July, 2017

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How to do lead management that improves conversion

markempa

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. You may be wondering: how low? According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals. Source: Forrester US and Europe B2B Marketing Tactics and Benchmarks Online Survey.

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Why Demand Generation Requires a Strategic Mindset

Marketing Insider Group

Demand generation is complex. 7,000-piece jigsaw puzzle complex. This dynamism is the root of demand gen’s power, as well as the seeds of its downfall. When marketers don’t get the whole puzzle to fit together, the result is a jumbled mess of marketing tactics rather than the masterpiece you get when every piece works in […]. The post Why Demand Generation Requires a Strategic Mindset appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Shifts in B2B Buyer Behavior Support New Priorities for Demand Gen Content

The Point

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. This year’s report (download a copy here – registration required) is striking in the degree and pace of change reported, since only last year, in how B2B buyers describe their research and purchase processes.

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How to Accurately Track Your Website Leads

Webbiquity

Guest post by Matt Cannon. Have you ever wondered whether your PPC or SEO campaign is worth the investment? Are you ever frustrated because no matter how much you test and tweak your campaigns, nothing seems to improve? At the root of both problems is quite frequently the same thing: incomplete and/or overstated lead tracking. PPC advertising consultants and management companies see this play out time and time again when we dig into why a prospective client has been treading water.

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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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From Tattoos To Testimonials: How Cisco Energized Over 700 European Brand Advocates (In Just 4 Months)

Influitive

In 2016, Cristina Melluzzi, Head of Customer Advocacy EMEAR at Cisco, was facing something lots of B2B companies can relate to: having an internal fire drill every time Cisco needed customers for references, speaking opportunities, analyst interviews, and case studies. Cisco had a traditional reference program with around 100 European customers that sales and marketing.

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Stuck on words: how can marketing connect with customers better?

markempa

How can marketers better connect with people we hope will become our customers? Over the past year, I’ve been researching why there’s such a disconnect between marketing and customers so I can understand how to bridge that gap. Why? Because right now, the trust gap between marketers and customers has never been wider. For example, this recent Gallup Poll shows that confidence in the honesty and ethics of marketers and sellers isn’t much higher than Members of Congress.

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How to Measure Your Content Marketing ROI

Marketing Insider Group

In both B2C and B2B marketing, about a third of the marketing budget is spent on content. Many successful brands invest even more. These numbers are predicted to keep going up. By 2019, experts believe we’re looking at a $300 billion dollar industry, which means dollars spent on content marketing will have doubled in less than four years. […].

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The Bottom Line: Action is at the Heart of Marketing’s Productivity

Vision Edge Marketing

In a recent article, David Dodd wrote the innovations in Marketing “have promised to improve marketing effectiveness and efficiency, and numerous research studies purport to show that they are delivering a wide range of benefits. But have these innovations really improved the bottom-line productivity of B2B marketing? Can we show – in a credible and convincing way – that B2B marketing is more financially productive today than it was 10 or 15 years ago?

Product 174
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Freedom of Speech – How Will You Use Yours?

Webbiquity

To all American readers of this blog—happy Independence Day! Hopefully you are enjoying an extended 4th of July holiday weekend with friends and family. To those outside the U.S.—best wishes for your happiness and freedom on this day as well. And please rest assured the people of America want our country to continue to be a beacon of light and hope to the world, no matter what you read in the news.

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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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IDC Study: B2B Customer Advocacy Programs Grow 570% In A Year

Influitive

A new IDC report has found that one organizational tactic has grown 570% YOY among B2B vendors (and no, we don’t mean ABM). It’s customer advocacy programs. Last year, only 10% B2B vendors surveyed had a customer advocacy program in place, according to the IDC research. This year, “The Role of Marketing in Customer Advocacy”.

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How to Brief a Marketing Agency [SlideShare]

Tomorrow People

Getting the most from your marketing agency comes down to one thing: a strong campaign brief. Find out what you need to write an awesome agency brief in this SlideShare.

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Is Programmatic Display Good for B2B advertisers?

