Welcome to the 7th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North
America report. We’ve made quite a few changes to our annual survey this year to reflect the
maturing content marketing industry.
This year’s research paints a brighter picture than the last few years, indicating that content
marketing is alive and well! Content marketers are on track—with 62% reporting that their
organizations are much more or somewhat more successful with their overall content marketing
approach compared with one year ago.
Like last year, those who are further along with their approach are the most successful, while
the vast majority of the least successful are in the young/early phases of content marketing.
With time, a documented strategy, creativity, meaningful goals and metrics, a willingness to
experiment, and perhaps most importantly, a commitment to content marketing, those
marketers will succeed.
Please watch for continuing editorial coverage of our research findings throughout 2017.
We hope you will find the insights useful as you prepare for the year ahead
Helping companies do better business with the right content by @JGCommunicationJGCommunication
This is Pontus Staunstrup's presentation at Content Strategy Forum 2013 in Helsinki. Pontus has added in comments on the slides to clarify what they're about.
Walt Boyes presents a totally revised and updated version of PR101, his very popular Marketing Communications Master Class.
This webinar is for both newbies to marketing communications (product managers, sales managers and engineers who have been "promoted" into marketing) and those who have been doing marcomm in the automation industry for a while.
This webinar is specific to the automation industry and discusses:
- Marketing "bang for the buck"
- Integrated marketing
- Public relations in the automation industry
- How to place a press release
- Product releases and news releases
- Relationship building with editors, influencers, and thought leaders
- Social Media: Inbound and outbound marketing -- a cascade control loop
- Metrics and measuring results
Walt has more than 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, and product development in the automation industry, including Executive Committee experience and board of directors service in both for-profit and not-for-profit companies.
Walt is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of CONTROL magazine, http://www.controlglobal.com. In addition, he is a principal in Spitzer and Boyes LLC,
http://www.spitzerandboyes.com, a technology consulting firm devoted to assisting companies to better market their products in manufacturing and automation. Walt also acts as a freelance acquisitions editor for Momentum Press, a division of iGroup, on Instrumentation and Automation texts. Walt has published professionally in the technology and science fiction fields, and is a member of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Welcome to the 7th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North
America report. We’ve made quite a few changes to our annual survey this year to reflect the
maturing content marketing industry.
This year’s research paints a brighter picture than the last few years, indicating that content
marketing is alive and well! Content marketers are on track—with 62% reporting that their
organizations are much more or somewhat more successful with their overall content marketing
approach compared with one year ago.
Like last year, those who are further along with their approach are the most successful, while
the vast majority of the least successful are in the young/early phases of content marketing.
With time, a documented strategy, creativity, meaningful goals and metrics, a willingness to
experiment, and perhaps most importantly, a commitment to content marketing, those
marketers will succeed.
Please watch for continuing editorial coverage of our research findings throughout 2017.
We hope you will find the insights useful as you prepare for the year ahead
Helping companies do better business with the right content by @JGCommunicationJGCommunication
This is Pontus Staunstrup's presentation at Content Strategy Forum 2013 in Helsinki. Pontus has added in comments on the slides to clarify what they're about.
Walt Boyes presents a totally revised and updated version of PR101, his very popular Marketing Communications Master Class.
This webinar is for both newbies to marketing communications (product managers, sales managers and engineers who have been "promoted" into marketing) and those who have been doing marcomm in the automation industry for a while.
This webinar is specific to the automation industry and discusses:
- Marketing "bang for the buck"
- Integrated marketing
- Public relations in the automation industry
- How to place a press release
- Product releases and news releases
- Relationship building with editors, influencers, and thought leaders
- Social Media: Inbound and outbound marketing -- a cascade control loop
- Metrics and measuring results
Walt has more than 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, and product development in the automation industry, including Executive Committee experience and board of directors service in both for-profit and not-for-profit companies.
Walt is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of CONTROL magazine, http://www.controlglobal.com. In addition, he is a principal in Spitzer and Boyes LLC,
http://www.spitzerandboyes.com, a technology consulting firm devoted to assisting companies to better market their products in manufacturing and automation. Walt also acts as a freelance acquisitions editor for Momentum Press, a division of iGroup, on Instrumentation and Automation texts. Walt has published professionally in the technology and science fiction fields, and is a member of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Content Marketing for Healthcare [WEBINAR]Geonetric
The key to a successful content marketing strategy? Stop talking about your organization and start talking about what your audience wants to hear. Content marketing is about creating valuable material that builds your brand in the marketplace. Learn how to develop a content marketing program. We’ll discuss the basics of content marketing, showcase healthcare examples, and highlight how to use it to develop real relationships with your audience.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Establish a content marketing program
Use content marketing in a healthcare environment to build service line volume
Create content that is truly valuable and gets shared
Go beyond social media as a content marketing strategy
Watch the webinar with audio: http://www.geonetric.com/resources/webinars/2013/content-marketing/
Here is a very basic Inside Sales Playbook I wrote a couple of years ago for a client which uses the C.H.A.M.P. sales qualification framework instead of the outdated B.A.N.T framework.
