The Best Marketing Strategy Resources

Marketing Strategy

Key Considerations When Building an Online Community

Slack and Discord are the titans of online community at the moment—particularly for businesses looking for easier ways to communicate. But they're not the only options. As illustrated by (naturally) Nicolas Cage, sometimes the obvious choice isn't the right one for you.

Marketing Strategy

Empathy Mapping: Same Car, New Roads

How have empathy maps changed now that empathy is more vital to marketing than ever? This article suggests that they become as mutable as the customer behaviors that inspire them.

Marketing Strategy

How B2B Marketers Define 'Revenue Marketing'

B2B marketers say the term "revenue marketing" encompasses a wide range of results-focused tactics and goals, according to recent research from Demand Spring.

Marketing Strategy

Beyond Buzzwords: How to Build a Personalization Strategy for Optimal CX and Growth

The "Hi [customer name]" template falls short of true personalization in the post-pandemic world. What people want from brands now is much less Mad Lib and more customized experience.

Marketing Strategy

How and Why to Implement Gamification in Your Marketing Strategy

People like to win—whether it's a win for their business or themselves. When marketing incorporates gamification and interaction, winning comes with the added benefit of brand loyalty.

Marketing Strategy

The State of B2B Sales in 2023

B2B sales leaders say they are experiencing longer sales cycles and more opportunities being lost to no decision this year, according to recent research from RAIN Group.

Marketing Strategy

The Top 7 Digital Media Trends CMOs Need to Keep Up With in 2023

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping up with media trends is essential for businesses to stay relevant and competitive. This article covers seven trends that are particularly relevant for CMOs.

Social Media Marketing

How to Manage Online Comments—And Why You Need a Comment Strategy

Unlike other social content, comments can't be planned and scheduled for the balance of the year or quarter. Comments require ongoing communication, and that makes them powerful marketing tools.

Measurement & Analytics

Third-Party Cookie and Data Deprecation: What's a Marketer to Do?

Losing third-party data as a source of customer information will be a challenge. But it could be an excellent opportunity to recharge your customer relationships.

Demand Generation

How to Save a Leaking Lead Generation Pool

Fixing leaks in your lead generation pool requires examining your entire process to identify the problem. Is it department alignment? Automation? Inbound marketing? This article takes you through the possibilities.

Marketing Strategy

Is Your Marketing Mix Model Coming Up Short? Here's What's Really Up

Data analytics love for their data points to be fixed and objective, but in the modern marketing world, that's not always the case. It's vital that your marketing mix model also incorporate what this article refers to as "squishy" data.

Marketing Strategy

The State of SMS Marketing in 2023

Why are businesses using text and mobile messaging marketing in 2023? How do people feel about SMS marketing? To find out, SimpleTexting surveyed 1,400 consumers, business owners, and digital marketers.

Marketing Strategy

A B2B Product Launch Checklist: Eight Essential Elements

After an eternity of development, testing, troubleshooting, and more testing, you've finally reached your product's launch date! But wait... did you forget something? Use this product launch checklist to ensure you haven't missed anything.

Customer Experience

How to Be More Customer-Focused

In theory, it's easy to be customer-focused: gather and process customer information, segment, focus on target segments, understand customer perceptions, act on customer information, and know when and how to build customer relationships. So, why is being customer-focused so hard?

Marketing Strategy

Want to Build Trust and Provide Value? Try Being Nice, and Helpful!

Everyone in marketing talks about providing value. It's become a bingo buzzword. Whatever happened to real value—honest-to-goodness help for someone with a specific problem?

Marketing Strategy

How to Create a Socially Responsible B2B Marketing Campaign

Socially responsible marketing tactics can encourage your potential clients to think more favorably of your brand while creating a better work environment for your employees. Here's how.

Artificial Intelligence

How B2B Marketers Feel About AI

Most B2B marketers say they feel positive about artificial intelligence, though just over one in five (21%) say they feel apprehension or terror about the technology, according to recent research from Wpromote and Ascend2.

Marketing Strategy

B2B Leaders Survey: Marketing Trends for 2023

Most B2B leaders say their firm is increasing its marketing investment despite the current uncertain economic environment, according to recent research from LinkedIn and Ipsos.

Marketing Content

Why Content, Not Customer Service, Is the Heart of Customer-Centricity

Being a customer-centric company involves taking customer feedback and applying it, of course. But before you get to that point, you have to create content that is focused on what your customers want.

Marketing Strategy

How to Analyze Competitive Messaging in Four Simple Steps

Knowing the relative positions your company and its competitors occupy on the market landscape helps you shape content for all your marketing materials. But how do you determine the positioning of your competitors? This article outlines a straightforward process.

Marketing Strategy Resources

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