Wed.May 11, 2022

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Meet the New Unbounce Community—A Space to Connect, Learn, and Grow Smarter

Unbounce

We earthlings are always searching for a sense of belonging. That’s right, even in marketing. Who knew? Whether you’re new to a marketing role, still getting your foot through the door, or a master of the game—the forever-changing nature of the marketing world can get downright exhausting and, at worst, lonely. Trust us: We’ve been there.

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4 Trends That Will Shape the Future of Your Content Program

Content Marketing Institute

No one knows for sure what the future holds. But these educated guesses (from people on the front lines of content tech adoption) will help you keep up with and maybe even get ahead of audience preferences.

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SERP Trends & Top Keyword Data By Industry via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Search Engine Journal

SERP Trends By Industry: Learn how to create your content based on the SERP features that display for your industry. The post SERP Trends & Top Keyword Data By Industry appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Google Erased The Keyword Density Slide From Digital Marketing Certification Coursework

Search Engine Roundtable

Yesterday we reported that Google's SEO section of its digital marketing coursework for its certification program spoke about the importance of keyword density and word count. Well, within 24 hours, Google has removed that content from the coursework.

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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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ManyChat Launches WhatsApp Chat Marketing Automation

Many Chat

New channel will help businesses and brands increase leads, drive sales and improve customer support. San Francisco, CA— May 11, 2022 — ManyChat , the world’s leading chat marketing platform for 1.5 million businesses around the world, today announced the launch of WhatsApp Chat Marketing Automation. The new channel offering will allow businesses and brands who use WhatsApp to communicate with customers and automate their marketing and customer support.

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5 Automotive SEO Best Practices For Driving Business In 2022 via @sejournal, @AdamHeitzman

Search Engine Journal

Want to improve the online visibility of your automotive business and drive new customers in the dealership door? You need SEO to outrun the competition. The post 5 Automotive SEO Best Practices For Driving Business In 2022 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Success In The PPC Automation Age: A Paid Search Marketing Roadmap via @sejournal, @TheCopyTrail

Search Engine Journal

What do you need to know to be a successful PPC marketer in the age of automation? The post Success In The PPC Automation Age: A Paid Search Marketing Roadmap appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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A Guide to Using ManyChat for WhatsApp

Many Chat

Engage, nurture and convert your audience now on WhatsApp! ManyChat is happy to announce that we have officially fully integrated with WhatsApp and is open for all businesses to use. As an official WhatsApp Business Service Provider, ManyChat integrates directly with the WhatsApp Business API, taking the developer’s work away and allowing you to start collecting contacts in a few simple steps.

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How The World’s Largest B Corp Natura (Owner Of Body Shop, Avon And Aesop) Uses Purpose To Drive Performance And WellBeing

CMO Network

Natura & Co is a Brazilian global personal care cosmetics group headquartered in São Paulo currently including Natura Cosméticos, Aesop, The Body Shop and Avon. With 35,000 employees in 100+ countries and revenues of $7.9 billion in 2021, the company is a global powerhouse of progressive brands.

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How-to guide: Create a sustainable, high-performing SEO and content strategy

Martech

Consumers are an inquisitive lot. They seek out the best prices, look for new recipes, explore options for travel destinations, find doctors and new restaurants and bike trails and they use search engines more than any other channel to do it. Marketers of all stripes know this, which may be why, on average, marketers are investing more resources into content and SEO in 2022.

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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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Industry Honorees Cited Human Connection And Empathy As Most Critical Factors In Marketing Success- and Their Own Success

CMO Network

Honorees of the 2022 Marketing Hall of Fame Award: Marc Pritchard, Ann Mukherjee, Bozoma Saint John and Antonio Lucio each shared the belief that there is one factor above all that is critical for marketing success today. Not coincidently it was also a factor in their own success.

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Online inflation is beginning to ease

Martech

The latest Adobe Digital Price Index (DPI) finds online shopping prices still increasing YoY but at a slower rate. In April 2022, prices showed a 2.9% increase over April 2021, but missed the record breaking 3.6% YoY increase seen in March. April was the 23rd consecutive month of online price inflation, but more than half the categories tracked by Adobe showed a price decrease from March to April.

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Google Now Supports Education Q&A Structured Data

Search Engine Roundtable

Google has added a new page to its search developer documents for Education Q&A structured data. It seems similar to the Google Q&A structured data, do you remember when Google added the STEM-education related guidelines to that page?

