This article originally appeared in the B2B Briefing, a newsletter we put out once every two weeks. Subscribe using the form on the right of this page to get. this kind of content before anyone else. As a journalist and content marketer I’ve had to write material for a lot of people in IT roles, […]
Would you buy this car? The Jeep Wrangler is a series of compact and mid-size (Wrangler Unlimited and Wrangler 2-door JL) four-wheel drive off-road SUVs, manufactured by Jeep since 1986, and currently in its fourth generation. The Wrangler JL, the most recent generation, was unveiled in late 2017 and is produced at Jeep’s Toledo Complex.The Wrangler is arguably an indirect progression from the World […]
Modern marketing is complex, requiring multiple teams with different complementary skillsets to come together to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Keeping up with competition, meanwhile, means that marketing must get content into market faster than ever before. To help with this, marketing resource management (MRM) solutions have become a must-have for marketing teams today. But […]
A company called ActiveCampaign is trying to help marketers frustrated by A/B tests that fail to improve the results of e-mail campaigns with a machine learning-based application designed to predict what’s most likely to trigger an opening or other form of engagement. Based in Chicago, ActiveCampaign had already launched a tool called Predictive Sending this […]
InsideView is continuing its quest to win over former customers of Salesforce’s Data.com customer base by introducing Data Integrity, a tool it says will both cleanse sales information while making it easier to create dashboard-style visualizations. San Francisco-based InsideView said Data Integrity will unify customer profiles with standardized and clean data which can then be […]
Demandbase is offering to help the 70 per cent of B2B firms who describe their account-based marketing technology as “immature” with a digital questionnaire that will recommend tools to align with their strategies. The San Francisco-based firm last week released a report, The State Of The ABM Tech Stack, in partnership with Demand Metric. The […]
You might expect a company that specializes in business contact details to be pretty good at reaching prospective customers, but ZoomInfo’s chief revenue officer says it has managed to reach a new personal best as a company by booking more than 600 demos of its software in a single day. The company, which is headquartered […]
Its eccentric and controversial CEO suddenly stepped down. The value of its proposed initial public offering has plunged. Its lead investor is reportedly in talks to take over control of the company. WeWork, however, would like its target customers and prospects to focus less on the challenges facing its business and more of what it’s […]
Congratulations, you’ve just been hired to your first executive role. As you shake hands to close the deal, you’re already imagining how you’ll make an incredible first impression on the staff of your new company, assuring them that you’re the right leader to help them grow the company and herald a bright new future in […]
Last week Forrester said it was building upon its acquisition of SiriusDecisions by launching a B2B certification program to help marketers gain alignment with sales and more successfully execute programs. With a course list that includes fundamentals and campaign planning, the program is based on SiriusDecisions research and will include personalization via a course advisor, […]
Seismic used its customer event this week to announce a plan to acquire Percolate, which provides software to orchestrate marketing campaigns and manage content for B2B brands. Based in San Diego, Calif., Siesmic is known as a developer of sales enablement tools to manage various assets associated with closing a deal. Financial terms of the […]
InsideSales.com on Monday announced it was changing its name to Xant as part of a marketing campaign that will include a webinar this Thursday to discuss what it calls ‘the new face of sales engagement.” Based in Utah, InsideSales is best known for offering cloud-based tools that assist with sales, marketing and account management. The […]
As the Chief Operating Officer, your top priority is to ensure that all operations run smoothly for the best results, and a key part of this falls under the area of communications. After all, if processes, guidelines, rules, deadlines, etc. are not communicated correctly, your B2B can waste thousands of dollars in resources and lose […]
Content marketing might bring more leads than traditional outbound marketing, but only if your customers and prospects consume it. You’ve probably addressed this by covering the basics, from creating a variety of assets (like blog posts, infographics and videos), and using a mix of paid channels like LinkedIn and getting the attention of buyer-centric sites […]
The highly-expected initial public offering of your firm has taken a nosedive in terms of valuation. Your CEO, whose antics have already garnered way too many unflattering news stories, has been unceremoniously pushed out. Now the viability of the entire market in which your firm is operating is being questioned. Who’s ready to put out […]
All major rebrands represent a leap of faith, but the team at Bpm’online literally jumped out of an airplane to mark its transformation under the name Creatio. The company on Wednesday morning hosted a live broadcast in which it played a video announcing its new moniker as well as the dramatic unveiling of the Creatio […]
Performance marketing consultancy LeadMD is using data it collected as part of a survey conducted in partnership with Drift to create what it calls a Sales and Marketing Alignment Index that will benchmark how well B2B teams are working together and offer ideas for improvement. The report, which was released on Monday, is based on […]
One in eight B2B firms are not using marketing automation and 28 per cent are not using many of the technology’s key features, a stat that hasn’t changed in three years according to research published by CommuniGator. The U.K.-based firm — which offers its own line of marketing automation software to assist with lead generation […]
Hands up if you have had a terrible experience as a candidate for a job. I thought so. I recently heard from a friend that she had endured seven rounds of interviews for a role and then learned, on LinkedIn of all places, that someone else had landed the job. Sure, employers used to get […]
For 2020, most companies have their eye on sales. After all, this is the time that businesses and salespeople alike evaluate the past year and look ahead to the next, anticipating industry changes, determining where they can improve, and understanding how they need to evolve to continue meeting the needs of customers. While none of […]
