June, 2024

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5 Ways to Supercharge Your B2B Content Innovation

Top Rank Marketing

The current renaissance of creative B2B content is a blessing and a curse for B2B marketers. On the good side, it gives us permission to stretch our creative muscles, write fascinating and engaging content, and pair it with eye-catching visuals. On the bad side, B2B buyers won’t settle for less than imaginative and engrossing content. There’s no skating by with an old-school white paper or a generic ebook.

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8 Hacks for Generating New Content Ideas (Plus 5 Steps to Make Sure They’re Good)

DivvyHQ

For every content creator, there comes a time when your well of content ideas will run dry. Luckily, there’s a whole world of inspiration and ideation tools out there. Check out these hacks, tips, tricks, and tools that are sure to help you generate ideas that your audience will actually want to consume.

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7 ideas explaining why the B2B SaaS sector is sluggish right now

Sword and the Script | B2B

Too many B2B SaaS companies went after ‘bad fit customers’ under a mandate of ‘growth at all costs’ – along with these other trends – is the cliff notes on what’s thwarting sales and marketing in the tech sector In the years following the dot-com bubble, I had the good fortune of representing a $180 million venture capital (VC) fund (they are much bigger now).

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Gone in 30 seconds: Marketing in an increasingly distracted world

Martech

In the movie “Gone in 90 Seconds,” Nicolas Cage and his crew have to steal 50 cars in a night. The goal is to steal the car in less than a minute and a half to reduce the chances of getting caught. The car is there one minute and literally gone the next. It’s eerily similar to visitors on your website. They’re there, and then they’re gone. You just have to look no further than your Google Analytics report to see it.

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4 Simple Decisions to Unlock Your Post-Cookie Targeting Strategy

The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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The Top Sources and Trends in B2B Website Traffic

Webbiquity

B2B marketers have been on a wild ride over the past five years, as the economy went into and then came out of COVID-era shutdowns. How have the primary drivers of B2B website traffic changed, particularly search and social media? How do those trends vary between different segments like enterprise software, B2B professional services, and B2B healthcare?

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How Personalized Marketing Keeps Customers Past the Honeymoon Stage

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Your guide to personalized marketing What is personalized marketing? The 6 do’s and don’ts of personalized marketing Personalized marketing in action How Salesforce uses Data Cloud to close deals faster It feels like you’ve found “the one” — a customer ready for a long-lasting brand relationship built on personalized marketing. But then, just as quickly as the sparks fly, they fizzle out.

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7 Essential Takeaways from LinkedIn’s 2024 B2B Marketing Benchmark

Top Rank Marketing

The most successful marketers are lifelong learners who thrive by adapting to change. And the last decade has given us plenty of opportunity to practice flexibility and adaptability. As we get used to the idea that there will be no “new normal,” we can still learn from what other marketers are doing (or not doing, for that matter). Our client LinkedIn just published their 2024 B2B Marketing Benchmark.

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The Growing Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Marketing

CMSWire

Implementing emotional intelligence in marketing sounds nice. Could be — but it's not without its challenges. Continue reading.

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Why You Need a Killer LinkedIn Headline (and How to Create One That Will Get You Noticed)

Trade Press Services Newsletter

With over one billion members worldwide, LinkedIn is the go-to platform for brands and business professionals to network, connect, showcase industry expertise, and build their identities. Simply having a profile on the site, however, isn’t enough. To stand out, it’s vital for individuals and companies to tell their unique stories in a compelling, engaging, and meaningful way.

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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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Does the AIDA Model Hold Water for Sales in 2024?

Marketing Insider Group

Understanding sales and marketing frameworks is crucial for success as you grow your company. One such model, the AIDA Model, or Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action, continues guiding marketers as it has for over a century. Image Source But as we stride into 2024, does this classic model still hold water? With digital transformation reshaping consumer behavior and the emergence of new marketing channels , it’s essential to reassess traditional methods.

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How to Validate Your Messaging and Positioning to Vet Your Story | What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

Successful positioning and messaging are the ingredients for writing and telling your business’s story, so it engages customers, evokes emotions, and drives action. A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. We can take a lesson from the book of skilled authors, who frequently rely on feedback to refine their story.

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Boost employee advocacy adoption with Oktopost’s Social Advocacy App on Slack

Oktopost

Employee advocacy is the key to getting your employees to share smart, quality content across their social networks and amplify your brand message in their unique voice. However, with so many employees busy managing their day-to-day work, it can take time to figure out how to get employees to share brand content consistently. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our Social Advocacy App on Slack to help marketers prioritize social selling, employee advocacy, and employee engagement through inter

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First-Of-Its-Kind LLM Benchmark Ranks Generative AI Against Real-World Business Tasks

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

From MMLU to GLUE , the AI world suffers no dearth of LLM benchmarks. These important tools are designed to rigorously evaluate AI models like GPT-4 and Claude to determine which one generates more accurate outputs for a given task. Typically, that task revolves around something rather specific, like solving grade-school math problems, or coding in Python.

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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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2024 Professional Services M&A Trends

Hinge Marketing

As we were analyzing the data from our 2024 High Growth Study , we noticed that one growth strategy in particular stood out. The High Growth firms—firms that grow 20% or more annually over a three-year period—were particularly likely to participate in a merger or acquisition (M&A). Professional services firms have long used strategic acquisitions to enter new markets and deepen their portfolio of services, but the trend seemed particularly strong this year.

