6 Often-overlooked or forgotten ways to promote B2B content

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 […]

D&B Lattice app LinkedIn

Dun & Bradstreet says Lattice app will lower social ad costs per lead and boost click-throughs

Three months after acquiring a customer data platform firm, Dun & Bradstreet has launched a desktop app aimed at improving the ability of B2B marketers to run social ad campaigns. The Short Hills, N.J.-based firms said the Lattice app, named after the firm it acquired, will eventually roll out across multiple social channels. Lattice will […]

LinkedIn B2B subprime data crisis

LinkedIn execs warn of ‘subprime data crisis’ and need to embrace ‘long data’ in B2B marketing

B2B marketers may be falling victim to third-party data providers that are similar to the mistakes that lead to the economic recession of 2008, according to senior executives from LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Speaking at an event for its Canadian customers earlier this month, the LinkedIn execs described what they called the “subprime data crisis,” whereby […]

Neil Patel Digital B2B

Neil Patel says the biggest traffic gains this year will come through making what’s old new again

Once a week — usually on Saturdays, with his wife complaining in the background that this is supposed to be family time — Neil Patel writes the kind of blog posts that get noticed by marketers from almost every sector. Behind the scenes, however, his team at Neil Patel Digital is busily updating an average […]

Vidyard 2019 State of Video In Business

Vidyard benchmarks suggest 60 seconds or less is the sweet spot for driving B2B video views

Nearly 70 per cent of business professionals will watch a one-minute video all the way through, but stretch it to 20 minutes and only a quarter will do the same, according to data from Vidyard. Vidyard, based in Kitchener, Ont., recently released its 2019 State of Video In Business Report, which is based on qualitative research […]

Instagram B2B marketing

65% of B2B marketers will increase Instagram organic activity in 2019: Study

Facebook and LinkedIn may continue to reign as the top social channels for B2B firms, but a majority of 65 per cent are now also making use of photo-sharing service Instagram, according to a study released late last week. The 2019 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, published by the Social Media Examiner, is based on […]

LinkedIn company pages

As a marketer, here’s how you can break through the noise and generate quality leads

Today’s digital natives are bombarded with content and have adapted to filter out the noise. Poor ad targeting has left both consumer and B2B audiences in Canada more skeptical of digital advertising, and most notable of all: about a third of digital advertising campaigns (particularly display and mobile) in Canada don’t work, failing to drive […]

Adobe Summit

Adobe Summit 2019 shows how Marketo, Magento acquisitions are coalescing into the Adobe Experience Platform

Adobe is trying to demonstrate progress in bringing technologies from Marketo and Magento into its Adobe Experience Platform this week, but possibly the best insight at Adobe Summit so far was a glimpse at a more custom product: a dashboard the company uses to track its own marketing and sales performance. Speaking to approximately 17,000 […]

DiscoverOrg buys ZoomInfo

DiscoverOrg president discusses ZoomInfo acquisition and the quest to corner the B2B contacts market

B2B contact and lead generation provider DiscoverOrg on Monday said it would acquire its competitor ZoomInfo and create a combined platform serving marketing and sales professionals over the next year. Financial terms of the deal between DiscoverOrg, which is based in Vancouver, Wash. and Waltham, Mass.-based ZoomInfo were not disclosed. The two firms said ZoomInfo […]

NewtonX B2B influencers

NewtonX offers AI-based service to source B2B influencers faster and better than expert networks

A pair of former management consultants have created a company and service, NewtonX, that aims to address a problem they experienced first-hand: finding qualified B2B influencers to participate in market research projects. Based in New York, NewtonX was launched quietly in 2016 but is beginning to market itself more aggressively following a $3 million round […]

#movethedial

#movethedial Connect app aims to address mentorship and sponsorship needs where coffee dates fall short

Social movement #movethedial is furthering its mission of advancing female participation in the leadership of technology companies with a professional networking app that will match women with the best mentors and sponsors who can help them in their careers. Launched at the #movethedial Global Summit in Toronto on Wednesday, the app, called #movethedial Connect, allows […]

creative entrepreneurs

3 Tips to unleash the creative entrepreneurs in your community

If you are wondering how to take on the challenges of a shifting global economy, investing in creative industries entrepreneurs tackles economic, civic, and social challenges and is found in every community in every corner of the globe. From Boston to Bangladesh, creative entrepreneurs are building companies at the cutting edge of digital fabrication, augmented […]

Affinity Alliances CRM LinkedIn

Affinity offers AI-based Alliances tool to scan e-mail and calendar data for top sales referrals

Customer relationship management provider Affinity is using artificial intelligence technology to sift through employees’ e-mail and calendar data in hopes of easing the search for “warm” introductions to prospects and customers. San Francisco-based Affinity described Alliances, which was released on Monday, as a tool that will create a “relationship graph” to help those in sales […]

LinkedIn's content marketing approach for B2B

Inside LinkedIn’s content marketing principles for connecting with B2B customers

It may be the world’s de facto social network for B2B professionals, but LinkedIn’s content marketing lead says the company has had to overcome all the same challenges as its customers in creating the right approach to storytelling and engaging an audience. Speaking at Content Marketing World 2018 in Cleveland, Megan Golden said the company […]

LinkedIn Sales Navigator Deals feature

LinkedIn tries to solve one of the oldest CRM challenges by adding Deals feature to Sales Navigator

LinkedIn says the addition of a Deals feature to its Sales Navigator tool will pull pipeline data directly from customer relationship management systems and make it easier to find additional contacts before a potential purchase decision goes awry. The Deals feature was one of several additions to Sales Navigator LinkedIn announced in a blog post […]

Instagram IGTV B2B brands

And one of the first B2B brands to launch on Instagram’s IGTV is . . .

Instagram’s launch of a longform video sharing service called IGTV was marketed primarily to individual “creators” and consumer audiences, but at least one enterprise software company is already using it to educate its target audience. While Instagram started primarily as a photo-sharing service, it has expanded in recent years with Instagram Stories, a simple way […]