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Share Your Expertise in the 2021 State of B2B Influencer Marketing Survey

The past year or more has taught B2B marketer many lessons, especially the importance of creating digital first experiences that are credible, authentic and relevant to specific buyers. As part of the digital transformation of marketing, many B2B companies have adjusted their go-to-market approach to satisfy the changing customer expectations that have evolved during the pandemic.
One of those adjustments in B2B marketing has been the increasing role of influence in delivering credible, authentic and relevant digital experiences. Our initial B2B Influencer Marketing research from 2020 showed that going into the pandemic, confidence in working with B2B influencers was very high as were expectations of outcomes.
Despite the growing confidence in working with B2B influencers over the past year, today there are important questions to be answered as more B2B brands enter the realm of influence and grow more sophisticated with the practice.
Much of B2B influencer marketing has emphasized working with industry experts external to the organization, but what about growing influence from within? How does influencer marketing work across departments? How do employee advocacy, growing executive influence and working with industry influencers intersect to deliver better customer experiences and marketing performance?
At TopRank Marketing we are proud to work on influencer content marketing and executive social programs for some of the biggest B2B brands in the world. We also know that our blog community represent a wealth and depth of B2B marketing experience. We invite you to share that expertise in our 2021 State of B2B Influencer Marketing Survey.
Your insights will help elevate the practice of B2B Influencer Marketing and help the industry see what’s working, what’s not and where the future of influence is in 2021 and beyond.
For the 2021 report, we’ll be collecting data on all aspects of influencer marketing for B2B brands as well as insights from practitioners like you.

