Resources for Marketing Professionals: Page 21

Measurement & Analytics

How to Measure Your Content Marketing Success: Nine KPIs You Should Monitor

To discover whether your content marketing is successful and to what extent your content goals have been met, you need to identify your content marketing's key performance indicators. Monitor these nine KPIs.

Martech

Five Powerful Benefits of Chatbots in B2B Marketing

When businesses use chatbots, they improve engagement, lead generation, and customer experience. But what, exactly, can chatbots do for marketers? Here are the top 5 benefits.

Martech

Frustrated With Marketing Automation? How Feature Bloat Is Undermining Your Efficiency

In the race to build bigger and better solutions, martech vendors have ended up with so much "extra stuff" in their products that doing even basic work has become difficult. The result for marketers: frustration and wasted time. What can be done?

Martech

Customer Data Platform vs. Customer Engagement Platform: Differences and Use-Cases

CDP and CEP objectives overlap, but their primary functions differ. This article highlights the roles of CEPs and CDPs, real-world use cases, and ways they enable customer-centric strategies.

Marketing Management

How CEOs Feel About CMOs

What grade do chief executive officers give chief marketing officers? Do CEOs think CMOs are bold or bureaucratic? To find out, researchers surveyed 150 CEOs at US companies that have 100+ employees.

Martech

The Saturated Marketing Tech Landscape: The Case for Consolidation

The explosive growth in martech solutions, once fueled by an era of easy capital, now faces a stark reality-check. What's next? And how can marketers decide what should go in their tech stack?

Marketing Strategy

The Top Benefits and Challenges of Printed Marketing Materials

What goals do printed materials help businesses accomplish? What are the biggest issues businesses face when incorporating print into their marketing strategies? For answers, researchers surveyed 441 marketing and sales decision-makers.

Advertising & Promotions

The Three Rules of Quality That Ensure DOOH Success

Much like the three unwavering rules of success in real estate—location, location, location—the world of digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising has its own triad of rules for success: quality, quality, quality. Just follow these three guiding principles.

Marketing Content

Content Speaks, but Data Listens: How to Optimize Your Content Strategy

In our data-rich, content-saturated digital landscape, success lies not in just creating more content but in listening to what your audience is telling you. Because content makes the connections, but data finds the match.

SEO

How AI Is the End of SEO... Or Not

Learn how generative AI is about to revolutionize search with conversational queries and creative search responses, challenging traditional SEO strategies. Start preparing for the future.

Customer Experience

Three Online Community Management Challenges B2B Brands Face

Today, most people expect brands to foster open channels that enable businesses to actively listen to feedback, address concerns promptly, and personalize user experience. A channel that has proven adept at doing all that and more is a brand online community.

Career Development

Top 10 Phrases Americans Most Regret Using at Work and in Personal Relationships

What do Americans really regret saying at work and in their personal lives? Which phrases in general are the most triggering or calming? To find out, researchers surveyed 996 people in the United States age 18 and older.

Advertising & Promotions

B2B Tech Marketers' Budget Expectations for 2024

Most marketers who work for B2B technology firms expect their marketing spend to increase this year, according to recent research.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Skills: The Competitive Edge Marketers Can't Afford to Ignore

Generative AI is undeniably having an impact on every facet of business (and our lives), and that certainly includes marketing. For marketers, adapting to and embracing genAI is not just an option, it's a necessity.

Artificial Intelligence

Navigating the Marketing AI Landscape of 2025: Four Trends

In the new year, one thing is clear: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of the marketing conversation. As we move into 2025, the marketing landscape will be shaped by four trends.

Marketing Strategy

Martech 2024: Three Trend Predictions

Another year in martech has passed at a blistering pace—with the discussion on new trends, technologies, and issues consuming our days. The author builds on his (mostly borne out) 2023 predictions about three martech trends.

Marketing Content

Four B2B Content Types and When to Use Them in the Buyer's Journey

Helping potential buyers through their buying journey is a multipronged effort involving a blend of tactics and the right content for each step. This article explores four content types and their impact during that journey.

Branding

Nine Rebranding Myths and Misconceptions Debunked

Although acceptance of rebranding is growing among business leaders, many remain plagued by misconceptions that leave them hesitant to embrace what is a powerful strategy. Here are nine rebranding realities that will dispel those misconceptions.

Marketing Strategy

The Business Outlook for Marketing Agencies in 2024

Most marketing agencies expect business to be better in 2024 than in 2023, according to recent research.

Artificial Intelligence

Do Marketers Tell Stakeholders When They Use AI to Create Content?

Do marketers tell stakeholders when they use artificial intelligence tools to create content? How often are marketers using AI to create content?

B2B Marketing Resources

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