While mobile advertising has historically been impactful, we must be conscious of its unique challenges: consumers turning to shopping on smaller screens means less real estate for advertising. Moreover, the propensity for scrolling on mobile devices means that attention spans are shorter than ever amongst a sea of similar advertisements.

Jim collins in his book, Good to Great, set out to discover what made some companies go from being good to great. He embarked on a five-year study of eleven companies whose stock returns had skyrocketed relative to their competitors. There were several important factors, but one of the most important was the type of leader who led the company into greatness.

Many consumers and companies are looking longingly to the start of the new year and for 2020 to be behind us. And although the year was a roller coaster, it provided learning opportunities and set the stage for 2021. As you set your strategy moving forward, remember these five trends for the future and consider what you can do to leverage them in your organization.

Implementing a digital marketing strategy for promotion and sales at a B2B startup is very different from other business models. The difference lies in how they both get paid customers or users. Social media marketing is a great idea and opportunity to develop B2B, which is through LinkedIn marketing.

The effort to quantify CX is critically important and will only become more so. During the pandemic, interactions that were once in person became, by necessity, digital, with organizations accelerating technical transformations enterprise-wide. Every company now has to think about how to provide a stellar CX that makes use of new capabilities, like AI, real-time data, and cloud technologies, to provide a personal experience for each and every customer.

RevOps are not business strategists. They are systems strategists and data strategists and adoption strategists, but they're not business strategists. They need to be the people standing behind the business strategists at the management table who can fully internalize what the business strategy is.

So the definition that I want to give you today is something that will make it clear to everybody, and that is Revenue Operations is the team, is the team, structure, and process within your organization that allows: Your marketing team to be marketers Your sales team to be salespeople Your customer support team to be customer service people Your executive team to be executives. In other words, Revenue Operations is the operational infrastructure (starting with data, automation, and productivity tools) that enables each department to do what they do best.

Personalization messaging uses customer data like past purchases, demographics, and browsing history to tailor digital marketing to a consumer’s unique character traits. It’s so common that consumers now expect it in emails, text messages, and in-app experiences. Here are the top personalization tips in digital marketing as well as how to personalize emails, text messages, and in-app messages to retain customers and boost your brand experience.

Marketing automation leader Marketo cites research claiming highly personalized mobile and web experiences can lead to a 30% increase in conversion rates and up to a 270% increase in content consumption. Marketo simplifies the approach into 3 big W’s.

Virtual events aren’t a new concept, but when the global pandemic struck, organizations found themselves having to forgo in-person events for virtual ones. At that time, research showed that virtual events were up 1,000 percent, but event planners were still playing catch-up. Though 76 percent of event planners were going virtual, only 40 percent of those said they were knowledgeable about how to plan and execute these events.

Omnichannel is a multichannel approach to sales that focus on providing seamless customer experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or in a brick-and-mortar store. Omnichannel gives your B2B customers a unified experience no matter what digital device or platform they are using. It follows that as B2B buyers have become accustomed to Omnichannel e-commerce in B2C, they also want and expect a seamless and consistent B2B experience, the demand is there.

Should brands be advertising and actively marketing right now? Historical data points to a pretty clear answer: If you reasonably can, then yes. So the next question is, where? which destinations are most worthy of investing time and and spend, with confidence you’ll be able to show growth and ROI?

Sales tech is defined as a set of tools that help accelerate and enhance sales productivity by enabling sales reps to use their time and customer intelligence as effectively and efficiently as possible. Sales enablement is also a subset of sales tech which has become increasingly popular as we recognize the power of content as a tool in B2B marketing and sales; and as we get better at leveraging technology to help with buyer engagement through their journey.

Studies show it takes an average of eight calls to get someone on the phone, so don’t torch all that hard work by asking something shallow like “How was your weekend?” Instead, make it memorable so that they’ll not only want to talk with you, but also remember you well after the call.

We already know that LinkedIn is responsible for 97% of the leads generated in social media so this is why it should be included in most B2B marketing strategies, this is the perfect social media to generate leads in these public because you're actually in contact with your prospects and an ambiance in an environment that actually encourages these to happen.

Customer Experience (CX) has become one among the foremost important ways companies can stand out from the crowd—and also one among the foremost confounding issues. Yet B2B companies still struggle to know how consumer trends are driving expectations, solving this problem becomes even more critical now as companies are considering the way to get over disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Customers needs and wants have shifted dramatically and companies that continue to move forward in the same old ways will struggle for quite some time.

Optimizing the Customer's Experience, at the end of the day, it's not the CEO, management team, or shareholders that judge whether a strategy was successful or not. It's the organization's customers - and their decisions about a company's products and services that define the ultimate success of a strategy.

Growing your business starts with a great marketing strategy. Most small business owners skip this step. They get busy with the nitty gritty of actually running their business, that a marketing strategy gets pushed to the side. A Facebook post here. A radio ad there (the sales person said you didn't want to miss out). Throw in a picture on Instagram once a month and they wonder why they aren't seeing an increase in customers.

There is one fundamental thing people do wrong on LinkedIn: They don't pick one service or one target audience! You can not be a Top of Mind if you’re a ‘Jack of all trades’. LISS works best if you’re not positioned as a jack of all trades, but rather have a well-defined target audience and a clear value proposition to offer them.

Effective personal branding will differentiate you from the competition and allow you to build trust with prospective clients. As an entrepreneur or business owner, you have competitors. As a personal brand, however, you don’t. Sure, there might be other people and companies selling similar products and services as you, but they are not you. In fact, there is no other person in the world that is exactly like you.