With many companies sending their employees to work from home as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, new security challenges have cropped up. Employers and employees alike have to be extra vigilant about security and privacy when working from home, and the COVID-19 crisis has spurred an unprecedented social engineering attack of historic proportions, according to Computer […]
In recent days, the number of COVID-19 cases has skyrocketed. As of 3rd April, there are more than one million confirmed cases globally, with the U.S being the most affected country. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to companies across the globe, asking their employees to work from home. While this step is good for […]
By Justin Scarborough, Programmatic Media Director at PMG Consumers are gravitating toward faster communication, with an increasing number of tools in the workplace (and daily life) sending short, push-style notifications. As such, marketers are recognizing the opportunity this presents to expedite conversations with existing and prospective B2B customers. While these new approaches can take different […]
Data-driven decision making is constantly making a buzz around the B2B industry. Data-driven organizations are 19 times more likely to be profitable than businesses whose decisions are driven by instinct. Companies aware of it are leveraging it for their advantage while the ones unfamiliar with it have so many questions. What is it? How does […]
Digital transformation is so pervasive an undertaking right now, even the platforms supporting them are in the process of transformation. That includes Adobe’s Experience Manager, essentially a collection of microservices around digital assets and content interactions. The idea of CX is that these interactions when viewed en masse start to show customer behavior patterns, which […]
According to a research survey by Tech Pro, 70 percent of businesses have already implemented a digital adoption strategy or are working on one. However, that still leaves nearly 30 percent of enterprises unaccounted for. And with the whole world going digital, it is no longer an option but a must-have. Without digital adoption, chances […]
By Robert Furtado In a letter sent from Paris in 1979, Thomas Jefferson wrote that “a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy.” He didn’t get into the details about where the electorate should get its information, though, and today we also need to consider whether people are properly equipped to make use of the […]
Social Media Posts for the #CEOchallenge Thank you for supporting the #CanadaStrong campaign to support the families of Flight 752. If you want to challenge your CEO to give OR challenge another CEO to give, we’ve created some easy posts for you to use! Just grab one of the snippets below and post it on […]
By Brian Jackson Now that we’re actually living in the year 2020, it’s interesting to look back on some whimsical predictions of the futuristic meccas we’d be inhabiting that didn’t quite work out. We don’t live in buildings made of steel, as Thomas Edison predicted we would. We don’t have access to flying cars, even […]
No money? No problem. PR can help your B2B succeed! With huge agency retainers, press-release distribution costs, printing fees, and more, you may think public relations is only for big businesses with big budgets. Well, if you haven’t thought about using public relations (PR) for your B2B, think again. Public relations is simply a way […]
There are so many external factors that can influence sales success – the vast number of which an individual rep may not be aware of. Software changes within an organization. Patent awards. New leases. All publicly available information. But how do you find this information? Currently it’s a manual process of extracting data from a […]
Account-based marketing (ABM) pioneer Terminus announced Tim Kopp as its new CEO today. We exchanged emails with Tim about what this means for the company, how he sees the state of ABM and its next evolution. B2BNN: First of all Tim, congratulations! Is this a move focused on expansion or evolution? TK: The short answer […]
By Jim Kelly, Founder of Industolutions Growing a B2B company – and securing new customers – isn’t easy. Some of the biggest B2B marketing challenges include lead generation, lead quality, and new business development. B2B marketing has experienced significant changes recently, due to evolving customer demands, as well as many new options of tactics, tools, […]
Are your marketing, sales, public relations, social media, and other teams in separate departments at your B2B? If so, it’s time to make a change for 2020. For the best results, all of these activities must work together effectively to get out the right, timely messages to the appropriate audiences. With this in mind, the […]
ABM has maintained its position as the biggest buzz phrase in B2B for years now with good reason. The term, coined by ITSMA back in 2004, realigns marketing’s core principles of segmentation, targeting and alignment. The result is that businesses effectively focus their resources on the top percentage of accounts that matter most to them. […]
The biggest headache for a B2B marketer is lead generation and it should be, as it is not a cakewalk to generate leads. Lead generation is, of course, the biggest challenge and it could be really hard for businesses to find out from where all leads can come from. By looking at the chart below […]
Each fall, B2B marketers assess the performance of their prior year’s marketing program and plan for the year ahead. They look at past performance metrics, business goals, competitor initiatives, industry trends, and areas of improvement. The 2020 B2B Marketing Mix Report, published annually by Sagefrog Marketing Group, surveys B2B marketing professionals to uncover the top […]
Depending on your age, your first knowledge of robots and artificial intelligence probably came from science fiction, TV shows, or movies. Whether it was from watching the seemingly sentient computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hunting mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451, or even the droids in Star Wars, we’ve been conditioned to believe that robots, computers, […]
Many of today’s largest and most visible technology companies — Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have achieved success and rapid growth through alternative corporate cultures. Mark Zuckerberg even coined the phrase “move fast and break things” to describe Facebook’s internal processes. Computer science engineers and information technology specialists flock to technology companies post-graduation to […]
Over the past five years, CSO Insights says the percentage of salespeople making quota has dropped from 63% to 53%. In today’s Third Industrial Revolution, nearly every industry is becoming increasingly competitive, entirely new categories are being created to solve emerging problems, and the marketplace is getting more cluttered with promotional materials. Simply put, the […]
