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Are you really building a personal brand on TikTok?

Businesses Grow

In 2014, Ethan Zuckerman, the inventor of the pop-up ad, wrote a lengthy apology for his creation in The Atlantic. I broke my own rule In many of my books and speeches, I implore marketers to stop doing what people hate — interrupting, intercepting, and spamming, for example. Here’s one thing that I know people hate: pop-up ads.

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My All-time Best Interviewer Was an AI Bot

Businesses Grow

To level-set new readers, I coined the term “ content shock ” in 2014 to explain why, in the long run, most content marketing is not economically sustainable. Is it possible that we’ve now entered an era of insight shock where even wisdom is becoming a commodity?”

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5 Ways to Turn 2014 Marketing Challenges Into 2015 Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There is good news about your 2014 challenges; they can turn into your 2015 successes. Without further ado, here are the 5 biggest challenges marketers faced in 2014, followed by my choice of tools to overcome them: 1. 2014 was a year of realization for many businesses, and many 2015 marketing strategies will reflect that.

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56 Reasons Why Content Marketing Works

Marketing Insider Group

56 Reasons Why Content Marketing Works: 2014 Edition from NewsCred. Customer acquisition requires many simultaneous tactics. Blogging and social media drive customer acquisition. 58% of B2B marketers and 60% of B2C marketers will increase their content marketing budgets in 2014. Marketing Profs ).

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The 11 Best Marketing Automation Software Tools in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

InfusionSoft (now Keap) has been around for a while (15+ years, I believe) and has helped thousands of marketers deliver on leads, revenue, and customer acquisition targets. It's also a relatively new player, only founded in 2014. Image Source. InfusionSoft. Overall, Drip is a powerful tool for e-commerce marketing automation.

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By the numbers: Diversity and inclusion are good business

Martech

The benefits of diversity and inclusion can be seen in stock and revenue performance, hiring and retention, and customer acquisition and loyalty. In 2014 it was 76%.) A culture of diversity and inclusion is the cause of it. A diverse marketing organization aids access to diverse markets. A big improvement. Forrester ).

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The Ultimate Guide to Relationship Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

There are plenty of studies that highlight the importance of customer retention -- oftentimes, customer retention has been found to be even more critical to your company's success than customer acquisition.

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