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Email Marketing in B2B: What It Does Well and What It Can't Do b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals Oct 26, 2026

Email marketing is sending commercial messages by email to people who have agreed to receive them, such as customers, past buyers, event attendees and newsletter subscribers. In B2B it's good at keepi...

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Predictive AI vs Generative AI in Marketing: What Each One Does ai b2b marketing marketing fundamentals Oct 22, 2026

Predictive AI uses past data to estimate what's likely to happen next: which accounts are likely to buy, which customers are likely to leave, or which ad is likely to get a response. Generative AI pro...

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Buyer Personas vs the Buying Committee: When Personas Help and When They Mislead b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals Oct 21, 2026

A buyer persona is a profile of one typical buyer: their role, what they're responsible for, what worries them about a purchase, and where they look for information. The buying committee is the group ...

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Competitor Analysis in B2B: What to Study and Which Decisions It Should Change b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 20, 2026

Competitor analysis is the study of the alternatives your target buyers are considering, so you can decide where to compete and how to win. In B2B, those alternatives include direct competitors, diffe...

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Value Proposition vs Positioning in B2B: What Each One Is and Which Comes First b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 19, 2026

Positioning is the place a business wants to hold in the minds of its target customers, compared with the competitors those customers are considering. The value proposition is the set of benefits the ...

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How to Move From Digital Marketing Into Marketing Strategy careers marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 17, 2026

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Marketing strategy is the set of decisions about which customers a business will serve and how it will create more value for them than competitors do. A digital marketer moves into marketi

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What Is B2B Marketing? How It Differs From B2C b2b marketing brand building marketing fundamentals Oct 16, 2026

B2B marketing (business-to-business marketing) is the marketing of products and services by one organisation to other organisations: businesses, government departments and non-profits. A payroll softw...

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The Marketing Mix in B2B: Product, Price and Place Are Marketing Decisions Too b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 16, 2026

The marketing mix is the set of decisions a business makes about its product, its price, where and how customers can buy (place), and how it communicates with them (promotion). These decisions are kno...

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What Is Digital Marketing? And Why It's Only Part of Marketing b2b marketing marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 16, 2026

Digital marketing is the use of online channels, devices and data to reach buyers and persuade them to act. It covers search, social media, email, content, display and video advertising, and the websi...

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B2B Positioning: How to Decide What Your Company Is Known For b2b marketing brand building marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 15, 2026

Kotler and Armstrong define positioning as arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place, relative to competing products, in the minds of target consumers.

The place is i...

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PPC Career Path: What a Paid Media Specialist Should Learn Next b2b marketing careers marketing fundamentals Oct 09, 2026

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A PPC career path used to reward skill inside the ad platforms: choosing keywords and audiences, setting bids and writing ad variations. The ad platforms now do most of the keyword, audience

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B2B Market Targeting: How to Choose Which Segments to Serve b2b marketing evidence marketing fundamentals marketing strategy Oct 08, 2026

Market targeting is the decision about which segments a company will serve. Kotler and Armstrong define it as evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to ente...

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