Thu.Jun 23, 2022

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22 Questions To Ask Hiring Managers (and HR) in a Job Interview

Hubspot Marketing

"Do you have any questions for me?" We've all been on the receiving end of that question in an interview. Ask the right ones and you'll make a strong impression. Otherwise, you risk blending in with the other applicants. Discover some valuable questions that will make hiring managers' and HR professionals' ears perk up. Try them at your next interview and see how the conversation shifts in your favor.

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Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Update Spiking June 23rd

Search Engine Roundtable

We have been watching what I named the Google Juneteenth Search Ranking Algorithm tremors since the weekend and it is now spiking even more this morning. Seems like some sites hit by the May 2022 core update are seeing some big recoveries, many are not, and sites in general are reporting on big swings in the Google search results.

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3 Simple Questions that Help You Write Better Headlines

CopyBlogger

Writers are communicators, and if you’re proud of your ideas, you’ll definitely want to learn how to write better headlines. Continue Reading. The post 3 Simple Questions that Help You Write Better Headlines appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Google Tests Rounded Favicons In Mobile Search Results

Search Engine Roundtable

Google is testing a rounded corner design for the favicons displayed in the mobile search results on snippets. Brodie Clark shared some examples on Twitter saying "On the back of recent testing of favicon sizing on mobile, a rounded version with a grey background has appeared. Similar to previous tests, the brand name/domain is also repeated at the top.".

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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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5 Meta Description Tips To Help Your Content Get the Clicks

Content Marketing Institute

Meta descriptions may be written late in your content process, but they shouldn’t be an afterthought. These tiny workhorses must capture curiosity and convey value in less than 156 characters. Try these tips to get the most from yours.

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20 Webinar Landing Page Examples That Will Boost Conversion Rates

Hubspot Marketing

Hosting a webinar is an excellent way to connect directly to your audience, raise awareness for your brand, and establish your organization as an expert in its field. According to Zippia, 73% of B2B webinar attendees become qualified leads while 20%-40% of B2C attendees become leads. With that said, one way to attract audiences to your webinar is to have a good webinar landing page.

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The importance of actively listening

AWeber

Your audience has all the insights you need to make informed decisions about your product or service offering. Actively engage with them and solicit their feedback to ensure you always deliver value. Most decisions are made stronger after considering the perspective and feedback of the people they’ll impact most. For a business owner or creator like you, this means your customers or audience.

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Google Adds LGBTQ+ Owned Business Attribute For Business Profiles

Search Engine Roundtable

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - LGBTQ+ owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier for customers to find and support them," Google said.

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How To Optimize Google Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) via @sejournal, @siliconvallaeys

Search Engine Journal

RSA is the default setting for Google Ads. Learn the best way to do testing in this step-by-step guide from Frederick Vallaeys. The post How To Optimize Google Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Updates To Google HTTP Status Codes, Googlebot & Job Posting Help Docs

Search Engine Roundtable

Google has made changes to a few of its Google search help documentation over the past couple of days. The documents updated include HTTP status codes, the Googlebot and job posting help documentation.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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PepsiCo’s strategies for marketing via online games and esports

Martech

Marketers have never had more opportunities to break into in-game advertising, due to the growing number of users and the evolving technology for brand placements. PepsiCo has a vast portfolio of beverages and foods, and Paul Mascali, PepsiCo’s head of gaming and esports, has put together a multipronged marketing strategy to connect the right products with the right customers in the right game environments.

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Bing Tests Secure & HTTPS Label On Search Result Snippets

Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft Bing is once again testing security labels on the search result snippets. Here is Bing testing adding a "secure" and "HTTPS" label on some search results based on my tests in multiple browser types.

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Forbes CMO Hall Of Fame Inductees On The Evolution Of Marketing And Marketing Influence

CMO Network

The chief marketers being inducted into this first class of The Forbes CMO Hall of Fame, share their thoughts on the evolution of marketing and marketing influence in the decade since the Forbes World's Most Influential CMOs list first launched.

