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1 2 b2bmarketing contentstrategy copywriting

Master the Art of Content Creation: A Comprehensive Guide to Never Miss Deadlines Again

Most teams miss content deadlines frequently.

No planning & incorrect time estimations are common issues.

Use this process flow for creating content and backing into estimated due dates for content:

Think of each of these as sub-tasks for creating one piece of content. Put a due date and owner next to each sub-task.

1. First draft created

2. Review #1 by manager (and maybe others who have good domain expertise to give input)

3. Incorporate feedback (if there is any)

4. Potential: Review #2 by manager (and maybe others who have good domain expertise to give input)

5. Incorporate feedback (if there is any) (add more cycles here if needed)

6. Send to Design (if necessary) (note: ideally, design has already been aware and influenced the project)

7. Content creator review design

8. Design incorporate feedback (add more cycles here if needed)

9. Post final files to Google Drive

10. Publish (internally, externally on web, etc. depending on use case)

11. Share with GTM team

What steps would you add or change?

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finance marketingstrategy

Slash Your Expenses: 4 Effective Strategies to Streamline Your Budget

4 ways to cut your budget ✂

1. Talk with your team and colleagues.
They probably have ideas to reduce costs that you’re not aware of.

2. Analyze data and results to see what’s working and what isn’t
If programs have been given enough of a chance, and they’re still showing no positive signals, end them.

3. Find duplicate functionality and consolidate the tools to have a lower TCO
Getting rid of vendors that have overlapping functionality is such an easy win for money savings.

4. See if the value provided by a tool > cost
If you’re not getting value, then is it really worth the $?

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b2bmarketing marketingstrategy

Smart Budgeting: How I Reduced Zingtree’s Marketing Costs by 30% in Just 2 Months

I cut the Marketing budget by 30% just 2 months after joining Zingtree without anyone asking me to do so.

Why? I try to think like a CEO. If this was my money, I wouldn’t spend it all yet, or I’d spend it differently.

How did I do this?

– Cutting budget from items that weren’t performing for Zingtree

– Delay investing heavily in new initiatives until we proved them out with a smaller budget (early positive signals, early revenue results)

– Reevaluating the agency, freelancer, and vendor list

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To all the Marketing leaders, don’t invest too heavily before you can prove results (or early positive signals) of new initiatives.

To all the CFOs and CEOs out there, tag your Marketing leader so they can get some inspiration 😉

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careerdevelopment marketing

2 Proven Strategies to Skyrocket Your Career: Mastering Job Performance & Social Media Presence

The 2 best things people can do to advance their careers: 

1. Crush it in your current job
2. Post consistently on LinkedIn or Twitter

Great quantitative results are what hiring managers care about A LOT.

Posting regularly is vital to building your personal brand, and it brings awareness to the company you work for.

Now you have a simple career plan:
– Crush it
– Post on social

Agree/disagree?

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marketing prioritization projectmanagement

Master Your Project Prioritization: Unleashing the Power of the Effort to Impact Matrix

Feeling overwhelmed with projects? Don’t know what to prioritize?

Use the Effort to Impact Matrix.

Cut or deprioritize the high-effort, low-impact projects.

Prioritize the low-effort, high-impact projects.

Decide what’s next btwn the major projects & incremental work. Probably choose major projects, but your situation might be different if you have some mid-level effort and impact projects.

Have you used this before? How has it helped you?
Haven’t tried it? Does it already give you some ideas for what to deprioritize & others to focus on?

And yes, I drew the matrix this morning 😅

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b2bmarketing productmarketing teardown

Maximizing Sales and Minimizing Costs: A Deep Dive into Zingtree’s Innovative Marketing Assets

Here’s a teardown of a marketing asset that Zingtree recently created for the Sales team. 

Headline:
Shows benefit while speaking to cost-savings.
In today’s economic uncertainty, speaking about cost savings is more important than normal. 

Middle boxes:
Heading: gives specific outcomes they can expect, based on what we’ve seen from actual customers. E.g. Ramp agents 85% faster
Description: Describes features & benefits related to the outcome
Icons: Related to the text, break up the text to make it more digestible

Lower boxes: 
Social proof: descriptions from customers achieving great outcomes related to the middle boxes.
Customer logos: eye-catching brands people may recognize

Bottom sentences:
Use social proof of the # of companies. Include a CTA to take the next steps.

What other insights do you see here? What would you change in it?

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dalle socialemediamarketing

Revolutionizing Image Design: Microsoft’s Free Tool Combining Canva and DALL-E AI

Microsoft just changed the game for social media image design.

Basically Canva + DALL-E AI for FREE! 🔥

AI text to image generation
Plus drag-and-drop control like Canva

Make a request, and I’ll generate the AI image for you and post it in the comments 😛

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b2bmarketing demandgeneration

Mastering Executive Communication: A Proven Talk Track from My Recent Board Meeting

Swipe the talk track I used in the last Board meeting & use it yourself with other execs & Board members 👇

What a fun convo with Sam Kuehnle and Sidney Waterfall!

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b2bmarketing

3 Proven Strategies to Skyrocket Zingtree’s Revenue Growth: Unveiling Our Unique Marketing Thesis

My Marketing thesis for Zingtree in a nutshell:

3 things will drive pipeline and revenue growth for us:

Create & refine a compelling, differentiated story – carve out our unique PoV

Grow our awareness – If we grow the awareness of our PoV, we’ll grow pipeline

Convert interested & in-market ICPs – move them through the funnel quickly in a personalized way

How similar or dissimilar is this to your Marketing strategy?

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b2bmarketing outbound webstrategy

Unlocking Web Traffic Potential: Convert More Visitors with Tools like ServiceBell, Qualified, ZoomInfo, and HubSpot

Want to know who’s on your website? 
Want to proactively chat with them? 
Want to help Outbound have a list of higher intent accounts?

You can likely convert more web visitors & partner with Outbound by using these types of tools. 

(Note: this isn’t a full landscape of vendors that can do these; just a sample.)

Have you seen success or challenges with any of these?

ServiceBell, Qualified, ZoomInfo, HubSpot 👀