Customer Attraction Techniques for Small Business

As they look to build out their communities to appeal to a wide range of members, companies must rethink the types and formats they use for delivering relevant content. Webinars, videos and buying guides that directly cover products and services are always in play, but to stay relevant and sticky, companies must also offer value-added information, including peer reviews and independent analysis from industry experts, case studies that
show exactly how new products have worked for other
businesses, and best-practices advice on professional development and wider market trends.

Marketers should also encourage collaboration among the members of their communities and enable information sharing as much as possible. It’s clear that buyers rely heavily upon these peer reviews before making a decision.

Finally, marketers must work with analysts and other non-biased third parties to get their input on the market overall, and their business specifically, to help prospective customers make well-informed decisions.

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is the strategy that just about every B2B marketer is either trying to ramp or at least trying to understand in 2018. ABM content is a critical piece of the puzzle. How do you create effective content that works with ABM tactics but is also scalable? We’re excited to interview one of the foremost ABM thought leaders, Sangram Vajre, Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder of Terminus, about this very topic.

BrightTALK marketer interviews Terminus Cofounder Sangram Vajre on Account Based Marketing strategies using Uberflip.

In this lively interview, Sangram will dive into:
What ABM content is and why it’s different
How to tackle the right amount of customization and personalization for the right tier of accounts
Great examples of how marketing teams have been successful with their ABM content approach

B2B marketers have long invested in thought leadership content to demonstrate expertise, fuel issue-based campaigns, and equip sales for higher level conversations.

All too often, however, we still struggle to reach the C-suite. Senior executives are more important than ever for B2B marketers, but they are notoriously the toughest audience to engage. Their time is short, their BS meters are on high alert, and they ignore all but the most compelling content.

The good news, however, is that senior executives are anxious for new ideas, and they’re happy to engage when approached in the right way. Join ITSMA’s Rob Leavitt to explore highlights of five specific ways in which leading companies stand apart from the rest in developing and using thought leadership content to engage at the executive level and drive reputation, relationships, and revenue.

As marketers, we understand how important it is to produce and share relevant and timely content. But what good does your important message or carefully curated blog post do if no one can find it?

Content Distribution is an often overlooked component of any marketing strategy, especially as it pertains to webinar promotion. A great message will go nowhere unless properly positioned to spread far and wide. Before spending hours or days working on a presentation no one will attend, develop a solid plan of attack for getting those invites out and your audience RSVP’d.

Join CareerBuilder’s Hilary Lunkes as she explores the relationships between content distribution, development, and measurement of reach & effectiveness. Learn how to set yourself up for success with a bulletproof promotional strategy by clearly defining your audience, timeline, messaging, and channels for distribution.

About the presenter:

Hilary Lunkes is an Email Marketing Specialist at CareerBuilder. Hilary develops strategic campaigns designed to introduce solutions to businesses as they navigate the human capital management space, and educate current clients on new trends and challenges facing the industry.

About CareerBuilder®
CareerBuilder is a global, end-to-end human capital solutions company focused on helping employers find, hire and manage great talent. Combining advertising, software and services, CareerBuilder leads the industry in recruiting solutions, employment screening and human capital management. CareerBuilder is majority-owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC and operates in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.careerbuilder.com.

While podcasting was invented in 2004, it wasn’t made popular until Adam Curry of MTV fame brought it to the mainstream over a decade ago. Since then, the platform has grown in popularity, both in terms of listeners and resulting advertising dollars.

Now that podcasting is back in favor, thanks to investments by media companies ranging from NPR and WCNY Studios to New York Times and Wondery, brands are following suit. This presentation will outline essential strategies and tactics for creating, producing, syndicating, marketing and measuring branded podcasts.

Key takeaways:
- The benefits of podcasting
- Required hardware and software
- Best practices for creating a winning podcast
- How to market your podcast effectively

Kent Lewis is President of Anvil Media Inc., an award-winning digital marketing agency founded in 2000. Since 1999, he’s founded or co-founded four agencies and two professional associations (SEMpdx & pdxMindShare). Lewis has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University since 2000, where he currently teaches search engine marketing. Lewis was a recipient of Portland Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 Award and named Marketer of the Year by American Marketing Association Oregon.

