September, 2017

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Disappointed with your content marketing? Discover the challenges keeping B2B marketers from achieving differentiation and how to fix them.

Tomorrow People

How does differentiation apply to content marketing and what’s stopping you getting attention in a crowded B2B landscape? Well, quite a lot… Read on and find out what’s holding most marketers back and what they can do about it.

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An Inside Look Premiere: A True Story of Executing Account-Based Everything

DiscoverOrg

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). But there’s a lot of confusion about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s really involved an account-based program.

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5 Advocate Marketing Success Stories All B2B Brands Can Copy

Influitive

Every year, we recognize some of the most engaging marketing campaigns through The Best Advocate Marketing Awards. Also known as The BAMMIES, these awards shine a spotlight on B2B companies who are using the enthusiasm of their customers, partners and fans to fuel business growth. Honors are awarded in 10 key categories that recognize creative excellence, innovation.

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Top 8 Mistakes People Make with Marketing Automation

Marketing Insider Group

There is no definitive ‘right’ way to achieve success through marketing automation, but there certainly are quite a few wrong ways. I’ve compiled a few of the top marketing automation mistakes people make. Make sure you aren’t making any of them! 1. Being inorganic One of the primary dangers of marketing automation is also one […]. The post Top 8 Mistakes People Make with Marketing Automation appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Balancing SEO and PPC to Maximize Search Results

Webbiquity

Guest post by Max DesMarais. Great SEO can get sites to the top of organic search rankings, provide valuable traffic from long-tail or high-traffic keywords and play a crucial role in driving growth to your company. However, there is one pitfall to all the hard work that goes into ranking at the top organically. That pitfall is paid search. With pretty minimal effort and investment, competitors can start driving traffic from the same keywords you spent months attempting to rank for.

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Facebook’s Algorithm: 3 Must-Know Changes

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Facebook is always tinkering with its algorithms and it can be challenging to keep track of everything. This summer, Facebook’s key updates included demoting spammers, screening out fake news, testing AI with a personal assistant “M,” as well as bringing emojis and new filters to Facebook Messenger. The name of the game for Facebook advertising is quickly becoming Facebook Messenger.

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Why Differentiation is Crucial for Content Marketers in 2017

Tomorrow People

50% of B2B content marketers are doing the same or worse than their competitors — and that’s by their own admission. Make sure you’re not one of them….

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Why Lead Nurturing Success Means Not Asking for the Sale

The Point

I was left a voicemail earlier this week by a sales rep that I talked to (briefly) about 6 months ago. His message today was, in summary: “Are you ready to engage with us yet?”. Now, not only was I not ready, I barely remember what his company does. That’s because I haven’t had any communication from him or his company in the last 6 months that wasn’t a direct solicitation to do business with the firm.

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4 Brands Still Successfully Marketing on Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

Twitter is losing ground in the engagement game. Recently, it was revealed to be the worst social media channel for engaging consumers. Instagram, and to a lesser extent, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest are much more effective according to TrackMaven’s 2017 digital marketing analysis. Twitter also developed a bad rep when it became overshadowed by Snapchat, motivating concerns […].

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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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Five Surprising Findings from the 2017 Marketing Strategy Report

Webbiquity

CoSchedule, a top content planning and research tool vendor, just released its State of Marketing Strategy Report 2017 , based on a survey of nearly 1,600 marketing professionals. Many of the findings were enlightening through not terribly surprising. But a few stood out as…unexpected. First off, the three big useful (but not surprising) insights from the report are that the most successful marketers: Document their marketing strategy and processes: Marketing teams that document their str

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Influencer Marketing: How to Identify Your Target Influencers

Onalytica B2B

Last week, we covered how you can outline your influencer marketing strategy. This week we take you through how you can identify your influencers, as per our Definitive Practical Guide to Influencer Relationship Management. Personally, I can’t think of anything more crucial to successful influencer marketing than identifying the right influencers to target.

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7 Essential Steps In Developing A B2B Social Media Strategy

KoMarketing Associates

As detailed in coverage earlier this year, CMO’s remain committed to growing their investment in social media. “The CMO Survey Highlights and Insights Report”, published in February 2017, found that even though B2B CMO’s currently spend 10.5 percent of their marketing budget on social media, they expect to increase this percentage to 12.9 percent over the next 12 months.

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B2B Marketers Are Buying Customer Data Platforms. Here's Why.

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m currently drafting a paper on use of Customer Data Platforms by B2B SaaS marketers. The topic is more intriguing than it sounds because it raises the dual questions of why CDPs haven’t previously been used much by B2B SaaS companies and what's changed. To build some suspense, let’s first review who else has been buying CDPs. We can skip over the first 3.8 billion years of life on earth, when the answer is no one.

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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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Dare to be different and make your B2B content marketing really stand out

Tomorrow People

What separates good from great in B2B content marketing and what’s stopping marketers from producing truly differentiated content?

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Machine Learning and AI Marketing Trends to Watch for 2018

Marketing Insider Group

From more sophisticated metrics to a next-generation customer experience, machine learning and artificial intelligence are raising the bar on what marketers can do to enhance customer relationships. While many marketing organizations are still struggling to make the jump from ‘doing digital’ to ‘being digital,’ some are getting ready to make a quantum leap with machine learning and […].

