Here is our countdown of the top-trending pieces and posts generating buzz and airplay in content marketing. These intriguing conversations and case studies not only drove eyeballs and downloads but stirred some interesting comments and dialogue along the way.
Data Dilemmas
How GDPR Can Help Marketers Overcome Common Data Challenges
According to Peter Gillett, CEO of Zuant and Marketpoint CRM, today’s CRM database needs to be centralized and deliver a single view of customers and prospects. But with data living in sales and marketing silos, that can be difficult. But he says that GDPR may help marketers address four common data challenges to achieve what he calls “single-view nirvana.” They include sales resistance to documenting data, syncing mobile and internal data, integration and support challenges, and GDPR denial.
Refresh, Refresh, Refresh
20 Ridiculously Relatable GIFs for Marketers
I don’t know about your company, but at Content4Demand we tend to communicate primarily through GIFs. So we saw ourselves in this LinkedIn blog post. They just reposted this collection of GIFs, and it’s worth a second look if you’ve had a roller coaster of a week. This gems won’t solve all your problems, but they’ll make you laugh. And it’s sometimes helpful to remind yourself you’re not alone. Refresh, refresh, refresh with some silliness.
Shiny New Marketing Insights
The Shiny New Objects Podcast: 5 Things I Learned from Unilever’s Richard Bowden
The full podcast episode is great, but if you only have a minute, check out this helpful summary of the highlights and some surprising takeaways. For starters, B2B requires more creativity than B2C. (There, we said it.) A key to digital innovation, he says, is to focus on utility rather than marketing. Being useful comes first, after all. Speaking of which, he admits that sometimes the technology we expect to be the most useful is actually the least. There can be an upside to adopting new tech, but it frequently means you experience their growing pains. Bowden explains why he thinks it’s better to identify our strengths than to focus on improving weaknesses, and he talks about the first smart neighborhood in Toronto.
ChannelWeek Webinar Series
Channel Partners Seek to Be Better Partners of Their Own Brands and Vendors Too
Channel Marketer Report and Demand Gen Report (DGR) are hosting their second annual ChannelWeek, a digital event addressing the opportunities companies have to better align their channel programs with partners and customers. The series, Powered-Up Partners: Tactics & Tech To Supercharge Your Channel Network, will provide experienced channel marketers and demand gen pros still honing their channel skills plenty of insights on how to engage and enable partners to ensure revenue gains. Register for the entire series, and don’t miss Content4Demand’s session, “Channel Marketing Remix: How New Content Formats and Approaches Are Driving Partner and Buyer Engagement,” with Senior Content Strategists Alicia Esposito and Brenda Caine.
#rewriteB2B with C4D
Join Us at the First-Ever B2B Sales & Marketing Exchange
We’re pumped for this brand-new event, and we hope to see you at our Marketplace Booth #503, where we’ll be fielding questions about marketers’ toughest B2B buyer-focused messaging challenges. We want to help our fellow marketers #rewriteB2B engagement. If you’d like to reserve 15 minutes in advance for a one-on-one Messaging Hack Session, send your email address to holly@content4demand.com to get on the schedule. Or feel free to stop by and ask. If you haven’t registered yet, hurry up! Passes are running out! Can’t make it? We’d be happy to schedule your Messaging Hack Session as a Zoom call once we’re back.
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