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THINKING

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

In today’s complex and fast-paced business environment, it can be tempting to “just try something” and see what happens. To move beyond wishful thinking and generate tangible results requires specific goals and a well-crafted marketing action plan.

We are believers in balancing thinking and doing. Understanding that working to explore new ideas helps us execute programs and plans that drive more revenue for our clients. We push ourselves and our clients to think early, often and over again. Here you will find some of our latest thinking. We invite you to tap into the following:

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FEATURED
Five Principles for B2B Branding

eBook

Arketi's Five Principles for a Compelling B2B Visual Brand

When well executed, a brand can evoke emotion, portray experiences, and communicate benefits. Arketi Group’s branding process was honed across more than 200 engagements with B2B tech companies over two decades. We’ve distilled these learnings into five principles for building a knock-their-socks-off brand.

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Insight

High-Tech Research on a Low-Tech Budget

When you give advice to management on marketing plans, campaigns and messaging, what type of feedback do you receive?

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High-Tech Research on a Low-Tech Budget Case Study

CORE

Five account-based marketing mistakes you’re probably making

Whether account-based marketing a truly innovative concept or just marketing’s latest shiny new toy, one thing is for sure. It won’t deliver results if you don’t do it right.

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Five account-based marketing mistakes you’re probably making Case Study

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4 things worth considering for PR and SEO to get along

With the typical B2B researcher performing 12 online searches before engaging with a brand, search and PR are on a collision course. To ensure that collision results in collaboration rather than recrimination, here are four things worth considering…

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4 things worth considering for PR and SEO to get along Case Study

Article

7 Tips for Marketing to Millennials

Working off our research and decades of experience, we have developed 7 tips for marketing B2B technology to millennials.

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7 Tips for Marketing to Millennials Case Study

CORE

Small business, big buzz

For technology providers selling to small businesses, generating media buzz in a crowded market can be challenging. NCR Small Business turned to Arketi Group to help them build awareness and draw more prospects into the funnel. (Spoiler: it worked out pretty well.)

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Small business, big buzz Case Study

Video & Webinar

5 Must-Haves for a Buyer-Centric B2B Website

Your company’s website is the first place anyone – in fact, most everyone – goes to understand who you are and what you do.

Arketi’s Jim Densmore walks through our top five must-haves to ensure a B2B website makes an impact on visitors.

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5 Must-Haves for a Buyer-Centric B2B Website Case Study

CORE

Why asking why makes us better marketers

The Arketi team has started asking “why?” more. It’s not that we’ve regressed back to our toddler days. Rather, we believe this simple question has the power to make all of us better marketers.

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Why asking why makes us better marketers Case Study

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Out of many, one

How do you build a brand for a newly-renamed company when many of its products have better-known names than their parent? Here’s how Aptean and Arketi brought order to chaos – and $21 million to the funnel.

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Out of many, one Case Study

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Who needs a PR or marketing agency?

We are often asked, “How do I know when I need an agency?” or “Do we have the right situation to hire an agency?” An agency can be a critical tool and resource to help your organization generate revenue. These four questions should help you decide if you need an agency partner.

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Who needs a PR or marketing agency? Case Study

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How Arketi and Cortera generated a firestorm of leads

Cortera, a provider of comprehensive business-to-business payment and purchase behavior insights, had a simple goal when they engaged Arketi. They wanted to generate several hundred new sales leads each month.

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How Arketi and Cortera generated a firestorm of leads Case Study

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Educational webcasts drive engagement and sales

Securing your position as a trusted partner through digital marketing.

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Educational webcasts drive engagement and sales Case Study

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How PMG used survey data to drive thought leadership

PMG, a provider of business process automation software, and Arketi Group brainstormed PR strategies to help the company capture more industry mind-share and media attention. The joint team settled on the idea of a thought-leadership survey campaign that would focus on a major concern of its target audience, IT professionals: the proliferation of cloud solutions in the enterprise.

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How PMG used survey data to drive thought leadership Case Study

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Bulletproof your marketing budget

As marketers, we’re all familiar with the adage “Half my advertising dollars are wasted – I just don’t know which half.” During the past decade, our CEOs and CFOs have given up worrying about which half it is – they’ve just slashed the marketing budget, and left you to figure out where to make the savings. And if you want more budget, you’d better have a bulletproof case for it.

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Bulletproof your marketing budget Case Study

Article

Should Products and Company Name Be One in the Same?

A company with a strong brand has a better chance of making the short-list of vendors when a company considers a major purchase.

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Should Products and Company Name Be One in the Same? Case Study

Insight

How to Work with Industry Analysts

What analysts do, how they operate – and how they can add value to your technology company

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How to Work with Industry Analysts Case Study

CORE

From buyers to believers

We’ve all read articles on marketing and client service comparing the cost of keeping an existing customer to the cost of acquiring a new one. Across almost every industry, new customers cost more than old ones – so customer satisfaction, as a means to retention, is “job one” for most businesses.

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From buyers to believers Case Study

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The role of collateral in a digital age

Traditionally, marketers have used printed collateral to communicate key messages and build a consistent brand image among customers and prospects. Now that email and the web are our primary means of information exchange, there are new considerations for what we used to call “collateral.”

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The role of collateral in a digital age Case Study

CORE

How to give a presentation in nine words

All communications professionals are called on to give presentations from time to time, and for many, the prospect can be daunting. But it doesn’t have to be hard. The secret to a great presentation can be summed up in nine simple words.

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How to give a presentation in nine words Case Study

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BRANDING BY TRUST: THE RISE OF THE B2B INFLUENCER

What’s all the hype around influencer marketing about? And how it can it work for B2B?

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BRANDING BY TRUST: THE RISE OF THE B2B INFLUENCER Case Study

Article

Account-Based Marketing Is On Fire! 8 Things to Know

As if we needed another approach to add to our growing set of marketing must-haves. But this one is real.

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Account-Based Marketing Is On Fire! 8 Things to Know Case Study

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Crisis Communications Checklist

A crisis can strike any company, often with no warning. Even the best-prepared executives can be caught off-guard.

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Crisis Communications Checklist Case Study