Sat.Sep 09, 2017 - Fri.Sep 15, 2017

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Disappointed with your content marketing? Discover the challenges keeping B2B marketers from achieving differentiation and how to fix them.

Tomorrow People

How does differentiation apply to content marketing and what’s stopping you getting attention in a crowded B2B landscape? Well, quite a lot… Read on and find out what’s holding most marketers back and what they can do about it.

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Top 8 Mistakes People Make with Marketing Automation

Marketing Insider Group

There is no definitive ‘right’ way to achieve success through marketing automation, but there certainly are quite a few wrong ways. I’ve compiled a few of the top marketing automation mistakes people make. Make sure you aren’t making any of them! 1. Being inorganic One of the primary dangers of marketing automation is also one […]. The post Top 8 Mistakes People Make with Marketing Automation appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Interview with Neal Schaffer

Onalytica B2B

Neal Schaffer – Founder of PDCA Social. Key Topics: Social Media Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Employee Advocacy, Social Selling, Content Marketing. Location: Irvine, Orange County, California. Bio: Neal Schaffer is a leading consultant, educator, speaker, innovator, and influencer at guiding businesses through their digital transformation with a focus on social selling, social media marketing, and sales and marketing alignment.

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Why this LinkedIn Ad Works: 2 Key Tips for Success

The Point

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. At our agency , we’re seeing great results across a broad swath of clients from LinkedIn Sponsored Updates in particular, at a cost per lead similar to, or sometimes better than, traditional search marketing. In addition to the potential for highly competitive metrics (click-through, conversion rates), advertising on LinkedIn offers another key advantage compared to SEM, namely the ability through audience d

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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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Be Fanatical About Service Quality (And Why It Matters)

Vision Edge Marketing

I have been fortunate in my career to benefit from a number of remarkable mentors. My first professional job was in a financial services organization working for Dwight Prade. It was Dwight who bestowed upon me the title “Customer Relationship Manager.” This was long before the era of CRM systems. Because switching providers in our industry was relatively easy, Dwight emphasized the importance of keeping and growing the value of customers.

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Influencer Marketing: How to Identify Your Target Influencers

Onalytica B2B

Last week, we covered how you can outline your influencer marketing strategy. This week we take you through how you can identify your influencers, as per our Definitive Practical Guide to Influencer Relationship Management. Personally, I can’t think of anything more crucial to successful influencer marketing than identifying the right influencers to target.

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Flip yourself into leadership with exponential growth publishing

Biznology

Lesson for leaders. How can “digital changes everything” work for you? If you want exponential growth and leadership, here is a huge opportunity from our networked world that rapidly adopts new technology: t oday’s tech-driven world causes widespread declines. People’s incomes have stagnated while the wealth of elites has soared. Massive job losses are forecast from AI, robotics, and automation.

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7 Baidu SEO Fundamentals B2B Marketers Need to Know

KoMarketing Associates

As of June 2017, there were 751 million internet users in China and 81.1 percent were search engine users. As one of the most important digital marketing practices, search engine optimization is essential to a B2B company’s success in China’s online marketplace. Baidu continues to dominate the search engine space in China and as such, companies need to know the best practices of Baidu SEO.

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How to Attract B2B Buyers with Killer Content

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is booming. According to the 2017 B2B Content Marketing Trends, 39% of companies are increasing investment in content marketing. And yet most companies are not creating effective content. Want proof? Two of the leaders in B2B funnel benchmarking, SiriusDecisions and Forrester, will tell you that inquiry-to-closed-won conversion ratios are often below two percent […].

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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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Interview with Ann Handley

Onalytica B2B

Ann Handley – Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs. Key Topics: Digital Marketing, Strategy, Content, Social, Demand Gen. Location: Boston, USA. Bio: As the world’s first Chief Content Officer, Ann Handley speaks and writes about how you can rethink the way your business markets. Cited in Forbes as the most influential woman in Social Media and recognized by ForbesWoman as one of the top 20 women bloggers, Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, a training comp

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If You Don’t Have a Sales Lead Management Process You’ll Fail

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association , recently spoke with SLMA Radio program host Paul Roberts on how lack of a sales lead management process hampers company growth. Following are highlights of the interview. JO: If you've got 10 or 12 departments, and you've got 15 different software programs that this inquiry is going through, and you've got artificial intelligence spitting out results all along the way, someone has to figure out what that process is going to be a

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Want To Launch An Advocacy Program? Here Are 3 Hurdles You’ll Have To Overcome

Influitive

You know those things you’re *supposed* to do that are good for you…like…flossing daily? Well, (gross) confession time: I rarely never used to floss. I thought it was a scheme dentists had with the flossing industry! For years, dentists told me that it would come back to haunt me—in the form of gum disease and/or.

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How to Generate Leads Using Facebook (Without Ads)

Marketing Insider Group

In order to be of substantial use to businesses, Facebook has been making it easier for marketers and business owners to generate leads. With more than 50 million business pages, Facebook understands it is important to provide value for business users as well as for the over 1.4 billion consumer pages. It is up to us […]. The post How to Generate Leads Using Facebook (Without Ads) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Publish first, then edit and revise, for Google search success

Biznology

Never let the perfect get in the way of the good. Blog and post, blog and post. Write all your site content quick and dirty then publish it immediately. If you’re reading this before or around noon Eastern or 9AM Pacific on September 12, 2017, then you’re probably reading the first draft of this article. Your 1st-Wave Friends Deserve You Raw.

