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8 Crucial B2B Marketing Trends for 2024 [Based On Real Research]

Inbox Insight

With technological advancements continuously changing buyer behaviors and shifting market dynamics, business leaders must stay ahead and adapt their marketing strategies to meet the demands of modern B2B buyers. Failure to embrace new marketing approaches and technologies can leave companies lagging behind, struggling to connect with their target audience, and missing out on valuable opportunities.

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How to Build a Positive Brand Image for Marketing Success

sagefrog

Have you ever thought about how your company’s brand image impacts your success? You know that the image of your brand is important, but have you ever really thought about whether you’re actively working to develop and maintain a positive brand image or if you’re just going with the flow? There’s a distinct difference between the two, and if you haven’t considered your approach, now’s a great time to start.

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What Is Zero-Party Data and What Can You Do with It?

Marketing Insider Group

Understanding your customers is critical because you need to give them what they want to keep them coming back. Zero-party data helps you gather consumer information directly from the source so you can personalize your marketing to their individual preferences. About 63% of consumers believe businesses are dishonest about how they use customer data, and 54% think brands use data to benefit themselves, not their customers.

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Top 10 Benefits of a Fractional CMO: Detailed Insights with B2B Examples

Orange Owl Blog

Fractional Marketing Top 10 Benefits of a Fractional CMO: Detailed Insights with B2B Examples Orange Owl August 1, 2024 Share : Table of Contents A fractional CMO can bring numerous benefits to a B2B business, offering the expertise and strategic insight of a full-time CMO without the associated costs. According to a report by the Chief Outsiders, hiring a fractional CMO can save companies up to 60% compared to hiring a full-time CMO.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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The Future of Event Marketing: Hybrid Experiences

Bluetext

In the rapidly evolving landscape of event marketing, one concept is gaining unprecedented traction: hybrid experiences. As we navigate a post-pandemic world, combining physical and virtual elements in event planning has emerged as the key to expanding reach, enhancing engagement, and providing a more flexible experience for attendees. At Bluetext, we believe the future of event marketing lies in these hybrid experiences, and here’s why.

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Finding Clarity in Your Job Search

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Hey there, job seeker.You’re buried in job applications, rejection emails, and interview prep. Fun times. But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Let’s talk about how to turn this dreaded process into something a bit more manageable. Here’s your guide to finding clarity in your job search as presented by Karli Williamson in her talk for the DEMAND Community.

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Your Guide To Great B2B Content Marketing Strategy

PathFactory

Your Guide To Great B2B Content Marketing Strategy What is B2B Content Marketing? B2B content marketing is the practice of creating and distributing valuable, relevant content to attract and engage other businesses. Unlike B2C content marketing , which targets individual consumers, B2B content marketing focuses on educating and building relationships with business buyers.

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Collaboration vs Consensus: Harness the Best Thinking in Co-Creation

Content Science Review

Learn how collaboration can make use of the best thinking available when co-creating content, products, and experiences.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Consumer Behaviour Book” by Anthony Tasgal

The Forward Observer

The Consumer Behaviour Book: Exploring The Reasons Why Emotions Are So Important In Decision Making by Anthony “Tas” Tasgal About the Book Neoclassical economics assumes that most people have well-defined preferences and make well-informed, self-interested decisions based on those preferences. But in the real world, this is often not the case. The Consumer Behaviour Book combines elements of economics and psychology to help you understand how and why consumers behave the way they do.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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When to Use Subdomains and How They Impact Your SEO

Marketing Insider Group

Your website’s structure can make a significant difference in your online success. Subdomains, those unique prefixes that precede your primary domain name, are crucial in organizing content and improving user experience. Whether you want to separate different products, target specific regions, or enhance your site’s functionality , using subdomains can influence your SEO efforts.

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Five Effective Instagram Post Ideas for B2B Businesses

Webbiquity

Guest post by Mitt Ray. When you tell people you want to promote your B2B company on social media, they all tell you to jump on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an excellent B2B network , but Instagram is another great option for B2B and B2C companies alike. All types of B2B firms – including SaaS companies, ecommerce stores, infopreneurs, coaches, and service providers – use Instagram to successfully promote their businesses.

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How B2B Marketers Can Build Brand Trust (and Why It’s Important)

Trade Press Services Newsletter

One fundamental truth reigns supreme in the B2B marketplace: trust is the cornerstone of every successful transaction. Whether it’s a large corporation vying for a lucrative contract or a startup seeking qualified investors, the currency of trust is essential for success. Why? People, especially in the B2B world, buy from brands they trust. They want to know that the brands they support understand their pain points and can deliver real value.

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How to use AI in email marketing without losing the human touch

Martech

It is 2024, and we’ve all heard how AI can improve our email marketing efforts. But as we dive into generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it doesn’t take long to realize AI can yield lackluster results, inconsistent and off-brand content and campaigns that feel average. As AI use in business grows, too many companies and solo entrepreneurs try to use it to replace jobs.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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4 Ways to Improve Digital Marketing With Donor Data

Marketing Insider Group

Nonprofits are investing more time and resources into digital marketing avenues than ever before. According to the 2024 M+R Benchmarks report , nonprofits invested 13% more in digital advertising in 2023 than in 2022. Digital marketing connects nonprofits to new audiences and strengthens their relationships with existing supporters. However, your digital marketing plan is only as powerful as the data you collect to inform your decisions.

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How to Find a Single Source of Truth for Marketing (And Why It Matters)

Act-On

How teams collect, manage, and use data is one of the hottest topics in marketing right now — because data management is the foundation for basically everything that matters in 2024. It’s crucial for protecting consumer privacy and enabling strategic decision-making. It influences your team’s ability to leverage the latest and greatest AI applications.

