Sat.Nov 02, 2024 - Fri.Nov 08, 2024

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Why B2B marketing must adopt B2C tactics

Martech

Digital natives aren’t like the rest of us. They are bringing entirely new behavioral patterns into the B2B buying process, and experienced marketers and sellers ignore this at their peril. Call it “the consumerization of B2B.” We must treat buyers like the consumers they are in their personal lives, and develop new expertise in the media channels and messages that tend to work in consumerland.

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5 Email Marketing Campaigns Every Small Business Needs

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Ever built 20 email marketing campaigns only to find that only one works? It’s frustrating, right? For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) , this can feel even more scary. The truth is, successful marketing isn’t just driving people to your website and getting their email information; it’s inviting them on the entire customer journey to become part of your business family.

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AI & Automation in B2B Marketing: Powerful Tools in the Right Hands

Marketing Insider Group

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation have emerged as transformative tools, allowing businesses to streamline operations, enhance customer interactions, and optimize their marketing strategies with unprecedented efficiency. These technologies promise immense value—allowing teams to automate repetitive tasks, analyze customer data in real-time, and deliver personalized content at scale.

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3 Tips for Choosing a B2B Marketing Agency Without Getting Lost in Buzzwords

Schubert B2B

Choosing the right B2B marketing agency can feel like speed dating. Everyone promises to deliver results, but how can you find “the one”? In the world of B2B, it’s not just about flashy slogans or trendy campaigns — it’s about finding a partner that understands your goals, audience and industry. Here are three tips to help you choose the right B2B marketing agency that’ll have you saying, “Where have you been all of my life?

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Why retail media should be part of your first-party data strategy

illumin

Retail media is on the climb in 2024 and is a critical part of a well-rounded first-party data strategy. While Google spent most of 2023 and 2024 threatening to remove third-party cookies from Chrome , marketers went to work finding alternatives and first-party data jumped ahead as a promising solution. As a direct result, retail media started its meteoric rise.

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What Skills Do Your B2B Marketers Need in the AI Era?

Marketri

With all the talk about AI’s potential to transform marketing, you might conclude that the skills B2B marketers need are less important in this high-tech age. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The same legacy skills that top B2B marketers have always brought to the table remain essential for building a steady pipeline of buyers and driving revenue growth.

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3 must-send emails to maximize your Black Friday campaign

Martech

With Black Friday quickly approaching, the smartest marketers are preparing to pull out all the stops on their email campaigns for the biggest shopping day of the year. Perhaps you’re already outlining, drafting and even uploading your campaigns to your CRM or email service provider. But before you hit send, consider this: Your campaign must deliver more than discounts to be effective and profitable this Black Friday.

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Strengthening B2B Brand Positioning through Recruitment Marketing

Webbiquity

Guest post by Indiana Lee. To become an employer of choice in a tight labor market, businesses must focus on customer engagement and creating a compelling employer brand that attracts top talent. Image credit: Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels Recruitment marketing has emerged as a strategic approach that allows B2B companies to showcase their organizational culture, values, and unique selling propositions.

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The Role of Keywords in Successful PPC Advertising

Marketing Insider Group

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising relies heavily on one foundational element: keywords. Crafting a strong PPC keyword strategy will help you drive targeted traffic, increase conversions, and optimize advertising budgets. By identifying and implementing the right keywords, you can make sure your ads appear in front of audiences already searching for relevant products or services.

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4 Simple Decisions to Unlock Your Post-Cookie Targeting Strategy

The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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The ROI of Thank You: Why Gratitude Matters in Business

Trade Press Services Newsletter

When was the last time you experienced genuine gratitude at work? If you can’t recall, you’re not alone. Gratitude is often thought of as a personal virtue to practice in everyday life or around holidays. “The practice of expressing gratitude is far more often associated with personal relationships like friendships, partnerships, or family,” says Intelligent Change. “You rarely hear the words ‘gratitude’ and ‘business’ in the same sentence.” A recent study by the John Tem

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ZoomInfo and Clari Groove: Streamline Lead Management for Accelerated Sales

Zoominfo

Go-to-market teams are constantly looking for integrated solutions that can help them work faster, smarter, and more effectively. Today, we’re happy to say that more ZoomInfo customers will be able to reach those goals. ZoomInfo’s new integration with Clari Groove helps sales teams automatically sync contacts between ZoomInfo, Salesforce, and Groove Flows — seamlessly bridging the gap between lead identification and engagement.

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Planning for a Successful Holiday Email Marketing Campaign

Act-On

The holidays are the busiest time for email marketers and 2024 is going to be no different. This is the time of the year where volume and frequency are adjusted to try and meet those year end goals. At that same time we need to remember that our subscribers are being inundated with holiday emails as well. In today’s blog, we’re going to discuss how to develop an effective holiday email marketing strategy using time tested email deliverability management strategies.

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How to Conduct a Comprehensive SEO and Technical Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Marketing Insider Group

You need a website that performs to the best of its abilities to succeed as a business. A comprehensive SEO and technical audit is part of the process because it checks that search engines can find your website and that it provides a seamless user experience. Users conduct 6.3 million Google searches every minute, and a chunk of those searchers could be looking for what you’re selling.

