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How to Use Instagram Stories for B2B Lead Generation 

KoMarketing Associates

Ah, Instagram. The place your company posts…. Photos of your company’s events and community service events. Inspiring quotes laid out in a visually compelling way. Visually-appealing excerpts from any pieces of content you’ve published lately.

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10 Top AI-Based Tools for Marketing and Sales

Webbiquity

There’s a lot of excitement and new technology developing around artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing. There is also a bit of nervousness and some dangerous myths. Here’s what you need to know, along with several tools that can help you enhance your marketing efforts with AI today.

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7 Reasons To Update Your Buyer Insights And Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

We have all encountered an experience where we happenstance upon a picture. Seeing an old picture in a new light. Perhaps it is a picture of your children. Or a photo of a relative in their later years and no longer with us.

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7 Key Stats That Point to the Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

I just read that in the year 2100, Nigeria will be the 2nd most populous country. And that by 2100, populations will plunge a lot across what we call the “developed world” (hate that term – it’s so condescending isn’t it?).

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

In this webinar, you will learn how a digital buying experience can maintain the feel of an in-person buying experience, how to leverage first-party data for better brand experiences, and how to achieve seamless marketing-to-sales handoffs at scale.

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Driving Strategic Value Creation through Access Creation & Integrated Marketing

Chaitra Vedullapalli

I have been in the marketing industry for over two decades now. After working at Oracle, Microsoft, Meylah, and Women in Cloud I have personally experienced consistent changes in how marketing programs and campaigns shape the society

B2B 130

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100 Email Marketing Statistics: Ready Reference to Why Email is the King

SendX

Statistics that help you make the best-informed decision on why to go for email marketing The Case for Email Marketing As marketers, we often have to make complex choices, and are always faced with the challenge of backing our decisions with tonnes of research, facts and figures.

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How to Plan Your Marketing Budget for 2021

Rock Content

Is your marketing department ready for 2021? The development and execution of successful campaigns depend, among other things, on the planning of a solid marketing budget.

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Resilience: The New 2020 Marketing Theme?

Hive9

The year 2020 has demonstrated why clear visibility into plans more than just once a year, half or even quarter is essential for marketing leaders. If you can’t see what’s happening in the first place, you’re not going to be able to adjust accordingly for sudden market changes.

Forrester 166
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How to Create A Content Strategy

Benchmark Email

A content strategy is valuable. It helps you map out your plans and the type of content you're creating. Here's how to put one together

Email 279
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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Intent signal data comes in two types: either companies or individuals signaling interest in products like yours. Which kind of data delivers more advantages to B2B marketers? It depends. Get this infographic to learn about the advantages of intent-based leads and how you can most effectively use both types of data.

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Embrace the Zero When You Don’t Have the Data

Vision Edge Marketing

We hear a number of reasons for why performance target-setting efforts grind to halt. Among the most frequent is the lack of data or lack of confidence in the data. While it is always better to have data or better data, our suggestion is to embrace the zero!

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How to Map Content Marketing to Revenue, in 3 Steps

Contently

When I was making the transition from journalism to marketing, my first big epiphany came from a caveman cartoon.

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Is It Time to Reconsider and Reprioritize Your Marketing Metrics in the Time of Coronavirus?

Tomorrow People

A closer look at what marketing tactics seem to be working – and what to watch out for.

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The Hidden Costs of Using the Wrong A/B Testing Tool

Convert

Using the wrong A/B testing tool can cost you money and time. Here’s why you can’t reduce churn, increase revenue, improve user experience with the wrong testing tool

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Which ESG Topics Get the Most Attention?

People are focusing on how companies are responding to the headline issues of the day, says a report from 3BL Media on evolving interests in ESG subjects, which also found a mismatch between the stories brands publish and topics audiences want.

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When Should I Stop Nurturing a Lead?

The Point

A client asks: “I know the answer is probably “it depends” but curious if you think there’s a best practice for how many follow-up nurture emails to send TOFU content syndication leads before you stop due to non-engagement?”.

