Category Marketing

Marketing as a Service, or How to Improve B2B Marketing Impact

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by Domenic Colasante for MarketingProfs When there are revenue headwinds and economic uncertainty, CFOs put a lot of attention on budgets and expenses. During tough times, reducing marketing headcount and media spend is a standard cost-cutting lever. Meanwhile, B2B CMOs are given goals to generate growth for the business through more pipeline and revenue impact. Clearly, those two approaches are in conflict with each other. Modern CFOs, however, understand that crises sometimes present opportunities—that focusing on transformation instead of stark cost-cutting can lead to increased growth and operating efficiency. The reality is that CFOs can recommend a lever for marketing that…

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[Book Review] An Authoritative Road Map To High-Impact Content Marketing

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by G. DAVID DODD for B2B Marketing Directions Last November, I published a review of Robert Rose's new book, Content Marketing Strategy. Rose's book is one of the best I've recently read, and it's an important addition to our library of content marketing literature. If you haven't read Content Marketing Strategy, I recommend that you add it to your reading list for 2024. Shortly after I finished Rose's book, I discovered and read Purna Virji's new book, High-Impact Content Marketing:  Strategies to Make Your Content Intentional, Engaging and Effective (Kogan Page, 2023). This is also an excellent book, and I enthusiastically recommend it. Purna Virji is…

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19 Best Free Marketing & Sales Templates for Microsoft Excel

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by Carly Williams for HubSpot In my experience, sales and marketing Excel templates can help you expedite your data analysis and reporting. To help those of you looking for a way to sharpen your Microsoft Excel skills, I've put together a detailed list of templates you can start using to simplify your sales and marketing tasks. Download 10 Excel Templates for Marketers Know what's even better? You can download a kit of Excel templates in one fell swoop. Free Excel Marketing Templates 10 free templates to help you master marketing with Excel. Marketing Reporting Template Email Planning Template SEO Template And…

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4 pillars of an effective SEO strategy

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by Marcus Miller  for Search Engine Land SEO can be complicated – in many cases, overcomplicated. It’s easy to get lost in the SEO rabbit hole, spending significant time with minimal results. This article will help you cut through the noise and focus on the four key pillars of SEO that will help you improve visibility in 2024 and beyond.  The four pillars of SEO The four key areas of SEO that site owners need to consider are: Technical SEO: How well your content can be crawled and indexed. Content: Having the most relevant and best answers to a prospect’s question.…

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Intro to the MKT1 Method: A crash course in B2B startup marketing

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by MKT1 Newsletter Over the past couple years writing newsletters and working with hundreds of founders and marketers, we’ve developed a fairly-comprehensive approach to building B2B marketing. At the risk of taking ourselves a bit too seriously, we are now calling this the “MKT1 Method”—because we love alliteration and this definitely is not a playbook. So what better time to summarize the building blocks of the MKT1 Method than an end of year post? But more than that, we hope that this becomes an evergreen intro and summary to all of MKT1’s content. Something marketers can point founders to, marketing leaders can point…

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How We Use ChatGPT to Make Our Content Better

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By Lauren Basiura for Marketing Insider Group Let’s face it, relying solely on AI to produce great content for humans is a bit like expecting a robot to write a bestselling novel – it may be possible eventually, but we’re definitely not there yet. However, ChatGPT can serve up some pretty good starting points. At Marketing Insider Group, we know the importance of adding extra flair to our content, and ChatGPT has proven to be a fantastic sous-chef in the content kitchen. By taking what ChatGPT offers and infusing it with our unique insights and expertise, we’re turning ‘good’ into ‘great’. Join us…

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13 PPC Tools & Software to Help Your Ad Campaigns Crush It

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by Pamela Bump for HubSpot I’ve seen it all — from pay-per-click (PPC) ads that had me clicking through before I knew it to campaigns that couldn’t stick the landing. If I could offer one piece of advice to companies creating ads, it’s this: Don’t wing it. Use PPC tools and software to understand ad performance and adapt as necessary. Why? Because there’s no middle ground with PPC ads. They either work as intended to capture your target market or get left in the dust. The right PPC tools can help marketers and sales teams track, monitor, and manage PPC…

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Top 5 Social Media PR Tips for B2B Brands

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by Chris Norton for MarketingProfs public relations extends beyond traditional media. In fact, you can—and should—use social media for your B2B brand's PR as well. Especially because there are 4.8 billion social media users worldwide. And that figure includes millions of potential B2B buyers who might just be looking for their next purchase: Fully 75% of B2B buyers use social media to make purchase decisions. To stand out on social media, B2B brands need to put their best foot forward. This article details the top 5 social media PR tips you should follow to set yourself apart. 1. Publish high-quality educational content B2B educational content focuses…

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You Need More Than Data to Understand Your Customers

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by Marcus Collins for Harvard Business Review Every marketer wants to better understand their consumers — their preferences, pain points, and perspectives — to establish a better product-consumer fit. Today, there’s more data available than ever before, yet marketers still struggle with this practice. How can that be? More data should lead to better understanding; yet contemporary marketers find themselves extracting comparatively marginal insight about who these people truly are. That’s because today’s marketers have mistaken information for intimacy. Information — think traffic, engagement on social networking platforms, purchases, and search queries — consists of the factual representations of events that have…

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