The Forward Observer

MARCH 8, 2024

Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities by Jenny Li Fowler About the Book Organizations and institutions focused on community building have a built-in group of ambassadors who embrace their message and vision. She also manages MIT’s flagship X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads and TikTok accounts.

Social Media 161

Social Media Resource Management Organization Social Marketing 161

Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Pressure has been building around proving ROI. Sure, it’s always been there to some extent, but that pressure has recently increased, according to B2B marketers. A recent survey found that: 41% of marketers report they’re feeling more pressure to achieve a high ROI. Created streams based on how people entered the database.

Lead Nurturing 194

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 194

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Analytics Tools Automation 246

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 11, 2023

Before you succumb to the hype and hire a social media intern or go all out with paid search ads, you need to consider digital marketing services. There’s no better way to optimize your website than to work with digital marketing experts. Why Spend Your Budget on Digital Marketing Services?

Marketing Automation Services 322

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Budget Paid Search Agency Service 322

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? How do you get it right, measure it, improve it? You may have noticed that we’re talking about more than a marketing tactic. What’s going on here is that marketers have become storytellers and concept creators.

Content Marketing 221

Content Marketing Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 221

Trade Press Services Newsletter

APRIL 4, 2024

As podcasts continue to grow in popularity, thought leaders and marketers are recognizing the value of being a podcast guest as part of an effective marketing program. As podcasts continue to grow in popularity, thought leaders and marketers are recognizing the value of being a podcast guest as part of an effective marketing program.

Impressions 297

Impressions Practices Best Practices Thought Leadership 297

Oktopost

MARCH 19, 2024

With a passion for AI, Etien Yanev walks us through all the ways businesses can leverage AI for a successful marketing strategy. With a solid marketing background, Etien shares all the expertise he’s picked up along the way. Love going Behind the Post? Catch all of the episodes here !

Social Media 136

Social Media Media Startups Youtube 136

The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. Otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by ALL the options available for marketing online. This knowledge forms the foundation of your digital marketing efforts.

Paid Content 97

Paid Content Sales Management B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy 97

Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. In this article, we’re sharing every social media marketing template we’ve ever made. If your answer is anything other than “yes”, you need this social media strategy deck.

Social Media 80

Social Media Template Work Management Marketing Management 80

Sprout Social

APRIL 16, 2024

Social listening has always been a powerful tool for brands that know how to wield it effectively. These insights build stronger messaging, campaigns, product lines—the opportunities are endless. These insights build stronger messaging, campaigns, product lines—the opportunities are endless.

Keywords 101

Keywords Template Analysis Barriers 101

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 31, 2023

If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf. How do you avoid this and capture customer interest? Build a comprehensive go-to-market (GTM) strategy that combines careful research with tailored messaging that hits on the right buyer pain points.

Work Management 119

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 119

Optinmonster

APRIL 10, 2024

Do you want to drive more sales and increase customer loyalty while building stronger connections with them? Want to know how to apply emotional intelligence in your marketing? But most of them don’t tell you how exactly to apply it to your campaigns. You have to go deeper. And it doesn’t end there.

Marketing AI 86

Marketing AI Planning Paid Search Agency Psychographics 86

Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Once the basics are out of the way, I’ll provide my thoughts on how these new AI tools are total disrupters and explain the large language model (LLM) and app ecosystem.

Marketing AI 128

Marketing AI Paid Search Agency Generation Enterprise Management 128

Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2024

For the past eight years, NetLine’s annual analysis of B2B content consumption and demand has stood as a lighthouse for marketers navigating the stormy waters of content strategy and lead generation. million first-party content registrations and offers a map for marketers in search of treasure (aka new business).

B2B 143

B2B Case Study Case Studies Content 143

Convince & Convert

APRIL 12, 2024

This includes the importance of social media for discovery, reputation management, community building, and brand awareness and engagement. It’s no surprise that consumers go to social media first to search and discover new brands to follow. Nevertheless, we know it takes much more work to manage a brand on social media. What’s yours?

Social Media 135

Social Media ROI Media Cross-Selling 135

Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2024

Just because a network was the foundation of your strategy in the past, doesn’t mean you won’t need a new cornerstone moving forward. When charting a path forward, social media teams must orient their strategy around network white space, following the lead of influencers and creators breaking through on new channels.

Social Media 113

Social Media Allocation Media Marketing & Strategy 113

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Social media SEO is optimizing your social media channels for reach and visibility to help you drive brand awareness, build trust, and contribute to generating leads. Here’s how you can direct your efforts for maximum reach and visibility: 1. It’ll help you create a loyal community of followers and promote your page and business.

Social Media 154

Social Media SEO Cost Per Click Media 154

Convince & Convert

MARCH 5, 2024

The Challenge of Building Customer Loyalty If you’re a brand leader today, it can feel like it’s harder than ever to build loyalty with customers. Blame Amazon, Tinder swiping, influencer culture or the infiltration of advertising into every corner of our lives, but the reality is that consumers are never NOT in the market to upgrade.

