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Failure Is Always an Option (and an Opportunity)

Content Marketing Institute

Like most things, content marketing is an inexact science. Even the best of us are not immune to failure. But do we dare admit it? (Well, this author does.) And how can we benefit from mistakes? Continue reading → The post Failure Is Always an Option (and an Opportunity) appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Location-Based Marketing on the Rise

Porch Group Media

Location-Based Marketing on the Rise. Location based marketing is a powerful tool and more marketers are investing in this tactic to meet their customer acquisition and retention strategies. In fact, eMarketer predicts that marketers will spend $26.5 billion on mobile-location marketing advertising in 2019. In a report by Factual , almost 9 in 10 marketers said location-based advertising and marketing resulted in higher sales, followed by growth in their customer base (86%) and higher customer e

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Marketing Attribution: Keep It Simple

InsightSquared

Marketing attribution is no buzzword. It’s a fundamental building block of achieving ROI. Sometimes seen as more art than science, it’s often given too little attention – or too much. When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. The higher the value of the contract, the longer the sales cycle and the more complex the marketing machine, the harder it becomes to know where marketing spend is achieving ROI.

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Why Advocacy Marketing Must Include Employees

Marketing Insider Group

With the shifting world of marketing and the ever-increasing use of social media by brands, marketing advocacy strategies are imperative. One of the most important parts of advocacy marketing, besides your loyal customers, is your employees. Let’s explore why they are the key to your success. First, What is Advocacy Marketing? Advocacy marketing is a tactic that involves identifying customers and brand advocates who have a strong network within your target audience.

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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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10 Tweetable Marketing Productivity Quotes

Zoominfo

Everyone in this line of work strives to increase marketing productivity – but, as with any profession, there are productivity roadblocks around every corner. Sometimes it’s poor planning. Sometimes it’s unanticipated distractions. And sometimes you just need a quick dose of motivation. If you fall into that last category, we have just the thing for you.

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Report: CX Remains a Priority for Marketers, But Many Only ‘Somewhat Satisfied’ with Results

KoMarketing Associates

Many marketers have already made it a priority to provide an excellent customer experience, but according to new research, not all of them are satisfied with the results of their efforts thus far. Pointillist recently published the “2019 State of Customer Journey Management and CX Measurement” report, and statistics showed that most marketers (87 percent) claim exceptional customer experience is “very” or “extremely important” to their organization today.

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Programmatic Display Ads: The Handy All-You-Need Infographic

Rev

Programmatic Advertising. Made by our friends at Venngage — The Infographics & U ser Persona Maker. The post Programmatic Display Ads: The Handy All-You-Need Infographic appeared first on LeadCrunch.

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The Complete Guide to Designing Your Next Mobile App

Biznology

When it comes to designing a successful app, the key component that drives adoption is User Experience (UX). Consumers have a low tolerance rate for apps that don’t perform intuitively, load quickly, and are easy to use. Good UX is not just a good idea. It should be at the heart of every design decision you make. The process itself is complex, but the result shouldn’t be.

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Stop Wasting Money: 8 Tips to Maximize Your Content Marketing Budget via @coreydmorris

Search Engine Journal

Here are ways to save money, become more efficient, and see better performance from your content investment. The post Stop Wasting Money: 8 Tips to Maximize Your Content Marketing Budget via @coreydmorris appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Why The Facebook Pixel Is Essential To Your eCommerce Business

ATAK Interactive

With more than 1 billion active daily users, Facebook has become a staple of many people’s daily lives. As an eCommerce business today, the social network is virtually impossible to ignore and doing so can significantly impact sales and performance. 2018 statistics show that more than 93% of marketers use Facebook for advertising and more than 3 million businesses use Facebook to promote their services or products.

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How to Write an Effective Communications Plan [+ Template]

Hubspot

Remember the “ Tide Pod Challenge ?” That horrendous time at the beginning of 2018 when adolescents filmed themselves ingesting laundry detergent? While it was a funny (albeit dangerous) start to the new year, this small boost of infamy was a PR mess for the detergent brand in question, Tide , whose crisis communication team had to figure out how to respond to America’s teens swallowing their toxic product.

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10 Tips for Overcoming Common Sales Objections

Brandpoint

Convincing someone that they need a product or service can be extremely difficult, especially if this person is a cold call or email. Even with warm leads or referrals, chances are you’ll still face objections, rejections and more objections. And because of this, it is easy to get discouraged. The fact of the matter is that people aren’t usually super willing to throw money at a product or service until they are extremely convinced of its value, along with having their boss on board,

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5 B2B Content Marketing Mistakes and How To Fix Them

Launch Marketing

Content marketing—everyone’s doing it. Or, at least, everyone is trying. Content marketing has been all the buzz over the past few years but for what it’s worth, the components that make up content marketing have been around forever. The term is just a fancy way of packaging tactics and techniques we as marketers should have been implementing all along.

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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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Researching New Markets: A 3-Step Guide

SEMrush

A comprehensive guide by SEMrush helps to analyze a new market in three big steps. Based on best practices and functionalities of the brand new Market Explorer tool.

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Why The Facebook Pixel Is Essential To Your eCommerce Business

ATAK Interactive

With more than 1 billion active daily users, Facebook has become a staple of many people’s daily lives. As an eCommerce business today, the social network is virtually impossible to ignore and doing so can significantly impact sales and performance. 2018 statistics show that more than 93% of marketers use Facebook for advertising and more than 3 million businesses use Facebook to promote their services or products.

