Name: Tech Investors and Operators: Navigating Economic Headwinds
Start: 2023-10-11T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-11T16:00:50.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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The BrightTALK Academy features the fundamentals of executing webinars and marketing best practices to develop channel owners into advanced hosts.

The best webinars tell a clear and concise story that captures an audience’s attention. You may be a seasoned presenter, but do you use the elements of good story telling to connect emotionally with your audience? 

This year BrightTALK’s Build a Better Webinar series continues with a look at key elements of successful storytelling. From tips to infuse the story arc into your script to examples of successful storytelling, we’ll cover best practices to build your script around your story – and capture your audiences’ attention.

Build a Better Webinar: Storytelling & Scripting

Today’s buyers consume, on average, 12 pieces of content when researching a purchase. When producing relevant and valuable messaging is this critical, how do you create the right assets to address every prospective buyer’s needs at every stage?

As the leading B2B webinar and video provider, the BrightTALK team has learned a thing or two about creating content that converts. Join us as we demonstrate how to build a well- balanced asset library that blends rich and static media throughout the buyer’s journey. We'll teach you to leverage different content types and demonstrate how to build a robust editorial calendar to create meaningful marketing touches as your buyers progress deeper down the sales funnel.

Mapping B2B Content to Each Stage of the New Sales Funnel

An effective account-based marketing (ABM) program isn’t created overnight  — programs can take months or even years to perfect. While ABM requires long-term commitment from your teams, if you measure realistically, you’ll see real measurable ROI from your program sooner rather than later. 

In this session, we’ll explore key KPIs to measure your long-term ABM success, together with the metrics to measure your short-term progress and keep your momentum going. And you’ll learn how high-quality, accurate data can help support these metrics.

Essential Metrics For Successful ABM

To attract their share of attention, every smart marketer should try to leverage what’s hot in the market. But thoughtful strategic teams understand that, beyond trend-chasing messaging, there’s serious work to be done to properly assess and refine solution positioning. So as buyers do more and more research on their own (and their attention gets harder to earn), most GTM teams need to seek better input. They know they need better ways to ensure that what they say and what they intend to do will align more proactively and productively with what their target accounts are really looking for, both from a content perspective and with respect to the solutions they’re bringing to the market.

That’s exactly what we’ll be discussing in this episode of our Analyst Insights for GTM Actions webinar series. Join Enterprise Strategy Group Principal Analyst Mike Leone as he shares revealing recent research about buyers and the state of their GenAI thinking. As always, the purpose of the session is to clarify what GTM teams should be doing! So, we’ll cover both how product teams should be thinking about this fast-moving space and how marketers can leverage the data to better engage buyers on what they truly care about right now. Beyond the buzz, our aim is to give you a significantly clearer blueprint for capitalizing on this hot topic that’s sure to become even hotter moving forward.

Using Market Research to Build a Differentiated GenAI Story

Even as competitors struggle to get their content strategies off the ground, Radware, a leading provider of security solutions for businesses of all sizes, is seeing 72X ROI from their webinar investment. How? Quite simply, they’ve maximized the magic of crafting captivating content, executing a strong promotion gameplan, and operationalizing follow-up from their sales team. 

Join Daisy Zhang, Global Digital Growth Manager (Radware) and Swaroop Iyer, Enterprise Account Director (BrightTALK) as they unpack the trick to Radware’s exponential webinar growth. Covering everything from content strategy to effective sales enablement tactics, they’ll outline the roadmap they’re using every day to convert engaged webinar viewers into paying customers

72X ROI: How Radware Works Webinar Magic to Generate More Demand

Marketing organizations face overwhelming pressure to innovate and deliver scalable marketing campaigns that increase engagement and drive more revenue. This reality becomes even more daunting if your marketing team is dealt with a tighter budget or smaller staff.

Join BrightTALK’s Manager of Marketing Programs, Kate Jacobsen, as she shares the secret to executing an aggressive content strategy without overburdening your small team. You’ll come away with actionable best practices to help your organization accomplish more with fewer resources while still maintaining quality.

Scaling Growth with Limited Marketing Resources

In a freshly published Enterprise Strategy Group study, Marketing tops the list of areas where companies are applying GenAI with 35% of respondents currently using it and 45% seeing future potential. But what does the GenAI revolution mean for B2B tech Partner Marketing and how can Partner Marketing leaders capitalize on this transformational opportunity?
 
