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19 Key Market Research Statistics

Backlinko

Market research is a growing multi-billion-dollar industry. Brands leverage market research insights to introduce customer-focused offerings and improve their experiences. Online/mobile quantitative research services accounted for 35% of worldwide revenues of market research companies.

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Are marketers trusting AI too much? How to avoid the strategic pitfall

Martech

AI tools are transforming how marketers research, write and make decisions. The rise of AI in search and marketing An interesting piece of research was released in late December but may have been lost in the busy holiday season. Going faster and creating more noise in the market is not a strategy that will win.

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Tech Marketers Think Outside the Buyer’s Journey [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

As you can see in the report, Technology Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America, sponsored by IDG Communications, Inc. thus, we consider tech marketers “early adopters.”. Least successful technology marketers: While 39% said they focused on the buyers’ journey in 2017, only 24% said they did in 2018.

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Content Marketer of the Year Shares the REI Story

Content Marketing Institute

These are just a few of the characteristics we look for when selecting the finalists for CMI’s Content Marketer of the Year award. Paolo Mottola, managing editor at REI Co-op and the 2017 Content Marketer of the Year, has demonstrated again and again how content can drive more than interest and engagement – it can drive action.

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Pre-Event Content: 5 Tips for Creating Excitement (and a Bit of FOMO)

Content Marketing Institute

The CMI team posted videos before the 2017 Intelligent Content Conference (spoiler alert: we’ll do it again for ICC 2018 because they were effective). We encouraged people to document their journey to Boston for the B2B Marketing Forum along with Flat Handley,” Ann explains. MichelleParkLazette (@mp_lazette) August 17, 2017.

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The five key skills every marketer needs today

Businesses Grow

In his most recent role, Sison was responsible for leading the global marketing excellence team with the goal of reimagining and driving the J&J worldwide marketing capability agenda, including the development of the New Modern Marketing Playbook: The Next Generation of Brand Building.

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Why Brands Need to Take the Plunge Into VR Today

Content Marketing Institute

In late 2016, pundits declared 2017 whould be the year virtual reality won mass adoption. However, according to games market research firm SuperData, there were 800,000 fewer Samsung Gear VR headsets shipped in 2017. And yet here we are, well into 2018, still waiting for it to fully materialize.

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