Sat.Apr 11, 2020 - Fri.Apr 17, 2020

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How to Reduce your Marketing Costs Without Hurting Your Business

Perkuto

History has repeatedly shown that during recessions, the companies that are quick to make deep cuts don’t come out on top. Regardless, during uncertain times, some tightening of the purse strings is expected.and many times, marketing seems to be first up on the chopping block.

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How to Send Bulk Emails Without Spamming (A Step by Step Guide)

SendX

Sending bulk emails and trying to get them into inboxes can feel like this: Trying to hit that inbox You go through the process of crafting a beautiful email, signing them off with ‘Love, Jason’ and then finding that your emails are crash landing into the recipient's spam box. It might have legit, valuable information but doesn’t get delivered to the inbox.

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How to Adapt B2B Digital Marketing to the Buyer Journey in 2020

KoMarketing Associates

Understanding how a B2B buyer’s journey naturally progresses is key to designing a digital marketing program that works in any economic climate. When we do this with our clients, it allows us to see their marketing as a whole, rather than looking at isolated marketing tactics and getting overly focused on minor issues. Once we understand what’s already working for a client, we can then apply an informed strategy to amplify their successes.

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5 Tips for Increasing Customer Retention with Email Marketing

Litmus

It’s harder than ever to win over new customers, so now is the perfect time to focus on keeping the ones you already have. Email marketers, let’s make customer retention your number one priority. Even during less challenging times, it can cost up to 16x more to acquire a new customer than retain a current one. Retention consists of many moving pieces, channels, and metrics, but overall it boils down to one main goal: increasing engagement and deepening your customers’ connection to your brand.

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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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What Marketers Can Learn From Freelancers About Working Remotely

Contently

Hello? Who just joined? Everyone? Oh right. You, too, have now been working from home for a prolonged period of time. If you’re coming from a company that used to have a strict in-office policy, you’re probably realizing that remote work isn’t all the pantsless webconferencing and spooning ice cream straight from the carton you thought it would be.

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Using Interactive Web Design to Connect with B2B Clients During Social Distancing

BOP Design

While you may not be able to connect with clients live and in-person these days, that doesn’t mean that you’ve lost the ability to engage and interact with potential clients. Many creative and agile B2B companies are learning to pivot during these trying times by deepening engagement online. Below are some helpful strategies for how to increase communication and traffic to your B2B website —now and into the coming months ahead.

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What Is Content Optimization, and How Can I Use It to Improve My Content?

DivvyHQ

Content optimization may sound technical (it's really not), but any content producer who is writing for the web should understand the ins and outs. In this article, we dig into the 6 most common optimization techniques that every marketer should master.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. But, as in all economic slowdowns, not every business sector is affected in the same degree or way. Those differences are one area explored in How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing , a research report just published by B2B Marketing Zone and Webbiquity LLC.

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Differences Between Selling to Women vs. Men (Yes, Gender is a Factor)

Zoominfo

Are there differences in selling to women vs. men in B2B sales? Isn’t it all the same? If that’s the mentality you’ve adopted, it might be time to rethink. In partnership with leading sales linguist Steve W. Martin, ZoomInfo surveyed 350+ B2B buyers, and we put this question to the test.

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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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What is Champion Leadership? Lego’s Story of Reinventing a Brand with Empathy

Marketing Insider Group

LEGO is a brand known throughout the world. It’s been a staple of childhoods for decades—one of the most popular toys for boys and girls. LEGO inspires creativity and innovation. But in the late 1990s, LEGO was facing the probability of bankruptcy. They needed to turn things around before they became simply a memory. In writing Mean People Suck , I was struck by the story of LEGO, as depicted by John Davis in his Guardian article, “ How LEGO Clicked: The Super Brand that Reinvented Itself.

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53% of Marketers Cite Concerns Surrounding the Accuracy of Location-Based Data

KoMarketing Associates

Location-based data can give marketers leverage when it comes to targeting prospects and customers. However, new research shows that there are still several challenges associated with utilizing this type of data. Cuebiq and 451 Research recently published the “Finding Real Enterprise Value in Location Data” report, and statistics showed that there are many challenges tied to leveraging location-based data, with the majority of marketers (53%) citing concerns about accuracy.

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How Commvault Built a Successful Customer Advocate Community From the Get-Go — Q&A

Influitive

Commvault is a recognized leader in data backup and recovery solutions, and winner of the Influitive 2019 BAMMIE award for Best Emerging Advocate Program. In our most recent customer success webinar, I spoke with the team behind the company’s exceptional customer advocate community, Commvault Connections. In the first year after launching the community, the team […].

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How to Align Sales & Marketing – and Drive Revenue

Zoominfo

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads. And in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. Enough! Learn tried and true tactics to better align these two critical teams for higher revenue.

