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Building an annual B2B marketing plan is no simple task. The plan must provide a strategy to transform business objectives into marketing priorities and goals, while outlining how to execute and reach those goals. According to SiriusDecisions, Inc., this tends to result in the creation of a plan that falls into one of two categories-- overly complex plans that are hard to understand and therefore not actionable, or overly agile plans that create a lot of activity, but not enough business impact. MORE
There’s something lurking out there, in the corners of the email marketing world, that scares a lot of people: the Spam Trap. They’re scary because most people don’t really understand how spam traps work or how common they are. While it’s impossible to avoid them entirely, good data hygiene may limit exposure. Unsolicited email isn’t spam – but if you send cold email, you’ll want take precautions to avoid spam traps. What is a spam trap? MORE
If you want to know how to create content that people are actually searching for, you need to become a content marketing research expert. But it doesn’t have to be that hard or expensive! To uncover the top trends and topics of interest within your industry, you just have to roll up your sleeves and […]. The post 6 Content Marketing Research Tools You’ll Fall in Love With appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing MORE
Generating quality leads is essential for any B2B marketer. A website is a great tool to help with this. It enables you to provide value to your visitors, develop their trust, and take them confidently through the buying cycle. Lead Generation MORE
For CMOs, and all marketers tasked with driving revenue, the constantly-looming question we try to answer is, “where should I spend my next marketing dollar to drive the most impact?” ” An entire job function has been built to answer this question, Marketing Operations, and an entirely new marketing discipline has emerged because of it, Marketing Performance Management. MORE
Does your customer management strategy need an upgrade? Super customers can 16x your profits - and so can firing your "super awful" customers. Customer Marketing customer lifetime value customer management customer marketing MORE
Your blog either has that all important ‘it’ factor, or it doesn’t. You’re either generating significant leads from your posts or not. If you’re not, you’re also missing out on an exponentially beneficial competitive advantage that other businesses are enjoying. B2B marketers garner 67 percent more leads when they use a blog than when they […]. The post How to Make Your Blog Posts Generate Serious Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing MORE
Listen, if you’re an online community manager, or are responsible for the success of an online community, you might want to know this: According to Gartner, 70 percent of online communities are destined to fail. But wait. There’s more. Despite the billions of dollars being poured into online communities, almost 70 percent of customers never. MORE
How is your B2B strategy performing? Is it getting you the results you want? As any good coach will attest, you have to continually grow your team’s strengths to keep up with the competition. The same is true with marketing. As modern marketing expands and audiences change, new strategies emerge. If you want to stay on top of your game, you need to regularly add new methods to your playbook. MORE
Are you looking for the best ways to reactivate dormant customers and reduce churn? Here’s a roundup of the ten most effective practices today, in both business and consumer markets. Consider which of these may be the most applicable to your business, your customers, and your objectives. And don’t forget to set aside some budget for ongoing retention and reactivation marketing. It’s the best money you can spend. . Move quickly. MORE
No matter your size, thinking big is pivotal to success in B2B PR. That is how you achieve thought leadership and brand recognition. It’s easy to think small -- to stay in your comfort zone, where you knock off a press release every once in awhile, and call it good. Successful PR, however, is all about pushing boundaries, embracing new techniques, and staying ahead of the curve. Learn how you can take your B2B public relations to the next level, and think bigger for your company. MORE
In the headlong rush to Account-Based Marketing , many B2B companies are, quite naturally, looking to implement ABM in a manner that allows them to dip their toes in the proverbial water. In the agency business, such as ours , this has led in turn to a notable uptick of interest in what are often called (by the client): “ABM Campaigns.” MORE
Summer is just around the corner and spring is in full bloom. For some businesses, summertime means a lull in business, fewer customers, less website traffic, and lowered engagement … not to mention employees’ much-needed vacations. After a long, busy season, it’s tempting to slow down your marketing efforts. A summer respite is just the ticket, right? MORE
Senders often approach our team with questions around “transactional” messaging. Sometimes our team receives email examples and are asked whether or not those messages can be sent off their transactional IP. Other times senders will try to “disguise” messages as transactional under the assumption that if they send it off their transactional IP then they are guaranteed inbox delivery. MORE
So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? You might be thinking, “isn’t the answer obvious?”. It’s not. Let me explain. I hear the same problem over and over. Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. And you know what? They’re both right. Here’s what I mean. Companies don’t typically call what salespeople do “lead generation” or “demand generation.” MORE
