As we begin the year, a couple of trends stand out that marketers should consider in their practices. By now, it is fairly obvious (maybe cliché) to say that marketing is undergoing a constant state of disruption, but it is true. Taking note of evolutions in technology, practices, and user behavior...
Marketers often use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of their efforts. KPIs are metrics that help analyze and report on website and marketing campaign performance. Leads and sales are deep KPIs that also demonstrate a return on investment. When determining whether you...
People have different reading habits online than they do offline. Online, people tend to scan. They scroll through an article quickly and form an impression. Looking for words, highlighted concepts, photos and commitment level, readers decide whether they need to commit time or if anything "grabs"...
B2B marketers cannot rely on interruption marketing. As B2B organizations focus more heavily on digital marketing, there will be a trend of crafting their websites to be central to their marketing efforts. These 3 tips can greatly improve the performance and effectiveness of a website for a B2B...
Social media marketing is all about participation within a community. And, within the community, it is best to play by community rules. Many brands, as they begin utilizing social media as a marketing channel, may only post content that relates directly to a sales message. This sole tactic may...
Many brands and businesses (including non-profits) should adopt the traits of a media company. By being like a media company, your brand can take a more inbound approach to marketing. See why non-profits should blog About eight years ago Tom Foremski (of the tech blog Silicon Valley Watcher) began...
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system. The CMS powers websites of all shapes and sizes. Although WordPress was originally designed to be a CMS for blogs, the system has evolved into a general-purpose tool--helping enterprises, non-profits, individuals and corporations...
Telecom companies can use social media to engage new B2B contacts and energize existing customers. As a starting point it is a good idea to do an initial influencer analysis to understand the key themes of the industry's online conversation in social media and search. An influencer analysis will...
Marketers sent over 838 billion emails in 2013. This is an outrageous number. Many mis-use or abuse email as a marketing tool. Spam is not the friend of customers. This short list of tips for email marketing will help you keep your email practice on the straight-and-narrow. 7 Tips for email...
Many enterprises and businesses pour their hearts and souls into the website design and development process, but fail to support their websites longterm. Many organizations feel that if we build it they will come. This hopeful approach does not work out well for website marketing. This article...
For clean energy companies, increasing demand for renewable solutions should feel like a win—but the reality is more complex. The surge in market entrants has made it more challenging to stand out, leaving even innovative providers fighting to avoid...
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...
Your pipeline looks full, but deals aren’t moving. Competition is intense. Decision windows are shrinking. Buyers see feature sameness across vendors. Sales cycles drag on. Marketing generates awareness, but target accounts don’t convert into...
B2B buyers are flooded with irrelevant content. Most teams respond by producing more. More blogs, more campaigns, more noise. But buried inside your CRM and lead forms is the most underused tool in marketing: buyer language. When you combine raw...
Despite decades of evidence showing its diminishing returns, Ironpaper's research found that 74% of B2B leaders still purchase cold lists to feed their pipelines. For many, this seems like an easy answer to pipeline pressure: push more messages, get...
The traditional B2B lead generation funnel is built on a simple, comforting idea. Awareness leads to interest, interest leads to action, and action leads to revenue. But today's buyers don't behave like that anymore. "Buyers only spend 17% of their...
It's not your offer. It's not your CTA. It's not even your form length. Regulated industries like healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and government face a hidden conversion killer. And it's not visibility. It's one often overlooked factor:...
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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