Research 143

Research Loyalty Case Studies Communities 143

Content Standard

APRIL 22, 2024

Brand bonding isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a science that any marketing team can master. She is renowned for her ability to spearhead innovative strategies, catalyze growth, and deepen consumer engagement for iconic and rising brands. A Content Disrupted podcast with Tricia Nichols, CMO.

CMO 77

CMO Brand Identity Branding Storytelling 77

The Lead Agency

APRIL 2, 2024

How to improve SEO for B2B blog writing In the digital marketing landscape, nothing stays the same for too long. Search engine optimisation (SEO) may still be paramount to business-to-business (B2B) blog writing, but my oh my, how the rules are constantly changing. Then Google did what Google does best.

Lead Scoring 118

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking SEO B2B 118

MKT1

MARCH 14, 2024

Broad and horizontal approaches to marketing no longer work. With modern martech (AI, automation, no code tools), your audience now expects personalized, high-value marketing that feels custom built for them. If you want to see demos from a handful of startups changing how marketers market, come to our 2nd AI showcase on 3/21.

Sales Management 98

Sales Management Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 98

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing After perfecting your product and redefining your brand and message, it’s time to go-to-market. You’ve nailed down the perfect strategy. You may assume that you chose the wrong strategy. After all, strategy is only half the battle.

Allocation 115

Allocation Planning Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency 115

Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

B2B marketing has become overly focused on measurement and attribution, appearing and claiming to be more science than art. Investors, boards and leadership expect marketing growth to be measurable, predictable and projectable. But the truth is that marketing is not a hard science. Now, marketing needs to show ROI quickly.

Lead Gen 137

Lead Gen Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies B2B Marketing 137

Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this two-part feature, Jade Bunke offers a step-by-step guide to building a successful brand. The art of capturing the hearts and minds of your customers starts with crafting a brand strategy that evokes emotions and behaviors that benefit your company. Do you want to be the market leader in your category?

Ad Building 132

Ad Building Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy 132

Content Standard

APRIL 23, 2024

Across industries and business models, marketing is essential to surviving and thriving. But marketing’s core mission—being the expert in the customer and evolving how to build brand preference and loyalty—remains vital. So why the recent flurry of headlines pronouncing the death of the CMO?

CMO 85

CMO Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 85

Oktopost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Social media has revolutionized B2B marketing. Now an essential tool for all marketing efforts, it has changed how brands reach their customers, build awareness, and foster connections with their audiences. 60% of US B2B marketers named social media the most effective B2B channel for driving revenue in 2023.

Social Media 117

Social Media Trends Media B2B 117

Animalz blog

MARCH 21, 2024

A few years back, I mentioned to John Collins, then content director at Intercom, how much Animalz customers admired their blog. John’s quip summed up what so few seem to understand about content strategy: You must be able to afford your own approach. John’s response? “They may feel differently if they saw the costs.”

Lead Ranking 81

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Thought Leadership Allocation 81

Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s no stretch to say the marketing data landscape has changed quite a bit over the past two years. For one, the ways companies collect user data have been under the microscope, and policies from Apple and Google are forcing marketing data analytics changes across the board. How are companies succeeding in this new era of marketing?

Top of Funnel 66

Top of Funnel Analytics De-duplication Work Management 66

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In marketing, brand awareness is a significant focus—in fact, it’s likely one of your main goals. This is where customer marketing comes in. Customer marketing is one of the most powerful ways you can forge and feed connections with your current audience base. What is customer marketing?

Marketing & Strategy 124

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel 124

Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the second part of this two-part feature, Jade Bunke discusses triggering the right customer behaviors, the differences between emotions and feelings and how to future-proof your brand strategy. Have you mapped the behaviors you want your customers to take across your marketing channels? The first part is here.

Ad Building 116

Ad Building Brand Identity Branding Tips 116

Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Always-on strategies. For business leaders and marketers, attempting to keep pace in this environment is challenging, but highly rewarding. While the emergence of AI and evolving user habits are certainly reshaping the future of search, organic SEO remains a fixture for digital growth, now and going forward. Algorithms.

Marketing AI 103

Marketing AI SEO Ad Building Marketing & Strategy 103

Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Today, digital platforms and data enrichment strategies are the status quo, reshaping how we identify, engage and nurture potential customers we’d like to have. Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel — meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team.”

Lead Ranking 113

Lead Ranking Lead Gen Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 113

Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place.

Marketing Budget 92

Marketing Budget Advertising Agencies Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 92

Sprout Social

MARCH 5, 2024

I was surprised to learn the team behind Nelnet’s vast social presence is only a team of two (who work with customer care and marketing groups across the company). He explained the relationship building and resource prioritization required to manage multiple accounts effectively. The big misconception about social is that it’s easy.

Resources 103

Resources Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 103

Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

This is the 6th article in a series about how generative AI is impacting marketing. We are in a huge paradigm shift, as generative AI disrupts how we access, consume and create content. These tools will radically change how we engage with technology and force us all to acquire a new set of skills to thrive.

Marketing AI 98

Marketing AI Training Generation Budget Programs 98