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Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven

Marketing Insider Group

In this day and age, there’s no excuse for not knowing what your customers want. There are now a wide variety of tools that enable marketers to capture a range of data at particular stages in their marketing campaigns. Gone are the days of mass, untargeted broadcasting. The digital age has brought about widened reach, The post Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven appeared first on PureB2B.

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A New Generation of Marketing Metrics & the ROI of Better Data

DiscoverOrg

Revenue growth is only possible with a solid understanding of our prospects – and no one knows that better than B2B marketers. When it comes measuring the health of our prospect data, we’re used to showing raw growth in the number of contacts and accounts, or a coverage percentage for target accounts or personas. And we’ve historically used these types of metrics to justify budget requests for investing in more data purchases.

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Four Predictions About the State of SEO in 2017

Webbiquity

Guest post by Nathan Elly. The new year is well underway. As we reflect on the major events in the world of SEO in 2016, web marketers need to evaluate how the changes will impact the SEO strategy through the rest of 2017. The biggest news in 2017 has so far been the Penguin 4.0 algorithm update, however there were also several other changes that had caused a stir in the SEO world as well.

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8 Questions to Help You Decide if Your Content is Good Enough

The Point

The best demand generation campaigns start with content that your prospects want. Even the best data, and sparkling creative, can’t save you or your campaign if your content and offer isn’t up to scratch. Here are 8 simple questions to help you decide whether that content is good enough. 1. Does it teach the reader something he/she may not already know?

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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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5 Trends That Will Shape Content Marketing in 2017

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing isn’t just a sideshow anymore. More and bigger companies are relying on it as one of their main marketing forms. No longer is content marketing something a handful of companies do. Instead, it’s become a massive monster that is expected to be worth more than 32 billion dollars by 2018. Of course, that […]. The post 5 Trends That Will Shape Content Marketing in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Here's Why Airlines Treat Customers Poorly

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s passenger-dragging incident at United Airlines left many marketers (and other humans) aghast that any company could purposely assault its own customer. As it happens, airline technology vendor Sabre published a survey of airline executives just before the event. It confirms what you probably suspected: airline managers think differently from other business people.

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Meet The New Rising Star In B2B Marketing: The Customer Marketer

Influitive

When it costs 6X more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one, does it still make sense for marketers to focus mainly on generating new leads, rather than nurturing current customers? (Nope!) As more and more companies turn their focus away from short-lived marketing campaigns, and towards building ongoing.

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Marketing Operations: Your Key to Streamlining Silos and Getting Growth

Marketing Insider Group

Businesses have always traditionally kept their departments separate, especially larger firms, but many departments can work much more effectively when brought together. As a business, you have overall goals and every department within your business should be working towards these goals. This is much easier when they are able to effectively work together, while developments […].

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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

ViewPoint

On April 13, 2017, I attended the #OutBound conference in Atlanta, GA. Remarkably, despite the road destruction in downtown Atlanta, everyone got there on time – about 400 attendees. The event was held at the Hotel Intercontinental in Buckhead and Cirrus Insight did a great job as a sponsor. The coffee was hot and the lunch was great. Thank you. The entire day was spent talking about prospecting.

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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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Survey: Marketers Remain Challenged to Prove the ROI of Efforts

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers are invested in showing the impact of their work, new research indicates that they are struggling to prove the ROI. According to the 2017 Marketing Leadership Survey from TrackMaven, just 27.6 percent of marketers say they are “very effective” at demonstrating the value of their marketing efforts to their peers. The majority (69 percent) say that they are only “somewhat effective” at it.

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The 6 Most Important Social Media Trends of 2017

Contently

Social media—once a competitive, dynamic space—has gotten predictable. Facebook added a hundred million users in a quarter? What else is new ? Facebook is in trouble for failing to stop fake news , extremist messages , and child pornography ? Par for the course. Facebook shamelessly copied another Snapchat feature? Yawn. It’s all been going on for years.

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Marketers: Stop Complaining About a “Noisy World” – Noise Is Not Your Problem

Marketing Insider Group

This article will “cut through the clutter.” It’s sure to “stand out from all the noise.” Yes, we live in a world jam-packed with stuff. And as marketers, we love to complain about it. Everywhere you turn, there’s someone in marketing talking about how to handle this “noisy world” of ours: But here’s the deal: Noise is not your problem.

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The Automated CMO: The New Era of Simplicity

Tomorrow People

Find out how marketing automation can help you nurture leads in a more efficient and effective way.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.

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An Introduction To Developer Relations: What It Is And Why You Need It

Influitive

Over the last several years, the dramatic shift from brick and mortar stores to cloud service offerings has made programmers, developers, and engineers some of the most sought-after professionals on the planet. However, unlike many market segments, developers seem to live in their own world, with their own values. As such, they’re not as receptive.