One visionary leading the charge is Cheryl Cook, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Marketing at Dell. She’s weaving GenAI into her strategy for delivering cutting-edge marketing tools, trainings, events, and MDF programs that help Dell’s partners grow, thrive, and win in today’s ever-changing environment. Listen in as Cheryl sits down with TechTarget’s Michael Latchford, General Manager & Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Partner Marketing Service to explore:
 
-The opportunities recent GenAI innovations from Dell present to the partner ecosystem
- Her vision for how GenAI will transform going to market with, through, and to partners
- Lessons learned from early initiatives to pilot GenAI in Partner Marketing at Dell
- Practical advice for Partner Marketers looking to adopt and drive quick wins with GenAI

Generative AI: Opportunities and Implications for Partner Marketing

Webinars have become an essential tool for B2B marketers to engage buyers and share valuable information. But when it comes to generating registrations, maximizing participation, and delivering an overall seamless experience, how do you make sure your webinars are truly user friendly?

In this episode of BrightTALK’s Build a Better Webinar series, we’ll walk you through how to remove friction from your webinars so your audience can focus on connecting with your business. From simplifying the registration process to maintaining consistent branding throughout, you’ll come away with a framework for the ideal webinar user journey.

Build a Better Webinar: Optimizing Audience Experience

It is a tough time to be a B2B marketer in the tech space – you're not only tasked with supporting your sales team but also entrusted with shaping your prospect’s perceptions to keep your brand top of mind. Yet Utimaco, a global leader in providing trusted cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services, seems to have cracked the code, using the power of video to attract and captivate their audience with appealing content, a strong point-of-view and a winning promotional strategy.

The result? Their webinar program is seeing 800% year-on-year audience growth and an engagement rate 17x better than their closest competition. Hear from Utimaco’s marketing leaders as they open the playbook on how great webinar content is enhancing to their digital marketing strategy, driving more (and better) opportunities for their business and providing a stream of piping hot leads to their sales team.

Presented by: 

-  Philipp Harmuth, Head of Digital, Utimaco 
- Volker Gerstenberger, Director, Marketing, Utimaco
- Chris Tully, Account Manager, EMEA, TechTarget

17x the Competition: Utimaco’s Guide to Exponential Webinar Growth

SonicWall is a well-established leader in the cybersecurity space. With over 30 years of experience detecting threats and protecting organizations of all sizes, the SonicWall team’s expertise and solutions are relied upon across the globe for boundless cybersecurity defense. And with threats on the rise due to a variety of factors, SonicWall’s marketing team has laser-focused on a content strategy that effectively educates and engages the right IT professionals.

Join this live session to hear how SonicWall’s Stacy Horton, Sr. Marketing Manager, Demand Generation, has tapped into the power of webinars to create engagement with target accounts, drive better sales-ready conversations and fuel more pipeline. We’ll delve into best practices for B2B webinar content creation and showcase the real impact it can have on brand awareness, lead generation and customer relationship nurturing. Discover how SonicWall’s strategic investments in webinar content have driven their marketing efforts and delivered measurable return on investment.

Winning with B2B Webinars: SonicWall's Content Marketing Playbook

Economic downturns can present significant challenges for organizations striving to maintain growth and profitability. Yet, it’s during these challenging times that investing in high-quality content becomes a strategic imperative. Instead of deciding whether to invest, marketers must decide where to invest in order to take advantage of the current climate. 

Join BrightTALK’s in-house production experts to dig into why video has emerged the undisputed champion of driving engagement and delivering ROI. They’ll discuss strategies for creating impactful content on a limited budget while answering the question on everyone’s mind – when paying for content gets trickier, is doubling-down on my investment the way to save my year?

Why Investing in Content Will Save Your Year

Step aside, home movies. When done well, modern video storytelling helps brands stand out in a noisy marketing landscape by eliciting emotion and directly impacting the decision-making process. Moreover, video-based content conveys a brand’s character in a matter of minutes - making it a vital component of any marketing strategy.

Join leaders from HubSpot and BrightTALK as they unpack the state of video from start to finish. They’ll dig into recent research to explore not only how marketers can create successful, impactful short and long-form video content that converts today, but also how to leverage the medium to scale growth in the future.