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Social proof ideas that go beyond the traditional testimonial

Quikly

As a marketer, you know just how much power the thoughts and opinions of others have on consumer behavior. It’s the reason why brands create space for customer reviews, expert endorsements and awards.

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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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Getting Ready For GA4: Saving Your Historical Data via @sejournal, @KayleLarkin

Search Engine Journal

Migrating your historical data shouldn't be stressful. Discover how to do it easily with this step-by-step GA4 guide. The post Getting Ready For GA4: Saving Your Historical Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Why We Increase Our Team’s Salaries Every Year

Buffer Marketing

You may have already seen our salaries and our salary formula, but another part of our process is to annually review the benchmarks that we use in the formula. To do this, we look at the data source for our salaries and make sure that all of our team’s salaries are keeping up with current market rates. We’ve been doing this since 2018, and we never decrease salaries during a rebenchmarking.

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Google Scene Exploration Searches The World Around You via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

At its annual I/O conference held today, Google announces an upgrade to multisearch that conducts simultaneous queries about objects around you. The post Google Scene Exploration Searches The World Around You appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Todd and Laure Fisher. Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. 500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world.

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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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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 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. That was quick, within 24-hours.

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How To Use Nano Influencer Marketing To Grow Your Audience?

OnPassive Marketing

One of the most exciting aspects of digital marketing is the rise of nano influencers. Influencers have achieved a certain level of fame and popularity but are not necessarily famous for their personality or creative skills. They may be celebrities, sports stars, politicians, or even regular people with high social media activity and followers. The most important thing about them is that they have an audience with a broader reach and can influence them.

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Google Tests New Ad Format With Swipeable Images Carousel

Search Engine Roundtable

Google seems to be testing a new search ad format that has really large images that you can swipe through and learn more about. The ads, when clicked on, expand to show you a large image, with the name of the product, the price, ratings/reviews and a "show now" button.

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GA4: What marketers need to know for a successful transition

Martech

Google rocked the boat for marketers last month with its latest announcement. Google will be sunsetting Google Analytics 3 (Universal Analytics) for free customers in July 2023 and frr paid customers in October 2023. What we know. The biggest takeaway for marketers is that Universal Analytics (UA) is not compatible with GA4. This means users who rely on year-over-year metrics will need to act quickly to implement GA4 by July 2022, one year before UA expires.

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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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Google Maps Others Are Asking With Prompt To Answer This Question Carousel

Search Engine Roundtable

We know Google has a lot of those question and answers sections in the Google Maps business listings. We saw Google showing this in the maps interface (not just the search interface) recently but now Google is showing "others are asking" to trigger more people to answer questions about the local business or venue.

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Narrowcasting: What Marketers Can Learn From Bootstrapping A Niche Podcast

CMO Network

The exponential growth of Podcasts is all around us – with some forecasting the number of podcast listeners will surpass 160 million in 2023 following increases of around 20 million each year.

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Bing Wikipedia Box In Search Results Now Scrolls On Hover

Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft Bing has updated the interactive Wikipedia box in the search results to scroll based on where you hover your mouse on the left side of the box. We first spotted this Wikipedia box in Bing Search back in March but it seems Microsoft upgraded it a bit to jump you to the section you are most interested in.

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4 Types of PR Content to Help You Reach Your Business Goals

Influence & Co

This article was co-written by Chelsea Branscum.

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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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5 Best Practices for Sponsorship Advertising for CPG Brands

ConsumerTalk

Sponsorship marketing has become a $60 billion industry that continues to grow. When done right, sponsorship marketing for CPG brands can lead to more name recognition, new (and enthusiastic ) customers, and an improved bottom line for your brand.

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Google's Martin Splitt In Stormtrooper Uniform

Search Engine Roundtable

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What you need to know before creating a social media RFP (template included)

Sprout Social

So, you’ve been tasked with creating a social media RFP. These questionnaires set the foundation for successful agency or vendor partnerships. But, like all formal documents, creating them can be stressful. Thankfully, you don’t need to start from scratch. There are quite a few templates you can use to guide you through the process, including ours. All you need to do is align on your project and goals.

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Barilla’s VP Data & Analytics: ‘at the end of the day, we want to get more people to enjoy our brilliant pasta’

Econsultancy

Barilla’s Lyndsay Weir presenting at Econsultancy Live: CX 2022. Photo credit: ASV Photography.   In marketing, and in business more generally, we often hear that decision-making should be “data-driven” Data can yield all kinds of crucial insights into customer behaviour and preferences, as well as helping to identify opportunities, potential challenges, and strategies that are working effectively.

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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.