SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

Are you a marketer looking for a quick and dirty way to boost sales? If so, then shame marketing may be right up your alley. Shame marketing is a cynical form of advertising that involves exploiting the insecurities of young people in order to sell them products. Here are some examples of shame marketing campaigns: 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Author: Andrew Frazier You need to market your small business like a drug dealer. It does until you take a closer look at their marketing and sales strategy. Small business owners can learn a lot from analyzing what drug dealers do in terms of defining their target market, performing marketing activities, and building relationships.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Given its rising popularity, podcasting is now an avenue marketers can explore to publish more branded content and reach new audiences. But, it’s also a great resource for marketers who simply want to learn new tips and strategies or find a bit of motivation for their day-to-day efforts. 1. This Old Marketing Podcast.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2019

In decades past, the world of marketing was dominated by print advertisements in newspapers and magazines. These antiquated marketing tactics had one thing in common: They put the product front and center, with clever presentations intended to entice prospects to become paying customers. Evoke emotions through storytelling.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 12, 2017

The best marketing minds are like that – a marriage of seeming opposites that end up working together. Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically. Here tonight,” he said, “we have apple and orange.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This strategy encompasses shopper marketing tools such as trade promotions and co-op advertising programs. On average, these vendors pay for advertising on six retail media networks. But their investment goes beyond advertising on in-store video screens. Around 71% will spend more on social commerce ads this year.

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SalesFuel

JANUARY 3, 2025

Is the advertising glass half empty or half full? The 2025 advertising outlook includes a spending increase of 5% more than 2024 for a total ad spend of $384.6 Marketing Spend Outlook, 2024, from Plural Strategy Group , supplies some answers. they estimate the B2B market at $106 billion and the B2C market at $656 billion.

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital advertising, staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage; it’s a necessity. In this article, we’ll explore the best examples of using hyper-personalization in the digital advertising realm. This is a classic example of hyper-personalization on digital media.

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SMEI

JANUARY 25, 2023

If You’re a Marketer, You’re a Storyteller: Crafting Effective Campaigns to Help the Climate Crisis Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in marketing, as it allows you to convey a message in an impactful way and move people to action. After all, working with bad actors (i.e.,

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2019

Author: Lonny Kocina A well-executed marketing plan is like a GPS. Done right, your marketing should result in more leads, higher sales and a stronger brand. Thankfully marketing your business can be simple, if you have a system in place that everyone on your team wants to use because it makes their jobs less stressful.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When most marketers think outbound marketing, they think emails, paid advertising, and other digital campaigns aimed at engaging their target audience. We’ve written at length about how effective those tactics can be — but today, we’re talking about a different type of marketing campaign. Keep reading! We have it!”.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. Marketing team structure by audience segments.

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Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2023

Every marketing team looks to leverage advertising channels to their fullest. In order to drive awareness, MQLs, pipeline — and ultimately revenue — from B2B advertising, you need to track the best success factors and strike a balance between top, middle, and bottom of funnel metrics.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. Explore YouTube advertising. We say yes! Let’s get into it!

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Author: Anand Srinivasan The traditional approach to marketing involves brand building, advertising, participating in trade shows, launching mailers, and so on. This approach is also known as “downstream marketing” since they look ‘downstream’ at the customers in the targeted segment and optimize the ways to communicate with them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2018

As such, mobile marketing is not just an option anymore. One way to boost your visibility and drive qualified leads to your mobile site is through paid advertising, such as Google AdWords or social media marketing. So, if you haven’t invested in mobile advertising already, then it may be high time to do so.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing that goes, “if you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one,” and for the most part, I agree with it. There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice, one of them being that it’s more effective than any kind of ‘spray and pray’ method.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s no secret, the Internet has changed the way customers buy products and the ways marketers engage with their audiences. But, despite the constant change, the following statement has held true for hundreds of years: No marketing tactic can match the influence of word-of-mouth. Therein lies the power of word-of-mouth marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Author: Jim Ewel This should be the golden age of marketing. We have more tools at our disposal to implement and measure marketing, and, until the pandemic hit, advertising budgets were at record levels. The traditional marketing plan is broken. The traditional marketing organization is broken. How do we fix this?

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Sales 2.0

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re taking a new job in sales or marketing, read this book first. I love the “bullseye framework” developed by Louis Gudema and explained in his book Bullseye Marketing —just out this week in its second (updated) edition. But so many marketers and salespeople don’t do this and do not do it in the right order.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Their laser focus on their content marketing cycle explains some of their success. Market Conditions The Hinge Research Institutes 2025 study of High Growth firms includes input from 770 businesses representing a wide cross-section of industries. They allocate an average of 10% of revenue to marketing activities. Around 46.7%

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SalesFuel

JANUARY 20, 2025

Every business wants to grow, but throwing money at marketing without knowing what works is a gamble. Thats where digital marketing audit services come in. A digital audit provides a detailed, data-driven look at your clients marketing activities across digital channels. Why Conduct a Digital Marketing Audit?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. Recently, I was trying to understand how we could venture into the advertising space. I thought: “ We have all of this data. Why don’t I hear about Bizo?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 23, 2018

Increasing sales via social media content, campaigns and outreach is really important part of a marketing strategy these days. A popular athlete promoting your physical therapy website for example can do wonders for your brand. Remember new regulations means sponsored posts and advertisements must be listed as so in some way.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. You have to bring in more marketing qualified leads. Unlike B2C marketing, in the B2B world, not all the people who read your blog post or express interest in your product or service are a great fit.

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Nutshell

MAY 18, 2023

A CRM can help you gather, store, organize, and analyze data about your customers, which then helps you improve your sales and marketing efforts. It can also integrate with different tools, including social media and advertising platforms. Table of Contents What is CRM social media and advertising integration?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. Learn more about creating effective content – 10 Ways to Improve the Content Marketing You’re Creating. It’s not advertising. Nobody likes advertising, and people look for ways to avoid it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 12, 2018

Marketing is a strategy that makes or breaks a business. Learning tactics to market products that a startup has created can be gained from big brands that have penetrated the market and made a name for themselves. They may have seen an advertisement about the product which peaks their interest. Creativity. Give Freebies.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) is time-consuming; getting it right takes hard work, consolidation of resources and alignment on the part of both sales and marketing. I Zoom’ed with Hussam AlMukhat, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at ZoomInfo, for all the details. Anastasia: Very cool.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 11, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Guest blog posting is arguably the best method of inbound marketing that your team can employ. However, only 6 percent of marketers are using guest posting as the majority of their original content strategy. For example, consider creating an infographic to embed into your post. Expand Your Network.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What is referral marketing?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Author: Josh Carlyle Since you’re representing a brand, you need to market yourself to your audience and potential clients. A media kit is a promotional tool that contains useful information about your product or service, website, current partners, advertising, or marketing opportunities. Mind your target advertisers.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The value of digital video can’t be beat, according to 50% of advertisers. Here are four digital video advertising tips to make the most effective ads possible. Creating the Best Digital Video Advertising Take Advantage of Trends According to TikTok , there’s a set of “universal truths” to mastering digital video advertising.

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