Sat.Jul 15, 2017 - Fri.Jul 21, 2017

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5 Hacks To Get More Leads

Marketing Insider Group

The burning question on every marketing client’s lips. How to get more leads for my business? What can marketers do to invite more people into a brand experience? There are plenty of practical methods for generating quality leads. Blogging. Sharing and caring on social media. Strategic landing pages. Event marketing. Email. Most marketers are using […].

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Shifts in B2B Buyer Behavior Support New Priorities for Demand Gen Content

The Point

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. This year’s report (download a copy here – registration required) is striking in the degree and pace of change reported, since only last year, in how B2B buyers describe their research and purchase processes.

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How to Accurately Track Your Website Leads

Webbiquity

Guest post by Matt Cannon. Have you ever wondered whether your PPC or SEO campaign is worth the investment? Are you ever frustrated because no matter how much you test and tweak your campaigns, nothing seems to improve? At the root of both problems is quite frequently the same thing: incomplete and/or overstated lead tracking. PPC advertising consultants and management companies see this play out time and time again when we dig into why a prospective client has been treading water.

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How to Brief a Marketing Agency [SlideShare]

Tomorrow People

Getting the most from your marketing agency comes down to one thing: a strong campaign brief. Find out what you need to write an awesome agency brief in this SlideShare.

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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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Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Demand Generation and More – What’s the Difference?

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s just admit it. Modern marketing has evolved so quickly over the past few years that we haven’t done the best job creating the constructive terminology to define what we’re doing. Our innovation first, figure-out-how-to-explain-what-we’re-doing-for-the-benefit-of-others second approach has caught up with the digital marketing world – or should I say demand generation?

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Launching An Advocacy Program Part 8: Finding Inspiration

Influitive

This is the eighth post in a series about launching a customer advocacy program. The latest post in the series described how to determine which facet of your program to focus on: reach or relationship. Because advocacy managers are so focused on day-day activities, we are prone to tunnel-vision. Sure, we set aside time to.

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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

ViewPoint

“What could derail this project?” a prospect asked me, following our discussion about PointClear’s lead generation, qualification and nurturing services. We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. We’d spent some time on the persistent yet professional cadence we employ.

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Empathetic Marketing: How To Connect With Your Customers

Marketing Insider Group

Have you made empathetic marketing part of your strategy in 2017? If not, you should. Let me explain. I interviewed Michael Brenner (@BrennerMichael) the CEO of MarketingInsiderGroup.com. Michael has received recognition across the Internet for his knowledge and role in shaping content marketing as we know it today. He’s a sought-after keynote speaker and co-author of The Content […].

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Read this article before you start a social media program

Biznology

Are you a B2B business exec whose instincts are saying you should be doing something with social media, but you’re not sure what? You’re not alone. I estimate about half of the people who contact us for help with a social media program don’t have set objectives in mind–often because they don’t really know what social media can do for them. They just feel they need to be there.

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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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A 5-Point Checklist for Writing SEO Content

KoMarketing Associates

Effective content marketing in today’s digital space should appease your audience as well as search engines. Of course, the audience should always come first. However, creating content that’s well-optimized for SEO will keep it in front of more eyes for a longer period of time. All of this is easier said than done. So, where do you begin?

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Why It’s Time to Rebuild Traditional Marketing Teams

Contently

I’m not usually one for quotations, but there’s a saying attributed to Albert Einstein that I’ve always appreciated: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. Since marketers always care about getting better results, it’s about time they listened to Einstein’s advice.

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What Can B2B Marketers Gain from Growth Hacking? [Infographic]

Marketing Insider Group

What can you gain from growth hacking and how can you develop a mindset to be better at B2B marketing? To help answer this question, I interviewed Neil Patel (@neilpatel), co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and KISSmetrics. He also helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue. As marketers, we can reject […]. The post What Can B2B Marketers Gain from Growth Hacking?

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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Social Marketers in 2017

Convince & Convert

Our just-released 2017 State of Social Marketing Report shares survey results from 2,738 social media marketing professionals from 111 countries. This report shares real-world insight and understanding of a dynamic industry where new networks emerge, old networks evolve , and the user base continues to rise at rapid rates. Here are the three biggest challenges social marketers are facing right now, according to social marketers themselves. 1.

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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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SEO for site acquisitions

Biznology

Considering an acquisition? What’s your strategy with the acquired domain? How are you going to handle the SEO problem? No idea? Read on for some tips! The biggest thing to remember is that you don’t want to lose any search equity that has been built over the years. SEO is hard enough so don’t make it harder for yourself. Both domains (your primary domain and the acquired domain) will rank for important keywords and drive qualified referrals to your content.

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The 10 Biggest SEO Myths & Misconceptions to Watch for

KoMarketing Associates

It’s no secret that there are many myths and misconceptions when it comes to search engine optimization. The first whisper starts with a Google announcement and it’s then passed into the ears of search marketers across the industry until, finally, it reaches the last player of the game. This could be your client asking a question about SEO best practices or your CMO looking for answers.

