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  • AI in B2B: Let's Not Forget the Intelligence of Humans

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

    Trade publications are inundated with references to, and hype for, artificial intelligence. Everywhere you look, AI is being touted as the answer--even to some questions we aren't asking. Marketing is not immune to this push for AI. Quite the opposite, actually. But is it warranted?

  • The Content Characteristics of High-Performing Blog Posts

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Do top-performing blog posts tend to have certain characteristics in common, such as copy length, headline length, headline type, and content structure? To find out, SEMrush analyzed 700,000 posts on different blogs.

  • How to Build Interactive Content to Achieve Your Digital Marketing Goals

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Because the online content landscape is so crowded, audiences value originality that engages them. One way savvy content marketers are responding is to create compelling interactive content. Here are 4 types of interactive content you can build.

  • Five Psychological Threats to Businesses (And How to Handle Them) [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Management

    How can you ensure that your team members—or, more generally, all those at your company, employees and execs alike—get to and stay in mentally and emotionally healthy place? And should that really be a business concern?

  • The Average Age and Tenure of C-Suite Executives

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Management

    Chief marketing officers have the shortest average tenure among C-suite executives at large US companies, followed by chief human resources officers, according to recent research from Korn Ferry.

  • How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media: Mathew Sweezey on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Mathew Sweezey of Salesforce offers tips and insights from his forthcoming book, 'Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media.'

  • Five Reasons Companies Ditch Big-Name CRMs (And Go With Startups' Instead)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

    The CRM market seems saturated. But that's all about quantity. Quality is another story: Only 1 in 5 CRMs receive 4-5 star ratings. Those low satisfaction rates suggest startup CRMs can be an alternative. Especially since they have an inherent edge (several, in fact) over large CRMs.

  • How to Win a Price War (And Prevent Future Ones)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Price wars create a seemingly unsolvable dilemma: Match the competitor's price and risk losing profits, or ignore the competitor's price and risk losing revenues. Yet, based on a vital but universally neglected business principle, there is a powerful solution to winning—and preventing—price wars.

  • How Are Customers Reacting to Your Loyalty Program? Four Issues to Avoid

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    How is your loyalty program doing these days? If it isn't thriving, the four issues outlined in this article could be at fault. They're among the most common problems afflicting loyalty programs today.

  • Identity Marketing: How Can Companies Relate to Customers' Changing Identities?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    Marketers know that people gravitate toward a brand they relate to, and they respond to marketing and advertising messages that in some way mirror their lives. But when consumers' views of themselves change, as they inevitably do these days, how can we respond?

  • How the Fastest-Growing US Companies Are Using Social Media

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    The fastest-growing companies in the United States are using social media to achieve a wide-range of goals, including to brand build and to generate sales, according to recent research published by The Center for Marketing Research.

  • Qualitative Research: Even More Important in the Age of Big Data

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Companies invest billions in data, analytics, and technology to better target and predict customer behavior. We are collecting more data than we know what to do with, so we think we no longer need qualitative research. Big mistake: We need to go beyond data to truly understand the customer.

  • The Ultimate Contact Form Checklist and Guide for 2020 [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Websites

    When building or updating a contact page, or including a contact form in any of your digital marketing projects, go through this checklist. You'll make your customer's life easier—and increase the chance that they'll actually give you the information you need.

  • Metrics for Measuring Transactional Email Success

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Email Marketing

    Most brands measure the success of transactional emails by looking at opens, clicks, or the delivery rate, according to recent research from SparkPost.

  • Let Stories Do the Heavy Lifting: StoryLeader Creator Chris Brogan on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    StoryLeader creator Chris Brogan explains how marketing leaders can use business storytelling to align their teams to execute better, faster.

  • Is Your Platform-Heavy Martech Stack Costing You?

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

    A platform-heavy marketing tech stack—email solutions, social media tools, mobile marketing platforms, automation tools, and everything in between—creates a world of obstacles, including inevitable data disparities. Which will cost you.

  • The Habits of Highly Effective Leaders [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Management

    You've heard the truism: Employees don't leave jobs or companies, they leave managers and bosses. Nearly two-thirds of employees have at one time or another left a job or plan to leave because of their manager or boss.

  • The Rise of Experiential Marketing: Beyond a Buzzword

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Event Marketing

    A widely cited buzzword, "experiential marketing" is now recognized as the powerful tool it actually is—though the true definition, the reasons for its growth, and the secrets to its longevity are not quite as familiar.

  • When Marketing Enters the Boardroom, How Can Agencies and Clients Respond?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    No one can predict what the future holds for the agency-client relationship. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Marketing is moving closer to being in the boardroom. How can agencies and clients ensure they're prepared for the shift?

  • Email Benchmarks for 19 Key Industries

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Email Marketing

    The overall email open rate last year across 19 industries was 17%, according to Campaign Monitor. Check out the average open, clickthrough, unsub, and bounce rates for each industry.