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5 Key Differences Between Email Marketing and Marketing Automation

Act-On

Do you need an email marketing solution or a marketing automation platform? Here are 5 factors to better understand the difference between email service providers and marketing automation.

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#TwitterPurge – a Much Needed Shake up for Influencer Marketing?

Onalytica B2B

Over the last 12 months, Twitter have been upping their effort to combat the issue of fake accounts and ‘malicious’ automated activity, since it came to light that Russia were using the platform to interfere in the 2016 US elections. Their long-term objective is to remove the abuse of the platform to influence others, in a bid to promote and preserve public safety.

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The Complete Guide to Scale Your B2B Business to Success by Marrying PR with Content Marketing

Webbiquity

Guest post by Sphoorti Bhandare. As a B2B marketer, you navigate a long purchase cycle to get buy-in from decision-makers at every touch point. You work with sales, content, SEO, and customer care champions to promote targeted messaging. Overall, you’re doing the right things. In reality, educating and nurturing B2B buyers in this crowded digital space is tough.

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The Streamlining Strategy for Eye-Opening Productivity

Marketing Insider Group

It seems that as time passes, costs increase and profits decrease. Content marketing is no exception, with costs for services increasing and subsequent profits being affected. Granted, even if that were not the case, I’m not sure how many of us would say “No” to some method of increasing time or money in our personal […]. The post The Streamlining Strategy for Eye-Opening Productivity appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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10 Webinar Metrics to Measure Success

Zoominfo

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. Among such strategies, webinars come out on top. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service.

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Interview with Jonathan Aufray

Onalytica B2B

Jonathan Aufray – Co-founder and CEO at Growth Hackers. Key Topics: Startups, Growth Hacking, Digital Marketing. Location: Taipei, Taiwan. Bio: Jonathan Aufray is the co-founder and CEO at Growth Hackers. He helps startups, SMBs and fellow entrepreneurs grow with growth hacking and digital marketing. In the past 15 years, he has lived in 7 countries (France: where he is originally from, US, UK, Ireland, Spain, Australia and now Taiwan) and has done business with entrepreneurs from more

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Ways To Fuse Social Media With Print Media

Marketing Insider Group

Creating a publicity campaign could never be easier now thanks to social media. Gone are the days of printing out thousands, if not millions, of flyers. No more buying up space in your local newspaper and plastering your logo on billboards. Digital marketing can spread your brand to users all over the globe. Or can […]. The post Ways To Fuse Social Media With Print Media appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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8 B2B Sales Appointment Setting Tricks

Zoominfo

There’s no doubt about it—appointment setting is an important aspect of B2B sales and business growth. Landing an in-person appointment with a key decision-maker provides salespeople with the opportunity to respond directly to a prospect’s needs and pain points. Yet, scheduling B2B sales appointments is no easy task. Let’s review why: Complex Buying Committees: Selling to businesses is much more complex than selling to individuals.

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B2B Marketers Increasingly Using Data to Analyze Video Content Performance

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers begin to invest more in video content, new research suggests that they are turning to data and analytics to measure their performance along the way. Vidyard recently conducted the “2018 Video in Business Benchmark Report” and found that 36 percent of businesses now use intermediate or advanced video analytics. This is compared to just 13 percent that claim they are not using any metrics.

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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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Automating your marketing through the B2B customer journey: an interview with Rich Herbst

Biznology

The other day, I had the chance to meet with Rich Herbst, founder and managing partner of Ascend Marketing, which is based in Dallas and Austin. Rich agreed to discuss what he and his team have been doing in B2B, and share what they’ve learned in recent years, as business buying behavior evolves. His team has developed a breakthrough approach to delivering a custom communications stream to business buyers based on their particular journeys.

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5 Keys to Successful Email Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Successful email marketing is a critical, and often overlooked, element of digital marketing. According to an article on Inc: But after a couple decades of Nigerian prince schemes, Spanish lotto scams, and mountains of unsolicited spam (which is never a good marketing tactic), how do people feel about email now? Is it still a worthwhile […]. The post 5 Keys to Successful Email Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The Trade Show Countdown: How to Prepare Your Business for a Trade Show

Webbiquity

Guest post by Jessica Kane. If you are like most business owners or managers, trade shows are part of your marketing plan for the coming year. In 2017, 79% of U.S. marketers generated sales using event marketing , and 80% said live events are critical to their company’s success. But live events are expensive endeavors. So, you need to get the most out of your participation in every trade show.

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Report: Marketers Not Making the Most of Customer Data

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers are aware of the benefits of harvesting customer data, but new statistics suggest that they are still struggling to make the most of it. Forbes Insights and Treasure Data recently conducted the “Data Versus Goliath: Customer Data Strategies to Disrupt the Disruptors” report and discovered that only 13 percent of companies express the highest level of confidence that they’ve taken the necessary steps to ensure they’re making the most of customer data.

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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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Interview with Sandeep Raut

Onalytica B2B

Sandeep Raut – Vp & Head of Digital APAC at Niit Technologies Limited ?. Key Topics: Digital Transformation, Analytics. Location: Mumbai, India?. Bio: Sandeep is Digital Transformation, Analytics, Big data, IoT & Mobility evangelist with over 30 years of experience in IT Consulting and delivery. HOW DID YOU GET TO BECOME AN EXPERT IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION.

