Marketing Project Musts: Stay Organized With These Five Tips

General Management - Multiple clients with multiple projects, all with multiple deadlines... Whether you are approaching a new product launch, a website redesign, or any other project, here are a few ways to ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Measuring the B2B Customer Journey: SmartBear CMO Bryan Semple on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

Metrics & ROI: Marketing Podcast - SmartBear CMO and MarketingProfs University instructor Bryan Semple shares insights on marketing measurement and the B2B customer journey. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Why Innovation Matters in Account-Based Marketing

General Management - Innovation is becoming a core element of every market. If you don't innovate, your business grows stale. So, what role does innovation play in account-based marketing? | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Marketing Video: No Lead Left Behind

Sales - Though too many leads certainly isn't a bad problem to have, it can be a problem nonetheless if a company's marketing efforts are being driven by lead volume rather than ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Is Digital B2B Advertising Effective?

Advertising - Some 71% of of B2B marketers say their company's digital ads sometimes or always fail to meet expectations, according to a recent report from Demandbase. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Get Marketing Help When You Need It

Marketing Strategy - Does your small business have marketing and branding needs but not enough money to hire an agency or a consultant? Don't fret, you have many options to ensure you get ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Unlock the Mystery of Lead-Capture Success [Infographic]

Sales - Crafting successful lead-capture strategies can be difficult and overwhelming. This infographic, however, can make unlocking the secrets of lead capturing easier. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Stop Obsessing Over the Verbing of Your Product Names

Brand Management - Marketers are obsessed with the verbing of their product names. But choosing a name in the hope that it (like Google and Roller Blade) becomes a verb? That's a bad ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Do Consumers Read Emails Sent by Businesses?

Email Marketing - What percentage of emails sent by businesses are viewed by consumers? What share of messages end up in spam folders, on average? | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Three Huge Mistakes You're Committing in Your Social Content

Content - Want to be seen as a trusted advertiser and transparent brand? Then follow the FTC's endorsement guidelines and avoid these big social content mistakes. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

The Problem With Marketing Dashboards: Pure Data Visualization Is Rarely Successful

Marketing dashboards based solely on data visualization are not successful. Ask yourself these 3 key questions to create better, effective dashboards. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Google AdWords Benchmarks by Industry

Which industries have the highest search engagement rates? Find out in a recent search marketing report of Google AdWords industry benchmarks report. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

The Biggest Sales-Enablement Problems and Their Solutions [Infographic]

Sales - Most companies say their sales teams lack the right content at the right time. Here's a quick look at those sales-enablement problems and ideas for solving them. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Maximize Your Content's Reach on Social Media

Content - It's not tough to publish on social media: With a few clicks you have a post on Facebook, a tweet on Twitter, or a video on YouTube. The tough part, ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

What Salespeople Need to Know to Stay Relevant in Digital Marketing

Sales - Technology doesn't signal the death of the B2B salesperson... It signals the rebirth of the evolved, modern salesperson. Here's what you need to know to keep evolving. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

#SocialSkim: Pinterest Extends DIY Ads to SMBs, Plus 13 More Stories in This Week's Roundup

Social Media - Social gets easier to tackle this week: Pinterest's DIY ad manager is open to SMBs, WordPress is releasing an Instant Articles plugin for Facebook (which also launched nifty tools), and ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

The 10 Companies With the Best Reputations [Infographic]

Brand Management - Among major corporations, Amazon has the best reputation with consumers in the United States, according to a Nielsen infographic based on findings from the Harris Poll. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Reasons Your Client-Agency Communications (and Relationship) Are Breaking Down

General Management - Your client-agency partnership depends on open lines of communication. If that communication is limited, there's no real value in the relationship. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

The Most Effective Lead Follow-Up Strategies: Adam Bluemner on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

Sales: Marketing Podcast - Adam Bluemner shares strategies for following up with B2B website leads based on his study that analyzed 63,256 phone calls. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Extend Your Marketing Video's Shelf Life: How and When to Iterate

Content - Video can be an amazing marketing tool, yet it has a short shelf life. Luckily, it's also a dynamic asset that can be edited, tweaked, and optimized over time. Here ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Don't Wage War Against Ad Blockers Until You Know Who You're Really Fighting

Content - You know readers are using ad-blocking software, but you also need to understand what motivates such behavior. It's a little more complicated than you think. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Seven Ways to Increase Your Webinar Registrations

Content - With the right strategy in place, webinars can generate high-quality leads and drastically increase revenue. But they—and you—can't do any of that if you can't get people to register and ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Why You Need to Humanize Your Social Media Marketing

Social Media - You can produce fantastic content and hone an authentic voice, but no one's going to engage with your brand on social media if you forget to be human. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

A Sensible Social Media Checklist for Businesses [Infographic]

Social Media - Overwhelmed by all you have to do on different social media platforms? Check out this handy-dandy checklist, packed with planning and content tips. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Reasons You Should Not Invest in SEO This Year

Search Engine Marketing - Stop wasting time and money on SEO. Instead, focus on increasing revenue from the traffic you already have. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Customer Insight Mistakes You Must Avoid

