Updated 2/18/2025 The Evolution of Account-Based Marketing: From Traditional Planning to AI-Powered Strategies Account-based marketing (ABM) has transformed significantly since its inception in the 1980s. Initially, it focused on personalized relationship-building with large corporate buyers, requiring extensive manual research and…
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Whether you invest a little in content or a lot, you only get full value from it if you’re repurposing your longer pieces for use across all channels. Once you own your content, it’s yours to reshape and bring to…
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We touched on social listening as part of the fundamentals of social media lead gen, but it’s important enough to merit its own post. Learning to listen well on social media pays dividends across all channels by giving you deep…
Mingling with your audience means more than just tweeting out your @BusinessName and riding on the coattails of a few hashtags. It’s about amplifying the voices of those who inspire you, listening to customers who want to talk to you,…
A key part of communication is subtext, the subtle connotations and unspoken meanings that people pick up on in a conversation. Subtext is easy to see in face-to-face meetings; you only need to do a little discreet people-watching the next…
We all hope that 2018 will bring us more leads, but with an assist from the next generation in marketing automation, we can now also get better leads. That’s especially important now that quantity is harder to find; markets are…