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How to Activate Your Employees For Growth

Marketing Insider Group

Looking for a way to bring your brand authority to the next level? Consumers don’t just have higher expectations today, gravitating towards quality content, better experiences, and meaningful brands. It’s also harder to gain their trust. Over 40 percent of American consumers trust brands less than they did 20 years ago. And, nearly half want to see a […].

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What influencers want and expect from influencer marketing, according to creator relations master, Kristen Matthews

Biznology

While it’s impossible to lump online influencers into one pile, there are quite a few things that Kristen Matthews and I came up with when we chatted last week. It Takes a Client to Make a Campaign. If you haven’t read last week’s article, What Clients Want and Expect from Influencer Marketing, According to Creator Relations Master, Kristen Matthews , you should start there.

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Should You Use the Same Landing Page for Email and Online Ads?

The Point

A client asks: “Can I use the landing page from an email campaign for online ads, say: search or LinkedIn, if it’s promoting the same asset?”. My response: In short: no. There’s an appeal to the economies of using one landing page across multiple channels, but the requirements are very different. The good news is that you should still be able to leverage much of the copy, content and creative assets you use for, let’s say: an email landing page, and then adapt that page for online advertising

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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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Candidate Sourcing for the Modern Recruiter [Infographic]

Zoominfo

In a recent ZoomInfo blog post, we declared that strategic candidate sourcing was not, in fact, dead. Instead, we proposed that technological advances have simply changed the way recruiters find and retain top talent. Today, we dive a little deeper and explore the modern candidate sourcing landscape. Our hope is that you can use this infographic and the information it contains to inform and evolve your current candidate sourcing strategy.

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Weekend Reading: “Friend of a Friend” by David Burkus

Marketing Insider Group

For the 184th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed David Burkus, author of Friend of a Friend.: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career. What if the best way to grow your network isn’t by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, handing out business cards, […]. The post Weekend Reading: “Friend of a Friend” by David Burkus appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Who’s in Your Sphere of Influence and Why Does it Matter?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The fearless marketer is one that: Has a revenue attribution mindset. Has a digital sales motion skillset. Has a sales and marketing aligned toolkit. He has extended his hands to partner with sales leaders as a driving force for modern, digital selling. This marketer will C reate, O rganize, D istribute, and E valuate Engagement (C.O.D.E.) alongside their sales team.

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How to Create an Organic LinkedIn B2B Marketing Strategy

Act-On

Are you doing all you can to better leverage LinkedIn to be a powerful B2B marketing tool for your company? Here are several tips for building an organic LinkedIn B2B marketing strategy.

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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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Interview with Tony Baer

Onalytica B2B

Tony Baer – Principal Analyst at Ovum. Key Topics: Big Data, Data Management, Databases, Advanced Analytics, AI. Location: New York, USA. Bio: One of Ovum’s most visible analysts, Tony Baer is a recognized authority in extending data management practices, governance, and analytics to address Big Data. He has established two new research practices at Ovum.

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Why Xennials or Generation Z Are Disillusioned with Social Media

Contently

At least once a week, a friend will announce that they’re taking a “social media detox.” They’ll deactivate an account (or at least delete an app) to avoid the negative feelings that too much social content can foster. I have never taken time off of social, but after falling into one too many late-night Instagram vortexes or stressing about a lack of likes, I can certainly understand the appeal.

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6 Ways to Include Customers in Your Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Customers are the heart of your businesses. After all, they provide the revenue to keep your establishment running strong—the fuel to your engine, the peanut butter to your jelly, the milk to your mustache—too much? Jokes aside, have you given much thought to how your customers can actually contribute to helping you grow your customer base? Peer-to-peer marketing is not only a viable channel you should be exploring, but it’s also one that has seen great success in both B2B and B2C marketing.

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Improve site search with the power of suggestion

Biznology

Most of you know that I work with large companies on improving their site search. [Disclaimer: I am a Senior Strategist for SoloSegment, which sells site search improvement technology.] But one of the ways to improve site search that you might not have though of is with search suggestions, the clever technique that guesses what searchers will type based on what has been searched for in the past.

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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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Interview with Adam Saxton

Onalytica B2B

Adam Saxton – Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Key Topics: Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services, Analysis Services. Location: Conroe, Texas (Greater Houston area), USA. Bio: Adam Saxton is just a guy in a cube doing the work! Having worked with Microsoft Business Intelligence products since 2005, he mainly focuses on Power BI and Analysis Services now.

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Why Generation Z Is Disillusioned with Social Media

Contently

At least once a week, a friend will announce that they’re taking a “social media detox.” They’ll deactivate an account (or at least delete an app) to avoid the negative feelings that too much social content can foster. I have never taken time off of social, but after falling into one too many late-night Instagram vortexes or stressing about a lack of likes, I can certainly understand the appeal.

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5 Research-Based Actions to Improve Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Because understanding what your fellow marketers are doing and what’s happening in successful content marketing programs is critical to success, Lisa Murton Beets has updated her 2017 article. A little over halfway through 2018, you may be looking for insights on how to maximize your content marketing efforts. Or, maybe you need some great stats to help you build your business case for content marketing.

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