Using Social Media and Online Events to Build Thought Leadership

According to research from Google, buyers engage with an average of 10.4 pieces of information before making a purchase decision. Are you creating the right content to address your prospective buyers’ needs at each stage of the funnel?

Join BrightTALK as we share how to ensure you’re building a well-balanced asset library, including tips on blending rich and static media and building content that supports customer retention and growth.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

- How to leverage different content types for each stage of the funnel
- How to build an editorial calendar that address all stages of the sales funnel
- How to establish a content library that suits use cases, personas, and the complete buyer’s journey

In today’s sharing economy, people like to offer their insights and expertise. Let them.

By embracing your most loyal followers, you can gain authenticity and reach. Prospects and other customers are more likely to trust information when it comes from a third party, especially one with experience with your products or services.

Power users can deliver valuable insight through reviews and feedback, but they can also help with FAQs and basic customer support issues. This is especially true in the B2B marketplace, where knowledge and experience can pay huge dividends for employees and companies that use them.

This session will focus on creating loyalty programs that identify key supporters and power users, and then suggest ways to engage them to help sell and support the brand, ultimately boosting business.

Today, we expect everyone and everything to be connected. Always. In this connected economy, information is so easily accessible, that the relationship between buyers and sellers has been changed forever. The buyers are in control and they decide who they connect with, when, where and how.

Join us for a live webinar as we discuss:

- The shift in buying behavior
- How buyers are self-navigating the sales process
- The importance of personalized and interactive content to deliver business value
- The need for marketing organizations to adapt
- Why tracking and measurement is paramount to success in this new era

Want to know what innovative B2B marketing leaders are focused on in 2018? We interviewed 8 marketing experts to understand how their strategies are evolving and what predictions will shape the future of the function.

Hear from:
Doug Sechrist, VP, Demand Marketing at Zenefits
Kelvin Gee, Sr. Director, Modern Marketing Business Transformation at Oracle
Tommy Jenkins, VP, Demand Generation at AvidXchange
Sangram Vajre, CMO at Terminus
Scott Vaughan, CMO at Integrate
Julia Stead, VP, Marketing at Invoca
Jason Seeba, VP, Integrated Marketing at Dynamic Signal
Steven Wastie, CMO at Origami Logic

Join David Pitta as he shares learnings from our experts, including:
- Evolving go-to-market strategies with content and demand marketing
- Focusing on how marketing influences the customer experience
- Leveraging artificial intelligence today and in the future
- Evaluating the changing landscape of marketing teams and resources

Engaging with users on social media is critical, but so is listening. Just like in real life relationships, you will learn a lot more about your target audience if you pay close attention to what they are “saying”—to you, or to (and about) someone else (yes, even your competition).

This session will highlight the key trends in enterprise social, and explain how to leverage these new media to better understand and connect with your audience—and use the resulting data to strengthen your products and services.

While there’s often disparity among marketers around their favorite content marketing tactics, there’s one tactic that virtually all marketing teams use: social media. In fact, 92% of marketers say that social media is important to their business, according to the Social Media Examiner.

Whether it’s paid or organic, B2B or B2C, having a strategic social plan is key to seeing results from your social media efforts. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

- Build a complete social media plan for promoting your content (including downloadable templates)
- Craft trackable messages to generate leads through social media
- Enable and inspire your sales team to share your content

The General Data Protection Regulation affects everything that any business does with personal data and applies on an entity-by-entity basis. Its May 2018 deadline and wide-sweeping changes are challenging Marketers and their General Counsel to understand how it affects business growth strategies.

We’ve invited leading expert in data and privacy regulations, Tim Hickman from White & Case, to review:
* An intro to GDPR: what is it and why is it needed
* Key issues GDPR raises and the impact on businesses
* What you can do next to prepare

We’ll also have BrightTALK’s CMO, David Pitta, to review:
* How BrightTALK is GDPR compliant
* Addressing consent barriers if they exist
* Working with BrightTALK to be compliant

Is your content targeting the right audience? General information is great for broad-based marketing, but creating sticky communities requires that you go deep.