Buyers are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content that is being pushed their way on a daily basis but underwhelmed when it comes to quality and relevance. Campaign-based marketing and static nurture programs do not adapt to the buyer’s needs and are typically misaligned to the buyer’s stage in their decision-making process. Designing a strategic content model, friendly to Demand Generation requirements and focused on the buyer’s process get prospects more engaged and converts them to sales at higher rates. But how do you do it?

In this webinar you will learn:
• The problems with campaign-based Demand Generation marketing
• How to create a customer-focused content model optimized for Demand Generation
• How to improve the customer experience with buyer-focused content
• Methods for building an integrated and scalable content marketing program

ANNUITAS VP of Strategic Content Jason Stewart will share how getting the most from content is not about how much content is produced. It is about developing the right content that aligns to the buyer(s) and their purchase process. Move away from tactical, volume-based campaigns and into a strategic, holistic Demand Generation content program that serves the needs of the buyer at every stage of their buying process.

The promise of content marketing is that it’ll create a magical inbound funnel that drips money into your bank account. **headscratch** Not the case? It's time to avoid content marketing traps and develop your content core. Discover how to ride the fine line between traffic and revenue growth by creating content that actually gains customers.

Key Takeaways:

1. Discover the Content Core formula for developing content that connects the dots between what your customers care about AND the value your business provides.
2. Learn to avoid two big “parallel content” booby traps: The Traffic Trap and The Promotional Trap.
3. Get repeatable steps to research and find your own content core, put it to work, and most importantly, measure results.

In today’s B2B marketplace, competition is fierce. Buyers fall prey to one-size-fits-all marketing campaigns and pushy sales calls that often leave them feeling confused and uncertain in their decision. As the marketing landscape evolves, the word authenticity has become more and more applicable.

So, how do you prove your commitment to the customer through genuine content, ultimately winning their hearts and minds? In this live webinar, BrightTALK’s CMO David Pitta and VP, Product Marketing Val-Pierre Genton explain why authenticity matters and how to leverage this concept across your content, marketing and sales processes.

In this webinar you’ll learn:
· How to tell authentic stories with your marketing content
· How to cultivate authentic buyer connections
· How to ground your decisions on authentic results

If you're like two out of three marketers, you recognize that personalizing content is critical; but you also know that it's damn hard to do. Aligning the buyer's journey to customers' growing appetite for personalized experiences is easier said than done--or is it?

Join Uberflip CMO Randy Frisch as he presents an actionable framework for persuading prospects through the power of personalized content in acquisition, sales enablement, and ABM.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- How content fuels personalization and how to approach developing and organizing it at scale
- To deliver truly relevant content to customers and prospects across different channels, formats, and touch points
- Tips on using customer and prospect scores to trigger personalized ads and landing pages—and how to distribute specific content across channels

A lot has changed since webinars first became available over a decade ago. Scott Abel, the mastermind behind The Content Wrangler, has been at the forefront of using webinars for marketing success.

During this talk, we will explore how webinars went from new technology in the early 2000s to the marketing must-have that they are today. Scott Abel will sit down with BrightTALK’s very own David Pitta, Chief Marketing Officer and Val-Pierre Genton, VP Product Marketing, to discuss trends, best practices and predictions for the future.

Join us for this inspiring Q&A with Megan Bozzuto, Sr. Marketing Business Partner at the International Association of Women (IAW). IAW is a global in-person and online professional networking platform that provides nearly one million women with the forum, education, and services to thrive in an interconnected world.

During this talk, Megan will highlight how webinars have become an integral component of IAW’s marketing efforts, as well as techniques and best practices for success. The last 15 minutes will be reserved for audience questions, so be sure to tune in live!

B2B tech content marketing is hard, but when you have the right key strategic elements, a good team, and an iterative, experimental approach it can not only be impactful but fun.

Join Rita Manachi and Pieter Humphrey to learn about how Pivotal's B2B content marketing evolved from humble beginnings to a core strategy and channel used by product marketing, our customers, users, partners, analysts - even our own consultants!

