Sat.Jan 13, 2018 - Fri.Jan 19, 2018

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How To Manage Multiple Marketing Channels in Today’s Dynamic Landscape

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing managers have two ways to perceive the ever-increasing number of marketing channels available today. Chaos or opportunity. From video marketing and gamification to in-person events and blog content, not only are there more ways to reach customers, there are more channels that consumers are accustomed to and therefore are willing to engage with.

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10 Infographics to Inform Your 2018 B2B Content Marketing Strategy

KoMarketing Associates

It can be argued that content marketing is the most important digital marketing strategy available today. Without new and fresh content, it’s almost impossible to achieve the results you’re striving for. Recent data from the Content Marketing Institute backs up this claim, as 91 percent of respondents to the “2018 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends” report say they use content marketing.

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3 Tips For Building A More Robust Customer Reference Program

Influitive

In the past 15 years, customer reference usage in marketing and sales has evolved from simply inserting testimonials in ads to a dedicated discipline that drives revenue. Now, many more savvy marketers are looking at the bigger picture: they’re turning to customer advocacy as their “secret sauce” for making a bigger impact on their company’s.

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Influencer Marketing: The Power of the “Micro-Moment”

Onalytica B2B

A micro-moment (a term first introduced by Google in 2015) is the eureka moment in marketing and advertising in which the penny drops for the consumer; the moment they choose to enter the buying journey. The nature of this micro-moment depends entirely on what you’re offering as a brand and in turn the type of customer that you’re targeting.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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35 Marketing Automation Tools To Personalize Your Customer’s Journey

Marketing Insider Group

One of the most empowering abilities marketers have gained from the digitization of the marketing function is marketing automation. Today, every organization out there is using some form of software as a service (SaaS) platform to share content (CMS), to streamline their communications with customers (CRM and Marketing Automation), and to draw insights (Analytics) from […].

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Visionary briefings: How to lead with exponential growth

Biznology

Lesson for leaders. As many technologies start exponential growth and combine with each other, your opportunities multiply. Here’s your briefings on how to use this to take the lead: the briefings below guide you in acquiring customers and markets from slower competitors. Do this repeatedly to make yourself an expert in using advances to make business gains.

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How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Accelerate Revenue with AI and Predictive Analytics

Lattice

In our new eBook we’ll walk through five different ways in which predictive analytics and AI can enable manufacturers and distributors to dramatically accelerate their revenue by increasing share of wallet.

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4 Hot Digital Marketing Trends to Warm Up Your Leads in 2018

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing operates on a foundational set of principles that shift with turns in technology and society. Think about it; when society relied on newspapers for information, marketing gravitated towards print advertising – but now with people looking to search engines and social media for their news, digital marketing has gained traction. With the close of […].

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B2B Marketers Look to Further Align Sales and Marketing in 2018

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers continue to show an interest in account-based marketing (ABM), and they are looking forward to aligning sales and marketing to achieve their objectives in 2018. Ascend2 recently conducted the “Account-Based Marketing Strategy Report” to hone in on the growing trends among B2B marketers who utilize ABM. The research showed that for half of marketers (50 percent), the top goal in 2018 will be to align sales and marketing initiatives.

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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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The 10 most fascinating people in B2B marketing in 2017

Biznology

Top 10 lists are everywhere this year. I even ran across a top 10 list of top 10 lists — hilarious! My list is about the most interesting people that I came across in B2B marketing during 2017. I find them fascinating not only as interesting people, but also for making valuable contributions to our business and our world. So meet this year’s fascinating B2B marketers, and let’s not forget the outstanding members of my lists in 2016 and 2015. .

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What Separates Good Writing From Bad Writing?

Contently

The other day, I was struck by a quote I read in a blog post about vulnerability from author and Wharton professor Adam Grant: “Good communicators make themselves look smart. Great communicators make their audiences feel smart.” Grant’s words reminded me of the time I discovered, to my horror, that I write at an 8th grade reading level. This discovery led me to study the reading level of great writers (and also not-so-great ones).

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8 Principles of High-Converting Landing Pages

Marketing Insider Group

Landing pages are distinct, standalone pages on your website that serve as a tool to convert your visitors into leads. What distinguishes them from other pages is that they drive user action via a lead-capture form. In exchange, users gain access to exclusive content or marketing offers. In other words, your landing page is a […]. The post 8 Principles of High-Converting Landing Pages appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Report: Customers and Marketers Disagree on Effectiveness of Campaign Integration

KoMarketing Associates

New research shows that while marketers may think that their ad campaigns are substantial and effective, customers have different feelings on the matter. Kantar Millward Brown recently published its report titled, “AdReaction: The Art of Integration,” which looked into how marketers navigate various ad formats to deliver integrated campaigns. The results found that while 89 percent of marketers believe their campaign strategies are integrated, only 58 percent of customers agree.

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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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9 Antidotes to the Facebook Algorithm Squeeze

Convince & Convert

The Facebook algorithm is changing again, and it’s bad news for brands who want to show up in the news feed. In a recent, inscrutable, Kremlin-esque press release , Mark Zuckerberg and team announced that they are changing the Facebook algorithm and will henceforth. “ prioritize posts that spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people.

