March, 2023

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62% of B2B Marketers Cite Content Marketing for Producing Valuable Leads

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look for more efficient ways to engage prospects, new research suggests that content marketing is growing in importance to them. Chief Marketer recently published its “2023 B2B Marketing Outlook Survey,” and statistics indicated that most B2B marketers (62%) claim content marketing produces leads with the highest return-on-investment (ROI).

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Seven Content Types to Focus on in Your 2023 Marketing Strategy

Webbiquity

Guest post by Natasha Lane. A well-rounded content marketing strategy will rely on several different types of content to achieve its goals. Understanding how each different content format works, which audience segments it appeals to, and how it fits into your overall sales and marketing funnel is key to success. Image credit: Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Here’s a look at seven content types that will help you attract more website visitors and convert more of them into leads.

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How to Grow Your Small Business with Data: 4 Practical Tips

Marketing Insider Group

It doesn’t matter if you’re a new company looking for a strong start or a town staple looking to break bad habits, you can always improve and grow your small business. For some, that might mean entering new markets. For others, it may mean creating deeper engagements with existing customers. Throughout this guide, we’ll look at four effective ways to use data to improve your small business practices to increase new and existing customer engagement and satisfaction.

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A Content Marketer’s Guide to Designing Efficient Workflows

Contently

Designing a content workflow may not be the most exciting part of content marketing—but it’s critical to success. Content workflows inform who needs to complete what task at any given moment, all while ensuring the content is accurate, in alignment with your strategy, and optimized for distribution. Simply put, they’re the secret to any high-performing content program.

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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

The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?

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Digital Marketing in Web 3.0: It’s Coming

Go Beyond SEO

I can’t be the only one who remembers waiting for a website to load for 5+ minutes, and when it finally did, the only way you could interact with the site is by scrolling and ingesting all of its content. The web has come a long way. Now, all the focus is on Web 3.0 , a way to decentralize the web, increase privacy for users, and AI-driven services.

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61% of Marketers Anticipate Their Spending to Increase ‘Somewhat Significantly’

KoMarketing Associates

Some marketers are bracing for the impact of an economic downturn, but new research suggests that many of them still expect to increase their spending throughout 2023. RSW/US recently published its “New Year Outlook Report,” and statistics suggested that 61% of marketers expect their marketing spend to increase “somewhat significantly” in 2023. While this is a drop from the 68% of marketers who said the same in regard to 2022, it is a significant increase from the 41% who thought their spending

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10 Keys to Building Success-Filled Long-Term Consulting Relationships

Webbiquity

Long-term engagements are beneficial for consultants or agencies as well as the clients who work with them. But it takes the right mix of factors to build productive, lasting client-consultant relationships. Image credit: Amy Hirschi on Unsplash For consultants and agencies, long-term client relationships mean steady income. But more importantly, they mean you can spend more time doing what you love—delivering great results for awesome clients—and less time on business development and proposal w

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3 Effective B2B Client Retention Tactics That Will Stand The Test of Time

Marketing Insider Group

Your clients are the heart of your business and it takes sincere dedication to gain their loyalty in return. They keep your operations flowing and are the reason you create value-centered products or services. For business-to-business (B2B) companies, in particular, the need to integrate lead generation efforts and guarantee client satisfaction is even more essential for retaining business clientele.

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Is Your Content Marketing Strategy Ready for GA4?

Contently

The latest Google Analytics update (GA4) is the first major update to Google’s web analytics service since 2012. A lot has changed since then—namely, the arrival of two new user privacy laws ( GDPR and CCPA ), increased use of mobile apps, and the phasing out of third-party cookies. To adapt, GA4 is an overhaul of the current version (Universal Analytics or UA) and is designed for the world we live in now.

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Aggregage Intent Signal Service

Aggregage Intent Signal Service allows you to reach more active buyers sooner! Get leads for specific in-market buyers. View companies and titles signaling intent. Influence active buyers earlier in their journey. Shorten sales cycles and close more deals. Download the Aggregage Intent Signal Service overview to learn more.