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How to Write Instagram Captions That Increase Engagement

Many Chat

W hy are Instagram captions so important? Everyone knows that Instagram is primarily a visual social media platform, perfect for videos, photos and other graphic content. And yet, a good Instagram caption can make a huge difference in likes, comments and visibility. It might seem intimidating to produce great Instagram captions over and over again for each Instagram post.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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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Introducing The Forbes CMO Hall Of Fame

CMO Network

To mark the 10th Anniversary of the Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs list, we have created The Forbes CMO Hall of Fame, recognizing those chief marketers who have appeared, or would have in 2022, on the list at least five times since its inception.

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6 SEM Best Practices Growth Marketers Need To Master via @sejournal, @john_a_lee

Search Engine Journal

Follow the best practices outlined in this article to maximize the reach, impact, and value of your paid search campaigns. The post 6 SEM Best Practices Growth Marketers Need To Master appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Auditing and Fixing a Backlink Profile with Bill Hartzer

Internet Marketing Ninjas

Backlink audit is one of the most complicated SEO tasks these days. How do you know what is a good link and what is a bad link? To discuss a backlink audit, Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas , invited Bill Hartzer , a blogger, SEO, and marketer who started coding HTML websites back in the mid 1990s and has been an SEO expert for more than two decades.

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4 Secrets Your SEO Agency Doesn’t Want You To Know via @sejournal, @tonynwright

Search Engine Journal

SEO agencies work differently with various types of clients. Discover what they think behind the scenes of months-long SEO work to reach goals together. The post 4 Secrets Your SEO Agency Doesn’t Want You To Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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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Creating a user-centric pharma website: UX best practices

Econsultancy

In the age of Covid-19 and digitally-oriented healthcare engagement by both patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs), a pharma company’s web presence is more important than ever. Sometimes referred to as ‘portals’, pharma websites are the means through which HCPs and the general public can access information about pharma products and research, and the experience they […].

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SEO & Local Market Orientation For International Expansions via @sejournal, @motokohunt

Search Engine Journal

Local Market Orientation is the delicate balance of managing the expectations and needs of customers with the objectives, resources, and capabilities of your organization. The post SEO & Local Market Orientation For International Expansions appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Rethinking the marketing planning process for an agile world

Martech

The whole premise of agile marketing is exactly that: To be agile in our delivery of marketing assets, campaigns, educational content and product launches. To generate conversations within our industries around topics of interest to our clients that would surface the next big thing we’d embark on. The traditional annual marketing plan is a waterfall approach that does not support fast experiments.

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The Strategy Behind Building A Thriving Online Community For Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

The Strategy Behind Building A Thriving Online Community For Your Brand written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jenny Weigle. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jenny Weigle. Jenny has been creating, executing, and reviewing strategies for online communities for more than 10 years.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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By The Numbers: The Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs 2022 List

CMO Network

Some surprising insights and facts—or at least factoids—are to be gleaned from the 2022 Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs list.

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Work Blueprints: What They Are and How We Use Them at Buffer

Buffer Marketing

Do you ever wish there was a shortcut to better understanding everyone you worked with? I definite have. At Buffer, we've had assorted documents to communicate work preferences over the years. Some folks have kicked off specific documents called operating manuals or leadership blueprints. Still, we've never had anything centralized or standardized, which can be a superpower for this type of internal communication and collaboration, especially as a fully remote team.

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Create campaign impact by reaching the Workday Consumer

Martech

There’s a rise of the Workday Consumer who, due to changes stemming from the pandemic, unapologetically switches between employee, personal and consumer mode throughout the day. This behavior stands to have a significant impact on how your advertising engages them. Microsoft Advertising recently partnered with Forrester Consulting on research outlining how work and shopping behaviors have changed for people who work remotely.

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How to Effectively Calculate Instagram Engagement With These 7 Tools

Zumvu

Instagram is one of the most popular social media networking sites, with over 2 billion monthly users in 2021.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

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.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2022

Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

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Case study: Building a business community from the ground up

Businesses Grow

I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about what goes into building a business community — which I believe is a big part of the future of business. And when I think about community, my mind automatically goes to my friend Mark Masters and his lively You Are the Media group. Like many of us, Mark Masters struggled to build his marketing agency.

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The Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs List: 2022

CMO Network

Recognizing the 50 Most Influential CMOs in the World.

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5 Clues A Web Design Agency Isn’t Right For Your Business

InTouch Marketing

Let’s face it … we live in a world where it’s much easier to pull out your iPhone or tablet to search for a product or service that you need.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.