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B2B Social Media: An Underutilized Method for Improving SEO Performance
KoMarketing Associates
MAY 26, 2016
As a Millennial, or digital native as some will put it, I grew up immersed in social media.
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Put A Judicial Branch In Place to Eliminate Wasted Leads
ViewPoint
MAY 26, 2016
Keep leads from being ignored is the fifth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results.
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Making Money with Social Media – 6 Rules for Marketers
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 23, 2016
Everyone loves cats. On Facebook, they also love dogs, babies, horses, elephants, dolphins, and videos of different species loving one another. This is kind of the point of social media, except perhaps for LinkedIn.
3 Simple Ways to Make Your PR Campaign More Effective
B2B PR Sense
MAY 27, 2016
You've just launched a huge initiative and garnered some great press! Now what? Do you leave the rest up to the media, and the whims of your audience? As much as you want your press to be evergreen, it won't reach immortality without a little (really, a lot) of strategic planning.
The Account-Based Marketing Playbook
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Guide to Getting Started With Profile Management
Ignite Tech
MAY 25, 2016
To drive truly data-driven segmentation and other go-to-market strategies, companies are moving past traditional lead scoring strategies and adopting technology that helps them extract more actionable intelligence from their data.
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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Startup In Year One
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 27, 2016
90% of startups fail – many of them in the first year. This means that knowing how to market yourself effectively, and cost-effectively, is critical. Failure here could quickly be your downfall. If you’re not spreading the word, who’s going to buy from you?
Coaching Culture: Putting Down Roots
DiscoverOrg
MAY 27, 2016
At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Months beyond the vision phase, we are now in execution mode and fully committed to building a coaching culture — both for Customer Success and Sales — that instills the good habits needed to realize that vision. Coaching is absolutely clutch. It’s gotta be there. It can’t take days off. It requires executive level sponsorship and involvement.
B2B Marketing Trends 2016-2020: Social Media Breakfast Wrap
Webbiquity
MAY 24, 2016
What trends will drive B2B marketing over the next three to four years? Where should savvy B2B marketers invest their resources to optimize results over the next few years?
How Content Becomes a Sales Conversation
Sales Engine
MAY 24, 2016
With directives from above to grow revenue through sales, groups as varied as marketing, products, human resources, and even sales itself will rally to find ways to support the sales team.
Win Sales Calls with Webinar Production
Speaker: Dawn Baron, President, Passion Profits Consulting, and Shelley Trout, Webinar Producer, Aggregage
As a B2B marketer in 2020, you are being asked to do a lot: brand building, create content, build position as thought leader, generate leads, create ongoing touchpoints with prospects, and ideally generate sales calls. And do all of this with limited resources and time in a crowded world that is fighting you for attention. That’s a big challenge, and we believe a key part of the answer to that challenge is the smart application of webinars for B2B audiences. If you have held back on doing webinars because of the level of effort, or if you want to up your webinar effectiveness, then you won’t want to miss this unique presentation with expert webinar producers Dawn Baron and Shelley Trout.
7 Digital Marketing “Rules” for Small Business Owners
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 26, 2016
One of the things that are so cool about digital marketing is that the little guys can compete with the big guys on a more equal footing. As long as you can get your brand “out there” in really effective ways, you can compete. Notice, however, that the key word here is “brand,” not product […].
Actionable Information: How To Apply The Scientific Method To Marketing Operations [pt. 3 of 4]
bizible
MAY 23, 2016
Welcome back to our four-part series on marketing operations leadership. Whether you want to improve a campaign, get more budget, or implement a new marketing technology, you'll need to justify it with objective information.
How Do You Choose a Blog Platform?
Writing on the Web
MAY 23, 2016
How do you choose a blog platform ? . In my last post, How to Start a Blog: 7 Steps BEFORE You Blog , I shared important information you want to consider before your first post, including signing up for a trial blog.
5 Megatrends that Have Redefined Selling - Insights from a Sales Rock Star
Sales Engine
MAY 22, 2016
I had the pleasure of meeting one of the Bona Fide “Rock Stars” of the selling profession Friday morning in Mr. Neil Rackham.
Key Trends in Marketing: Thought Leadership
Thought leadership is a highly effective marketing strategy that highlights an organization’s talent, experience and passion while answering the most pressing questions faced by its target audience.
How To Beat Your Competition At Content Marketing
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 25, 2016
Everyone wants an edge over their competitors. Small businesses need it to survive and thrive in today’s tough market. Even large, established brands need it to continue to win new business. Having a good product and providing great customer services simply are just not enough anymore.
