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Successful international marketing requires more than cloning your domestic marketing efforts

If you think it’s time to break into new markets, don’t just plan to clone your domestic marketing efforts. The strategy and messages that may resonate with home-country audiences may not work in foreign business landscapes. Before you start your global expansion plans, check these five marketing tactics:

The rise of AI for content marketing has made it much more difficult to stand out.

Your platforms generate a wealth of data that can be leveraged to create powerful PR and social media campaigns. Data-driven content builds trust and engages your audience. The data not only helps to tell your company’s story but also provides valuable insights that resonate with your audience.

Data-driven content has a distinct advantage: it is grounded in facts and provides value to your audience.

Your company sits on a treasure trove of data. Every click, login, support ticket, and feature usage tells a story that can help you understand customers, optimize operations, and accelerate growth. When analyzed collectively, this data reveals profound insights about industry trends, challenges, and business needs.

Standing out as an industry leader is not easy. Make it easier by positioning your company as the go-to expert in your field with the right approach to data - delivering concrete data that demonstrates deep industry understanding. Benchmarking reports, derived from your platform's wealth of user data, positions your company as an authoritative voice while providing invaluable insights to your market.

The past decade has seen a clear trend toward attenuated press releases. Gone are the days of public relations people writing long screeds, with endless quotes and reams of data. This is partially an outgrowth of the use of email, social media, and chat as the preferred forms of communication between the public relations community and the press (which, for our purposes, includes bloggers and analysts). The explosion of technologies and information, in general, has, in turn, led to journalists’ exploding email boxes. Press releases, though, are still important, perhaps even more important than ever; as AI is perpetually hungry, and your press releases can feed the beast. 

In today's competitive SaaS landscape, closing deals requires more than just persuasive sales tactics—it demands compelling, data-driven content that resonates with prospects and clearly demonstrates value. The good news? Your platform already contains the analytics gold needed to create powerful sales enablement materials that drive conversions.

Unlocking Your Data's Sales Potential

Your SaaS platform continuously gathers valuable insights that can transform sales conversations. Usage patterns reveal industry-specific needs, adoption trends highlight value realization timelines, and performance metrics demonstrate concrete ROI. These analytics aren't just operational data—they're the foundation for sales content that speaks directly to prospect pain points.

We've been supporting clients at trade shows since DRUPA in 2004 and our first RSA in 2008 and MWC in 2009. That’s all after my many years as a trade show exhibition manager.

Here's how K2 can provide you with the critical assistance you need for a successful trade show:

• Trade show evaluation – Some industries have more than 20 conferences from which to choose. We can help you decide which events will give you the most ROI, from the major show that you need to be at to "be seen" to the smaller events that directly reach your targeted audiences. 

• Speaking opportunity application process – We can work with your team to brainstorm and write a compelling application that will get you in front of the conference decision-makers.

Plan for success.

Trade shows are one of the few places where you can meet many potential buyers personally, putting your solutions center stage and making a great first impression on potential customers.

You need to remember that successful trade shows and getting great ROI from your enormous investment depend not only on having the best exhibit space, attention-grabbing graphics, high-tech demos and free takeaways. It also depends on avoiding common mistakes often made by both new and veteran marketers. Even seasoned professionals could fall into trade-show traps.

Instead, here are our tips about how to be prepared.

These days, you can DIY a lot of things, but PR isn’t necessarily one of them.

You want to get your message out there and generate buzz around your brand or product, but you DON’T want to deal with the costs associated with hiring a PR professional. These days when social media is king, you figure you might as well do it yourself. After all, it just seems faster, cheaper, and more effective to put out the word via LinkedIn.