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Five AI Strategies Startups Can Use To Build a Competitor-Crushing Marketing Capability
AI offers the capability to remake many business functions, including marketing. Here are five strategies that enable startups to take on much larger competitors by leveraging AI in their marketing.
Enterprises can also leverage these strategies to redesign or reorganize their marketing departments.
The Age of the Empowered Buyer is Over. Are You Ready for What’s Next?
Over the past few years we’ve seen a gradual but important shift in the behavior of buyers at B2B enterprises. The implications for demand generation programs are profound.
Simply put, if sellers of enterprise solutions want to grow revenue and take market share from competitors, they must realign their demand generation programs and redraw their customer journey maps.
Why Demand Generation Programs Fail, and How to Fix Them
For sellers of complex, enterprise-grade products and services, a demand generation program is a key component of an effective marketing and sales strategy. Yet many such programs fail to deliver sufficient results to justify their cost. Why?
In our experience, these failures have three primary causes:
Lead Nurturing and Scoring Strategies for Today’s B2B Sales Environment
Every marketer knows lead nurturing is essential to a successful demand generation program. But given the new B2B sales environment where buyers feel more overwhelmed than empowered, how do you nurture leads effectively? And how do you score them – realistically – so you can spend your valuable resources on the right leads? These are the questions we’ll tackle in this article.
The Undeniable Power of Audience Data: A Critical Asset for CMOs
In the rapidly evolving world of marketing, it's easy to get lost in a sea of buzzwords, trends, and flashy campaigns. But beneath the surface lies a cornerstone that remains consistent in its power and relevance: audience data. Read on to learn more.
Building Trust in B2B Brands: Harnessing the Power of Thought Leadership
Five strategies for creating an effective thought leadership program that builds trust with customers and prospects, and drives sales and long-term growth.
The AI-Driven Revolution: How to Stay Ahead or Risk Losing Market Share
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, marketing executives must adapt to stay ahead of the curve or risk losing market share to their competitors.
Thriving in Turbulence
When the economy takes a nosedive, many businesses feel the pressure to cut costs and tighten their belts. But counterintuitive as it may seem, investing in marketing during an economic downturn can actually provide a significant competitive advantage.
Use These Techniques to Improve Your LinkedIn Advertising ROI
Make your LinkedIn advertising campaigns much more effective by taking the targeting features of LinkedIn and combining them with customer persona data and customer journey maps. Here’s how.
Three Steps to Successful Content, Demand Gen, and ABM Programs in 2023
Successful B2B marketing in today’s business environment is about understanding who your target audience is demographically and psychographically, and what they care about, i.e., their challenges, pain points and aspirations.
For Successful B2B Marketing, Follow THEIR Path, not Yours
The key to effective B2B marketing – and especially Account-Based Marketing – is understanding your customer’s path on their journey of solution discovery. Check out our post to learn how.
How to Make the B2B Customer Journey Work for Your Company
Understanding the B2B customer journey from identification of a business need to vendor selection is critical to your success. But many companies fail to create content that leverages the B2B journey so as to bring customers to their door. Check out this Forbes post -- written by one of our co-founders -- for actionable ideas on how to make the customer journey work for your company.
Rumors of the death of email marketing have been greatly exaggerated…
Don’t let the countless multitude of bad email apples spoil your barrel of marketing tools at your disposal. If you’re not sure where to start with this tried, true, and proven marketing discipline, here are some tips to help you get going:
5 Benefits of Inbound Marketing for Technology Companies
Inbound marketing can be a valuable strategy for technology companies looking to attract and retain customers in a cost-effective, targeted, and measurable way.
The Key to Successful Marketing: Understanding Your Audience's Perspective
When it comes to marketing, understanding your audience's perspective is critical. This means taking the time to get to know your target audience, what they care about, and what motivates them to take action.
7 Steps to a Truly Engage B2B Audience - Video
Check out the video version of our post entitled “7 Steps to a Truly Engaged B2B Audience.”
14 Essential Tips for Launching a Blog to Highlight a Brand
In this post in Forbes, you’ll find tips from a group of marketing experts, including our co-founder, Bob Finlayson, that will help you turn your company’s blog into a powerful tool for brand building and industry leadership.
How B2B Companies Can Leverage Instagram for Marketing
Check out this post on Forbes for expert advice on how to use Instagram for B2B marketing, including thoughts from our co-founder, Bob Finlayson.
The Rise of Influencer Marketing, and the Endless Flood of Clickbait that Followed
Check out Bold Founding Partner Paul Brunato’s latest article on LinkedIn about avoiding the temptation of using clickbait to grow your B2B socials and how to create meaningful content that will engage the audience you want to reach — the one that will actually build your business!