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CEO Perspective: The Challenges of Implementing AI for Business Leaders

Convince & Convert

When Open AI released ChatGPT 3.5 at the end of 2022, and I saw its capabilities, I had one dark prediction. I was sure we’d see a significant impact on the job market as corporations saw the platform’s capabilities and pursued the efficiencies at scale that these large language models (LLMs) can certainly achieve. Corporations are known for ruthlessly pursuing efficiencies to increase profits and reward shareholders, right?

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Why brands must bridge the knowledge gap in AI adoption

Martech

Change is constant, but one thing is certain: hype cycles grab attention and influence budgets, for better or worse. Artificial intelligence (AI) is just the latest enterprise fixation, but it won’t be the last. Additionally, AI is too broad a term to focus on, with generative AI taking much of the oxygen in conversations, yet with other forms of artificial intelligence, such as predictive analytics and robotic process automation (RPA), having a larger existing footprint.

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Top B2B Email Marketing Tactics to Drive Engagement and Pipeline in 2025

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Ready to become the email wizard your team didn’t know they needed? Join our live webinar to uncover the secrets of mixing AI magic with human flair, crafting emails so good your audience can't help but write back. We'll spill the beans on: Scaling personal touches Tracking metrics (like revenue, duh) Building smarter campaigns that actually work Oh, and we’re throwing in multi-channel tips too—think LinkedIn ads and webinars that wow.

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Why it’s time to add Reddit marketing to your mix

SmartBrief - Marketing

Many marketers still consider Reddit an enigma. Founded in 2005, it’s one of the few elder social media platforms that’s survived to today. Since the company’s IPO in March, its stock price has gone in the opposite direction everyone anticipated — up, up, up. It boasts a highly engaged 850 million monthly active users , an audience that isn’t afraid to share their opinions, viewpoints and feedback.

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7 Lead Generation Ideas for 2024

Oktopost

Unfortunately, for most businesses, new customers are not as easy to gather as pennies in a public fountain. However, there is a bright side: new technologies and tools enable businesses to take their lead generation game to the next level, improving customer acquisition and retention. By 2027, GenAI will take over 30% of traditional lead generation tasks such as lead scoring and customer data analysis.

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Mastering RevOps: Key Steps to Reduce Tech Bloat & Accelerate Growth

Zoominfo

Revenue operations (RevOps) professionals are an increasingly important voice on go-to-market teams, with analysts predicting 75% of the highest-growth companies will soon employ a RevOps strategy. The reasons are clear: RevOps pros are the experts in streamlined processes and consistent, sustainable growth. And one of the clearest ways to deliver that value is through evaluation of a company’s go-to-market technology stack.

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Second quarter saw slowing ad spend on most platforms

Martech

Most U.S. digital ad platforms saw slowing ad spending last quarter, according to a new report from digital marketing agency Tinuiti. Amazon Sponsored Products, Facebook, Google search and Instagram all saw lower spending growth year-over-year in Q2 2024 than a quarter earlier. YouTube was the only major platform that saw an increase. The video platform saw a 28% increase in ad spend last quarter, compared to 18% in Q1.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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6 influencer marketing brand safety considerations to bake into your strategy

Sprout Social

Last April, Australian influencer Emma Claiir went viral for all the wrong reasons when she admitted to two incidents of past animal cruelty. Claiir drew so much backlash in the weeks that followed, she eventually stopped influencing altogether. But what made this event even more unsettling was Claiir’s then-ongoing partnership with vegan, cruelty-free brand, MCoBeauty.

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Principles for Managing AI-Related Change

Heinz Marketing

By Tom Swanson Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing Let’s get straight to the point: there is no one-size-fits-all approach to integrating AI. Part of this is because of regular change management rules (every change is different, etc.), but another part is just how nebulous the term “AI” is. Somewhere in the past 6 months I lost sight of what the term actually means.

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The Essential Guide to the Demand Generation Funnel

Oktopost

When buyers are motivated by organic demand, they’re less likely to wander out of the sales funnel. But just because they are already interested in your brand doesn’t mean they don’t need your attention to turn into high-quality leads. The average B2B buyer interacts with a brand 36 times before purchasing a product or service. Creating more opportunities for buyer-led engagement might be a better way to move buyers down the funnel than harvesting contact information so you can reach out with a

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How additional information changes customer value assessments

Martech

How much is a random person worth to your business? The answer changes dramatically as you gather more information. Let’s explore how customer value assessments evolve with data, using examples from probability theory to illuminate the powerful impact of information on business decisions. Assessing value with limited information Imagine that I called you out of the blue.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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We Need to Talk About Personalization: Evolution & Trends

Litmus

What do you think we’re talking about when we say the words “email personalization”? Are you thinking about merge tags or dynamic content ? Segmentation and automation? Profile or behavior-based automations? Or all of the above? While the technology, functionality, and overall options you have available when it comes to personalizing an email has changed—we’re still using the same generalized term to mean everything that’s dynamic, interactive, segmented or field-based in an email.

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Is Your Customer Lifecycle Strategy Aligned with Evolving Consumer Behavior?

Televerde

Customer lifecycle strategy is a crucial contributor to a business’s ability to engage, convert, and retain customers—and ultimately, to drive growth and long-term profitability. But it’s also harder than ever to execute well, thanks largely to fast-changing market dynamics that are causing customer behaviors to change rapidly. To keep up with the pace of these changes, businesses need customer lifecycle strategies designed to be agile and data-informed.

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How to create an effective pricing page

MKT1

When done right, a pricing page reinforces your positioning, provides clarity about the value of your offering to your audience, makes the sales process easier, and increases overall conversion. When not done well, prospects get confused about your offering, get sticker shock, or feel like your product is not for them. Prospects will bounce to a competitor or stick with their status quo solution.

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