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The Secret Weapon of B2B Marketing: How Influencers Drive Growth

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

However, a quiet revolution is happening in the business-to-business (B2B) marketing world, where influencers are reshaping the landscape in new and interesting ways. Today’s B2B buyers are increasingly turning to online platforms and social media to research products, services, and solutions. B2B influence isn’t about that.

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6 Benchmarks from Viewing a Survey of CMO Lenses of B2B Marketing

Sword and the Script

About 34% of respondents identified themselves as employed by B2B product companies, while another 31% said B2B services, so overall about 60% of respondents are senior leaders in B2B marketing organizations. For B2B product companies that number came in at 7.1% and for B2B services it was 10.1%.

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3 Cases Studies of Augmented Reality in B2B Marketing [UML]

Sword and the Script

As the landscape stands today, I tend to be more bullish on augmented reality (AR) than virtual reality (VR) in B2B marketing. This week’s Unscripted Marketing links [UML] reviews three case studies of AR in B2B organizations. A page within the printed report document triggered the experience for investors.”.

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Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report

Sword and the Script

The biggest challenge in B2B lead generation underscores the biggest challenge in B2B lead generation: it might lead some to overlook the fact lead generation campaigns don’t work in isolation for long. That’s my take on some of the data from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B lead gen report. 4) The channels that product B2B leads.

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The Basic Benefits and Drawbacks of Owned, Shared, Earned, and Paid Media

Sword and the Script

Examples: Print news sites, broadcast news, blogs, newsletters and possibly influencer posts. Buy reprints and hand them out at a trade show. General Electric amplified its media coverage by buying all of the print ad inventory in The New York Times to announce its break up and spinoffs. Share in the company Slack.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

This has led to less time for attending press events, trade shows, and covering stories, making B2B PR harder than ever. Almost 60% named print media as one of the most difficult mediums to secure coverage, and 46% said television.”

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How long before virtual reality transforms corporate storytelling?

Communications Conversations

Two weeks ago on the Talking Points Podcast , I lauded a local company (Victory Motorcyles) and agency (space150) that recently killed it with a virtual reality execution at a trade show in Chicago. Storytelling happens in print. I think this video speaks for the impact it had on attendees. Would that have legs?