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5 Super Bowl LVIII takeaways for marketers

Martech

As the Kansas City Chiefs mounted a late-game charge to become repeat champions (three titles in five years!), Super Bowl LVIII proved to be a victory for fans, brands and the city of Las Vegas. Digital channels provided more options for audiences to engage with the Big Game, including an inventive stream on Nickelodeon called by SpongeBob SquarePants and friends.

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Try These Top B2B Influencer Marketing Tactics

Top Rank Marketing

You’ve probably heard about B2B influencer marketing. The strategy has exploded in adoption, with a 2023 Ogilvy study finding that 75% of B2B businesses are leveraging influencers in their campaigns. Even if you have a general idea of how and why B2B influencer marketing works , you still might wonder how it plays out in practice. How do brands and influencers collaborate to bring these campaigns to life?

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Content Journey Mapping: A Guide to Engaging Top, Middle, and Bottom Funnel Leads

PureB2B

Elevate B2B campaigns with strategic content journey mapping. Optimize touchpoints, deliver personalized messages, and gain data-driven insights.

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Enhancing B2B Marketing for Industrial Companies with AI Strategies

Tiecas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. By leveraging AI, industrial businesses are streamlining operations and redefining how they engage with their customers. This technological advancement offers unprecedented opportunities for personalization, efficiency, and insight- and data-driven strategies, enabling marketers to meet the complex demands of the industrial sector.

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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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Why your B2B Marketing & RevOps Need an Audit

Envy

We're introducing the Envy Way of auditing your B2B marketing & RevOps. Learn what processes and workflows you can improve to reach your 2024 targets.

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Sculpt Your Way to “Advantageous Excellence” Via Iteration | What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

The concept of iteration is much like a masterful sculptor chiseling away at a block of stone to reveal a magnificent work of art. Just as a sculptor refines their creation through a series of careful, deliberate strokes, organizations can harness the power of iteration to sculpt their strategies, products, operations, and processes into something truly exceptional – achieving what we have termed “advantageous excellence.

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Aligning martech with your business strategy: Your blueprint for success

Martech

You’ve explored the crucial link between your martech stack and strategic goals in “ The CMO’s guide to aligning martech and business strategy ,” understanding why syncing these elements boosts efficiency, customer value and growth. Your martech decisions must align with and advance your company’s core business goals for the next one to two years.

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‘Playing Around’ With Generative AI Won’t Lead To Innovation

Content Marketing Institute

Company leaders and some marketers think generative AI gives them miraculous new capabilities. They believe it requires a new strategy or a dedicated leader. And they would be wrong. Generative AI is an innovation, not an invention.

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The Re-emergence (and Growing Importance) of Content Gating for GTM Programs

ANNUITAS

There is no question that conventional wisdom — and an overall trend for the last few years — has leaned towards less ‘content gates’ in GTM programs – i.e., offering more content un-gated. “[A] growing contingent of marketers think gating content is a tacky, intrusive tactic that undermines the power of good content and exacerbates the tension between marketing and sales departments,” asserts Built In editor Hal Koss.

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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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Best Retail Email Subject Lines

SendX

We’re all really busy and, and have crowded inboxes. The average office worker sends 40 emails a day. Even if we signed up for an email list, only the best retail email subject lines will actually get a reader to take notice and open it.

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Have You Got Your Website UX Right in 2024?

Marketing Insider Group

It’s 2024, and if you think website UX isn’t a big deal, think again. Back in the day, website UX was pretty straightforward. If your site loaded without crashing and had a few hyperlinks that actually worked, you were doing great. Fast forward to today, and it’s a whole new ball game. Users now expect not just functionality, but an experience that’s as smooth as their morning latte.

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5 Lead Nurture Campaigns that Build Pipeline and Support ROI

Act-On

Pressure has been building around proving ROI. Sure, it’s always been there to some extent, but that pressure has recently increased, according to B2B marketers. And many say that while expectations for ROI are increasing, their budgets are not. Hardly seems fair, right? A recent survey found that: 41% of marketers report they’re feeling more pressure to achieve a high ROI. 27% say it’s getting overwhelming. 14% say that “it makes them want to pull their hair out.

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Composable vs Packaged CDP: How Can We Help?

Customer Experience Matrix

“Composable CDP” has been consuming much attention at CDP Institute as we wrestle with how best to help buyers who are considering it as an option. The Institute published a Composable CDP Self-Assessment tool a few weeks ago, which gives a checklist of the functions required to replicate the profile-building capabilities of a standard CDP. This was intended as the centerpiece of our Composable CDP Knowledge Hub but has attracted fewer users than expected.

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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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Exploring Email Open Rate Benchmarks in Marketing

SendX

Email campaigns are a cornerstone of successful outreach in the ever-changing world of online marketing. These strategies hinge on a company’s ability to understand and use analytics to their advantage. The open rate, or the percentage of sent emails opened by consumers, is critical to developing accurate data to inform the direction of a company’s marketing plan.

