Study: Content Marketing Inefficiencies Cost BtoB Companies Nearly $1 Billion

How Efficient is Your Content Marketing? That’s the question Sharon Goldman asks in the August issue of BMA Buzz that Robert Rose and I did our best to answer. The article was inspired by a new study that finds content marketing waste and redundancy cost business to business companies nearly a billion dollars a year. Not only are companies challenged to create …

The New Era of SEO: Optimize for People Before Searchbots

Dating back to when the first mainstream consumer search engines became available in the mid-nineties, digital marketers have desired to see their businesses succeed in the lucrative but often confusing search marketing landscape. And thus search engine optimization (SEO) was born. Twenty years later, we’ve certainly come a long way, both in terms of the …

The social CMO: How social data empowers CMOs beyond branding and buzz

GUEST: The CMO’s job is getting broader — fluency with social data means CMOs are well equipped to advise core business operations beyond marketing — like product development, customer service, HR, and finance. from VentureBeat https://ift.tt/1HFM0Ec via IFTTT

Automating the customer journey: Making marketing personal AND scalable

SPONSORED: Between social media, email, and the plethora of platforms designed to support a business in 2015, many are finding e-blasts generate more unsubscribes than orders, and the bottom line is stagnant. What gives? from VentureBeat https://ift.tt/1R4C4IQ via IFTTT

Bubble warning: High valuations and late-stage rounds tell of coming trouble

Guest: The overall market is stretched and is producing overly high valuations on high risk assets. from VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/12/bubble-warning-high-valuations-and-late-stage-rounds-tell-of-coming-trouble/ via IFTTT

LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for almost 3x more than all its previous acquisitions combined

LinkedIn sees so much value in video that in one fell swoop, it bought Lynda.com for almost three times more than all 14 of its previous known acquisitions combined. from VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/10/linkedin-bought-lynda-com-for-almost-3x-more-than-all-its-previous-acquisitions-combined/ via IFTTT

Martech unicorns: Why true marketing technologists are so desperately rare

Chief marketing technologist is a growing title, a growing category, and a much-needed one. A new study, however, suggests that the perfect blend of marketing art and technological science is still far from being realized. “Today’s marketing technologists cluster into 6 distinct archetypes, and they are not equivalent or interchangeable,” the report from SapientNitro says. […] …