Let’s face it: ‘know your audience’ is Marketing 101. But it’s a mantra repeated so often, it may have lost its meaning. Today’s AI-powered world demands we sharpen our focus and zoom in on the psyche of the real humans we are talking to. We need to forge insights as profound and nuanced as our […]
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AI in Marketing: Three Key Opportunities and How to Maximize Them
AI is hitting fast and furious and it’s hard to keep up with all the buzz, let alone the business challenges it’s presenting.
Creating a Marketing Roadmap That Speaks to Executives and Reframes Marketing’s Role
Some organizations report they can spend months finalizing their annual plans. Yet, marketers are still on the hook to drive results.
Stop Relying on Hand-Me-Down Data: Adjust to a Cookieless Reality
Major ISPs, ESPs, and email browsers are actively phasing out third-party data. As marketers, this means we’ve got a choice: shift our digital marketing approach towards collecting zero-party and first-party data — or lose our audience.
It’s Time to Give a Damn About the Company’s (Bad) Email Sender Reputation
Navigating email sender requirements are more demanding. Quick: Name the 4 email sender requirements Yahoo & Google enforced starting Feb 1 (⤵)
Cracking the Code on Digital Marketing Success for LinkedIn, Email, and Website
Technology powers digital marketing, and marketing leaders get it (sort of). They dedicate huge portions of their annual budgets and cross-functional resources to researching and vetting new mar-tech platforms. However, many tend to miss one key point.
Three Big Resets for B2B Marketing
Take stock of what your teams have been doing, imagining “what could be” solutions, and perhaps using the lessons we’ve learned in the past to inspire them to work smarter, not harder.
B2B Marketing Attribution Is Officially Canceled
Newsflash: Relying on third-party data to gain insights about a target audience is an exercise in futility. Instead of tracking behavior, the better B2B marketing strategy for driving demand and revenue is by going straight to the source. Find out how.
The Seven Secrets to Moving B2B Marketing Projects Forward With Purpose
Getting wrapped up in the go, go, go mentality of marketing is a slippery slope. With budgets under fire, B2B marketers need to know how to keep moving projects forward in a meaningful way.
Why B2B Marketers Don’t Have to Outsource
Nearly half of B2B companies outsource all or part of their marketing functions. Ask these three questions to maximize the agility, specialization, and project leadership your team needs.
Caution: Stop Trying to Drive Website Traffic!
Attention B2B Marketers, Driving traffic to the company’s website is getting you nowhere. Instead, unique content and organic engagement are the best ways to generate trust and demand. Find out how »
Overcome the Great Resignation With Even Greater Marketing
Now more than ever, employees are pondering the purpose of work. People are now leaving their jobs at the highest rate in two decades, spurring a “Great Resignation” — learn what B2B marketers can do to help HR solve their recruitment challenges.
How to Find Digital Meaning for Your Organization
Digital marketing tactics are crucial to sustainable success, but picking the right focus for any B2B company can be tricky.
Why B2B Marketers Need a Transparent Development Team
When your company’s website is working well, it’s a conversion machine turning interested visitors into free-spending and viable prospects. The birds are singing and you look like a genius. But how often does this really happen?
Is Influencer Marketing for B2B Companies?
If B2B marketers continue to perceive influencer marketing as a consumer-only effort, they will miss the opportunity to realize untapped funnel growth and conversions.
Win the Virtual Background Game Forever
You’ve seen the SNL sketch. You’ve been Zooming day in, day out. You’ve seen your colleagues changing their virtual background, sometimes to a tropical beach, sometimes to a scene from a movie, or a popular tv show (Seinfeld, anyone?). Changing your Zoom background is sort of like decorating your desk—a way of expressing yourself. You […]
Greater Farallones: Campaigning Virtually
Wilson’s phalaropes creating whirlpools. One of the many amazing virtual backgrounds, for the taking, courtesy of Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary’s Seabird Protection Network has always been heavily reliant on in-person community events as their biggest source of outreach in their campaign to protect wildlife from disturbances by boaters […]
Six Art Lesson Plans That Anyone Can Use to Teach, Virtually
Since creating art lesson plans is like creating content, it turns out we’re really good at it. We found this out by creating a series of 40-minute art classes starting with my 4-year-old nephew, who adored working on them collaboratively over Google Duo. Here are six of our art lesson plans to work on with […]
What a Strategic Business Narrative Does for Your Customers and Fans
This is part II of the What the Eff Is a Strategic Business Narrative and Why Does Every Company Need One? series. In part I, we discuss what a strategic narrative can do for your people. Editor’s Note. We began drafting this piece well before the health crisis became a daily driving force, and we […]
An HOA Letter That Will Create Dialogue in a Time of Crisis
Smaller, often resident-run, Home Owners Associations (HOAs) don’t always have the luxury of a property management company to lean on when the going gets tough. It may feel scary to step up and lead during a crisis that is much bigger than ourselves or our building. At the same time keeping the flow of communication […]