Aspiration Marketing

MAY 20, 2024

Industrial automation is absolutely essential for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Automation can be utilized in many ways by companies of all sizes. As the cost to automate has come down over the years, even smaller companies are able to benefit from its use. Industrial automation parts are more affordable than ever these days, and it is likely that you can add automation to your company with ease.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

We’re in a disruptive moment, according to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Although he is optimistic that Google AI Overviews and Search will drive more traffic and engagement, that is zero comfort for the many content creators who have seen their websites obliterated by Google in recent months. In a new interview, Pichai discussed concerns about Google hurting websites and businesses, as well as the future of Search, content and the web. ‘These are disruptive moments.’

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 15, 2024

Welcome to the final stage of the buyer's journey: the decision stage. Potential customers have compared features, weighed options, and now they're staring down the final hurdle: choosing YOU. This is the decision stage of the buyer's journey, a make-or-break moment where the right content can seal the deal.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

You want to capture more leads. But your marketing team is already running on fumes, attempting to drive results with limited resources. How can you use software to build a lead-generation engine that delivers big results? Marketing automations can help you streamline processes, increase productivity, and yes, capture more leads. Are you ready to shift your team into high gear?

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Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 20, 2024

Wondering how other marketers are using social media? Want to be sure your strategy is headed in the right direction? Find out what professional marketers plan to do with their organic activities, video marketing, ads, and content mixes over the next year in the 16th annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report. How Are Marketers Using […] The post 2024 Social Media Marketing Industry Report appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 17, 2024

OpenAI and Google’s AI ecosystems made headlines this week. They’re going all in on analyzing images, video, and speech features. But it’s what they didn’t say or do this week that marketers should pay attention to.

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Martech

MAY 17, 2024

Ah, there it is again — the genAI buzz. It’s going to transform B2B sales and marketing, right? You’ve been on LinkedIn. Like me, you’ve come across a flood of posts waving hands in the air — AI is a magic pill promising to skyrocket productivity, slash costs and practically do your laundry. But here’s the wet blanket: If AI adoption was as straightforward as these posts suggest, why does nearly everyone find themselves with a case of the hives when they think about it?

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 16, 2024

Want to ensure that your videos are relevant to your target audience? Looking for tactics to retain viewers at various stages of the customer journey? In this article, we’ll explore how to optimize your videos to reach the right people. Why Videos Tend to Underperform In today's digital age, video has become an essential tool […] The post How to Optimize Your Videos to Reach More of the Right People appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 14, 2024

The TikTok “ban” grabs the headlines. But TikTok’s impact on other social media algorithms has a bigger impact for marketers. Is your content and marketing strategy ready?

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that email marketing is one of the most effective marketing channels available today? But this impressive return on investment hinges on one crucial factor: a healthy subscriber list. Many businesses struggle with inactive subscribers on their email lists, hurting their overall email marketing efforts. The good news: you can fix this! This blog post will show you proven strategies to bring those inactive subscribers back into the fold and get your email marketing humming again.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 17, 2024

The Department of Justice’s laid out a damning case against Google in the antitrust lawsuit closing argument. Search Engine Land Managing Editor Danny Goodwin highlighted some of the damaging evidence – including how Google has been increasing costs for advertisers – in How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides In light of the revelations, I contacted search marketers to get their thoughts on Google Ads to evaluate the current confidence level.

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Martech

MAY 20, 2024

On March 20, 2024, the Position-less Marketer was introduced on MarTech.org and my keynote address at Optimove’s user conference. Since that initial announcement, we have introduced the term “Position-less Marketer” to hundreds of leading marketing executives and learned that readers and the audience interpreted it in several ways.

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 15, 2024

Wondering how to attract more clients? Looking for an innovative marketing model? In this article, you’ll discover a proven marketing strategy to get more clients from word-of-mouth referrals and self-promotion. Boosting Referrals and Self-Promotion for Marketing Agencies In today’s highly competitive marketing industry, agencies and entrepreneurs face the ongoing challenge of attracting new clients and […] The post How to Get More Clients From Referrals and Self-Promotion appeared first o

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Sprout Social

MAY 15, 2024

When you think of a social media manager’s job, you probably picture them planning and posting content all day. But there’s much more to the job description. That clever LinkedIn or eye-catching Instagram post? Social media managers brainstormed those ideas, wrote captions, designed visuals, researched hashtags and scheduled posts for the best engagement.

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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

Imagine a crowded marketplace, all vying for the attention of the same customers. In today's marketing landscape, this is no exaggeration. With 80% of businesses using a multi-channel approach , how do you make sure your voice cuts through the noise?

