Wed.Jun 07, 2023

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E-E-A-T Guidelines + AI: How We Enhance Our Content Marketing Strategy

Aspiration Marketing

While E-A-T is crucial, expertise, authoritativeness, and trust do not guarantee captivating or relatable content. To captivate and relate to readers, content creators must infuse their content with their personal experiences to create exceptional and memorable pieces. Why AI-generated content in copy/paste format cannot deliver this experience anytime soon.

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Brand experience: Why it matters and how to build one that works

Sprout Social

At the end of the day, we want to cut through the noise and leave a lasting impression that grabs market share. But an ever-crowded space filled with brands and creators means your relevancy is always at risk. When a brand experience is consistently good, it champions powerful brand recall, turns customers into advocates and builds credibility that ultimately increases your repeat business.

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The Best SEO Strategies That Actually Work Today

Marketing Insider Group

For all the time, energy, and expense you pour into your business, you don’t just want any search engine optimization practices. You need the best SEO strategies that deliver results. Though SEO is now old enough to drink beer and have kids in school, building an effective strategy isn’t any easier than in the past. In fact, it’s gotten more complicated in some respects.

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4 Tips for Updating Old Content to Make Google’s Algorithms Happy

Influence & Co

For a company to be found by its audience online, it must be at (or near) the top of Google search engine results pages (known as SERPs). However, for a page to even reach the top of SERPs, it must offer relevant and valuable content to searchers , thanks to the search engine’s consistent algorithm updates. To stay at the top of SERPs, your business doesn’t need to constantly churn out brand-new content, though.

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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 steps for building a recession-grade ABM program

Martech

Looking to get off the treadmill of producing what seems like never-ending content and feeding the ABM machine hoping you get a hit? Tired of anonymous and/or intent data that produces few results? In today’s challenging economic environment, your program has to work better than ever. Casting a wide net in a sea with fewer fish will be less productive.

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7 ways to maximize landing page conversions by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

Building a landing page is easy. But creating one that engages your audience and drives conversion is a challenge. To achieve higher conversion rates, it’s essential to elevate your page beyond aesthetics. So are you ready to learn the secrets of high-converting landing pages? Join conversion rate optimization experts in this webinar as they uncover everything you need to know about how to create landing pages that increase ROI.

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Why video is the marketing channel you can’t afford to miss

Martech

It’s been 96 years since the television was invented and we’ve entered a new chapter in video content and consumption. You’re more than likely consuming a ton of video content every day, whether you realize it or not. It’s amazing to think about the fact that Netflix users watch 203.8 million hours of streamed content each day. Meanwhile, the typical TikTok user spends 95 minutes daily scrolling through a feed of algorithmically suggested videos they didn’t choose to view.

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5 Newsletter Lessons for More Fruitful Content (and a Community-Building Fail)

Content Marketing Institute

Ocean Spray created the Cranberry Club to attract subscribers. But would the holiday berry deliver year-round? Find that answer and other content marketing takeaways from one club member who happens to be a content marketer.

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51% of SMB marketers say they’re stuck with redundant martech

Martech

More than half of the marketing technology used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is redundant, according to a new survey. This redundancy is expensive and inefficient. SMBs spend approximately $43,500 annually on martech it seldom uses, according to the report by Capterra, an online marketplace for business technology. Some 39% of marketers in these companies say they spend more time on tasks because of martech, which performs identical or overlapping functions.

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Microsoft Advertising is updating its Cross-Device attribution model

Search Engine Land

Microsoft Advertising will soon roll out a new Cross-Device attribution model. What Microsoft is saying. The news about the conversion attribution update was announced in Microsoft’s June roundup of product updates: “The new Cross-Device attribution model allows us to better track and connect your customers’ conversion journeys across different devices and sessions.

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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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10 Strategies to Mastering Social Media for Ecommerce

Digital Marketer

Social media has become an indispensable tool for businesses in today’s digital age. You need it to connect with your target audience, boost your brand’s visibility, and drive sales. But most businesses and even beginner marketers don’t fully understand how to use social media for ecommerce. If you’re one of them, we’ve got you covered.

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7 ways to maximize landing page conversions

Martech

Building a landing page is easy. But creating one that engages your audience and drives conversion is a challenge. To achieve higher conversion rates, it’s essential to elevate your page beyond aesthetics. So are you ready to learn the secrets of high-converting landing pages? Join conversion rate optimization experts in this webinar as they uncover everything you need to know about how to create landing pages that increase ROI.

