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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Management | ELEMENT: Management
The Coronavirus crisis and crashing economic demand have resulted in rampant downsizing in numerous industries. Depending on how it's done, downsizing can weaken or strengthen your organization—during a crisis and for years afterward. So where should you deploy your precious resources?
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Strategy
Upselling makes sense when business is booming, but how about in times of economic uncertainty—like now? Companies that can strategically and compassionately navigate business development conversations in these times will be the ones that emerge intact and in good standing.
CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Branding | ELEMENT: Strategy
Kelly Hungerford of oral care brand Sunstar Global opens up about how she brought the company's European marketing organization into the digital era.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Strategy
The instability created by the pandemic makes it tricky to simultaneously navigate brands' most pressing and longer-term needs. But one thing is clear: It's more important than ever for Marketing to stay agile, relevant, and ready to adapt—if necessary again and again. Here are a few emerging best-practices.
It's been nearly 40 days and 40 nights since the US got serious about acknowledging and responding to COVID-19. Like everyone else, marketers have been overwhelmed. The floodwaters surrounding us may be muddy now, but as the currents calm the sediment will settle. Then what?
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Loyalty | ELEMENT: Strategy
Our CX efforts are not selfless: We provide a positive customer experience because it drives repeat purchases and long-term loyalty. But what happens when there is a once-in-a-century pandemic? CX can't be about maximizing lifetime value.Yes, it's time to get real about customer-centricity.
Is your brand relevant to the various audiences—customers, influencers, the media—you want to reach? More specifically, how can you find the untapped opportunities for establishing relevance? How can you identify what they want so you can provide it?
If you look at the list of Fortune 100 companies of 50 years ago, you'll see that most of them no longer exist. Why? Nearly all of them failed because they focused on winning their battles—and in the process they lost their wars. So, how can you win your wars?
There is a true golden ticket of marketing. With it, you can create effective, targeted communication that helps build lasting relationships with current customers and allows you to reach ideal customers in larger numbers. It can help you pave a path to strategic results.
To be creative is to try imaginative, innovative things. To be data-driven is to go with what works, based on the numbers; it's a safer bet. As a result, marketers have been transformed from a creative brain force into a hands-on-keyboard labor force. But there is hope for creativity's resurrection.
As marketers scramble to refocus their strategy now that live events are canceled or postponed, it's a struggle to get budgets approved for ideas that will result in ROI similar to events'. Here's how to get buy-in and approval to fill the void created by the pandemic.
Is your organization trapped by history? Surprisingly, most companies are more shaped by their history than designed to respond to today's or tomorrow's opportunities and challenges. This problem influences virtually every aspect of a company's structure and its managers' behavior.
No matter how much value you provide, some customers will drift away. But if you put in some effort, you can create an offboarding process that leaves a positive impression and keeps the door open for future business. Here's what you need to know.
CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Strategy
Marketing orchestration is a powerful approach in marketing automation and ABM. It focuses not on delivering standalone campaigns but on optimizing a set of related cross-channel interactions that together make up an individualized customer experience. In the process, you realize more pipeline and revenue.
CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Strategy
Brand marketers say creativity and responsiveness are the attributes they value most in agencies, according to recent research from Ascend2.
As the world faces the global coronavirus pandemic, B2B CMOs face a critical problem: Reaching and persuading buyers will be extremely difficult for the foreseeable future. So, what's to be done?
Five rules form the cornerstone of an effective customer management program in a time of supply disruption. If you get it right, the upside is enormous. If you get it wrong, you will suffer consequences for years to come.
CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Plan
Senior marketers at B2B companies identify the best channel for producing and nurturing leads, the top content type for moving prospects through the funnel, and the most effective social network for their brand.
You're used to finding marketing know-how and strategy in this space. So the tone and format of this article/letter probably feels a little different to you today. That's because these are unprecedented times. This is NOT business as usual.
Customer experience (CX) is top-of-mind for B2B marketers and insights professionals heading into 2020, according to new research by B2B International.
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