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Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Oracle have entire sites dedicated to providing the latest industry analyst research.
SAS provides industry analyst reports on analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Customer Intelligence, Data Management, Fraud, and Security Intelligence and Risk Management.
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A simple, interactive worksheet designed to help get all the customer wisdom from your agencies, internal team and entire ecosystem in one place
This simple, interactive worksheet template is excerpted from MMC 5422 | Customer Research and the Fundamentals of Online Testing, a course in the Communicating Value and Web Conversion graduate certificate program from the University of Florida and MECLABS Institute. It is designed to help your marketing team, agencies, and other stakeholders and partners collaborate and get aligned to power your customer-first marketing — on who your customers are, what they want (even when it doesn’t directly relate to your product), and in what context they view your marketing messages.
Use this simple template as your guide to help increase customer intimacy, share it with your entire marketing and agency ecosystem along with key business stakeholders and partners from product development to customer service to manufacturing, and ultimately create customer-first marketing that resonates with your customers and increases the probability of conversion.
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On our path to embracing a new era of marketing and sales, HubSpot discovered something important. Relevant data is the heartbeat of good inbound marketing and sales. In order to make sure we stay on top of trends, information, and the goals of our customers, we decided to launch HubSpot Research.
The goal is simple: we have analysts and contributors gather data and create thought leadership that ultimately helps people transform their businesses for the better. All business professionals need high quality data in order to make strategic decisions, and we want to share what we’ve gathered. Below are a few of my thoughts on why it’s so important to make our research available.
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eMarketer announces the launch of Numbers, a customizable charting tool that allows users to tell compelling data stories quickly and easily. The new tool, which launches today, allows eMarketer customers to select from thousands of metrics to create charts and tables tailored for their specific needs. As with all eMarketer products, the Numbers tool incorporates only the most trusted, vetted, and methodically-researched eMarketer data.
Numbers charts can be custom-built using eMarketer’s vast database of research, which examines media trends, consumer behavior, and device usage in 41 countries. The Numbers tool also allows users to filter metrics by demographics, including age, generation, gender, and race.
With just a few clicks, users can select the metrics they want to visualize, and build a custom chart that tells their unique story with data. The information can then be used to track relevant trends by comparing benchmarks and metrics side by side. Once built, charts can be converted into PNG files or Excel spreadsheets with a simple click, enabling them to be downloaded and shared.
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Well-researched personas can be a useful tool for marketers, but to do it correctly takes time. But what if you don’t have extra time? Using a mix of Followerwonk, Twitter, and the AIchemy language API, it’s possible to do top-level persona research very quickly. I’ve built a Python script that can help you answer two important questions about your target audience:
What are the most common domains that my audience visits and spend time on? (Where should I be trying to get mentions/links/PR) What topics are they interested in or reading on those sites? (What content should I potentially create for these people) You can get the script on Github: Twitter persona research
Once the script runs, the output is two CSV files. One is a list of the most commonly-shared domains by the group, the other is a list of the topics that the audience is interested in.
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We’ve compiled survey responses from over 2,100 B2B marketers to bring you the 2015 State of B2B Marketing. From marketing channel popularity to commonly cited obstacles, this report gives a complete look the modern B2B marketer’s mindset. Inside this study, you’ll get exclusive content including:
Top 5 areas for increased marketing spend Most effective digital marketing strategies as ranked by B2B marketers 3 most important technologies in the B2B customer journey
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Organizations need to understand how buyers are likely to behave, and then how buyers actually respond to your organization’s offerings and tactics
Intermediate/ Excerpt...
Here’s one way to do it: - Start by deciding what a “good deal” looks like. A good deal may be one that closed at the right price, occurred within the right timeframe, involved the right people or happened in the right market segment.
- Gather some deal data. Grab 10 to 12 deals that closed last quarter with those desirable characteristics, and pull your full interaction history with those accounts. This should cover interaction histories of every individual within the customer’s buying center. This data will likely come from your marketing automation platform (MAP) or sales force automation (SFA) system, or both.
- Line up buyer personas. Assign each individual from each deal to an established buyer persona. If personas haven’t been developed, you can simplify these assignments into buying roles like decisionmaker, user or ratifier.
- Plot out interaction histories on a timeline. Starting with a single deal, note the interactions that took place with each player, indicating the offer that was accepted and how it was delivered. Repeat this exercise for each of the identified deals.
- Draw conclusions from the patterns. Identify similarities between the successful deals, focusing on similar players and similar tactics at similar times. Patterns that emerge may point to some tactics as more effective with different personas at specific stages in the buying cycle. Document these patterns as assumptions. Test these assumptions against other groupings of deals to learn if they continue to hold or if (and how) they change.
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Ten Key Takeaways from the 2013 Search Marketer Survey - Mobile and tablet search is the next frontier
- Local search is bigger than ever
- Video offers search and social opportunities
- It’s time to quantify and communicate SEO value
- ROI across multiple channels like search and social is what truly matters
- The C-level is paying more attention to SEO
- SEO metrics need to keep up with SERP changes as they happen
- Social for SEO is big; so is SEO for Social
- Content Marketing is back, and in a big way
- Page-centric SEO makes its mark
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While big data will drastically improve marketing strategies (and, yes, persona development), relying on that information alone can be very risky for your marketing efforts. Big data usage within marketing teams has its faults, including: - Ineffective sharing and organization of data
- Using data as an end-all performance report
Ultimately, big data can show you what is, but personas have the ability to show you what could be, as they can be used to determine future behavior. In order to create a successful marketing plan for the long term, you need both the what is and the what could be aspects incorporated into your strategy. As Forbes contributor Jonathan Salem Baskin said, "big data insights will never substitute for imagining little souls." - Qualitative research gives insight into behavior.
- Personas (including qualitatively gathered stories) are easier to understand.
- Qualitative research allows for brand-customer interaction and new information.
- Qualitative research enables information gathering on topics big data can't deliver.
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FREE report, compliments of Marketo. "This comprehensive research study is designed to help organizations evaluate all aspects of vendors’ marketing management offerings and capabilities, and streamline the vendor selection process."
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The author frames the challenge succinctly (and correctly). Granted it is more B2C oriented than B2B, but the B2B marketer will understand the impact (and challenge):
Modern business social media monitoring and analysis demands a disciplined, scientific approach, rather than a non-scalable, miscategorised overview of online opinions. Companies must systematically implement a scientific methodology that moves from mere social listening to social intelligence. This means analysing the content of Big Data, respectfully extracting meaning from public conversations, and making actionable sense out of what is being said. Only in this way can social sources be used smartly to activate and recalibrate marketing, customer service, competitive insights, fruitful prospecting and new business programmes. Of course it’s also important to refine scientific analysis by bringing human judgement into every equation, incorporating a ‘teachable’ algorithm that finds real meaning behind Big Data. It’s critical not to misinterpret artificial results that might skew business intelligence and result in bad decisions.
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