The self-educating buyer In 2008, Roman Ray wrote, The Best Salesperson: Your Website, in Entrepreneur Magazine explaining how an business's best sales person is actually their website. The Internet has changed the way we shop Websites play a central role in the customer acquisition process. A...
As customers have become more in control of how they learn and engage with a brand, so too has the need to actively participate in social media in order to control messaging, nurture relationships and guide users through labyrinths of stories. As we accept the reality that inbound marketing is...
This article, the CMO guide to marketing automation, serves as a quick guide for CMOs considering marketing automation for their enterprise. Intended as a quick overview, this article can help CMOs understand marketing automation and sell it internally within their organization. Benefits of...
Marketing automation for B2B organizations can help potential buyers throughout the conversion process--from early stage to post-sale retention. CMOs at top-performing companies indicate that their most compelling reason for implementing marketing automation is to increase revenue (79%) and get...
Landing pages are those areas of a website where visitors arrive after clicking an ad, a social post, a referral, or a search listing. There are typically many pages on a website that acts as natural landing pages in that visitors "land" there first--and bypass the homepage. A website will have...
A fun business guide designed to optimize magnetism between an organization's Twitter profile and their audience. Twitter’s rapidly babbling brook of social consciousness has quickly become one of the most effective ways to tap into the latest and greatest content and its originators. This has...
Many prospects fail to view more than the first page they land on when visiting your website from an advertisement. If, upon this first impression, the prospect doesn't like what they see they will leave. Landing pages are direct and tailored messages for helping B2B organizations acquire leads....
Social media marketing is not about driving direct sales. Instead, social businesses build and nurture relationships with prospects, leads, customers, advocates and partners. If you apply a pure, sales-driven mentality to your social media marketing campaigns, you will most likely be let down....
Why is digital advocacy important for nonprofits? Donations and soliciting volunteers are just two forms of support that nonprofit organizations can build online, but narrowly focusing on these two may cause a nonprofit to miss the true opportunities available to them online. 42% of online adults...
Video can be a highly effective tool for B2B marketing. It's important that the videos an enterprise creates are useful, educational, or interesting to potential prospects, customers, or influencers. "Approximately 75% of online viewers interact with video ads in a month." -- Tremor Video Word of...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag...
The Crowded Arena of the IT Marketplace The Information Technology (IT) landscape is experiencing rapid growth and intensifying competition, with IT spending projected to reach nearly 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024, a significant 29% increase...
The field of digital marketing is evolving rapidly in response to new technology and changing buyer expectations. To help career-minded marketers, we’ve rounded up the top 10 skills needed to succeed in the field. These are skills marketers should...
By Nicky Capella, Content Strategist The role of marketing within an organization has undergone a significant transformation over the past several years. As businesses increasingly focus on customer experience as a competitive differentiator,...
2022 was a wild year for the job market. From on-the-spot offers to mass resignations, we saw a seismic shift in how employees articulated what matters to them in the workplace. Companies that offered limited flexibility lost out on talent, while...
The digital privacy landscape has been shifting more towards the individual's right to privacy for years, and digital marketers need to ensure they can work effectively without access to third-party data. Sam Ward, Associate Director; Tim Maurizio,...
Content marketers in 2023 will consider changing buyer behaviors, privacy concerns, and the need to measure content’s impact. We know that content marketing is no longer optional, but this method of reaching buyers will become increasingly important...
B2B buyers are inundated with repetitive marketing messages and surface-level content. Generative AI has contributed to this oversaturation by enabling brands to produce content faster. However, are brands considering how this oversaturation impacts...
Hiring great talent is vital to business success, but it’s not an easy feat. Many companies turn to recruiters to help fill open roles. It’s expensive, and it doesn’t foster a strong connection between the company and the candidate. But what if...
Navigating the evolving landscape of technology can be like traversing a veritable minefield. This is especially true in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). For business leaders, understanding and implementing IT transformation in the age of AI...
Many consumers have Internet of Things (IoT) products in their homes, like Alexa or smart thermostats, but B2B is perhaps the more transformative space for IoT. B2B IoT is reshaping traditional business models, driving operational efficiency, cost...
The Internet of Things is reshaping and defining markets, so much so that it has been dubbed “the next Industrial Revolution.”
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