December, 2016

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25 Content Marketing Stats to Guide Your 2017 Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

With 2016 coming to a close, now is the time to look ahead and start planning for the lap around the sun. And as the content marketing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, it makes sense to look to research to identify trends and patterns that can help guide your strategy. That’s why we’ve gathered 25 […]. The post 25 Content Marketing Stats to Guide Your 2017 Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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What Is Content Marketing Development?

KoMarketing Associates

It’s that time of year again. No, I don’t mean enduring your extended family for a full two weeks or being attacked by a squirrel leaping from your Christmas tree or letting your cousin Eddie crash in his RV in your driveway. I mean gearing up for the year ahead. As a content marketer, I look forward to this time of year. As the new year approaches, it gives me time to reflect on the successes (and failures) of the previous 12 months and think about ways to approach things differently in the yea

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How to Harness the Power of Social Media

Writing on the Web

When it comes to content marketing , social media has become an essential part of most smart professionals’ marketing plans. They know that without a social presence, your online brand can appear outdated and unapproachable. However, social media marketing isn’t as simple as a lot of business owners anticipate. Posting a tweet or a Facebook update now and then isn’t going to cut it!

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Why B2B Brands Should do Influencer Marketing

Onalytica B2B

Influencer marketing as a term is being used copiously, particularly within the PR industry amongst B2C firms. However, many B2B brands are potentially missing a trick by not exploring or exploiting the influencer territory. After all, when most think of influencers, they think reality TV stars posting an Instagram picture showcasing the results of the latest teeth whitening kit – more of a PR move.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #6: Nurturing Triples Marketing’s Return

ViewPoint

Lead nurturing triples marketing's ROI, but only if done properly. I propose that nurturing is the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. A new era of accountability starts in 2017 and nurturing (additional contact using multiple touches and multiple media—including phone, voicemail and email—across multiple cycles) is well worth the time and modest increase in expense.

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The Future of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

Social networks are becoming more and more popular. In 2016, about 70% of Internet users are social network users and these figures are expected to grow. A few years ago, we were happy to get likes from friends and relatives; today, we share tips and skills, promote services and buy goods, etc. Many well-known […]. The post The Future of Social Media appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Our Favorite Blog Posts & Articles for 2016: 5th Annual Edition

KoMarketing Associates

Last week I highlighted ten of KoMarketing’s most popular posts written this year, based on traffic, links, mentions, and impact in the lead generation process. While our own analysis and experience helped to shape the themes chosen, so did the developments and experience from digital marketing professionals from around the world. We’re fortunate to work in an industry where so many contribute and provide perspective related to new opportunities and challenges faced.

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Introducing the Glossary for Sales and Marketing Tech

DiscoverOrg

If you’re in sales or marketing, it’s likely you’ve come across a new SaaS platform or startup in the past 6 months that begs your attention. Perhaps this intriguing tech flaunts a new approach to an old strategy or intertwines words like “predictive” and “intelligence” into its elevator pitch. As technology continues to plunge sales and marketing professionals further into transformative innovation and new opportunities, we must define the new terms taking us there.

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Welcome to Influencer Discovery!

Onalytica B2B

Effective influencer marketing starts with identifying relevant influencers for your brand. Onalytica’s new Discovery platform mines over 200 billion posts a year into a curated database of over 150K global social media influencers, including data from Twitter, Blogs, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn Profile Links + Demographic Data. These influencers are then ranked by Reach, Resonance, Relevance and Reference.

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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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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #5: Should You Buy Real Leads or Appearances?

ViewPoint

Is "appointment setting" an effective tactic for lead generation and nurturing? Most companies have experienced lead “traction” issues in their history. The biggest complaint I hear from C-level executives is that they have no idea whether or not leads are being followed up. In addition, they have had no way of knowing how effective the follow-up is on the few leads that are followed up.

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Why account-based marketing is a game changer for Japan

Biznology

I caught up recently with Ichiro Niwayama , founder of Symphony Marketing , the leading B2B-demand generation agency in Japan. His new book, Ultimate B2B Marketing: ABM , was published only last week, and has already leaped to #1 on the Amazon Japan business book list. Mr. Niwayama was kind enough to share his thoughts on where B2B marketing in Japan is headed, and why Account-Based Marketing will play an important part in its growth.

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Help Me Help You – My Top 2016 Posts on Marketing and Leadership

Marketing Insider Group

2016? What a year! So yeah, it’s round-up time here at Marketing Insider Group. I spent 2016 giving dozens of keynote speeches and conducting workshops with thousands of people on the topic of Content Marketing and the Leadership and Culture required to support real Innovation. My goal has always been to help you find the […]. The post Help Me Help You – My Top 2016 Posts on Marketing and Leadership appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 Types of SEO Audits for B2B Organizations

KoMarketing Associates

The term “ SEO Audit ” can be quite nebulous. I’ve seen all types of SEO audits from colleagues and competitors, offering a range of assessments and areas of focus. While some of these SEO audits could certainly be scrutinized, many have been quite thorough and impactful. Of course, B2B marketers have differing expectations of an SEO audit as well.

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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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How Serious Is Snapchat’s Power, Really?