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How to Use LinkedIn for Lead Generation

Webbiquity

Guest post by Lexie Lu. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, with approximately 500 million users and more than nine million companies represented. It is a bit different than some of the other social media platforms, in that it allows people to connect with other professionals and to leverage current connections to make new ones.

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Interview with Doug Kessler

Onalytica B2B

Doug Kessler – Creative Director, Co-Founder, Velocity Partners Ltd. Key Topics: Content Marketing, B2B Marketing, Tech Marketing, Copywriting, Creative, Agencies. Location: London and NYC. Bio: Doug Kessler is co-founder and creative director of Velocity Partners, the London- and New York-based B2B marketing agency (and the CMA Agency of the Year 2016).

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Meet Your 2017 Advocamp Speakers

Influitive

We looked far and wide to find the most in-demand speakers to take the stage this year at Advocamp in San Francisco December 6-8th. Advocamp is a global business gathering focused on one transformational idea: that the future belongs to companies that develop and mobilize advocates. This carefully curated group of 50+ cutting edge speakers consists.

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Why this LinkedIn Ad Works: 2 Key Tips for Success

The Point

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. At our agency , we’re seeing great results across a broad swath of clients from LinkedIn Sponsored Updates in particular, at a cost per lead similar to, or sometimes better than, traditional search marketing. In addition to the potential for highly competitive metrics (click-through, conversion rates), advertising on LinkedIn offers another key advantage compared to SEM, namely the ability through audience d

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Brand Quarterly Features Kaon Interactive CEO: ‘How Smartphones Will Change Mixed Reality for the Enterprise’

Kaon

Yesterday, Brand Quarterly released its September issue focused on technology. As a leader in interactive applications for the enterprise, Kaon Interactive’s President and CEO Gavin Finn contributed an article on the impact of mobile applications in the augmented reality and virtual reality space. Read ‘ Reality Check: How Smartphones Will Change the Mixed Reality Game for the Enterprise ‘ Filed under: 3D Products , CEO Corner , Geek Talk , Hardware Trends , Marketing Guru ,

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3 Skills Every Hybrid Marketer Must Master

Marketing Insider Group

As years pass and marketing channels evolve, marketers are held to an even higher standard. The good old days when marketing professionals were labeled as working in either “accounts” or “creative” are gone. Today, agency and in-house marketers alike are required to employ more integrated marketing tactics to meet the needs of our fast-paced, consumer-driven world. […].

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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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Everything you need to know about offline marketing

Biznology

We usually write about digital marketing around here, but I was surprised at the articles that we’ve collected around offline marketing over the years. As digital and offline marketing are being combined in so many organizations, it might be useful for you to check back on some of our popular articles from the past on offline marketing. Enjoy!

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Interview with Zontee Hou

Onalytica B2B

Zontee Hou – Senior Strategist at Convince & Convert. Key Topics: Content Marketing, Digital Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behavior. Location: Brooklyn, New York. Bio: Zontee Hou is the founder & president of Brooklyn-based consultancy Media Volery and co-lead of the respected Convince & Convert Consulting team. Her 10+ years of work in the marketing industry has garnered multiple awards including a Forrester Groundswell Award.

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Be Fanatical About Service Quality (And Why It Matters)

Vision Edge Marketing

I have been fortunate in my career to benefit from a number of remarkable mentors. My first professional job was in a financial services organization working for Dwight Prade. It was Dwight who bestowed upon me the title “Customer Relationship Manager.” This was long before the era of CRM systems. Because switching providers in our industry was relatively easy, Dwight emphasized the importance of keeping and growing the value of customers.

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10 Must-Have Features In Your Advocate Marketing Software

Influitive

How are you managing your customer, employee, or partner advocacy programs? Today, most advocate marketers are organizing advocate activity through separate applications, and—our favourite—spreadsheets and emails. (If you’re still wondering what exactly advocate marketing is, read this primer first!) But there are two big problems with this approach: 1.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Press Release: Kaon to be Apple Launch Partner for 3D AR, Showing Interactive 3D Products in Enterprise Environments

Kaon

Kaon Interactive Takes Sales & Marketing Applications to the Next Level with 3D Augmented Reality. Kaon Interactive , the leading provider of 3D marketing and sales applications for global B2B brands, today announced that its augmented reality (AR) solution, Kaon AR ® , is now available on over 340 million Apple devices. With the release of iOS 11 and the launch of Apple’s ARkit, Kaon Interactive is driving AR adoption in the B2B space, with 50+ live enterprise AR applications in use, by hun

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How to Attract B2B Buyers with Killer Content

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is booming. According to the 2017 B2B Content Marketing Trends, 39% of companies are increasing investment in content marketing. And yet most companies are not creating effective content. Want proof? Two of the leaders in B2B funnel benchmarking, SiriusDecisions and Forrester, will tell you that inquiry-to-closed-won conversion ratios are often below two percent […].

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Connected consumption is the new customer experience (CX)

Biznology

Lesson for leaders. Today’s marketing is becoming obsolete. It comes from yesterday’s world. Its focus is “find, buy, and deliver.”. Now imagine having an invisible 2-way channel inside everything that is done online. When countless products and services become connected, personal customer-vendor relationships will be added. Marketing’s focus will add the new life cycle stages of “install, use, service, and upgrade.”.