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Your ‘welcome email’ has the highest open rate and CTR

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28 Nov 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Welcome emails enjoy open rates of 60% or more; for most marketers, this will be your best-performing email ‘campaign’  Anyone who follows me knows I harp on businesses to build their own list of subscribers. From where I sit, if...
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Financial analysts say marketing is an investment, not a cost

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21 Nov 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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90% of financial analysts surveyed think marketing spend should be CapEx rather than OpEx Moving marketing off the income statement would instantly make businesses look more profitable – and then companies would think differently about marketing because it’s literally an...
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How to solve the top content creation challenges in B2B content marketing

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14 Nov 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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The top problem in content creation probably comes from the fact that too many B2B marketers haven’t had a single conversation with a customer Most B2B marketers (57%) say creating the right content for their audience is their top content...
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Trust issues: the one reason buyers give B2B content a letter grade of “D”

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10 Oct 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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71% of B2B marketing prospects are disappointed in the content they’ve traded their contact information to obtain at least some of the time, which leads to trust issues B2B marketing can hit the right target with the right message and...
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Audience identification is the essential first step for all marketing and communications

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19 Sep 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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The first step in any effective marketing or communications program is audience identification. Audience identification is the process of understanding an audience – their hopes, fears, motivations, influences, questions, problems and aspirations and the language they use to express all...
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The type of content B2B buyers say helps vendors win deals [study]

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15 Aug 2023
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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B2B buyers say they want quality content that demonstrates you understand their industry, and their company and helps them to build a business case to buy your tech product One of the reasons content marketing is so important to B2B...
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Survey Says Successful Bloggers Do these 5 Things Differently

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06 Dec 2022
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Successful bloggers invest more time in writing, write longer posts (1,000+ words), publish new blog posts more frequently, cite third parties, and use images and visuals “When I pulled up our data, I had one big takeaway:  we put too...
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It’s the Subscribed Audience! B2B Marketers are Missing the Point of Content Marketing

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29 Nov 2022
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3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by...
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B2B Content Amplification in 2023: A Sure Way to Get More out of Marketing’s Investment in Content 

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15 Nov 2022
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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75% of marketers say they don’t spend enough time on B2B content amplification because they don’t have time (77%) – they are too busy making more content they also won’t have time to amplify If you’ve been in marketing for...
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Better Ways to Spend a Little Slice of the B2B Marketing Budget Designated for Display Ads

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27 Sep 2022
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B2B marketing should take a little slice of the display ad budget and invest in media relations, genuine content marketing (not marketing content) and paid distribution of related assets from both  Numbers like these from eMarketer make my head explode:...
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