February, 2017

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The Psychology of Colors in Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Design plays an important part in content marketing. An interesting looking site is more likely to retain the attention of visitors than something boring or simply average. In turn, sites that rely on content marketing tactics like blogging need to use images to help break up the text and give their readers’ eyes a break. […]. The post The Psychology of Colors in Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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10 Tips for Increasing Your Influence

Onalytica B2B

Most content on our own site and across the industry has a strong focus on influencer marketing from the brands’ perspective: why B2B brands should do influencer marketing or how B2B brands can implement a successful influencer campaign – to name a couple. What we have neglected to explicitly mention is that the byproduct of more brands doing influencer marketing is that more individuals are earning themselves a living from being an “influencer” We’re not sure

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[VIDEO] How to Structure a Successful Sales Team

DiscoverOrg

Does this problem sound familiar? We spend an enormous amount of time searching for and then hiring what we think to be “A” players. We then invest time (hopefully) training those reps before releasing them into the wild, only to ask them to do several different roles. We’ve essentially taken our A players and forced them to do 2-3 different roles making them B or C players at both.

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Five Reasons Why Sales Strategy Doesn’t Work for Many Small Businesses

Webbiquity

Guest post by Anthony Bergs. Customers are the heart and soul of any business. To survive in the long run, companies need to have a sound customer acquisition and service strategy. Over time, they need to fine-tune their strategies to adapt to the evolving requirements of the customers and the dynamics of the competition and the industry. Image credit: The Blue Diamond Gallery.

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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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Why MarTech Fails: A Data Driven Answer

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve sensed a certain weariness in recent discussions of marketing technology, as marketers realize their business problems remain even after massive investments in new systems. The term “martech fatigue” has crept into my conversations, suggesting that marketers are tired of buying new systems they often don't use. See, for example, this Kitewheel study which found 72% of agencies use less than 40% of their tools every week.

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Is Your Content Fresh Enough to Attract Google?

Marketing Insider Group

So, you publish a new blog post or how-to video twice a week – does that mean your site is fresh as a summer rose? Not to the search engines. There’s more to website freshness than posting new content. Many marketers don’t take the full scope of freshness seriously enough, favoring new content but neglecting […]. The post Is Your Content Fresh Enough to Attract Google?

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5 Ways to Drive the Success of Influencer Relations

Onalytica B2B

Last month we published a blog post entitled ‘5 Most Common Reasons why Influencer Marketing Fails’ Now, while we are confident that this article was helpful in pinpointing exactly where brands can go wrong when implementing an influencer relations program, we appreciate that we’ve only told half the story; what’s a story without a happy ending?

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2016’s Most Prospected Companies By State

DiscoverOrg

No matter our company or our role, I think I can safely say we ALL receive numerous prospecting emails and calls every day. Some of the messages we receive are well-crafted, on the mark, and personalized to our issues, and others….well, they just aren’t. Have you ever noticed that there are spikes in the number of prospecting emails you receive when: You change jobs?

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Five Tips to Help You Write Outstanding Content For Your Blog

Webbiquity

Content is king, and blogs often make the best castles. Unfortunately, many people struggle to consistently write the type of high-quality content that attracts and holds readers, and stands out in search. These five tips can help you more dependably write outstanding content for your blog. Organize Your Content. Poorly organized content is difficult to follow, and it isn’t appealing.

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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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3 Sneaky Tactics for Heating Your Leads Up Nearly Immediately

Prospectr

At first, you might have a little skepticism about this blog post’s title. Sounds a little manipulative, doesn’t it? Like, maybe it’s a big promise that you don’t actually get the value of. Well, it’s not. It’s meant to be an alluring title. But, you can do some things to heat prospects up fast. Here’s a few: 1.

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Why Measuring Success on Cost Per Lead is a Huge Mistake

ViewPoint

In the search for the holy grail of marketing KPIs, we want ones that correctly emphasize ROI over lead cost, tie lead generation to overall revenue and profits, identify the most successful marketing initiatives and deliver insights that can be leveraged to run future high-return activity. Cost-per-lead is not the correct metric for measuring marketing initiative success for the following reasons: It incorrectly incents volume over quality.

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The Infographic that Will Revolutionize Your Approach to Content Creation

Marketing Insider Group

Here’s an important question. When you come up with your content marketing strategy, do you consider the psychological impact of what content you choose? Taken even further, to what extent does psychology influence how you craft that content? You probably took a course on consumer behavior in college but in practice, marketers tend to neglect […].

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Competitors want you out, influencers want you in

Onalytica B2B

“We don’t have any competitors.”. I’ve heard this often. My response is: if you don’t have competitors then your business idea is either so bad no one will touch it (possible), or so great it’s been done before (probable) – which is a proxy for saying yes, you do have competitors. The space you occupy is not empty. But if that space has competition trying to elbow you out, then the good news is, it also has influencers who can help keep you in.