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Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool designed to help businesses create value for their customers. Typically, this relates to products or services. However, I have found the framework incredibly useful for content ideation, with customer fit and value at the heart of the process (as it should be). To help you put this into practice, take a copy of this templated worksheet and use it each time you need to generate some more ideas.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

It’s important that everyone is clear on the definition of customer experience. There are so many incorrect uses of the term and misconceptions about the concept itself that create confusion and dilutes the work that needs to be done. What is customer experience (CX)? Customer experience is the sum of all the interactions that a customer has with a brand over the life of the relationship with that brand.

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Practical eCommerce - Marketing

MAY 17, 2024

Matt Ragland has been creating marketing emails for a decade. Storytelling drives performance, he says. The post The Best Email Marketing Tells a Story appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 14, 2024

Effectively marketing a nonprofit event requires more than just hoping it becomes popular through word of mouth. At the same time, your nonprofit needs a way to publicize your event and build excitement without overspending on a limited event budget. If you have a nonprofit event coming up, whether small or large, explore the following key steps to create a plan for marketing your event.

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 14, 2024

Are you curious about AI’s role in marketing and business? Wondering about the practical and privacy implications of using AI in your work? In this episode, we explore how to begin adopting AI in your business. The Benefits and Challenges of AI Adoption To understand why artificial intelligence (AI) matters and how it can benefit […] The post Adopting AI for Business: Where to Begin appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

Google is afraid of being left behind and thinks the solution is to put AI in everything – regardless of whether users want or need it. That’s according to a LinkedIn post by Scott Jenson, a former Google employee of more than 15 years who left his role as a part-time senior UX designer last month. Why we care. Google is rapidly losing the trust of users, SEOs, advertisers , brands and content creators in its relentless AI push – even though AI is clearly not yet able to deliver on its pot

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

Why is putting a figure on marketing ROI still a problem? While advances in marketing analytics and technology have been made, a significant portion of businesses still report facing difficulties in calculating ROI. In the fall 2023 CMO survey , CMOs report Increased pressure from the CFO to properly report and improve marketing ROI. The problem of marketing ROI is simple, but it’s difficult to solve.

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Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

As ad costs have exploded in the last year, founders and CMOs are seeking alternatives to paid acquisition. HubSpot recognized the value of organic search early, enabling our growth alongside the expanding search landscape. While AI-powered search experiences are reshaping the search landscape, we're still firm believers in search. To vet whether organic search is an opportunity for you, you need to understand your Search TAM ( Total Addressable Market ).

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 15, 2024

When you film a great video for TikTok, you might naturally want to cross-post it to other platforms – maybe YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels. After all, why film all-new content when you already have something you’ve proven works?  However, as is the case with most competing sites, the algorithms of other top social media platforms don’t like content from other sites.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 16, 2024

You spend a lot of resources on the content published on your brand’s site. Why not get a credibility boost and a wider audience for it? Put on your PR hat (or get with the PR team) and get pitching with these tips.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

OpenAI didn’t launch its much-rumored ChatGPT Search product last week. Or did it? Has OpenAI quietly launched an early version of ChatGPT Search, as part of the GPT-4o rollout? ChatGPT (the free 4o version) now tells you the sites it is searching to provide its AI-generated answers and crawls and summarizes webpages. And the websites it lists aren’t hallucinations.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Martech

MAY 17, 2024

You’ve got a solid business plan and secured funding, and you are eager to introduce your brand to the media. You’re told that you need PR, which stands for press release, right? When discussing public relations with startups, the misconception that PR only involves press releases frequently surfaces. Add earned media — a specific type of PR — to the mix, and things get even murkier.

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The LeadG2 Blog

MAY 14, 2024

Getting traffic to your blog or website is great. It shows that your marketing efforts are reaching and resonating with audiences. But getting readers isn’t always enough. Businesses trying to generate leads need engagement and follow-through. When putting together blogs and other content, you can’t assume people visiting your site will subscribe or click to subscribe – unless they’re prompted to.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

Over the past decade, Instagram has grown exponentially, with more than a billion monthly active users. However, with that increase in users has come an equal rise in fake accounts. According to this report, as of 2019, there were approximately 95 million fake Instagram accounts, representing about 9.5% of the platform's total user base​ With about 1 billion active users, that means roughly 1 in 10 Instagram accounts are fake.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 15, 2024

Context matters in your content. Contextual links matter in your SEO strategy. Discover three strategies to acquire contextual links to boost your content in the eyes of Google and the linking sites’ audiences.

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