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  • RFP Benchmarks: How Much Time and Staff Firms Devote to Proposals

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Companies devote 24 hours to writing a request for proposal (RFP) and involve seven people in the process, on average, according to recent research from Loopio.

  • In-House vs. Agency: The Path to Boosting Your In-House Marketing Team

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Management

    If you're considering rebuilding your in-house marketing team and reducing your reliance on outside agencies, these are your first steps on the path to gaining more control.

  • How to Change Anyone's Mind: Jonah Berger on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Best-selling author and Wharton professor Jonah Berger discusses his book, 'The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind.' He explains the five hidden factors that impede change (and how to overcome them).

  • Transparency and Trust: The Key Links Between Data Regulation and Customer Experience

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    Today, data is the most important ingredient for crafting truly personalized experiences, delighting customers, and delivering exceptional value. The marketer's dilemma in the age of data regulation is how to collect that data. Here's what we need to do.

  • Top 5 Critical Components of Great Customer Experience

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    Specialists say among the keys to customer experience success, the top 2 are delivering elegant interactions and providing speedy service.

  • Do Most Businesses Have an Overarching Audience Data Strategy?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Most businesses are trying to develop an overarching strategy for their audience data, but few have managed to actually implement a strategy, according to recent research from Winterberry Group and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

  • Top B2B Content Marketing Statistics for Your 2020 Content Strategy [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Content marketing has become a critical element of B2B marketing strategy. And for good reason: It can help build brand, authority, and awareness. Not to mention leads. To help you put together your B2B content marketing plan of action, check out these benchmark statistics.

  • Small Towns Present Big Opportunities for Marketers: Rural-Business Expert Becky McCray on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Rural and small-town business expert Becky McCray shares insights from the Survey of Rural Challenges, and explains the potential rural markets hold for global organizations.

  • What Is Zero-Party Data, Why Should Marketers Care, and How Can You Collect It?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    In the new era of data privacy and more stringent privacy regulations, marketers need to turn away from third-party data. To build trust while maintaining personalization, marketers are turning to zero-party data. So... what is it, and how can you collect it?

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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 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?

  • The State of B2B Account-Based Marketing

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Account-Based Marketing

    Account-based marketing (ABM) delivers significant benefits for B2B businesses, but it usually takes time before firms can reap those rewards, according to recent research from the ABM Leadership Alliance and ITSMA.

  • The CMO's Decision: To Bot or Not?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

    The future of marketing is all about performance—lead quality and revenue contribution. So, very soon, marketers' best friend will be conversational AI. Bots. User interfaces that rely on artificial intelligence and machine-learning to engage users, deliver leads, and increase conversions.

  • Marketing 404 Errors: Six Marketing Stars Open Up About Their Mistakes (and What They Learned From Them) [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Marketing stars Christopher Penn, Chris Brogan, Goldie Chan, Carlos Hidalgo, Katie Martell, and MarketingProfs' own Nina Bell share mistakes and missed marketing opportunities and lessons those experiences taught them. MarketingProfs Chief Content Officer Ann Handley co-hosts this special 404th episode.

  • Meet the Parennials (Millennial Parents)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Millennial parents tend to think of technology as a parenting tool and are more concerned about safe content than content overload for their kids, according to recent research from Fullscreen.