B2B Sales and Marketing Digest

June 28th, 2021 at 00:03 am by Chris Herbert

The B2B Sales and Marketing Digest is a list of articles and posts that got our attention, that we’ve read and annotated. Check out our Tech Digest as well.

UPDATED: Jun 28/21 | NOTE: If link to article is taking too long to load, you’ll see a blue PAC man eating dots, just refresh your browser. – Chris

2021

On summer/fall break. Digest will resume Nov 2021.

Week of Jun 13

Content Teardown: From Unpublished to #1 in 7 Weeks | Growth Content
You’re a Marketer. So Why Isn’t Your Own Brand Distinctive? |Egon Zehnder

Week of Jun 6

Revenue as a Product. RevOps as a Movement | LinkedIn
Priya Parker on Rethinking How and Why We Gather | Eventbrite

Week of May 30

There Are Four Kinds of Keyword Research; Make Sure You’re Doing the Right One(s) | SparkToro
Here’s Where Marketing Leaders Are Focused Today | CMS Wire

Week of May 23

CMO Tenure Keeps Dropping, At Lowest Point Since 2009 | Marketing Charts
Case Study: Why You Should Update Content – Or Risk Traffic | Single Grain

Week of May 16

The “Marketing is Evil” Problem | SparkToro
The True Impact of Social Analytics on B2B Funnels | Hubspot

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Week of May 9

Newslettering vs. Blogging Strategy | CRM Buyer
What’s a Good Landing Page Conversion Rate? | Marketing Charts

Week of May 2

What Drives Brand Affinity for B2B Companies? | Marketing Charts
What B2B Buyers Say Sellers Can Do to Influence Their Purchase Decisions | Marketing Charts

Week of Apr 25

CHECK OUT: The 4 Stages of Empathy. A Marketer’s Perspective

What B2B Sales Enablement “Visionaries” Are Doing: 7 Points | Marketing Charts
How Can B2B Marketers Use Thought Leadership to Build Relationships with Client Executives? | ITSMA (annotations don’t display)

Week of Apr 18

Google Page Experience Algorithm Update Launching in Mid-June | Search Engine Journal
How to Use Low Search Volume Keywords to Optimize B2B Tech Content | Moz

Week of Apr 11

Why P2P Marketing Might Be a Good Alternative to Influencer Marketing | Hubspot
5 ways to improve your Core Web Vitals | Yoast

Week of Apr 4

What Are Marketing Leadership’s Biggest Gaps? | Marketing Charts
Marketing Effectively at Scale Starts on Day One | Georgian

Week of Mar 28

How Much Should Your Marketing Team Budget for 2021? [By Industry] | Hubspot
Gen Xers Turn to Search for Product Research, Brand Discovery | Marketing Charts

Week of Mar 21

What Consumers Want to See on Company Websites [New Data] | Hubspot
CMOs Recognize Benefits of Digital Marketing During the Pandemic | Marketing Charts

Week of Mar 14

How To Use Hashtags on LinkedIn [Step-by-Step Guide] | Hubspot
Look This Way: 9 Visual Content Options to Consider | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Mar 7

The History of Sales – Told 101 Years Ago | Todd Caponi
Marketing Personas Are Almost Always a Boondoggle (but they don’t have to be) | SparkToro

Week of Feb 28

Fewer Than Half of B2B SMBs Report Shared KPIs for Marketing and Sales | Marketing Charts
A Framework for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Success on LinkedIn | LinkedIn

Week of Feb 21

The Paradox of Content Marketing to Beginners vs. Experts | SparkToro
In Engagement Shift, Friday Proves Top Day for Email Response Rates in 2020 | Marketing Charts

Week of Feb 14

Tech vendors must show they’re a strategic partner in the Age of Agility | LinkedIn
What’s in CMOs’ Growth Plans This Year? | Marketing Charts

Week of Feb 7

The Science Of Brand | LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
B2B Marketers Keep the Focus on Revenue in 2021 | Marketing Charts

Week of Jan 31

Majority of B2B advertising is ‘ineffective’ | Marketing Week
Here’s How CMOs Can Help Jumpstart Growth in 2021 | CMS Wire

Week of Jan 24

Humanizing B2B Marketing | LinkedIn
B2B Marketers Claim Higher ROI from ABM | Marketing Charts

