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Guest Post: Why Customer Experience Should Be at the Forefront of Your Marketing Strategies

ShepHyken

She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. If your business follows marketing best practices, you’re probably already implementing user research, collecting customer data, and targeting customers with personalized messaging. However, customer-centric marketing takes all of that a step further.

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

ShepHyken

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. Having an affiliate marketing strategy will drive traffic, improve leads, sales, and encourage customers to engage with your brand.

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Why the Marketing Budget Should Include Customer Service Training

ShepHyken

Traditionally, that is marketing and sales. This could have been a difficult hurdle to overcome until we shared that customer service training could come from the marketing budget. They also spend a lot of money on marketing. Think of it as marketing – because it is! It could be an interaction they have with your website.

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Content Management Strategies for Online Marketers

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Content strategy, when done right, maximizes Internet marketing and leads to successful online brand development, which can mean more sales and more revenue One of the main reasons online brands delve into creating their content is to increase organic search results and generate more site traffic of a highly qualified nature.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue.

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Guest Post: Reset Buyer Strategy to Drive Post-Pandemic Revival

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Rohan Malkotia , Digital Marketing Executive at Servetel. He writes about how businesses need to realign their sales and marketing strategies in order to survive a post-pandemic world. The impact extends from B2C (business-to-customer) markets to B2B (business-to-business) sales as well.

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7 Retention Marketing Strategies for Ecommerce Merchants

Help Scout

Adopt these seven simple ecommerce retention marketing strategies. Looking to improve the customer retention rates for your online store? Read the full article

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. In this eBook, you’ll discover what it takes to develop and drive a successful marketing-led growth strategy. You’ll learn the best growth strategies to: Get your sales and marketing teams aligned.

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Data-Driven Marketing 101

This eBook highlights how data-driven strategies empower marketing campaigns through personalization tactics. Here’s what’s covered: How data-driven marketing drives the customer experience. Understanding marketing strategy & performance. The most challenging obstacles to data-driven marketing success.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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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.

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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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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

Analysts and professionals alike tend to argue that account based marketing (ABM) is not new. However, ABM practitioners have evolved the strategy from development to implementation. Instead of wading through a series of vague “how-to kick-start your ABM strategy!” On the surface, this is an accurate statement.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you. Try them in your next salesflow or use them as inspiration to formulate your own winning sales engagement strategy.