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e-commerce
The unrelenting rise of high-end business to business e-commerce
For a long time, as far as business to business was concerned, e-commerce was only a solution for low-end mass-market B2B products. High-end B2B businesses were supposedly immune and went on with their business as if the Internet hadn’t happened. One used to think that hard-to-sell products and services such as bespoke industrial solutions,…
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digital marketing
The impact of website research on CX (survey)
Website search, i.e. searching for information or a product on a website (rather than on a search engine such as Bing, Duckduckgo or Google), is a topic that is rarely debated in the world of marketing and especially digital marketing. This is to us, we must admit, rather puzzling and…
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b2b marketing & sales
B2B marketers should strive to know their customers better
Marketers should strive to know their B2B customers better. As implausible as it may sound, since it’s the essence of their job, B2B marketers may not always have a clear idea of what their customers actually want. In this podcast, Andrew Deutsch from the Fangled group discusses the misalignment in…
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Content Marketing
High-quality B2B white papers: 3 tips and 3 pitfalls to avoid
How to write high-quality B2B white papers? the question may seem trivial but is far from simple. To answer it as best we can, we have gathered 3 success factors and 3 pitfalls to avoid at all costs for writing high-quality white papers. High-quality B2B white papers: 3 tips and 3 pitfalls…
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social media & social networks
B2B marketing: are we all potential opinion leaders?
Are we all potential opinion leaders in B2B? Bruno Fridlansky answers in the affirmative. According to him, this holds true not only for digital media but also in real life. Bruno emphasises the aspects that will resonate with those of us who have worked as clients or consultants. The rest…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
The future of cryptocurrencies may not be the one you think
When it comes to cryptocurrencies, and given the sheer volume of information poured into the media with each tweet from Elon Musk on the subject, it is quite likely that when you ask the woman or man in the street, you discover that they have only one word on their…
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Content Marketing
Content marketing 2021 statistics: Semrush shows content is truly King
Content marketing statistics are both plentiful and quite vague but a 2021 Semrush survey has shed quite a bit of light on how significant this discipline has become. What is the importance of content marketing, its weight, and its budgets? As I was preparing for a lecture I delivered recently, I…
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digital Transformation
Digital Shift: 1 trillion website visits prove it’s real and here to stay
The digital shift is a fairly recurring topic for our visionary readers. But what evidence do we have of this? Is it just an impression or a reality? During the Adobe Summit 2021, of which Visionary Marketing was a partner, we discovered the Digital Economy Index (DEI), a fascinating initiative…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Malcolm Gladwell celebrates those informal networks spurred by digital
Informal networks have been known for a long time and so has the role of digital in their development. Malcolm Gladwell goes one step further and predicts that they will become the “new-normal” after this crisis we have experienced, and that a new society is born out of this development.…
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Marketing & Innovation
Adobe Summit: Real-time personalization on top of the marketing agenda
Personalization is on top of the marketing agenda in 2021 and for years to come, and I have invited Christophe Marée, Western Marketing Director EMEA at Adobe, to talk to us about the Adobe Summit 2021 event, of which Visionary Marketing is pleased to be a partner again this year.…
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e-commerce
2021 luxury market update : it’s all about digital and China
What is the status of the luxury market and digital in this Covidised 2021 world? A little more than three years ago, Philippe Jourdan, one of the world’s leading marketing experts regarding the luxury market, told me that the role of digital in the luxury market was not as significant…
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Marketing & Innovation
4 main ingredients for innovation in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is home to the world’s biggest innovation and tech giants. A true melting pot of innovation and creativity, the nerve centre of new technologies. Silicon Valley too, is a source of inspiration for many business people around the world who dream of discovering the secrets of this success.…
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