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What Keeps Senior Marketers Up at Night?

What Keeps Senior Marketers Up at Night?

Senior marketers say demands for ROI, work-from-home issues, and macroeconomic concerns are among the many work worries that keep them up at night, according to recent research.

Martech 2023: Three Trends to Expect

Martech 2023: Three Trends to Expect

In 2022, several technologies cemented their marketing viability. In 2023, we'll start to see those technologies live up to their potential, argues this article.

Three Predictions for B2B Marketing in 2023

Three Predictions for B2B Marketing in 2023

Web3 was all the rage in 2022, from crypto to the metaverse. But will the B2B world plunge deeper into such technologies in 2023? This article argues no.

The Future of SaaS Sales Lies in Interactive Demos and Product-Led Growth

The Future of SaaS Sales Lies in Interactive Demos and Product-Led Growth

Today's B2B buyers mostly want to be left alone to make their own decisions during their customer journey. Providing them with interactive content and product demos enables them to do just that.

Six Ways to Build Brand Influence Using Thought Leaders in Your Organization

Six Ways to Build Brand Influence Using Thought Leaders in Your Organization

Although their influence is broadly felt, thought leaders aren't magical beings. They're just people—like you. Here are six ways regular people can increase their company's influence with thought leadership.

The Top Strategies B2B Marketers Plan to Explore in 2023

The Top Strategies B2B Marketers Plan to Explore in 2023

B2B marketers say AI/automation is the top strategy they plan to experiment with more in 2023, according to recent research from Sagefrog.

The Most Important Tech and Societal Trends for Marketers in 2023

The Most Important Tech and Societal Trends for Marketers in 2023

Marketers say they expect AI to be the most important emerging tech of 2023 and the potential impact of a recession to be the most important societal trend, according to recent research from WARC.

Data Draws the Big Picture: Why and How to Use Data Visualization

Data Draws the Big Picture: Why and How to Use Data Visualization

The amount of data used by marketers has grown exponentially in recent times. But data is only as good as what information you can derive from it. Enter data visualization.

Customer-Centric Companies Win in Recessions: How Customer Insight Cushions Downturns and Speeds Recovery

Customer-Centric Companies Win in Recessions: How Customer Insight Cushions Downturns and Speeds Recovery

Although cutting back on marketing is a kneejerk reaction to a struggling economy, history teaches us that companies' keeping focused on customers is what keeps them afloat. Here are four major reasons for that.

The Biggest Obstacles to Succeeding With Data-Driven B2B Marketing

The Biggest Obstacles to Succeeding With Data-Driven B2B Marketing

Senior B2B marketing and sales professionals say inaccurate customer data is the biggest impediment to succeeding with data-driven marketing, according to recent research from Dun & Bradstreet.

What Third-Party Cookies' Delayed Demise Means for Marketers

What Third-Party Cookies' Delayed Demise Means for Marketers

A few months ago, Google announced a delay to its blocking of third-party cookies... again. We keep preparing, and the deadline keeps getting pushed back. Given that additional time, how should we be spending it?

Digital Marketing Across Borders: How to Reach a Multilingual Audience

Digital Marketing Across Borders: How to Reach a Multilingual Audience

Becoming a multilingual company is much more complex than just putting all your copy through Google Translate. Explore tips on how to successfully expand into multinational markets.

Customer Benefits: A Brief Introduction to Why Customers Buy Your Products

Customer Benefits: A Brief Introduction to Why Customers Buy Your Products

When as a marketer you identify and focus on benefits, you ensure that you are focusing your attention on what customers are really buying; as a result, you don't waste money and energy in your marketing efforts.

Perceptual Maps and Competition: How to Understand and Improve Your Position in the Market

Perceptual Maps and Competition: How to Understand and Improve Your Position in the Market

Perceptual maps are the only way to understand what your position is in the market and how the market views you vs. your competitors. In fact, if you don't have a perceptual map, you're flying blind.

Market Segmentation: Where Companies Go Wrong and Why You Need Differential Advantage Analysis

Market Segmentation: Where Companies Go Wrong and Why You Need Differential Advantage Analysis

Welcome to a highly misunderstood topic: segmentation. This article explains what marketers tend to get wrong about segmentation, what's a better way to segment, and why doing a differential advantage analysis after segmentation can help you beat the competition.

The Buyers Are (Still) There: How Can B2B Tech Marketers Get to Them?

The Buyers Are (Still) There: How Can B2B Tech Marketers Get to Them?

The accelerated pace of the digital business world will require B2B tech marketers to drop their manual ABM processes and get to a deeper level of customer understanding. But how? Check out these ideas.

Brand Extensions: A Strategic Path to Growth

Brand Extensions: A Strategic Path to Growth

A brand known for a particular benefit enables growth opportunities beyond the product's original focus—via a brand extension. Using the brand on a new market offering that's in a different product category can provide sizable benefits, including new paths to growth. But you have to be careful.

How to Budget Strategically for Your Digital Marketing Campaigns

How to Budget Strategically for Your Digital Marketing Campaigns

What's the secret to constructing a sophisticated, airtight digital marketing budget that's justifiable and sensible? It's definitely not more spend equals more payoff. Check out this article for budgeting tips.

Virtual Event Trends: Businesses' Future Plans and Top Challenges

Virtual Event Trends: Businesses' Future Plans and Top Challenges

Most professionals in charge of events say their firm is planning to increase or do the same number of virtual events in the next 12 months as it did in the past 12 months, according to recent research from Airmeet and Forrester.

Art or Science? The Fate of Data-Driven Marketing

Art or Science? The Fate of Data-Driven Marketing

In an era of Big Data and revenue-driven marketing strategies, is it possible to find a balance between the art and science of marketing? This article tackles that question.

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