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Bend but Don’t Break: Creating Resilient Teams for Uncertain Times

Full Circle Insights

It’s important now, more than ever, to make sure you are creating resilient teams within your organization. Here are a few tips to make sure your marketing team thrives during this time

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Key Brainstorming Techniques to Unlock Your B2B Marketing Creativity

Launch Marketing

Brainstorming is a critical part of any creative process, whether you are writing copy or creating your next big product. Once defined as simply a collaboration of ideas, the term has since transformed into any visionary or inventive planning done independently and in groups.

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Lead Generation

Marketing Insider Group

When it comes to lead generation, most marketers prefer to be doers , meaning that they enjoy coming up with ideas and then executing them.

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Marketing Through Storytelling: The Secret to Building a Unique Brand Identity

Speaker: Amanda Wener, Award-Winning Content Strategist and Brand Storyteller

In this exclusive webinar with award-winning content strategist Amanda Wener, you’ll learn the benefits of a strong editorial content strategy in building a brand identity, why functioning like a newsroom works, and how a structured approach to content creation and marketing can bring your brand to life.

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Industrial Marketing—You Want Coaching With That?

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial marketing coaching is something I’m asked about often, especially in the past 6 to 8 months. The headline of this post is my tongue in cheek attempt at the famous McDonald’s® age-old question, “You Want Fries With That?”

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The Future of Email Marketing in 2021 & Beyond (Trends that Matter)

SendX

A lot of folks believe that email is dead. With the increased use of chatbots, social media platforms, etc., the assumption is that email's place has been overtaken. However, this assertion, and the assumption it is based on, is wrong.

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Will Pre-Pandemic Buyer Assumptions Prevent Recovery And Rebound In 2021?

Tony Zambito

Over time, we can build assumptions about how things work. How things are supposed to be. Or we cement assumptions about what people think. Or how we expect people to behave.

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The Impact of Peer Engagement on The Customer Buying Journey

Vision Edge Marketing

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process.

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Maximizing Marketing Efforts: Benefits of Personalizing Online Experience

Speaker: Kate Marx, VP of State Street Global Advisors; Tara Quehl, Marketing Director at Demandbase; Lee Zucker, Global Head of GTM & Revenue Strategy at Drift

In this webinar, financial services marketing professionals will teach you how to refocus your marketing efforts on a digital-first client experience by humanizing visits to your website, boosting the effectiveness of your client-facing teams.

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5 Signs Your Pipeline Reviews Are Failing

InsightSquared

Ugh, not another pipeline review! We all have those meetings we dread but are forced to sit through every week because it’s part of the process.

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21 books every senior marketer should read or listen to

Tomorrow People

We’ve scoured our shelves, e-readers, and audiobook apps to recommend these essential titles, full of insight and inspiration. These reads are sure to spark new ideas and reveal useful techniques and ways of thinking that you can apply to the pursuit of your marketing goals.

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Your Marketing Campaign Shouldn’t Take Ages to Launch: A Story of Denise and Christine

Hive9

To justify their marketing spend, marketing leaders are under constant pressure from their organization to deliver ROI.

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18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program

The Point

It wasn’t that long ago, when marketing automation first burst on the scene, that the height of lead nurture sophistication was the simple, automated sending of multiple, sequential emails. Today, advances in marketing technology make such “automation” seem laughably basic.

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7 Trends in ESG: What PR Pros Need to Know in 2023

What does the evolution of ESG programs mean for communicators? As it turns out - a lot. New challenges are coming into focus, driven by the increasing attention to corporate sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs, and the evolving state of ESG reporting regulations. This new ebook from 3BL Media explores seven trends in detail and unpacks what they mean for communicators. Access your copy for free today.

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LinkedIn for Business: 4 Ways B2B Marketers Can Reach Their Target Audience

KoMarketing Associates

I recently wrote about 5 ways B2B marketers can optimize their LinkedIn advertising, including tips around ad copy, creative, targeting, and utilizing specific types of campaigns.

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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

As virtual meetings have become the norm, innovative software developers are pushing the technology forward in some amazing ways. Online gatherings are no longer limited to team meetings and webinars using same old video calling tools.

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11 Digital Marketing Trends for Growing Your Business in 2021

Marketing Insider Group

Marketers have been forced into survival mode to keep their businesses afloat. While many of us are still reeling from the devastating effects of the pandemic, those less fortunate have shut their doors permanently.

Trends 363