Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lead generation for B2B has undergone quite a transformation. Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. Today, digital platforms and data enrichment strategies are the status quo, reshaping how we identify, engage and nurture potential customers we’d like to have. But have we deviated too far from sustainable lead generation practices and become too reliant on pay-to-play databases to fuel outbound initiatives?

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 28, 2024

Source: Shutterstock (The concept of the "marketing mix" has been a staple of marketing for over 70 years. It's discussed in virtually all marketing textbooks and taught in virtually all introductory marketing courses. But does the marketing mix idea still have a place in 21st-century marketing? The answer is "yes," and here's why.) The marketing mix construct has been part of the marketing landscape for more than seven decades.

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Trade Press Services

JANUARY 29, 2024

A brand’s success depends on its reputation, visibility, credibility and even popularity. But simply promoting a brand is not enough. To stand out from the competition, potential buyers are looking for credible and authentic input from real people who have worked with your company. That’s where a brand ambassador strategy can make a big difference. Brand ambassadors are individuals who serve as the face of the brand and share less biased perspectives that are often more trusted by target audienc

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BOP Design

JANUARY 30, 2024

Draft, schedule, send, repeat. If this describes your firm’s email marketing strategy, it’s time to step into the light and. The post B2B Email Marketing Trends, Best Practices, and Tips appeared first on Bop Design.

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The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 30, 2024

By aligning marketing and sales, improving lead quality, and making efficient use of resources, BANT leads play a pivotal role in marketing success.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 29, 2024

At Marketing Insider Group, we’ve been exploring the world of AI for quite a while. And let’s just say, we’ve gathered some valuable insights along the way. Now, we all know AI isn’t a cure-all for every marketing challenge. It’s not going to magically solve all our problems (though we all wish it could). But it is an incredibly useful tool that can simplify our lives in the content creation arena.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2024

Multicultural marketing in the US is expected to grow 8% in 2024, per PQ Media , though it’ll still account for less than 6% of total marketing spending this year. While 8% growth is definitely not bad, it’s still underwhelming, considering the US Census Bureau expects the country to be “minority white” in about 20 years. And, you don’t have to wait that long for some age groups.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 30, 2024

Your brand strives for perfection, whether it’s the company’s public image, a seamless campaign message, or flawless email distribution. But your brand has flaws, and that’s a lesson every brand storyteller must learn.

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The Forward Observer

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Sale Is In The Tale by John Livesay About the Book John Livesay, a keynote speaker and author of the business book Better Selling Through Storytelling , presents us with a business fable set in Austin, Texas. It is about a sales representative whose old ways of selling are not working anymore. With the help of his colleague, he learns how to use storytelling in his sales meetings, which wins him more sales success than ever before.

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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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SendX

JANUARY 31, 2024

Warming up your email is like stretching before a marathon—it's essential, but often overlooked. Without this critical step, even the most well-crafted emails risk being dismissed as spam. That's where email warm up sprints to the rescue.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Many of us have seen the classic comedy film Groundhog Day in which Bill Murray stars as a TV weatherman trapped in a time loop, forcing him to relive February 2 over and over again. While it’s a hilarious premise for a movie, it’s downright terrifying in real life—especially when it comes to marketing. Even the savviest of marketers can relate to the struggle of continuously creating the same content, launching the same campaigns and repeating the same initiatives simply because 

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s something interesting you should know about B2B companies and their content strategies. Most of them are doing it at a basic, functional level. They’re focusing on what each part of their business needs, tailoring their content to these specific areas. But here’s the catch – not many have a strategy that covers the whole business.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2024

Profitable growth is a fundamental goal for every company. Whether you are a startup or a well-established corporation, planning and implementing a growth strategy is essential. But what exactly is a growth strategy, and how can you ensure it’s effective? I cannot stress enough the importance of a customer-centric strategy if you aspire to achieve profitable growth.

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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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SendX

JANUARY 30, 2024

Bare with us for a moment as we geek out on email MTAs. We feel it’s important to understand what email MTA means if you’re working on email marketing platforms. Because of this, we’re going to spend this article educating you on a not-so-exciting element of what it is we do here. But, we think if you can hang in there until the end of the post you will learn a thing or two!

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to email marketing tips, there are a few things that we have all been told to do. From using specific CTAs to sending at certain times of the day, but does some of that conventional wisdom really make a difference? After extensive tests, see what we uncovered. When’s the best time to send an email? What kind of personalization actually drives engagement?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

What if I told you we could peek into the future of search trends and user behaviors, almost like having a time machine at our fingertips? No, we don’t have a crystal ball, but who needs one when you’ve got the magic of data and predictive analytics? In a digital landscape where Google’s algorithms dance to a tune that’s always a beat ahead, staying on top of SEO is like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded.

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Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing force for revolutionizing customer experience (CX). With the ability to process vast amounts of data and drive automation at scale, AI empowers brands to deliver personalized, seamless CX journeys that foster loyalty and satisfaction. This article explores how leading companies leverage AI across three key areas — clear messaging, frictionless interactions and tailored experiences — to shape customer experience. 1.

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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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SendX

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to newsletter email subject lines, there’s a frustrating game we keep seeing played online that we really want to put a stop to here at SendX - it’s the old spray and pray game. You send out countless emails with random email subject lines just hoping they will get opened.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing multiple marketing projects on social media can be challenging. Just as a chef multitasks to ensure every dish is perfect, you are saddled with the same responsibility for achieving perfection, but with less grease and smoke. You have to manage various projects, harmonizing content creation, engagement strategies, and analytics. But how do you manage all these tasks across multiple social media platforms without compromising your content quality, consistency, and sanity?

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CMSWire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Generative AI has changed ecommerce personalization forever. The key to capitalizing on that change is harnessing real-time customer and product data. Continue reading.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 29, 2024

If you build it, they will come. That famous quote from Field of Dreams refers to a baseball field for ghosts, but can it also be applied to an email list? It sure can. According to our research , email remains the best way to connect with customers. A good email list brings in new prospects, increases engagement with your community, and provides you with valuable customer and performance data to keep refining your efforts.

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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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Marketri

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’ve written many blogs that explore how to use marketing to solve a business problem. This one is a little different. With 2024 unofficially dubbed The Year of AI (at least on Wall Street), I find myself contemplating how this enabling technology can coexist with the human-centered marketing experience buyers crave today. It’s a real quandary for marketers.

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Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies. Sentry.io got rid of all advertising and tracking cookies last July.

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CMSWire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Stay up-to-date on the latest in search engine optimization. Learn about SEO strategies, best practices and the latest updates to Google's ranking factors. Continue reading.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social media networks, and the way users interact with them, evolve quickly. In the past few years, users traded glossy, retouched photos for lo-fi videos and photo dumps. They simultaneously hopped on blink-and-you’ll-miss them trends, while championing authenticity. In 2023, we saw new platforms enter the scene and shake ups in platform preferences that changed the face of the industry, while other tried and true networks held consumer attention.

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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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Ahrefs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To choose the right KPIs: There are an almost infinite number of KPIs, often varying in small details (like how they’re measured, or subtle differences in definition).

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Martech

JANUARY 31, 2024

The use of generative AI in business processes grew by 400% in 2023, and the biggest adopters were RevOps (48% of use cases) followed by IT (31%). Perhaps surprisingly, customer support lagged behind at 12%. Highly complex automation cases have almost doubled over the past two years, while 50% of automation cases stretch over four or more departments.

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CMSWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Explore the impact of Customer Experience (CX) on business success, from customer journey nuances to strategies for enhancing CX and fostering brand loyalty. Continue reading.

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