Category: Marketing Strategy !
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B2B Marketing News: Rising B2B Ad Spend, Enterprise Chatbot Usage Doubles, B2B’s Purpose Gap, & New Tools From Google & Facebook
Trends to follow in 2020 US B2B Digital Advertising 2020B2B advertisers are relying more than ever before on paid ads, with a 22.6 percent increase for 2020 in B2B digital ad spending, contributing to a total spend that is expected to top $8 billion in the U.S. alone by the end of the year, according…
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5 Ways B2B Marketers Can Boost Productivity and Focus
Across every industry, profession, and discipline, work productivity is in peril. How could it not be? Outside distractions have mounted over the course of the year, from a global pandemic to rampant social unrest to a headline-hijacking presidential election, all in the midst of economic turmoil. Through it all, many of us have been…
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B2B Marketing News: Mobile Apps Thrive, Carousels Most Engaging Format on Instagram, Facebook’s Horizon VR, & Data Security’s Customer Loyalty Connection
COVID-19 drives more business to B2B marketplacesGlobal marketplace growth is being led by the B2B segment, with sales expected to hit $3.6 trillion by 2024 — up from $680 billion in 2018 — according to recently-released report data of interest to digital marketers, which also showed that 89 percent of purchasing managers are spending at…
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7 B2B Content Marketing Tactics For Long Term Success
I have an important question for you: Athlete A runs a marathon in under 3 hours. Athlete B runs a 40-yard dash in under 5 seconds. Which athlete is more impressive to you? Athlete A can run the distance, but Athlete B is explosive. ? via GIPHY If you’re anything like…
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How to Optimize Original B2B Research Content For Credibility and Impact
For many in the B2B marketing world, original research provides an effective way to build thought leadership and drive content for owned and earned media. Unfortunately, many research reports from B2B companies are dry, uninspired and focus solely on pontifications from the brand point of view. Such unremarkable content isn’t helping customers, especially if they…
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For Successful B2B Marketers The Engine of Influence is Always On #B2BIMReport
As the need for B2B brands to reach and connect authentically with customers rises, B2B influencer marketers are evolving from transactional and intermittent campaigns to more relationship driven, Always-On Influencer engagement programs as our research from the 2020 State of B2B Influencer Marketing report found: 19% are piloting 25% run periodic campaigns 34% use an Always-On approach Transactional…
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How B2B Marketers Can Get the Most Out of Webinars in 2020
There has to be a word for the creeping dread B2B marketers have been feeling this year, preferably something German with a ton of umlauts. As we watched events in the spring cancel, postpone, or go virtual, we held out hope that summer would be different. Then July’s events moved out. Now it’s looking…
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How To Level Up Marketing Content From B2B Influencers
B2B Marketing- Methodology Why do you even need a content person for influencer marketing? After all, the influencers are providing the content. You just have to collect their pearls of wisdom, make them look pretty in a PDF, and you’re good to go, right? I’ll confess, on my first influencer marketing project, I wasn’t quite…
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Quora adds more contextual & behavioral ad-targeting options
Quora launched its ad platform in 2017 with topic targeting. Now, the question-and-answer network is expanding its ad targeting offerings. Quora announced Monday more options for behavioral and contextual targeting to either narrow or widen audience targets. Behavioral (people-based) targeting Last summer, Quora introduced website retargeting to the platform. Now it’s adding interest and lookalike options Interest Targeting — Reach users…
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3 tips to make every marketing implementation a success
Implementation Strategies Technology in marketing abounds. Marketers use tools to send emails, track customer and prospect engagement and save preference information for future use. But with the growth of technology in marketing come the challenges of martech implementations. Marketers are constantly installing new solutions that will help them work smarter and reach leads more…