Week of Jan 17

The B2B Exhibition Industry Remained Grounded in Q3 | Marketing Charts
A New Breed of B2B Decision-Makers? | Marketing Charts

Week of Jan 10

10 tips to improve the quality of your page | Yoast
How to Get Ranked and Read With a Topic Cluster Model | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Jan 3

B2B Video ROI Reportedly Improving; Use in Sales Conversations Climbs | Marketing Charts
25 Stats That Make the Case for Infographics in Your Marketing | Hubpsot

2020

Week of Dec 21

Manufacturing Content Marketers Turn to Video | Marketing Charts
Connecting the dots: Reflections on the Canadian Digital Marketing Pulse Survey | CMA

Week of Dec 14

Demystifying the Martech Stack, Part 1: The Evaluation Process | CMA
One-Third of B2B Tech Marketers Say They’ll Meet Their Original KPIs This Year | Marketing Charts

Week of Dec 7

What’s the State of the Marketing-IT Relationship? | Marketing Charts
Removing Gatekeepers From Your Marketing | Hubspot

Week of Nov 30

Here’s What B2B Marketers Using ABM Say They’re Getting for Their Efforts | Marketing Charts
Interactive Infographics: A Picture of the Premise, Tools, & Process | Hubspot

Week of Nov 23

How to Convince Your Company’s Brain Trust to Collaborate on Content | Content Marketing Institute
I Blogged Every Night for a Week. It Went Terribly | SparkToro

Week of Nov 16

Executing A B2B Integrated Marketing Strategy: Who and What’s Involved? | Marketing Charts
These eight charts show how COVID-19 has changed B2B sales forever | McKinsey & Company

Week of Nov 9

B2B Content Marketers Getting More Successful in Building Credibility | Marketing Charts
Subject Matter Expertise A Growing Factor for B2B Buyers When Evaluating Vendors | Marketing Charts

Week of Nov 2

6 SEO KPIs Every Search Marketer Should Know | Hubspot
Value Drives B2B Content Success, Even As Pandemic Forces Changes | Marketing Charts

Week of Oct 26

What’s Up in 2021 for Content Marketing? | Content Marketing Institute
Value Drives B2B Content Success, Even As Pandemic Forces Changes | Marketing Charts

Week of Oct 19

The 4 Key Signs Your Marketing and Sales Teams Aren’t Aligned | Hubspot
Why Circular Thinking Works Better in Content Marketing | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Oct 12

What Impact Has COVID-19 Had on Digital Marketing Transformation? | Marketing Charts
Why Hasn’t CRM Taken Over the World? | CRM Buyer

Week of Oct 5

How B2B Demand Generation Has Adapted in 2020 | Marketing Charts
To recover from COVID-19, we need to make friends with CFOs. Stat. | Canadian Marketing Association

Week of Sep 28

US B2B Trade Show Market Not Forecast to Recover For Years | Marketing Charts
Does Social-Media Activism Really Work? | Time

Week of Sep 21

20 Stats That Make the Case for Co-Marketing in 2020 | Hubspot
These Content Marketing Rules Are Made to Be Broken | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Sep 14

15 Key Performance Indicators to Help Improve Your Marketing | Hubspot
Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine to compete against Google Search | Coywolf News

Week of Sep 7

How Many Target Accounts Do Reps Handle in ABM Programs? | Marketing Charts
How to Build Community-Centric Virtual Events, According to Moz’s CMO | Hubspot

Week of Aug 31

Re-imagining marketing in the next normal | McKinsey
B2B Marketers Turn to Digital Advertising in Greater Numbers | Marketing Charts

Week of Aug 24

The New Rules of Marketing [2020 Edition] | Hubspot
Do AR Product Previews Actually Lead to Purchases [New Research] | Hubspot

Week of Aug 17

These Are the Lead Magnets SMBs Say Convert Best | Marketing Charts
Building a marketing career in disruptive technology: What does it take? | IT World Canada

Week of Aug 10

B2B trade shows get a digital remake | Digital Commerce 360
B2B Buyers’ Engagement With Digital Content Has Grown During the Pandemic, With Some Behavior Changes | Marketing Charts

Week of Aug 3

Upstream vs. Downstream Marketing, Explained | Hubspot
What Types of Content Generate Leads That Convert? | Marketing Charts

Week of Jul 27

Half of Marketers and Advertisers Think All Future Live Events Will Have a Virtual Dimension | Marketing Charts
Six tips for building a successful martech investment pitch | Canadian Marketing Association

