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Insights Into the World of Content Marketing

markempa

Last week, Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs released their annual B2B Content Marketing Study that dives into the practices and habits of B2B content marketers in North America. Content marketing is a key component of any customer experience strategy and while the overwhelming majority of B2B organizations are producing content, the study shows that successful execution may still be elusive.

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Digital marketing requires millennial marketers

Biznology

I have been talking to more and more clients lately who are up in arms about these entitled millennials that are so hard to work with. Yeah, the complainers are baby boomers like me, or maybe Gen Xers. (How did you know?) I try to help them think through what their options are (like any good consultant) but at a certain point, I have to talk to them a bit more forcefully.

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How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy with Brand Personality

Marketing Insider Group

What makes a brand’s content distinctive? If you take a look at some of the organizations with the most successful content marketing strategies, from startups to global businesses, the best of the best are the ones that properly reflect the unique personality of their brand. Sephora’s use of user-generated content – their Beauty Insider Community is impressive […].

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Three Marketing Automation Strategies You Need to Implement Today

Webbiquity

Guest post by Kimberly Maceda. Automation is the future of marketing. The market is still in its growth phase, and highly fragmented among more than 200 software providers. With its high potential and the impressive results it can deliver, it’s no surprise that more businesses are implementing these platforms to beef up their performance. For now, a study revealed that 49% of companies are currently using marketing automation tools , with 55% of B2B companies adopting this technology.

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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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Content marketing en MaaS: 8 reasons why your content marketing agency is your new competitive advantage

Tomorrow People

How to build meaningful competitive advantage with your content marketing agency to differentiate your offering and stand out from the crowd. Remember 2010? Cast your mind back to those hazy days, when Greece was bailed out, the Arab Spring erupted, and Wikileaks released over 300,000 classified documents onto the internet. In the world of content marketing , as in current affairs, big changes were afoot. 2010 saw the inception of the Content Marketing Institute , and a growing realisation that

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Influencer Marketing: How to Measure Your Success and ROI

Onalytica B2B

Measuring the success and ROI (return on investment) of marketing in general has been notoriously difficult. The whole point of marketing is to evoke action in your target audience. The very reason influencer marketing is so successful, is that we’re all naturally accustomed to being a brand sceptic; word-of-mouth remains the most successful form of marketing.

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Content Marketing for Startups: Let’s Get Started

Marketing Insider Group

With a fledgling startup to manage, you likely don’t have a huge pool of resources to tap into for your marketing. This includes budget, manpower and the most valuable and limited resource of all: time. But, you can start your journey towards content marketing brilliance and the business growth it can bring, with: An understanding […]. The post Content Marketing for Startups: Let’s Get Started appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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10 Advocate Marketing Success Stories Every B2B Brand Can Learn From

Influitive

Every year, we honor 10 customer-centric B2B marketers with the Best Advocate Marketing Awards (also known as the BAMMIES). These awards are given to those marketers who are harnessing the power of their advocates through engaging, creative and effective marketing campaigns to fuel growth and change the way their company does business. Below, we’re featuring.

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Insights Into the World of Content Marketing

markempa

Last week Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs released their annual B2B Content Marketing Study that dives into the practices and habits of B2B content marketers in North America.Content marketing is a key component for any customer experience strategy and while the overwhelming majority of B2B organizations are producing content, the study shows that successful execution may still be elusive.In looking at this year’s study there are some thoughts and musings I have listed below

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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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Dear CEO: Find out how well your team is nurturing its B2B sales leads

ViewPoint

Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. When you and your team are focused exclusively on “lead” outcomes, immediate costs are misleading and long-term costs increase dramatically. Here is why: You have heard the expression that to a hammer everything looks like a nail.

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How to Boost Word-of-Mouth and Sales for Your Ecommerce Business This Fall

Marketing Insider Group

For many ecommerce business owners, fall is the biggest and most profitable time of year. As consumers approach big holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and others, and start marking their calendars for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a great time for ecommerce businesses to start thinking about how to get the most […].

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Blog2Social makes bloggers a marketing one-man band

Biznology

I have been using my sports blog, rnnr.us , as both a writing meditation towards health, fitness, and weight loss and also an SEO and blogging laboratory (pronounced la-bore-ah-tory ). To wit, I have been experimenting with Blog2Social , a WordPress plugin that makes immediate crossposting and social media sharing—as quickly as at the exact moment of posting—directly to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Xing, Tumblr, Medium, Torial, Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, Diigo, Reddit, and Bloglovin

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6 Underrated Elements of Successful B2B Social Media Strategies

KoMarketing Associates

There is a misconception that B2B social media strategy is easy to develop and implement. While social media sites are simple to use – submission forms with less than a handful fields, one-click voting buttons, and updates written in 140 characters or less – simplicity in success cannot be further from the truth. Ease of use also creates a low barrier to entry.

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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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Making Smart Choices for your Technology Stack

Lattice

The upcoming SiriusDecisions Technology Exchange conference will help attendees learn to build a best-in-class tech stack for marketing and sales organizations.

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Marketing ROI: Big Bucks or a Total Bust?