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tiffani Bova In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tiffani Bova. She is the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ.

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Instagram CEO Comments On How The Platform’s Feed, Reels and Stories Algorithm Works

Rock Content

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri published on the social network’s blog and in a video on his personal account, updates and an overview of how algorithms work on Instagram, which can help us better understand how to optimize the results and reach of content in the app’s feed, and also in Stories and Reels. Mosseri shared more information, similar to 2021 , as a way to be more transparent and close to the public, explaining popular topics such as: shadowbanning, account status review, best practi

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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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What reading trends mean for content marketers

SmartBrief - Marketing

A recent Gallup poll reported that Americans are reading less than they have in 30 years. In fact, a recent Pew Research survey shows that nearly a quarter of Americans haven’t read a book in the past year. For content marketers, these statistics might be alarming. After all, it’s never seemed harder to grab readers’ attention and keep it. And with TikTok allowing people to consume content in bite-sized 10-second chunks, the thought of getting someone to spend five minutes reading a blog post m

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Leading the Industry: Base’s Inaugural Customer-Led Growth (CLG) Survey

Base.ai

Recognizing the significance of CLG, Base has undertaken an inaugural annual survey to gauge the state of Customer Marketing and CLG adoption. Dedicated to fueling the evolution of CLG, the report delves into critical questions: How are organizations planning to advance their Customer Marketing and CLG initiatives internally? What hurdles hinder progress, and how can these obstacles be overcome to foster greater buy-in and measurement?

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5 Inbound Marketing Blog Strategies That Work

InTouch Marketing

Take a look at the top 5 inbound marketing blog strategies that will help bring future clients to your website and get them to engages with your content.

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Introducing: YouTube Shorts Scheduling

Buffer Marketing

It’s the latest major vertical video player, a search engine behemoth, and it just crossed 50 billion daily views. We’re talking, of course, about YouTube Shorts , and we’re excited to share that it’s the newest platform supported by Buffer. If you’re already posting to Reels or TikTok, Buffer can now help you post to Shorts as well.

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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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Top 10 insights for SEO and PPC success in China

Search Engine Land

Over the last 20 years, I have implemented campaigns with hundreds of global businesses and learned about Baidu and other Chinese platforms. Here are key insights to help set your search campaigns for success in this market. 1. Understand the Chinese market and audience Gaining insight into the Chinese market and its audience should be your goal to succeed in China.

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Free Instagram Engagement Rate Calculator for 2023

Hootsuite

There’s more to life than likes. For example, there’s engagement rate. Knowing your Instagram engagement rate—and developing a social media strategy to maintain or improve your engagement rate—is an essential part of finding success on the platform. Especially if you’re using Instagram for business : engaged followers are much more likely to become customers than followers who simply scroll by your content.

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How to Use The Query Function in Google Sheets

Hubspot Marketing

A query function lets you use data commands to shape your data in Google Sheets, making it an important function. The query function is so helpful because it can replace the work of many other commands and replicate the functionality of pivot tables (a table that lets you group, compare, and summarize larger data sets). A query may seem complicated or overwhelming if you’re unfamiliar with Google Sheet functions.

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QR Codes in E-commerce: What They Do and How to Use Them

Spiralytics

QR codes are the new way to get people to visit your website. They’re a quick, easy way to attract traffic and engagement to your site, which is why they’re now heavily used for marketing purposes. Many companies place QR codes on online content like blogs and emails. Additionally, this technology can is often seen on printed materials as well, such as flyers and posters, to promote events and activities.

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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 Bard update improved math and data analysis and Google Sheets exports

Search Engine Land

Google has released two updates to Google Bard, its AI chat bot. The first update is to make Bard better at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation. The second update is to allow you to export tables that Bard generated directly into Google Sheets. Improved math and data analysis. Google Bard has a new technique called “implicit code execution” that helps it “detect computational prompts and run code in the background,” the company wrote.

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10 ways B2B SaaS companies can use link building for better rankings

Search Engine Land

The significant value of B2B content marketing is paving the way to the new wave of content-first link building. A targeted Google search will return lists of articles around topics like “lists of,” “alternative,” or just “how to.” With the right search queries, you can find an endless list of prospective domains to pitch.

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