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AI Vs. Humans: Who Will Win the Content Creation Game?

Marketing Insider Group

As you might know, AI is revolutionizing how brands generate articles, videos, and even art. Tools like ChatGPT and Jasper are transforming how businesses produce content, offering speed and efficiency that was once unimaginable. The Marketing AI Institute reports that 98% of marketers are using these tools , so they’re incredibly widespread already.

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How to Do Meme Marketing, According to Memelord Jason Levin

Hubspot Marketing

When most people see memes pop up, they don’t think much about them. “Oh it’s just a stupid meme page,” you might say. “What’s there to think about? What’s the big deal?” But what if I told you some of these “stupid meme pages” are making millions? And what if I told you it wasn’t just meme pages, but some of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups and the world’s most iconic luxury brands are using memes to make millions, too?

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How to build fast, effective feedback loops in an AI-driven world

Martech

According to the experience management company Qualtrics, 63% of customers believe companies need to get better at listening to their feedback. This aligns with my experience as both a customer and a marketer. As a customer, I’m regularly bombarded with requests to “rate my experience” or “provide my feedback.” But as a marketer, I see how rarely this feedback is integrated in a cross-functional way.

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Stumped by AI in Public Relations? Here Are 6 Ways It Can Boost Your Strategy

Hubspot Marketing

I know. “AI public relations” (PR) kind of sounds like an oxymoron. Public relations is about shaping and sharing your human stories with other humans. It’s about capturing and creating genuine human excitement and resonance. How can we ever leave that to the robots ? Well, we can’t — at least not entirely. Like applying AI to digital marketing or any other field, you must be selective and thoughtful about incorporating AI into your public relations strategy.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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The Best Time to Post on Facebook in 2024: A Complete Guide

Buffer Marketing

When it comes to  social media platforms , Facebook is as crowded as they come. The social network currently has a staggering 3 billion active users — so almost a third of the world population has a Facebook account they use regularly.  Crowded as it may be, it’s still a powerful  social media marketing  platform for businesses and creators — if you have the right  social media strategy  in place.

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How to use AI for social media

Sprout Social

Managing a social media strategy is a constant balancing act between creativity and operational demands. But what if someone could handle most of the day-to-day manual tasks? AI can be that “someone” stepping in to handle the routine tasks that consume your time, leading to greater efficiency and innovation. The idea is to let AI be your assistant, so you and your team can focus on melding creativity and strategy.

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Post Performance Report: Higher ed institutions raising the bar on social

Sprout Social

It’s time for another edition of the Post Performance Report (PPR), a series where we showcase social media posts and campaigns inspiring us, and explore what makes them so genius. We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. Back-to-school season is in the air.

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CPCs keep increasing – here’s what you can do about it by CallTrackingMetrics

Search Engine Land

Cost-per-click (CPC) rates are rising across industries. In fact, CPCs are up by an average of 10% year over year, according to WordStream. It’s time to address this challenge. Lisa Salvatore, Sr. Manager, Lead Acquisition at CallTrackingMetrics , puts it this way: “You can give the digital advertising landscape credit for one thing: keeping us on our toes!

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How to align your martech COE with organizational and go-to-market goals

Martech

Establishing a martech center of excellence (COE) is essential for navigating modern marketing challenges. Think of it as the core of your marketing strategy, where all tools and processes support your business goals. But how do you ensure your martech efforts are in lockstep with the goals of different organizational and go-to-market functions? The answer is in understanding the unique challenges and opportunities each function faces and positioning martech as a strategic enabler.

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How to create and optimize Google Ads custom segment audiences

Search Engine Land

Google Ads offers several ways to create audiences, with custom segments being the most flexible and powerful option. However, most custom segments we see are poorly created. Poorly created audience segments are impossible to refine or optimize since you do not know why the ad is being displayed. Well-crafted audience segments can be optimized similarly to how you optimize search terms.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Using mobile measurement partners to drive bookings: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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Google Business Profile: 6 frequently asked questions

Search Engine Land

Over the years, Google Business Profile has become much more complex. After years of helping on the Google Business Profile Help Forum, I’ve answered hundreds and hundreds of questions from business owners who have had questions about GBP. Below are some questions that are frequently asked by users just like you. 1. Can random people really make changes to my Google Business Profile listing?

