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If content is king, why is treated like a pauper?

B2BMarketing.net

How many pieces of content have you seen today? 10? 50? 100? Forget about your own marketing team’s output for a second – just think about the sheer amount of digital content you’ve seen on social media, TV or your laptop today alone… the volume is staggering. What’s even more staggering is just how forgettable and aimless some of that content is. Whilst B2B marketers know that content is important to their strategy, the truth is that pressure from above, the internal perception of marketing’s r

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Four Reasons Why a Strategic Messaging Framework Is Important for B2B Marketing Success

Launch Marketing

Reaching the right audiences with the right messages is fundamental for B2B marketing success. Without clear and consistent messaging, it can be a challenge to engage ideal buyers and highlight why your solution is the best one for them. That’s where a strategic messaging framework comes in. A messaging framework is a tool that helps embody and communicate your strategy and story across all different lines of business.

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More Millennials Are Making B2B Purchasing Decisions: What That Means for Your ABM Strategy

Madison Logic

According to Forrester research, millennial buyers aged 25-44 are increasingly shifting into purchase decision-making roles and are expected to make up three-fourths of business buying teams in 2024. As a result of this shift, marketers and sellers can no longer rely on what has always worked to reach them. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach will increasingly become obsolete as B2B marketing and sales teams must deliver more personalized buying experiences to engage millennial buyers.

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The State of B2B Publishing 2024: A Conversation with ASBPE Leadership, Cory Sekine-Pettite and Davide Savenije

Trade Press Services

Trade Press Services recently sat down with Cory Sekine-Pettite and Davide Savenije of the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Industry editors and society directors, they have 37 years of B2B publishing experience between them. They offered insights essential for brands, professionals, journalists, and thought leaders looking to share thought leadership and establish their expertise in today’s constantly evolving marketplace.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Demystifying Content Syndication ROI: A Guide for B2B Leaders

Only B2B

“It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” Think of your content as seeds of knowledge. Your website is the initial fertile ground, but content syndication allows you to sow those seeds across a wider digital field, reaching afr broader audience for potential growth and harvest, yielding the bounty of revenue. Is content syndication worth the effort?

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Unlocking Marketing Budgets: Strategies for Success

CMSWire

Marketers need to rediscover innovative ways to make the most out of their existing budgets, protecting and increasing investment for next year and beyond. Continue reading.

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The Future of Telemarketing: How Data-Driven Insights Drive Success in B2B Campaigns

Lake B2B

In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, where digital channels dominate the landscape, telemarketing remains a potent and effective tool for driving successful campaigns. Despite the rise of social media, email marketing, and other online strategies, the personal touch and direct communication offered by telemarketing play a crucial role in building meaningful connections and generating […] The post The Future of Telemarketing: How Data-Driven Insights Drive Success in B2B Campaigns appe

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Martechopia 2024: What did we learn about marketing technology in 2024?

B2BMarketing.net

2023 was the year that B2B marketers realised the potential of AI, but it didn’t take long until the mere mention of the word led to rolling eyes and a collective sense of ‘here we go again’. Perhaps this was best illustrated in our recent community sprint, in which we brought the Propolis community together to work out how we can use AI to overcome challenges around team productivity and efficiency.

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How Has Email Marketing in B2B Evolved in 2024? And What Can You Do About It? 

PureB2B

Email marketing is one of your main channels to grow your sales. Are your strategies still effective for your B2B audience?

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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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How to Write Great Winback Emails

SendX

Know how you can leverage segmentation, personalization, compelling offers, and multi-channel coordination in your winback email approach. Examples included.

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Why Your Business Isn’t Seeing New Leads Online

Marketing Insider Group

All customers you get to the bottom of the marketing and sales funnel begin as leads. Somewhere, you attracted their attention and somehow, you propelled them to interact with your brand. Once they do, your company has the information it needs to make contact. In today’s environment, your digital presence offers the best opportunities for generating leads.

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Measure, Test, Measure: A Proven Framework for Better Data-Driven Decisions

Vision Edge Marketing

A high maturity level of customer-centricity enables more cost-effective initiatives related to recruiting, retaining, and growing the value of more customers; and creating relationships to build trust, loyalty, and advocacy. This, in turn, results in both top and bottom-line benefits. A well-crafted customer-centric growth strategy is the compass that guides us to profitable, sustainable growth.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Brand Benefits Playbook” by Allen Weiss

The Forward Observer

The Brand Benefits Playbook: Why Customers Aren’t Buying What You’re Selling–And What to Do About It by Allen Weiss and Debbie MacInnis About the Book From two of the world’s leading experts on branding, brand benefits, and positioning, this strategic guide reveals how focusing on brand benefits can transform organizations and help them win in the marketplace.

