Launch Marketing

MAY 15, 2024

Are you looking for ways to boost your marketing efforts to deliver more valuable B2B leads to your sales team? You are not alone. Hitting lead generation targets is important and converting those leads to sales opportunities is even more critical. Lead generation that is accompanied by a weak lead conversion rate can cause the sales team to lack faith in marketing qualified leads and more importantly, hurt the company’s bottom line.

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CMSWire

MAY 10, 2024

By going all-in on automation and data to move faster, marketers lose touch with the inherent value of creativity for building audience connections. Continue reading.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

MAY 2, 2024

“Let’s take this offline so we circle back to our synergistic partnership and go after the low-hanging fruit that will optimize our market penetration and enhance stakeholder engagement across all touchpoints.” If you found this sentence to be confusing (and cringeworthy), you aren’t alone. Excessive use of buzzwords and corporate jargon can elicit negative reactions, impede clarity , and damage critical business relationships.

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Martech

MAY 17, 2024

Ah, there it is again — the genAI buzz. It’s going to transform B2B sales and marketing, right? You’ve been on LinkedIn. Like me, you’ve come across a flood of posts waving hands in the air — AI is a magic pill promising to skyrocket productivity, slash costs and practically do your laundry. But here’s the wet blanket: If AI adoption was as straightforward as these posts suggest, why does nearly everyone find themselves with a case of the hives when they think about it?

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Contently

MAY 13, 2024

We get it: Articles about the death of third-party cookies feel a little like a Boy Who Cried Wolf situation. Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years. The company first announced the move in February 2020—only to postpone the implementation timeline every year since. According to Forrester, in 2023, more than half of global marketers thought the whole thing was a bluff.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2024

Content marketing is still one of the most popular marketing strategies available, but with the rise of social media and visual forms of content, written content seems to have fallen out of fashion. In this era, it’s easy to underestimate the power of written content, but it’s still an incredibly valuable resource for certain applications.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 20, 2024

We surveyed thousands of marketing leaders about today’s marketing trends. What did we find? Marketers ranked artificial intelligence (AI) implementation as both their number one priority and number one headache — highlighting its pivotal role as both a beacon of promise and a daunting challenge. What’s top of mind for marketers? We asked more than 4,800 marketers about how they’re using new data and AI tools.

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CMSWire

MAY 22, 2024

In B2B marketing, aren’t we all responsible for buyer audience engagement and pipeline and revenue? Continue reading.

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Thinkers360

MAY 19, 2024

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 thought leading companies on artificial intelligence for 2024. Congratulations to all our artificial intelligence thought leaders, analysts and influencers who participated! 50 Thought Leading Companies on Artificial Intelligence 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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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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SendX

MAY 1, 2024

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of cryptocurrency, standing out from the crowd is crucial for the success of your project. The landscape of crypto promotion has undergone significant changes, requiring project owners to adapt their strategies to effectively reach their target audience.

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Vision Edge Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

Gartner’s “Predicts 2024: How GenAI Will Reshape Tech Marketing” claims as GenAI (Generative AI) evolves, traditional search engine volumes are poised to undergo a remarkable shift. Alan Antin, Vice President Analyst at Gartner, underscores this paradigm shift, noting GenAI solutions are swiftly assuming the role of substitute answer engines, usurping user queries traditionally executed within conventional search engines.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 28, 2024

Your search engine rankings are vital to your website’s success. The more often you appear in the top 10 search results for a particular term, the more traffic you can expect to visit your website. In fact, about 64% of all US web traffic comes directly from Google. Sitting high up on the search engine results page (SERP) gives you a larger slice of that traffic.

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Act-On

MAY 30, 2024

Budget cuts, doing more with less, and consolidation of business tools are all on the rise in 2024. Jeff Coleman , chief customer officer at Act-On, explained during an interview that, as the economy contracts, customers are deciding to use fewer products and consolidate the ones they already have. And that leaves many battling to protect at-risk business.

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The Forward Observer

MAY 17, 2024

Social Media Explained 3.0: Marketing Success in the AI Era by Mark Schaefer About the Book In this third and completely revised edition of his classic book, bestselling author and college educator Mark Schaefer explains why many marketers are “sleepwalking” through the social media world because they haven’t kept up with new consumer trends.

