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Instagram Is a Paradise for Ecommerce Brands, So Stop Trying So Hard

A winning Instagram ecommerce strategy involves using IG features to make your profile feel natural and inviting.
Talar Malakian
Blog Article | 6 min read
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Business Strategy

Your Treasure Map to a Winning Facebook Ecommerce Strategy

These are the 5 necessary components of an effective Facebook ecommerce strategy. Learn about Ads, Messenger, Shop, and more.
Talar Malakian
Blog Article | 6 min read
Business Strategy

How to measure operational efficiencies of content production in B2B marketing

B2B companies are spending more and more money on B2B content marketing these days. In the US alone, it has been estimated that B2B companies spend $5.2bn on content creation; around 55% of their marketing budgets. You would hope that marketing executives would have ways to know what was working and what wasn’t, but according to the latest Gleanster report, that’s often not the case.
Tony Eades
Blog Article | 4 min read
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Business Strategy

Developing a Data-Backed Go-to-Market Strategy

The central takeaway of this year's #DataDrivenSummit, organized by Grow.com, was a rather simple one: everything we do must be informed by data. When preparing a go-to-market strategy, how are you using numbers to inform messaging, buyer profiles, and the pricing and packaging of your business?
Christian Welborn
Blog Article | 5 min read
Business Strategy

The importance of aligning sales and marketing KPI's

In many companies, the KPIs for the Marketing and Sales teams are totally separate, and so there is little incentive for the teams to work together.
Andrew Levy
Blog Article | 3 min read
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Business Strategy

What Is a Business Intelligence Dashboard & Do I Actually Need One?

Business Intelligence Dashboards (BIDs) help improve strategic decision making. Our introduction to BIDs includes definitions, examples, and instructions for getting started.
Andrew Levy
Blog Article | 6 min read
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Business Strategy

Why You Need a Third-Party Audit to Assess Marketing and Sales

Why should you hire an outside agency to conduct a digital brand audit? Because if you don’t, you’ll miss the most important results.
Brandon Jones
Blog Article | 6 min read
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Beyond Demographics: Building a Buyer Persona to Understand Your Customer

An often-overlooked key to marketing success is your buyer persona.
Tony Eades
Blog Article | 3 min read
Business Strategy

Demonstrating the benefits of Smarketing to your sales and marketing teams - How to

The statistics and results about Smarketing don't lie; it produces outstanding benefits in revenue growth for businesses, on average, a 20% bump, according to Hubspot.
Meika Birch-Davis
Blog Article | 3 min read

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Business Strategy

The Four Steps to a Marketing Action Plan

Your marketing action plan should bring everything together.
Meika Birch-Davis
Blog Article | 4 min read
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Business Strategy

How To Grow Your B2B Network With LinkedIn

It’s been estimated that of all the B2B leads generated across social media, 80% of them originate on LinkedIn. Marketers - ignore this network at your own risk!
Alex Baker
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