Content marketing isn’t a new strategy for the finance industry. For many financial institutions, the value of content marketing is the same today as it was 130 years ago: It strengthens relationships with prospects and customers by building trust. But what, specifically, are financial institutions doing when it comes to content marketing — and, more importantly, what do they need to be doing to evolve and stand out? This industry has its own unique considerations, as well, such as the fact it operates in a heavily regulated industry and its customers can no longer be categorized as being interested in only business finance or only personal finance. This white paper provides an overview of the current state of content marketing in the finance industry and explores key examples that can show you ways to evolve your own program.
Performance Marketing is evolving into a multi-channel discipline. Advertisers and media partners need more advanced tracking and reporting to ensure the efficiency and performance of their campaigns and Users/Customers.
Let customer insight guide your bank's content marketing strategySounds About Write
While many banks and financial institutions continue to turn to content marketing to engage their prospective buyers and customers, the reality is the overwhelming majority are struggling to achieve success.
View highlights from the 2015 American Pantry Study, which tracks consumer shopping patterns based on input from 4,013 survey respondents.
To access results of the survey, please visit: http://deloi.tt/2flmABk
Customer Journey Maps and Buyer PersonasGoodbuzz Inc.
Today’s buyers have more ways to interact with businesses than ever, but this increase in communication channels and platforms doesn’t necessarily translate to a positive customer experience: Only 22 percent of consumers say the average retailer understands them as an individual, and only 21 percent say the communications they receive from the average retailer are “usually relevant.”
Today’s always-on, digitally aware consumers have unprecedented access, choice, buying power brought on by mobile devices, social networks, and digital media. The path-to-purchase is not linear - it’s complex, irrational, and subject to bias. Mobile connectivity has fractured the consumer journey into hundreds of real-time, intent driven micro-moments. Join us as we explore the Modern Consumer Decision Journey, expose the stage-by-stage multitudes of influences that impact how consumers experience today’s real-time decision journey and uncover the many “whys” surrounding choice and behavior. http://info.signals-analytics.com/consumer-journey-introduction
Creating loyal omnichannel customers is critical. Retailers who embrace the customer-centric trend and build better shopping experiences will leap ahead of the competition.
Building a blended customer experience isn't easy. Need some help getting started? Check out our latest in retail trend research.
How Online Customer Communities will reshape your Business - InSites & HeinzMerlien Institute
Presented by Tom De Ruyck, Head of Research Communities, Insites Consulting
& Joella Marsman, Consumer Insights Manager, HJ Heinz
at Qualitative360 Asia 2013
19-21 November 2013, Singapore
This event is proudly organised by Merlien Institute
Check out our upcoming events by visiting http://qual360.com/
Gareth Kay, Chief Strategy Officer at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity," the VCU Brandcenter's executive education program for account planning on July 18th, 2013 at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond.
The marketing plan depends on the stage of your business, the marketing budget and the team as a whole. Here are a couple of notes about creating a marketing plan that come from my medium post, "Creating a Marketing Plan" https://medium.com/@staceyferreira/creating-a-marketing-plan-e0869ca454a2
IPA Eff Fest: Phil Barden, Decode Marketing The_IPA
Presentation given by Phil Barden of Decode Marketing at the IPA's Eff Festival - a one day conference challenging conventional thinking on the value of creativity.
Content Marketing for Healthcare [WEBINAR]Geonetric
The key to a successful content marketing strategy? Stop talking about your organization and start talking about what your audience wants to hear. Content marketing is about creating valuable material that builds your brand in the marketplace. Learn how to develop a content marketing program. We’ll discuss the basics of content marketing, showcase healthcare examples, and highlight how to use it to develop real relationships with your audience.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Establish a content marketing program
Use content marketing in a healthcare environment to build service line volume
Create content that is truly valuable and gets shared
Go beyond social media as a content marketing strategy
Watch the webinar with audio: http://www.geonetric.com/resources/webinars/2013/content-marketing/
Here is a very basic Inside Sales Playbook I wrote a couple of years ago for a client which uses the C.H.A.M.P. sales qualification framework instead of the outdated B.A.N.T framework.
Content marketing isn’t a new strategy for the finance industry. For many financial institutions, the value of content marketing is the same today as it was 130 years ago: It strengthens relationships with prospects and customers by building trust. But what, specifically, are financial institutions doing when it comes to content marketing — and, more importantly, what do they need to be doing to evolve and stand out? This industry has its own unique considerations, as well, such as the fact it operates in a heavily regulated industry and its customers can no longer be categorized as being interested in only business finance or only personal finance. This white paper provides an overview of the current state of content marketing in the finance industry and explores key examples that can show you ways to evolve your own program.
Performance Marketing is evolving into a multi-channel discipline. Advertisers and media partners need more advanced tracking and reporting to ensure the efficiency and performance of their campaigns and Users/Customers.
Let customer insight guide your bank's content marketing strategySounds About Write
While many banks and financial institutions continue to turn to content marketing to engage their prospective buyers and customers, the reality is the overwhelming majority are struggling to achieve success.
View highlights from the 2015 American Pantry Study, which tracks consumer shopping patterns based on input from 4,013 survey respondents.
