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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

Too much content is hurting enterprise marketing performance. Learn how to audit ruthlessly, repurpose winners, and focus on quality to drive real impact. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Advertising & Promotions

Much like the three unwavering rules of success in real estate—location, location, location—the world of digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising has its own triad of rules for success: quality, quality, quality. Just follow these three guiding principles.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

Most salespeople are required to learn sales scripts before contacting prospects. And to ensure all the information is conveyed exactly as the company prefers, they're discouraged from adding anything to the script. Basically, they're hired to be human commercials. No wonder it doesn't work.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

B2B marketers face competing pressures in data use and goal-setting. Ethical marketing offers a clear path to build trust, respect privacy, and improve marketing results. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

B2B buyers trust peers more than polished marketing. Learn how to rebuild credibility and stand out in an AI-saturated landscape. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

CMOs face mounting pressure to make martech deliver. Learn how to realign tech stacks for strategic, revenue-driven impact. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

Explore how B2B marketers can align AI with human outcomes by applying the Now-Next Continuum across strategy, measurement, and technology. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

AI content is improving fast—but it still lacks the emotion, imperfection, and relatability of human content. Here's how human writing builds trust and drives action. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Measurement & Analytics

Marketers must show financial impact to win campaign approval. This guide explains how to model ROI, payback, and outcomes with credibility. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

B2B growth increasingly depends on advocacy, not just acquisition. Learn how customer voices, peer proof, and communities influence buyers and drive measurable impact across the funnel. Read more.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

Most businesspeople intuitively know that the key to successful marketing is having a marketing plan—a blueprint for action. But many companies operate without one, focusing instead on the issues of the moment without committing to a long-term strategy. A marketing plan does not need to be complex, but it does require several elements to be effective.

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Speak any language long enough, and you'll become fluent; take on the mindset of a strategist and you'll start to see things through a strategist's eyes. And others will notice the change in you--you'll find yourself more and more being called on to act as counsel on all matters customer.

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In today's increasingly post-literate culture, the idea of a 10-plus page linear narrative may seem out of date. But not so. The role of the marketing/technical whitepaper is on an upswing as companies recognize their effectiveness in communicating with audiences that demand authenticity and detail when making business decisions. The big problem with whitepapers, however, is that their length and complexity make them vulnerable to delays and budget overruns, usually in the late phases of the document review process. Here's how to avoid Death by Review.

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Salespeople are notoriously poor in following up on qualified leads. In fact, experts say, sales does not follow up on more than 70% of leads. Why? Field salespeople in most organizations are compensated, motivated, and managed to focus on short-term opportunities, not on the pipeline. Contrast that scenario with the strategic marketing experts at CenterBeam, a San Jose-based IT outsourcing firm that provides IT outsourcing services on a fee-for-service basis. By making the lead-generation process a cornerstone of its strategic marketing program, CenterBeam is getting many of its sales from long-term leads cultivated on the "farm"—and a ten-to-one return on its outside investment in the farmers. Here's how.

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Marketing operations enables an organization to run the marketing function as a fully accountable business. Marketing operations is about performance, financial management, strategic planning, marketing resource, and skills assessment and management. If you are considering developing a marketing operations function, this article outlines some the five primary responsibilities.

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Marketing effectiveness—achieving it requires an organization with the resources and know-how to achieve the fine balance between the art and science of marketing. In other words, it take a little of both to create marketing programs that meet measurable business objectives. Here are seven hurdles to marketing effectiveness, along with proven techniques for how to surmount them.

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As today's markets consolidate and become increasingly competitive, and as buyers become more sophisticated and demanding, customer references gain even greater importance. But many customer reference programs are stuck in outmoded thinking, and that could be significantly holding your company back. So how can your reference program evolve to meet today's challenges?

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The need to better align the sales and marketing organizations is generally well known. They are connected through their shared roles in motivating customer-purchase activities and divided by different cultures that concentrate on distinct portions of the customer-purchase funnel. There's no doubt that alignment is good, but what must you ultimately accomplish to drive performance and profitability?