Editor's Picks for ANA Magazine's B2B Department | ANA

Editor's Picks for ANA Magazine's B2B Department

  • Using Principal Media Requires a Keen Eye

    Trends and Technology   August 2, 2024  

    "Principal media," or when agencies purchase — or negotiate — inventory from media owners at bulk rates, then resell it to their clients at a markup, is taking off. In a recent ANA study, 41 percent of respondents expect to use principal media throughout the next year. But while offering myriad benefits to marketers, principal media is fraught with challenges, ranging from potential conflicts of interest to low-quality inventory.

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  • How to Close the Growing 'Consumption Gap'

    B2B   July 26, 2024  

    The time between when a piece of content is requested and the moment it is actually opened — called the "consumption gap" — is getting longer, according to a recent study. However, there are several remedies to shrink the gap, ranging from creating the kind of content that will help prospects do their jobs better to modeling on-demand webinars on live events.

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  • Lenovo Leans on AI to Amplify a Key Message

    B2B   July 8, 2024  

    Lenovo recruited award-winning actor and entrepreneur Queen Latifah to be the face of a marketing campaign supporting women- and minority-owned businesses, with assistance from generative artificial intelligence.

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  • B2B Video Is Bringing in Customers

    B2B   November 8, 2023  

    While B2B companies are plugging video into their marketing dashboards, many remain skittish about how to incorporate the medium into a robust third-party marketing strategy and subsequently use their social channels to reach their customers and prospects.

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  • Sharing Is the Major Ingredient for Revenue Marketing

    B2B   September 27, 2023  

    While revenue marketing is ultimately about transitioning marketing from a cost center to a revenue driver, that doesn't mean B2B companies can ignore objectives like brand-building and bolstering the customer experience. Despite the inherent friction between the two, sales and marketing alignment is crucial.

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  • Are B2B Brands Out of Touch with Younger Buyers?

    B2B   May 24, 2023  

    Compared to older buyers (read: baby boomers and gen Xers), gen Zers rely less on vendors and more on independent sources of information. To get in front of buyers doing their own research, B2B marketers need to devote more resources toward improving how their company shows up in search and amplifying positive mentions and ratings in analysts' reports.

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  • How to View B2B Customers Through a More Nuanced Lens

    B2B   May 10, 2023  

    Peter Fader, a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, says B2B companies tend to lump too many customers and prospects together and fail to see those buyers who are the most serious about establishing long-term relationships. Changing the equation requires marketers to get a better read on the definition of customer lifetime value.

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  • B2B Marketers Face Increasing Pressure to Prove Their Worth

    B2B   April 26, 2023  

    A recent study coproduced by Chief Marketer and One Trust presents a bit of dichotomy for B2B firms: Although marketers are being tasked with taming their budgets, nearly 80 percent of the study's respondents said their budgets were either increasing or staying the same this year.

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  • Rethinking Thought Leadership

    B2B   March 8, 2023  

    B2B marketers tend to focus on the quantity of their thought leadership content, rather than the quality, which discourages potential buyers. Hiring journalists, videographers, and other talent versed in storytelling can help turn the tide.

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  • B2B Buyers' Appetite for Webinars Is Growing

    B2B   February 22, 2023  

    Amid the pandemic and people working from home more frequently, demand for webinars and virtual events has surged in the past few years throughout the B2B sector, per a new study. But potential buyers don't sign up for webinars and/or online conferences to hear a sales pitch, so it's crucial that marketers develop valuable, thought-based content to include in their programming lest they alienate their customers and prospects.

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  • Improving Relations with Local Partners

    B2B   February 15, 2023  

    The pandemic has altered the map when it comes to where people spend their money, with more and more dollars flowing locally. Brands can easily tailor a national message to local markets, of course, thanks to geotargeting and other online tools. But a new study shows that national brands tend to underinvest when it comes to guiding local partners about how to improve their online marketing strategies.

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  • Marketers Need Better Vision Amid Foggy Economy

    B2B   January 11, 2023  

    Facing an ailing economy, marketers' major priority this year must be creating a "customer health" score, according to a recent Forrester report. But as some companies look to bolster relations with existing customers, others are continuing to pursue net-new leads. Will it backfire?

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  • Account-Based Marketing Is On the Rise

    B2B   December 28, 2022  

    Account-based marketing (ABM) is no longer the domain of giant tech companies with the resources to deploy bespoke programs targeting accounts that are likely to have the most profitable impact in the long run. According to a recent survey, most B2B organizations that have not yet adopted an ABM strategy plan to do so within the next 12 months.

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  • Changes to California's Privacy Law Will Affect B2B Brands

    B2B   December 14, 2022  

    Exemptions in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) related to B2B marketing expire in January 2023. Despite having more than two years to ready themselves, many companies are ill-prepared for the change.

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  • The B2B Buying Cycle Starts to Shift Gears

    B2B   October 26, 2022  

    The B2B purchasing cycle grew in the last two and half years, a new study reveals. To keep pace, marketers need to ramp up their efforts to collaborate with customers and prospects on business and research projects and help ease their pain.

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  • Back to the Future for B2B Marketers?

    B2B   October 5, 2022  

    The pandemic seems to have altered the script when it comes to the most effective ways to reach business decision-makers, as B2B brands embrace a hybrid marketing strategy combining analog and digital messaging.

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  • B2B Marketers Look to Unlock Gated Content

    B2B   September 23, 2022  

    While some B2B firms continue to put their content behind a firewall because that's how they like generating leads, a rising number of companies think that providing free content is a better way of courting prospects and turning them into customers.

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  • Marketers Navigate Uncertain Economic Terrain

    B2B   September 14, 2022  

    B2B marketers continue to monitor what remains an unpredictable economic environment, as the possibility of a recession looms.

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  • Rise in Marketing Budgets Tempered by Economic Headwinds

    B2B   August 24, 2022  

    Marketing budgets increased nicely in 2022, growing to nearly 10 percent of total company revenue, according to Gartner. But the upswing is muted by a downward economy. In an interview with ANA magazine, Ewan McIntyre, chief of research and VP analyst at Gartner, said marketers are already feeling the negative impact of severe inflation and must continue finding cost efficiencies and moving toward a digital-first strategy.

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  • Connecting the Digital Dots with First-Party Data

    B2B   August 10, 2022  

    Customer data platforms (CDPs) are fast becoming an effective tool for B2B companies to locate, engage, and retain new customers. But adoption rates remain low, and fully leveraging CDPs remains hampered by the inability among B2B marketers to break down their company's business silos and connect the digital dots.

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