Sat.Mar 07, 2020 - Fri.Mar 13, 2020

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Are you Spending your Marketing Budget on Innovation or Integration?

xiQ

The current state of sales and marketing technology is composed of over 7000 solutions. Today, with ABM on the rise there is an increasing demand for sales and marketing to work in unison. This requires integrating disparate sales and marketing solutions, a very expensive and time-consuming process. You lose out on agility and time to market, whereas the majority of your marketing budget is spent on integrating and not innovating. .

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How Does Coronavirus Change the Way We Do Our Job as Marketers?

Contently

The last few days have been surreal. I’ve ping-ponged between troubling coronavirus headlines and my typical work as head of marketing for a tech company. It’s hard to not feel uneasy when that thought pops into your head: How does this affect how I do my job? However, it’s a necessary question to ask. Because even though many of us are working from home, we’re still working.

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Tips for Working Remotely From People Who Do it All the Time

Vidyard

Google. Microsoft. Facebook. Amazon. LinkedIn. HP. Twitter. Airbnb. They’ve all asked at least part of their workforce to work from home in light of the current health situation. More companies are likely to follow—maybe even yours. If you’ve never worked from home or don’t do so regularly, it can be a big switch. Many Vidyard employees regularly work remotely.

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Are Pitch Letters The Cinderella Of Content Marketing?

Marketing Craftmanship

Great content can build brand stature and increase market awareness, but in my experience, neither of those achievements necessarily delivers the type of market engagement that results in new accounts or revenue growth. Most marketing content is distributed through pull tactics, in which blog posts, social media posts, press releases, etc., expose information indirectly to a large audience.

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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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The Scope of SEO and Digital Marketing Expertise

Webbiquity

Guest post by Mathew Jade. Digital marketing as a discipline has matured and encompasses a standard set of components, though best practices within those components continue to evolve. Looking at the future of digital marketing , it continues to consume a larger share of overall marketing budgets for publicity, advertising, and promotion. Search engine optimization (SEO) is at the core of digital marketing success.

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7 Proven Tips to Create Blog Posts That Convert Like Crazy

Optinmonster

Are your blog posts not converting as well as you’d like them to? Want to know the secrets of how to write a blog post that converts? In this article, we’ll share 7 tips that will help you write a blog post that converts. You see, most people that visit your blog post usually leave without reading it all the way through. And the worst part is that an even larger percentage of people who see your blog post whichever social media platforms you use never even click on it.

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How to Use SEO Data to Make Better Marketing Decisions

Hubspot

As marketers, we know that search engine optimization (SEO) is necessary. It helps webpages rank highly on search engine results pages (SERPs). After all, 67% of all clicks go to the first five organic search results on Google. So for traffic, SEO is a must. But have you ever considered using SEO practices for, say, informing marketing decisions? Or creating networking opportunities?

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How Marketers Should Measure Digital Engagement

Kaon

By Joshua Smith, CTO & Co-Founder, Kaon Interactive. Marketers have been collecting data on their digital marketing initiatives ever since the web became a mainstream marketing platform. The vast majority of this kind of “analytics” relates to user actions and behavior (i.e. “What path did a specific user take on my website,” or “What are the most commonly clicked links on this page?

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How to Generate More Leads Using Video and Other Digital Content

Webbiquity

Guest post by Victor Blasco. Every romantic relationship expert knows that the early stages are like thin ice. Demand too much attention too early, or get too anxious about commitment, and it may break. The best way to establish long-term connections is by generating organic interest and letting others engage on their own time and terms. If you are wondering what all this has to do with effective digital marketing , the answer is: quite a bit!

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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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5 Inspiring Women Leaders in Sales to Follow Today

InsightSquared

This International Women’s Day, we’d like to give a shoutout to women leaders in the tech industry, especially those in sales leadership positions. These women have been nominated by our own team, as people who inspire and empower us to strive, thrive and grow in our careers. Looking for sales leaders to follow for inspiration and best practices? Jill Konrath.

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AI in HR: How Machine Learning is Changing Human Resources

Zoominfo

Not too long ago, artificial intelligence seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. But today, AI is being used throughout every facet of the companies we buy from, sell to, and work for. That includes the field of human resources — and it doesn’t look like AI is going anywhere any time soon. […].

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Why Every Startup Needs a Professional Blog Writing Service

Marketing Insider Group

What exactly does a professional blog writing service do for you, and why do you need one? Here’s why you should be outsourcing your startup’s blog. Have you thought about hiring a professional blog writing service for your new business? Every startup needs a website, but many business owners overlook the importance of starting a blog. Thousands of new businesses are founded each year in the US.

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Reflections on the CDP Revolution in France (and the Rest of Europe)

Customer Experience Matrix

The CDP Institute just published a report on the CDP Industry in Europe (download here ). This was based primarily on the global Industry Update released last month. This showed especially fast growth in Europe, with a year-on-year increase of 74% in the number of European vendors and 80% in European CDP employment, compared with growth outside of Europe of 38% in vendors and 59% in employment.

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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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Best Practices to Clean Up Your Messy Sales Ops

InsightSquared

In the 1970s, J. Patrick Kelly, the first sales ops group leader, described his responsibilities as “all the nasty number things that you don’t want to do, but need to do to make a great sales force.” More than 40 years later, much has changed about sales processes and cross-functional collaborations, yet three things remain true: . Sales ops covers a vast array of responsibilities, which continues to expand.