Over the past couple of years, marketing in financial services has evolved greatly. There’s been a transition from text-heavy, long form content to engaging rich media that reaches potential and current customers at various stages of the sales journey.

During this panel, we will hear from marketers at both Lombard Odier and Schroders Investment Management for an inside look at their marketing efforts. We will discuss:

• Defining your goal and audience in financial services
• How webinar engagement maps to the customer journey
• Achieving success commercially through sales alignment

BrightTALK now has over 7+ million professionals who join 75,000 free talks and 1,000+ online summits to discover new ideas, technologies, and insights.

For the first time, BrightTALK studied this data across over 1,000 businesses so we can honor marketers that have demonstrated excellence on BrightTALK. With ten total categories, including Most Prolific Channel, Highest Rated Talk, and Most Successful SMB, the BrightTALK Awards highlight success across BrightTALK's most popular communities: IT, Financial Services, and Line of Business.

Join this session to learn more about the data we analyzed, key metrics for Channel and webinar success, and top performers from 2018.

Content marketing educates, engages and inspires. But how do you know what your audience wants to consume? With adults spending an average of 10 hours a day on screens, competition for your audiences’ attention is fiercer than ever.

In this session, we will explore strategies for how marketers can keep their message relevant and enticing through webinar content. The marketing experts from NETSCOUT, (ISC)², Kaspersky Lab will highlight how a tactical rich media approach has helped them reach their demand and engagement goals.

AI is rapidly reshaping how retailers reach and engage customers across channels and in real time. And because your success in retail is so deeply interconnected with customer experience, from browsing to decision, purchase to post-purchase pleasure, AI is increasingly going from nice-to-have to necessity for higher sales and bigger bottom lines.

With billions of customer behavior data points, transactional histories in the trillions of dollars, and pinpoint segmenting, AI turns hazy ROI best-guess calculations into data-driven predictions. It helps you uncover new customers, and adds science to the art of targeting your audience.

Learn more about how retail organizations can use AI to find and evaluate customers, seize tailored opportunities along your customer’s journey, offer hyper-personalized recommendations and more, when you join this VB Live event!

Register now for free!

Attend this webinar and learn:
* How AI helps retailers curate content, offers, and experiences to revolutionize customer acquisition and engagement.
* How companies can leverage AI to uncover new markets
* The role of AI in data-powered email marketing (e.g. empowered segmentation), voice and visual search
* The future of AI in retail: What's next?

Speakers:
* Rob Roy, Chief Digital Officer, Sprint
* Eugene Feygin, SEO Manager, SearsPartsDirect.com
* Jaimy Szymanski, Industry Analyst & Founding Partner, Kaleido Insights
* Rachael Brownell, Moderator, VentureBeat

Sponsored by Drift

We all have strengths and qualities that make us unique. But in the hustle and bustle of life, and deliverables, and obligations, it’s easy to let our focus on that “special sauce” fall by the wayside.

In this seminar we’ll isolate ways to identify what you uniquely bring to the table, Scarlet will share some personal stories that have been turning points in making her own career more authentic and therefore successful, and we’ll talk through techniques to stay mindful of these strengths when things get busy. By honoring what makes each of us so great it is possible to drive more career satisfaction, success and… have some fun along the way!

The rise of ABM has inspired an important rethink of how best to measure marketing impact. Rather than focus on activities, outputs, and marketing-qualified leads, ABM-ers are shifting to account-based revenue metrics, such as pipeline contribution, funnel velocity, win rates, and deal size. But not all revenue is created equal.

Driving growth with new types of solutions, marquee accounts, and top priority markets can be especially significant to achieve strategic corporate objectives. To move ABM from revenue contributor to strategic growth driver, ABM-ers need to focus on all three R’s of strategic marketing: Reputation, Relationships, and Revenue.

Join ITSMA SVP Rob Leavitt to explore how the most effective ABM programs are bringing the 3 R’s down to the account level and using them to drive long-term corporate innovation, growth, and success.