December, 2017

article thumbnail

What Are Experts Prioritizing in 2018 B2B Marketing Budgets?

KoMarketing Associates

As we wrap up 2017, it’s time to think about top priorities for the new year. Instead of planning for 2018 when you’re already starting it in January, the most prepared B2B marketers already have priorities identified and plans for execution come January 1. We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget?

article thumbnail

How AI Will Make Marketing More Personalized in 2018

Marketing Insider Group

What’s tomorrow’s secret to better personalization? To more human content and more authentic brand-consumer relationships? Artificial intelligence. AI is making the customer experience more personalized than what most marketers would have ever thought to be possible. Companies are already using artificial intelligence to make their websites, emails, social media posts, video and other content better tailored […].

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Uses of Cement

InsightSquared

There are different uses of cement such as to make cement mortar, cement concrete which are used in various types of masonry and concrete structures.

article thumbnail

Interview with Rachel Miller

Onalytica B2B

Rachel Miller – Influencer Marketing, Digital Marketing, Social Strategy at TopRank Marketing. Key Topics: Influencer Marketing, Social Strategy, Marketing Technology, Digital Marketing. Location: California, USA. Bio: Rachel has over 15 years of experience in marketing with expertise in social media marketing, content marketing, and influencer marketing.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How Your Local Service Business Can Soar with Google’s Algorithm Updates

Webbiquity

Guest post by Chad Crowe. The ubiquity of smartphones means that most consumers now begin their searches for local service providers online. They conduct research, look for the most convenient location, and read reviews from other customers before making a decision on which provider to use. This makes visibility in search engines like Google critical for local service businesses like doctors, lawyers, accountants, and marketing agencies.

More Trending

article thumbnail

AI and Digital Transformation Are Top Priorities for Marketers in 2018

KoMarketing Associates

Looking ahead to 2018, marketers have already carved out their top priorities heading into the new year, according to a new survey. WARC recently surveyed more than 600 marketers from around the world to gauge their top priorities heading into 2018. The results showed that more than 50 percent of marketers are making artificial intelligence (AI) a priority in the yew year.

article thumbnail

Your Content Marketing Strategy Is Incomplete Without PR

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing remains a fantastic way to engage an audience and grow a brand. Recent research from Content Marketing Institute found that 91 percent of B2B marketers practice content marketing, indicating the benefits are well worth the budget. Whether you are looking at CMI stats or reading the latest content marketing books, it’s somewhat clear there’s a […].

PR 275
article thumbnail

Five ways to make your reps more productive

InsightSquared

As a sales leader, you’re only as good as your team, and it starts by managing a team effectively. It’s important to create a process to systematize the way your reps generate, manage and close opportunities. To encourage the right behaviors, you must provide evidence that shows your process is effective, and straightforward. A team of some of our top customers recently brainstormed ideas for how a sales leader can institute an effective, data-backed rep management process within their organizat

Product 237
article thumbnail

7 Ways you can Engage with Your Influencers

Onalytica B2B

Influencer engagement is the most challenging part of Influencer Relationship Management. It requires a PR culture of building 1-to-1 relationships with a marketing activation of scaling engagement with a 1-to-many model. An added challenge is that there’s no one size fits all approach. How you engage with your influencers depends on variables such as the type of influencer you’re engaging with; what both the influencer and the brand seek to gain; if there’s any existing activi

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Discover Buyer Intent and Boost Your Content Marketing ROI

NuSpark Consulting

“If you’re not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don’t exist.” — Gary Vaynerchuk. Are you facing the content conundrum? Unfortunately, it’s something that’s all too familiar to B2B marketers. Your potential buyers are sorting through an avalanche of content. Despite that, you need e-books, webinars and other information designed to attract leads, walk them through the buying cycle and convert sales.

article thumbnail

How To Get More Customer Reviews On The Top 10 B2B Technology Review Sites

Influitive

Before you buy a new laptop or smartphone, what’s the first thing you do? If you’re like most people, you Google it and see what people have to say about different models online. These online reviews are usually seen as the best source of unbiased information. After all, why would reviewers be anything but brutally.

B2B 207
article thumbnail

Our Favorite Articles & Blog Posts of 2017

KoMarketing Associates

Keeping on top of changes and trends in our industry is one of the most important tasks we can do for our clients and professional selves. Luckily for us, we work in an industry where there is lots of great content and smart people creating it. Much like our Secret Santa gift exchange, this list of our favorite articles and blog posts from past year has become an annual end-of-year tradition.

article thumbnail

How Machine Learning Is Dramatically Improving Paid And Organic Search

Marketing Insider Group

Machine learning is helping paid search to become insanely more effective. A recent report by Aquisio found that paid search accounts that are optimized for machine learning achieve 71 percent better conversion rates, using lower cost-per-click, or CPC. Not only are ML-supported accounts more effective at conversions, they have also been linked to a lower churn […].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Help your sales team succeed in 2018: Hire sales ops

InsightSquared

SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin recently discussed the reality a sales team faces on January 1: the closed/won deals start at $0. The commitment of new goals can be daunting, even for the most seasoned of sales teams. To alleviate some of the pressure of the new year, Lemkin offered a list of ideas you can implement to help your sales team succeed in 2018.