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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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Industrial Blogs are Essential in Lead Generation

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial blogs are not often talked about by manufacturers when it comes to lead generation. They tend to brush it off as too time consuming and/or not very effective. They are not completely wrong about their complaints, but don’t be too quick to discard industrial blogging. Let’s face it, your audience of engineers and industrial. Read more The post, %Industrial Blogs are Essential in Lead Generation% by %Achinta Mitra% was originally published on %Industrial Marketing Today%. [ This is only

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Report: Social Media Marketers Finding New Avenues on Instagram and Facebook

KoMarketing Associates

Although social media marketers are not entirely focused on Facebook and Instagram news feeds, they are not giving up on these channels entirely, according to new research. Socialbakers recently published the “Social Media Trends Report,” gathering data from the fourth quarter of 2019. Data showed that since December 2018, marketers’ spend on the Facebook news feed decreased from 64.1% to 58.3% one year later.

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Improve Your Ability to Anticipate the Pitch- What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

Welcome to What’s Your Edge – a series of VisionEdge Marketing podcasts dedicated to helping you use data, analytics, process, and measurement to create an edge for you and your customers. If you’re familiar with baseball you know that there are various options the pitcher employs to confuse and defeat a hitter. Since I hail from a baseball town, I had the opportunity to learn about the twelve most common pitches at a young age.

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SaaS Marketing: 5 Steps to Fast-Track Growth [Guide]

Roketto

SaaS marketers have it pretty tough. Aside from the fact that your target audience is inherently very narrow, and that you’re trying to market something that’s continuously changing, most of the marketing advice you find on the big old internet is about marketing a product.

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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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Post-COVID-19 Workforce Planning & Management Strategies

Biznology

This webinar, featuring by our Senior consultants Dana Look-Arimoto and John Sigmon , continues a special series titled “Creating Resiliency During the COVID-19 Crisis.”. This series will feature articles, podcasts and additional resources from our Consultants Collective member consultants, advisors and coaches, whose experience and expertise includes risk and change management, Asia, China, offshoring, leading distributed global teams, managing crises and internal communications, deploying and

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How Commvault Built a Successful Customer Advocate Community From the Get-Go — Q&A

Influitive

Commvault is a recognized leader in data backup and recovery solutions, and winner of the Influitive 2019 BAMMIE award for Best Emerging Advocate Program. In our most recent customer success webinar, I spoke with the team behind the company’s exceptional customer advocate community, Commvault Connections. In the first year after launching the community, the team […].

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Virtual Spaces: How to Create, Connect, Navigate and Experience

Kaon

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, innovative and forward-looking industry leaders in event planning, mixed reality, marketing, retail, and more were exploring the concept of virtual spaces. Now, we all find ourselves meeting in virtual spaces, in one way or another, and unsure of how to navigate them. From the formally face-to-face sales meeting taking place virtually via Zoom to large-scale events shifting to digital-first venues, we need to give some thought to how to best use these opportuni

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Don’t Social Distance Your Brand: Smart Marketing is Now More Important Than Ever

Brandpoint

by Scott Severson with Chris Schafer Social distancing. If you’re like me, the line between social distancing and solitary confinement is starting to become very blurry. I’ve always enjoyed going to a physical office and I miss seeing and interacting with all my team members at Brandpoint and our clients every day. Yet we know that social distancing currently remains the best strategy to counter the COVID-19 virus and thus staying home remains the best course of action for us as individuals.

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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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35 Top Digital Marketing Blogs That Accept Guest Posts via @alextachalova

Search Engine Journal

Here are 35 digital marketing blogs that accept guest posts, and tips on how to pitch your story to them. The post 35 Top Digital Marketing Blogs That Accept Guest Posts via @alextachalova appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Managing your mental health while working in social media

Sprout Social

It’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that many of us have an addiction to social media. For a lot of people, it’s the first thing they check in the morning and the last thing they see before they go to sleep. The average daily social usage worldwide is around 144 minutes per day , with the average American spending roughly two hours and three minutes on social per day.

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14 Best Website Visitor Tracking Software Tools (By Category)

The Daily Egg

Website visitor tracking can mean a lot of different things. We broke our list down into 3 common use cases—so you can find the tool you need fast. The post 14 Best Website Visitor Tracking Software Tools (By Category) appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Content Marketing Can Do More Than Survive in the New World

Content Marketing Institute

Following the tenets of content marketing can be more than a survival technique in 2020 and beyond. In fact, content marketing is poised to be the shining star of a brand’s marketing mix in this new world. Let me explain. Continue reading → The post Content Marketing Can Do More Than Survive in the New World appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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What Is Content Marketing & Why It Matters via @JuliaEMcCoy

Search Engine Journal

Discover what content marketing is and why creating great content is worth the effort for brands and businesses. The post What Is Content Marketing & Why It Matters via @JuliaEMcCoy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to Market Now

Biznology

Selling cold prospects was never easy, but with nearly everything in flux at the moment, cold prospecting is immeasurably more difficult. That makes your digital presence, content marketing, and relationship building ever more critical. What Does Your Digital Presence Say? The quality of your digital presence is the difference between being invited to your prospect’s shortlist and your prospect never even knowing you exist.

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Best Email Marketing Services

The Daily Egg

Email marketing is one the most cost-effective and impactful marketing tactics in existence. It delivers a higher ROI than any other type of marketing strategy. If you understand how to leverage emails, your campaigns will build customer relationships and drive engagements better than any other distribution channel. But before you can start thinking about subject […].