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Martech

Customer Data Platforms for the Modern Marketer

The first-ever Magic Quadrant for customer data platforms by Gartner signifies a milestone in the maturation and essentiality of CDPs within the martech ecosystem. In a data-centric, customer-first marketplace, CDPs have become a strategic imperative.

Customer Experience

The Top Benefits of Customer Behavioral Signal Data for Marketing

Senior customer engagement specialists say the biggest benefit for marketers of collecting customer behavior signal data is improved performance marketing, according to recent research.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Use Across the Customer Journey Means Aligning Across Teams

The time for experimenting with AI for one-off tasks is over. It's time to use AI across the customer journey—and that means cross-functional collaboration to ensure impactful results. Dive deeper now.

Demand Generation

Four Types of Webinars That Convert Prospects Into Customers

How can you get the best results from your webinars? The secret is to use different types of webinars at each stage of the marketing funnel, carefully curating the buyer's journey to maximize conversions.

Customer Experience

How to Adapt to the Evolution of B2B Buying: Four Tips for Addressing Buyer Pain Points

Discover how the digital era is reshaping B2B buying behaviors and expectation. See how you can improve marketing and sales by addressing self-service buyers' key pain points. Read more.

Customer Experience

The Selling Styles B2B Buyers Prefer Most

Which sales approaches resonate most with B2B buyers? How important is it for B2B buyers that salespeople show an understanding of their business and personalize pitches? To find out, researchers surveyed 500 buyers in the UK.

Customer Experience

Personalization: The Secret Weapon B2B Companies Are Not Using

Discover the power of personalization in B2B marketing. Learn how personalization tech, tools, and tactics can transform campaigns and boost customer engagement and conversions. Read more.

Marketing Content

Four Questions to Help You Balance Content Volume and Relevance

Explore how to balance content volume with content relevance, enhancing buyer engagement by crafting content that resonates with your audience and drives conversions. Ask yourself these questions.

Demand Generation

Mastering the Customer Review Process: How to Ask for Reviews

Explore practical tactics on how to source customer reviews so you can harness their power to boost your brand and B2B marketing effectiveness by fostering trust and engagement. Learn how.

Branding

Sonic Branding for Memorable B2B Brands: How to Create a Sonic Identity

Discover how the art of sonic branding can help your B2B brand identity resonate with your customers. Learn how strategic sound design can enhance brand recall, foster emotional connection, and set your brand apart. Read more.

Customer Experience

Here They Come! B2B Marketing in a Gen Z World

Explore essential B2B marketing approaches for engaging and connecting with the next generation of B2B buyers—a digital-first generation that values authenticity and seamless customer experience. Learn more.

Customer Experience

The Psychology of Persuasion: Understanding Customer Behavior in Marketing

Learning about the psychological tool of persuasion—and how best to use it in your marketing materials—can serve as a powerful pathway to influencing customer behavior, relationships, and sales. Get started here.

Customer Experience

Digital Communities vs. Social Media: Stop Building Brands on Leased Land

By making community a core part of your strategy, your brand can create better products and achieve higher engagement and retention rates. But building your community on someone else's platform is full of risk.

Demand Generation

Ditch the Sales Script If You Want to Make More Sales

Most salespeople are required to learn sales scripts before contacting prospects. And to ensure all the information is conveyed exactly as the company prefers, they're discouraged from adding anything to the script. Basically, they're hired to be human commercials. No wonder it doesn't work.

Demand Generation

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

Sales enablement can feel worse than untangling a giant knot of half-burned-out Christmas tree lights. Luckily, a series of MarketingProfs articles undertook that metaphorical untangling. The lessons now unwound from that effort shine brightly as guiding principles of sales enablement.

Branding

Why You Need a Brand Style Guide (Even If you Think You Don't)

Maybe you think you can coast without brand guidelines because your employees or contractors or customers implicitly understand your brand. They don't. Or maybe you think it's too expensive to create a guide. The reality? You can't afford not to.

Martech

Frustrated With Marketing Automation? How Feature Bloat Is Undermining Your Efficiency

In the race to build bigger and better solutions, martech vendors have ended up with so much "extra stuff" in their products that doing even basic work has become difficult. The result for marketers: frustration and wasted time. What can be done?

Martech

Customer Data Platform vs. Customer Engagement Platform: Differences and Use-Cases

CDP and CEP objectives overlap, but their primary functions differ. This article highlights the roles of CEPs and CDPs, real-world use cases, and ways they enable customer-centric strategies.

Customer Experience

Three Online Community Management Challenges B2B Brands Face

Today, most people expect brands to foster open channels that enable businesses to actively listen to feedback, address concerns promptly, and personalize user experience. A channel that has proven adept at doing all that and more is a brand online community.

Public Relations

Ethical Marketing Practices for Businesses of All Sizes

An increasing number of customers want ethical products and services. That means marketers need to adopt more ethical marketing practices. Here's what you need to know—and do.

Customer Experience Resources

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