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📋 Table of Contents

1. How to Use Contingency Planning to Future-Proof Your Event Strategy

2. Five of the Most Common Content Marketing Mistakes—And What to Do Instead

3. Discover Smarter Ways to Use Your Data MarketingProfs Friday Forum

4. Direct Mail Marketing in 2023: Top Challenges and Trends

5. Your All-Access Pass to Interactive Workshops MarketingProfs B2B Forum

6. Team-Building in Boston MarketingProfs B2B Forum

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How to Use Contingency Planning to Future-Proof Your Event Strategy
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How to Use Contingency Planning to Future-Proof Your Event Strategy
You've had your event planned for months—but suddenly one of the speakers can't make it! Crisis! To prevent panic every time that happens, it's best to incorporate contingency planning into your event planning. »
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Five of the Most Common Content Marketing Mistakes—And What to Do Instead
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Five of the Most Common Content Marketing Mistakes—And What to Do Instead
Don't make basic content marketing blunders. Check out this list of gaffes that happen more often than they should. »
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Discover Smarter Ways to Use Your Data
Analytics doesn't have to be complicated and frustrating. Join our Analytics Friday Forum for three separate sessions that will enhance your ability to measure marketing efforts, accurately and meaningfully. »
Direct Mail Marketing in 2023: Top Challenges and Trends
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Direct Mail Marketing in 2023: Top Challenges and Trends
Enterprise marketers say their top challenges with direct mail campaigns are poor response rates and bad address data, according to recent research. Check out the study findings. »
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Your All-Access Pass to Interactive Workshops
Content Marketing for SEO. Demand Generation. Go-to-Market Planning. Email Marketing. Marketing Strategy. Is your interest piqued? Those are the topics for the interactive workshops you can attend, live this October at our B2B Forum conference, when you get an All-Access Pass. Pick your favorite and spend a day digging in on October 4 before the full conference kicks off on October 5! Grab your early bird ticket now; prices go up in April! Pick your workshop! »
Team-Building in Boston
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MarketingProfs community goings-on
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