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How to Triumph Over Budget Cuts and Prove Your Marketing ROI

C3Centricity

As we all know and, unfortunately, have probably also experienced, every dollar in our marketing expenditure must be justified, and we have to prove our marketing ROI or risk budget cuts! Marketing Budget Allocation Gartner’s most recent (2023) CMO Spend Survey reported that marketing budgets fell from 9.5%

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How to Market Yourself

Beyond Philosophy

Marketing Yourself. We usually talk about how you should use the principles of brand management to deliver excellent Customer Experience. In other words, marketing your Customer Experience has given you everything you need to know about selling yourself. However, brand management is an essential part of your job search, as well.

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How to Power up Your B2C Marketing Strategies with Surprising B2B Secrets

C3Centricity

As has been claimed for decades, there are differences between B2C marketing strategies and those of business-to-business (B2B). As companies strive to navigate the complexities of their respective markets, the learnings one can gain from examining the nuances of both B2B and B2C marketing become self-evident.

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How to Craft Compelling Stories to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

In today’s world, storytelling is crucial in various aspects of business, including marketing. In marketing and persuasion, storytelling proves instrumental in communicating abstract ideas and influencing consumer behavior. You will also learn: The importance of storytelling in marketing and communication.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Guest Post: How to Use the Customer Journey to Create an Engaging Affiliate Marketing Strategy

ShepHyken

She shares a 3-step guide on how to improve the employee experience while maximizing customer engagement. Developing an affiliate marketing strategy comprises multiple aspects. An affiliate marketing strategy needs to be effective, target well and work well for brands and customers. Affiliate marketers work based on high value.

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How ‘Regret’ is The Most Powerful Tool in a Marketers Armory

Beyond Philosophy

Therefore, to use regret as a marketing tool, it is essential to understand what comparison your customers are making and to what standard or value they hold. In this episode, we explain the psychology of regret, how it drives our future behavior, and what to do about it if it happens to your customers after buying your product or service.

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. Studies show the return on investment (ROI) of conversational marketing helps your marketing team drive revenue.

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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. Getting consensus on how to define “qualified leads”. Strategically aligning your systems and teams.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

It's quite a process for marketing teams to develop a long-term data management strategy. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes. It involves finding a data management provider that can append contacts with correct information — in real-time.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

64% of successful data-driven marketers say improving data quality is the most challenging obstacle to achieving success. Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.