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B2B Thought Leadership Content: Elevating Your Brand’s Authority and Driving Business Growth

Hinge Marketing

Thought leadership is one of those inherently appealing ideas. Who doesn’t want to be a thought leader? And for many B2B and professional services firms this makes a lot of sense. Thought leadership can provide the credibility and visibility for your offering. In this post we will explore how to make thought leadership content the centerpiece of your strategy and how to execute it successfully.

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The Power of Affinity Marketing: How xiQ’s AI-Powered Digests are Revolutionizing B2B Content Marketing

xiQ

The Power of Affinity Marketing: How xiQ's AI-Powered Digests are Revolutionizing B2B Content Marketing Cut Through the Noise and Capture the Attention of Your Target Audience In the world of B2B marketing, creating relevant and engaging content is crucial for building brand awareness, establishing thought leadership, and ultimately driving sales. But with so much information available to consumers, how can companies cut through the noise and capture the attention of their target audience?

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5 Steps for Measuring AI Content Performance

Parse.ly

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the world of content creation. With more AI-assisted content generation tools dotting the martech landscape , it’s crucial for publishers and marketers to measure the effectiveness of AI-generated content and determine if it’s worth integrating into your content strategy. Enter Parse.ly — a powerful content analytics tool designed to track and gauge content performance.

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A Day In The Life: Senior Technical Operations Manager

HG Data

My name is Allen Licha and I’m a Senior Technical Operations Manager at HG Insights. When I started working in tech in 1989, the landscape was entirely different. Most large corporations were still on IBM mainframe computers, and personal computers were making their way onto the fold. My first job was with Electronic Data Systems … The post A Day In The Life: Senior Technical Operations Manager appeared first on HG Insights.

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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

The world of financial services is shifting as clients demand online experiences that feel similar to those in B2C. What’s the key to meeting their expectations? Humanizing their experience on your website. By personalizing your client’s online experience, your firm can build more trust and value into every interaction. Your team can also go into conversations with more context around a client’s long-term objectives, resulting in a faster time to investment.

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11 TED Talks Every Content Marketer Needs to Watch

Marketing Insider Group

There’s nothing like one of the best content marketing TED talks to inspire a new perspective. At Marketing Insider Group, we love learning from the industry’s thought leaders to keep our own marketing efforts both innovative and effective. A nd what better way to inspire our readers to do the same than to share some of the best content marketing TED talks ever given?

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What Are the Hot Content Marketing Trends in Technology for 2023?

Contently

Here’s the hot take on the trends related to technology for content marketing, based on responses to the 2023 Contently State of Content Marketing Survey. Almost all content teams—94 percent, in fact—use some technology to facilitate content creation and delivery. That’s according to the 206 marketing leaders who responded to the survey.

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The Pretenders are Coming: How ChatGPT Will Transform Professional Services Marketing

Hinge Marketing

Content is still king… but is that reign coming to an end? With the arrival of AI tools like ChatGPT and its competitors, generic content will be increasingly less impressionable—and professional services marketers are going to be challenged more than ever to differentiate their firm’s brand as a service provider and employer. For years now, professionals have been inundated with an overwhelming amount of unsolicited and unhelpful content.

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The Dangers of Dangerous Domains

TowerData

We all know the internet is full of potential dangers. As consumers, we avoid the obvious pitfalls by not clicking on the unknown, following up directly when we see something suspicious, and not sending out our banking information to a long-lost prince who is in a bind.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Contact and company intent data both have their advantages. Contact-level intent leads can be acted on immediately to reach active buyers, while company-level leads improve outcomes for account-based marketing and other programs. This infographic unpacks the advantages of both contact and company data and gives details about how B2B marketers can benefit from both.

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New Survey Shows What Local SEO Experts Think Are The Most Important Ranking Factors

Rock Content

By now, most marketers and business owners should have an understanding of just how vital SEO and Google Rankings are to the success of a business. Each year, Whitespark, a leading provider of local search marketing services, releases a comprehensive report examining the latest findings on local SEO and the most important ranking factors. The 2023 report provides critical findings on which factors affect local SEO the most, according to experts.

