B2B Marketing
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5 ABM Challenges B2B Marketers Must Overcome to Show Results
Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the most popular strategies used by B2B marketers. Unlike B2C firms with products that often have broad appeal, B2B firms target much smaller markets. And even in those markets, only a select number of businesses have the need, budget, and headcount that will lead to a successful relationship. By…
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How Your Brand Helps Turn B2B Prospects into Buyers
The B2B technology buying process is full of complexity and risk for B2B buyers. There are often dozens of software applications and technology tools available to meet the business needs of buyers. For B2B marketers, for example, there are more than 11,000 martech applications available on the market, offering everything from data enrichment to marketing…
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How to Make Customer Advocacy Fun, Easy, and Rewarding
This is a guest contribution from Cassandra Jowett, the Content Marketing Manager at Influitive, an advocate marketing platform. You can visit our gamification product listings to compare Influitive against other solutions. It’s a scenario many marketers can probably relate to: Hoopla’s Director of Customer Success, Helen Lam, knew that Hoopla’s customers were great fans of…
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How to Approach Innovation in B2B Marketing
Because we live in a world surrounded by technology, we often equate innovation with devices and software. But innovation is about taking a different approach to just about anything. If you can make something faster, more efficient, and more productive, you’re innovating. During times of economic uncertainty, innovation and experimentation are often cast aside in…
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How Economic Conditions Help You Rethink Your Marketing
Resource constraints are hitting B2B marketers hard. The teams are often smaller than they were two years ago. The tools are fewer. But the goals are often headed in the other direction. Many marketers are tired of hearing “Do more with less.” And a better approach to economic uncertainty might be rethinking what your company…
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How to Market AI Outside the Tech Sector
Businesses in the technology sector understand the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) better than most. But the full scope of AI’s potential lies beyond tech, in industries that have been slower to adopt tools that can rapidly analyze data and help manage risk. The construction industry, for example, touches almost everything we do. But it’s…
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Is Your Marketing Content Self-Centered?
When B2B buyers are researching purchases they plan to make, there’s a long list of things they need to know before they can make a decision, including the obvious like price and features. But even earlier in their buying journey, most buyers consider the business value that a new type of software will bring to…
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Attract More B2B Buyers With a Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy
B2B buyers each have their own preferences and research methods when it comes to making software purchases, and there are more places to find and consume information than ever. Because of that, trying to reach your audience is difficult. And it’s also potentially costly. A multi-channel marketing strategy is key to reaching buyers in their…
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Why You Need Brand to Support Demand in B2B Marketing
Branding might be the most undervalued aspect of B2B marketing. Just take a look at any list of the dominant brands in the world, and you might see a B2B brand or two, but branding remains synonymous with the B2C world. But the lack of investment in branding is putting many B2B brands at a…
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What Does it Take to Succeed with Email Marketing Today?
The number of emails B2B buyers get can seem overwhelming. Overall, consumers receive over 306 billion emails per day. Despite this, email marketing continues to work for many companies, influencing their buyers and providing a great return on investment (ROI). In fact, approximately 59% of people have made purchases based on marketing emails they received.…
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How Business Users Change the Game of B2B Marketing
Twenty years ago, software vendors that wanted to sell into an enterprise organization would target the tech team and its leadership. They could develop and distribute whitepapers and product guides, and attend the conferences where technology leaders went to talk shop. Today, everyone is a software buyer. And that requires a radical shift in the…
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Why B2B Brands Need to Embrace Emotion and Education
One of the challenges B2B marketers face today is the perception that their brand is boring. As a new generation of B2B buyers takes control of the market, many of the tried and true – but potentially stale – tactics that worked in the past might not produce the same results. That’s why today you…
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Best Practices for Marketing on Different Social Media Sites
As of the beginning of 2022, there were nearly four billion total social media users across all platforms, with the average user having accounts on seven social networks. That’s a huge potential audience for your products and services, but if you’re not approaching each site the right way, you’re going to get overlooked. Additionally, you…
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A Martech Entrepreneur Shares His Journey
Some people encounter a problem at work with no obvious solution and find a workaround. Others see roadblocks as part of their job or the task at hand and learn to deal with them. And for other people, the desire to solve a problem impacting their daily work fires up their imagination. Chad Waite came…
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What’s Working in B2B Cybersecurity Marketing?
Every business needs to think about cybersecurity. As a result, there’s a huge market for the growing number of vendors selling the tools and platforms that help keep businesses, their users, and their data safe. And that means noise. For B2B marketers in the cybersecurity space, cutting through the noise and reaching information security professionals…