That might mean offering insights that are outside your core competency, but which will add significant value for your users. And it definitely means providing insights that target specific buyers based on the industry they're in, their geographic location (or that of the company they work for), their job role, the size of their business, and more.

The goal is to deliver information that is so relevant, your members see you as a thought leader not just in your area of expertise, but in theirs.

This webinar will discuss the need to go beyond your content comfort zone and offer recommendations on how to create the content you need to appeal to buyers on a personal level.

The Content Wrangler is a San Francisco-based global digital media company that exists to help organizations adopt the tools, technologies, and techniques they need to connect content to customers.

A small shop with two employees, The Content Wrangler uses webinars to build awareness, develop interest, and spot right-fit prospects. To compete with much larger firms, the company leverages its content strategy know-how to produce nearly 100 webinars a year on BrightTALK.

Producing that many programs may seem unrealistic for even a much larger team, but it’s possible because the company applies principles from lean manufacturing to their webinar production processes -- a format that any company can replicate.

Join BrightTALK for a special presentation from Scott Abel, Chief Wrangler at The Content Wrangler. You’ll learn how The Content Wrangler built one of the fastest growing—and most engaged—channels on brighttalk.com.

You’ll discover how adapting lessons learned from single-source publishing can be applied to your webinar production process, enabling you to produce more webinars with less effort.

Email marketing plays a significant role for successful webinars. It starts with a cadence of promotions that reliably drives registration to your content. Next comes a series of transactional emails designed to deliver an engaged audience at the pace and scale of your webinar programs. Post event allows you to create pathways for your audience to explore additional content and your products, while also coordinating with qualification teams on direct outreach strategies.

We’ll share learnings from 10+ million data points on what's working with email at scale. This webinar is planned for 30 minutes of sharing and then will open to a question & answer session.

We’ll review the following three email pathways to use with your webinars:

- Promotional strategies
- Transactional sends
- Post-event follow-up tactics

Here's an overview of what we'll cover in the webinar:

Agenda and background (3 mins)

Promotional strategies (7 mins)
- Segmenting database for relevancy
- Learnings on copy and design
- Cadence for consistent performance

Transactional sends (10 mins)
- Good use of confirmation emails
- Delivering live and engaged audiences (Reminders / calendars)
- Converting on-demand viewings

Post-event follow-up tactics (7 mins)
- Cuing up the next steps
- Routing to content vs product nurture paths
- Leveraging qualification teams

The core job of today’s marketers is to build communities around the topics that people are passionate about. To know what matters to them, to engage them, and to help them feel part of these communities with powerful stories. And for many marketers, the gift of storytelling is a natural one.

But not everyone is a born writer or brand minstrel, and knowing what will work for your audience takes more than data and clever messaging alone. Thankfully, everyone has the ability to tell stories that matter. It’s a skill that you can learn, polish, and adapt for your specific role and company.

On Wednesday, June 28th, join BrightTALK and Prezi’s European Regional Director, Spencer Waldron, to learn what it takes to keep your marketing efforts fresh, timely, and engaging. You'll also find out:

- How to turn user feedback, prospect needs, and industry trends into stories that stand out
- How to leverage the techniques and practices of renowned writers, speakers, and entertainers to develop more effective brand messaging
- Tricks and tips used by expert marketers to craft meaningful stories that will help you grow your user base

You’ll also get to see a handful of great story examples broken down into their key elements and decoded.

As marketers are being asked to increase their contribution to bookings and revenue, account-based marketing is being used as a strategy to improve conversions and reduce the sales cycle.

That said, ABM is only as good as the quality of the underlying data in your database and performance varies substantially depending your approach to execution.

