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From Market Competitor to Trusted Advisor: Leveraging Research to Dominate Your ABM Strategy
My previous article explored how research-based thought leadership transforms prospect relationships in ABM programs. Now, let's tackle the practical framework: How do you build and implement research-driven ABM to elevate yourself from being seen as just another market competitor to becoming an indispensable trusted advisor?
What Digital Marketing Managers Can Learn From the Slow Food Movement
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 — The Need for an Organic Marketing Strategy Pay-Per-Click (PPC), sponsored content, and paid links have become the McDonald’s of modern marketing. With these methods, marketers hope to get traffic and, with luck, conversions, as quickly as possible and with as little effort as possible. It’s as if digital marketing had a drive-through window.
How to Best Leverage Marketing Technologies in 2015
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 — I was recently asked my thoughts on how technology and digital trends will shape the future of marketing. As I pondered this question, I took note of all of the ways that I am digitally connected to the outside world. My laptop, smartphone, phablet, tablet, and e-reader were all dripping digital data to some unseen force through my WiFi connection. A fitness tracker awaited the opportunity to observe and report my next activity. Acting as marshals for many of these resources were my modem and router, which collected the needed inputs and outputs and converted my actions into trackable information.
Five Ways to Jazz Up your Content Marketing in 2015
Wed, Jan 7, 2015 — If you are reading this blog right now, you are participating in a trend that has transformed the face of marketing as we know it. “Content marketing is …….. creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action,” according to the Content Marketing Institute. If that sounds a lot like what traditional advertising endeavored to do, you’re correct. Content – its creation, refinement and dissemination through multiple channels of communication – has become the essential recipe to the marketing formula. And, like traditional advertising, the gauge of success, too, for content marketing is, “profitable customer action”, e.g., thought leadership, lead generation – and ultimately, sales.