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The marketer’s guide to state data privacy laws

Martech

The 118th session of the U.S. Congress is drawing to a close and the legislators have again failed to pass a national data privacy law. This means marketers will soon have to comply with the regulations in 17 different states. Five are already in effect, 12 more will come online by October of next year. That’s 17 slightly different headaches for marketers to deal with.

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How to Use Product Analytics to Boost Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Sales are one of the most vital aspects of running a business and aren’t something you’ll want to take lightly. Every transaction represents revenue and growth, and luck isn’t enough because boosting your sales requires insight, strategy, and precision. Fortunately, product analytics can guide you along the path to sales mastery. This powerful tool reveals the mysteries of customer behavior, preferences, and trends, so you don’t have to go blindly into the abyss.

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The Year’s Most Popular Articles from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’24)

Thinkers360

We’ve searched the Thinkers360 Member Blog to pick out the year-to-date’s most popular articles on business, technology and sustainability from Thinkers360 thought leaders. Here’s our picks with direct links to the articles as well as to the author’s thought leadership profiles and portfolios on Thinkers360! Know others who should be part of Thinkers360?

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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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The Power of a Strong Personal Brand on LinkedIn

Oktopost

A strong personal brand on LinkedIn not only helps you stand out as a thought leader but can also open doors for you in your career. In this episode, Alesia Veasman shares her personal branding journey on LinkedIn and her top tips for getting started. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode Summary From the moment she noticed personal pages performed far better than brand pages on LinkedIn, Alesia became obsessed with the pow

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How AI Grounding Reduces Generative Hallucinations and Ensures Better Outputs

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

If generative AI is so intelligent, why are off-the-shelf LLMs so bad at writing a personalized email or answering a customer service question? The simple answer: There’s a lot that AI models simply don’t know. Although LLMs are trained on billions of data points, the information they don’t have tends to be precisely what you would need to generate a meaningful email or accurate service reply to one of your customers.

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5 Key Insights from the 2024 High Growth Study, Consulting Services Edition

Hinge Marketing

This year, we released the ninth edition of our High Growth Study , including a special breakout report focused on the consulting services industry. Today, we’d like to share a few highlights from that report—findings marketers and executives at consulting firms may find useful as they try to make sense of the marketplace and plan for the future. Speaking of the marketplace—for four years running, unpredictability and uncertainty have been the top concern of firms across industry.

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8 tips to adopt vertical marketing and drive SaaS growth

Martech

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. Here’s why you should consider adapting your horizontal software to attract vertical buyers, plus essential tips to help you go vertical.

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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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Is Social Media Worth It in 2024?

Marketing Insider Group

Social media is more pervasive than ever, with nearly 5.1 billion people engaging on various platforms monthly. From sharing life moments on Instagram to networking professionally on LinkedIn, social media has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives. However, social media could be experiencing an oversaturation of content and, therefore, might be a challenging place to connect with your target audience.

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Forrester: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape, Q2 2024

33Across

33Across has been included in Forrester's Q2 2024 report: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape. The post Forrester: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape, Q2 2024 appeared first on 33Across.

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Unmasking thought leadership in law enforcement marketing with Lizzi Goldmeier

Oktopost

BriefCam’s Director of Marketing, Lizzi Goldmeier, stops by the Radically Transparent podcast to unravel the successful role thought leadership content plays in marketing effectively to law enforcement. Listen to the podcast: Watch the live recording: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube. Episode Summary In this episode of Radically Transparent, host Jennifer Gutmann sits down with Lizzi Goldmeier, Director of Marketing at BriefCam, to explore the vital components that power a m

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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Healthcare 2024

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Healthcare for 2024. Congratulations to all our Healthcare influencers who participated! Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Healthcare 2024 2024 Annual Ranking Find and work with the World’s Premier B2B Thought Leaders, Advisors, Analysts, Authors, Influencers & Speakers (100M+ followers combined).

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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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It’s Time For A Revenue Process Transformation

Forrester B2B

Buyers are in control of the revenue process — and B2B marketing, sales, and customer success teams need to align their approaches with that reality. Discover the Forrester Opportunity Lifecycle and how it can drive durable, long-term revenue growth.

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How to measure the impact of brand marketing

Martech

Performance media has enjoyed many years of supercharged growth. Its high trackability in digital media has made it a preferred investment for marketers and CMOs alike, looking to drive direct and measurable impact on the top line. But as many have noted, the pendulum is swinging back. Brands are having a moment. Many advertisers are shifting investment back up the funnel after realizing their performance-heavy investment strategies may have starved their brands of the reach and relevance neede

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Elevating Your eCard Marketing Strategy: 5 Insightful Tips

Marketing Insider Group

As a small business owner or marketing professional, you’re constantly striving to improve your marketing strategy. With customers receiving constant promotional emails, you’re tasked with creating messages that stand out in their inboxes. eCards may be your solution! eCards, or digital greeting cards, add a fun and interactive element to your business’s marketing strategy. eCards engage constituents with visually appealing, brand-aligned content that keeps your business top of mind.