Fuel Lines
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Successful writers spend 75% of their time in the preparation and editing process and only 25% of their time writing the content. There are big rewards from content marketing, but it’s also a big challenge. Writing is a process that takes time and effort. Even the best writers have difficulty putting their ideas into words. Most of us aren’t born with the gift for writing.
Martech
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Drew Neisser, the founder of B2B brand strategy boutique Renegade, discussed the findings from the company’s 2021 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Report in a recent webinar on MarTech. The survey brought together salespeople and marketers to understand how ABM could address some of their interdepartmental challenges. “Our goal was to identify the current state of the relationship between sales and marketing, quantify the impact of martech — specifically ABM — and identify any gaps and opp
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Single Grain
AUGUST 12, 2021
It’s enough to strike fear into even the most experienced of marketers and bloggers. It can seem like torture. It’s often the stuff of nightmares. What is this unholy monster? The content audit. A well-executed content audit done on an annual basis can deliver big insights into your website’s blog and content marketing strategy that far exceeds its ho-hum reputation.
AdPulp
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Adpulp: When you hire someone new, what’s the one thing that you need to see in them? David T. Jones: Four things. Hunger, honesty, creativity, and humor. One of the best things about Adpulp.com is the people we meet. The site opens many doors and behind many of these doors are amazingly unique people with […]. The post A Book for ‘Ad People’ with Brains appeared first on Adpulp.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Ad Espresso
JANUARY 4, 2021
If you want to reach Millennials, get more engagement per post than Twitter, or boost lead generation, you need to be on Instagram. But the landscape of Instagram is changing quickly. Just in the last year, the platform has launched or will soon launch Explore ads, IGTV ads, and ads on their short-form video platform Read More.
The Ad Tech Blog
MARCH 1, 2021
A startup team is always against the clock, always delayed. Developing leadership skills in a startup team is critical for its success. An excellent way to develop leadership skills is to read The Lean Startup book. Recently, I’ve finished up reading for the 3rd time. I realized that most of the projects (if not all), in my 20 years in the software industry, were failures.
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Fuel Lines
JUNE 14, 2021
Believe it or not, most small to midsize agencies are not organized to consistently generate leads. Agency life is chaotic. Too much to do; to little time. The answer to this problem is to work smarter not harder by creating SYSTEMS for new business. A system is a set of detailed methods, procedures and routines created to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a repeated business issue.
Fuel Lines
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
I’ve learned the importance of creating my personal brand story when I launched my own consultancy a decade ago. I had led new business for a number of advertising agencies before deciding to start my own consulting firm. This could have easily been one of the worst decisions of my life. My advertising career had been spent working in only two markets, outside of Birmingham, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, I had zero awareness.
Fuel Lines
AUGUST 24, 2021
How ad agencies acquire new business has changed dramatically and that effects the knowledge and skills new business directors need to make it happen. People who have done this job in the past are struggling. The tenure of a new business director is now two years or less. In a recent survey conducted by RSW/US, only 26% of new business directors were considered successful.
Fuel Lines
AUGUST 1, 2021
A SWOT analysis is a good starting point for someone who is charged with creating new business opportunities for a small to midsize advertising agency, PR firm or digital shop. . Part of Steve Jobs’ 12 Rules of Success: Perform SWOT analysis. As soon as you join/start a company, make a list of strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your company on a piece of paper.
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Fuel Lines
JULY 16, 2021
. If your agency’s social media participation isn’t developing new business leads, it’s important to know WHY. . From my experience, most agencies finally got on board with social media in 2010. They created their agency’s blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts and jumped in. 70% of marketers report that social media marketing delivers poor or average return on investment.
Fuel Lines
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Your agency’s mission statement can have new business value and measurable results. A mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company, organization or person, its reason for existing. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a path, and guide decision-making. Wikipedia.
Martech
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
“The only way to drive revenue and drive acquisition, conversion and retention is through remarkable customer experiences, so there’s got to be a commitment from the top,” said Gene De Libero, Chief Strategy Office and Head of Consulting for marketing technology consultancy GeekHive, at our recent MarTech conference. He added, “There are some disconnects that are preventing us from getting to that state of Nirvana where we’ve got lots of people coming into the hopper, they’re c
Martech
AUGUST 17, 2021
In the 18 months since we added “COVID-19” and “pandemic” to our marketing lexicon, marketers like me have been thinking about how to revise our email programs, what our customers are experiencing and how much everything could change before we move into our next version of “normal.” Now we’ve gone through an entire marketing year calendar.
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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
Martech
AUGUST 13, 2021
A new report packed with data describes the state of MOPs today — who they are, where they sit in their respective organizations, the technology and tools they use, and the future of MOPs. Here’s the current state of play: “With constant requests for reports, growing responsibilities, and being siloed from other departments, ops professionals don’t have the support and resources they need to scale and empower others with data.” But that doesn’t mean the outlook is gloomy:
Martech
OCTOBER 14, 2021
In this week’s Marketoon, we see a less virtuous stance on privacy. Fishburne’s take: “We value your privacy” is one of those meaningless marketing phrases, like “your call is very important to us” or “we’re all in this together”, where actions speak louder than words. A Deloitte survey found that 91% of US consumers consent to terms of service without reading them.
