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Five Surprising Findings from the 2017 Marketing Strategy Report

Webbiquity

CoSchedule, a top content planning and research tool vendor, just released its State of Marketing Strategy Report 2017 , based on a survey of nearly 1,600 marketing professionals. Many of the findings were enlightening through not terribly surprising. But a few stood out as…unexpected. First off, the three big useful (but not surprising) insights from the report are that the most successful marketers: Document their marketing strategy and processes: Marketing teams that document their str

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How to Create a Brand Advocate Army

Marketing Insider Group

What’s the most powerful element of your marketing strategy? High quality content, UX, SEO, live video, unforgettable events? Nope. It’s not personalization. It isn’t social marketing lead generation. Not even the use of next gen AI and machine learning hold a candle to the voice of your existing customers. McKinsey puts word of mouth behind […].

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Why Lead Nurturing Success Means Not Asking for the Sale

The Point

I was left a voicemail earlier this week by a sales rep that I talked to (briefly) about 6 months ago. His message today was, in summary: “Are you ready to engage with us yet?”. Now, not only was I not ready, I barely remember what his company does. That’s because I haven’t had any communication from him or his company in the last 6 months that wasn’t a direct solicitation to do business with the firm.

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Interview with Doug Kessler

Onalytica B2B

Doug Kessler – Creative Director, Co-Founder, Velocity Partners Ltd. Key Topics: Content Marketing, B2B Marketing, Tech Marketing, Copywriting, Creative, Agencies. Location: London and NYC. Bio: Doug Kessler is co-founder and creative director of Velocity Partners, the London- and New York-based B2B marketing agency (and the CMA Agency of the Year 2016).

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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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Dare to be different and make your B2B content marketing really stand out

Tomorrow People

What separates good from great in B2B content marketing and what’s stopping marketers from producing truly differentiated content?

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Press Release: Kaon to be Apple Launch Partner for 3D AR, Showing Interactive 3D Products in Enterprise Environments

Kaon

Kaon Interactive Takes Sales & Marketing Applications to the Next Level with 3D Augmented Reality. Kaon Interactive , the leading provider of 3D marketing and sales applications for global B2B brands, today announced that its augmented reality (AR) solution, Kaon AR ® , is now available on over 340 million Apple devices. With the release of iOS 11 and the launch of Apple’s ARkit, Kaon Interactive is driving AR adoption in the B2B space, with 50+ live enterprise AR applications in use, by hun

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Interview with Zontee Hou

Onalytica B2B

Zontee Hou – Senior Strategist at Convince & Convert. Key Topics: Content Marketing, Digital Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behavior. Location: Brooklyn, New York. Bio: Zontee Hou is the founder & president of Brooklyn-based consultancy Media Volery and co-lead of the respected Convince & Convert Consulting team. Her 10+ years of work in the marketing industry has garnered multiple awards including a Forrester Groundswell Award.

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Tomorrow People opens NYC Office and appoints US Managing Partner

Tomorrow People

Tomorrow People is happy to announce the opening of a United States office in Manhattan, New York City following the acquisition of notable US clients amid a growing demand for global B2B content marketing programs.

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6 Reasons Your Marketing Video Isn’t Going Viral

Marketing Insider Group

It’s not a marketing secret or even a trend. Video marketing has become a sizable slice of the digital marketing pie. B2B, B2C, enterprise level, start-up, mom and pop shop – video does not discriminate. It works for everyone. When more than half of internet users watch videos online – every day – visual media naturally becomes […]. The post 6 Reasons Your Marketing Video Isn’t Going Viral 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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Connected consumption is the new customer experience (CX)

Biznology

Lesson for leaders. Today’s marketing is becoming obsolete. It comes from yesterday’s world. Its focus is “find, buy, and deliver.”. Now imagine having an invisible 2-way channel inside everything that is done online. When countless products and services become connected, personal customer-vendor relationships will be added. Marketing’s focus will add the new life cycle stages of “install, use, service, and upgrade.”.

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Interview with Mark Fidelman

Onalytica B2B

Mark Fidelman – CEO at Fanatics Media. Key Topics: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Influencer Marketing. Location: San Diego, CA. Bio: Mark Fidelman is the CEO for Fanatics Media , a Full Service Digital Marketing Agency with a focus on B2B and B2C Influencer marketing. Mark has been named a 2016 Top 20 influencer of CMOs by Forbes Magazine , a Top 25 Social Media Keynote Speaker by Inc Magazine , and a Huffington Post Top 50 Most Social CEO.

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10 Must-Have Features In Your Advocate Marketing Software

Influitive

How are you managing your customer, employee, or partner advocacy programs? Today, most advocate marketers are organizing advocate activity through separate applications, and—our favourite—spreadsheets and emails. (If you’re still wondering what exactly advocate marketing is, read this primer first!) But there are two big problems with this approach: 1.

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How Ecommerce Brands Should Approach Content Marketing in 2018

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is changing. In the past, you might have been able to get real ROI from lazily publishing 500-word articles on your blog week after week, but it’s not enough anymore. In order to use content to build brand awareness, differentiate from competitors, secure customer loyalty, drive more traffic to your product pages, and […]. The post How Ecommerce Brands Should Approach Content Marketing in 2018 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.

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How purposeful branding is driving millennials and social entrepreneurship

Biznology

The world has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or since the 2008 recession. Economic and job growth is coming less from traditional industries or big corporations, but more from entrepreneurial startups. Historically, this involved business entrepreneurs, but today, it is the social entrepreneur that has taken center stage. A key driver for this trend is the emerging values of millennials and purposeful branding.

