While the vast majority of enterprise-oriented marketers say they put their audience’s interests ahead of their products or services and are developing detailed personas, less than half of them are actually talking to customers to inform the stories they tell, according to the latest B2B content marketing research from the Content Marketing Institute. The data […]
B2B buyers spend the equivalent of a full-time work week researching products and services worth more than $100,000, but 86 per cent feel overwhelmed when they’re presented with more than 10 pieces of content, according to a research study from Showpad. The Belgium-headquartered firm on Tuesday released The New B2B Buyer Experience, which drew upon […]
There’s a funny disconnect I experience every semester: One hundred percent of my Marketing students want to be employed when they graduate (duh). But when I ask them what type of job they hope to land, almost none of them say sales. Why is this a disconnect? Because the very large majority of them will […]
Almost as soon as I lost my job as Editor-in-Chief of Marketing magazine, I knew exactly what I wanted to do — launch a brand-new publication that captured the emerging trend of influencer marketing. In the consumer space, influencers were quickly becoming an alternative to traditional marketing investments in TV spots, banner ads and out-of-home […]
Marketing professionals are continuously looking for ways to better market products and services and stand out in a crowd of choices for consumers. Increasingly, that is leading them to the world of marketing technology, which insiders commonly refer to as “martech” for short. But as recent data shows, there’s quite a disconnect when it comes […]
