April, 2017

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7 Tips to Boost Your Email Nurturing Results Immediately

markempa

People aren’t looking for a reason to read your email nurturing messages, they’re looking for a reason to delete them. Think about it. You probably do this with your inbox too. This is important because marketers rely on email as the top lead-nurturing tactic and according to Econsultancy, it’s the best channel for ROI. However, according to a MarketingSherpa survey of email recipients, 58% of those who stop reading, disengage or unsubscribe later cite “lack of relevance” as a key factor.

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Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven

Marketing Insider Group

In this day and age, there’s no excuse for not knowing what your customers want. There are now a wide variety of tools that enable marketers to capture a range of data at particular stages in their marketing campaigns. Gone are the days of mass, untargeted broadcasting. The digital age has brought about widened reach, The post Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven appeared first on PureB2B.

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#SMMW17: Hot Topics and Top Influencers

Onalytica B2B

Social Media Marketing World 2017 (SMMW17) was a wonderful event where over 200 speakers and over 3000 attendees from over 50 different countries around the world descended on San Diego to create a historic event for social media marketers. Leading social media marketers travelled to #SMMW17 learn about best practice in the industry. There were also many celebrities and thought leaders presenting individual tracks on specific topics such as copywriting, split testing, virtual reality, artificial

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A New Generation of Marketing Metrics & the ROI of Better Data

DiscoverOrg

Revenue growth is only possible with a solid understanding of our prospects – and no one knows that better than B2B marketers. When it comes measuring the health of our prospect data, we’re used to showing raw growth in the number of contacts and accounts, or a coverage percentage for target accounts or personas. And we’ve historically used these types of metrics to justify budget requests for investing in more data purchases.

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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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Four Predictions About the State of SEO in 2017

Webbiquity

Guest post by Nathan Elly. The new year is well underway. As we reflect on the major events in the world of SEO in 2016, web marketers need to evaluate how the changes will impact the SEO strategy through the rest of 2017. The biggest news in 2017 has so far been the Penguin 4.0 algorithm update, however there were also several other changes that had caused a stir in the SEO world as well.

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5 Ways to Transform Your Content From Adequate to Awesome

markempa

We’re overloaded with the message that “Content Is King,” but teams are still struggling with where to even start. Some latch onto sales trends that only guide a short-term strategy, while others rely on new technologies to do the work for them. We’re constantly inundated with endless choices as to the way we create, pitch, and share content with today’s changing sales landscape.

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The Future of Content Marketing — 3 Predictions You Need To Know

Marketing Insider Group

Just when you believe you’ve caught up with all the greatest techniques and tools, you look up from all your hard work – the riveting video campaigns, your exciting new influencer partnership, hey, you’ve even become agile! – only to find out the content marketing landscape is shifting again. Which means one of two things: […]. The post The Future of Content Marketing — 3 Predictions You Need To Know appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Influencer Marketing Vs Influencer Relations- What’s the Difference?

Onalytica B2B

Influencer marketing this; influencer relations that- we’re hearing both terms being thrown around an awful lot across social media, sometimes interchangeably, sometimes with entirely different meanings. To us, there are two fundamentally very different words in each term setting them apart: marketing and relations. With both words meaning entirely different things on their own, why is it that when ‘influencer’ is popped in front that they are regarded in a similar light?

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Myth Busters: 3 Sales Intelligence Assumptions Dispelled

DiscoverOrg

Some information is so sensational that it gets passed around regardless of the truth: The amount of tryptophan in a Thanksgiving turkey is enough to make people sleepy. Humans only use 10% of their brains. Jimmy Hoffa is buried under Giants Stadium. Sadly, all of these dramatic statements are false, but people love to repeat them anyway. When false assumptions are the basis for business decisions, the fallout can be sudden and steep.

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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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8 Questions to Help You Decide if Your Content is Good Enough

The Point

The best demand generation campaigns start with content that your prospects want. Even the best data, and sparkling creative, can’t save you or your campaign if your content and offer isn’t up to scratch. Here are 8 simple questions to help you decide whether that content is good enough. 1. Does it teach the reader something he/she may not already know?

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Here's Why Airlines Treat Customers Poorly

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s passenger-dragging incident at United Airlines left many marketers (and other humans) aghast that any company could purposely assault its own customer. As it happens, airline technology vendor Sabre published a survey of airline executives just before the event. It confirms what you probably suspected: airline managers think differently from other business people.

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Five Ways to Avoid Getting Burned by Outsourced B2B Sales Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. Often multiple times. And, at lot of times executives will say “I tried it and it didn’t work.” Many will acknowledge that the failure(s) were partially their fault. Candidly, when this kind of partnership doesn’t work it is the client’s fault in many situations, but not always.

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How to Nurture Leads with Email Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

The Internet of Things (IoT) is radically changing the way people search and receive information. Luckily for businesses, this interconnectedness allows them to deliver content in different ways: social media, blogging, video, audio, and a host of other interactive platforms. Plus, let’s not forget email. Email marketing is very much alive. It has withstood.

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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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How to Use Influencer Marketing at a Fast-Growth Startup

Onalytica B2B

As a growth hacking digital marketer in the funded startup world, I regularly see the hustle-filled journey from startup inception to market-conquering results. If a genuine product market fit is established, the right marketing mix will generate fast-growth and long-term success. But it takes iterative testing and a methodological approach to achieve this sustainable return, and every recipe is specific to the individual business and its goals.