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2016. Image via Unsplash. Listen to this blog post as a podcast: My good friends at Edison Research handled the data gathering for my new book, Hug Your Haters , and we discovered that customer service is being massively disrupted. Now the Edison team is back with a new edition of their annual Infinite Dial research (they partner with Triton on it) and they’ve found another disruptive force: Snapchat.

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A Wild Trip to Mexico

Ambal's Amusings

It all started a few weeks ago. I gave Kumar one of my awesomely brilliant bright ideas. “Dey Kumaru, boys have had a busy and rough year. So much has happened this year and we haven’t traveled much. Why don’t we take the boys somewhere…someplace quiet… just to relax” The rest, as they say, is a … Continue reading A Wild Trip to Mexico.

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Marketing Measurement Is More Than Taking Credit

Hive9

Better access to data gave marketing departments something that long felt elusive before: a specific measure of success. Until recently, so much of what marketers did was hard to measure. We assured the CEO and CFO that our work was making a difference, but it was difficult to prove in a tangible way.

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What am I supposed to do with all this data?

Biznology

Are you a marketer? Are you overwhelmed with the sheer amount of data that is now available at your fingertips? Yeah—me too. It’s almost comical how much data and insights are available to marketers today. So how do you sift through the noise? How do you prioritize what’s most important to your marketing or overall business goals? Tough to do! Everybody loves to talk about their “data-driven” approach to marketing.

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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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9 Best Grammar and Editing Tools For Content Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is a tough gig. You’ve got nothing to fall back on but your words, so those words have got to be perfect. If they aren’t, then you’re the one who’s going to take the flack when the general public spot the errors. There’s no need to worry, though. These nine tools are perfect […]. The post 9 Best Grammar and Editing Tools For Content Marketers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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KoMarketing Top B2B Marketing Blog Posts From 2016

KoMarketing Associates

With 2016 swiftly (and unbelievably) drawing to a close, it is time again to reflect on what has worked well, where we can improve, and what opportunities present themselves in the new year. Towards the end of last year, I outlined how our focus in our own online marketing efforts has led to quadrupled website traffic, thousands of inbound links and mentions, and the ability to hit goals in lead acquisition and brand development.

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3.5 Reasons to Skip Industry Awards

Marketing Craftmanship

For certain industries, such as financial services, that aggregate performance-related data – for example, in annual “league tables” ranking investment banks by the number or size of M&A transactions they’ve underwritten – there is some logic, as well as an objective basis, on which firms can claim to have outperformed their competitors. But for most industries – lacking any quantitative basis or objective means on which to base relative performance of its individual companies – there are se

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Unconditional Love

Ambal's Amusings

I practically do nothing for Rainbow…except remember to give her food and water. I don’t play with her. I don’t rub her belly. I don’t take her for a walk. I don’t put her on my lap and spoil her silly like the boys do. I don’t do anything of that. I think she missed … Continue reading Unconditional Love.

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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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Revisiting Content Marketing Predictions in 2016

ANNUITAS

I thought it would be interesting to revisit some content marketing predictions for 2016. Looks like they are holding up! Especially the discussion of quantity over quality, which was a big theme for this year’s Content Marketing World … The following is a repost of an article that was published in January of 2016. Top 5 Mistakes Content Marketers Will Make in 2016.

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The Secret To Delighting B2B Customers In 30 Seconds This Holiday Season

Influitive

Making your customers feel special is necessary for building stronger relationships and increasing advocacy. And that doesn’t come just from building moments of delight into your product (although that’s important). We’re talking about taking time out of your day to make the real people behind your “logos” feel known and appreciated—which we did this holiday.

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How to Stand Out in a Noisy Niche: Use a Hook

Marketing Insider Group

Josh Bernoff writes the blog Without B t. Fundamentally, he writes about writing. But despite thousands of competitor sites and a handful of friends telling Josh to write about something else, he’s succeeding. Why? What causes one blog to stand out among the noise in a crowded niche? What causes any one piece or project to break from the […]. The post How to Stand Out in a Noisy Niche: Use a Hook appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Search Engine Advertising in China Starts With Knowing the Market

KoMarketing Associates

Search engine advertising is an effective way to boost website traffic and generate leads – and, when done correctly, many have found it is the most effective way. Knowing the market well is the key to start a successful search engine advertising campaign. This is as true in the U.S. as it is in China. However, the tools used to execute search engine campaigns are different.

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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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Marketing Planning with Financial System Integration

Hive9

The relationship between marketing and finance is a complicated one. Marketing relies on finance for incremental budget approval and continuously works to report results that prove their value to the organization. Finance in turn looks to marketing to help break down and reconcile costs, as each group has their own set of budget processes.

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The World’s Best Sweet Potato Casserole

Ambal's Amusings

I have been very bad this year. Also, I know Santa put me on his Naughty list in early Jan. It is ok. I don’t really mind. Because, look what my friend Jyotsna Rao brought over. The world’s best sweet potato casserole. Yum!! Thanks J! I hope y’all are winding down the year and getting … Continue reading The World’s Best Sweet Potato Casserole.

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A 3-Point Health Check for Your Marketing Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Patrick Groover Many organizations employ a wide variety of tactics when it comes to their marketing strategies. Thankfully, a modern marketing automation platform provides enough flexibility to achieve the same outcomes in many different ways. That being said, while it is possible to take many paths to achieve your objectives, some configurations present a healthier approach than others.