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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script

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. Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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High-Performing Marketers Do these 9 Subtle Details Differently according to a Salesforce Survey

Sword and the Script

High-performing marketers are more likely to lead CX, partner with IT and automate marketing attribution – among other important details. Salesforce recently published its seventh annual State of Marketing report – based on a survey of 8,227 marketers around the world. click image for higher resolution).

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Publishers seek compensation and attribution from AI training data - AMEC survey

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As the race to license content to LLMs heats up, two issues have emerged: compensation for content used as training data attribution to source material when content is returned within results These same issues have been played out in the media monitoring market for more than 20 years.

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PR measurement. PR measurement. PR measurement. The 10 Most Common Ways Comms Pros are Measuring PR

Sword and the Script

About half of comms pros say they track web traffic, impression and placements for PR measurement, but such metrics point out the direction of success rather than conclusive . Commetric came out this week with its “ PR Measurement Twitter Influencer Index.” PR measurement. PR measurement.”. PR is a broad discipline.

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Survey: Most B2B Marketing Writers Aren’t in Direct Contact with Customers

Sword and the Script

If B2B marketing writers aren’t in direct contact with customers in developing content, you are probably just making it all up. And most B2B marketing writers are indeed making it up. That’s my take on a survey by Typeset and Mantis Research. If sales and marketing are to align – it’s best to align around the customer.

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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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The Volume and Variety of Communications Work is Shifting, Finds 5th Annual Survey of Comms Pros

Sword and the Script

The volume of comms work has grown and changed, according to the 482 respondents to the fifth annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey, which is being released today. We were joined in fielding and analyzing the survey this year by five contributors including: Gini Dietrich , Founder & CEO, Spin Sucks. Comms budgets are up.

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