The digital experience, the power of Big Data, agile marketing, compelling content strategies, marketing automation, a customer-centric approach – the core tenets of modern marketing weren’t born yesterday. So, why are some marketing teams struggling to keep up? What’s holding back even some really top-notch, creative, and inspired marketers? Change isn’t easy. A full-blown transformation […]. MORE
Executive branding essentially means focusing on the same branding techniques you’d use for entire companies and narrowing it down to the single individual; the executive leader. By focusing on their knowledge, passions, and authority, having executives in the public eye can strengthen a brand’s credibility. Executive branding was included in a Forbes list of the top trends in marketing B2B companies need to watch out for in 2017. MORE
White papers are often perceived as the more serious older sibling of the eBook. As such, it’s not uncommon for white papers to be—well, boring. But that doesn’t have to be the case. White papers are among most requested resource formats of B2B buyers. They should be in-depth, enlightening, and also: interesting. If not a boring version of an eBook, what is a white paper? MORE
In today’s digital marketing landscape, a growing number of social media platforms and channels are competing for a limited number of marketing resources. Many brands are realizing that they can’t have an active presence across every single platform, and that they need to be strategic in how they create content for different channels. That’s why you need a content marketing strategy for your blog and social media posts. Create one unified brand identity. MORE
When I first started in marketing, I used to write down what I thought were the best marketing quotes to inspire me to dream big and to do big things. A few years ago I gathered all these bits of paper and sticky notes and wrote down on one piece of paper my favorite marketing […]. The post 33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Marketing Strategy MORE
It seems to be an unwritten rule. Or maybe it’s our collective failure to think of history as anything more than a collection of dusty tales from long dead, tech-deprived societies. Or maybe it’s simply ignorance. Whatever it is, it seems rare for anyone in the business world to look to the ancient Greeks for insight on organizational behavior. MORE
The more we know, the better we can sell – especially when it comes to knowing what B2B buyers want. That seems to be the underlying premise of marketing right now. It’s not a bad premise. It leverages one of the all-time great marketing principles: relevancy. Relevancy is what turned Google AdWords from an experiment into a trillion-dollar project. It’s why retargeting works and personalization converts. It’s why account-based marketing is so hot. So, no wonder we like information. MORE
If you read a piece of your company’s content out loud at a conference – with no introduction, and no attribution ‒ would the audience recognize it as yours? That’s the ultimate test of a brand “voice.”. The conference challenge might be a bit unrealistic, but it’s still a worthy goal. Everything you publish should have a consistent voice. Because consistency supports trust. Trust is everything in marketing. It’s particularly important in content marketing. MORE
Dear content marketers: no one believes your brand’s messaging. However, they do believe influencers—we’re talking about pros in your field with whom you’ve established a genuine connection. Not Kim Kardashian!) But how do you get them to help you spread your message—especially if you don’t have a huge budget to buy their affection? MORE
I walked into an all-day meeting back in February, and on one of the tables I saw a piece of notebook paper with my name and a heart written on it. To the side of the paper was a Starbucks tea (I abhor coffee) and a bottle of water. MORE
B2B marketers are focused on many of the same social media outlets as B2C marketers, but according to new research , usage and importance varies by network. The “2017 Social Media Marketing Industry Report” from Social Media Examiner recently looked at which channels marketers are using to achieve their objectives. The vast majority of both B2B (89 percent) and B2C (97 percent) marketers said that they utilize Facebook, and it’s at the top of both lists. MORE
Oracle
JUNE 13, 2017
For CMOs, and all marketers tasked with driving revenue, the constantly-looming question we try to answer is, “where should I spend my next marketing dollar to drive the most impact?” ” An entire job function has been built to answer this question, Marketing Operations, and an entirely new marketing discipline has emerged because of it, Marketing Performance Management.
B2B PR Sense
JUNE 12, 2017
How is your B2B strategy performing? Is it getting you the results you want? As any good coach will attest, you have to continually grow your team’s strengths to keep up with the competition. The same is true with marketing. As modern marketing expands and audiences change, new strategies emerge. If you want to stay on top of your game, you need to regularly add new methods to your playbook.
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B2B Lead Generation
JUNE 13, 2017
So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? You might be thinking, “isn’t the answer obvious?”. It’s not. Let me explain. I hear the same problem over and over. Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. And you know what? They’re both right. Here’s what I mean. Companies don’t typically call what salespeople do “lead generation” or “demand generation.”