Tune in to this session and learn how you can:
- Increase the number of target accounts
- Increase the number of contacts inside of target accounts
- Increase appointments with target accounts
- Improve sales and marketing alignment
- Grow revenue inside target accounts

Over the past 17 years, Val has built and sold an Internet business and helped business, sales and marketing executives at Fortune 500, mid market and start-up companies to create value, move markets and accelerate growth. He combines this knowledge with deep insights from millions of data points that are generated as nearly 6M professionals connect with experts and companies on BrightTALK to learn and grow.

Webinars have become an incredibly versatile and effective content marketing tactic that has been proven to drive higher value leads. As a result, marketers are being challenged to change and optimize the way they run webinars to attract and nurture their target audience.

For this year’s BrightTALK Webinar Benchmarks Report, we analyzed more than 10,000 webinars to understand the key metrics behind top programs and how marketers are effectively using webinars to drive demand for their business.

Join us for highlights and analysis from this year’s report, including:

- Best practices for using webinars to drive stronger pipeline and nurture strategies
- Suggested timelines for driving audience to your webinars
- Tips for optimizing titles and abstracts to attract more relevant audiences

Webinars have become an incredibly versatile and effective content marketing tactic that has been proven to drive higher value leads. As a result, marketers are being challenged to change and optimise the way they run webinars to attract and nurture their target audience.

For this year’s BrightTALK Webinar Benchmarks Report, we analysed more than 10,000 webinars to understand the key metrics behind top programmes and how marketers are effectively using webinars to drive demand for their business.

Join us for highlights and analysis from this year’s report, including:

- Best practices for using webinars to drive stronger pipeline and nurture strategies
- Suggested timelines for driving audience to your webinars
- Tips for optimising titles and abstracts to attract more relevant audiences

Video is no longer just a buzzword in marketing. It is a revenue generation tool that every B2B marketer needs to utilize in order to help their business grow.

But the options available are countless. How should marketers establish their video marketing priorities to ensure maximum ROI? Where do you even begin with a video campaign? What strategic, creative, production and distribution resources do you need to engage with?

Join us on BrightTALK on April 19th for a live panel discussion with industry thought leaders as we discuss:
-why video is so important in 2017 for B2B marketers
-the best ways of measuring ROI from video content
-how to integrate video content into your wider marketing activity

For most marketers, connecting the dots between campaigns and revenue poses a complex challenge. With extended B2B sales cycles, it’s difficult to track and analyze each touchpoint, and even harder to determine which action was most influential in closing a deal.

As a result, only 22% of marketers believe they’re using the right attribution model, according to Bizible. In this live roundtable, our panel of marketing experts will discuss the current landscape of attribution and ROI, highlighting areas where marketers can improve and fine tune their strategies.

Our panel will weigh in on topics including:

- Selecting an attribution model that’s right for your organization
- Measuring marketing ROI effectively and accurately
- Interpreting attribution data to invest in more revenue-generating tactics

Last year, marketers were focused on predictive analytics and ABM. This year is proving to be all about how machine learning and artificial intelligence will impact marketing strategies.

Leading organisations powering the marketing technology landscape are quickly innovating to introduce new technologies and are determined to make marketers successful. But just how will this happen? What questions should you be asking in order to innovate on your go-to-market plans?

Join us on Tuesday 4th April as we discuss how machine learning and artificial intelligence is shaping marketing decisions, driving growth and improving the customer experience.

Listen to the BrightTALK CEO Dorian Logan as he discusses AI and what it means for the landscape of business in 2017.

He will provide examples of side-effects from companies that have already began delving into the data they hold, to take them on the AI journey.

Predictive analytics and Account Based Marketing were marketing buzzwords thrown around a lot in 2016. Artificial intelligence and machine learning is now firmly on the marketer’s agenda to understand how they will impact and improve their marketing strategies.

Adam Sharp, MD & Co-Founder, CleverTouch Marketing – Europe’s leading Marketing Automation consultancy – discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on Marketing Automation environments, including:

- The importance of creating the marketing spine before implementing wider marketing technology
- Why Business Insight tools are required before artificial intelligence is implemented
- How Marketing Automation vendors are viewing and adapting to the hype of artificial intelligence and machine learning