Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2015

I recently participated in a Q&A with some students who were trying to understand content marketing, native advertising, and the shift to digital occurring at many brands. The biggest challenge we see our clients facing in the shift towards digital spend is the blind transition of dollars. Brands spend too much on paid promotion.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

Nowadays there are hundreds and hundreds of online tools and platforms that assist us in generating, converting, and nurturing leads into sales. Leads are now email addresses, conversation is written dialog and content, and the phone is saved until later in the sales process. Here’s the link to the digital media research tools.

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Sharpspring

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

spend an average of 5 hours per day on mobile devices. Here are five of the leading mobile marketing tactics for business in 2020 to help you drive awareness, conversions and revenue. Here are five key mobile marketing tactics for business that will drive conversions for your next campaign: Promote your offers with paid mobile ads.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins. Paid is straightforward, it’s sexy (to non-marketing executives, at least), and it’s a simple sell internally when navigating the budgeting process because of the instantly measurable ROI.

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Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The state of brand storytelling in the early 2000s. Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right. The first one is, that before joining the SaaS startup scene, you led thinking on how disintermediation fueled brand storytelling. The fundamentals of growing a SaaS business.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2019

Or for those working in the digital space, content marketing and advertising. For years, brands have found themselves torn between the familiarity of advertising’s straightforward promotional methods and the daring authenticity of content marketing’s brand storytelling initiatives. Batman and the Joker.

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Outbrain

JANUARY 12, 2023

2022 was a challenging year for everyone and no less for advertisers. What’s more, they may develop a negative feeling towards the brand, and this is definitely something that advertisers want to avoid. With all this going on, advertisers nevertheless continue to have the same (or tougher!) What does this mean? The Mere effect.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

A really great story can communicate the entire character of a brand in less than three minutes, and video storytelling can be especially persuasive. Read on to learn how to tell a story through video by focusing on themes, building stories around emotion, and following some key storytelling principles. Video Storytelling Tips 3.1

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Oktopost

JUNE 14, 2021

It takes intelligent targeting, a gentle approach, and calculated marketing strategies to embrace a new client into the sales funnel. It’s not uncommon for B2b marketers to conflate these two processes and definitions, which is an unfortunate lousy habit. . What Is Demand Generation? What Is Lead Generation?

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Optinmonster

APRIL 12, 2024

At OptinMonster, you’ll notice that we spend a lot of time conducting case studies and highlighting them on our blog. In fact, case studies are often more effective than brochures and traditional sales collateral. This wisdom also applies to sales conversations and marketing. Because everyone loves stories.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

For organizations that sell primarily to other businesses, B2B video marketing has emerged as an incredibly effective tactic for reaching, educating, and nurturing potential customers. Video Marketing Storytelling 4. Create, host, manage, and share your videos. How much are you going to spend on creating and distributing videos?

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Choozle

JULY 12, 2022

This flexibility makes creating a plan and setting clearly connected goals one of the most important steps in the marketing process. When employing a full-funnel marketing strategy your planning phase will need to be in-depth to understand appropriate timelines for each campaign and how they will affect and supplement each other over time.

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Content4Demand

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Content Storytelling: Cut Through the Clutter with Inspiring Buyer Stage-Specific Content Monday, February 27, 9:30 a.m. You’ll also get tips and best practices from Southwest Airlines , who will reveal how the brand is leveraging marketing automation to put these tactics into action. to 11:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

For organizations that sell primarily to other businesses, B2B video marketing has emerged as an incredibly effective tactic for reaching, educating, and nurturing potential customers. Video Marketing Storytelling 5. Video as an Account-Based Marketing Tactic 10. What is Video Marketing? Benefits of Video Marketing 3.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 7, 2023

It also means a unified experience across all the channels you use such as your website, social media, mobile apps, advertising or physical stores. Your brand voice and storytelling need to match the wavelength of your target audience so it resonates with their needs while staying rooted in your brand.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 19, 2018

In fact, social advertising budgets doubled from $16 billion in 2014 to $31 billion in 2016. First, focus on the story, not the sale. Create value for the user instead of another sales pitch in their news feed. Here, the non-profit brand has brilliantly humanized a pressing political issue using the power of storytelling: 3.

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Valasys

JULY 15, 2020

Pamela Wilson, Owner of Big Brand System has aptly summarized the process as follows: “As online content creators, we are officially becoming more like magazine publishers. The following are some useful tips to help you strengthen your content strategy framework – its creation, production, and processing: 1. Prioritize SEO.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Gen Z is familiar with every marketing and advertising tactic there is. While bounce rates and sales are crucial for understanding your business, looking at the funnel as a whole is a way of organically gathering data on your clientele. However, this isn’t a bad thing for your brand. Journey Mapping.