Week of Jul 20

What Do B2B Buyers Want from Inside Sales? | Marketing Charts
The 5 Most Popular Content Analytics Articles on CMI | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Jul 13

Are You Ready for Remote Selling? | Karen Kelly, Sales Performance Consultant
3 in 5 CMOs Agree That Marketing Has Increased in Importance During COVID-19 | Marketing Charts

Week of Jul 6

5 Big Obstacles Encountered by B2B Content Marketers | Content Marketing Institute
SAP CEO says outsourcing event platform ‘not the best decision’ after Sapphire technical glitches | Channel Daily News

Week of Jun 29

IDG Acquires Triblio | IDG
Forrester’s Lisa Riley Shares Her Perspective On The Future Of Events In B2B | DemandGen Report

Week of Jun 22

B2B Buyers Value These Traits in Salespeople | Marketing Charts
Which Marketing Responsibilities Will Be More Important in 5 Years’ Time? | Marketing Charts

Week of Jun 15

Marketers and Salespeople Confident in ABM As the Right Strategy, but Struggle to Execute Programs at Scale | Marketing Charts
No Need to Survey, You Already Have Data for Great Storytelling [Examples] | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Jun 8

4 in 10 People Say They See Too Much Branded Influencer Content on Social Media | Marketing Charts
Fueling the Future of Business | Gartner

Week of Jun 1

Page experience: a new Google ranking factor | Yoast
Does Your B2B Content Target an Active Audience? | Marketing Charts

Week of May 25

The next phase of partner marketing | Cisco Blogs
Introducing the State of Sales 2020 | LinkedIn

Week of May 18

Marketers at B2B Firms Tout the Value of Social Media | Marketing Charts
8 Things to Help Your Content Marketing Survive the Pandemic | Content Marketing Institute

Week of May 11

How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation | Visual Capitalist
Where should brands go next? Your brand should go everywhere | Canadian Marketing Association

Week of May 4

This Week’s Big Deal: What Buyers Want Right Now | LinkedIn
B2B Sales Impact of Coronavirus [Infographic] | Business 2 Community

Week of Apr 27

Does Social Media Help SEO? | LeadG2
Marketing during the pandemic: Insights from the CMA B2B Council | Canadian Marketing Association

Week of Apr 20

3 Reasons to Update Your Marketing Strategy | Center for Sales Strategy
How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Apr 13

B2B Buyers Rely on Vendor Websites for Content | Marketing Charts
Content Marketing Can Do More Than Survive in the New World | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Apr 6

7 Steps to Create a Helpful Interim Content Marketing Strategy | Content Marketing Institute
How to Create a Persuasive About Us Page that Converts [Examples] | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Mar 30

The Next Chapter of Meetup | Meetup Blog
Statistics to Prove B2B Sales Can Benefit from Social Selling | The Center for Sales Strategy

Week of Mar 23

The New and Future Reality of Virtual Events [The Weekly Wrap] | Content Marketing Institute
PE Firms Scramble to Organize Virtual Annual Meetings as Virus Spreads (free subscription required) | Buyouts

Week of Mar 16

Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web | Google Webmaster Central Blog
Marketers Say They’re More Interested in Working with Micro-Influencers Than Celebrities | Marketing Charts

Week of Mar 9

Industries Face Declines in Trust | Marketing Charts
How Social Selling Changed the Buyer’s Journey | Social Media Marketing

Week of Mar 2

More Than Half of US Marketers Forecast to Use LinkedIn Next Year | Marketing Charts
Want More Business? Narrow Content Focus to Targeted Accounts | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Feb 24

4 Easy Ways To Shorten Your B2B Sales Cycle In 2020 | Forbes
What is An Attribution Model in Marketing? Explained for Beginners | Digital Ashva

Week of Feb 17

Keep These Five Tips In Mind When Growing Your Business Through Collaboration | Forbes
4 Content Marketing Goals That Really Matter to the Business | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Feb 10

How to Create a Strategic Social Media Plan [Template] | Content Marketing Institute
How High-Growth B2B Companies Get the Most Out of Sales Coaching | Marketing Charts

Week of Feb 3

Here Are Some E-Commerce Traffic Source and Conversion Rate Stats | Marketing Charts
Communications Pros Struggle With Tightening Budgets, Measurement | Marketing Charts