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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 Craft a Successful Content Marketing Strategy

KoMarketing Associates

I just got back from taking my first kid-free vacation after having a baby nearly four years ago. This was a real vacation – not to be confused with the time my husband and I spent the weekend in the bright, sunny company of norovirus while my daughter stayed home with grandma. No, it was a full 72 hours doing things like sitting at a nice restaurant without worrying about anyone putting cheese in their socks or spilling chocolate milk in their lap.

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How to Run a Successful B2B Marketing Brainstorm [SlideShare]

Tomorrow People

B2B marketing brainstorms can boom or bust based on the quality of your preparation and how well you engage participants.

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4 Changes to Make to Your LinkedIn Profile to Drive Qualified Leads

Prospectr

Some people are complaining LinkedIn’s turning into Facebook… Have you seen the comments from annoyed women who say too many men keep asking them out? Others get disgusted with the mudslinging that goes on. …And then you have profiles with all kinds of political rhetoric on them. Remember, no matter how much you feel tempted, LinkedIn is a professional network.

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Why Business Is About to Boom for Social Media Agencies

Convince & Convert

For years, social media was primarily a text-based circumstance, and social media directors were often people with a background in writing. (Our 2014 report on the employment histories of guests on my Social Pros podcast found more than 50% of that unscientific sample had degrees in PR/journalism/English). In those years, nearly all social media content was written (with a side order of UGC photography).

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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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How to Improve Your Email Open Rates

Marketing Insider Group

Email marketing was a huge piece of the marketing puzzle in 2016. Virtually every company with any kind of CRM system was emailing their contact list on a regular basis. And who can blame them? It’s hard to ignore a marketing channel that averages a 3800% return. Despite the fact that email marketing has. The post How to Improve Your Email Open Rates appeared first on PureB2B.

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4 tips to improve your YouTube channel

Biznology

If you’ve turned to YouTube like many other businesses, you need to know one rule–and it’s one that is tough for many to execute. That rule is that volume wins. Viewership will rise when you produce more videos, but you can’t publish content that is rubbish and hope it performs well. Consistency is hard work but is the way you can create a cadence with your viewers.

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B2B Marketers Struggle to Maintain Accuracy and Quality of Data

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers are utilizing data and analytics, but new research indicates that many are still struggling to maintain the accuracy and quality of information. The “B2B Lead Generation Survey” conducted by Chief Marketer discovered that the primary data challenge for B2B marketers is quality and standardization (72 percent). Incomplete data (60 percent) and information residing in separate silos (53 percent) were also top challenges for marketers utilizing analytics.

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How to develop buyer personas for B2B marketing

Tomorrow People

Creating buyer personas is a powerful way to build the audience understanding every B2B marketing department needs for success, and an essential part of your campaign research.

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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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The Difference Between Demand Generation and Marketing

Prospectr

Marketing terms get tossed around like nothing these days: “Full stack marketer” “Marketing evangelist” “Growth hacker” Do they have any substantive difference? Or do marketing pros make these terms up to inflate their egos? I suppose a little of both are going on in each case. So, let’s take a look at “demand generation.” Does any real difference exist between that and marketing?

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Augmented Reality: What Is It and Why Do B2B Marketers Need It?

Kaon

In a world of constant change, many successful companies are now adopting a digital engagement strategy across their entire customer lifecycle. Interactive experiences on websites, smartphones and tablets are everywhere we turn these days. And now we are about to be driven by immersive experiences. Many of these new marketing technologies are being adopted in the B2C world, but B2B companies must also take notice.

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The Marketing 80/20 Rule and How to Take Advantage of it

Marketing Insider Group

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, is attributed to the Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto. In one of his papers, Pareto noted that about 80% of the land in Italy belonged to approximately 20% of the country’s total population. In essence, the Pareto Principle infers that there’s an 80-to-20 relationship between effects and.

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How to Create Content for a Winning Account-Based Marketing Strategy

NuSpark Consulting

You’ve finally honed your content strategy for inbound marketing. But now a new strategy is on your doorstep — account-based marketing — and you have to create content to fulfill the vision. Before panicking about how you’re going to do this, let’s consider why it’s a worthwhile venture. Content marketing works best when you get the right content to the right people at the right accounts at the right time and in the right format.

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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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Knowledge management in the age of social media

Biznology

Ever since the days of MySpace , it became pretty clear that social media platforms have a bright future ahead. This became further clear when networking platform Facebook was launched and became an instant hit. In other words, the social media world has expanded rapidly in the past few years. People are using it to post and share a variety of content.

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The Psychology Behind Making Money on Social Media

Convince & Convert

There is a new strategy that baffles some people’s social media. It isn’t cheating, either—psychology is something which has been around as long as we have been smart enough to acknowledge that it’s there. You use psychology every day, too. You may not realize it, but it’s there, hiding in the shadows of your subconscious, waiting to be revealed through some past experience or relationship.

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Infographic: How Event Marketing Can Boost Your Content Strategy

Contently

Internet users are bombarded with ads on almost every app, website, and social platform. That’s why—no matter how great your digital strategy is—making an effort to meet your consumers in person can set you apart from the competition. As a new infographic from NCC Home Learning points out, event marketing gives businesses an opportunity to showcase their products, humanize their brands, and create memorable experiences with their audiences.