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2017 Content Preferences Survey Report from Demand Gen Report

Chances are your partners are requesting more short-form assets from your marketing team. According to insights shared in the 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report from CMR’s sister publication, Demand Gen Report, a growing number of B2B buyers are doing their product shopping homework by skimming what might be considered the CliffsNotes of marketing materials. Complaining […]

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WorkStride Incentives Offers SaaS Solution For Channel Sales Performance and Efficiency

The Problem: Most channel marketers have some form of incentive program in place for their channel sales reps. However, the traditional approach—that is, one without a central software platform—requires ample time, the juggling of spreadsheets and a threat of fraud or mistakes due to simple “human error.”

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Zyme Solutions Unveils Updates To Channel Cloud Platform

Problem: Companies selling through the channel work with retailers, e-tailers, resellers and distributors, and as a result, they can easily lose touch with the lifeblood of their business – the end customer. And when it comes to collecting data from distributors and resellers, many companies rely on a mix of manually collected forms and custom-built […]

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Blackhawk Engagement Solutions’ Platform Aims To Reduce Program Complexity

  The Problem: Because channel marketers work with multiple partners concurrently, resellers can often feel inundated with information. On the opposite side of the partnership, most channel managers are struggling with how to obtain mindshare from their indirect sales network of resellers, distributors and channel partners.

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Developing Video Campaigns: Best Practices to Boost ROI

By Khalid El Khatib, Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Even 15 years ago, combining video and marketing meant commercials. Doing them can be expensive, elaborate, and remarkably inefficient. As video moved far beyond the TV screen, it gave marketers new options to engage clients, employees, and others. This is especially important for B2B marketing, where traditional […]

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ContentMX Positions Marketers To Boost Engagement With Relevant Content

  ContentMX is a content marketing platform designed to enable marketing departments to drive more conversations and increase traffic by automating the process of sharing relevant content.

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Yes, There Really Are Ways Of Evaluating Channel Incentive ROI

By Dan Hawtof, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions Channel marketers offer a constant variety of incentive programs to motivate behaviors across the board, from headquarter principals and sales reps to sales engineers, distributors and anyone else they can reach. They do it with SPIFs, deal registration programs, seed-unit discounts and more, all designed to reward for specific […]

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Seventh Sense Helps Analyze Email Engagement

The Problem: Email is still an important channel for marketers to engage with prospects. However, vendors and partners struggle to fully gauge whether their emails are resonating. This can be caused by the inability to track prospect engagement via email throughout their purchase decision.

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5 Ways To Use Predictive Analytics For Marketing And Sales Success

Written By Shari Johnston, Radius Predictive analytics is fast becoming a critical part of the marketing stack. In a survey that we commissioned with Forrester Consulting earlier this year, 87% of B2B marketing leaders said they had already implemented or were planning to implement predictive analytics in the coming 12 months. Benefits are also notable, […]

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How To React To The Changing Landscape Of Online Video Consumption

By Jason Thibeault, Limelight Networks Millennials are causing a clear shift in video consumption trends, and it’s time for marketers to adjust their online plans. Eighty-three million strong and growing, millennials represent more than one-quarter of the nation’s population, one-third of the workforce and a majority of the shift in video consumption trends, according to Pew […]

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