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An Independent Review of DiscoverOrg’s Data Accuracy Claims

DiscoverOrg

When sales intelligence data is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated, the rabbit hole for a sales person can be very deep —and no one knows better than Steve W. Martin. A lifelong sales trainer, Steve has consulted for and trained sales teams for hundreds technology companies. “Contact data is a very important priority to my clients,” he says. Combing through social media for clues to contact information and calling wrong numbers consumes hours, and returns scant benefits: Burnout and high turnov

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Which Is Right For You: Influencer Marketing Or Advocate Marketing?

Influitive

Lots of companies ask influential outsiders to advocate on their behalf, with the hopes that it will grow their reach and generate new leads in a (seemingly) organic way. And it makes sense in these digitally-connected times. People often seek the opinions of their peers online before they make a purchase (including B2B buyers). However, influencer.

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The secret to Mastodon’s success is mastering the hyperlocal

Biznology

Maybe you should install Mastodon , the latest-and-greatest Twitter-killer , onto your own server and launch your very own community in support of your own personal community of interest or of action. Why invest in a walled garden community without neighbors, when you can plop down your very own community-focused social network that has turn-key and built-in neighbors?

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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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How to Implement an Account-Based Marketing Program in Your Firm

NuSpark Consulting

For many years now, B2B marketers have spent time and effort carefully crafting buyer personas based on demographic profiles, needs analyses and former sales results, among other criteria. The burgeoning trend towards account-based marketing (ABM) takes that a step further, by customizing activities to enable a laser-sharp focus on each specific target account.

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5 Trends That Will Shape Content Marketing in 2017

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing isn’t just a sideshow anymore. More and bigger companies are relying on it as one of their main marketing forms. No longer is content marketing something a handful of companies do. Instead, it’s become a massive monster that is expected to be worth more than 32 billion dollars by 2018. Of course, that […]. The post 5 Trends That Will Shape Content Marketing in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Employee Advocacy- Are You Leveraging Your Employees’ Influence?

Onalytica B2B

Depending on how familiar you are with influencer marketing or influencer relations, it may or may not come as a surprise that under its umbrella comes brand advocacy, too. A brand advocate is anyone that is naturally compelled to favour, promote or defend your brand on their own accord; this could be an influencer that has transitioned into an advocate organically; a loyal customer or in fact an employee.

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Data-Agnostic? See How Data Quality Affects ROI in This A/B Test

DiscoverOrg

If you consider various levels of quality—cars with lots of speed and no torque, or kitchen appliances with cheap motors—it’s easy to agree that quality affects user experience, good or bad, in a big way. Fast, friendly service at a restaurant can improve your dinner experience as much as a perfectly cooked steak. Data is no different. Quality is a factor, and accuracy matters a lot.

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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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10 Steps To Energize Your Blog With Advocate-Generated Content

Influitive

Pearson, the world’s largest learning company, wanted to change the way students perceived their brand. The company offers technology, materials and services to help students reach their highest potential… but many college students just saw Pearson as a textbook vendor. “We needed to build brand affinity,” says Lindsey Erlick, Senior Manager, Student Advocacy & Marketing.

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All about earned media micro-influencer marketing and more on the Through the Noise podcast

Biznology

I was recently invited to be a second-time guest on the Through the Noise podcast. This time, I was relaxed and open and playful and in more of a silly mood than a self-promotional shilly mood. So, we spent the entire time just talking story, just chatting about whatever was on top of mind, including a funny story about the cult of Nina Martin, the Patron Saint of my agency, Gerris Corp.

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The 6 Most Important Social Media Trends of 2017

Contently

Social media—once a competitive, dynamic space—has gotten predictable. Facebook added a hundred million users in a quarter? What else is new ? Facebook is in trouble for failing to stop fake news , extremist messages , and child pornography ? Par for the course. Facebook shamelessly copied another Snapchat feature? Yawn. It’s all been going on for years.

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Using Geo-Targeted Marketing to Skyrocket Audience Engagement

Marketing Insider Group

The widespread integration of GPS technology and smartphones has changed the face of marketing. The primary goal of geo-targeting is to deliver content to consumers – largely through the mobile internet – based on their geographic location. By doing this, businesses can tweak the reach of their messaging, so it only goes out to consumers […]. The post Using Geo-Targeted Marketing to Skyrocket Audience Engagement appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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The Automated CMO: The New Era of Simplicity

Tomorrow People

Find out how marketing automation can help you nurture leads in a more efficient and effective way.

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The Real Cost of List-Building: Buy or Build Your Own?

DiscoverOrg

Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. Very, very expensive researchers. Even if you’re already purchasing sales intelligence data (most of us are), sales teams still spend over half of their day scouring LinkedIn, Twitter accounts, and forging through forests of phone trees for correct phone numbers and email addresses.

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Meet The New Rising Star In B2B Marketing: The Customer Marketer

Influitive

When it costs 6X more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one, does it still make sense for marketers to focus mainly on generating new leads, rather than nurturing current customers? (Nope!) As more and more companies turn their focus away from short-lived marketing campaigns, and towards building ongoing.