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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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Email Marketing Benchmarks You Need To Know

SendX

To truly harness the power of email marketing, it's crucial to understand how your campaigns measure up against industry standards. That's where benchmarks come in.

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Is Your Video Content Fulfilling Its Goals?

Marketing Insider Group

Video content is like the air we breathe – it’s everywhere, and there’s no escaping it. Love it or hate it, as marketers, we’re all aboard this fast-moving train. Each video is more than just a play button. It’s a chance to captivate, connect, and convert, turning each second of screen time into a memorable experience. It’s time to embrace the chaos and create video content that leaves a lasting impression.

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Choosing Your Ally in Growth: The Consultant vs. Agency Dilemma

Convince & Convert

So you’re at the point in your business where you’re looking to outsource support, whether it’s fixing an issue, auditing your current techstack, or attempting to scale, and you’re debating between hiring a consultant or an agency? There are many benefits to hiring both, however, there are some things you should first consider before making a decision.

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You Can’t Compare Backlink Counts in SEO Tools: Here’s Why

Ahrefs

For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B pages in our index as of December 2023. At a certain point, the quality of the web becomes bad.

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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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Sam Altman: AI Will Replace 95% of Creative Marketing Work

CMSWire

The OpenAI CEO says 95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists and creative professionals for will be handled by AI at nearly no cost. Continue reading.

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Navigating social media marketing in an election year

Sprout Social

The 2024 US presidential election is several months away, but social media is already politically charged. According to Sprout Social Listening data , from January 1 to March 6, 2024 there were almost 7.6 million conversations about the presidential election which garnered almost 45 million engagements and more than 103 billion impressions. Of these conversations, less than half were positive.

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13 Proven Marketing Hacks to Generate Guaranteed Leads

Optinmonster

Do you want to grow your business rapidly? Want to learn how to use digital marketing hacks to generate more leads? Marketing has become extremely competitive in recent years. In every niche, you’ll find brands that sell similar products and lookalike features within a similar price range. And if you do what others are doing in your industry, you won’t achieve your brand’s true potential.

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Does Adding a Related Post Section Help Your Blog? We Tested It

Ahrefs

Our marketing team was fairly split on whether we should have a section like this and whether it would help.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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What a TikTok Ban Means for Marketers

CMSWire

Explore how a TikTok ban would reshape marketing strategies, impact influencers and prompt a pivot to new platforms for brands. Continue reading.

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24 Top YouTube influencers to check out in 2024

Sprout Social

YouTube influencers are on a different level when it comes to business impact. The term “influencer” might be synonymous with Instagram and TikTok these days. Thing is, YouTube creators predate both and are the blueprint for what an “influencer” is today. And YouTubers have consistently built full-blown brands, media careers and product lines. These aren’t just one-off success stories, either.

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CRM Hygiene: The 5-Step Data Cleansing Process for Modern Business

Zoominfo

The most important growth drivers for any business simply can’t succeed without a core infrastructure of high-quality, trustworthy data. For most companies, the first step in building that advanced data foundation is to cleanse the trove of business data already on hand in their customer relationship management (CRM) system. And while it’s easy to assume large enterprises have data cleansing down to a science, one major global survey found that CRM data decays by about 34% annually, with nearly

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I Replaced Google with AI For a Week. Here’s What I Learned

Ahrefs

It made me pause and think: Can you really replace Google with something else, like AI? I grew up with Google after all; it had never crossed my mind that one day I would stop using the search giant.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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What Companies Should Know About Generative AI and Customer Experience

CMSWire

Sprinklr's Buddy Waddington explores how generative AI transforms customer experiences through advanced chatbots, social listening, personalization and more. Continue reading.

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Google’s cookie deprecation: An essential marketing playbook for the post-cookie era

Martech

Google’s full deprecation of third-party cookies is right around the corner. Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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When Business Gets Personal: Sales Pro’s Big Bet on ZoomInfo Pays Off

Zoominfo

Convincing management to invest in new software solutions isn’t always the easiest sell, but it’s a struggle that many sales professionals know all too well. In today’s economic climate, it’s arguably tougher than ever. But what if you happen to know the CEO of a software company that you know will help you close more business? That’s exactly the situation Benjamin Adams found himself in.

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