New York, NY USA — The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) just announced TopRank Marketing and Sprinklr won a 2024 Content Marketing Award for “ Across the Socialverse 2023: B2B Social Influence.” The Content Marketing Awards, presented each year by CMI, is the largest and longest-running international content marketing awards program in the world for content creation, distribution, and innovation. The Content Marketing Awards recognize the best content marketing projects, agencies, and marketers in the industry each year. This year’s panel of all-star judges reviewed nearly 1,000 entries to determine the best of the best in content marketing excellence
B2B marketers recognize that the audience on LinkedIn is immensely valuable: more than 1 billion professionals scrolling their feeds with a career-focused mindset.
Generative AI in Marketing: How B2B and B2C Adoption Differs [Survey] 58 percent of marketing executives have said that their organization has either already implemented AI in marketing efforts or has experimented with the technology, while 33 percent in the B2B sector said they were using generative AI in multiple marketing efforts, according to newly-published report data. MarketingProfs B2B GTM Teams to Focus on Alignment, Efficiency 52 percent of B2B go-to-market leaders have indicated that stronger marketing, sales, and customer success alignment was a top 2024 priority, with 43 percent pointing to customer experience improvements, while 39 percent were prioritizing increased brand awareness, according to recently-released survey findings. MarketingCharts 3 ideas for B2B marketers entering 2024 [LinkedIn Benchmark] Chief marketing officers have faced increasing pressure to directly drive business growth, while 84 percent of marketing professionals have indicated AI technology will augment their work, and Fast Company recently took a closer look.
B2B Marketers Own the Customer Journey, Now What? [Survey] 90 percent of B2B marketers have said that their roles have become increasingly complex, while 62 percent of marketing leaders have indicated a change from sales-owned to marketing-owned customer relationships — two of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data.
B2B growth plan: perfecting partner ecosystem marketing 45 percent of B2B marketing decision-makers at typical B2B organizations have said that new or renewed ecosystem partners were their primary revenue source, as more B2B companies have moved towards broadening their partner ecosystems, according to newly-published Forrester Research data. Digital Commerce 360 Surprise! B2B Leaders Say Supply Chain Management Systems Are Most Important to the Customer Journey 17 percent of a B2B buyer’s complete purchasing journey is spent with a sales representative, with 44 percent of B2B buyers in the millennial demographic preferring no sales representative communication at all, while 87 percent of B2B leaders in the U.S. and Canada noted that a supply chain management system was their most important technology solution, according to recently-released survey findings.
What B2B Software Buyers Look for in Online Reviews 64 percent of B2B buyers have said that they read online reviews during the awareness stage of the purchasing process, with 68 percent reading them while considering purchases, and 54 percent while in the decision-making stage — three of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data.
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B2B CRM Users Are Highly Focused on Nurturing Leads and Customers 33 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have focused their customer relationship management (CRM) usage on the customer service, up-selling and cross-selling portion of the buyer journey over the past 5 years, closely followed by 32 percent who have targeted mid-funnel lead-generation and nurturing, with 21 percent focused on early-stage awareness, according to newly-published survey data. MarketingCharts The Top Priority of B2B Go-to-Market Leaders in 2024 52 percent of go-to-market leaders have said that better alignment between marketing, sales, and customer success was their top priority for 2024, with 43 percent prioritizing customer experiences and engagement, while 39 percent pointed to boosting brand awareness and the same number noting the quest for increased internal process efficiency — some of the findings contained in recently-released survey results. MarketingProfs New Study Reveals Clear Writing Tips for B2B Marketers [Report] When is comes to B2B writing, 73 percent of B2B health care professionals said that they were more likely to consider a purchase when supporting content was in more of a plain language format, while just 44 percent said they would do so based on more complex traditional B2B content writing, according to newly-released B2B writing survey data.
How Do B2B SaaS Companies Determine Pricing? [Report] 43 percent of software as a service (SaaS) leaders have said that they use competitive analysis for pricing research, with 34 percent turning to feedback from existing customers, while 14 percent utilize previous market research, according to newly-published B2B survey data
B2B Multichannel Marketing: Top Channels, Trends, and Challenges 57 percent of B2B marketers have said that creating an effective strategy is their top obstacle when it comes to multi-channel marketing, while 46 percent pointed to inadequate budgets and resources, with 44 percent noting data quality as a leading challenge — three of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published multi-channel marketing report data. MarketingProfs Google November 2023 Core Update Finished Rolling Out Search giant Google’s most recent core search algorithm update launch has concluded its implementation phase, some 25 days after the firm’s November 2023 core update first rolled out, making it one of the lengthiest update releases, Google recently announced. Search Engine Roundtable How Are CMOs Chasing Consumers’ Attention