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 1, 2017
When I first started in marketing, I used to write down what I thought were the best marketing quotes to inspire me to dream big and to do big things. A few years ago I gathered all these bits of paper and sticky notes and wrote down on one piece of paper my favorite marketing […]. The post 33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Marketing Strategy
Speaker: Matthew Hawk, President of B2bTrainers
The term “sales enablement” applies to a dizzying array of best practices and technologies. In addition, there is tremendous competitive pressure not to fall behind. No matter where you are in your current sales enablement strategy, one thing is key: success ultimately rides on the habits of your sales managers & marketers. In this webinar, Matthew Hawk will lay out an in-depth schematic for your next-level sales coaching, demonstrate the key activities that comprise success, and walk you through several examples of sales coaching cadences that apply to all salesforce sizes.
Act-On
JUNE 9, 2017
The more we know, the better we can sell – especially when it comes to knowing what B2B buyers want. That seems to be the underlying premise of marketing right now. It’s not a bad premise. It leverages one of the all-time great marketing principles: relevancy. Relevancy is what turned Google AdWords from an experiment into a trillion-dollar project. It’s why retargeting works and personalization converts. It’s why account-based marketing is so hot. So, no wonder we like information.
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Oracle
JUNE 29, 2017
In today’s digital marketing landscape, a growing number of social media platforms and channels are competing for a limited number of marketing resources. Many brands are realizing that they can’t have an active presence across every single platform, and that they need to be strategic in how they create content for different channels. That’s why you need a content marketing strategy for your blog and social media posts. Create one unified brand identity.
B2B PR Sense
JUNE 21, 2017
No matter your size, thinking big is pivotal to success in B2B PR. That is how you achieve thought leadership and brand recognition. It’s easy to think small -- to stay in your comfort zone, where you knock off a press release every once in awhile, and call it good. Successful PR, however, is all about pushing boundaries, embracing new techniques, and staying ahead of the curve. Learn how you can take your B2B public relations to the next level, and think bigger for your company.
bizible
JUNE 7, 2017
Building an annual B2B marketing plan is no simple task. The plan must provide a strategy to transform business objectives into marketing priorities and goals, while outlining how to execute and reach those goals. According to SiriusDecisions, Inc., this tends to result in the creation of a plan that falls into one of two categories-- overly complex plans that are hard to understand and therefore not actionable, or overly agile plans that create a lot of activity, but not enough business impact.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 6, 2017
The digital experience, the power of Big Data, agile marketing, compelling content strategies, marketing automation, a customer-centric approach – the core tenets of modern marketing weren’t born yesterday. So, why are some marketing teams struggling to keep up? What’s holding back even some really top-notch, creative, and inspired marketers? Change isn’t easy. A full-blown transformation […].
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!
Act-On
JUNE 28, 2017
Does your customer management strategy need an upgrade? Super customers can 16x your profits - and so can firing your "super awful" customers. Customer Marketing customer lifetime value customer management customer marketing
The Point
JUNE 30, 2017
In the headlong rush to Account-Based Marketing , many B2B companies are, quite naturally, looking to implement ABM in a manner that allows them to dip their toes in the proverbial water. In the agency business, such as ours , this has led in turn to a notable uptick of interest in what are often called (by the client): “ABM Campaigns.”
Oracle
JUNE 22, 2017
It seems to be an unwritten rule. Or maybe it’s our collective failure to think of history as anything more than a collection of dusty tales from long dead, tech-deprived societies. Or maybe it’s simply ignorance. Whatever it is, it seems rare for anyone in the business world to look to the ancient Greeks for insight on organizational behavior.
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 6, 2017
Executive branding essentially means focusing on the same branding techniques you’d use for entire companies and narrowing it down to the single individual; the executive leader. By focusing on their knowledge, passions, and authority, having executives in the public eye can strengthen a brand’s credibility. Executive branding was included in a Forbes list of the top trends in marketing B2B companies need to watch out for in 2017.
Speaker: Christopher Ryan, Founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners
Sales & Marketing departments that work together guarantee higher acquisition, better nurturing, and more effective sales. Join Christopher Ryan for this insightful webinar, presenting the wide funnel lead nurturing model. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get your teams working together and your revenue performance optimized.
Influitive
JUNE 16, 2017
I walked into an all-day meeting back in February, and on one of the tables I saw a piece of notebook paper with my name and a heart written on it. To the side of the paper was a Starbucks tea (I abhor coffee) and a bottle of water.