To access results of the survey, please visit: http://deloi.tt/2flmABk
Customer Journey Maps and Buyer PersonasGoodbuzz Inc.
Today’s buyers have more ways to interact with businesses than ever, but this increase in communication channels and platforms doesn’t necessarily translate to a positive customer experience: Only 22 percent of consumers say the average retailer understands them as an individual, and only 21 percent say the communications they receive from the average retailer are “usually relevant.”
Today’s always-on, digitally aware consumers have unprecedented access, choice, buying power brought on by mobile devices, social networks, and digital media. The path-to-purchase is not linear - it’s complex, irrational, and subject to bias. Mobile connectivity has fractured the consumer journey into hundreds of real-time, intent driven micro-moments. Join us as we explore the Modern Consumer Decision Journey, expose the stage-by-stage multitudes of influences that impact how consumers experience today’s real-time decision journey and uncover the many “whys” surrounding choice and behavior. http://info.signals-analytics.com/consumer-journey-introduction
Creating loyal omnichannel customers is critical. Retailers who embrace the customer-centric trend and build better shopping experiences will leap ahead of the competition.
Building a blended customer experience isn't easy. Need some help getting started? Check out our latest in retail trend research.
How Online Customer Communities will reshape your Business - InSites & HeinzMerlien Institute
Presented by Tom De Ruyck, Head of Research Communities, Insites Consulting
& Joella Marsman, Consumer Insights Manager, HJ Heinz
at Qualitative360 Asia 2013
19-21 November 2013, Singapore
This event is proudly organised by Merlien Institute
Check out our upcoming events by visiting http://qual360.com/
Gareth Kay, Chief Strategy Officer at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity," the VCU Brandcenter's executive education program for account planning on July 18th, 2013 at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond.
The marketing plan depends on the stage of your business, the marketing budget and the team as a whole. Here are a couple of notes about creating a marketing plan that come from my medium post, "Creating a Marketing Plan" https://medium.com/@staceyferreira/creating-a-marketing-plan-e0869ca454a2
IPA Eff Fest: Phil Barden, Decode Marketing The_IPA
Presentation given by Phil Barden of Decode Marketing at the IPA's Eff Festival - a one day conference challenging conventional thinking on the value of creativity.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Presentation at The Decatur-Morgan County Entrepreneurial Center to teach small business owners and entrepreneurs how to use market research to define a brand, prioritize marketing efforts, and grow business.
7 ways small businesses can use data to boost their business growthAtheethBelagode
Data For Business Growth
Hello all. In this article, I will be explaining to you all about how small businesses can use data to boost their business growth. I hope to give you a lot of insights and get all your queries solved.
Analytics and data play an important role in all businesses. I have never been a fan of metrics since childhood and always loved reading subjects that did not involve numbers. However, with time as I got into marketing and advertising, I realized the importance that data and analysis hold in every aspect of our lives.
Building Your Online Strategy
Yean Cheong, eMitch, is a true integrated marketer with the ability to develop digital strategies in synergy with other media, delivering optimal through-the-line results to clients. Yean is currently the Digital Strategy Director at Mitchell Communications Group - Australia's largest media company.
I gave this presentation on February 16, 2016, at the Decatur Morgan County Entrepreneurial Center. It covers market analysis competitive analysis, the importance of target markets, pricing strategies, and positioning in the marketplace.
Do you have what it takes to be America’s Next Top Multifamily Marketer? In today’s competitive environment, it takes a fierce marketing strategy to position your company and communities ahead of the competition; and this session will equip you to make-over your existing marketing plan into a Super Model of success. You’ll learn the key characteristics that speak desirability to today’s consumer; how to create a truly unique selling proposition that far outshines the competition; the hottest advertising vehicles available today and how to use and leverage them for maximum ROI; when, where and how to market to today’s sales-savvy consumers in ways that they’ll accept; and much, much more!
1. Marketing Research and Customer Engagement and Why it Matters to Your Business Wednesday January 13, 2010
2. Presenters: Mary Olushoga, Manager, Programs & Education, Count Me In Bianca Cloutier, Coordinator, Programs & Education, Count Me In Lynnette Leathers, President and Founder of Mindspot, Inc. [email_address] Welcome!
3. M3 Competition @ The Women’s Summit February 17-18 Houston, Texas Apply to the M3 Competition and start your journey to $1 Million! The M3 Competition is designed to help you strengthen your vision, build your strategy and take your business to a million dollars in revenue in the next 12-18 months. You could be selected to pitch your business and win a package of coaching, financing and marketing! Interested in applying? Join the Community and Complete the M3 Application! http://www.makemineamillion.org/grow/content/type/tools/article/930 The M3 Competition is Back!
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34. M3 Competition @ The Women’s Summit February 17-18 Houston, Texas Apply to the M3 Competition and start your journey to $1 Million! The M3 Competition is designed to help you strengthen your vision, build your strategy and take your business to a million dollars in revenue in the next 12-18 months. You could be selected to pitch your business and win a package of coaching, financing and marketing! Interested in applying? Join the Community and Complete the M3 Application! http://www.makemineamillion.org/grow/content/type/tools/article/930 The M3 Competition is Back!