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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Loyalty | ELEMENT: Strategy
The needs and wants of customers have shifted dramatically in the past two months, and companies that continue to move forward without adjusting will struggle for some time to come. Here are four ways B2B companies can provide helpful, impactful, and timely customer experiences during this crisis.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Strategy
How do you generate more leads in what is the digital marketing jungle of today? It helps to understand current trends that on-the-ground practitioners are seeing in digital marketing. Here are some do's and dont's based on their advice.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Communicate
To turn your first encounter with potential clients into an effective account-based marketing (ABM) relationship, you must engage your audience, establish credibility, and ask them for an easy "yes." Here's what you need to know.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email | ELEMENT: Analyze
Email marketing experts will urge you to follow the latest and greatest best-practices—from personalizing your content to segmenting to cleaning up your database. All that's well and good if you want to create optimized email campaigns. And who doesn't? But what if your metrics are off?
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media | ELEMENT: Management
Today, more than ever before, your customers are online and spending more time on social media platforms. If you need to expand or improve your social media team (internally or externally), you have options. To hire? And whom to hire? Those are the questions.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Strategy
With the Coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on businesses around the world, companies may be unsure of what role their customer advisory board (CAB) might play during the crisis. But now is an ideal time for your CAB to take a proactive, leadership role during the current crisis.
We are living in a time of great disruption. Disruption in the market breaks paradigms. It creates as much opportunity as loss. It is easier for our minds to envision the downside of our losses than to see new opportunities. Though harder to spot, the opportunities are there.
Trying to predict our post-COVID B2B marketing future may be a fool's errand. Still, there are enough breadcrumbs left by previous crises and recessions to help us make some educated guesses. So here are five realities that B2B marketers will likely face in the next 2-3 years.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Create
Of course content marketing and SEO have a symbiotic relationship, but many content marketers are making seemingly small mistakes that can add up—and end up sabotaging their SEO. Here are 8 ways you unfortunately might be doing exactly that.
CONTENT TYPE: Sponsored Article | TOPIC: Marketing Technology | ELEMENT: Strategy
AI-powered automation has begun taking over some of the most grueling elements of contemporary marketing and content authoring at scale. Still, AI isn't a marketing silver bullet—but marketers can't afford to ignore its already evident potential.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding | ELEMENT: Strategy
The concept of "brand elasticity" refers to how sensitive customer preference is for a certain brand when it stretches beyond its positioning or expands into new categories. It's important to understand so you don't stretch a brand to its breaking point.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Account-Based Marketing | ELEMENT: Strategy
The idea of account-based marketing (ABM) isn't new. But recently we've moved beyond basics, shifting into full-on strategies and mindsets around how B2B marketing needs to get done. And when you think about that, it's a lot like dating.
Product marketing and sales enablement teams share an ultimate goal: to help sales teams sell. In many organizations, however, they plan and execute in silos, with misaligned efforts and priorities. And that simply undermines Sales. Here are ways to instead build collaboration and drive revenue.
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.
Marketing strategies were not conceived with disruptions like coronavirus in mind. For many organizations, COVID-19 has turned the 4Ps—product, place, price, and promotion—into 4Cs: confusion, calamity, chaos, and complexity. That means we must reassess and adjust the 4Ps.
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: Branding | ELEMENT: Analyze
You need to know what's being said online about you, your brand, your competition, your industry, and other topics you're interested in. At first, Google Alerts might seem the most obvious choice, but it's notoriously unreliable.You have options, though, including these 4 alternatives.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Create
B2B marketers who rely on in-person interactions to connect with clients and drive lead generation now need alternatives. One strategy to continue promoting our brands is digital advertising—including programmatic. And it doesn't have to be complicated.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Plan
In addition to being easier to understand and consume, video in general is more likely to be shared by users, making it an excellent marketing tool. They're also capable of being viewed or listened to by anyone, including those with disabilities—which is why you need to create accessible videos.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Public Relations | ELEMENT: Management
It's never been easier to monitor what's being said in traditional and social media about companies, brands, individuals. But it's also never been more complicated: There are dozens of platforms, and they make all kinds of claims. Here's what you need to know when evaluating media monitoring services.
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