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 19, 2017
Your blog either has that all important ‘it’ factor, or it doesn’t. You’re either generating significant leads from your posts or not. If you’re not, you’re also missing out on an exponentially beneficial competitive advantage that other businesses are enjoying. B2B marketers garner 67 percent more leads when they use a blog than when they […]. The post How to Make Your Blog Posts Generate Serious Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing
Act-On
JUNE 21, 2017
If you read a piece of your company’s content out loud at a conference – with no introduction, and no attribution ‒ would the audience recognize it as yours? That’s the ultimate test of a brand “voice.”. The conference challenge might be a bit unrealistic, but it’s still a worthy goal. Everything you publish should have a consistent voice. Because consistency supports trust. Trust is everything in marketing. It’s particularly important in content marketing.
DiscoverOrg
JUNE 9, 2017
There’s something lurking out there, in the corners of the email marketing world, that scares a lot of people: the Spam Trap. They’re scary because most people don’t really understand how spam traps work or how common they are. While it’s impossible to avoid them entirely, good data hygiene may limit exposure. Unsolicited email isn’t spam – but if you send cold email, you’ll want take precautions to avoid spam traps. What is a spam trap?
Speaker: Jay McBain, Principal Analyst – Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems
We are in the middle of a major transformation of how companies go to market – in fact, 76% of global CEOs feel that their current business models will be unrecognizable in the next 3 years. Join Jay McBain from Forrester as he unpacks these future trends.
Oracle
JUNE 12, 2017
White papers are often perceived as the more serious older sibling of the eBook. As such, it’s not uncommon for white papers to be—well, boring. But that doesn’t have to be the case. White papers are among most requested resource formats of B2B buyers. They should be in-depth, enlightening, and also: interesting. If not a boring version of an eBook, what is a white paper?
Tomorrow People
JUNE 6, 2017
Generating quality leads is essential for any B2B marketer. A website is a great tool to help with this. It enables you to provide value to your visitors, develop their trust, and take them confidently through the buying cycle. Lead Generation
Influitive
JUNE 30, 2017
Dear content marketers: no one believes your brand’s messaging. However, they do believe influencers—we’re talking about pros in your field with whom you’ve established a genuine connection. Not Kim Kardashian!) But how do you get them to help you spread your message—especially if you don’t have a huge budget to buy their affection?
Marketing Insider Group
JUNE 27, 2017
If you want to know how to create content that people are actually searching for, you need to become a content marketing research expert. But it doesn’t have to be that hard or expensive! To uncover the top trends and topics of interest within your industry, you just have to roll up your sleeves and […]. The post 6 Content Marketing Research Tools You’ll Fall in Love With appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.
Act-On
JUNE 2, 2017
Summer is just around the corner and spring is in full bloom. For some businesses, summertime means a lull in business, fewer customers, less website traffic, and lowered engagement … not to mention employees’ much-needed vacations. After a long, busy season, it’s tempting to slow down your marketing efforts. A summer respite is just the ticket, right?
KoMarketing Associates
JUNE 14, 2017
B2B marketers are focused on many of the same social media outlets as B2C marketers, but according to new research , usage and importance varies by network. The “2017 Social Media Marketing Industry Report” from Social Media Examiner recently looked at which channels marketers are using to achieve their objectives. The vast majority of both B2B (89 percent) and B2C (97 percent) marketers said that they utilize Facebook, and it’s at the top of both lists.
Oracle
JUNE 8, 2017
Senders often approach our team with questions around “transactional” messaging. Sometimes our team receives email examples and are asked whether or not those messages can be sent off their transactional IP. Other times senders will try to “disguise” messages as transactional under the assumption that if they send it off their transactional IP then they are guaranteed inbox delivery.
Biznology
JUNE 29, 2017
Are you looking for the best ways to reactivate dormant customers and reduce churn? Here’s a roundup of the ten most effective practices today, in both business and consumer markets. Consider which of these may be the most applicable to your business, your customers, and your objectives. And don’t forget to set aside some budget for ongoing retention and reactivation marketing. It’s the best money you can spend. . Move quickly.
Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy
In a pandemic, it’s more important than ever to focus on retaining and expanding current customers. So, how can sales and marketing support the retention effort? Join Ruth Stevens as she dives into this fast-paced session and reviews the 7 key strategies for current customer marketing, to enable sales and expand customer value.
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