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3 (more) stats that prove how newsletters create community engagement

Parse.ly

Often we think of social media as a form of community. But why not email? Interactions with newsletters aren’t visible in the form of likes and shares in a news feed, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less an indication of belonging. When a reader interacts with a newsletter, they’re participating in a community of people who value the same information.

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The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

The digital marketing landscape changes so much and so frequently that it’s almost impossible to imagine what the future of digital marketing may offer in terms of opportunities. During the last year or two, we’ve seen new technologies, a backlash of sorts in social media, and influencer marketing maturing from its early days as a viable […]. The post The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Help Your Employees Become Influencers

Onalytica B2B

The concept of your employees being influencers may sound odd to some. When most hear the term ‘influencer’ they think of the social media influencers on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and YouTube endorsing consumer products to their audience in return for a pay cheque. Employees don’t quite fit this definition. But if we actually take a step back, what do we really mean by the term ‘influencer’?

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18 Quotes About Podcasting for Business Professionals

Zoominfo

Podcasts have captured the attention of millions and millions of listeners in recent years, more than earning their title as the modern-day radio. The success of podcasting is due, in part, to the convenience and pervasiveness of the modern smartphone. Think about it, people today are constantly on the go—but almost never without their cell phones. And thanks to music and radio streaming services, people have easy access to a wide range of podcasts to listen to during their commutes, car rides,

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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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Marketing Technology Buy The Book

Webbiquity

With more than 90% of B2B marketers now embracing content marketing success depends not on producing more content but better content. And marketing technology can help, from ideation and research through production, promotion, and analytics. So it’s no surprise that 70% of marketers say they plan to spend more on content marketing in the coming year, while 68% will allocate more dollars for marketing tools.

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Is Employee Advocacy Just for B2B?

Onalytica B2B

There’s no denying that the attributes of a B2B buyer differ greatly from a B2C consumer’s. B2B buyer journeys are much longer and more complex with a higher average purchase price, compared to buyer journeys in B2C which tend to be much shorter, more impulsive and lower value purchases. Because of this, marketers in B2B and B2C have very different objectives, strategies and tactics to reach their target audience and drive action.

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The 8 content marketing trends software marketers need to know for 2019

Tomorrow People

“ If you're serious about your content marketing strategy, you have to realize you're writing for an ever-changing audience , says Jaime Bailey, Vice President of Marketing at VHT. For a long time, the customer journey has been frustrating. As customers seek access to more kinds of information, brand marketers can no longer rely on mass media advertising campaigns to deliver brand awareness and service utility.

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How to Create an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) to Target the Right Customers

DiscoverOrg

The Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is used to identify, source, and prioritize your best prospects – but how do you create an accurate ICP in the first place? First, let’s level-set on why you should go through this exercise in the first place. Two words: finite resources. It takes time, money, and people to attract, convert, and delight new customers.

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The Role of Marketing in Prototyping: Creating Prototypes with POP

Marketing Insider Group

Pictured: Students at JMU Prototyping using POP The role of marketing in prototyping and other technical aspects of new product development is often very small. There are many reasons underpinning this, but the biggest reason is that marketing students aren’t taught technical skills. I am to fix that and I started with my class at […]. The post The Role of Marketing in Prototyping: Creating Prototypes with POP appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Report: Only 17% of Marketers Measure the ROI of All their Marketing Activities

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers have a slew of different ways to reach out to their target audiences, new research suggests that they are failing to measure the ROI of their initiatives. Kantar-Millward Brown recently published the “Getting Media Right 2018” report and discovered that only 17 percent of marketers measure the ROI of all of their marketing activities.

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How to Use Attribution Models to Decipher the Right Mix

Vision Edge Marketing

How do you assign value to your channels and touch points? There are a variety of attribution model methods. For example, do you attribute more weight to the first touch (such as clicking on a digital ad) than the webinar that generated an online demo of offline conversation? Or do you give equal weight across all the touch points? Maybe you use a graduated scale where you give touch points closer to the end of the buying journey more value than touches earlier in the process?

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Net Promoter Score for Recruiters and HR Professionals

Zoominfo

We recently covered the topic of Net Promoter Score (NPS) as it applies to customer loyalty and business growth. Today, we set out to discuss a similar metric in the competitive world of recruiting: The Employee Net Promoter Score. If you have yet to use Employee NPS, then today’s blog post is for you. We’ll discuss what this metric is, and explore how you can use it to find and retain top talent.

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Battling Back Against Marketing Malpractice

Marketing Insider Group

Have you ever been sitting in the doctor’s office, waiting for her to come in and solve whatever ails you? Of course. We all have. So, how does that interaction go? As you sit on that ungodly crinkly white paper reading last July’s People magazine, you have a basic understanding of what will happen when […]. The post Battling Back Against Marketing Malpractice 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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Report: Marketers are Failing to Determine the ROI of Sponsorship Efforts

KoMarketing Associates

Marketers continue to invest in sponsorships to achieve their some of their top objectives, but research shows they are not adequately measuring and assessing the ROI of their efforts. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) recently came together to conduct the “Improving Sponsorship Accountability Metrics” report, and statistics showed that just 37 percent of marketers have a standardized process for measuring their return on sponsorshi

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Verint VP of EMEA marketing Marjie Gould on why the future of content marketing is about principles as much as your product

Tomorrow People

“Put customers at the heart of your marketing strategy. The future is not all about technology, it’s about people too,” says Verint’s VP of EMEA marketing, Marije Gould. Marije Gould, VP marketing, EMEA at Verint used a futurologist to map her customers’ growing concerns. Far from it being just about the product or price, her customers care deeply about the ethos of the business they buy from, including its privacy, personalization, and ethics.