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6 Things You’re Doing Wrong With Website Content Optimization

Content Marketing Institute

Many website content optimization factors get ignored, forgotten, or dismissed, keeping your site on “low power.” Try these fixes for frequent mistakes to supercharge your site for visitors and for search engines.

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How Organic Search Rankings Can Help You Save Money on Paid Search Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

We’re here to let you in on a little secret: organic search rankings save money. We can’t bear to watch your marketing dollars go to waste on paid search marketing that isn’t generating the results you deserve. Sure, your paid search ads are getting your content front and center, but are they maximizing your conversion rate and revenue? Not exactly.

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Are Social Reels Relevant for Brands?

Contently

Chalk it up to our shrinking attention spans, but short-form video is thriving. It’s not surprising: We like to multi-task, and we like quick hits. So if you want something that will grab a consumer’s attention for a hot minute, video is key. Brands realize this, and as a result, nine out of 10 marketers who leveraged short-form video in 2022 plan to continue doing it in 2023.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Ask Buffer: How Do I Create a Social Media Series for TikTok and Instagram?

Buffer

Question: I’ve been noticing that many of the TikToks and Reels I watch are part of an ongoing social media series. How can I start one myself? Whether you have a specific niche as a content creator or not, you probably post about a handful of similar topics on your Instagram and TikTok that your followers want to hear about. An easy way to generate more content revolving around these very ideas is by creating a social media series.

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How ChatGPT and Generative AI Will Alter the Future of Work

Aberdeen

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a buzzworthy topic for years — even decades — but the recent release of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 has captured the public’s imagination. For the first time, anyone with an internet connection can gain access to tools capable of producing very human-like creative content, whether that’s a blog post on SEO best practices in the style of Hemmingway, a book report on Lord of the Flies, or an image of a ferocious orange dinosaur in the sty

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AI Efficiency, Human Creativity: How Can AI Help Creators Enhance Their Creative Work?

Rock Content

As I write this, I am using AI. Actually I am writing the full article, without any AI support, but I have used AI-assisted tools to select the topic, get help with keywords, meta descriptions and eventually get a few suggested titles. I am human and I write all my content. I use AI tools to be more efficient. My position, in a way, reflects Rock Content’s and WriterAccess’ positions (the marketplace we acquired one year ago).

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How To Upsell: 15 Upselling Tips & Examples To Boost Revenue

Optinmonster

Do you want to learn how to upsell and are looking for upselling tips? Upselling is a simple method to increase your average order value and boost your bottom line. If you’re not upselling to your customers, you’re missing out on a lot of revenue. In Marketing Metrics , the authors say: “The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%.

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Learn Today, Sell Tomorrow: Increasing ROI & Conversions Through Search Metrics

On average, seven out of ten online shoppers utilize a website's search bar. Website owners not using their search bars to their full capabilities are missing out on prime opportunities to boost their conversion. Search metrics can drive buyer conversion by helping website owners learn from their online visitors, allowing eCommerce merchandisers and digital marketers to create, adapt, and execute an effective marketing strategy with help from the data collected by an onsite search bar.

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Which Hogwarts House Are You? Content Marketer’s Edition

Marketing Insider Group

Every marketer today is hearing about the importance of brand personality — or the way a brand is personified in human terms. In both the B2B and B2C worlds, brand personality is more important than ever as buyers seek a real connection to the companies they purchase from. Here’s why: 84% of buyers want to be treated like actual people, not numbers 82% say they want brand values to align with their own 73% say they’re more likely to buy when they love the brand To build the type of emotional con

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The ‘Big’ YouTube Announcement Almost Drowned by a Sea of AI News

Content Marketing Institute

Forget the never-ending conversations about AI-created content this week. We look to news from YouTube you may have missed – and share why you should consider it.

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What is a UGC Creator and How to Become One in 2023 (ft. Advice from Experts)

Buffer

When Lauren Gates started creating user-generated content (or UGC) in January 2023, she had no experience filming or editing videos. Until that point, her experience had been primarily in writing – for her blog, CamilleLove , and her copywriting clients. Since then, she’s worked with several brands and charges up to $125 for one video.