Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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The Whole Truth - Why CEOs Need to Know What Makes Sales and Marketing Click

ViewPoint

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. The two organizations don’t understand each other, and often point fingers: Sales says marketing delivers bad leads; and marketing says sales doesn’t follow up.

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Using A Personal Brand To Sell

Marketing Insider Group

For me, building my personal brand is integral to everything I do. My brand is how I get traction for the tools I build and the projects I’m invested in. My personal brand is how I sell. As part of my efforts to build this brand, I’m always open to the opportunity to contribute to […]. The post Using A Personal Brand To Sell appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketers need to play a stronger sales enablement role on LinkedIn

Biznology

Earlier this year, LinkedIn set out to determine which departments wield the most influence over B2B buyers across a number of different sectors. Their findings show that overall, marketing has 30% more sway than sales in a typical B2B buying decision and that marketing has 27% more sway than business development. Even though marketers have the most pull as they add the most value, we have found that in many cases, marketing’s influence on LinkedIn is minimal.

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Webinar Recap: The B2B Customer Journey

Hive9

For years now, marketers have been watching the customer journey shift. More and more, customers want to self-educate as much as possible before reaching out to a salesperson, even when it comes to B2B purchases.

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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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How to Beat Dunbar’s Number with MarTech

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Krysia Hepatica You might be familiar with Dunbar’s Number, but I bet you never realized how it affects your B2B marketing strategy. Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, found that there was a correlation between a primate’s brain size and the average social group size they were able to maintain. He discovered by accident that for humans, the magic number is 150 people.

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What Will Mobile Marketing Look Like in the Next Decade?

Content Standard

In the 1990s, years before mobile marketing took off, phones began their rise to prominence as a tool for common personal use. Each year seemed to bring small and lighter models, with little features like “flip” cases, walkie-talkie style calls, and the first text messaging services. To many, it felt like an unimaginable luxury, the quintessential sign of the future as now.

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What is Full-Funnel Marketing and Why Should B2B Marketers Care?

Leadspace

If you’re in B2B marketing – especially lead generation or demand generation – you probably feel inundated by buzzwords from people trying to sell you something. We’re just as guilty of it is anyone: predictive analytics, predictive marketing, account-based marketing (ABM), etc. And then along comes Matt Heinz from Heinz Marketing and lays “ Full Funnel Marketing ” on you.

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SnapApp Summer School: Better Marketing Campaign Planning in 5 Weeks

SnapApp

“Smarter summers. Brighter futures,” is the official slogan of the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , a non-profit devoted to increasing summer learning opportunities for students. Here at SnapApp, we couldn’t agree more. With summer upon us – the sun scintillating on the horizon, the smell of sunscreen, late and long twilights – it can be easy to push off your fall marketing campaign planning and just, you know, lay in the grass all day.

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B2B Marketing News Roundup – June 10, 2016

Leadspace

So at least this week was a real week, with five working days, and Monday feeling like a Monday and Friday feeling like a Friday. Ease yourself into Fred Flintstone mode with a few tall, cold news items. Martech, Marketing and Sales Industry News and Ideas. I bogged down in the details of what got hacked where, but something happened to 32 million Twitter passwords, and it looks like it wasn’t a good something.

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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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B2B Marketing to Millennials

KEO Marketing

Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). These millennials are now in the B2B world. More than one in three American workers are now millennials and they do not respond to B2B marketing the same way their Baby Boomer predecessors did.

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How To Align Your Content Strategy With Your Buyers

PureB2B

The post How To Align Your Content Strategy With Your Buyers appeared first on DemandScience.

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#SproutChat Recap: Supporting & Rewarding Your Brand Advocates

Sprout Social

You already know that having brand advocates is beneficial for your organization. But, how do you secure longterm advocacy? It starts by putting forth tactics and strategies that support and reward your champions. Whether you establish a formal advocacy program or mention your advocates on social and send them swag, it’s vital to pay attention to and recognize the supporters who promote you.

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A Simple Guide to Navigating Trending Content

Hubspot

The cultural landscape of the modern world is constantly changing. Internet celebrities are created in as little as six seconds. Viral videos can be viewed in every continent across the world in a matter of hours. There's a lot going on. As a result, there are also a lot of opportunities for brands to join the conversation -- that is, if they can keep up.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.

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B-to-B Dream Team Q&A: Kate Lechowicz of NetApp

The Freeman Company

Powerful personalization leads to authentic connections

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How utilized is marketing automation today? An expert weighs in

chiefmartech

I recently had the chance to talk with Jeff Pedowitz , the founder and president of Pedowitz Group , a marketing services provider built around the transformative potential of marketing technology platforms. As a terrific example of this new breed of agency, I was very interested in his perspective on several of the most popular marketing technology topics being discussed these days. 1.

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The Pitfalls of Scaling Content

LEADership

If you are a frequent visitor to my blog, then you already know how strongly I believe in the power of inbound marketing. After all, why would you want to spend your time chasing after customers if a well-designed and executed campaign will bring them right to your website? Content marketing is a wonderful tool when it comes to reaching a wider audience, driving traffic, and increasing your sales, but scaling up your content production can backfire if you’re not careful.

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How to Find Time to Meditate at Work [Infographic]

Hubspot

Everyone gets stressed at work at one time or another. And hey, sometimes, that can be a good thing. When you're under some pressure and your brain's working hard, it can make you more efficient and productive in the end -- and you may even find more satisfaction with your work when it is done. But whether the stress you're feeling is in healthy doses or not, there are ways to make it more manageable.

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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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Resources for Creating & Sourcing Animated GIFs

DivvyHQ

Did you know that next year, the GIF file format will be celebrating its 30th birthday? That’s right folks… According to Wikipedia, the Graphics Interchange Format was originally created by CompuServe back in 1987. Since then, the format has certainly evolved, heated debates on it’s pronunciation have ensued (even within the DivvyHQ office), and animated GIFs have become one of the most popular ways to deliver simple animation and video snippets to our socially-networked lives.

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Online Marketing Tips for 2016 [Webinar Recording & FAQ]

LeadSquared

Last week, we had our second most successful webinar ever – Online Marketing Tips for 2016! Guest panelist Vishal Kataria , talked about content marketing and shared online marketing tips that can help you generate more than just awareness for your brand. Vishal is currently building Aryatra, a training and development organization. Prior to this, he spent over 6 years, developing skills in varied sectors – marketing, social (digital) media, BPO and customer operations.