficial than that kind. Well, I’m not a nutritionist (or a very good cook) so I’ll leave it to the experts to answer the quinoa questions.

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?What Is the Modern B2B Buying Process?

SnapApp

The B2B customer experience isn’t a shifting landscape anymore. It’s a whole other planet. . Your customers are relying on honest peer reviews, and they’re not fooled by 100% 5-star evaluations. . They insist on personalized communications – even when those communications are automated. . They educate themselves – thoroughly – online before even thinking about making a purchase.

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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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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

Two years ago, I was sitting amongst a shocked audience, listening to analyst Andy Hoar pronounce the “Death of the B2B Sales Rep”. I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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How Takeout Improved Our Candidate Experience: A HubSpot Experiment

Hubspot

Here at HubSpot, we take culture pretty seriously. After all, we have an entire code dedicated to it, and it doesn’t just apply to our internal environment -- it also shows up when we’re recruiting new people to join our team. We have an inbound recruiting mission of attracting top talent through a world-class candidate experience. That’s why, one January night that started like any other -- watching Netflix in my pajamas and eating chicken tikka masala from my favorite Indian takeout joint -- I

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The Fluid, Creative Agency Inside of RebelMouse

RebelMouse

A lot of people know RebelMouse from when we went viral in 2012 as a social aggregation tool — later dubbed "social media's front page." Those who stuck around with us got to later know us as a social-forward CMS. This is still true, but RebelMouse has since evolved into an enterprise-level publishing solution that — just like we always have — adapts to the current digital landscape.

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How to Deliver Data-Driven Web Design to Clients [Free Ebook]

Hubspot

As agencies continue to adopt principles of Growth-Driven Design , their client service-offerings must shift to reflect the new needs of this approach. Continuous improvement cycles -- the structured, on-going validation process within Growth-Driven Design -- is one of the primary advantages for clients and agencies over a traditional web design and development offering.

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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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You Are Not The Hero: Building a Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy

Golden Spiral

You remember Alfred, Bruce Wayne's unassuming yet brilliant butler. His demure demeanor belies all the ways that he assists and empowers the sometimes-volatile Wayne. Batman gets the kudos but Alfred makes it possible. Let’s face it: not many of us aspire to be the butler — but when is better to be Alfred rather than Batman? When you are fighting to win a B2B buyer.

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Speakers | Grow with HubSpot Sydney 2017

Hubspot

Here's where you can meet all our speakers at today's event and find details on each of their sessions. With speakers from HubSpot, Canva, LinkedIn and more, we're covering everything from how marketing and sales has changed, to in-depth workshops on improving your SEO strategy, and talks on how to turn your web traffic into leads and customers. Enjoy!

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New Integration: Create Payment Forms with WePay and JotForm

JotForm

At JotForm, we’re always on the search for new integrations to help your forms do more. So what better way to put your forms to work then to help you get paid? That’s where our integration with top United States-based payment provider WePay comes in. WePay is a leading provider of integrated pa.

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Best Practices on Developing an Account-Based Marketing Strategy

Launch Marketing

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which businesses target a clearly defined set of targeted accounts and create personalized campaigns focused on key decision makers within those accounts. Instead of casting a wide net to capture an array of varying leads, the focus is placed on quality over quantity. Targets are generally high-yield accounts and are considered a good fit for the business’ products or services.

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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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Is Machine Learning the Future of Marketing? Experts Weigh in.

QuanticMind

Why do 97% of marketing influencers believe the future of digital marketing will involve human marketers working with machine learning-powered automation? Thought leaders in PPC, social and mobile marketing explain in this in-depth survey. Where is digital headed? Are disciplines such as search engine marketing, social and mobile marketing all trending towards a fully automated world where artificial intelligence (AI) robots take over our jobs?

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MAT for the C-Suite – Getting Alignment and Keeping It

Televerde

As many of you know, Televerde operates its European headquarters out of Glasgow, Scotland. It’s from this location that we help our North American clients expand their sales and marketing initiatives throughout Europe region. We launched our European office in Glasgow just about a year ago and have found the city to be welcoming and supportive of the work we do to help North American companies come to Europe and European companies broaden their scope to North America.

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New E-Book: The Blueprint to Account-Based Marketing Campaigns

Terminus

If you could turn any company into a superfan of your brand, what company would you choose? What if you could create a list of “dream accounts,” turn them all into customers, and build a symbiotic business relationship with each of them? Account-based marketing can’t quite do that for you, but it can help you get pretty darn close. In the Blueprint to Account-Based Marketing Campaigns , we will explore the steps B2B companies can take to drive more revenue from best-fit accounts using account-ba

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How the Most Tech-Savvy Geo Approaches Brand Experience Technology

The Freeman Company

Counterintuitively, Asia focuses on the message, not the mechanism

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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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Creative Campaign Shines in the IT Industry

Walker Sands

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3 Reasons You Should Be Using VoC to Enhance Customer Experience

Webbiquity

Guest post by Brooke Cade. Monitoring customer feedback is more important than ever. In the past, word of mouth was fleeting and temporary. Now, with the Internet, it’s easy for a single review to severely damage or ruin a company’s reputation. Negative reviews can tank a product, or even a whole product line, leaving businesses struggling to move inventory.

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Beyoncé —Game Changer, Brand Builder, Innovative Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Today Beyoncé is a household name—she commands attention with her work, and what she says, wears, and shares. Beyoncé has spent years carefully creating her brand—from her early days as the lead in Destiny’s Child to her career as a solo artist to her launch of a clothing line, philanthropy and investments. She has built a brand that is recognized and loved by generations of fans the world over.

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But Really, What Is Content Marketing Strategy? Part 1

DivvyHQ

“In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”. – Miyamoto Musashi, Famous Japanese Swordsman & Author. If you work in marketing, you’ve probably noticed that content, social media, technology, and customer behavior are changing at light speed. It’s changing so fast that trying to keep up can feel like battling a seasoned Samurai.

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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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Effective ABM Needs Effective Planning

PureB2B

Account-based marketing (ABM) is starting to gain a lot of traction in the B2B world. According to the Information Technology Services Marketing Association, ABM is defined as “treating individual accounts as markets in their own right.” This means taking marketing personalization to a whole new level. Based on a survey by Zoominfo, ABM is very effective when it comes to increasing revenue and predictability, as 96% of the marketers surveyed attributed their marketing success to ABM.

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INFOGRAPHIC: HOW TO MEASURE EVENT ROI

AgencyEA

Brand experiences are significantly evolving and it’s time for the ROI conversation to catch up. How we evaluate the success of a brand experience has shifted to include evaluating the Return on Innovation, more specifically, how innovative strategies deliver more impact, increase engagement and inspire stronger connections. How is your brand evaluating ROI to ensure […].

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Effective ABM Needs Effective Planning

PureB2B

Account-based marketing (ABM) is starting to gain a lot of traction in the B2B world. According to Information Technology Services Marketing Association, ABM is defined as “treating individual accounts as markets in their own right.” This basically means taking marketing personalization to a whole new level. Based on a survey by Zoominfo , ABM is very effective when it comes to increasing revenue and predictability, as 96% of the marketers surveyed attributed their marketing success to ABM.