Partner organizations gave vendors a less than enthusiastic endorsement of the content they provide to support marketing programs. Less than half of the respondents to the 2018 State of Partner Marketing survey by A Fluent Vision (AFV), a sales and marketing consultancy, described the content created by vendors as very or extremely useful. Partners complained […]
By Jeff Mesnik, CEO, ContentMX As a technology marketer, you know that building demand generation campaigns takes planning and coordination. Your message is deliberate and coordinated and the sequence and timing of communications are relevant and important. Demand generation is filled with both long term and short term strategies, all for the purpose of identifying […]
WinGreen Marketing Systems, Inc., a provider of content marketing, lead generation, and account based marketing services for B2B technology companies, has launched an channel advisory service practice. Services include channel strategy, program and organization development, go-to-market support, partner recruiting and planning, and comprehensive channel marketing support that leverages WinGreen’s full-service marketing functions. The channel advisory […]
WorkSpan has announced that its new marketing network which enables vendors and their partners to rapidly execute joint marketing programs is now generally available. The company, which was founded in 2015, introduced the network in an early availability program that included SAP, Intel, CenturyLink and Infosys. “Companies need to engage with thriving ecosystems of partners […]
By Jeffrey Mesnik, president, ContentMX Traditional channel marketing models no longer work. In the past IT departments would install pipes, wires, computers, and storage to support a corporate infrastructure. CIOs would piece together the required infrastructure based on expert opinions from channel partners representing the OEMs. Thanks in some part to vendor consolidation, a CIO […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The Problem: Content marketing has become a must-have for all B2B organizations and channel players. But with rising content marketing budgets comes a series of challenges related to content planning and execution. As research from the Content Marketing Institute notes, the top challenges for modern marketers include creating engaging (50%), consistent (44%) or a variety of content […]