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Don't be fooled by these six vanity metrics

Analytics and reporting are critical to marketing teams that want to prove an ROI for their clients. Finding the appropriate numbers, however, can mark the difference between success and failure for most businesses. Vanity metrics can get in the way of a marketing team's success. They are easily...

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Most Valuable Types of B2B Sales Content

Purposefully written content that aligns with buyer needs can drive prospects down the sales funnel, and increase close rates. Oftentimes, the content sales teams produce is ineffective because it is too pushy and sales-driven. This presents an opportunity for marketing teams to support sales...

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4 Best Practices in B2B Digital Marketing

B2B marketing has evolved greatly with innovations in analytics, publishing tools, understanding of web user behavior, and lead tracking tools. B2B marketing has significantly evolved with innovations in analytics, publishing tools, understanding of web user behavior, and lead tracking tools. The...

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Linkedin Best Practices for B2B Growth

By Jeff Vining, Director of Research and Market Analysis Before LinkedIn, how did we develop our career interests or forge professional relationships? If we have difficulty answering this question, maybe it's because of how ubiquitous LinkedIn has become. Did you know that 40% of Linkedin members...

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Long B2B Sales Cycles: How Marketers Can Improve Engagement

By Matt Pilon, Content Strategist Selling B2B products has become an even longer and more involved process, thanks in part to more deliberative buyers and market forces accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research from Demand Gen Report, Forrester, and TrustRadius reveals the trends, which...

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How to Solve the Top 3 B2B Content Marketing Challenges

B2B marketers strive to reach a select target of business buyers using high-quality content disseminated effectively. Since B2B marketing wants to reach other businesses, some consider it a more difficult task than B2C marketing, which needs to get in front of individual customers. Statista put...

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Why Iterating Content is Crucial for Lead Generation

By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist In 2021, there’s an abundance of content available in pretty much every form of media and outlet imaginable. That means attention spans are minimal, and any effective content strategy has to connect with its intended audience instantly. But a lot of content...

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What Makes a Successful Webinar?

By Jeff Vining, Director of Research and Market Analysis “54% of B2B professionals watch webinars ever week” RingCentral Blog 2020-21 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is somewhat familiar with registering, attending, and participating in online workshops, webinars, or virtual training...

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5 Signs your Marketing and Sales Departments are Siloed

By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist The traditional paradigms of B2B demand generation are shifting rapidly. A new Ironpaper survey of 180 B2B decision-makers found that before COVID-19, 85% of B2B businesses relied on in-person events to drive demand, but less than 15% still considered trade...

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5 Demand Generation Best Practices for IT Service Companies

The IT services industry must grapple with growing competition. From other providers to the evolving self-help SaaS industry, competitors come in all shapes and sizes. There is also enormous opportunity in the IT services industry. Gartner predicts that worldwide IT spending will grow 6.2% in 2021....

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