• Using Context to Achieve Marketing Excellence

    As marketers, we are all aiming to create personalized campaigns. But often the wealth of data and tools at our disposal—along with the array of campaigns and programs we are attempting to manage—make this goal seem harder to reach than it really is. True marketing excellence comes from a prune and simplify approach, and it […]

  • How to Develop a Modern Marketing Plan

    Create a marketing plan and track, leverage and experiment your way to success. As we enter a new year, many CMOs and marketing leaders are finalizing their marketing plans and determining what they need to spend. But statistics show that few will provide details of expected results and even fewer will use this plan to […]

  • 3 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

    Practical ways to ensure that your effort results in increased traffic. There are somewhere around 152 million blogs according to Harvard Business Review. That’s a lot of competition for your blog and with b2b blogging steadily increasing, it’s only going to get more difficult to get attention.   You may be wondering why your company […]

  • Five Steps for Making Automation More Human

    Especially with automation, it’s easy to forget that our messages are being delivered to people. Real connection with your audience is what will ultimately drive engagement. To get started, consider these five steps to using marketing automation to create real conversations Today’s consumer assumes you know how to use technology to tailor the experience. In […]

  • 5 Considerations Before You Create More Content

    Before you take Billy Idol’s advice and go “more, more, more” with your content strategy, invest some time in answering, “More what?” With a small investment of time, your content can become targeted and strategically focused on producing results. The following steps will help you create and deliver content that offers more value, more variety, […]

  • Using Content That Maximizes Lead Conversion Rates

    Getting people’s attention and, even more importantly, their name and email address can be challenging for B2B marketers. People are very skeptical these days with all the calls of fake news and data breaches on Facebook and other platforms. In research shared by Bright Funnel, it takes on average 17.5 touches and 512 days for […]