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16 Product Advertising Examples We Can All Learn From

Crayon

As your market saturates, connecting with your target audience becomes increasingly difficult. With each new competitor that pops up, you have to work that much harder to say something unique—something that differentiates your company's product from its alternatives. This is true no matter what promotional channel you're using. Whether you're writing an email, revising your website copy, or creating a customer case study, ask yourself: "In the eyes of a prospect, is this unique, memorable, and c

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Primary Market Research vs. Secondary Market Research

Cipher

The field of market research is highly complex and continuously evolving, with new research strategies and techniques constantly being innovated by market research practitioners. But while it’s true there are many different types of research, all market research can be characterized as one of two categories: primary market research or secondary market research.

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5 Advanced Identity Theft Protection Tips in the Big Data Era

Smart Data Collective

There are a lot of great things about living in an era governed by big data. Big data creates a lot of new opportunities in business and our personal lives. However, there are also downsides to the sudden influx of data in the 21st Century. One major concern is that big data has made identity theft risks more significant. Addressing the Risk of Identity Theft in a World Increasingly Dependent on Big Data.

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How to strategically manage your social media community lifecycle

mention

Community management is one of the hottest topics in the marketing industry. However, businesses, mainly medium and large ones, struggle to scale and automate day to day activities and, most importantly, maintaining community growth. Social media community management is about interacting with your customers in a way that fosters loyalty and advocacy.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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An Analysis of Marketing In the Education Industry (2021)

Crayon

Back-to-school season is always an exciting time of year. Classmates come together to trade tales of summertime adventure (and, eventually, employment). Teachers brainstorm new ways to engage and empower their students. Parents wonder how their kids are getting so old.

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4 Steps to Delete Yourself from the Internet for Data Privacy

Smart Data Collective

Data privacy is a growing concern for people all over the world. Many people have become cynical about data privacy. Sixty-two percent of people told Pew Research that they don’t think it is possible to go through life without companies collecting their personal data and 63% said the same about the government collecting their data. However, most people still express their desire to prevent them from doing so.

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Business Development vs. Sales: Getting the Best of Both Worlds

Zoominfo

SaaS, and business in general, is full of terms that sound similar but carry different meanings, the kind of terms that newcomers (and sometimes those who should know better) are prone to trip on. You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to individuals in your predetermined target market segment.

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Understanding Why the White Lotus is Winning Viewers

Netbasequid

The White Lotus is rapidly capturing the attention of online audiences and could be poised to be 2021’s Tiger King. Why is this series winning so many viewers and such extensive online buzz – and what can brands learn from it? Let’s explore. Consumers feel strongly about characters in books and shows – that’s nothing new. But the level of passion consumers feel about specific characters is what separates wildly successful series from the moderate fan following most experience.

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How to Leverage Benefits of Local Sourcing in Targeted Content for OEMs

Weidert Group

The advantages of local suppliers have always appealed to manufacturers that care about their communities , their sustainability , and their role in building networks that support small and local businesses. Pandemic-induced bottlenecks and other disruptions revealed global supply chain vulnerabilities that point to the potential benefits of a local sourcing strategy.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Artificial Intelligence for eCommerce: A Closer Look

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest-growing technologies. It grew 270% in just four years since more companies started noticing its benefits and adopted this technology. eCommerce businesses are no exception. Over 50 percent of them use AI for various purposes, like creating personalized services and automation. This article will share the basic concept of AI, including its definition, types, and current trends.

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Is it Time to Add Chatbots to Your Demand Generation Engine?

Zoominfo

You’re scrolling through a website, and bam — there it is. That little chat pop-up in the corner that’s calling your name (literally). This piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today. Is it time to add chatbots (or live chat) to your demand engine? Chances are you’ve probably encountered your fair share of chatbots as a buyer.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Benchmarking Analysis

Netbasequid

Pretty much any data point can be used as a benchmarking metric. The key is to ensure that you measure your metrics against numbers that tell the same story. Social listening metrics are more straightforward here, whereas financial metrics may rely on ratios to tell similar stories between brands. A benchmarking analysis measures your performance in a specific area and compares it against industry standards or competitive performance.

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Time Series Analysis with Components

Dataversity

Click to learn more about co-author Maarit Widmann. Click to learn more about co-author Daniele Tonini. Click to learn more about co-author Corey Weisinger. Time Series Forecasting is often neglected says Professor Daniele Tonini: “Considering the plethora of articles, applications, web tutorials and challenges on the data science subject that we’re seeing in the last […].

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Can Predictive Analytics Identify Future Crypto Profitability?

