SEMRush CMO Olga Andrienko Discusses Latest Study on Voice Search Voice search is rising in popularity on mobile devices. Once voice search is enabled on a device, you can use it hands-free and most people do when they’re out and about looking for something. Semrush, a popular service search engine optimization consultants use for keyword…

The way things are headed, social media marketing courses could soon be a thing of the past.  A new social media sharing startup for content marketing agencies called Lately uses artificial intelligence to generate and optimize social media posts automatically. I spoke to Kate Bradley Chernis, the founder and CEO of Lately, a tool that’s…

With the onslaught of a pandemic, startups are pitching investors these days via Zoom. At least not for Blair Silverberg, CEO and co-founder of Capital, which uses a proprietary analytics platform to identify startups worth funding, and accelerates the fundraising process in stride. Blair started investing young. He turned $5,000 in Bar Mitzvah money into…

B2B content marketing, the cornerstone of a brand’s online presence, encompasses creating, earning, sharing, and spreading your brand messaging. More than just being a vehicle for sharing your brand’s messaging, though, content marketing can be — and is — an effective way to meet your organization’s bottom-line goals. With great content, you can attract new…

If you are a content marketing agency owner representing product-led growth marketing businesses, you need to know product-led marketing. In SaaS marketing, there are two popular models: Enterprise doesn’t need as much volume, but you need to account for a long sales cycle and the responsibility of closing deals will fall almost exclusively on the…

Building a successful startup from the ground up will always involve some level of creative problem-solving and business savvy. But knowing how to build a startup that’s also an online marketplace comes with its own set of unique challenges. When I asked how he engineered an online marketplace that fulfilled both supply and demand needs…

In the final episode of this 3-part series, you’ll hear how organizations can shift toward solution-based selling. In part 1 we covered aligning goals. In part 2 we talked about a framework for approaching alignment. In this final episode, we discuss solution-based selling. Most lost sales don’t go to the competitors, they go to no…

In part 2 of this 3-part series, Jeff Davis, author of Create Togetherness acknowledges that sales alignment is an evolution. In part 1, we discussed aligning sales and marketing by aligning KPIs. Today, we discuss the four stages companies typically advance through on the road to alignment.  In this episode of the B2B Lead Gen…

“I don’t want salespeople to be marketers or marketers to be salespeople. Instead, I want to help leverage each other to reach our goals.  Jeff Davis Learning how to master sales and marketing alignment is an ongoing process for many organizations. But, if you want to outperform your competitors and optimize your sales process, it’s…

In an always-on world, public relations firms with the ability to monitor broadcast media help clients stay current on how their brand, industry, and competitors are being covered in broadcast and cable television. This gives you a huge advantage when it comes to defending your brand and managing your reputation, particularly in the event of…