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Review bots, fake news, and the misinformation age

Biznology

This will be considered ancient news now, but it’s often better to analyze headlines when the buzz is over. The Last Jedi opened before the holidays as one of the highest-rated Star Wars movies ever according to Rotten Tomatoes critics score. As the audiences started talking about it, it became clear that the RT audience score would not be that generous, creating the site’s widest audience-critic gulf in the history of “ Star Wars ” films.

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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: What Kind of Society Do We Want to Have?

Marketing Insider Group

As someone who has worked with big data for some time, I have pushed the boundaries where this idea of relevance morphs into creepy (remember the infamous case study: How Target Figured out a girl was pregnant before her father did?). I am acutely aware of its lure to big business, and at the same time, […]. The post The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: What Kind of Society Do We Want to Have?

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How to Save a Year of Research for Your Account-Based Marketing

Vision Edge Marketing

We’ve enjoyed the privilege of being engaged with a number of our customers for nearly two decades and last year were fortunate to add new projects and new customers. Our 2017 target for the number of new customers was significant, so, with all the rage about Account Based Marketing (ABM), we decided to experiment with the concept. Being a data-driven organization, our first action was to conduct research on the topic as well as to dig into our own data to understand the best way to deploy ABM f

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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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How to Uplevel Your Content Operations

Avitage

At some point B2B executives realize that adding resources and technology to the traditional content operations process produces only marginal improvements. Digital era content requirements are rising exponentially. They will not be addressed with the current process. This will become even more evident when marketing begins to adequately support B2B sales content requirements, as well as those of the sales channel.

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Jill Konrath Reveals How She Overcomes a Problem by Reframing It

ViewPoint

In five minutes, Jill Konrath reveals how she reframes a problem and turns it into a challenge which has made a huge difference in her life. This is an outtake from her interview on SLMA where she talks about the five most important things she has learned in business and life: The Most Important Things Jill Konrath Has Learned in Business and Life. "One of the things that I found that really made a difference to me early on was whenever I faced a problem, to not call it a problem.

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Omnichannel eCommerce Strategies: A 3-Step Plan To The Perfect Customer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

Creating a seamless customer journey is the key to generating recurring sales. Making every touchpoint and every user experience flawless. First, they land on your website. Next, they shop in the store. And finally, check out on a mobile app. Omnichannel strategies have the power to create memorable, lasting experiences for consumers. And the better […].

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Interview with Moni Oloyede

Onalytica B2B

Moni Oloyede – Marketing Technology & Marketing Operations Specialist. Key Topics: Martech, Marketing Operations. Location: Bethesda, MD, USA. Bio: Moni is a Marketing Operations specialist with 10 years of Marketing Technology experience. She has worked with all the major marketing automation companies – Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot, and ExactTarget.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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6 KPIs For Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing is all arts and crafts. Marketing is a cost center for my organization. If you haven’t heard these things at least once as a marketer, you’re in the minority. What’s more, until the digital age, arguing against these statements was near impossible. Now, marketers are lucky enough for the ability to fight these words with a long list of KPIs and ROI.

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Proving ROI of Industrial Content Marketing is Still a Big Challenge

Industrial Marketing Today

Congratulations if your 2018 industrial content marketing budget increased or at least didn’t get cut. You are in good company. 38% of respondents from the 2018 Manufacturing Content Marketing Trends—North America survey expect their manufacturing content marketing spending to increase this year and another 46% expect it to remain the same as last year.

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Building a Story-Driven Sales Deck That Wins More Business

Marketing Insider Group

How many people do you know who are overwhelmed by information? You know, the colleague who has an inbox with 2,000 unread emails, the friend with 31 open browser tabs, the overwhelmed customer who returns your time sensitive call 12 days later? The problem is information. There’s too much of it, and it can be […]. The post Building a Story-Driven Sales Deck That Wins More Business appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Snapchat’s Identity Crisis Will Force Brands and Publishers to Play the Waiting Game

Contently

When someone tells you they need time to figure out who they are, bad news is on the way. That’s just as true in business as it is in romance. Identities are important because they help us set expectations. When there aren’t any consistent expectations, relationships end. Snapchat is not normally a place for heartbreak, but given its current identity crisis, it could be headed for a messy split from brands and publishers.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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What Cards Against Humanity Can Teach Marketers About Content Personalization

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Inspiration can strike at any moment. I never thought I’d have a revelation about marketing during a game of Cards Against Humanity, but we don’t get to choose when the lightbulb goes off. For people unfamiliar with Cards Against Humanity , it dubs itself the “party game for horrible people.” Players match cards containing various risqué phrases to make clever combinations—like Apples to Apples with a hefty dose of vulgarity.

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27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks

Content Marketing Institute

Nobody thinks their content sucks – or, in other words, is weak and not deserving to be believed. After all, why would someone intentionally create something that’s utterly useless for their organization or their audience? And yet, a lot of content sucks. We’ve all seen (and sometimes created) it. Consider this article the proverbial splash of cold water to help you wake up (or more importantly, wake your content up).

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How to Manage Relationships with Your Customers Effectively

Marketing Insider Group

Last year Forbes wrote an article titled “Why Is Customer Relationship Management So Important?” It mirrored a question asked by many entrepreneurs who can sometimes get too tied up in the many details they have to consider and so fail to take that one into account until the negative impact is felt. The article goes […]. The post How to Manage Relationships with Your Customers Effectively appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.