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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 new norms of buyer engagement with Catie Ivey

Oktopost

Named one of the⁠ 100 Powerful Women in Sales in 2024 by Demandbase and Women in Sales⁠, Catie Ivey, CRO of Walnut dives into the transformative shifts in buyer behavior and challenges executives to think about what happens when leaders fail to rethink their go-to-market motion and adapt to the new norms of buyer engagement. Listen to the podcast Watch the live recording Catch on LinkedIn Live , Spotify , Apple Podcasts , YouTube Episode Summary How has the shift in buyer behavior influenced you

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Good Timing: The Account Exec’s Secret Weapon

Zoominfo

You’re the AE who’s got it together. You’ve done the research, memorized the features and benefits, and nailed your talk track. You’ve got a pitch-perfect personalized email, and the most detailed buying committee map ever created. But if you’re reaching out too late in the buyer journey, it’s not going to matter. “Timing is everything in sales — especially when it comes to outbound sales programs,” says David Mansfield , a new business sales manager at ZoomInfo.

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What makes content go viral, backed by research

Martech

What makes content go viral? According to our latest research, the key lies in triggering specific emotions, publishing at the right time and telling stories that resonate. By understanding the emotional drivers behind viral content, brands can create campaigns that reach wider audiences and inspire real engagement. The viral emotions driving brand engagement Up to 70% of journalists say PR pros are important to the success of their jobs, yet 49% of journalists seldom or never respond to PR pitc

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The Future of Paid Media Advertising: Trends to Watch in 2025

Marketing Insider Group

Paid media advertising is a cornerstone of digital marketing, allowing businesses to reach targeted audiences and maximize their visibility online. According to an Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers study, the digital marketing industry generated $225 billion in ad revenue in 2023. That number should continue growing in the years to come.

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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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How AI in Marketing Impacts All Stages of the Funnel

CMSWire

AI in marketing reshapes customer engagement and improves personalization. Ultimately, it enhances loyalty through smart insights and predictive strategies. Continue reading.

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The 50 Top Trending Tech Startups (Q4 2024)

Ahrefs

Here’s how we built this list (and how you can do the same using Ahrefs): Here are the 10 startups with the greatest growth in branded search volume in the past year.

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Why B2B CMOs are frustrated with ABM platforms

Martech

Account-based marketing (ABM) platforms came with the promise of revolutionizing B2B marketing. They reminded us that it’s all about the account and transformed that insight from a concept into a craft. They recognized that the value of a lead extends beyond MQLs and SQLs, reframing it as a powerful account signal for prioritization and scoring. ABM platforms enabled marketers to peer into the crystal ball of intent data, identifying which accounts were in-market for solutions.

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Influencer Marketing: The B2B Game Plan for Success

Content Marketing Institute

To win big with influencer marketing, B2B brands need the right game plan. Build it with this expert advice on selecting valuable partners, determining goals, and effectively positioning content.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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What Is Grok? Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Rebellious’ AI

CMSWire

Explore Elon Musk's Grok AI: a "rebellious" bot with real-time knowledge and a daring approach to "spicy" questions. Continue reading.

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Unlocking the GenAI Advantage and Leading the Next Great Transformation in Marketing with Raj Venkatesan

Content Standard

A Content Disrupted podcast with Raj Venkatesan, Roland Trusinski Professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business  Access this and more Content Disrupted episodes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Join us for an insightful conversation with Raj Venkatesan, Roland Trusinski Professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, as he outlines his approach to navigating AI’s role in modern marketing.

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How to use post-campaign data to make your marketing better

Martech

In previous articles, we’ve explored the role of data-driven strategies in the planning and execution phases of marketing initiatives. Here, we’ll focus on using data to analyze and improve decision-making after launching a marketing initiative. The post-campaign phase is crucial for understanding results and extracting actionable insights to inform future strategies.

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Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where It Counts?

Content Marketing Institute

OpenAI officially brought an AI-powered search engine to ChatGPT. What does it mean for marketers? Should you be asking how your content becomes THE answer? Or should you pose a different question?

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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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Building a Trust-First Brand: Transparency and Consent in Marketing

CMSWire

Data transparency isn’t just compliance. It's a trust-building strategy that enhances brand loyalty, empowers customers with control and delivers lasting value. Continue reading.

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TikTok launches its search ads

illumin

TikTok is pushing the envelope on search advertising. Here’s what you need to know about the social media platform’s initiative to boost search ads. Modern social media advertising will look a lot brighter as one of the social media giants is investing more in its search ads portfolio. TikTok launched its “Search Ads” campaign on September 24, 2024.

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How TikTok is transforming brand advertising

Martech

TikTok is no longer just the platform for viral dances and trends; it’s transforming how brands connect with consumers and driving unprecedented advertising success. As companies embrace TikTok’s unique blend of storytelling, targeted ads and interactive features, they’re discovering a powerful path to growth that seamlessly integrates brand visibility, audience engagement and increased sales.