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What is Web Accessibility & Why Is It  Important?

Aspiration Marketing

In today's digital landscape, inclusivity is paramount. Imagine navigating the web without seeing images or hearing audio – this is the challenge that web accessibility aims to overcome. Let's uncover why web accessibility matters and how it shapes the future of the internet.

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How to Be More Creative With Your Instagram Content

Social Media Examiner

Want your brand to stand out on Instagram? Wondering how to create content that stays in people’s minds? In this article, you’ll discover how to be more creative with your Instagram content. Why Is Creativity So Important on Instagram? Think of classic ads you've seen. They stick in your mind because they're original, fresh, and […] The post How to Be More Creative With Your Instagram Content appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Google September 2023 helpful content system update rolling out

Search Engine Land

Google has begun to push out an update to its helpful content system , the last helpful content system update was the December 2022 helpful content update. The update started on September 14 and should take about two weeks to fully roll out. What is new. Google said , “The September 2023 helpful content update is rolling out with an improved classifier.

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How 7 brands use customer marketing content strategies to deepen audience connection

Sprout Social

In marketing, brand awareness is a significant focus—in fact, it’s likely one of your main goals. But it’s all too easy to get so wrapped up in reaching and acquiring new customers that your current customer base gets left in the dust. This is where customer marketing comes in. Customer marketing is one of the most powerful ways you can forge and feed connections with your current audience base.

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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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Google Search stops showing How-to rich results on desktop

Search Engine Land

Google Search stopped showing How-to rich results on desktop yesterday. Google’s announcement. In an update to an Aug. 8 blog post about the reduction of visibility for HowTo and FAQ results , Google announced: “Continuing our efforts to simplify Google’s search results, we’re extending the How-to change to desktop as well. As of September 13, Google Search no longer shows How-to rich results on desktop, which means this result type is now deprecated.” “This c

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17+ Tips To Help Your Brand Ride Today’s Social Media Roller Coaster

Content Marketing Institute

The social media landscape has changed. X, formerly known as Twitter, faces mercurial changes. TikTok bans are discussed. YouTube added Shorts to compete with TikTok. Meta added Threads. Should your social media strategy respond?

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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Continuing to navigate the “next normal” world, marketing and GTM teams have been under new pressures due to inflation, talent shortages, slowing economic conditions, possible renewed COVID restrictions, and the digital transformation hangover. I wanted to share some direct experiences in supporting marketing and GTM’s leader’s battles against these headwinds.

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How to get more views on TikTok: 12 tactics to try

Sprout Social

If you want to see success on TikTok, you need to learn how to get more eyes on your content. Part of your TikTok marketing strategy should focus on building a following, but the most important part should emphasize how to get more views on TikTok. More views mean more engagement; more engagement means building a solid social media following. Throughout this article, you’ll learn more about what a TikTok view is, why they matter, plus 12 ways to get more views for your TikTok videos.

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Amazon sellers can now use AI to write product titles, descriptions and listing details

Search Engine Land

Amazon is rolling out enhanced AI capabilities to help advertisers create better product listings. The new technology simplifies how sellers create product descriptions, titles, and listing details by automatically generating content based on brief product descriptions. Previously, sellers were required to enter many pieces of information to create product listings, however, the process has now been streamlined into just one step.

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Social Media Intelligence: What It Is & Why You Need It

Hootsuite

Looking to gain a better understanding of your customer’s behavior and how to engage with them ? Social media intelligence could be the answer. By tuning in to the conversations that your target audience is having–both about your brand and the broader topics in your industry–you can gain valuable insights into how they think, what they care about, and what motivates them.

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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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Perfecting prompts for SEO content development

Search Engine Land

Unlocking the power of prompts is key to supercharging your SEO content strategy. Well-crafted prompts helped yield remarkable results for SEO expert Shelly Fagin, with website traffic experiencing an impressive increase of up to 30%. This is why perfecting prompts is essential for ensuring generative AI tools like ChatGPT deliver the best output, she said.

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IAB releases new guidelines as retail media networks mature

Martech

The IAB introduced new guidelines to improve measurement across retail media networks (RMNs) this week. The guidelines will be open for public comment through October 13. The guidelines will be welcomed by advertisers and agencies set to increase RMN ad spend, especially if the industry is more standardized. Nearly two-thirds of ad buyers (62%) cited the lack of measurement standards as a top challenge to continued growth, a new IAB study found.

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How to use fan-driven marketing to foster brand love

Search Engine Land

Who loves your brand the most? No matter what you sell, you probably have customers who: Truly care about your company, products or services and content. Find your products valuable and also see your business as an extension of themselves. See their own sense of being reflected in your brand. Sounds great, doesn’t it? If you have fans who sincerely love your brand, they are a lot less likely to churn and leave you for a competitor.

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CMOs more likely to be responsible for AI, less likely to understand it

Martech

CMOs are more likely to be responsible for AI adoption than other C-suite executives, but less likely to understand it, according to a new survey. CMOs are most likely to say they have a beginner’s understanding of AI (30%) and least likely to say they have an advanced understanding (10%), according to the survey by the Marketing AI Institute and AI-driven conversational marketing platform Drift.

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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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A 6-minute process to diagnose E-E-A-T issues

Search Engine Land

E-E-A-T is the buzzword on the streets of SEO. We talk about it, repeat it, say it to clients. But even though we know what it is, do we really understand how to both diagnose and fix E-E-A-T issues? Let’s find out. Common E-E-A-T issues Where do you start to diagnose issues relating to experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness?