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8 Ways to Use Chatbots to Boost Engagement on Your Website

Biznology

Chatbots are the newest thing in marketing and they are taking the industry by storm. They have been gaining popularity in social media channels for a couple of years now. However, using them on your website is an area that has been overlooked. You can use them to really get ahead when it comes to engagement and customer service on your website. If you don’t embrace chatbots, you are likely to fall behind with your competition.

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The Impact Of Buyer Transformation On Marketing 2020

Marketing Insider Group

A hot buzzword during the past couple of years has been digital transformation. It has branched off a few more in the world of marketing and sales: Martech Transformation Sales Transformation CX Transformation Customer Engagement Transformation I am sure there are more. At the risk of being a buzz killer, there is something amiss about […]. The post The Impact Of Buyer Transformation On Marketing 2020 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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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Report: More Manufacturing Marketers are Now Turning to Content Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

As marketers in the manufacturing industry turn to content marketing to achieve their key objectives, new research suggests that they are finding more success with this tactic. The Content Marketing Institute, along with MarketingProfs and IEEE GlobalSpec, recently published the “Manufacturing Content Marketing 2019: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends” report, and statistics showed that 64 percent of marketers say their company’s content marketing is “much/somewhat” more successful than it was one y

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Embracing Trust: How Marketers Can Prepare for GDPR 2.0

The Point

If your marketing organization is 100 percent GDPR compliant (and if you are, you’re in the minority ) you may feel that your data compliance issues are behind you. Think again. The GDPR deadline may already be a waning memory, but global data privacy regulations are just getting started. In July of 2018, California passed its own digital privacy law that mimics many of the same regulations present in GDPR, including rules empowering consumers to demand that marketers delete their personal dat

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Why Millennials Value Experiences, Not Stuff

Biznology

There is no question that Millennials or Generation Y consumers (born between 1980 and 2000) are an unusual breed, with very different values, buying habits and attitudes that confound older generations. However, the most noteworthy trend is their decreased desire to own things or buy them through traditional channels. Instead Millennials are obsessed with having a memorable experience, which will have a reverberating impact on positioning brands in the future.

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Transform Your Customer Success Journey and Accelerate Growth

Marketing Insider Group

Growth for B2B is hard. It used to be that you could accelerate growth with huge customer acquisition. Ramping up your sales and marketing is not enough to sustain growth. Today, the best companies are growing through customer success. That’s why I interviewed Kia Puhm (@kiapuhm), CEO at K!A CX Consulting to talk about customer success. […]. The post Transform Your Customer Success Journey and Accelerate Growth 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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Search is Evolving, So Should Your Approach to SEO Content

KoMarketing Associates

SEO and content work together – or, at least, they should. When SEO and content efforts operate in conjunction with one another, marketers are able to generate better results, ensure digital efforts are aligned, and even become more efficient. Without content, SEO efforts will remain stagnant, and vice versa. Imagine building out an editorial calendar without having done keyword research first.

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5 Ways to Manage Your Social Media Over the Holiday Vacations

Convince & Convert

Social media traffic spikes a whopping 73 percent during the holidays — just when your team is requesting time off for vacation. Click To Tweet. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! But you might be worrying how you’re going to keep a handle on your social media presence while your team members are taking time off to sip eggnog, unwrap gifts, or indulge in a bit of light gluttony with their friends and family.

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Website Search and Filtering for Smaller Sites

Biznology

I may be sticking my neck out a bit given that our fearless leader here at Biznology, Mike Moran, is an expert when it comes to website search – he’s expert at a lot of things, actually – but a recent article Mike wrote brought the subject to mind. Mike’s thoughts about the power of suggestion in website search are spot on, and to them I’d like to add thoughts for those of us with smaller sites and smaller libraries of searchable content.

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Emerging Opportunities for Digital Marketers to Work Smarter & More Efficiently in 2019 & Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” – Napoleon Bonaparte If there’s one area where you can gain agreement across the entire c-suite, it’s in initiatives that save the organization time and money. Unemployment, at the time of this […]. The post Emerging Opportunities for Digital Marketers to Work Smarter & More Efficiently in 2019 & Beyond appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Customer-Powered Marketing: 3 Ways Your Advocates Can Spread the Word & Create Interest

Influitive

Is your pool of marketing qualified leads drying up? Maybe your blog posts or advertising messages just don’t resonate with your target market anymore. The key to unlocking and resolving such issues is leveraging your happiest customers. But how? Marketing teams can accelerate growth by working hand-in-hand with customer advocates to raise product awareness and.

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Why Both Data & Relationships are Essential to Personalized Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As the importance of customer retention and customer lifetime value (LTV) become more popular in the world of marketing and sales, personalized marketing is also popping up in more and more marketing team discussions. Today’s advanced marketers are touting the benefits of personalized marketing campaigns, which range from landing page headlines that adapt to the copy on the ads that were clicked, to email newsletters tailored to a specific segment of subscribers.

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SearchChat Podcast: Budget Season Survival Guide

Biznology

Does site search matter? Not many companies will even bring it up during budgeting discussions. But without it, your content, conversions, and customer experience can all fail. Tim Peter and Steve Zakur are bringing a new podcast to the table: one that explores AI, content marketing, and search like never before. Today’s episode of SearchChat focuses on why ignoring site search can be detrimental to your other efforts — like conversions and content.