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3 insights from intelligent content conference

Biznology

I had the great fortune to speak twice at the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas on March 30. I said to a colleague there that the conference agenda fit into the bull’s-eye of my skills and interests. Several of the talks had the word “AI” in them. Other common words included “outside-in” “big data” and “content marketing.” For those who know of our book: Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing , it shoul

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Digital Transformation Works — So Why Are Companies Struggling to Transform?

Marketing Insider Group

Digital transformation isn’t an overnight process; it takes time and commitment. To be successful, your company needs to be customer-centric, have the right team, and develop a digital framework. Digital is no longer one of the many lakes we visit to fish for new marketing ideas. It has become the ocean — and we are […]. The post Digital Transformation Works — So Why Are Companies Struggling to Transform?

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Building a B2B Mobile SEO Strategy? 5 Key Points To Consider

KoMarketing Associates

The 2017 digital marketing buzzword of the year is mobile SEO. And everyone is wondering how to utilize it. How do we capture the mobile market? How do we use mobile as a competitive advantage? How do we do mobile? While these are relevant questions to ask, as a B2B marketer you must have all of your ducks in a row before completely committing to a mobile SEO strategy.

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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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Situation-ready content, on-purpose, by design

Avitage

I’m done talking about “content.” The word is too conceptual to have any useful meaning. In my world, words matter. To work, words must convey common meaning. I believe the word “content” and how it’s used actually causes problems. This is undoubtedly a contributor to quality problems experienced with marketing and especially selling content.

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Chris Abraham joins Frank Eliason and Shel Holtz on FIR

Biznology

Every once in a while magic happens. Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). Yesterday was such a day. And yesterday was especially fun because it felt like the show was a bespoke suit of clothing. I recently wrote two articles relevant to the show, The Implications for PR if Twitter Goes Away and The Secret to Mastodon’s Success is Mastering

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2017 Is Officially the Year of the Podcast – Should You Start Talking?

Marketing Insider Group

Listen. Well, that’s what your target market may be doing right now. Listening to an interesting podcast on their smartphone or tablet. Podcasting is still a small piece of the content marketing pie overall. As of 2015, only half of all Americans even knew what a podcast was. Still, this certainly is a medium to […]. The post 2017 Is Officially the Year of the Podcast – Should You Start Talking?

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How Reporting Can Improve B2B Blog Performance

KoMarketing Associates

At the end of each month here at KoMarketing, we provide in-depth online marketing reports to our clients that provide an overview of the program’s performance. While these reports are valuable to our clients, they’re also extremely valuable to myself and the rest of the content marketing team. Here are some metrics and other factors that help improve blog performance from month to month.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Your Emails

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mike Madden I’ll admit it. Email marketing is scary. You pour your heart and soul into an email–crafting creative copy, compelling imagery, and the perfect subject line just to hit send and get judged by thousands of subscribers (or at least it feels that way sometimes). Unfortunately, the reality is that not every email you send will be a winner.

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How to use customer data to develop marketing insights

Biznology

Collecting customer data and analyzing it to gain customer experience insights is something only big businesses do, right? In fact, small businesses can and should collect valuable customer information, just like big businesses. A small business can gain insight into customer behavior and buying preferences which can improve marketing communication.

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Agile Marketing’s Deja Vu Moment: Why We Need Agile Content Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

The flow of content into the world has gone from a steady drip to an unstoppable firehose in just a few short years. For those working in content creation this might seem to signal a bright future full of steadily rising paychecks and effortless promotions. But this rosy picture actually leads to content overload and depressingly low […]. The post Agile Marketing’s Deja Vu Moment: Why We Need Agile Content Strategy appeared first on The Agile Marketer.

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Q4 2016 Marketing Email Open Rates Experienced Slight Decline

KoMarketing Associates

As email marketers round up data from the end of 2016, new research shows that open rates dropped in the fourth quarter. However, non-bounce rates stayed steady from the third quarter. The “Q4 2016 Email Trends and Benchmarks” report from Epsilon discovered that the average open rate was 32.1 percent, which was below 34 percent, as measured in the third quarter.

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Let's Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Workfront LEAP 2017 Conference Wrap-up

Hive9

Our team had the chance to take part in the third-annual Workfront Leap User Conference last week in Salt Lake. The event was a great opportunity to connect with the Workfront community and discuss improving workplace collaboration and efficiency.

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Are you turning Better or Bitter?

Ambal's Amusings

I usually don’t fall sick. When I sense the onslaught of a sickness, I use the power of my mind to fight it. Perhaps, that is what is keeping this terrible cold that wants to torture me at bay. That combined with coat, socks, scarf and being dressed like an Eskimo inside the house. Anyways, … Continue reading Are you turning Better or Bitter?

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3 of the Biggest Agile Marketing Challenges

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing comes with its own set of unique challenges: “Be timely and relevant, but run that tweet by legal first.” “Personalize everything to me individually, but don’t come off like a digital stalker.” “Maintain a work-life balance, but make sure to respond on social media 24-7.” “Don’t chase every shiny new tool, but keep up […].