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Meet the New Host: Alina Dallal

Oktopost

Alina Dallal reveals what’s in store for Behind the Post listeners in 2024. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Episode Summary Behind the Post is back and this time with a new host. Meet Alina Dallal , Oktopost’s Content Marketing Manager. In this episode, Alina introduces herself and reveals what you can expect this season.

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EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses

Martech

The European Union’s Digital Services Act, aimed at preventing the spreading of illegal goods, services or content online, originally governed only very large online platforms reaching 10% or more of the E.U.’s population. That is now changing with all but the very smallest businesses coming under the jurisdiction of the Act. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees and less than 10 million euros in annual revenue will continue to be exempt.

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9 Actions You Can Take To Get Better Content Results Without Spending More

Content Marketing Institute

Just because you have no more budget or a smaller team doesn’t mean you can’t up your content and marketing game. Follow these nine tips to strengthen your marketing success without asking for another dollar or marketing person to help.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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4 In-Demand Skills to Grow Your Salesforce Career

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Use these four in-demand Salesforce ecosystem job skill trends — identified in the Jobs in the Salesforce Ecosystem report — to build your skill set. Fun fact: This report was visualized using Tableau Viz in collaboration with former Tableau Iron Viz champion Will Sutton. What you need to know When we say “Salesforce ecosystem,” we mean the thousands of companies and organizations worldwide who run their businesses on Salesforce.

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UX Design Strategy: Designing for the 'Unhappy Path'

CMSWire

Discover how a robust UX design strategy can transform the "unhappy path" into a smooth user journey, ensuring success beyond the "happy path." Continue reading.

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How TD Bank connects customer experience with sound

Martech

When customer experience works, customers receive a consistent and seamless interaction with a business from touchpoint to touchpoint. An often overlooked feature of CX is sound. TD Bank sees it as key to connecting with customers, colleagues and communities they serve. That’s why the company created a new sonic identity, rolling out to digital touchpoints and physical locations (such as ATMs), to knit together key points in the customer journey with a familiar theme aimed at building an e

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5+ Real Ways AI Can Benefit Your Content and Marketing Today

Content Marketing Institute

Welcome AI onto your content and marketing teams. It can transform your data, SEO, idea generation, and research into bigger and better results for your strategy and audience.

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What's Working Now: ABM + Demand Gen

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Are you struggling with a stagnant pipeline? Discover how combining ABM and demand generation can help you get more qualified opportunities and grow your pipeline. Learn the latest trends and tactics for 2023 and gain the confidence to implement a successful strategy that aligns with sales to drive revenue growth. Join this interactive live session with Paul Slack and learn how to: Identify the best accounts for ABM Personalize at scale Run paid campaigns that actually work Tackle and optimize r

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Audience engagement: What it is and tips to improve it

Sprout Social

Audience engagement is all about the connection your audience feels with your brand and the actions they take as a result of it. In general, audience engagement, and social media engagement in particular, isn’t easy to come by. Social media users’ feeds are flooded with content competing for their attention. But when you hit the right chord, you can expect increased brand health, higher-quality leads and an active social following.

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The Importance of Psychographic Elements for Personalization

CMSWire

How psychographic insights can elevate CX and provide a competitive edge to customer-facing brands through personalization and emotional resonance. Continue reading.

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Why AI will have the faults of human intelligence

Martech

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way over the past decade, from early chatbots to today’s virtual assistants that integrate with multiple applications to “learn” about us. However, as impressive as modern AI systems seem, they still have a long way to go before achieving true human-level intelligence. This article chronicles my experiences building various AI tools to assist with business functions and looks at what’s in store for marketers.

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3 Tips for Adding AI — and Subtracting the Headache  

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

IT teams are at the center of AI implementation. This means they are also at the center of a constant tug-of-war between people who reject AI and people who recognize it’s here to stay. We interviewed three CIO experts to get to the bottom of how AI doesn’t have to be at odds with the people it’s ultimately designed to help. Why AI implementation is often a headache — and what to do about it According to our recent State of IT report , three-quarters of IT leaders (74%) anticipate a surge in upc

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leader's Guide

This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment.

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The benefits of influencer marketing (+ what the C-Suite cares about)

Sprout Social

When it comes to influencer marketing , C-suite execs want more than just good engagement. They expect a positive return on investment (ROI), incremental growth contributions and strategic alignment. While the impact of influencers in shaping consumer behavior is undeniable, translating it into benefits that resonate with the top brass is key to getting the budgets you need for your influencer program.

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Customer Experience Strategies: Enhance Composability With Cross-Functional Models

CMSWire

Truly composable businesses deliver compelling digital experiences and can respond with more flexibility to rapidly changing market conditions. Continue reading.

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Gmail spam updates are here: What now?

Martech

Starting in April, Google will enforce new rules for brands sending over 5,000 emails daily to Gmail addresses. The goal is to cut down on spam by enforcing specific requirements around authentication, ease of unsubscribing and relevancy of messaging. For marketers relying heavily on email campaigns and communications, this policy will require quick action to ensure deliverability doesn’t take a hit.

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