Curation 220
article thumbnail

How Not to Buy Leads

ViewPoint

Last week a prospect told me that he needed higher quality leads than were currently being provided by two third-party outsourced solution providers. His definition of a lead was the loosest that I have ever heard. An employee of a targeted company needed only to download some content to be qualified as a lead. It did not matter if they were ready to buy – or even qualified to buy.

article thumbnail

6 Reasons to Unite Your Customer Service and Marketing on Social Media

Convince & Convert

If you haven’t ventured over to REI’s social accounts lately, you should. Something amazing is happening. For years, we’ve been told that silos between customer service and marketing are just facts of life–something to expect. Yet, REI’s customer service replies look like, feel like, and even using the same language as their other posts.

article thumbnail

5 Things you Must do now to Prepare for Influencer Marketing in 2018

Onalytica B2B

It seems like just yesterday that we were packing up 2016 and placing our bets on what 2017 had in store, and here we are preparing for 2018 – scary, huh? Once we muster the ability to look beyond the horror of how fast 2017 has been and gone, we’re actually left with an abundance of excitement. The reason for this excitement is that we no longer deem it necessary to sell the benefits or lecture brands on why they should be doing influencer marketing.

Planning 198
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What B2C Strategies Can You Use in B2B Marketing?

KoMarketing Associates

Some marketers think there is a big difference between B2C (business to consumer) and B2B (business to business) marketing, but the fact is, there are facets of both that have similar qualities. Because of this, B2B marketers can employ many “traditional” B2C strategies of marketing into their own campaigns. In a previous post, I’ve discussed how B2B marketing is different from B2C , with some of the main differences being audience, voice, longer sales cycle (for B2B) and regulatory challenges.

article thumbnail

5 Bloggers Who Started a Blog in 2017 and Survived

Marketing Insider Group

When you start a blog, you understandably look for advice from experts to help get you started. You look at countless blogs in your niche – ones that have probably been going for a while and enjoying various types of success. It can be quite overwhelming, and sets you up for the comparison game and ‘perfection paralysis’ – not wanting to hit publish until your blog looks perfect.

Blogger 253
article thumbnail

The 12 Most Popular Sales Leaderboard Songs of 2017

InsightSquared

Sales teams are notorious for their traditions that spark friendly competition among their reps — gongs, chants, spiffs and more. To up the competitive ante just a bit more, sales organizations also use leaderboards. Each time a rep wins a deal or hits a goal, the leaderboard activates on large screen TVs, triggering the reps’ “song” to play. The songs — some are more crowd pleasers than others — can be heard throughout the office, which often elicits excessive cheering and cla

Curation 219
article thumbnail

4 email marketing mistakes you might be making

Biznology

Successful email marketing tips and tricks are everywhere, yet even with the plentiful resources and the availability of marketing software, mistakes can still be made. The little–but sometimes big–mistakes are often avoidable. Take a look at these 4 mistakes businesses commonly make when building and executing email marketing campaigns. 1. Mishandling unsubscribe.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Reports that Prove Advocate Marketing ROI

Influitive

As an advocate marketer, you’re probably used to having the value of your program questioned. “Isn’t it more of a nice-to-have than a need-to-have?” “What exactly is the ROI of engaging customer advocates?” “Why should we devote our budget to this over other marketing programs?” These doubts are exactly why it is so vital for.

ROI 189
article thumbnail

Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

The Point

Demand Generation Report just published their 2018 Outlook Guide: The State of Marketing Automation. The guide features insights, projections, and opinions on current challenges, opportunities, and trends from 19 B2B marketing experts and practitioners, including leading executives from Marketo, Oracle, SiriusDecisions, and Forrester Research. I was honored to be invited to contribute my thoughts as part of the report, reproduced (with permission) below.

article thumbnail

KoMarketing Year In Review: Top Posts & Milestones from 2017

KoMarketing Associates

It’s that time of year again for #secretsanta at KoMarketing! A post shared by KoMarketing (@komarketing) on Dec 18, 2017 at 4:06pm PST. What a year 2017 has been. We’ve seen our organization nearly double in size, our client programs become more complex, and the KoMarketing team rise to challenges when faced with continued changes in search, social media, and broader online marketing initiatives.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Email Marketing Strategies from 2017 (And 1 for The Future)

Marketing Insider Group

Email marketing continues to be one of the most effective channels to use to reach out to and stay connected with your customers. While many brands have seen their open rates decline over the past few years, those who have been able to keep up with how email has been changing have reaped the benefits […]. The post Top 10 Email Marketing Strategies from 2017 (And 1 for The Future) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Pipeline Cleanliness Playbook: Four Lessons Learned

InsightSquared

Pipeline cleanliness is critical to managing your reps, controlling your pipeline, and making an accurate forecast, but it’s a challenging and lofty goal. We recently hosted a small customer workshop for sales ops leaders to compare their successes, and collaboratively develop the Pipeline Cleanliness Playbook: Four Lessons Learned. Lesson 1: Decide what you will look for, and when.

article thumbnail

Where is B2B marketing headed? 7 predictions for 2018

Biznology

End-of-the-year predictions are a dangerous business. I will take the risk and just hope that at the end of 2018, no one looks back to call me on it! B2B sales and marketing are evolving quickly as buying behavior changes and new technologies take hold, so there’s a lot to talk about. But I will limit my predictions to just seven and hope they provide food for thought to my fellow followers of the B2B marketing scene.

article thumbnail

Why Does Good Strategy Matter to the Bottom Line?

Vision Edge Marketing

Strategy is fundamental to the success and sustainability of all organizations. It is about seizing opportunities and knowing which not to pursue, all while mitigating risk. Develop a Marketing strategy that stands the best chance of delivering on your current and FUTURE performance, productivity, and profit targets. A good strategy is designed to drive long-term growth and profit.