Week of Jan 27

The Inbound Sales Matrix: What It Is and What It Can Do for You | Hubspot
How to Get Valuable External Content Sources | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Jan 20

Week of Jan 13

Influencer marketing rules – a primer on what you should know | Canadian Marketing Association
9 Sales Leadership Qualities to Look for in Top Performers | The Center for Sales Strategy

Week of Jan 6

How Are Marketers Using Salesforce? | Marketing Charts
How Are Direct to Consumer (D2C) Brands Reaching Customers? | Marketing Charts

2019

Week of Dec 30

Driving Marketing Impact: The Essential Framework to Get You There | Gartner
Are Marketers Actually Measuring ROI? | Marketing Charts

Week of Dec 23

Marketers Tout SEO’s Effectiveness As They Look to Drive Leads, Customer Acquisition | MarketingCharts
Are Marketers Actually Measuring ROI? | MarketingCharts

Week of Dec 16

How to Crush Perceptions and Build Trust with Prospects | The Center for Sales Strategy
Are Marketers Satisfied With Social Media for Lead Generation? | Marketing Charts

Week of Dec 9

Which Advertising Objectives Lead to Which Outcomes on LinkedIn? (Oct 2019) | LinkedIn
What Do B2B Buyers Want From Sellers, and Why Do They Go Elsewhere? | MarketingCharts

Week of Dec 2

Is Community Becoming The Key Differentiator Amongst The VC Firms | Inc42
2019 Media Sales Report – How to Book More First-Time Appointments with Prospects | The Centre for Sales Strategy

Week of Nov 25

4 Big 2020 Sales Enablement Predictions | CRMBuyer
The B2B Marketing Strategy Guide for 2020 | bloomreach

Week of Nov 18

Building Trust through Thought Leadership | LinkedIn
The Most Useful B2B Buyer Behavior Insights Differ Between Marketing and Sales | MarketingCharts

Week of Nov 11

Customer Engagement Strategies to Try in 2019-2020 | Nimble
Channel Broadcast News to Better Your Content Marketing | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Nov 4

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Week of Oct 28

Google digs into deeper meanings of searches | The Associated Press
CMOs and the C-Suite | Marketing Charts

Week of Oct 21

2020 B2B Content Marketing: What the Successful Do [New Research] | Content Marketing Institute
Five Focal Points For B2Bs In Digital Transformation | Adobe

Week of Oct 14

B2B Decision-Makers Point to Areas for E-Commerce Improvement | Marketing Charts
Marketers Are Looking At Retention and Satisfaction Rates to Determine CX Success | Marketing Charts

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Week of Oct 7

Marketing and PR Alignment Is a Major Boon for B2B Marketers | ANA
Get the Audience Greenlight: A Lesson From a 19th Century Nurse | Content Marketing Institute

Week of Sep 22

How B2B Brands Can Better Monetize LinkedIn| John Obrecht, ANA
How Are Marketers Improving Lead Gen Quality? | Marketing Charts

Week of Sep 15

Marketing Accounts for Larger Portion of Firm Spend: 4 Notes About Budgets | Marketing Charts
How to Develop a Content Strategy: Start With These 3 Questions | Jodi Harris, Content Marketing Institute

Week of Sep 8

From one war to another – how front-end developers are about to become the most highly prized assets in a marketing team | Sonja Kotrotsos, Customer Think
Agencies Report Success in Achieving Clients’ Content Marketing Goals | Marketing Charts
How Are Businesses Going About Retaining Their Customers? | Marketing Charts

Week of Sep 1

2019 B2B Content Marketing Research: It Pays to Put Audience First (Fall 2018 post) | Lisa Murton Beets, Content Marketing Institute
Here’s What Digital Marketers Are Focusing On in the Coming Months | Marketing Charts

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Week of Aug 25

Canadian Growth Hackers: Shopify’s Amy Martion on marchitecture and building growth teams | Vitaly Pecherskiy (co-founding and running StackAdapt), BetaKit

Week of Aug 18

Which Tactics Do Marketers Consider Effective At Different Stages of the Funnel? | Marketing Charts
How Have B2B Purchase Processes Changed? | Marketing Charts

Week of Aug 11

B2B Buyers Seem to Be Engaging Sales Reps Earlier in the Process: 3 Tips for Vendors | Marketing Charts
CMOs held up by short-term thinking: study | David Brown, The Message

