Sat.Sep 16, 2023 - Fri.Sep 22, 2023

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Beyond the Obvious – Drilling Down on B2B Buyer Personas

FunnelEnvy

From the time of Don Draper in the hit show Mad Men to mega Super Bowl ad spends in the 1980s, marketers traditionally relied on demographics and social trends to target and segment broad audiences. In the 2000s, digital marketing revolutionized marketers’ ability to reach more specific segments. One risk of data is losing sight of the real people behind the numbers.

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Bridging the Gap: The Crucial Role of Sales Insights in Enhancing B2B Marketing Messaging

Heinz Marketing

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, effective communication is critical to winning over potential clients and nurturing existing relationships. While marketing teams are often tasked with crafting compelling messages to reach their target audience, there’s a valuable resource they sometimes overlook – their sales counterparts.

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5 Types of AI All Marketers Should Know About

Marketing Insider Group

AI has caused a seismic shift in the marketing world over the past several years—and we’re talking about way more than ChatGPT. Today, AI is nearly as intertwined with marketing as traditional technology tools, like CRM systems and email marketing platforms. To stay ahead, it’s critical for marketers to know the different types of AI impacting the marketing world and how to use them in practice.

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The Power of Audience Analysis

Leading Results Rambings

In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses face an unprecedented challenge – capturing the attention of their target audience amidst a constant flood of advertisements and promotional messages. To succeed in this hyper-competitive landscape, understanding your target audience is not just an advantage; it's the key to unlocking success. At Luna Creative Marketing, we recognize the power of audience analysis and the immense value it brings to our clients' marketing efforts.

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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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Building a Marketing Machine for B2B Growth with Endava’s Scott Harkey

Content Standard

A Content Disrupted podcast with Scott Harkey, Global Head of Marketing and EVP of Financial Services & Payments at Endava. Scott Harkey helped grow Levvel’s revenue 20x over seven years as CSO. When the company was acquired by Endava, he took on a global marketing role and faced the formidable task of replicating a top-tier marketing operation and scaling it across various solutions, industries, and global regions.

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How to use AI personality profiling for B2B engagement

Martech

Every day we form impressions of the people we meet. We assess their trustworthiness, credibility and level of friendliness based on our interactions. In business, we often assess contacts based on how they will — or will not — support what we’re promoting. Will they be an advocate or influencer? Will they be skeptical or feel threatened? This can extend to organizations or industries.

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Unpacking the Rise of ABM and Ungated Content for B2B Marketers

Metadata

Paid social advertising has changed a lot since Facebook (now Meta) introduced ads at an event in 2007 featuring executives from Blockbuster, CBS, and The Coca-Cola Company. Most of the changes have been positive. Audience targeting has advanced by leaps and bounds. Mobile optimization allows marketers to reach people on the go, and interactive ad formats allow them to captivate people in today’s fast-moving world.

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5 Content Discovery Trends To Inform Your Marketing Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

Content consumption patterns have stayed mostly the same in recent years. Content discovery hasn’t. Consider these five trends as you plan your content and strategy for 2024.

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The Role of AI in Predictive Analytics for B2B Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing As we navigate the landscape of B2B marketing, it becomes increasingly evident that leveraging technology is not just beneficial but essential. A significant development steering this narrative is the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with predictive analytics, a collaboration that promises to add value to businesses by offering deeper insights and facilitating informed decision-making.

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Let's Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Customer-Centric Growth: Unlock 7 Success Factors

Vision Edge Marketing

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, achieving customer-centric organic growth has become paramount for every organization striving to stay competitive and thrive in their respective industries. 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.

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LinkedIn Advertising Best Practices and Advanced Tips

Webbiquity

LinkedIn Ads are one of the most effective channels for reaching highly targeted groups of B2B buyers. Unfortunately, their interface is anything but intuitive, and it’s easy to make small mistakes that can cost big money. Here’s a set of basic tasks, best practices, and advanced tips that can help you optimize your results and ROI from advertising on LinkedIn.

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Do Self-Service Systems Really Lead to Better Results? Our Member Survey Offers Surprising Answers to Industry Questions

Customer Experience Matrix

The CDP Institute just published its annual Member Survey, which is always a treasure chest of interesting data. I’ve already published my primary analysis on the Institute site (you can download it here ) but wanted to call out a number of findings that either contradict or confirm martech industry conventional wisdom. After all, nothing’s more fun than tweaking the nose of authority.

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Demystifying Buyer Intent Data: 3 Tiers of Actionable Insights

Zoominfo

At its core, intent data helps marketing and sales teams identify the companies and individuals most likely to make a purchase, especially in the near future. But not all intent data is created equal. There are many types of intent data, and an array of providers. Here’s a breakdown of the key types of intent, and an in-depth exploration of what makes ZoomInfo the top-rated buyer intent provider on G2 , the largest peer-review business software platform in the world.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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What Is Growth Marketing?

