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by Shawn Cabral
The digital, multi-device era has disrupted traditional brand storytelling—fragmenting story plots and making genuine engagement rare. But here's how brands can still tell captivating stories that bridge channels and devices.
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by Courtney Danyel
People often use Facebook Events to connect and meet up in the real world. So why not marketers? Facebook can help promote your in-person events—which are among the most effective B2B marketing tactics you can use.
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by Verónica Jarski
A whopping $8.4B is going to be spent on Halloween this year. So, check out these tips and tricks to capture those treats (and to plan some tricks for next year).
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by Brad Zomick
Sales and marketing professionals primarily focused on customer acquisition often overlook one important area of sales potential: cross-selling and upselling to current customers.
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by Steve Bernstein
Positive word-of-mouth (WOM) has long been documented as a powerful growth tool. The good news: unlike our B2C brethren, we B2B marketers can strategically manage WOM. Here are three ways to ensure word-of-mouth skews positive.
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by Sanjay Castelino
Today's demand generation manager requires a different skill set from old-school managers'. To find the right person for this evolved role, you'll need to make sure he or she has these crucial skills.
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by Marcia Yudkin
You don't have to do the verbal equivalent of dressing up in a burger suit and jumping up and down at passing cars. You can give your sales page copy some rhythm and oomph with these more subtle jazzifying moves.
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by Laura Patterson
Clearly, developing a customer journey map is beneficial to your business. But how do you ensure that all of your work in mapping the customer journey will be properly implemented within your organization?
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by Eric Layer
Most people like to feel part of an exclusive club. The brands that understand that desire can inspire people to both buy their products and adopt them as part of a personal lifestyle.
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by Christine Slocumb
Just five years ago, in small-to-midmarket companies, 1-2 people were typically involved in the purchase decision. In recent years, that trend has shifted; now, 3+ people must approve purchases, even those below $50,000.
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by Ann Handley
Although business-to-consumer (B2C) content marketers have been more successful with their efforts this year than they were last year, many still need to slow down to give their content marketing more time—to ensure even better results via longer-term planning.
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by James Smith
As technology becomes a driving force in marketing and sales, B2B companies need to better understand the art and science behind launching and executing a successful lead generation program.
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by Jiordan Castle
To provide a winning customer experience, every member of your workforce needs to make optimizing and improving the customer journey at every touchpoint a priority.
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by AlexAnndra Ontra
PowerPoint files, and the information contained within them, are a valuable business (not just marketing or sales) asset. Presentation management unlocks the value of that asset, empowering everyone to make better presentations—before they ever open PowerPoint.
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by Ayaz Nanji
Some 7.5% of essential contact information in B2B sales databases become outdated within three months, according to recent research from Radius.
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by Deren Baker
The massive disconnect between businesses' perceptions of customer activity and actual consumer behavior cannot be overlooked. Marketers must grasp their customers' journeys to truly understand their audiences.
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by Bruce McKenzie
Getting people to grasp new ideas and ways of doing things is especially critical to the sales process in tech companies. Which is why applying teaching and learning principles to scripting and producing marketing videos makes so much sense.
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by Verónica Jarski
Today's sales team is a far cry from the disorganized, disconnected sales team of the past. Modern sales teams rely on teamwork; moreover, they have specialized roles and they are empowered by technology.
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by Nicholas Brown
Print collateral is still an important sales and marketing medium. To produce strongly branded, high-impact print media, you need to know what materials work best together. So here are must-know basics about printers, ink, paper, and collateral types.
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by Ayaz Nanji
Teamgate is the most user-friendly customer relationship management (CRM) software platform for salespeople, according to recent research from Capterra.
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by Peter Szanto
The ever-popular Pareto Principle and the Long Tail theories contradict each other. So, which is correct? And what's a marketer to believe about their opposing views?
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by Emily Sue Tomac
B2B marketing leaders who have experience with rapid growth give advice on the role of Marketing in such growth, what it means to think like a growth marketer, what challenges arise with scale, and how to approach those challenges.
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by Ayaz Nanji
Businesses say email marketing and content marketing are the two most effective digital channels for generating sales leads, according to a recent report from Ascend2.
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by Ayaz Nanji
The role of the person who is ultimately responsible for deciding which marketing technologies to purchase varies widely from company to company, according to recent research from DataXu.
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by Verónica Jarski
Account-based marketing helps you increase engagement with targeted accounts and boost your business. Check out these tips for hitting a home run with your ABM.
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