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7 Tips to Prepare B2B Marketers for the New Reality

DemandBase

The Coronavirus is continuing to have a major impact across our society and economy. As companies deal with the repercussions and try to assess its impact, we are also facing the difficult realization that demand is likely to decline across most sectors. But as B2B marketers (and sales practitioners), the fact remains that we’re still on the hook for generating and delivering on pipe goals that may now seem impossible.

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How to Outsource Content Marketing Without Losing Your Brand Voice

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to scale up your content marketing efforts, you need to create more content. For most businesses, that will mean investing in outsourcing. Outsourcing all or part of your content marketing is more cost-effective than employing a full-time in-house team. But, how do you make sure external contractors and freelancers produce content with a consistent brand voice ?

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Don’t Duct Tape Your Demand Generation Right Now: Adopt a Strategic Approach to Demand Marketing

ANNUITAS

The crisis that’s emerged from the coronavirus pandemic has forced B2B marketing teams to look at their demand programs in a new light, and an ugly truth has emerged. Most B2B companies have inefficient sales and marketing motions. In fact, nearly three-quarters of businesses in this segment succeed because they have a strong product or service. They succeed ‘in spite of’ their sales and marketing investments, not because of them – spending much of their time and resources on ‘random acts of mar

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How to Brainstorm Great Lead Generation Content

Contently

Last night, I dreamt I was being chased around New York by a “free e-book!”offer come to life. There it was, hovering in the air like a Thanksgiving Day balloon, threatening to retarget me to death. This speaks to two things: my crippling inability to maintain work/life boundaries and, more importantly, the ubiquity of annoying lead generation content.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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7 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Thought Leadership to Overcome Their COVID-19 Challenges

ATAK Interactive

There is an opportunity for every business in every industry to use the uncertainty of this moment to utilize thought leadership. If you want to lead, what better time than in a crisis? . Thought leadership is the gateway to customer trust. By exemplifying knowledge and leadership in a given industry, thought leaders develop content that is compelling, has a strong point-of-view, and educates.

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Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist

Content Marketing Institute

Let’s make this simple. Factually wrong content is bad. Accuracy is a necessity for trust from your audience. Welcome to the content creators’ and editors’ fact-checking checklist. Continue reading → The post Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Don’t quarantine your B2B Sales and Marketing

xiQ

As the Coronavirus pandemonium continues across the world, we are all experiencing a calamity-induced global lockdown. Governments have declared a state of emergency by shutting down public spaces and offices have decreed a ban on gatherings, slowing down business activities by huge margins. . Let’s evaluate what this means for B2B Sales and Marketing.

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How Should We Even Think About Marketing In Times of Fear?

Marketing Insider Group

In times like this, it helps to name what we’re feeling: fear, anxiety, uncertainty, grief. But we also have to stay positive and prepared in order to survive and thrive. If you’re a regular reader of our content, you may have noticed that in light of my own feelings, I’ve been focused on basically a “business as usual” approach.

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The Power of “What If?” in Strategy Planning

Vision Edge Marketing

The future is unknowable, which is why there is so much merit in the scouting motto coined by English soldier Robert Baden-Powell : Be prepared. He believed that one must “always be in a state of readiness.” Organizations invest in strategic planning initiatives as a way to peer into and be prepared for the future – to decide on an outcome or set of outcomes to pursue and the corresponding course(s) of action.

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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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10X Your Sales Pipeline with Data-Driven Coaching Insights: A Recap

InsightSquared

If there was ever a time to focus on coaching your reps, it is now. The sales processes of yesterday may now be obsolete. As reps adjust to this evolving sales environment, managers must do the same and explore more dynamic and structured coaching methods. In our latest webinar, “10X Your Sales Pipeline with Data-Driven Coaching Insights,” sales leaders Todd Abbott and Grace Tyson discussed how to adjust your coaching cadence and build a data-driven coaching culture to combat future uncertainty.

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Marketing to Gen Z | Come for the Authenticity, Stay for the Experiences

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketers must always be evolving and adapting to markets and consumer trends, and digital marketing to Gen Z is no different. We’ve seen Generation Z coming for a while. But it’s still important to understand what makes them tick. Where do they hang out? Maybe most important: what do they value? Sure, it’s easier said than done, as many things are, but if you plan to market effectively to Gen Z it’s time to get to know your audience.

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Hey CMOs: Culture Still Eats Marketing Strategy for Breakfast

Marketing Insider Group

The phrase “culture eats marketing strategy for breakfast” was coined by management consultant Peter Drucker 20 years ago and remains as true today as it ever was. If anything, culture has become even more important in recent years. The millennial workforce of today value company culture more than any other generation , and are more likely to put work-life balance, corporate values, and engagement and purpose over salary.

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9 Tips for Running a Great Virtual Business Meeting

Circle Studio

Virtual meetings have become a staple in the professional workplace, allowing for a simulated face-to-face experience that serves as a viable substitute for the real thing. With recent events surrounding COVID-19, many businesses find themselves utterly dependent on virtual meetings to conduct business, keep projects moving forward and communicate with remote staff and clients.

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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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InsightSquared Earns “Leader” Badge in New G2 Sales Analytics Report

InsightSquared

The customers have spoken! We are excited to once again be ranked as a leader in the G2 Grid® Report for Sales Analytics. In addition, we were honored as a Leader in Business Intelligence and Top Performer in AI Sales Assistant. G2 Crowd provides competitive analysis based on the voice of the customer. This enables solution-seekers to compare options with real user feedback.