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Pulse Report 9.16.24 

Set Up

The Setup Pulse: Trends CMOs Need to Know Right Now Welcome to the Set up Pulse for Brands and Agency marketers alike! Every other week, we’ll provide three trending topics in the Marketing industry, as well as a new story that you will want to get your eyes on. Read about what’s being talked about this week! On Your Mark…Get Set…SPRINT! Agencies are increasingly using sprint models to deliver focused, high-quality work within short timeframes, catering to Clients' demands for speed + agility.

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A Prediction: The Fourth Marketing Rebellion

Businesses Grow

At the end of Marketing Rebellion , a bestselling book that served as a wake-up call for the state of marketing, I predicted what might be the next consumer rebellion. I believe I got it right, and the revolution could be coming sooner than I expected. Let’s take a look at what’s going on, and the implications for marketing and our AI future.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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AI and SEO: The Top 3 Myths Debunked

SMA Marketing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing SEO, promising quick results and streamlined processes. However, not everything about AI and SEO is as straightforward as it seems. Misconceptions about fully automated strategies often lead businesses astray, compromising the effectiveness of their digital efforts. To help you navigate this terrain, we sat down with Ryan Shelley and Amanda.

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Attributing Marketing Expenses by Channel

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

A channel might produce a lot of revenue, but at what cost? The post Attributing Marketing Expenses by Channel appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Drive Impact at Every Stage with Lifecycle Marketing

yorCMO

Learn how to integrate lifecycle marketing into your strategy to connect with your buyers at every stage of their journey.

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Referral Program: How To Drive Revenue Growth

Base.ai

Referral Program: How To Drive Revenue Growth In this article we will share invaluable insights on the power of customer referral programs and how they can drive revenue growth, delving deep into the strategic nuances of successful referral programs. While customer referrals involve introductions from existing customers to new prospects early in the sales cycle, customer references validate the existing pipeline to convert it into revenue.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

Ever wonder what really makes B2B buyers tick? Spoiler alert: it’s not just logic. Join us for our next session of the B2B Growth Show, "Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices" with Grant C. Gooding, where science meets strategy. You'll get the insider scoop on how emotions secretly drive decisions and how you can tap into them to win buyers over.

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I Posted to Threads Consistently for A Month — Here’s What Happened

Buffer Marketing

Ever since Meta officially launched Threads, there has been a lot of speculation about which approach to content gets the best results. So, instead of just speculating, I decided to put some extra time and effort into posting to Threads consistently for a month. Now, what does it say about me (or Threads) that my top-performing posts from the last 30 days were: A “What’s in my bag?

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Data providers: Google August 2024 core update was very volatile

Search Engine Land

Google’s August 2024 core update started on Aug. 15, 2024, and completed 19 days later on Sept. 3, 2024. Early on, we saw some signs of life for sites hit by the infamous September 2023 helpful content update. But honestly, most of those sites did not see enough traffic rebound to make a difference. While the August core update felt really big for us, Google told us the March 2024 core update was its largest core update ever.

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Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation

Search Engine Land

Google has made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation, mostly breaking out the single-page document into multiple pages and documents. But Google also expanded what product each crawler affects with a new section next to each crawler and added a robots.txt snippet for each crawler to demonstrate how to use the user agent tokens by each crawler.

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How to make your display campaigns profitable

Search Engine Land

If you use display campaigns correctly, they can be profitable. The problem is that most people use them wrong, turn them off and then claim that “display campaigns don’t work.” This guide will show you how to use display campaigns correctly in all stages of the funnel to make them profitable. Display campaign: Your targeting options There are two categories of how you can target people with display ad campaigns.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

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Are you struggling to highlight your impact and showcase the results of your team’s marketing efforts? Do you find it challenging to build more effective campaigns that drive meaningful results? The key may lie in unlocking the power of marketing technology (martech)—but as a non-technical marketing leader, navigating this landscape can feel daunting.