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The State of Social Media Influencer Marketing in 2017

Marketing Insider Group

As an entrepreneur, you must have thought a lot about your marketing campaign and considered how to make it both effective and affordable. Or if you are about to venture into the world of entrepreneurship, it’s good to think about how you want your products to be represented to your potential customers. You must have […]. The post The State of Social Media Influencer Marketing in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Manage an Account-Based Sales Team

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

If you’re keeping up with the latest B2B trends, you’ve probably heard or read the term “Account Based” recently. Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. And, that’s where account-based marketing and sales come in.

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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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How to build your social selling system with LinkedIn and Twitter

Biznology

It’s no longer enough to do social media marketing and hope that your company’s inbound marketing strategy generates leads, which turn into qualified prospects and eventual buyers. If you fail to craft a dynamic social selling strategy and implement that plan, your efforts on social media will fall flat. Social selling is the next evolution of social media for business, but many are unsure exactly what it is, how to get started and which social tactics work best.

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Report: Customers Challenge Marketers to Deliver Omni-Channel Experiences

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers are connecting with their customers and prospects in multiple ways today, but is one method of contact more effective than others? The “Customer in Context” report from the CMO Council found that 47 percent of customers engage with businesses across several platforms, and 42 percent like to mix it up depending on where they are or what they want.

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The True Power of Contextual Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In marketing, the primary goal is to send the right message to the right people at the right time using the right channel. This is what “marketing context” is all about. According to the Harvard Business Review, the four Ps of traditional marketing (price, placement, promotion, and product) needs to be shaken up and. The post The True Power of Contextual Marketing appeared first on PureB2B.

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Top Tips For Successful Community Building on Twitter

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Are you struggling to build a strong community for your business on Twitter? It’s easier than you think. You can be successful by making a plan, delivering quality content, organizing with Twitter lists, participating in active Twitter chats, and knowing your Twitter analytics. A company that successfully embraces Twitter and builds its community around it will move beyond likes and followers.

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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.

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Developer Advocacy: Why Brands Must Go Deeper Than Developer Evangelism

Influitive

This is the third post in a developer relations and advocacy series. In my previous posts, I touched on the concept of developer advocacy—AKA turning developers into brand advocates. In this post, I’ll cover how developer advocates are different from developer evangelists, and where growing a community of advocates (and shifting the mindset of your.

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Agency Marketers Challenged to Tie Social Media Efforts to Company Objectives

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers are investing more in social media, but they’re finding it challenging to set goals for their initiatives and measure their progress along the way. The “2017 State of Social Marketing” report from Simply Measured recently discovered that 61 percent of brand and agency marketers are struggling to determine the ROI of their social media initiatives.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Are Failing With Marketing Automation

Marketing Insider Group

5 reasons why businesses are failing with marketing automation and how you can take a no-fail approach instead Marketing automation has transformed the world of marketing. In fact, Google searches for marketing automation alone have reached an all-time high, showing that search volume for marketing automation has been growing at huge incremental rates.

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Technical vs. Engagement SEO: The What, Why, and How of Modern SEO

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

An effective SEO strategy leads to increased organic traffic, more qualified leads, better brand awareness, and—ultimately—increased revenue. If your SEO program isn’t providing all of these benefits, you may be allocating too much time to the wrong tasks. It’s time to revisit your strategy. Because SEO has changed a lot in recent years. Veterans of the early days will tell you horror stories about keyword density and link farms.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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3 Surefire Ways to Engage Your Customers and Boost Your Bottom Line [Webinars of the Week]

Convince & Convert

Marketing, at its core, is focused on delivering wow-worthy customer experiences—or at least it should be. From your prospect’s initial engagement with your brand on social or through a piece of content to the moment they decide to buy, it’s a marketer’s job to create killer experiences that help usher them along in their buyer’s journey. Next week, I’m cooking up three different webinars chock-full of surefire ways—from breathing new life into your social strategy to leveraging data and analyti

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Report: More Marketing Teams are Taking Control of Technology Purchases

KoMarketing Associates

New research indicates that CMOs are now spending as much of their budget on technology on CTOs, but which services and products are they investing in? “The Marketing Tech Buying Process: A Look at How Companies Purchase Technology Today” report from Target Marketing and IBM discovered that CMOs spend 3.2 percent of their budgets on technology; this is just shy of the 3.4 percent that CTOs dedicate to the same thing.

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Lost your keys again? 3 stages to find missing keywords by analyzing competitors

Marketing Insider Group

Exploring the niche, we can assess the whole situation, learn the weak and strong points of competitors and find inspiration for the own project. But there is a fine line: some people overuse this method, some avoid it at all. Let’s figure out how to keep the balance. In this article, I’ll tell you how […]. The post Lost your keys again? 3 stages to find missing keywords by analyzing competitors appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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