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Coronavirus and the Communications Equation

Biznology

This article, authored by our Senior Advisor John Clemons , continues a special series titled “Creating Resiliency During the COVID-19 Crisis.” . This series will feature articles, podcasts and additional resources from our Consultants Collective member consultants, advisors and coaches, whose experience and expertise includes risk and change management, Asia, China, offshoring, leading distributed global teams, managing crises and internal communications, deploying and managing online collabor

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How Focusing on Workplace Culture Drives Marketing Performance

Marketing Insider Group

Every company wants to improve its performance. Here’s the secret: Focus on improving your workplace culture. Discover how here. We’ve all heard how important it is to have a positive workplace culture. After all, it costs quite a bit of money to replace unhappy employees. But what you might not know is that when you get it right, your workplace culture can drive performance as well.

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How Your Competitors Can Help You Improve Your Performance

Vision Edge Marketing

Most of the companies we’ve worked in or have had the privilege of serving face fairly stiff competitors. Competition is a fact of life, whether it’s one team or individuals pitted against another on the playing field, or students competing for scholarships for academic studies, nonprofits fighting for donations, or businesses competing for customers and market share.

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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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Answers to Your Burning Forecasting Questions

InsightSquared

Sales forecasting is a massive challenge. It’s not only time-consuming, but rarely accurate, which leaves sales organizations to base key business decisions on gut feel. . That’s why we introduced InsightSquared Forecasting : a collaborative approach to sales forecasting that supports the whole sales organization. . In our webinar, “ Nail Your Forecast with InsightSquared ”, you filled every minute of our Q&A with solid questions — and then some!

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In Light of Coronavirus, Most U.S. Companies Lack Work-From-Home Technology

Zoominfo

Wash your hands frequently. Call the doctor if you have flu-like symptoms. Be prepared to work from home. These phrases have been repeated ad nauseam as the U.S. reacts to the coronavirus outbreak. And while ZoomInfo doesn’t monitor hand hygiene efforts or health care records, it does track one data type that offers insight into […].

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How Large Companies Can Minimize Content Creation Costs

Marketing Insider Group

Even larger companies need to cut corners when it comes to their marketing budget. Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here. Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. In fact, some larger companies – especially those that have been around since dinosaurs walked the earth – still do the bulk of their marketing with traditional TV and print ads.

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39% of Marketers Still Working on a Strategy to Leverage Martech Stack

KoMarketing Associates

Many marketers now have stacks of marketing technology at their fingertips, but new research suggests that much of it is not optimized for use across the organization. Ascend2 recently published the results of its “MarTech Stack Optimization Survey,” and statistics showed that most marketers (39%) are still working on implementing a strategy for optimizing their martech stack.

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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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Customer Trust Is the New Gold, and the Original Gold?5 Ways to Build It

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Trust has never been unimportant in business, but it has also never been more important. Human relationships breathe the air of trust, within organizations, with colleagues, co-workers, partners, suppliers, clients, and customers. Within your organization, trust is what keeps business moving. Stephen M.R. Covey wrote a whole book about it called The Speed of Trust.

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Workplace Wellness. Keeping Your Teams Safe and Calm During the Coronavirus Outbreak.

Biznology

This article, authored by our Senior Advisor Geri Berdak , continues a special series titled “Creating Resiliency During the COVID-19 Crisis.”. This series will feature articles, podcasts and additional resources from our Consultants Collective member consultants, advisors and coaches, whose experience and expertise includes risk and change management, Asia, China, offshoring, leading distributed global teams, managing crises and internal communications, deploying and managing online collaborati

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Why Every Startup Needs a Professional Blog Writing Service

Marketing Insider Group

What exactly does a professional blog writing service do for you, and why do you need one? Here’s why you should be outsourcing your startup’s blog. Have you thought about hiring a professional blog writing service for your new business? Every startup needs a website, but many business owners overlook the importance of starting a blog. Thousands of new businesses are founded each year in the US.

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Report: Digital Video, Mobile Remain Priorities for Marketers in 2020

KoMarketing Associates

As marketers look ahead to the coming months, digital video and mobile appear to be leading the way in terms of areas of investment, according to new research. Integral Ad Science recently published its “Industry Pulse Report 2020,” and statistics showed that organizations are expected to spend close to $41.76 billion on digital video in 2020. This is a 20.8% year-over-year increase from 2019.

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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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The Anatomy of a Great Case Study

Contently

At Ogilvy, I was a member of the four-person case study writing committee. Our main target was the Effies, the premier awards show celebrating advertising effectiveness. We won Most Effective Agency Office in New York relying on the tried and true case study framework: objective, strategy, results. Quantifiable objectives headlined every case study we wrote.

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AI in HR: How Machine Learning is Changing Human Resources

Zoominfo

Not too long ago, artificial intelligence seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. But today, AI is being used in every facet and function of companies, including human resources. Let’s look at some statistics from IBM : 66 percent of CEOs believe AI can drive significant value in HR. 50 percent of HR executives recognize that AI has the power to transform key dimensions of HR. 54 percent of HR executives believe that AI will affect key roles in the HR organization.

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Search Marketing Strategy | Treat Search Marketing Like a Macroeconomy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The search marketing industry is built to run like a macroeconomy. What do I mean by that? Search results are resources. . Websites are businesses. . Users are people. . Supply and demand are in effect. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . Let me break this idea down for you to show why it’s critical to think this way when executing any search marketing strategy.