2020

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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. Hip photos of your company’s employees focusing on their work or collaborating with peers. And the occasional dog photo.

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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. Myth #1: AI is going to take my marketing job. Not to worry.

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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. A momentous occasion, such as a family vacation, captured in a photo evoking fond memories. When you happenstance upon such a picture, it can bring to mind the story behind the picture.

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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?). Statistics can help us see into (and plan) for the future. This is true for life and one of my favorite things to do for marketing.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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Driving Strategic Value Creation through Access Creation & Integrated Marketing

B2B Marketing Zone Submitted Articles

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.

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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. Email marketing continues to be the dominant type of marketing, in spite of the rise of social media marketing.

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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. Underscoring just how vital resiliency is when it comes to marketing planning, a recent blog from Forrester SiriusDecisions’ Meta Karagianni puts it this way: “The ability to manage unplanned events and calibrate and adju

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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.

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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! Zero is the only whole number that is neither positive nor negative, but that doesn’t mean it is without value.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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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. The cartoon was in Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin’s Slideshare on Why Content Marketing Fails , which has over 6 million views and does a fantastic job illustrating why many companies struggle with content marketing ROI: Some marketers expect content revenue to have a linear path.

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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. Earlier this year, before the world experienced mass disruption, we were putting the finishing touches on a series of eBooks looking at some of the most interesting trends we saw in content, marketing, and business strategy. Now, as many of us brace for a possible second wave, we thought it might be useful to look back and see if our insights held up.

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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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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?”. My response: We typically design nurture programs for inbound leads like content syndication in 2 stages, as follows: 1) quickly determining if the person has an immediate need or otherwise merits sales follow-up; and then. 2) staying in touch with that in

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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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. Help get your next B2B product launch off the ground and headed for success by using our B2B Product Launch Toolkit.

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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. Measuring and reporting on their effectiveness is no one’s favorite part of the job as it requires a lot of research, takes up tons of time, and is honestly, quite boring. The reason that many marketers dread the reporting process of their lead generation strategies is that they oftentimes don’t even know where to begin.

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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. Truly, the idea and process of emailing have existed for a long time, predating even the internet. Also, email marketing is not without its challenges.

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Top B2B Email Marketing Tactics to Drive Engagement and Pipeline in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Ready to become the email wizard your team didn’t know they needed? Join our live webinar to uncover the secrets of mixing AI magic with human flair, crafting emails so good your audience can't help but write back. We'll spill the beans on: Scaling personal touches Tracking metrics (like revenue, duh) Building smarter campaigns that actually work Oh, and we’re throwing in multi-channel tips too—think LinkedIn ads and webinars that wow.

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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

Customer Experience Matrix

“Apophenia” – seeing patterns where none exist – is both occupational hazard and job requirement for an industry analyst. The CDP Institute Daily Newsletter provides a steady supply of grist for my pattern detection mill. But the selection of items for that newsletter isn’t random. I have a list of long-running stories that I follow, and keep an eye out for items that illuminate them.

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The 10 Best Webinar and Webcasting Tools

Webbiquity

With live events on hold for now, webinars have become a more popular channel than ever for communicating directly with sales prospects. But with seemingly everyone producing webinars now, how can you make yours stand out and attract busy buyers? Several elements determine the success of your webinars. Probably the most important is content: are you giving attendees useful, actionable information—not just a thinly veiled sales pitch?

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Empathy is a superpower in marketing and sales

markempa

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective doesn’t just make you a more likable salesperson or marketer—it’s a huge advantage in terms of business outcomes. In this interview with Nutshell’s Ben Goldstein, Markempa Founder and CEO Brian Carroll discuss what “empathy” means in a sales context, how to discover your buyers’ real motivations and the changes in tactics that sellers and marketers need to make to put their customers’ needs

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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. Oftentimes, we can create an over-reliance on past data and experiences to shape our assumptions about the present and the future. . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , many organizations will need to ask these critical questions: .

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Differences Between Selling to Women vs. Men (Yes, Gender is a Factor)

Zoominfo

Are there differences in selling to women vs. men in B2B sales? Isn’t it all the same? If that’s the mentality you’ve adopted, it might be time to rethink. In partnership with leading sales linguist Steve W. Martin, ZoomInfo surveyed 350+ B2B buyers, and we put this question to the test.

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10 Crucial Email Marketing Mistakes (With Tips to Avoid Them)

SendX

“Email marketing is dead!” That’s what some marketers would say. The pace of technology’s innovation as well as the number of resources that are available to marketers today is extraordinary. In 2015 alone, VentureBeat said that there are almost 2,000 companies from 43 marketing categories; including social marketing, SEO, mobile analytics, video marketing, and more.

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7 Types of Emails You Need to Use in Your Sales Strategy

SendX

Customers today have a wide range of options for contacting your business. From social media, live chat, phone calls, SMS, and many others. However, email remains the most popular way for customers to interact with brands. Besides marketing, email can be an amazing sales tool if you devote enough time to crafting the ideal email and sending it to the right target audience.

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One Click That Mattered

SendX

Our domain ‘sendx.io’ was set up 4 years ago and we have been using GSuite to communicate within the team. We would never expect our emails to land in the spam box… We have been in the email deliverability space for over 2 years now. Proper authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC records), maintaining server/domain reputations, etc, have been like the back of our hands.

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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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8 Must-have E-commerce Tools to Communicate With Customers

SendX

A consumer journey in 2020 looks more complicated and diverse than ever before – your customers can reach you in a number of ways, through a multitude of channels, and they expect top-notch service on all of them. This is especially the case for e-commerce, where people can order online and give you their money in a matter of minutes, without even leaving their home.

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10 Examples Of Email Newsletter Design [with Tips to Improve your Email Campaigns]

SendX

If you are an entrepreneur, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations… effectively reaching your customers. In today’s business world, everyone pretty much relies on digital channels for shopping, communication, entertainment, and education. And this can only mean one thing: Looking for creative ways to reach customers and market products and services within the expansive digital space.

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Ultimate Guide to Email Segmentation [Definition, Benefits and Best Practices]

SendX

In this in-depth email list segmentation guide, you are going to learn all you need to know about email segmentation. I will talk about the email segmentation basics and the importance of segmenting your emails list. I will also talk about the email list segmentation best practices. Segmented and targeted emails can increase revenue by 58%. Besides, 74% of marketers say personalized emails trigger more customer engagement.