Get Exceptionally Valuable Results From A/B Testing With Advanced Measurement
bizible
MAY 25, 2016
A/B testing has become a staple in the data-driven marketer’s diet. After all, decisions based on A/B experiments are objective and data-centric, rather than based on feelings, which can vary from day-to-day and person-to-person.
#Personalized Mona Lisa #Marketing #Humor #Fail
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 27, 2016
Dear Internet, I was disappointed but not wholly surprised that you didn’t find Wednesday's post with Personalized Mona Lisa as self-evidently hilarious as I did. This isn’t the first time my sense of humor failed to match with yours.
4 ways a website redesign can improve your digital marketing NOW
Biznology
MAY 27, 2016
Looking for a way to boost your digital marketing efforts? Take a good look at your website, as it’s one of the easiest things to tweak to instantly improve your marketing efforts. Here’s how an update to your website can inject new energy into your marketing. A Fresh Look Can Attract New Visitors.
5 B2B Marketing Trends that You Can't Ignore in 2020
Speaker: Pam Didner, Marketing Consultant, Author and Speaker
Pam Didner, B2B tech marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Effective Sales Enablement and Global Content Marketing, will present the essential marketing trends you need to know in 2020. She'll discuss digital challenges that marketers commonly face and share actionable solutions and templates you can apply to your job in real-time.
The Formula For Balancing The Math And Magic Of Marketing
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 23, 2016
The availability of analytic data has propelled marketing forward in many ways, helping to identify patterns and behaviors that can shape marketing messages as well as improve product development.
How to Improve B2B Event Marketing ROI with Marketing Attribution
bizible
MAY 26, 2016
Attending events and conferences is a huge investment. From flights and hotel rooms to sponsorships and booth swag, the price tag can total in the tens of thousands to even millions depending on the sponsor party you throw.
How Data-Driven Are Today’s Modern CMOs?
Modern Marketing
MAY 26, 2016
We’ve all heard the adage that if something can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist. But in today’s Modern Marketing world, simply having measurable data is not always enough.
Promotional products: making them effective branding tools for your business
Biznology
MAY 26, 2016
Promotional products have really stood the test of time in the marketing world. You know them: they are those branded gifts that have your company’s name and or logo on them. They are one of the oldest forms of marketing, advertising, and branding.
Maximize Results Of Attending A Trade Show
Attending trade shows helps your business find new prospects and make connections. By downloading this white paper, you will learn how setting goals and adding pre-planning to every trade show and industry event you attend makes a considerable difference.
How To Design Your B2B Sales Conversations
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 24, 2016
To paraphrase David Packard, sales conversations are too important to leave to sales people. B2B sales conversations for key touch points should be designed. This optimizes conversation effectiveness and simplifies selling.
3 Mistakes B2B Sales Leaders Make That Hurt Performance
ANNUITAS
MAY 26, 2016
Much is written about how the role of the B2B marketers changed over the years due to the shift in the buying process.
Tips For Getting More Out of Marketing Automation
Modern Marketing
MAY 27, 2016
The Friday Five —a collection of five curated articles from around the Internet — topic this go round: Marketing Automation. 5 TIPS FOR GETTING MORE OUT OF MARKETING AUTOMATION.
The real value of engaging your audience in content marketing
Biznology
MAY 23, 2016
Consumers crave authenticity. This has been the case to some extent for as long as there has been marketing. Think of your cool friends who knew all the big bands before they were big – and who immediately hated them as soon as they made it big.).
Why and How to Dominate Google's Featured Snippets
Speaker: Kathleen Booth, VP of Marketing at Prevailion
Until recently, getting to position #1 on the search engine results pages (SERPs) was the holy grail of digital marketing. Now, Google has introduced featured snippets - effectively creating a “position zero.” Through real-world examples and case studies, learn why owning the featured snippet is so important, how to dominate position zero, and what impact it will have on your traffic and leads as the future of search continues to evolve.
6 Ways to Grow Your Instagram Advertising Strategy
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 24, 2016
Building an Instagram advertising strategy is becoming the key to a successful social campaign, with the platform boasting over 400 million active users per month and an average of 80 million photos posted per day. The platform’s current per-follower engagement rate is 4.21 percent.
Have you overlooked Local Search?
Direct Response Coach
MAY 24, 2016
By now, we’re all at least somewhat familiar with the term SEO or Search Engine Optimization. But ask anyone what SEO means to them and you’re bound to hear different answers. For some, SEO is a series of strategies designed to get your web pages to appear on the first page of Google or the [.].
The Mobile Marketing Disconnect CMOs Need To Be Aware Of
Modern Marketing
MAY 24, 2016
One of the first things I was taught in marketing school was I am not marketing to myself; I am marketing to the target audience. It sounds fairly simple, right? Seems kind of straightforward.
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