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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script

Yet a new study by Bain and Google brings something new to the conversation. The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. This is true inside and outside of marketing.

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Tips For Killer PR Case Studies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Every PR person knows that strong customer case studies are powerful additions to the B2B PR toolkit. They also work well for sales and marketing. A great case study can actually help move prospects down the sales funnel to the point where they’re ready to buy. Anatomy of a successful customer case study. Tell a story.

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7 takeaways from a study on B2B thought leadership; why it works or doesn’t

Sword and the Script

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Metromile Content Marketing Strategy Increases Owned Media Readership And Drives Measurable Sales

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Traditional PR measurement methods may give us a view into how popular certain content is, but not how it drives engagement, sales or brand reputation in the marketplace. In our Metromile case study you’ll learn: Why owned media is a vital part of the customer journey. Best practices for reporting ROI. COMPLETE FORM TO DOWNLOAD.

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Board members with marketing experience improve shareholder returns by 3% [benchmark]

Sword and the Script

of boards have directors with marketing experience, but 100% have directors with finance experience Companies that have board members with marketing experience outperform companies that do not. That’s the high-level finding of an academic study titled, When and How Does Board-Level Marketing Experience Impact Firm Performance ?

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Strategies for collaborating with marketing

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This week, we’re continuing with our June blog series on Measuring Up To Marketing: How PR Fits Into The Mix. How can marketing and PR jointly contribute to business goals? How can marketing and PR jointly contribute to business goals? Align with marketing strategies and dashboards.

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Contaminated data in siloed campaign measurement threatens brand ROI

Agility PR Solutions

Communicators measuring digital media effectiveness—in silos only—will miss crucial ad exposure data, creating a distorted view of performance insights, or “mutant data,” new research from audience insights platform DISQO reveals. As the loss of identifiers threatens to […].