Marketers, are you always “on”? Joe Staples, CMO at Workfront, and Jennifer Johnson, Senior Marketing Program Manager, Informatica, talked about this problem at MarTech in San Francisco. The fast pace of work is prevalent, which creates some “Horrors of Modern Day Marketing” fit for the big screen. Attack of the Mutating Workload We’re constantly […]
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Employee Retention Strategies That Work
Is your organization facing an employee turnover problem? Do you have an effective employee retention strategy in place to lower the churn rate? Believe it or not, approximately 50% of the global employers do not follow a formal employee retention strategy. It’s true that one of the biggest challenges which the businesses are facing nowadays […]
Preparing Your SEO Plans for 2017 and Beyond
If you haven’t already done so, now is absolutely the time to start getting your digital marketing plans in place for this year, and even into next year. One of the most critical components of any good digital marketing plan is an SEO strategy. SEO is never a set it and forget it concept, because […]
Create Your Startup Marketing Strategy: The Ultimate Guide
Creating a marketing strategy is crucial for your startup, company or organization to address the right message to your buyers/users personas. It’s important to define a marketing strategy for your startup in order to have a marketing plan and be on the right path to success. How do you create your startup marketing strategy? Should […]
B2B Marketing for Tomorrow
Marketo’s Marketing Nation Online conference (#mktgnation) was on Wednesday. There are two things I love about this conference 1) it’s free 2) it’s online. I don’t need to spend hours traveling somewhere, and I can still pick and choose agenda items that mean something to me. It was all about strategy for me, as I […]
14 questions to help develop your B2B content marketing strategy
Content marketing has been all the rage in marketing circles for the last several years, and B2B marketers are wholeheartedly subscribing to that newsletter. More corporate B2B blogs are popping up than ever before, and B2B hashtags are starting to make in-roads on various social media platforms. Yet B2B marketers are still having trouble executing […]
4 important lessons on how B2B firms can use LinkedIn strategically
The social media platform LinkedIn is more than another social media outlet; it is a way for B2B companies to uniquely engage with other businesses in their industry in a professional setting, making it easier to make connections that lead to increased web traffic, leads and quality relationships. What can you learn from inspiring examples of B2B […]
Why your business should focus on content strategy in 2015
Google’s Panda algorithm has changed the game for digital marketers. Where once “SEO” was the buzzword of the day, “content strategy” now reigns supreme. With the recent release of Panda 4.1, content is — or should be — the prime focus of every small and mid-sized business’s marketing efforts in 2015. If you are among […]
Video: The 3 mistakes companies are making in digital right now
In this video, Christopher Vollmer, Managing Director for consulting firm Strategy&’s Digital Services, explains what he sees as the top three missteps that are holding companies back from winning in digital. Vollmer says many companies lack a “clear well-defined strategy,” which can stunt growth and innovation. Also, companies should put the user in the centre of what they […]
The rise of the CMO (SAP CMO series)
The Chief Marketing Officer of 2014 is busier than ever, and cultivating customer loyalty is a top priority. A 2013 poll of 285 marketers revealed that the cost of customer retention is increasing: digital marketers spend nearly as much to keep buyers (45 percent) as they do to gain new ones (55 percent). A 2013 […]