Smart Data Collective

Cryptocurrencies are undoubtedly the rave of the moment. There are stories all over the internet about how crypto made someone a millionaire overnight. However, the crypto market experienced a significant downtrend recently with prices plummeting as low as 30% from peak prices in a matter of days. This has raised questions about the future of cryptocurrency investments.

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Competitive technology discovered

Zoominfo

Scenario If you’re a technology vendor, one way to identify good-fit target prospects is to understand which accounts are buying from your competitors. You can use the insight about their purchases as a way to angle your pitch and convey the unique value that your product offers — and what the competition is lacking. Instead of viewing the prospect as a lost cause, use their buying patterns as an indication that they are worth pursuing over the long run.

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Top Ten Strategies to Monitor Competitors Online

Netbasequid

Contrary to a one-off competitive social listening analysis, establishing benchmarks around competitive performance and tracking them over time is how you monitor competitors online. With today’s social listening tools, there’s no reason for your brand not to have a better grip on competitive movement within your industry. With each passing day, brands are becoming increasingly savvy with their competitive intelligence.

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Big Data at 10: Did Bigger Mean Better?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. If this time 10 years ago you were working in data and analytics, something was about to happen that would go on to dominate a large part of your professional life. I’m talking about the emergence of “big data.” I recently read that the origins of the concept […]. The post Big Data at 10: Did Bigger Mean Better?

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Is Data Analytics Ushering in the Modern Age of Weather Forecasting?

Smart Data Collective

Weather forecasting technology has grown from strength to strength in the last few decades. Gone are the days when you had to wait for the local news channel to share the weather forecasts for the next day. Nor do you have to reach out to the newspaper to find out what the weather is going to be like throughout the day. Instead, you’ve got access to a broad spectrum of valuable weather data right at your fingertips.

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How Search Engine Crawlers Index Your Website

SpyFu

If you’ve ever wondered how search engines find your site, the answer is simple: they send out crawlers. Built to mimic how human users interact with your website, search engine crawlers review the structure of your content and bring it back to be indexed. When you build your website to make it easier for these bots to find and parse important information, you’re not just setting your website up for higher rankings; you’re building a seamless experience for human users as well.

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What is a Company Culture Video and Why You Need One

Weidert Group

The skilled labor shortage was already a major challenge for manufacturers and B2B industries prior to the pandemic. Now, the labor gap is reaching critical levels for some. How can you reach prospective employees? More importantly, how can you convince them that you’re the employer of choice? Video.

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How Augmented Analytics Will Change the Analytics and BI Workflow

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Kaycee Lai. As analyst and journalist Bernard Marr put it, “Without data scientists on staff or available to interpret data and turn the intel into solid business activity, the benefits of data could remain unlocked.” Augmented analytics promises to improve the ability of organizations to derive benefits from data by: Taking more […].

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Using Analytics To Decide Which Cryptocurrency To Invest In

Smart Data Collective

Analytics technology has helped improve financial management considerably. It is important to know how to use data analytics to improve your budget, cut costs and make sound investment decisions. One way to use analytics is to invest in cryptocurrencies more wisely. You can find some great ways to identify trends in the cryptocurrency industry. However, you can also identify the best digital currencies to invest in.

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Google Display Ads: Important Tips to Know

SpyFu

Google Display Advertising is hands down one of the best options for marketers who want to reach out to a large audience. The Google Display Network can give you access to over 90% of all internet users, which is remarkable in itself. And, to top it off, it provides excellent targeting options to ensure that your ads are displayed only to a relevant audience.

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The Top Skills to Look for When Hiring Your Next In-House SEO

Moz

Hiring the wrong person for your business’s critical SEO work can waste time, energy, and resources. While there are as many SEO strategies as there are SEO experts, there are still essential skills that you should look for when hiring for your next in-house SEO expert.

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7 Ways Big Data Is Changing E-Commerce

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. As the volume of data increases every second, so does the need to harness the true potential out of it. Brands, especially the e-commerce marketplaces, are putting their prime focus on utilizing it to achieve greater outcomes. Many e-commerce marketers firmly believe that big data is critical to establishing […].

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About FDA Data-Driven Software Validation

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics has been very important for the FDA. They have used big data in many of their regulatory approaches. One example is with software validation. Big data has been instrumental in the software development process. A number of software developers are using data analytics and machine learning technology to improve the quality of their products and expedite the development of their applications.

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5 Ways to Appeal to the Gen Z Market in Asia Pacific

Digimind

Gen Z consumers are transitioning into adulthood in a time of a global pandemic, forming a unique set of needs and challenges.

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Conversion Rate Optimization for B2B

Moz

When compared to a typical B2C business, the sales cycle in B2B means that users will be visiting your site multiple times throughout their sales cycle before making a final purchase. To encourage conversion, you need to be reaching them at each different stage in their journey.

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