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7 Skills You’ll Need in Marketing for 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Ewel With 2020 behind us (thankfully), how should we prepare for 2021? If you’re a marketer, here are seven essential skills marketing leaders will need in the new year. . It requires the ability to adjust your marketing quickly and often. Are you writing a marketing plan for 2021? 2: Alignment.

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How to Plan Your Digital Strategy for 2021

SBI Growth

As we round out 2020 and begin to look ahead to 2021, the topic of revenue planning is surely at the forefront of conversations between your company’s leadership team and board members. While your annual revenue planning activities may focus.

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3 Audience Segmentation Trends Shaping Digital Marketing in 2021

Zoominfo

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As

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5 Ways Market Leaders Are Driving Revenue Growth in 2021

SBI Growth

What is your plan for achieving your revenue target in 2021? With new logo acquisitions increasingly scarce across industries, market-leading companies have had to reimagine how to go beyond the install base to optimize revenue generation. SBI hosts multiple client advisory.

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A Recruiter’s Guide To Hiring In 2021

With vaccination rates rising, consumers spending more money, and people returning to offices, the job market is going through a period of unprecedented adjustment. Businesses are looking to hire quickly, but they face a disjointed market. As the New York Times observed, “It’s a weird moment for the American economy.”

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2021 Job Market: Watch for Funding, Flexibility, and Diversity

Zoominfo

Job seekers face a new workplace in 2021 that reflects the harshness of the prior year. A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. These businesses outstripped mid-market firms when it comes to product launches over the past three years.

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A Marketer's Peek at 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

Jim Kruger, chief marketing officer at Veeam Software , a developer of disaster recovery and intelligent data management software, predicts three key . . As we move into 2021 and beyond, many events will stay virtual not only because of continued safety concerns, but also as a result of lessons learned in 2020.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Any return to normalcy may seem far-off, but sales and marketing are on the front lines of restarting the economy. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department. Strategically aligning your systems and teams. Getting consensus on how to define “qualified leads”.

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Best Practices for Engaging Your Go-To-Market Sales Teams

Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

As a B2B marketer, lead generation is likely your Job One. But guess what: It’s after the sales team has gotten into the act where marketing can have an even bigger impact on results. September 23, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm BST. Success tips for improving the effectiveness of your engagement channels.

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5 Conversion Rate Optimization Mistakes to Avoid and How to Fix Them to Get More Leads

Speaker: Jen Dewar, CEO of Jalydew

Brand awareness and website traffic are great, but bottom line: you need your marketing programs to generate sales leads, and you need those leads to turn into new customers. There are many things you can do to increase leads and customers without increasing your marketing spend—but improper execution could do more harm than good.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The highest priority for B2B marketers is effective demand generation (increasing lead quality and quantity). In this webinar, you’ll learn how to go beyond rational-logic-based sales/marketing and adjust your strategy to understand better how buyers feel so that you can connect and help more customers buy.

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Boost Team Engagement with Agile

Speaker: Anthony Crain, Agile Transformation Consultant at cPrime, and Zach Wolfe, Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Wrike

The engineering team doesn't need to have marketing degrees, and the marketing team doesn’t need a coding bootcamp. Tuesday April 13th, 2021 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM GMT. How do we bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams to create a holistically agile project? The key is engagement. in one central location.

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4 Cardinal Keys to Mastering ABM Measurement

Speaker: Steve Robinson, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Metrics

In this webinar, you will learn: Key definitions that simplify the array of metrics available to ABM marketers. July 21, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm BST. How different ABM approaches require different measurement strategies. Don't miss out on this exclusive webinar with Steve to jumpstart your ABM strategies today!

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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Agility In Digital Marketing Is Table Stakes For Success

Speaker: Megan Sangha and Amit Pande, Wrike Team

Digital marketing today looks very different from last year, and changes will only continue. As marketers are consistently pressured to face more unknowns and do more with less, many marketing leaders are sharpening their focus on agility and asking some tough but critical questions: Are we as agile as we should be?