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Vidyard Extends Partnership with Adobe to Bring Industry-Leading Video Hosting and Analytics to Marketo Engage Customers

Vidyard

Expanded partnership helps Marketo Engage customers personalize their marketing experiences and drive greater audience engagement through the power of video content and video analytics. KITCHENER, Ontario – September 18, 2019 – Vidyard , a leading video platform for business, today announced an expanded partnership with Adobe to bring the power of video content and video engagement analytics to B2B marketing teams around the world.

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5 Ways to Handle Customer and Market Segmentation Like a Pro (+ Free Webinar)

Leadspace

Marketers who use market segmentation are seeing a 760 percent increase in revenue. What’s stopping you from seeing similar results? If you’re not already using market segmentation techniques and would like to, then make sure you’re doing it the right way. You can use segme ntation to improve your email campaigns, ads, and even your blog content. In this guide, we’ll show you how you can properly segment your customers and market to maximize your revenue.

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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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Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat: Which Stories Are People Actually Watching?

Hubspot

While Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat seem like incredibly different platforms, there's one thriving feature that all three have in common: Stories. By now, many of us have used or viewed a Story on a social media platform. This content serves as a way to chronicle our daily lives, vacations, and interesting outings. Stories also allow us to tap into our creative or highly visual side.

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Enabling Distributors to Sell Your Product with Delight Content

SmartBug Media

In the world of manufacturing, one of life’s biggest questions is: What are manufacturers without distributors? Manufacturers are responsible for bringing designs to life and doing so at scale. But without distributors to push those products to a network of retailers, the manufacturer would be stocked with great products, but have no end users to buy them.

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Why The Facebook Pixel Is Essential To Your eCommerce Business

ATAK Interactive

With more than 1 billion active daily users, Facebook has become a staple of many people’s daily lives. As an eCommerce business today, the social network is virtually impossible to ignore and doing so can significantly impact sales and performance. 2018 statistics show that more than 93% of marketers use Facebook for advertising and more than 3 million businesses use Facebook to promote their services or products.

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Hyper-Personalized Customer Engagement: Why Account-Based Selling?

Seismic

According to The State of Enterprise Sales Enablement 2019 , 85 percent of sales and marketing leaders agree that buyers will dismiss a seller in the first interaction if they don’t receive tailored information. Companies are moving towards account-based selling to fill this gap by enhancing the buyer experience in a more effective and efficient manner.

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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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Not Translating Your Customer Portals? You May Be Harming Brand Loyalty

Martech Advisor

Keeping new international customers takes care and positive engagement, including catering to their needs in secure login experiences. This means localizing the full customer experience, including “My Account” and customer support portals, writes, Craig Witt, Chief Revenue Officer, MotionPoint. Companies often translate their public websites and omnichannel content for global buyers.

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What is Email marketing software?

LeadSquared

In the modern connected era, email marketing software provides a strategy that allows businesses to directly contact the people who are most likely to buy from them. The trick to a successful email marketing strategy is to provide custom emails for individual people. Doing this by hand is possible, but it can quickly become hard work and boring – especially if you have more than a handful of customers.

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Major Benefits of Digital Transformation for Your Small Business

Martech Advisor

Digital transformation is an opportunity for businesses to leverage technology to deliver a cutting-edge user experience. Learn how digital transformation can benefit your small business, writes Shane Barker, Digital Strategist, Shane Barker Consulting. For decades, businesses have been aided by technologies that helped them deliver better, faster, and cheaper products and services.

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10 Critical Factors to Consider Before Diving into Account-Based Marketing

Data Cleaning/CRM Appending

Account-Based Marketing has taken the B2B world by a storm. Almost 70% of B2B companies are reported to be using Account-Based Marketing strategy at some level or the other. ABM technique has already gained enough momentum and is already replacing traditional B2B marketing approaches very rapidly. Being said that, ABM is still quite new and most of the companies are not able to get the maximum out of it.

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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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15 ABM Definitions Every Marketer Needs to Know

Madison Logic

There are plenty of ABM resources available on the web. This can make it hard to separate the good advice from the bad and the accurate definitions from the incorrect ones. That’s why we chose to put together this collection of ABM terms and definitions — to serve as a comprehensive guide on the basic. The post 15 ABM Definitions Every Marketer Needs to Know appeared first on Madison Logic Blog.

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How to Put Negative Customer Feedback to Work for You

Martech Advisor

No one likes to hear negative customer feedback, but savvy marketers know that unhappy customers give you powerful insight into what’s working—and what’s not—with your product or service. In this article, SurveyMonkey CMO Leela Srinivasan shares tips for making tough feedback a powerful pillar of your marketing strategy. You’ll learn the importance of getting curious about feedback, how to create appropriate outlets for collecting it, and why it’s vital to get

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Vidyard Extends Partnership with Adobe to Bring Industry-Leading Video Hosting and Analytics to Marketo Engage Customers

Vidyard

Expanded partnership helps Marketo Engage customers personalize their marketing experiences and drive greater audience engagement through the power of video content and video analytics. KITCHENER, Ontario – September 18, 2019 – Vidyard , a leading video platform for business, today announced an expanded partnership with Adobe to bring the power of video content and video engagement analytics to B2B marketing teams around the world.

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