Act-On

Growth marketing has been around for awhile now. Wondering “What is growth marketing?” Don’t panic. Like many buzzwords, the core concepts are more important than the name itself. The truth? You’re probably already doing some version of it. So congratulations, growth marketer. So let’s take a look at the definition of growth marketing, and where the term came from.

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Top Social Selling Examples: 7 Mistakes To Avoid

Oktopost

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. If you want to compel buyers online, social selling is a new sales approach that allows you to cut through digital noise and harness buyer attention.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: A World Without AI Will Soon Be Unthinkable

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

It’s unthinkable for any company, anywhere, today to not have a robust website and mobile presence, right? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s becoming similarly unthinkable for AI-based intelligence to not be baked into every product and service. “This will be a big shift in how we interact with the world and technology,” said Altman, whose company created the wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.

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What could disrupt the future of generative AI?

Martech

There’s a lot of talk these days about how generative AI could put people out of work. Not as much thought is given to how people could put generative AI out of work. But they could — and quite possibly will. GenAI and the foundation models on which it rests are currently at the dizzying peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If Gartner’s model is sound, those tools may be about to plunge into the “trough of disillusionment” before emerging a few years hence on a plateau of usef

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Enablement Woes: Put an End to Content-Related Frustrations

Content frustrations are all too real and it’s time to tackle them head on. Let’s start with marketing. How many times do you use limited resources to create content sellers ignore, while outdated, off-brand materials and messaging continue to be shared? And sellers - how many selling hours do you spend hunting for just the right content, and if you find it, tailoring to specific buyer’s needs becomes your next challenge.

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Industrial Website Redesign—When Failure is Not an Option

Industrial Marketing Today

Are you considering an industrial website redesign? This is a topic of discussion as Q3 ends and, as Q4 starts, many companies begin to do their annual planning and budgeting. However, the sad truth is that many of these redesigns fail to deliver the desired results. You are not alone.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

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Act-On and Intel Team Up to Revolutionize Customer Segmentation with Act-On AI Audience Insights

Act-On

There’s nothing like a great team up to find new solutions to sticky business problems. When Act-On set out to build audience insights functionality into our marketing automation platform, we knew we needed the right partner. For us, it had to be Intel. Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing AI and making it accessible across industries. Their AI & Machine Learning Software Portfolio provides a modular and user-friendly environment to harness the power of AI for various application

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HubSpot’s August 2023 releases: The manager’s guide

Martech

HubSpot’s August releases include additions to its AI tools, numerous reporting and forecasting improvements, commerce updates and more. Many updates were beta-released in preparation for HubSpot’s annual conference. Save time and prevent errors with AI HubSpot released many AI capabilities in 2023. The releases for August include generative AI additions but also AI-powered data tools.

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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.

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Top 50 B2B Content Marketing Influencers and Experts To Follow #CMWorld 2023

Top Rank Marketing

Content Marketing World 2023 takes place September 26 – 28 both in-person in Washington, D.C. and online, and as the biggest content marketing conference in the world, CMWorld annually brings together a fantastic group of top-notch professionals sharing their curiosity for future trends, marketing insight, and aspirations for elevating the industry.

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How marketing business intelligence empowers you to reach your customers

Sprout Social

Awareness. Consideration. Decision. Purchase. The four stages of the marketing and sales funnel. A formidable formula that has explained consumer behavior for over a hundred years, when it was first theorized by advertisers. But what was once a clear-cut process has become a complex collage of touchpoints thanks to the rise of digital marketing and social media.

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Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)

Lenny's Newsletter

Brought to you by Ezra —The leading full-body cancer screening company | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Itamar Gilad is a career coach, author, and speaker with over two decades of experience in senior product roles at Google, Microsoft, and various startups.

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Google launches AI tool for YouTube ad optimization

Martech

Google Ads has launched a new feature to assist advertisers in optimizing their YouTube campaigns Known as Creative Guidance, this innovative tool is now available through Recommendations and has been integrated into Video Analytics within Google Ads. Creative Guidance leverages AI to evaluate your content and offer best-practice feedback. For example, if critical information is missing from your video ad, Creative Guidance will notify you, ensuring that your campaigns are as effective as possib

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Boosting Sales and Conversions

Leading Results Rambings

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses face numerous challenges when it comes to achieving success and growth. One of the primary goals for any business, whether it's an e-commerce store or a service-based company, is to boost sales and increase conversions. In this chapter, we will explore the significance of driving sales and conversions and how Luna Creative Marketing can help your business achieve remarkable results.

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How To Work AI Into Content Marketing (in a Way That Works for You)

Content Marketing Institute

Does the company you work for have an AI policy? Whether it does or not, you need one specific to AI’s use in content marketing. An AI operations plan will help you make (and share) sound decisions about its use, governance, and risk mitigation. Here’s what to consider.

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29 Best Email Automation Tools to Transform Your Business

Optinmonster

Are you looking for the best email automation tools to transform your business? We understand how much time you spend on your email campaigns every day. Plus, we know you don’t want to perform the same tasks for each individual subscriber. We’re here to tell you that there’s another way to handle those repetitive marketing processes: email automation.