In the 45 page 2020 report we featured key findings and statistics about strategy, tactics, budgets and measurement as well as B2B influencer marketing case studies from SAP, LinkedIn, Cherwell Software and Monday.com. We also highlighted influencer marketing insights from B2B executives at Adobe, AT&T Business, IBM, MarketingProfs, Salesforce, SAP, Traackr, Treasure Data and more.
For the 2021 report, we’ll be sharing insights on growing marketing momentum with influence, the next level of Always-On influence, new best practices, budgets, technology and measurement plus all new case studies and insights from B2B marketing professionals. We’ve also been working on a fresh list of the most influential voices in the B2B world on the topic of influence in marketing and their predictions for the future.
If you have worked with influencers in the past year, then you’ll have valuable insights to share. You can also enter our giveaway of five $100 Amazon gift cards and early access to the findings of the report.
The survey takes just a few minutes and that investment in time will go a long way towards helping answer some of the key questions about working with internal and external influencers.
Optimizing marketing experiences with influence represents one of the most important digital growth strategies in 2021 and beyond. Take the 2021 survey today and join us in helping B2B marketers at all levels of influencer marketing experience level up their strategy, best practices and operations to build momentum in 2021 and beyond.
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I problemi dell’ufologia, spiegati con un quiz
Ieri ho lanciato un quizzello su Twitter:
Test per ufologi: date la spiegazione corretta per questa foto. pic.twitter.com/NRUJSAkiUr
— Paolo Attivissimo (@disinformatico) July 17, 2021
Molti di coloro che hanno risposto hanno teorizzato macchie sull’obiettivo oppure oggetti sul vetro della finestra attraverso la quale sarebbe stata scattata la foto; altri hanno ipotizzato droni o semplicemente fotoritocchi. Alcuni si sono lasciati distrarre dal bianco e nero e hanno pensato a una foto d’epoca. Altri ancora hanno pensato che si trattasse di una nave sul mare. Insomma, le ipotesi non sono mancate.
Ma come avevo preannunciato, in realtà la foto contiene tutti gli elementi necessari per la sua spiegazione.
Primo, la località. In basso a sinistra si nota il profilo molto particolare del Duomo di Pavia. Per cui la città è Pavia.
Conoscendo la storia della città, è abbastanza facile dedurre che non può trattarsi di una foto d’epoca perché manca la Torre Civica accanto al Duomo. La Torre, infatti, crollò nel 1989; la notizia fece grande scalpore.
Bisogna infatti fare attenzione agli automatismi mentali che usiamo quando guardiamo una foto. Se è in bianco e nero, facilmente ci viene da pensare che sia una foto antica; viceversa, se è a colori diamo per scontato che sia recente.
Per esempio, direste mai che la foto qui sotto risale a oltre cento anni fa? È del 1915 (grazie a pol per la segnalazione).
Alcuni hanno teorizzato un oggetto in realtà altamente improbabile: un dirigibile. L’idea che un dirigibile sorvoli Pavia in tempi recenti sembra assurda, ma in realtà è successo proprio ieri: un dirigibile marchiato Goodyear sta infatti sorvolando buona parte del nord Italia.
Però questa è una notizia che molti ieri non hanno visto; immaginate quanto sarà difficile sapere questo dettaglio fra dieci o vent’anni, quando questa foto sarà ancora in giro. Questo è uno dei problemi fondamentali dell’ufologia: la mancanza di dati, spesso irrimediabile, che permetterebbe spiegazioni e demistificazioni.
C’è poi da considerare che in ufologia gioca un ruolo importante anche la manipolazione intenzionale. Molti “ufologi” sono ciarlatani che fabbricano foto false. Anche la foto del quiz è un “falso”: infatti l’originale in realtà è a colori ed è una porzione volutamente sfocata di un video.
Per questo è importantissimo esigere che chi ha fatto la foto o il video renda disponibile l’originale e ci si deve rifiutare di fare qualunque analisi su copie di copie di copie. Il fatto stesso di non mettere a disposizione l’originale va considerato sintomo di probabile ciarlataneria. Nel caso che presento qui, se io avessi pubblicato direttamente il video originale il mistero non sarebbe neanche nato.
Questo piccolo esperimento mostra quanto è facile creare una foto ufologica senza neppure ricorrere a fotomontaggi, e quanto lavoro di informazione e deduzione occorre per scoprire la spiegazione di una singola foto.
È per questo motivo che non è giusto dire “ah, ma questa non l’hai spiegata, quindi il fenomeno è reale”. No. Semplicemente in tantissimi casi mancano tempo e informazioni sufficienti a spiegare, per cui non si può affermare nulla. Non si può dare una spiegazione certa, ma allo stesso tempo e per lo stesso motivo non si può dire “è un veicolo alieno”.
Ed è per lo stesso motivo che non si può perdere tempo a investigare approfonditamente ogni singola foto sgranata e priva di contesto che viene segnalata: si finirebbe per essere sommersi dalla fuffa.
Grazie a tutti per aver partecipato: spero che vi siate divertiti. Ringrazio anche mio figlio Simone che ha registrato il video.
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Facebook Launches New ‘Creative Guidance Navigator’ To Provide Marketing Stats and Tips
Facebook has launched a new mini-site of interest to digital marketers, highlighting a variety of the social giant’s ad campaign options, with best-practice examples of how many of the formats are being put to use by top brands, Facebook recently announced. Social Media Today
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IBM CMO is taking ‘a completely new approach’ to B2B marketing
Telling B2B technology marketing stories and creating relationships that add value are key in a fully new approach to B2B marketing, according to Carla Piñyero Sublett, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at IBM. Campaign Asia
Microsoft Debuts Multimedia Ads For Search
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Augmented Reality Ads See Better Reception Than Other Digital Formats
Some 75 percent of consumers say that they are more likely to notice ads that utilize augmented reality (AR) features, with 70 percent noting they’d like to view more AR ads in the future — two of several statistics of interest to digital marketers contained in recently-released survey data. Adweek
2 in 3 B2B Marketers to Up Their MarTech Spend
68 percent of B2B marketers say they plan to spend more on marketing technology in the coming year, with more than a quarter planning to significantly increase their martec budgets during the same timeframe, according to newly-release survey data. MarketingCharts
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE:

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TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS:
- Lane R. Ellis — What’s Trending: Summer Standouts — LinkedIn (client)
- Lee Odden — 10 Online Marketing Tips to Gather and Convert More Leads — Small Business Trends
- TopRank Marketing — 4 SEO Factors to Consider Before Removing Outdated Website Content — Content Marketing Institute
- Lee Odden — GUEST COLUMN: What marketers will need to learn about voice and audio — Indian Television
- TopRank Marketing — Are there lessons to be learned from Love Islanders? Brand influencing confirms its worth in the B2B space — IBA International
- Lee Odden — The 12 Best Ecommerce Marketing Strategies You Should Try in 2021 — eCommerce Fastlane
- Lee Odden — Your Website – Another Business Asset — WrightIMC
Have you come across your own top B2B marketing news item from the past week of industry news? Please drop us a line in the comments below.
Thanks for joining us for this week’s TopRank Marketing B2B marketing news, and please return again next Friday for more of the week’s most relevant B2B and digital marketing industry news. In the meantime, you can follow us at @toprank on Twitter for even more timely daily news.
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