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Adobe, Amazon and Salesforce in this week’s AI martech releases

Martech

Adobe finally moved Firefly out of beta and into its products, Salesforce added a chatbot to all of its apps and Amazon gave sellers a text generator. That’s just the top of this week’s roundup of AI-powered martech releases. Salesforce unveils Einstein Copilot, a chatbot for all its apps SAS embraces generative AI for marketing Amazon added generative AI to help sellers write product descriptions.

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SEO scalability: We have a problem

Search Engine Land

Whether we know it or not, we’re caught in a paradox. There is an industry-wide obsession among SEOs with scalability. More specifically, how we can use generative AI to help with scalability. With unprecedented advancements in AI as of late, it’s no surprise. On the one hand, efficiencies of scale are amazing and AI can help craft more content to grow organic visibility and rankings.

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Don’t Build It, Yet: How Content Can Validate Your Next Product Idea

Animalz blog

Gareth Davies is the content lead at Parabol, an online Agile meeting tool. He explains how they’ve pioneered a unique approach to product development called “content-led product.” As a content marketer, you might think your job is crafting stories to attract customers to your product. But your skills, insights, and strategic perspective could shape the very core of your business by influencing what your product team builds next.

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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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Amazon launches new search functions on mobile to rival Google

Search Engine Land

Amazon is rolling out new features to improve its search capabilities on mobile. In a bid to rival search engines like Google and Pinterest, the retail giant is launching new search and discovery tools, including: Multimodal search (the ability to search using both text and images) Expanded AR features Find-on-Amazon (a new tool that identifies similar products to those in a photo you share directly with the Amazon app) Why we care.

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10 Step holiday email marketing guide for boosting sales

AWeber

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “the early bird catches the worm”. This saying is never more true than when talking about your holiday email marketing, especially for the Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa shopping season. According to a recent consumer survey, 50% of people expect to begin holiday shopping before November. And once they start, consumers really open up their wallets.

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TikTok quietly adds Wikipedia snippets to its search results

Search Engine Land

TikTok now serves Wikipedia snippets in some of its search results. This is the first time that the platform has offered its users results from the wider web as historically, it exclusively featured its own content in SERPs. The Wikipedia snippets were first noticed in TikTok SERPs by The Verge , as shown here: A spokesperson for the social media app confirmed that the new feature has been live for several months, however, a formal announcement was never made.

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5 Standout Announcements As Tech Takes IAA Mobility 2023 By Storm

CMO Network

It’s been a busy year in automotive technology and IAA Mobility 2023 proved more big advancements are on the way. A look at 5 standout announcements at IAA Mobility 2023.

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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Community Manager: Job Description & Key Responsibilities

Hootsuite

We get it: no one likes to put labels on things. (Though… that is your girlfriend, right?) But it’s pretty important to define the important role of community manager on your marketing team. Community managers are the all-stars responsible for fostering engagement, building relationships, and maintaining the integrity of online communities. In the mile-a-minute world of social media, they are the crucial bridge between brands and audiences.

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4 Ways to Use Market Intelligence for SMBs

Scoop.it!

You may have noticed that some of your competitors always seem to be one step ahead. They keep making better-informed decisions and attracting more customers. How do they do it? Market intelligence might just be the secret. Gathering and analyzing data about your industry helps you make better-informed decisions, stay afloat, and ultimately grow your business.

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HubSpot CRM Integrations: What’s Made an Impact for Our Clients

Kuno Creative

You can’t talk about revenue operations (RevOps) without talking about integration. After all, RevOps is centered around the strategic integration of sales, marketing and service teams to drive sustainable revenue growth. But achieving integration takes integration.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. TransPerfect is the world’s largest provider of language and business solutions, boasting over $1.1 billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe.

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The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More than Just a Website

Speaker: Speakers:

Discover why a traditional website is no longer enough to meet B2B buyer expectations in our must-attend session of The B2B Growth Show, The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More Than Just a Website. Learn how cutting-edge AI tools can transform your B2B website into a results-driven powerhouse that delivers the right message to the right visitor, every time.

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A Winning Marketing Strategy That Doesn't Involve AI

Lynton Web

AI is everywhere. Everyone is using it. It was the hot topic at INBOUND 2023 this year because everyone wants to know how to best use it. But like everything else, it comes with pitfalls. There have been stories in the news about lawyers using it in their defense cases , only to find out AI generated false information. In a 2020 soccer match, automated AI cameras were used instead of cameramen to shoot the game.

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5 Ways to Utilize AI Content Wizard for Enhanced Campaigns

Rock Content

In today’s fast-paced digital marketing realm, the skillful creation of content outlines is a cornerstone of success. Whether you’re a seasoned content manager, a savvy SEO expert, or a growth hacker on a mission, the importance of crafting content blueprints cannot be overstated. Now, with the expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new era of possibilities has dawned.

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How to Optimize Google Shopping Ads

Sachs Marketing Group

You can optimize Google Shopping Ads by meticulously working on your product feed, structuring your campaigns effectively, implementing bid adjustments, and conducting A/B tests. Focused optimizations like these can significantly improve your click-through rates (CTR), conversion rates, and ROI. If you run an ecommerce business, you already know the importance of online advertising and strategic PPC management.

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Ways to Improve Website SEO

SMA Marketing

At SMA Marketing, we develop and implement strategies that improve website SEO. Whether a website has lost visibility or a business owner wants to grow, the most common question is, “How do I reach more people?” Today, we’ll review ways to improve your website SEO, a proven strategy for increasing website visibility in organic search.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.