NuSpark Consulting

We hear a lot these days about the importance of delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time. This might have been challenging in days gone by, but with the development of programmatic media it’s now little more than a breeze. This is an advanced way of targeting your ideal audience with digital advertising placements based on data and analysis, and marketers are rapidly adopting the new display advertising technology as a means to generate leads while freeing up their t

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4 Big Reasons Your Email Campaigns Are Being Ignored

Marketing Insider Group

If you put email messages, Facebook posts, Tweets, and blog posts in a room and told them to duke it out, last man standing style, I guarantee you, email would win. Your email messages are far more powerful than your other digital channels when it comes to making a marketing impact. Blogs may generate leads […]. The post 4 Big Reasons Your Email Campaigns Are Being Ignored appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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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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The Facebook Sharing Debugger is an essential content marketing tool

Biznology

Facebook is pretty good at making everything you share look pretty good all on its own — until it doesn’t. What then? What happens when you spend the time and energy going through all your old posts and content to intentionally render properly on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Plus, Medium, LinkinedIn, and Tumblr, and you go back to share your old evergreen content onto Facebook and when your title, summary, and featured image pop up on Facebook automagically, it’s the same crap

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Cisco Shows Why Augmented Reality Isn’t Just for Games

Kaon

Pokémon Go brought the concept of augmented reality — or AR for short — into the mainstream… well, reality. This two-dimensional, AR, mobile game went viral just over a year ago, and, in doing so, it taught us all what gamers and high-tech fans have known for a while about AR. So, now we all know that we can use AR to play cool games with our friends.

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How to Use Your Website to Enhance your Marketing Automation

Tomorrow People

Discover how you can utilise marketing automation to improve conversions across your website.

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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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How to Build Remarkable B2B Influence Online by Guest Blogging Successfully

NuSpark Consulting

To grow your business today, you must build your online influence by creating insightful content that helps your target audience. But let’s suppose you’re already churning out blogs, e-books, videos and more. Why are you not getting the results you had anticipated? The problem is likely that your target audience is not finding you. That’s because your website doesn’t rank high enough in the search engines to attract a steady flow of visitors.

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5 Hacks To Get More Leads

Marketing Insider Group

The burning question on every marketing client’s lips. How to get more leads for my business? What can marketers do to invite more people into a brand experience? There are plenty of practical methods for generating quality leads. Blogging. Sharing and caring on social media. Strategic landing pages. Event marketing. Email. Most marketers are using […].

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Launching An Advocacy Program Part 8: Finding Inspiration

Influitive

This is the eighth post in a series about launching a customer advocacy program. The latest post in the series described how to determine which facet of your program to focus on: reach or relationship. Because advocacy managers are so focused on day-day activities, we are prone to tunnel-vision. Sure, we set aside time to.

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Read this article before you start a social media program

Biznology

Are you a B2B business exec whose instincts are saying you should be doing something with social media, but you’re not sure what? You’re not alone. I estimate about half of the people who contact us for help with a social media program don’t have set objectives in mind–often because they don’t really know what social media can do for them. They just feel they need to be there.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Why It’s Time to Rebuild Traditional Marketing Teams

Contently

I’m not usually one for quotations, but there’s a saying attributed to Albert Einstein that I’ve always appreciated: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. Since marketers always care about getting better results, it’s about time they listened to Einstein’s advice.

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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Social Marketers in 2017

Convince & Convert

Our just-released 2017 State of Social Marketing Report shares survey results from 2,738 social media marketing professionals from 111 countries. This report shares real-world insight and understanding of a dynamic industry where new networks emerge, old networks evolve , and the user base continues to rise at rapid rates. Here are the three biggest challenges social marketers are facing right now, according to social marketers themselves. 1.

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How LinkedIn Sales Navigator Can Generate Qualified Leads

NuSpark Consulting

Launched in August 2014, LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator makes use of the social platform’s richly populated database of business profiles to identify the ideal prospective customer. Users can connect with their prospects, engage with them through messages, get instant insights and monitor the success of their efforts online—all within the program’s parameters.

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7 Tips for Strategic B2B Marketing Planning

Marketing Insider Group

Every marketer needs to align their marketing plans to the strategic goals of their business – it’s a critical component of Marketing Performance Management. In fact, our research at Allocadia found that companies with strong growth are 2X more likely to align marketing KPIs directly to their contribution to the business, underscoring the need for all marketing […].

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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12 Tips Every Brand Should Incorporate Into a Live Stream Marketing Campaign

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

By now, you’ve probably seen how live content gets pushed to the top of every stream on your social media feeds. You probably even get push notifications on your apps when someone goes live. It’s not a coincidence, but more of a calculated effort from companies like Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , and Twitch to be the leaders of a space that is still in its infancy.

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Getting to ABM: notes from the field

Biznology

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? David Rowe , SVP marketing and business development at Enli Health Intelligence , spoke at the BrandHIT marketing conference in Las Vegas last month, and candidly shared some of his firm’s experiences in migrating from traditional B2B demand generation to an ABM strategy.

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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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