Week of Aug 4

Want to Scale Your Content Marketing? Get the Employees Involved | Michael Brenner, Content Marketing Institute
Key Reasons Salespeople Use CRM: Productivity and Organization | Marketing Charts

Week of Jul 28

The US B2B Trade Show Market Continues to Grow | Marketing Charts
Can IT Tear Down The Wall Between B2B And B2C Marketing? | David Rand, CMO.com
7 Social Media Metrics That Should Really Matter to Your Brand | Martin Ochwat, Content Marketing Institute

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Week of Jul 21

B2B Tech Marketers Get Results With In-Person Events | Marketing Charts
The Growing Relationship Between Martech & Blockchain | Joaquim Miro, CMO and Founding Partner at MLG Blockchain, Canadian Marketing Association, CMA
Americans Are Turning to Reputable Sources For Their News | Marketing Charts

Week of Jul 14

Some B2B Marketing Processes Have Room For Improvement | Marketing Charts
Brand Trust Is Becoming More Important: Here Are Some Key Stats And Themes | Marketing Charts

Week of Jun 30

Marketers Believe Research and Case Studies Are Their Target Audiences’ Most Trusted Content | Marketing Charts
Five Points About Podcast Advertising | Marketing Charts

Week of Jun 23

The B2B marketing growth formula – from Mark Ritson, Les Binet and Peter Field | Ngaire Moyes, LinkedIn
Here’s A Look At B2B Marketers’ Most Desired Metrics | Marketing Charts
Is Your B2B Content Targeting the Wrong Job Level? | Marketing Charts

Week of Jun 16

To get real value from ABM, don’t miss this crucial first step | Margaret Franco, Senior VP of Marketing EMEA, Dell, LinkedIn
What Metrics Are ABM Marketers Using to Measure Success? | Demand Gen/Marketing Charts
How U.S. Marketers Are Losing The Influencer Battle | Kimberley A. Whitler, Forbes.com

Week of Jun 9

Enterprise Companies Need Improvement Making Changes From Voice of Customer (VoC) Programs | Qualtrics/Marketing Charts
The Rise Of The Transformational CMO: Forbes’ Chief Insights Officer Provides Perspective (2016) | Kimberley A. Whitler, Forbes.com
3 in 4 Marketing Execs Expect CMOs to Be More Prevalent On Boards | Spencer Stuart/Marketing Charts

Week of Jun 2

Forget Luck. Become A Connector And Create Your Own | Darrah Brustein, Forbes

Week of May 26

How Can Marketers Decrease Wasteful Spending? | Marketing Charts
We See Salespeople as Essential Partners to Buyers. So Do Our New Real Faces of Sales. | Keith Browning, LinkedIn

Week of May 19

Building A Data Dashboard? Here Are Some Questions to Ask First. | Marketing Charts
We Asked 10 Sales Influencers about How Sales Technology is Changing the Buying Process | Sean Callahan, LinkedIn

Week of May 12

Reported Google browser change could be final death blow to cookies | Greg Sterling, Marketing Land
The Age of Continuous Connection | Nicolaj Siggelkow/Christian Terwiesch, Harvard Business Review
Marketing, IT Unite In The Name Of Content | Debbie Elkind, CMO.com

Week of May 5

How to write an effective email to people who receive a tons of emails | Mark Suster, Twitter
Strategic Content Marketers Use More Development Aids | Content Marketing Institute/Marketing Charts
GET TO KNOW…Mark Phibbs, Vice President of Marketing- Asia-Pacific and Japan, Cisco | CMO Council
Marketers Gain Benefits From Personalization, but Rate Performance Poorly | Evergage/Marketing Charts

Week of Apr 28

Marketers Gain Benefits From Personalization, but Rate Performance Poorly | Marketing Charts
For B2B Buyers, Vendor Transparency Makes Purchasing Easier and Faster | Marketing Charts

Week of Apr 21

What Do “Pioneer CMOs” Do Differently to Their Peers? | Accenture, Marketing Charts
Which Types of B2B Influencer Content Do Buyers Find Valuable? | Marketing Charts
Reach vs. Relationships | Scott Ingram, LinkedIn

Week of Apr 14

B2B Buyers Want More Data and Research in Vendor Content | Marketing Charts
Most Pressing Topics for CMOs

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— Chris Herbert (@B2Bspecialist) April 19, 2019