Customer Behavior - Customer insights are essential to growth and success, yet they remain the elusive holy grail of many a business—a seeming exercise in futility. But you can avoid others' mistakes and ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

What You Need to Know About Account-Based Marketing [Infographic]

Developing an account based marketing strategy? Find the newest statistics along with 8 steps to a successful ABM strategy in this infographic. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

#SocialSkim: Snapchat Challenges Facebook in Video, Plus 13 More Stories in This Week's Roundup

Social Media - Facebook is making it easier to get newsletter subscriptions via Instant Articles. Also: now you can target specific companies on LinkedIn with ads; use Facebook's new emojis for B2B; and ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Carousel Ad Examples to Inspire Your Marketing

Advertising - Carousel ads are becoming a favorite tool of myriad digital marketers. Check out these examples of brands that use the ad format to boost their customer engagement. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Three Ways Niche Players Can Connect With the C-Suite

Customer Relationships - We all have dream clients—company logos we'd love to place on our homepage. The only way to get there, in most cases, is by engaging with senior decision-makers over time—starting ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Data, TV, and the Limitless Focus Group: 4C's Josh Dreller on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

Market Research: Marketing Podcast - Joshua Dreller of data science company 4C offers insight into the lasting appeal of television and how data on viewing, combined with social data, can supercharge your message targeting. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Surprising Ways to Write Addictive Business Blog Posts

Writing - So frustrating: You work hard. You know your industry inside and out. You offer something nobody else does. And you take precious time to write about it in your business ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Why Marketers Should Support Legislation on Customer Reviews

Web Sites - The value of online consumer reviews includes seeing both positive and negative reviews. That's why preserving the right to voice such opinions matters. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Set Up a Local AdWords PPC Campaign That Kills the Competition (Part 1 of 2)

Search Engine Marketing - Are the leads you're getting from Google in too short supply for your taste? That no longer has to be the case, because you now have the definitive guide to ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Empower Your Indirect-Sales Marketers

Sales - You want your network of resellers, distributors, and channel partners to promote your products and services, but everyone's swamped with info from your competitors and focused on their own agendas. ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

11 Common Website Conversion Killers [Infographic]

Web Sites - Is your website plagued by conversion repellents? Here's a look at the biggest threats to your website conversions. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Staying Creative While Working Remotely

General Management - Creative collaborations can be challenging when employees work remotely. The following tips can help remote workers facilitate brainstorms and creative sessions. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Three Steps for Using Your Competitors' Media Coverage to Boost Your Own Visibility

Public Relations - Does it frustrate you when your TV screen fills with your competitor's face as he relates pertinent industry insights studded with self-deprecating chuckles? Don't get mad, get even. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

#SocialSkim: Facebook Rolls Out Like Alternatives, Plus 13 More Stories in This Week's Roundup

Social Media - This week social got serious about customer support: Facebook's plans to improve sentiment tracking and talking to customers directly, Twitter's Customer Feedback, Snapchat's tracking and services, and Foursquare's in-store traffic ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Benchmark Your Marketing Performance Against Your Competition's

Marketing Strategy - Competitive intelligence often takes a back seat to performance indicators that marketers are daily concerned with (open rates, social metrics, conversions...). But that solely inward focus can lead you astray. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Text Your Sales Prospects to Increase Conversions

Mobile - Unlike texting while driving, texting while selling is not dangerous; in fact, it can be invaluable in helping sales teams meet their numbers. But before you fire off texts to ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Why You Really Need to Stop Overlooking Generation X

Marketing Strategy - Between Baby Boomers and Millennials, Generation X is often the forgotten middle child. But brands willing to invest in Gen X can capitalize on the following benefits of marketing to ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

The Top Elements of Great (and Terrible) Customer Service

Customer Relationships - Which elements of customer service are very important to consumers? What are the customer service issues that frustrate people most? | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Data Saves the Day: SurveyMonkey's Chuck Brinker on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

Brand Management: Marketing Podcast - Chuck Brinker, director of research solutions at SurveyMonkey, shares crisis communication tips for brands and explains data's role—before, during, and after a crisis—in helping your company come out on top. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

How to Find the Perfect Content Curation Topics for Your Content Strategy

Content - Identifying the ideal topics to curate—those most likely to engage your audience and support your content marketing strategy—is a key component of content curation. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Tips for Preventing the Creative Suffocation of Your Marketing Team

General Management - If all your company's ideas are coming straight from the C-suite, you're probably stifling creativity. Here are five tips for breaking that vise and unleashing creative thinking from your marketing ... | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Small Business Websites: The Haves and Have-Nots

Web Sites - Just under half (46%) of small business owners say their company does not have a website, according to a recent report from Clutch. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago

Five Steps to Build E-Commerce Sales: How to Link Engagement to Revenue

With users spending more time online, marketers should strive to keep their connected users engaged. Learn 5 steps to build ecommerce revenue. | Continue reading


@marketingprofs.com | 8 years ago