Rock Content

JANUARY 8, 2024

Are you struggling to elevate your brand awareness and drive revenue through effective marketing? Indeed, the solution lies in efficient marketing planning. Marketing planning is the strategic heartbeat of every successful business. What are the elements of a successful marketing plan?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2011

Which means your 2011 marketing plan has just a few more chances to be analyzed, reviewed and refined in order to help you meet your objectives for the year. Are you on track to meet your plan? One of the biggest reasons I see B2B marketing plans veer off course starts right at the beginning. The Road To Hell.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 29, 2024

AI is transforming how businesses approach their digital marketing budgeting and forecasting processes. This article covers how to leverage AI with the right data to come up with forecasting and budgeting prioritization, specifically for digital marketing efforts. Get the newsletter search marketers rely on. Processing.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The first step to great marketing is having a great marketing plan. However, not everyone bothers to plan – even though most agree that it is the foundation to successfully achieving your marketing objectives. ” If you haven’t started your marketing plan exercise, now is the time!

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 22, 2011

Now the hub of all information is the Interne, and each B2B marketer is a philosopher in his or her own right, with the ability to share and evolve ideas in the work of a moment. Here are some tips to boost your B2B marketing mix, inspired by three of history’s greatest Greek philosophers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the success of today’s marketers hinging on adaptability, integrating AI isn’t just an option—it’s a strategic necessity for growth. The Vast Influence of AI on B2B Marketing The influence of AI is visible in every facet of B2B marketing, from lead generation and customer engagement to data analytics and decision-making processes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones As any marketer will tell you, planning isn’t something that happens once a year. In fact, when it comes to your marketing activities, planning is a continual, on-going activity – in order to be responsive, marketers are called upon to constantly review and reconfigure their plans.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

And, it made me think: since we’re always searching for perfection in every area of our lives, what would the equivalent diagram of a “perfect marketing team” look like? They decide how you should position yourself to a particular audience and define the right marketing mix. Campaign Managers.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. The Most Effective B2B Marketing Strategies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Go Multichannel.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2020

But I’ve been talking to a lot of marketers who are unsure how to market in these times of fear and uncertainty. Should we even be doing marketing at all? There are some common sense and practical tips to marketing during the crisis we’re facing but there is no clear roadmap. Re-consider Your Marketing Mix.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re like most companies, you realized in 2020 that annual marketing budget planning doesn’t work anymore. Unsurprisingly, 46% of B2Bs say they’re paying closer attention to their marketing’s direct impact on sales post-pandemic as well. Quick Takeaways: Annual marketing budget planning isn’t ideal anymore.

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Impactful marketing campaigns transcend product promotion, playing a pivotal role in sculpting a brand’s identity, forging emotional bonds with the audience, and ultimately driving tangible results in leads and ROI. What Is a Marketing Campaign? Launching a campaign is easy; launching a successful one is not so easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. What I do know is that B2B Marketers have a ton of options today. In this post, I will offer a preview of the thoughts I will deliver during the Focus Interactive Summit on Progressive B2B Marketing. It used to be so easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 21, 2010 4 Subscribe Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2011

Are blogs an important part of your marketing mix? Blogging should be one of the first thing every marketer considers when starting their marketing plan, when distributing budgets, or when assessing their results. Inbound marketing leads cost 62% less than outbound. I mean you are seriously missing the boat.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

MarTech.org launched MarTechBot, the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals in May 2023. A June analysis of the first 600 MarTechBot prompts revealed users chiefly derived value from generative/creative tasks, while also using MarTechBot to help them unravel a variety of marketing dilemmas. Click to expand.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. Customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention re-emerge as key metrics B2B marketers will use to measure the performance of their holistic marketing programs. Too many marketers and business executives still question the value of social media (mostly in private).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Author: Mike Telem This year, one of your top marketing priorities should be to take a long, hard look at your digital advertising strategy. If you don’t have a retargeting budget, let’s take a moment to define retargeting, and explain why you might incorporate retargeting into your marketing mix.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? We need to be speed racers.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

The marketing team can then align the goal to build trust, and apply it to their marketing portfolio. Content mapping helps you plan for content creation that supports the customer journey and creates a more cohesive, personalized customer experience. Image Source. Why is content mapping important? Content Mapping Template.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. Market to them and never forget that even in B2B, human beings still make the decisions. Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve already published my B2B Marketing predictions for 2011 and while I think I captured a good mix of new and traditional issues, I realized that one thing was missing: a common theme. And so this led me to the conclusion that the broader future of B2B Marketing is Social! This got me to thinking.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 15, 2010 Subscribe The Secret To B2B Social Media? Why am I in Marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. and “ what can we achieve ?”

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. I am the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals. Answer Multi-touch attribution is a marketing strategy that assigns credit to multiple touchpoints or interactions along a customer’s journey that led to a conversion or sale.

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Vertical Response

APRIL 12, 2024

Are you looking to refine your marketing strategy for better results? This article cuts through the clutter to present tested marketing techniques that will help you connect with your target audience and drive your brand’s growth. Exploring the Essence of Marketing Marketing isn’t merely about promoting products or services.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2010

While marketers have embraced these chats as a way of connecting with fellow marketers and sharing ideas, companies/brands have been relatively non-existent in these conversations. This has resulted in marketers focusing on trying to enlist these individuals to become brand advocates. What do you think?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

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New Markets Telemarketing Inbound Marketing Customer loyalty 81

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

Telemarketing 97

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

Telemarketing 97

Telemarketing Marketing Mix Customer loyalty User-Generated 97

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Related Posts: Why am I in Marketing? This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy November 24, 2010 Subscribe A B2B Marketing Manifesto? required) to prove it.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. Who doesn’t accept this as fact?

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