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Report: Most Loyal B2B Customers Value Reliability in Companies

KoMarketing Associates

Previous research from Part 1 of Merkle Loyalty Solutions’ “The Ideal B-to-B Loyalty Program: What Should It Look Like” research indicated that marketers were placing a greater priority on acquiring new customers, rather than retention. Now, Part 2 is shedding light on what encourages existing customers to stick with a B2B provider over time.

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A Day in the Life of a Content Strategist

Contently

As of today, 40,427 people have the title of content strategist on LinkedIn. Another 1,389 open roles await the right candidate. And according to recent research from The Creative Group , content strategists currently hold one of the top-paying jobs in the tech and creative fields. Strategists typically earn between $81,000 and $115,000, a jump of more than 5 percent from last year.

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Weekend Reading: “My Adventures in Marketing” by Philip Kotler

Marketing Insider Group

For the 141st episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Philip Kotler, “The Father of Modern Marketing,” about his autobiography, My Adventures in Marketing. For over 50 years, Philip Kotler has taught at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Kotler’s book “Marketing Management” is the most widely used textbook in marketing […].

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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6 actions for sales leaders to get the right sales content

Avitage

Sales performance suffers due to poor or missing situation-ready sales content. However, this is still a near universal B2B selling problem and performance constraint. Despite significant investments in sales and marketing content management technology, most B2B organizations don’t provide their sales and channel sales organizations enough of the right content.

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A Closer Look: B2B Account-Based Marketing Tactics & Objectives

KoMarketing Associates

It is no secret that the adoption of account-based marketing (ABM) programs are becoming more of a priority for B2B marketers. As detailed earlier this year, #FlipMyFunnel discovered that over the past 12 months, the percentage of B2B marketers who say they use ABM has increased from 49 percent to 81 percent. And in early 2016, the “2016 ABM Metrics Report” revealed that 80 percent of respondents indicated their success with ABM was either moderately or highly successful, and none plan on scalin

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Vizury Combines Web Page Personalization with a Customer Data Platform

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the fascinating things about tracking Customer Data Platforms is the great variety among the vendors. It’s true that variety causes confusion for buyers. The CDP Institute is working to ease that pain, most recently with a blog discussion you’re welcome to join here. But for me personally, it’s been endlessly intriguing to trace the paths that vendors have followed to become CDPs and learn where they plan to go next.

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Make an Impact: Intelligent Social Media Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Investing in social media is something every business owner is told to do and something that every marketing department has to focus on – that’s a given. But the results can vary, and tracking and monitoring tangible success can be difficult. Return on investment in social media marketing has long been a tricky topic and […]. The post Make an Impact: Intelligent Social Media Marketing 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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Microcontent — the most important content type you don’t manage

Avitage

Microcontent isn’t widely understood or consciously used. When it is, it’s usually by marketing for social media content. But micro-content may be the most important content type you have, and you probably don’t manage it. Microcontent is simply what the words imply. The term is credited to user experience expert Jakob Nielsen: “microcontent is a small group of words which can be skimmed by the reader to understand the wider message of the article.” Examples include

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2017 Best Advocate Marketing Awards Nominations Now Open

Influitive

Forget about the Oscars, Golden Globes, or the Grammys. Mark your calendar for the biggest awards ceremony in B2B marketing: the Best Advocate Marketing Awards (also known as The BAMMIES, for short) are back! The BAMMIES recognize the top achievements by B2B marketers who are harnessing the power of their biggest fans and happiest customers to fuel their business.

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What I learned at #GrowthWithAI

Lattice

Last week, Lattice and Dun and Bradstreet hosted a breakfast with B2B sales and marketing innovators from companies like Sirius Decisions, Adobe, Dell EMC, Thomson Reuters, Liberty Mutual, Akamai, etc. There were a few key points I took away from the different speaker presentations and follow-on discussions.

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Enough of the Guru Worship: Why We Should Demote Our Favorite Experts

Marketing Insider Group

We hear it all the time: We live and work in the “Information Age.” And most of the time, this is something to celebrate! We have more access, more ways to self-express, more choice, more technology, and more opportunities. It’s great! But… The Information Age has a dark side: Advice Overload. It’s just so easy […]. The post Enough of the Guru Worship: Why We Should Demote Our Favorite Experts appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Let's Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Micro-content — the most important content type you don’t manage

Avitage

Micro-content isn’t widely understood or consciously used. When it is, it’s usually by marketing for social media content. But micro-content may be the most important content type you have, and you probably don’t manage it. Micro-content is simply what the words imply. The term is credited to user experience expert Jakob Nielsen: “micro content is a small group of words which can be skimmed by the reader to understand the wider message of the article.” Examples incl

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Backfill your corporate history onto your blog for Google

Biznology

You won’t confuse your visitors or p**s off Google Search if you start posting historical newsletters, news items, press releases , product launches, and blog posts — as long as you’re honest. Take advantage of the fact that most modern content management and blogging systems allow you to time-stamp your post with the current time; or, you can choose the year, month, day, hour, and minute yourself.

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11 Automated Emails You Should Be Sending with Your Engagement Platform

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

If you’ve got a substantial email list, there’s no sense in just sitting on it, and letting it stagnate. Make the most of each and every contact on that list, through your targeted email campaigns in order to see the best results. Segmenting and automating your email marketing is essential if you want to attain new customers and maintain existing ones.