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How AI-Powered Marketing Tools Will Help SMBs

How AI-Powered Marketing Tools Will Help SMBs

Most marketers at small and midsize businesses say they believe that marketing tools powered by artificial intelligence will help them save time, keep headcount in check, and limit costs, according to recent research from Unbounce.

The Drivers of the Current Digital Advertising Boom

The Drivers of the Current Digital Advertising Boom

Digital advertising is booming, but it's best not to invest in every single channel at once. An ad tech expert shares some wisdom.

Six Lead Generation Tools to Improve ROI on Your B2B Marketing Funnel

Six Lead Generation Tools to Improve ROI on Your B2B Marketing Funnel

One concrete way to maximize marketing ROI is to reduce the amount of waste of potential leads across the entire user journey. To help you start the process, here are six applications you may not have previously considered.

How Sales Teams Can Improve Operations With Sales Intelligence Tools

How Sales Teams Can Improve Operations With Sales Intelligence Tools

Marketers are not alone in the struggle to juggle their tasks. Salespeople can become just as frustrated. This article breaks down what it looks like when your sales department is in desperate need of an intelligence tool.

Worse Than a Black Hole? The Complexity of B2B Martech Stacks

Worse Than a Black Hole? The Complexity of B2B Martech Stacks

Nearly one in five senior B2B marketers say their martech stack is more complex than a black hole, according to recent research from Anteriad and Ascend2.

Meh on the Metaverse: How Americans Feel About Virtual Worlds

Meh on the Metaverse: How Americans Feel About Virtual Worlds

Most Americans are uninterested or wary about the metaverse/virtual worlds, according to recent research from Ipsos.

Eight Myths of Marketing Automation

Eight Myths of Marketing Automation

It's only for email! It's only for enterprise businesses! It will replace us all! Wrong. This article sets out to debunk eight marketing automation myths.

Web 3.0, Blockchain, and the Metaverse: Opportunities for B2B Marketing

Web 3.0, Blockchain, and the Metaverse: Opportunities for B2B Marketing

Once their novelty wears off, do metaverse, blockchain, and Web 3.0 technologies have practical uses in the B2B space? This article explores a few possibilities.

Four Ways AI Can Win You More Customers

Four Ways AI Can Win You More Customers

You don't have to be in IT anymore to take advantage of big data and AI. Check out these four ways to use AI for finding prospects you may not have known were there.

AI-Powered Martech in 2022: Promising or Already Indispensable?

AI-Powered Martech in 2022: Promising or Already Indispensable?

Why do a mundane task when software can do it for you? The use of AI in marketing has gone mainstream in recent years. Where will it go from here?

B2B Tech Buyer Trends: Goodbye Vendor Reps, Hello Self-Service

B2B Tech Buyer Trends: Goodbye Vendor Reps, Hello Self-Service

B2B technology buyers are turning to vendor representatives less than ever and are increasingly relying on self-service resources, according to recent research from TrustRadius.

How to Reach the Right Candidates With Programmatic Recruitment

How to Reach the Right Candidates With Programmatic Recruitment

Programmatic: it's not only an ad strategy aimed at acquiring customers but also a tool for recruiting employees. The technology allows employers to target and discover better job candidates.

Taming Martech Stack Bloat Is Essential to Scaling Revenue

Taming Martech Stack Bloat Is Essential to Scaling Revenue

Too... much... technology... It's time to rethink how your martech stack works and which parts of it are really necessary. Your revenue depends on it.

Why and How Businesses Engage in Social Media Listening

Why and How Businesses Engage in Social Media Listening

Businesses use social media listening most to attract new customers (17% cite as their primary motivation), provide better customer service (16%), and better understand customer preferences (16%).

The Most Important Considerations When Evaluating a New CRM

The Most Important Considerations When Evaluating a New CRM

Ease of use is the top consideration for B2B firms when they evaluate new customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, according to recent research from Insightly and Ascend2.

The Five Layers of the Modern Martech Stack

The Five Layers of the Modern Martech Stack

A well-functioning martech stack should be like a five-layer burrito—a worthy set of ingredients by itself that makes for an even better combination. Here's what modern marketers have been putting into their "burritos."

Six Ways to Use AI for B2B Growth

Six Ways to Use AI for B2B Growth

Mundane tasks taking up your time? Overwhelmed by data? Good news: there's an AI-based tool for that.

Do Marketers Understand AI-Powered Martech?

Do Marketers Understand AI-Powered Martech?

Only 29% of marketers say they have high confidence in their ability to evaluate artificial-intelligence-powered marketing technology, according to recent research from Drift.

How Americans Feel About These 16 Emerging Technologies

How Americans Feel About These 16 Emerging Technologies

How much do Americans know about emerging technologies? Do they think those technologies will catch on and be good for society? To find out, YouGov polled 1,000 US adults in April 2022.

Rethinking Industry Events: Get Comfortable With Flexibility

Rethinking Industry Events: Get Comfortable With Flexibility

"Coming to you live" doesn't mean as much as it used to. Event attendees have adapted to on-demand, tech-savvy experiences, and marketers have to embrace that.

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