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We've recently done a series of webinars about how to maximize the value of ChatGPT for marketing strategy and tactics.

Topics: Content, Marketing, AI, ChatGPT

Or How to Get the Most Bang from Your Inbound Marketing Buck

While marketing budgets are growing and more and more companies are leveraging inbound marketing, many CEOs want to know: what returns are we getting out of our investment to prove that inbound marketing is the way to go?

 One, inbound has now displaced outbound in terms of clearly measurable ROI; two, the ROI areas prove the effectiveness of inbound marketing; and three, 10 metrics to consider when measuring inbound ROI.

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Persona, Inbound marketing, Customer communications

Marketers increasingly recognize that if they want higher ROI, more qualified sales leads, lower cost per acquisition, and increased brand authority, inbound marketing is essential. Inbound marketing is unlike traditional outbound marketing approaches that have marketers vying for customers’ attention via TV and radio ads, direct mail, trade shows, telemarketing, and cold calling. Instead, inbound focuses on having potential leads come to you via company-created Internet content that drives visitors to your website, engages them, and helps your sales team convert them into customers and loyal brand followers.

Topics: Blog, Content, Marketing, Social media, Inbound marketing, Customer communications, Audience, Personas

Committing to inbound marketing means attracting and growing your leads and customer base via valuable and highly customized content and experiences. To successfully drive inbound marketing and sales, three things must happen:

Topics: Content marketing, Inbound marketing, Customer communications, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Hubspot

 

Topics: Public relations, Media resources, Israel

As a 20+ year comms professional, economics student, and someone immersed in the start-up world, here’s my perspective on the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis.

It could have been only a cold but then it turned into fatal pneumonia because….

Topics: Start-ups, Business

Implement almost any type of marketing campaign, and you’ll find that getting truly qualified leads is like trying to hit targets you can’t see.

Not so with social media campaigns.

By marketing to your followers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or anywhere else your customers may be, you’re reaching out to people who already love, support, or are interested in your company, or have had a prior relationship or encounter with you - in other words, a qualified lead.

Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Messaging, Personas, Client relations, Shared media, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook, Reputation

Since its release, ChatGPT has taken the internet by a storm. Self described as a: “large language model that was trained by OpenAI, ChatGPT is capable of understanding and generating natural language text, which allows it to perform a variety of tasks such as answering questions, generating written content, and more.”

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Customer communications, Message, ChatGPT

The news situation is in flux right now. The demand for news is increasing – web traffic was up about 23% at top news sites the week of March 9 from the previous week and up 31% from the week of Jan. 6, and fewer subscribers are canceling. However, many U.S. national and global news outlets are cutting back to skeleton staff due to plummeting ad revenues.

Topics: Media coverage, Media, Customer communications, Messaging, Personas, PR, Internal communications, Corporate communications, Technology

K2 Global Communications has been working with Israeli technology companies for more than 15 years. As such, we have a good overall perspective on the key industries and players in the Israeli ecosystem.

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Audience, Messaging, PR, Internal communications, Corporate communications