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Mediafly’s Last-Minute, Sales Enablement Pivot
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August 10, 2020
In a recent survey, 97% of 110 B2B CMOs acknowledged that they had revised their marketing plans in 2020. This should come as no surprise—it’s been a tough year so far—but it’s clear evidence that agility is not just a desirable trait for CMOs, it’s necessary. Even more, pivoting on a dime sometimes means dropping old assumptions in favor of...

Planting your B2B Demand Generation Garden
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July 28, 2020
Have you ever encountered someone who thinks marketing is a waste of time? If so, you may be familiar with this zinger: “You can eat a good sales pitch, but you can’t eat awareness!” Funny, right? They’ll point their fingers and laugh, but marketing-believers everywhere know the truth. If a funnel full of quality leads is the bountiful garden, then...

Harnessing the Power of Open Source for your B2B Brand
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July 23, 2020
Check out any of the content curated by Red Hat’s in-house team, and you’ll see the same message over and over again: collaborative problem solving is the engine for innovation. Their Open Source Stories showcase community innovation at work in poignant, inspiring ways. Their transparency during their rebrand reflects their commitment to living their code. And their annual Women in...

The 5 Best B2B Marketing Agencies in NYC
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July 1, 2020
[Updated for 2021] As the economy tightens, it’s not surprising that Gartner’s 2020 CMO Spend study reported that CMOs are shifting 32% of their budget from agencies to in-house resources. That same study also cautions CMOs that “pursuing in-housing can turn into futile effort … and involves more financial risk than relying on a contracted partner.” So, before you shift...

How to Transform Marketing Challenges into Opportunities
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June 25, 2020
When workers moved home and systems migrated to the cloud as a result of the COVID pandemic, two challenges emerged: how to keep data safe, and how to redeploy event-focused salespeople. For Holly Rollo, the chief marketing officer at RSA Security, these problems were silver lining opportunities to bring their services to the next level. The first issue, data safety,...

Case Paper Celebrates 75th Anniversary in Style
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June 17, 2020
We’ve talked about how bringing your story to life in a unique way can generate demand, and we’ve also covered how sending direct mail is a great way to do it. Next up, we’re going to showcase a company (and one of our clients) who’s done it right. That company is Case Paper, and for 76 years, the paper and...

How One Association Brought Their Rebrand to Life
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May 27, 2020
Should a calamitous event (say, a global pandemic) bring your rebrand plans to a halt? Not necessarily. A rebrand doesn’t happen in a vortex, and any truly successful rebrand is about a renewed brand purpose—one that can guide an organization’s actions in any situation, good or bad. At the American Lung Association, for example, their decision to forge ahead with...

Why B2B Marketing Needs Customer Experience Experts
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May 19, 2020
Would you take on two C-Suite roles at once? Mika Yamamoto of F5 Networks would—and she did, taking the lead as both CMO and CXO for the application services company. Why did she do it? To drive simplicity across the organization, of course. Under both titles, Yamamoto boils everything F5 does down to one question: does this activity remove friction...

CMO predicts a healthier work-life balance post-COVID
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May 12, 2020
When CMO Ed Rusch joined Command Alkon in 2017, they were already the leading technology platform for heavy construction suppliers. He saw this as a massive opportunity for the business—it was time for an upgrade to the way things were done, and he was fully prepared to transform the brand in provocative ways. Ultimately, Rusch and company launched their new...