5 Video Marketing Trends to Test and Perfect

With so many available content types, building a demand generation campaign can feel overwhelming. What kind of content will best reach my audience at the right time with the right message? And if I get it wrong, do I need to start again from scratch? 

Fortunately for marketers, starting with video-based content as a basis for your demand generation campaigns can alleviate many of those concerns. Join us for an exclusive look into new research exploring the power of an omnichannel strategy to engage the right buyers whenever and however they want to consume content. From distribution channels to promotion strategies and derivative assets, you’ll learn how to maximize your campaigns with knock-out video content.

Fueling Better Demand Gen Outcomes with Video-Based Engagement

B2B marketers are always looking for ways to boost the success of their webinar programs. But, especially during promotions, is there a trick to capturing your audience’s attention as quickly as possible?

In this episode of BrightTALK’s Build a Better Webinar series, you’ll learn how to generate interesting, unique, and bold titles for your webinar programs and videos. From establishing the key themes to creating a little buzz, you’ll be sure to walk away with tips and tricks to spark your audience’s interest.

Build a Better Webinar: Engaging Titles

So you’ve defined your target accounts for your account-based marketing (ABM) campaign — now what? In this webinar, we’ll explore how to activate your ABM plan and engage your ideal accounts with hyper-personalization and precision. You’ll uncover key strategies for sales and marketing alignment and learn how to leverage technographics and intent data to unleash the most effective tactics for your target accounts and channels. 

Join Matt Hogan, HG Insights’ VP of Growth Marketing, and Jillian Coffin, TechTarget’s SVP, Customer Strategy & Enablement, as they share best-in-class strategies on:

• Going “Account-Based Everything” to redefine the Go-To-Market experience
• Leveraging technographics for account & campaign segmentation
• Using intent data to create hyper-personalized content & messaging
• Aligning sales and marketing teams to ensure ABM success

From Targets to Triumph: Key Strategies for Activating Your ABM Campaign

Webinars are incredibly powerful tools for B2B marketers, but sometimes a single webinar isn’t enough to sufficiently cover your chosen topic. And, if you want to be seen as an expert on the subject, you’ll want to make sure you’re providing a comprehensive overview.  

In this episode of BrightTALK’s Build a Better Webinar series, we’ll walk you through the value of developing a webinar series. From tips on topic selection to guidelines for branding your series, you’ll come away with actionable best practices for series development that will help you demonstrate your expertise and engage with your audience in a meaningful way.

Build a Better Webinar: Developing a Series

Successful ABM programs require thoughtful planning every step of the way. From collaborating with Sales on account selection to establishing the right campaign KPIs, there are a range of key milestones that ABM practitioners must hit to execute well. And yet, despite all that work, content and content delivery can often be an afterthought.

If the goal of ABM is to generate the right account engagement to drive revenue, the content format, targeting and delivery method is incredibly important. Join BrightTALK's Senior Director, Product Management & Marketing, David Edwards, and Senior Director of Marketing Programs, Olivia Dassler, for in-depth guidance on how webinars fuel ABM effectiveness. They’ll break down how buying teams actually want to consume content, ways to generate deeper engagement with your webinars, content creation best practices and tactics for activating sales around webinar engagement signals.

Better Webinars. Better Engagement. Better ABM.

Why listen to venture capitalists at all? Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital (VC) firm that typically leads Series A or Series B rounds. In this episode, Craig Rosenberg, Chief Platform Officer, and Jeremy Kaufmann, Partner, (Scale Venture Partners) go deep on what VCs really mean when they talk about “efficiency”.  They cover several types of recommendations that they make to companies with respect to areas of focus and share some of the innovative responses they’ve seen from operators. This wide-ranging conversation features both contrasts in perspectives and confluences from within Scale and across the unique vantage point that TechTarget’s operators and expert observers of the space have on enterprise tech markets and go-to-market practices alike.

Topics covered: 
  - GTM refinement
  - Creative cost reductions 
  - Intent data
  - The 4 vital signs of SaaS 

In this episode: 
  - Jeremy Kaufmann, Partner (Scale Venture Partners)
  - Craig Rosenberg, Chief Platform Officer (Scale Venture Partners)
  - Rebecca Kitchens, President (TechTarget) 
  - John Steinert, CMO (TechTarget)

Tech Investors and Operators: Navigating Economic Headwinds

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