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How to Maximize Webinar Attendance and Engagement | 5 Strategies

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Live webinars are a powerful lead generation and engagement tool. Successful webinars drive revenue and establish your organization as a thought leader in its space. However, maximizing webinar attendance takes effort. Nothing is more disheartening than spending time and advertising money promoting your webinar—only to have a handful of folks attend.

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Content Fluency: Why You Should Write For 4th Graders

Contently

The first class I ever took in college was called “Drugs, Society, and Culture.” It was taught by a 29-year-old adjunct professor named Luther, who had spent the previous five years on an all-expenses-paid trip “studying” the psychedelic ceremonies of aboriginal tribes in Australia and southeast Asia. It should have been the most fun class ever—and in some ways, it definitely was.

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A Simple Guide to Understanding and Creating a Website Conversion Funnel

The Daily Egg

An optimized conversion funnel can mean the difference between making a healthy profit and barely breaking even. It maximizes the profit you get from your marketing campaigns. If you run a sales-focused website, you do have a conversion funnel in place, whether you were intentional about creating it or not. Maybe it’s not optimized, but […]. The post A Simple Guide to Understanding and Creating a Website Conversion Funnel appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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Webinar: Now, Lead! The COVID-19 Global Public Health Crisis Is Your Chance

Biznology

This webinar, featuring by our CEO Jen McClure and Senior Advisor David Schlesinger 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 ma

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Shorter Workday Concept for Employee Retention | Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing automation has played a significant role in making our time at work more efficient. This is not a revolutionary or surprising statement – after all, it’s not hard to imagine that technology capable of automating repetitive tasks would be a time saver. What once took days now takes hours, and what once took hours now takes minutes. The revolution is that organizations are using the time that platforms like marketing automation have given them to rethink their workplace culture.

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Coronavirus & PR: 6 Things Communications Professionals Should Do During COVID-19

Brandpoint

If you work in communications or at a PR agency helping companies run their media campaigns, your job looks a whole lot different than it did a few weeks ago. Everything is shutting down or going online-only, but the reality that many businesses face is that what they do now is more important than ever. As PR professionals, you have the job to help these business owners and marketers make sure their livelihoods still thrive.

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The 15 Second Rule: 3 Reasons Why Users Leave a Website

The Daily Egg

How long do users stay on your website? Less than 15 seconds. That’s how long you have to capture someone’s attention on your website. I’ve dubbed this “the 15 Second Rule.” If you haven’t generated interest in 15 seconds, then you probably aren’t going to. How do you do that? Let’s take a look at […]. The post The 15 Second Rule: 3 Reasons Why Users Leave a Website appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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COVID-19 doesn’t have to ruin your B2B pipeline

Biznology

The following is a sponsored article from our partner, SoloSegment. The second quarter is often the peak time for you and other large enterprise B2B marketers to be out at events telling your stories to prospects. Due to COVID-19, we’re seeing many cancellations in industry events during 2Q. The few events that continue on will no doubt be sparsely attended due to travel restrictions at the very companies with which you want to connect.

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Battling burnout as a social media manager

Sprout Social

In the last decade, social media has rapidly evolved and become a major element of marketing in all industries. As a result, social media practitioners now play a role in more business initiatives than ever. They are key players in managing their company’s reputation, deploying customer service, acquiring customers, spotting trends and navigating breaking news. .

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4 Ways that Content Marketing Can Help you Gain Coverage in an Election Year

Brandpoint

It’s the radio spot you hear on the drive to work. It’s the TV commercial during the news break. It’s the ad that comes across your social media feed. It’s all over online and print news headlines. Because 2020 is a presidential election year, you can expect to be bombarded with political messages. This comes as no surprise to folks in media relations.

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21 Call to Action Examples in Writing and 3 Rules for Effective CTAs

The Daily Egg

Your prospects desperately want to know what to do next. Calls to action (CTA) tell them. Not only do they give your prospects clarity, they also make your marketing campaigns more effective. I’ve got a bunch of CTA examples that you can steal for your own campaigns. I’ll also highlight three essential aspects of an […]. The post 21 Call to Action Examples in Writing and 3 Rules for Effective CTAs appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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How We’re Working for You During COVID-19

Unbounce

Here at Unbounce, we’re continuing to watch and adapt to COVID-19 as details emerge. But this isn’t business as usual for anybody —it’s uncharted territory, and it’s understandable that many of us are feeling anxious about what comes next. Landing pages are certainly not top-of-mind for you at this time. Right now, you’re concerned about your health, your family, and your community.

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16 Apps and Tools to Keep You Productive and Sane

Content Marketing Institute

Her workload felt out of control. The goal? Find worthwhile shortcuts and workarounds, and make life simpler. Here are the 16 tools she tested on her successful journey. Continue reading → The post 16 Apps and Tools to Keep You Productive and Sane appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How To Manage Your Brand’s Social Media Presence During Coronavirus

Brandpoint

Do you manage your brand’s social media channels? If so, this one’s for you. As a social media manager and marketer, you already know how unpredictable the internet can be — that comes along with the job! We encounter new surprises daily and are good at keeping our heads on a swivel to stay on top of the most recent news or trends. Even so, COVID-19 has proven to be unlike any other situation we have encountered before.