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3 Ways CMOs Are Getting Experimental In Q4
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October 1, 2020
If you don’t follow Drew on LinkedIn, you’ve been missing out. Every Tuesday since July, Drew has asked B2B CMOs from various industries to share tips about all sorts of topics—from how to drive demand during COVID to what the CMO of the future will look like. In early September, Drew asked three CMOs to talk about what marketers should...

How Altair’s Rebrand Embodied its “Only Forward” Message
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September 28, 2020
When in doubt, turn to brand purpose. That’s what CMO Amy Messano of Altair did in early 2020 when the global tech company’s brand relaunch plans were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not quite sure whether to bring a year of careful research and planning to a halt, to pivot, or to proceed as planned, Altair found their answer in...

How Marketers Can Use Email More Effectively in 2021
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September 24, 2020
Email. The stuff that floods your inbox every day, the stuff that you can never seem to delete fast enough before more comes in. Rather than offering just another opinion piece, we wanted to share a few takeaways from Litmus’ comprehensive 2020 State of the Email Report. The study findings are gated and, ironically, require your email address to get...

Thinking Inside the Box to Generate Demand
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September 22, 2020
What’s better than an email invite for an upcoming webinar? Hm, that’s a tough one, but we’d probably go with…a delivery box filled with a cocktail kit inviting you to a mixology session with a certified mixologist! If that sounds oddly specific, that’s because it is—this year, SAP sent 100 direct mailers inviting highly-qualified prospects to a virtual mixology session....

How Couchbase Makes Marketing Personal
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September 17, 2020
When discussing the future of marketing, Couchbase CMO Peter Finter said that it’s not going to be about ABM—it will be about PBM, personal-based marketing. B2B companies need to make marketing personal via customer-centric strategies that respond directly to customer needs. This has become especially true in 2020 as businesses adapt to a rapidly changing world rife with challenges. Finter’s...

Boosting Virtual Productivity and Employee Engagement
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September 14, 2020
Right now, we’re all a little unsure about what’s on the horizon. Preparing ourselves to be more flexible with remote work and relatively disjointed teams is absolutely, positively crucial. To help her team work smarter, not harder, CMO Anna Griffin of Smartsheet has tackled the issue of WFH productivity and employee wellness head-on. In her Renegade Thinkers Unite interview, she...

5 Great B2B Content Marketing Examples in 2020
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September 10, 2020
Any messaging set in January has long been abandoned. After all, 97% of the 110 B2B CMOs that we surveyed said that they had to revise their 2020 marketing plans. They had to. Offices went entirely remote. Marketers were (and still are) being asked to do more with less. Messages that focused on winning and excellence had to be converted...

Why Altruism and Generosity are Important in Marketing
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September 8, 2020
Because this has been a challenging year for many, we wanted to share a recent win for generosity that we explored in a recent Renegade Thinkers Unite interview with Pluralsight CMO Heather Zynczak. Pluralsight, an educational platform designed to help folks in the tech world improve their skills through online courses, recently took a big risk in the name of...

Delivering a Customer-Centric Content Program
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September 3, 2020
How do you separate your business from the rest of the pack (AKA your competitors)? You deliver what you promise, and then you deliver more. According to CMO Christina Bottis of Coyote Logistics, it’s about exceeding expectations, and one of the ways to do that is through customer-centric content marketing. Coyote Logistics, a freight and supply chain solutions company, doesn’t...