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What is B2B Marketing? Principles That Differentiate You From The Rest [VIDEO]

What is B2B marketing? — It sounds like such a simple question. [ Note: Learn or retain more by reading? We got you. Here is the video above in blog format. You’re welcome. ]   “Obviously, it’s B2B companies marketing to other B2B companies.”– And that’s true. But the problem is that it’s actually not that. Actually, it’s individuals at B2B companies marketing […]

SEM for B2B: Lessons Learned from 40+ Accounts [VIDEO]

Hi, everyone! Today we’re going to talk about SEM for B2B and the lessons that we’ve learned from 40+ accounts. One of the best parts of AdWords is there’s so much data available. Key Performance Indicators In this particular study, what we looked at: Conversions Cost per acquisition Conversion rate Return on ad spend Average […]

3 Must-Have B2B Market Research Tools That You Need Today

Check out the 3 tools our expert tech marketing team uses every day here at Directive: SEMrush (gather keyword data & look at the competition), SpyFu (understand spend & keywords the competition is targeting), and BuzzSumo (understand your competitors' & your own content strategy).

Do You Have A Terrible Lead Generation Landing Page? [VIDEO]

Do you have a terrible lead generation landing page? Let’s find out.  Don’t miss a video! Subscribe on YouTube! [ Note: Learn or retain more by reading? We got you. Here is the video above in blog format. You’re welcome. ] Does your landing page have external links? You don’t need them. External links are things that you […]

How to Build a Marketing Dream Team in 2018

Every year brings with it new and exciting developments for marketers. As it is, marketing is a fast moving industry — one where you definitely don’t want to get left behind. Getting left behind in the marketing world is the equivalent of losing your debit card in a grocery store line. Everyone is going to […]

The Hard Truth About CTR

Click-through rate (CTR) is one of the first metrics on the monthly report. Everyone obsesses over it, wondering why Campaign A is outperforming Campaign B. But here’s the thing. It’s actually not that important. Not in the grand scheme of things, anyway. It does serve a purpose. It can be a helpful leading indicator to […]

Brad Smithin
September 30, 2017

Got Your Budget Cut? Here’s What to Do About It

While the majority of marketers are expecting increases to their marketing budget this year, 14% are bracing for a cut. This is up from only 3% who expected cuts a few years ago and is the second highest reported percentage in the last five years for B2B marketers. Budget cuts, while unpleasant, aren’t necessarily the […]

5 B2B Marketing Strategies to Show Up on the First Page of Google without Ranking Organically

There are absolutely no guarantees with SEO. You could spend thousands of hours (and dollars) trying to organically rank for big keywords and still find your website stuck in the SERP swamps. Not every company has the kind of time and resources to sink into SEO, anyway. The reality is that unless you’re already one […]

3 Marketing Activities to Increase Your Google SERP CTR

Keyword rankings used to be more important than they are today. The vast majority of clicks went to the first few positions. So getting into the first three positions meant everything. Even the third position would receive exponentially more clicks than positions six through ten. However, that’s all starting to change. SERPs are personalized to […]

Why Your B2B Marketing Plan Stalls: How to Break Down the Silos in Your Organization

Digital marketing has been run in silos since the beginning of time. The SEO people “do SEO.” The PPC people “do PPC.” And there’s never a whole lot of overlap between the two, despite them being only a few pixels from each other on a Search Engine Result Page. That approach is continuing to fail […]

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