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ScribbleLive
MAY 8, 2016
Marketers are creating more content than ever. According to the Content Marketing Institute , 77% of B2C companies and 70% of B2B companies surveyed say that they are creating more content than they did just a year ago. Content marketing is tough.
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JANUARY 9, 2017
At Hive9, we believe planning to be the cornerstone of a data-driven marketing approach. Unfortunately, planning is a term that’s often used and seldom explained. Marketing Planning Hive9
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DECEMBER 20, 2016
The relationship between marketing and finance is a complicated one. Marketing relies on finance for incremental budget approval and continuously works to report results that prove their value to the organization. Marketing Planning Hive9 financial integration
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This is the time when many organizations and businesses are thinking about planning and budgeting for the next year. A one-page plan for managing and executing planned marketing is something I’ve used successfully for my business and for my clients.
Act-On
DECEMBER 2, 2016
While the holidays are are in full swing, it’s time to start making some concrete plans for your 2017 marketing team. It may seem late in the game, but it’s definitely not too late to create a solid marketing plan for the new year. Here are some guidelines to help you check all the boxes on your marketing plan and knock 2017 out of the park. The best place to start planning for the future is to look at the past.
Industrial Marketing Today
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As we go deeper into Q4 with the holidays right around the corner, most industrial companies start to think about their industrial marketing plan for next year. As an industrial marketing consultant, I’m often asked by clients the best way to approach this important planning task.
bizible
MAY 11, 2017
Very often marketers are disconnected from corporate goals. They execute and optimize on an island, disconnected from revenue performance measurement and corporate planning. Clearly, marketing execution, measurement and planning need to be connected. The market is small.
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MAY 26, 2017
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Act-On
APRIL 20, 2017
As a modern marketer, you have a lot on your to-do list: build the brand, get leads into the funnel, and help keep those customers when it’s time to renew. Moving forward, each piece of content its marketing team creates would be influenced by that theme.
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Have you made Google Plus a part of your marketing strategy yet? This handy guide will show you exactly why Google Plus is such a useful tool for businesses and B2B marketing. Don’t wait any longer, make Google + a part of your business plans today!
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OCTOBER 11, 2016
In January, many businesses sit down to review and renew their marketing plan. It takes time to build a good plan, so instead of waiting […]. The post Jumpstart your 2017 Marketing Plan with these 10 Tips appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Hive9
AUGUST 2, 2016
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bizible
JUNE 7, 2017
Building an annual B2B marketing plan is no simple task. The plan must provide a strategy to transform business objectives into marketing priorities and goals, while outlining how to execute and reach those goals. created “ The Marketing-Plan-on-a-Page Template.”
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AUGUST 29, 2016
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grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
OCTOBER 2, 2014
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Now more than ever B2B marketers must focus on their existing and prospective customers. Here are four key things you need to focus on your customers in your marketing plan for next year. What’s in your marketing plan for next year?
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Cintell
MARCH 14, 2016
The idea of creating buyer personas has long been used by marketers to create a human profile of our buyers. Developing company personas means understanding companies in our target market beyond superficial attributes like headcount, revenue size, or location.
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AUGUST 4, 2011
One Page Marketing Plan. If there is one thing I’ve learned as a marketing consultant, strategic marketing plans must be SMART to be successful. Especially in tough economic times, they have limited resources to spend on marketing. Tweet.
Hive9
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Your marketing organization sits down and really does the work of outlining their goals and creating a marketing plan. Then, as the organization’s different departments get mired in the day to day of doing their jobs, the plan is deviated from and ultimately forgotten.
Marketri
JUNE 2, 2017
In this next installment of our blog series, we asked Chris Sietsema, a Digital Marketing Consultant and Owner of Teach To Fish Digital, to give us some insight into his experience with SEO and Marketing Analytics.
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AUGUST 21, 2013
Does your professional services firm have an annual marketing plan and budget? Whether you created the plan internally or hired an external marketing consultant, coming up with a strategic and/or tactical marketing plan for your firm is no easy feat.
Biznology
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Capitalizing on the current marketing trends will help you as you make your final preparations to your holiday marketing strategy. You likely already have your holiday marketing plan in place, but you will need some last minute tweaking and adjustments.
Marketri
AUGUST 7, 2013
“We’ve tried a lot of marketing tactics but nothing seems to work.” Most of these companies have a reactive marketing program, which means they don’t have a comprehensive marketing plan to guide their marketing spend.
bizible
MAY 12, 2017
But for the most part, when we talk about tech stacks and the growth in technology vendors, we’re talking about technologies for the practitioners of the organization—the email marketing specialist, the paid media manager, the sales enablement manager, etc.—not Marketers have fantastic data.
B2B Marketing Traction
JANUARY 7, 2010
I like working from a one-page marketing plan for my clients and for my own business, whether or not we have a multi-page written plan as well. One Page Marketing Plan. I list the marketing tasks to be done in a left side column. Tweet.
B2B Marketing Insider
APRIL 27, 2015
One of the content marketing questions I get asked most often is how a small business or even a large business can get started with content marketing with very little or no funding. And finally, I have listed out the free content marketing tools I use for sharing content.
Direct Response Coach
APRIL 12, 2016
Are you familiar with the marketing funnel? For me, it provides a good visual framework for individual marketing activities as they apply to your sales process. The post How the Marketing Funnel brings order to your marketing plan appeared first on McCarthy and King Marketing.
B2B Marketing Insider
AUGUST 24, 2015
Whether you are new to content marketing or not, developing a successful content marketing strategy can be very challenging and time-consuming. This simple guide can help you overcome the most common problems in content marketing plans and get to a successful and continuous process to deliver successful and rewarding content marketing plans. What Does An Effective Content Marketing Plan Look Like? Step # 1 : Get Buy-in For Your Plan.
Marketri
OCTOBER 28, 2013
When a law firm goes to market, it wants to communicate and engage groups of buyers with similar needs, which is otherwise known as a market segment. Market segmentation is sometimes referred to as “Target Marketing” or “Niche Marketing.”
Great B2B Marketing
JUNE 18, 2014
As a B2B marketing outsource provider, my team and I usually work very closely with the sales department at our client companies. The goal is to achieve effective alignment between what the marketing and sales teams are doing: driving to a common goal and reaching agreed-upon revenue targets.
Hinge Marketing
JUNE 5, 2017
Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. However, the marketing planning process that works well for consumer products, industrial goods or not-for-profits is not well suited for professional services. With that in mind, we’re going to take a closer look at what it takes to put together an effective marketing plan specifically for professional services firms like yours. Marketing Planning Process Defined. Happy planning!
B2B Marketing Insider
OCTOBER 28, 2010
The best approach to dealing with uncertainty is to be prepared and to have a plan. It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. The Hunter – Gatherer Model One of the biggest mistakes a marketer can make is to create a plan in a vacuum.
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No matter what area of modern marketing you look at when reviewing the year that was 2015 , you will find growth, relevance and efficiency. Content marketing is no different. 70% of B2B marketers plan on producing more content over the next 12 months. Content Marketing
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