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Advertising Technology
Maximizing Marketing Efficiency: Why CPL is Challenging CPM for B2B Success
As B2B marketers head into the new year, the pressure to achieve more with fewer resources intensifies. Marketers are scrutinizing their strategies to ensure optimal returns on their investments, and two fundamental investment approaches— Brand-Building, activated typically by CPM executions (Cost-per-Thousand Impressions), and Demand Creation (activated by performance-based media which includes CPL executions (Cost-per-Lead)—are the two primary marketing strategies often…
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Content Marketing
Over 100 Authors Share Their Knowledge in the Better Business Book
What if you could speak to 100 business people and have them share their biggest nugget of advice? This was the thought behind the the Better Business Book, a project developed by Tyler and the team at the Self-Publishing System. A Sampling of the Better Business Book All Your Excuses Debunked: Two Case Studies That Prove You Don’t Need Any…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why Product-Led SEO Is So Valuable for Business Growth
Creative use of search engine optimization (SEO) is necessary for business success. That’s not debatable in 2023. What is up for discussion is the methodology brands use to maximize the results of their SEO efforts fully. For the better part of two decades, marketers have preferred to let keywords guide content, drive traffic, and capture leads from organic search. That…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Get Started with Staff Augmentation, From First Contact to Onboarding
So, you looked through your options and decided staff augmentation is your best bet, but where do you begin? Staff augmentation might be ideal if you need extra hands to meet deadlines, add additional skills to your team, or just want to increase your team without long-term commitment. But like any new idea, getting started can feel daunting if you’re…
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Artificial Intelligence
Inita: 10 Ways an AI Assistant Can Transform Your Small Business Marketing Efforts
Small business owners’ workdays are filled with countless tasks. If you’re like most entrepreneurs, marketing takes a back seat to running your day-to-day operations. Creating social media posts, updating your website, and keeping your online presence fresh can feel like a full-time job on top of running your business. Inita Having an AI assistant for business is becoming a cost-effective…
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Advertising Technology
Seriously… Why Are You Still Doing These Things
Marketing today is more capable, automated, and data-driven than ever—but most teams are still chasing activity over outcomes. It’s not a lack of intelligence or resources holding companies back. It’s a distraction. It’s noise. It’s the endless pursuit of the next thing instead of committing to the right thing. We work with sophisticated organizations across industries. Their challenge isn’t access…
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Content Marketing
16 Steps to Compelling Content Creation
Sometimes a checklist makes life easy and this one is pretty good on ideas for developing compelling content creation courtesy of WebSearch SEO. I like the advice here because it goes beyond the actual media and points to other elements that make consuming the content easier as well. The 16 Steps to Compelling Content Creation: Think like a journalist. Get…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
More often than not, I’m hearing more and more companies speak about social media as if it were just another broadcast medium. Social media is much more than that. Social media can be analyzed for intelligence, monitored for feedback and opportunities, used to communicate with prospects and customers, used to target and promote your brand to relevant audiences, and leveraged…
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Content Marketing
A Successful B2B Content Marketing Strategy Requires Authority
Marketers are often struggling just to keep up with the needs of their content and email marketing programs. More often than not, our clients’ strategies are built around their internal processes. News, product releases, service updates or even just weekly schedules dictate the content that’s published. The problem, of course, is that your business’ marketing plan doesn’t follow the routine…
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Content Marketing
Why We Rebranded to Martech Zone and Changed Our Domain
The term blog is an interesting one. Years ago, when I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies, I loved the term blog because it denoted a sense of personality and transparency. Companies no longer had to depend on pitching the news to reveal their culture, news, or advancements. They could broadcast those out via their corporate blog and build a community…