Martech
JULY 15, 2021
Qubit, the personalization engine for e-commerce, has launched Qubit CommerceAI, a new offering which supports 1:1 personalization in-the-moment. The tool uses deep learning rather than standard machine learning — a technique which employs non-linear layering of algorithms to discover pattern recognition across large data sets. It brings together customer data and product data, sifting through possibly thousands of SKUs, to make real-time 1:1 product recommendations, and to recommend next best p
Single Grain
JULY 8, 2021
On the face of it, lead generation is not a complex concept. This marketing tactic is simply a way to find and connect with the right people at the right time to grow your customer pool. But conventional lead-generation tactics can be quite time-consuming and, at times, impractical. Businesses often find themselves wasting their resources trying to determine lead quality with in-house filtering procedures that take forever to deliver results.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
Martech
JULY 22, 2021
When talking about martech, we most often think about tools that allow us to perform a specific task related to marketing — analyze traffic on our websites, aggregate and understand customer data, deliver personalized messaging, etc. But most marketing initiatives require we employ multiple tools to achieve our objectives. Just to use one example, we may use Google Doc to write a whitepaper, Canva to create graphics to illustrate it, and something like Adobe InDesign or Acrobat to bring it
Martech
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Marketers will be engaging with more customers in three-dimensional virtual spaces next year. As the virtual ecosystem evolves, it won’t be limited to a single technology or walled garden. The rush to produce 3D experiences for consumers is already underway and set to mature in the coming year. Shubham A. Mishra, CEO and Co-Founder of codeless AI infrastructure tech company Pyxis One, calls out VR and AR as the “next big things.”.
Single Grain
MAY 27, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening up possibilities in almost all fields. Social media marketing is no different. The ever-evolving landscape of social media platforms is making it challenging for brands to get the most out of social media marketing. That’s why brands are turning to AI-based technologies to gather and analyze real-time data and use it to improve their campaign strategies.
Single Grain
MAY 18, 2021
According to research, a whopping 61% of marketers cite lead generation as one of the most challenging parts of their job: Yet without new leads coming in regularly, it’s impossible to grow your business. That’s why you must master lead generation — a nd one critical part of lead generation is the lead magnet. This post won’t go into detail on how to create the perfect lead magnet (you can find that post here ).
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
Single Grain
AUGUST 12, 2021
A lot goes into getting your online pages SEO-friendly so that they have the best chance possible to rank well in the SERPs. Plenty of marketers are familiar with the basics: you need to optimize for a designated keyword, include a meta description, and have a strong headline. We’ve noticed, however, that there’s one SEO criteria that a large number of brands consistently miss even if they’re doing everything else correctly: Their SEO page title (aka title tag ).
Single Grain
MAY 6, 2021
A good SEO report distinguishes a reputed SEO agency from a mediocre one. These reports are a great way to analyze the progress of your SEO campaigns on a monthly, fortnightly or weekly basis. However, preparing an SEO report is not an easy task. It is time-consuming, and this is where SEO report templates are so helpful. If you are an SEO agency owner or a freelance SEO consultant looking to prepare a professional, data-driven and value-adding report for your clients, then this article is for y
AdPulp
AUGUST 13, 2021
I admit I’m a sucker for Digiday’s “The Confessions” series. When I started writing my columns for Talent Zoo back in 2002, I did it anonymously because I feared repercussions. So I get that there are those in power who can’t talk freely. Like this “holding company agency exec” who complains about the lack of […]. The post There Is No Ad Industry ‘War For Talent’ And There Never Has Been appeared first on Adpulp.
Martech
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Oracle today announced the launch of Oracle Fusion Marketing, part of Oracle Advertising and CX. The new product tracks account engagement with both email and advertising channels, uses AI to score leads and predict opportunity for sales engagement, then delivers the qualified opportunity to any CRM system. The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. “Salesforce automation ha
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In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.
Single Grain
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Are you looking to create a Facebook ad, but you don’t know where to begin? Are you struggling to come up with the right type of ad for your campaign? With 9 million businesses advertising on Facebook in the second quarter of 2020, there’s an abundance of ads that make it harder than ever to make your brand stand out. In this environment, creativity has become as critical for a digital marketer as a designer, writer, or video editor.
Martech
AUGUST 25, 2021
“I was just being selfish. I wanted a way to talk to people who understood what I was doing — which is the entire ethos of community.” “A lot of people feel isolated and wonder why they can’t find someone that gets them — and you can find that online in the right places.” The first comment came from Mike Rizzo, telling me how the MO Pros community of marketing operations professionals started out as a Slack channel.
Martech
JULY 16, 2021
Pre-pandemic life is starting to return. Travel is up. Masks are coming off. And indoor dining is an option once more. The relaxation in pandemic restrictions is also rippling through the business world as conferences and trade shows schedule in-person events for this summer and fall. We’re not surprised, since the last edition of our Events Participation Index showed that many marketers were ready to hit the conference hall floor as early as the third quarter of 2021.
Martech
AUGUST 6, 2021
As the business world struggles to understand the implications of the revolving news of the third-party cookie ban, digital ad targeting is growing more complex than ever. Google recently announced an extension of the third party cookie ban however the complexity and uncertainty remain. Whereas social media was perhaps the greatest tool to create a level playing field, the impending death of the cookie, the iOS 14 update, and the overall increasing complexity of ad targeting could make the risin
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
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