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1/ How to Market Effectively in 2021: Integrate Performance and Brand Marketing

2/ 1 in 6 of Your Email Messages Never Reaches an Inbox [sponsored]

3/ Earn Your Customers' Trust: How to Use Personalization and Authenticity to Reach Audiences

4/ Email Marketing Friday Forum: 3 Sessions Packed With Practical Tactics

5/ COVID-19's Impact on B2B Tech Marketers' Channel Strategies in 2021

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How to Market Effectively in 2021: Integrate Performance and Brand Marketing

Now that most companies are completely focused on their bottom line, extensive brand marketing can be difficult to justify. Using a contextual or native brand strategy is one way to create branded content while simultaneously measuring performance and return. »

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Earn Your Customers' Trust: How to Use Personalization and Authenticity to Reach Audiences

In 2020, it became clear to marketers that customers who are faced with uncertainty embrace personalized communication. That means it's time to junk marketing-speak and instead opt for a more authentic approach. These four tips can help. »

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Email Marketing Friday Forum: 3 Sessions Packed With Practical Tactics

Could your email marketing be generating more—and more loyal—customers? Probably. But sometimes it's hard to know what to tweak and how to avoid pitfalls. These 3 sessions will cover techniques for 2021, 3 ways to build subscriber love, and 5 automated campaigns designed for B2B marketers. Sign up (it's free!). »

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COVID-19's Impact on B2B Tech Marketers' Channel Strategies in 2021

B2B tech marketers say webinars, SEO, and email are the three channels that have grown most in importance because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent research. Check out findings from this study. »

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Afoot in the Neighborhood

MarketingProfs community goings-on

If you're a PRO subscriber, pop in to the MarketingProfs PRO group on Facebook on February 3 (that's TODAY!), at 3 PM Eastern, for the first PRO Show of 2021! Ann Handley and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone will be talking about writing—so bring your questions, challenges, crazy ideas, and whatever else you've got, and we'll discuss!

In an exhilarating B2B Backstage webinar on February 9, best-selling author and marketing expert Andrew Davis will show MarketingProfs PRO members how to use the loyalty loop to drive a steady stream of highly valuable, high-margin, new business from your current clients. Hosted by Ann Handley. 75 minutes.

We've just developed a Master Class to help you understand your customers better than you ever have: Customer Journey Maps for Marketers. It launches on March 9 with Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) Jeannie Walters at the helm. PRO members can complete the full Master Class by joining our watch parties with live Q&A—or take the individual 10 bite-sized lessons on-demand. Or a combination of the two.

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Updates from around the industry

Data Axle Leverages Its Best-of-Breed Business Data to Launch B2B Lead Gen Services. MTS

Demand Science Announces Acquisition of Tidings as Part of Strategic Expansion of B2B Sales Enablement Solutions. PR Newswire

TechTarget Named to Forbes’ 2021 List of America’s Best Small-Cap Companies. Business Wire

Xorbix and B2B Ecommerce Platform Znode Announce New Software Partnership. Yahoo Finance

Kaon Interactive Names Dana Drissel Chief Marketing Officer. PR Newswire

Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS. TechCrunch

FLEETCOR Buys AP Platform Provider Roger. PYMNTS.com

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[Webinar] Making the Boring Interesting: Perk Up Your Writing
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