Marketing Insider Group

Connecting the Data Dots to Improve Marketing ROI Are your campaigns driving big bucks or are they a total bust? That’s probably the most important question we have to answer as marketers. To determine this, you have to connect the dots and unlock the value of the data. However, depending on the current state of […]. The post Marketing ROI: Big Bucks or a Total Bust?

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7 reasons why you need a social media marketing consultant

Biznology

It’s launch day for your business. You are ready to start implementing all those techniques you discovered from those social media gurus. They make it sound so easy. They also assume you have a few hours a day to devote solely to marketing your business. Wouldn’t you rather be building your business in alignment with your vision than using social media to market it?

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How Do Live Events and B2B Digital Marketing Work Together?

KoMarketing Associates

Translating live events into the digital realm so it can reach more people is something companies can do to make more out of the cost they are spending at live events. With hundreds of trade shows, conferences, and meet-ups happening every year, events tend to “die” once they are over. Some have argued that attending conferences and tradeshows are a waste of money in the digital age , yet thousands of attendees still go to live events every year.

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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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What Is a Content Audit and Why Do You Need One?

Contently

Few activities in B2B marketing yield immediate results. Long sales cycles mean it can take months, if not years, for your work to positively affect business. Luckily, there is one exercise proven to help you out right away: a content audit. What is a content audit, exactly? It’s the process of tracking down and organizing all content produced by your company.

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Weekend Reading: “The New Way to Market for Manufacturing” by Bruce McDuffee

Marketing Insider Group

For the 143rd episode of The Marketing Book Podcast (and Manufacturing Day), I interviewed Bruce McDuffee, author of The New Way to Market for Manufacturing: Innovation That Grows Your Business. When it comes to marketing and sales, the biggest problem manufacturers have is their product. The product itself is not a problem. The problem is […].

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Should you stop (organic) social media activity?

Biznology

Is your boss wondering why engagement is down and people don’t share your posts? Do you feel disappointed when your carefully-crafted article doesn’t get many (or any) likes? Here’s the deal: your inability to crack the social media code and get more likes, retweets, and shares may not be you. Instead, Avinash Kaushik , a well-known analytics guru and Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google , says it’s time to “ stop organic social media altogether.” Avinash&#

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Report: Despite Challenges, Marketers See Benefits from Attribution

KoMarketing Associates

Customers are engaging with marketers through a number of different channels, and new research suggests that marketers are struggling with attribution. The “State of Marketing Attribution 2017” from Adroll recently discovered that the majority of marketers (35 percent) believe that defining the online customer journey is the greatest barrier to marketing attribution.

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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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Why Consumers Want Brands to Take a Stand on Social Issues

Contently

Rob Holzer remembers the first time he came to Cannes six years ago after starting Matter Unlimited, an agency focusing on ad campaigns that drive positive social change. “People would sort of just tilt their head nicely and be like, “Oh. That’s nice,” Holzer recalls. “But, like, how are you guys going to make any money?

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B2B Marketing Trends and What They Really Mean

Marketing Insider Group

2017 is flying by. It’s time to review the key B2B marketing trends that have popped up so that you can evaluate the success of your B2B strategy. Remember, it’s all about context. It’s nearly useless to know about the trends if you’re not fully aware of what they mean for you and your company. […]. The post B2B Marketing Trends and What They Really Mean appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Things to look out for while raising funds for your business

Biznology

Securing an investment from an angel fund or a VC business can be a vicious cycle. Investors love businesses that make money, and these are exactly the kind of startups that are not desperate for cash. On the other hand, some startups have great promise but little established success. Founders of such startups often meet dozens of investors before they manage to raise their first round of funding.

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Report: Marketers Lack Sophistication in Measuring Content Effectiveness

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers are spending more time crafting value content that resonates with their target audience, but new research indicates that there is a lack of sophistication in how they measure its impact. The “2017 Content Insights from Tech Marketing Execs” report from 10Fold and Dimensional Research found that this year, 42 percent of marketers will spend at least $250,000 on content.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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13 Marketing Tactics to Boost Your Event ROI

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Have you ever spent months designing and building your booth to showcase your incredible products and wow the trade show crowds? Perhaps you’ve devoted days to perfecting every word and graphic for your presentation at a conference. Then, despite nailing your booth or presentation, you’ve been disappointed in the results. The event did not produce the return on investment (ROI) you had anticipated.

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Why Net Promoter Score Is the Best Metric for Long-term Growth

Marketing Insider Group

It’s easy to get caught up in website traffic numbers, conversion rates, and that essential ROI of your marketing campaigns. These metrics are useful for demonstrating where you are now and the quality and effectiveness of the strategies you used to get to this point. But, they can’t show you everything. What they’re failing to illuminate […].

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Why Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Will be Important for Your Business

Kaon

Image credit: Sylvain Sonnet | Getty Images. By Gavin Finn | originally published on Entrepreneur.com , September 12, 2017. Got a product your customer wants to try out (virtually) first? This technology makes that possible. In the arc of every modern technology’s development, a great deal of attention is generally initially focused on the technology itself.