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Considered the knowledge experts within an organization e.g. product marketing, pre-sales, sales consultants and they hold an enormous amount of credibility with customers. ” Susan Emerick , Senior Manager Global Marketing & Advocacy at IBM. Thought Leaders. Step 4: Listening to influencer community insights .

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Outbrain

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I recently attended IAB ALM & AdExchanger Industry Preview, two very important events allowing an open exchange about the challenges and opportunities we’re seeing in the digital advertising industry. The digital revolution has enabled companies to tie advertising to measurable and stricter metrics.

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Influitive

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s empowered customers expect the interactions they have with your sales and marketing teams to be highly personalized and relevant—which can make striking up valuable conversations with prospects challenging. Here’s how: 84% of B2B decision makers start off the buying process with a referral. Advocacy comes in many forms.

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Historically, aviation brands have used out-of-home (OOH) advertising as an upper-funnel tactic. OOH advertising is experiencing a resurgence across industries, and aviation is no exception. OOH spending will increase 3 to 4 percent from 2017 to 2022, growing from $29 billion to $33 billion. In fact, U.S.

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Unbound B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Quick Summary: Account-based marketing is a strategic sales and marketing technique that engages and converts highly-targeted audiences. ABM is all about focusing your marketing efforts on high-value accounts that have the maximum potential of converting into sales. Not only this, snowflake made it available openly on the web.

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Outbrain

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As recently as March, car sales were down across the globe – seeing a drop of 55% in the UK; 85% in Italy; 72% in France; and 69% in Spain. In China, where the post-Covid recovery phase is further along compared to other countries, car sales in May were up roughly 12% year-on-year, followed by 11.6%

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Terminus

MARCH 18, 2020

The Terminus March release is designed to help you own and align more of the digital experience, bring account-level intelligence into every demand effort (even if it’s not ‘account based’), and deliver more of the reporting you need with trended scorecard metrics, an all-new advertising metrics page, and a native Google Analytics integration.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 23, 2020

How you quote, source and write about people in your content marketing projects has the ability to enhance your brand’s reputation and move consumers through your sales funnel with more grace and loyalty. How can writing about people enhance your content? And their key resource? When do writers write about people?

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 2, 2019

Sounds like a lot to process, right? Throughout this guide, we’ll walk you through the social marketing planning process and how to adapt your business’ strategies to industry standards. Plan out your best possible 2019 with editable planning worksheets to simplify the strategy-building process. Don’t panic.

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Anyword

JANUARY 17, 2020

In the context of marketing campaigns on social media, A/B testing is the process of running versions of ads that are different from one another in only one aspect. Keep in mind though, A/B testing is a never-ending process. Your goals will guide you in the process of choosing which factors of the ad make sense to test.

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Outbrain

AUGUST 14, 2021

While marketers and advertisers are already accustomed to working in a fast-paced industry, it still left many seasoned professionals scratching their heads. It also had a huge impact on creative advertising trends, with ad spend across top marketplaces and social media platforms increasing by 31% year on year in March 2021.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

If you missed us live on Sales Pipeline Radio (Thursdays at 11:30 am PST) you missed a past-paced conversation full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing pros. We cover a broad range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. Storytelling.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Consumers are more determined than ever to avoid ads online, and it’s making enough of a difference that enterprise brands are changing their marketing tactics. As Ad Age points out, content marketing and the US TV ad market are almost equal in their ad spending dollars—$67 billion to $70 billion, respectively.

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Contently

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The marketing sales funnel is both simple and confusing. But in practice, people use different definitions and trip up on the different parts of the funnel. When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier. When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier.

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 24, 2017

QuanticMind is covering the latest trends and tactics in paid search and digital marketing at SMX East 2017 from search publishers and expert practitioners. Reporting & Analytics: “Effective Data Storytelling: The Key to Search Reporting” by Michael Barthalow. SMX East 2017, Day 1.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

of communications professionals say they rely on branded content in their campaigns or why 67% project that their and/or their clients’ spending on branded content will increase over the next 12 months, according to a USC Annenberg survey. of communication professionals rely on branded content. USCAnnenberg ?

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Forget about copywriting 101— this is an advanced guide to sales funnel copywriting. Why is funnel copywriting important, you might ask? If you’re getting loads of site traffic but get very little to no sales, then your funnel’s copy needs a bit more oomph! Map out your funnel’s content. I know why.

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Single Grain

AUGUST 23, 2019

The best marketers in the world leverage the power of storytelling to improve branding and conversion rates. Well, people remember stories 22x more than facts and figures alone and, thus, storytelling can boost conversion rates by a significant 30%. What Is Storytelling? Science Behind Storytelling.

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Optinmonster

MAY 7, 2020

Are you struggling to get enough conversions on your sales pages? Or, like a lot of new marketers, are you scratching your head right now wondering, “Wait… what is a sales page?” ” A sales page is your best opportunity to explain your products and services to visitors and make them want to buy.

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