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Entrepreneur.com (Front Page Article) Asks Kaon’s CEO ‘Why AR & VR Will Be Important for Your Business’

Kaon

If you clicked over to Entrepreneur.com yesterday, you may have noticed a featured article on “ Why Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Will be Important for Your Business “, penned by Kaon Interactive President and CEO Gavin Finn. It’s still on the homepage today, if you want to go take a look! With the recent release of Apple iOS 11, we’re seeing a new era of mixed reality interactive features for a wide variety of enterprise and consumer applications that will, yet a

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How B2B Marketers Capitalize on Event Marketing Opportunities [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers are still investing in conferences and tradeshows to expand their reach, but a survey conducted by Certain, Inc. found that their post-event follow-up is lagging. About 73 percent of marketers claimed that they still rely on manual data capture at events. Post-event, 81 percent said they still seek further information on leads. For more insight into this research, we spoke to Kristen Alexander, CMO at Certain, Inc.

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10 Customer Retention Influencers You Should Be Taking Notes On

Marketing Insider Group

Here’s your virtual pat on the back for focusing on customer retention. You’re in the minority, my marketing friend. Most brands are still focusing more on acquisitions despite the fact that it costs 7 times more to acquire a new customer than it does to keep an old one. Have you yet determined, what are the most […]. The post 10 Customer Retention Influencers You Should Be Taking Notes On appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Creativity vs. productivity: AI to the rescue

Biznology

Throughout my career, I have noticed a tension between creativity and productivity. In my more productive times, I’m checking off items in my to-do list one at a time. For each item, I have a clear understanding of what I need to do. I can simply do it. Often, the first thing on the list is: make a to-do list. That way, I can check off the first item when I finish the list.

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5 Key Points to Consider when Choosing a Demand Generation Solution

Sales Engine

Savvy B2B marketers are recognizing the limits of today’s email marketing and web analytics applications for generating qualified sales leads and are switching to a demand generation solution to ensure a continuous stream of qualified leads. In addition to providing typical reporting that legacy email and web analytics products provide, demand generation solutions automate the progression of leads through the pipeline so that sales can focus on only the most qualified leads.

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Survey: 40 Percent of Customers Prefer Informational Marketing Emails

KoMarketing Associates

As new research shows, customers are interested in being contacted by marketers via email, but they have certain preferences when it comes to content. The “Consumer Email Survey Report 2017” from Adobe has found that 61 percent of customers would like to be contacted by brands through email. However, 40 percent said they prefer marketing emails to be less promotional and more informational.

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3 Strategies to Help First-Time Bloggers Become Thought Leaders

Marketing Insider Group

Starting an official blog is one of the most exciting milestones for a budding professional. It is an excellent opportunity to become a force in the industry and gain valuable exposure. If you have expertise in a certain area, blogging can do wonders to propel you into the mainstream. In fact, HubSpot’s State of Inbound […]. The post 3 Strategies to Help First-Time Bloggers Become Thought Leaders appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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10 of LinkedIn’s welcome new features

Biznology

In the past few months, LinkedIn has added quite a few new features that add more functionality and better usability both on desktop and the mobile application. Some of the features have been around and others have rolled out recently or will be rolling out very soon. Collectively, these 10 new features make the platform easier to interact with and reduce the amount of time you need to connect with other professionals.

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Forbes’ Branded Content Chief Reveals Her Go-to Content Marketing Metrics

Contently

What are your go-to content marketing metrics ? That’s one of the toughest questions for marketers to answer, and one I heard repeatedly at both Content Marketing World and Cannes this summer. When I asked Ann Maranovich, SVP of Content Strategy and Partnerships at Forbes, at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, she was adamant that one of the best things any marketer can do is have a firm understanding of who, exactly, looks at your content.

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58% of B2B Marketers Intend to Boost Spending on Email Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

New statistics show that B2B marketers are still heavily invested in email marketing, but they are lacking the resources to make the most of this tactic. The “2017 Email Marketing Industry Report” from Emma has discovered that 58 percent of B2B marketers intend to increase their spend on email over the next year. However, 40 percent wish that their marketing could be more targeted and personalized.

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Content Creation: Modular vs. Structured & Traditional

Marketing Insider Group

As content marketing practices mature, organizations look for new ways to gain advantages and improve content performance. One of the most elusive tactics is to optimize content for audience and situation relevance. Numerous studies have shown business outcomes improve significantly when content delivers highly targeted, useful and relevant insights to audiences.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to Create Great Landing Pages

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You don’t see great landing pages often. That’s not because they can’t be made, but because it’s extremely difficult to create them well. There are design rules to follow that keep people from leaving. There are tricks to use to get your button noticed. There are words that have a way of persuasively whispering in your prospects’ ears: push the button , claim the offer.

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3 Problems That’ll Keep Me Up at Night After Content Marketing World

Contently

A common mantra at Content Marketing World, the aggressively orange extravaganza held in Cleveland every September, is that marketers need to think more like journalists. But for the past year, I’ve been a journalist trying to think more like a marketer. Even though I gave up full-time journalism years ago when I went from overseeing a news site to running editorial and content strategy for Contently, I’ve always held on to that journalist perspective.

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How Terminus Boosted Sales Response Rates by 3x with Video

Vidyard

Video has become an important part of our DNA at Terminus. As an account-based marketing company, from the beginning we’ve been focused on personalization and obsessed with finding creative and authentic ways to reach contacts at our target accounts. Video is a channel that allows our sales team to personalize their outreach in powerful ways, and to put a face to what otherwise could feel like a cold outreach or sales process.