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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2024

Contributed post. Startup founders are amazing people. They take the leap despite knowing the odds are against them, with a 90% probability of eventual failure. Image credit: Greg Bulla on Unsplash There are many reasons why startups may not make it, and many of those are outside the control of the founders. That makes effectively managing the elements of the business environment that can be controlled absolutely essential.

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SendX

MAY 28, 2024

Learn the best practices of email salutations and get inspired by 5 great email salutation examples and 3 not-so-great ones to start your marketing emails.

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Contently

MAY 9, 2024

Writing a white paper is the heavyweight bout of content creation. And just like boxing, crafting a white paper requires strategy, finesse, and a game plan. It’s not just about throwing punches — it’s about knowing the right time to jab with statistics, slip in case studies, and use compelling insights and analysis to deliver a decisive hook.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 14, 2024

Effectively marketing a nonprofit event requires more than just hoping it becomes popular through word of mouth. At the same time, your nonprofit needs a way to publicize your event and build excitement without overspending on a limited event budget. If you have a nonprofit event coming up, whether small or large, explore the following key steps to create a plan for marketing your event.

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Act-On

MAY 21, 2024

Did I make the right decision? Should I have purchased XYZ products instead? Maybe I acted too soon…. Post-purchase evaluation, the process a customer goes through after making a purchase, is real. Research says that 90% of consumers report their post-purchase experience is just as important as the quality of the products. And that process starts with your welcome email.

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The Forward Observer

MAY 31, 2024

Inside the Black Box: How Marketers Waste Billions in Online Advertising by Bob Hoffman About the Book In 2024, marketers will spend over $650 billion on online advertising. A substantial proportion of this – perhaps in the hundreds of billions – will be completely wasted. Not for the usual reason – their advertising stinks – but for another, darker reason.

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Webbiquity

MAY 14, 2024

Guest post by Aakanksha Gupta. As a go-to-market (GTM) leader or growth strategist, you know the never-ending pressure to hit revenue targets. In most SaaS categories, competition is intense, and you’ll need a solid plan in order to achieve your revenue goals. You need to know where to invest your marketing dollars and efforts and monitor them consistently.

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SendX

MAY 22, 2024

Try these 5 ways to end a marketing email and grab attention, boost engagement, influence your audience’s response by making them take action.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 9, 2024

Back in February, I mentioned that CDP Institute had published a Composable CDP Self-Assessment Tool that asks people what gaps they must fill to convert their current systems into the functional equivalent of a CDP. I recently checked how many responses we’ve received, and was disappointed that there were just fourteen. Obviously this isn’t enough to draw statistically meaningful conclusions, especially when you bear in mind that the audience of CDP Institute members can’t be considered represe

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 13, 2024

Ever felt like the digital marketing world is spinning just a tad too fast? You’re not alone. Between trying to boost SEO and managing your brand’s online presence, it’s easy to get some wires crossed. But, let’s hit pause for a second. What if we told you that digital PR and link building aren’t just parallel lines running side by side; they actually cross paths more often than you might think?

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Act-On

MAY 29, 2024

Lead generation is on the to-do list of most marketers. And sure, you might have some successful strategies in place, but wouldn’t it be nice to capture some easier wins? One of the best ways to land these wins is through customer marketing. Why? Companies have a 60% to 70% chance of selling to an existing customer, compared to a brand-new one (the latter is only 5% to 20%).

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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 Forward Observer

MAY 24, 2024

The Content Entrepreneur: Critical Strategies to Accelerate Your Success As a Content Creator by Joe Pulizzi and Friends About the Book From “The Godfather of Content Marketing” comes business-changing insights from 33 experts on how to build a content business. In this comprehensive guide for serious content creators, you’ll find critical strategies to accelerate your success as you move from content creator to content entrepreneur.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 9, 2024

Learn to unlock data and build with AI Show off your AI innovations with the #BuiltWithEinstein Quest Join an AI + Data Community Tour stop Attend the AI NOW Tour Participate in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Salesforce Developers Attend a World Tour in your city We are in the midst of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, which is creating the most significant shifts and opportunities for Salesforce Admins and Developers in decades.

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SendX

MAY 23, 2024

Awareness is crucial for the success of your marketing campaigns. A revolutionary new product will have little to no impact if your target audience is unaware of its existence.

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