Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Wouldn’t it be helpful if you knew what habits the best content marketers have in common? If you knew what tricks and practices were working for them, imagine how much you could improve your own content marketing strategy. A new report released by the Content Marketing Institute has put together the goals, priorities and the […]. The post 12 Habits of Wildly Successful B2B Content Marketers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Stop flirting with your content marketing agency — have a loving relationship with them and get the most out of your marketing investment. We all think about success metrics. Almost every day. We think about how can we make our clients successful. How can we deliver a successful. content marketing strategy. How we can get better each time. How we can have a. successful working relationship with our customers and partners.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It’s crucial for marketers nowadays to adopt multichannel strategies and be where their customers are. However, not all lead generation channels are created equally, and businesses need to focus on what works specifically for them to increase efficiency and maximize returns. Every business has specific dynamics and unique requirements in terms of their sales and […].

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to being successful in Google AdWords, it is essential to test and change elements in the account on a regular basis. There are many different areas in AdWords that advertisers can alter in order to optimize an account, including adjusting bids, changing ad copy and adding negative keywords. One of the most important elements advertisers must consistently test is the user’s landing page experience.

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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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Contently

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At 4:40 pm on Thanksgiving, as I was explaining how I’d found synergy between two family recipes to optimize the juiciness of the turkey, I realized that marketing speak had finally sabotaged my vocabulary. “What are you talking about?” my cousin asked. She was looking at me like I was an alien from a planet where everyone was born with four tentacles and two MBAs.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The biggest mistake you can make in the B2B world is one that is all too common—chasing the wrong leads. You know the feeling—you schedule numerous calls, send emails, and hold meetings only to learn that the person on the other line isn’t interested in your product or service. First, let’s get this out of the way—a qualified lead is defined by three main criteria: Need: the prospect has a problem that your product can fix.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How to rock your lead scoring system using these 3 best practices. WARNING: LEAD SCORING SYSTEM CAN MAKE OR BREAK SALES TARGET IN A GIVEN MONTH. We all (already!) know that consumers cannot be “sales ready” at all times. But still, Unqualified leads are the biggest waste of time for sales. So ironic! What is the result? You’re disappointed and stressed.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Throughout my career, I’ve witnessed numerous sales and marketing teams that simply don’t communicate. Today, as a CEO, one of my top priorities is to ensure that my marketing and sales teams are always aligned. Together, they have a much greater impact on company growth, driving better lead quality and closing more deals.

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EveryoneSocial

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Employees + Social Media Marketing. By now, most business should value and recognize the importance of their brand actively engaging in social media marketing. Many of these platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, etc) are not going anywhere anytime soon and provide you access to the people that matter most for what your company does or sells.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This #GivingTuesday , we’re taking a moment to reflect what it means to give back as a business. We’re proud that community impact is one of our top priorities at Vidyard from our participation in Salesforce’s Pledge 1% to the launch of our community initiative, PlugIn. As a busy CEO with an equally busy team, I understand that making time for giving back can seem like a nice-to-have versus a critical priority.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Everyone makes mistakes. Even (especially?) marketers. Usually, we learn from them and move on with our lives, maybe escaping with just a touch of public shaming. But what happens to those companies that make mistakes on a much greater scale and cost their company millions in clout or (gulp) dollars? They go down in history as the biggest marketing mistakes of our time.

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Champion Communications

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Producing customer-focused content is a foundational stone for successful inbound marketing. The golden content creation rule to increase B2B lead generation is to ensure the content is specifically attracting customers and helping close sales. Fill in the form now to download the Content Mapping Template.

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Fusion Marketing Partners

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The relationship between marketing and sales is so crucial to a company’s success yet it is often less than ideal. […].

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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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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You could say Coca-Cola invented the Christmas ad, but brand storytelling king John Lewis kidnapped it and taught it to manipulate emotions to a twee acoustic soundtrack. Yes, mid-November has been and gone, which means UK residents are being subjected to the annual Christmas overkill—a constant barrage of Slade tunes and flashing street lights and commercials whose sole aim is to make you cry.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

With an ever-changing and complex landscape, healthcare marketers are facing more challenges than ever before. Growing consumerism and changing demographics in healthcare have led to higher patient expectations and demands. Regulatory uncertainties make it hard to strategize and execute on long-term growth. New entrants from retail and technology are shaking up the traditional ecosystem.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Guest post by Nick Rojas. While it’s almost unheard of for businesses to completely ignore social media these days, startups have to be especially mindful of its advantages and uses. Many are bootstrapped, and even if they have seed funding, the pressure is on to meet their target goals as quickly as possible. When sharing your business content across social media is so conducive to growth and capital is so scarce, it’s important to get as much done for as little as possible.

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Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You do not have to wait on the new year to give an assessment of your marketing and business strategies. Technology and business trends are moving faster than ever, so whenever you have a chance to stop and revise, you should do so. Here are a few new insights that you may want to consider incorporating into your strategies for the rest of 2017. Marketing Automation.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Robert Rose and I just completed four years and over 200 episodes of our podcast, This Old Marketing. While far from the most successful marketing podcast on the planet, our one hour of weekly shenanigans has done fairly well. Since we launched in November 2013, the podcast has been downloaded nearly 2 million times from listeners in 200 countries, while generating approximately a half-million dollars in direct revenue in sponsorship support.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In today’s marketing ecosystem, your website warrants ongoing attention, time and fiscal resources. Your website­—like hiring the best talent—should be viewed as an investment and not an expense, and it deserves an adequate portion of your annual marketing budget. Our world has become increasingly digital and web-centric, making a B2B firm’s website more critical to success than ever before.

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Allocadia

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Welcome! This post is part 3 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1 : How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets. Part 2 : How to Build Out a Marketing Budget. Part 3 : Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget [below]. Note: this guide is written with marketing teams of 10 or more in mind. In this third and final installment in our mini-series on marketing budgeting, we’ll focus on the day-to-day aspects of working with your team’s marke

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Get Started with ABM Using These HubSpot Workflow Recipes. In August 2017, we announced the Terminus integration with HubSpot to bring together, for the first time, inbound and account-based marketing strategies. HubSpot’s VP of Product, Christopher O’Donnell, unveiled the integration during the product keynote at INBOUND , calling it “legitimately extremely cool.” The integration allows HubSpot Marketing users to launch account-based advertising tactics to amplify their message beyond the

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One is transactional, the other is experiential. One is most definitely a commodity, the other is ripe for differentiation and delight. Many people will pay more (in dollars and/or time) for a better shopping experience – either to ensure they make the right selection or simply because they enjoy the experience itself. We don’t always buy the best, sometimes we buy from our favorite.

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