The Rise & Rise of Account-Based Marketing

Account-based Marketing or ABM has ascended rapidly from relative obscurity to being one of the most talked about trends in B2B marketing.]The industry dialogue from only a year ago has changed enormously.From three years ago it’s almost unrecognizable.

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Slack and Company

Founded in 1988, Slack and Company is one of the world’s first integrated marketing communications (IMC) agencies and one of the very few that works exclusively with business-to-business marketers. The company works principally with change agents and disruptors to build strong business brands and generate profitable demand for their products, services and ideas. The agency is a charter member of the Worldwide Partners (WPI) B2B Network, the world’s largest network of independent agencies that specialize in b2b marketing or offer it as an area of practice.

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State of the Buyer Report: Future of Work Edition

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

Our “State of the Buyer Report: Future of Work Edition” illustrates how marketers can leverage data to develop a better ABM strategy that prioritizes the right accounts and engages them with personalized messaging and content. It examines five topic areas impacting purchase decisions surrounding today’s hybrid workforce—cloud infrastructure, hybrid work, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity—, and provides actionable takeaways for marketers to reach the buying centers that are researching and actively engaging with relevant content and advertising.

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How Does Your Sales Development Program Measure Up?

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

As technology markets have become increasingly competitive over the last several years, companies have had to increase their prospecting capabilities to deliver new growth. Marketing-led demand generation has not done nearly enough to provide necessary pipeline coverage. New technology has massively increased the outreach capabilities of sales development teams and along with it, increased pressure from investors has been exerted on these teams to make up the difference with ever-increasing activity levels.

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How to Win Market Share with a Customer-Centric Lens

whitePaper | May 18, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, competitive analysis is a foundational process that reinforces and clarifies business cases or campaign roadmaps by identifying gaps and potential differentiators. A competitive analysis has become essential to developing and identifying a winning strategy for growth and success—essential when, on average, a business can have 25 direct competitors. In the traditional sense, this would equate to an analysis of competitors, their products, and their messaging. But does that serve the purpose of identifying competitive gaps, or the ultimate goal of winning market share through displacement? Effective competitive displacement and competitive analysis need to be customer-centric above all else.

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4 Steps To Deliver A Successful ABM Campaign

whitePaper | January 10, 2023

92% of B2B marketing specialists worldwide rated ABM as extremely effective per a Forrester study in 2015. Since then, this number has likely increased. ABM allows your business to focus on high-value accounts, to align your marketing and sales efforts and thereby, to achieve better results.

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Achieve More With Buyer Intent

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

No matter where your software or SaaS business finds itself in the current cycle, buyer intent intelligence can help you navigate unknowns and better position your teams and business for future success. In unpredictable business cycles such as the COVID-19 global pandemic or the introduction of new data privacy legislation such as GDPR or the CCPA, sales and marketing teams may find themselves overwhelmed by leads for products and services that are in high demand, or they may struggle with a complete drop-off in business with no leads hitting their funnel at all. To achieve optimal performance and maximize campaign outcomes, marketing organizations increasingly turn to third-party intent data as a key resource to assist with revenue generation, customer retention and growth.

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Customer Experience is broken. Learn how to bridge CX gaps using AI.

whitePaper | December 20, 2022

Customers are engaging with businesses on several channels, both online and offline. They want curated brand experiences that reflect an understanding of their preferences and needs. But the sad truth is that most businesses aren’t able to bridge the experience gap due to a host of reasons. This ebook explores these reasons and provides a deep dive into the essential elements of a future-ready customer service strategy that leverages AI and automation.

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Spotlight

Slack and Company

Founded in 1988, Slack and Company is one of the world’s first integrated marketing communications (IMC) agencies and one of the very few that works exclusively with business-to-business marketers. The company works principally with change agents and disruptors to build strong business brands and generate profitable demand for their products, services and ideas. The agency is a charter member of the Worldwide Partners (WPI) B2B Network, the world’s largest network of independent agencies that specialize in b2b marketing or offer it as an area of practice.

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