Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Ranking on Google, Bing and emerging search platforms now requires a strategic combination of search expertise and public relations finesse. At a time when brand reputation and visibility are critical, blending SEO with digital PR is a must. This article gives an overview of integrating SEO into digital PR to achieve business goals, plus best practices for effective collaboration and communication.
Aspiration Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Effective sales tools are crucial for closing deals in today's competitive sales world. Fortunately, HubSpot Sales Hub makes managing clients and closing deals more manageable. But, as businesses expand, so do their sales management needs. HubSpot offers excellent sales resources in its starter and professional tiers, but the enterprise tier is a must-have for sales teams looking to get one step further.
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Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Crowd-sourced human quality raters have been the mainstay of the algorithmic evaluation process for search engines for decades. Still, a potential sea-change in research and production implementation could be on the horizon. Recent groundbreaking research by Bing (with some purported commercial implementation already) and a sharp uptick in closely related information retrieval research by others, indicates some big shake-ups are coming.
Customers.ai
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In the fast-paced realm of marketing, where every click holds the potential for a sale, sophisticated retailers face a formidable challenge— converting anonymous website visitors into loyal customers. Consider this: on average, nearly 98% of website visitors remain anonymous, navigating through product and offer pages, engaging with content, yet leaving no trace of their identity.
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.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Attracting good traffic to your website and related properties is a great achievement in SEO. Pat yourself on the back for being good enough at keyword research, metadata, UX, etc., to get those traffic numbers up! OK, celebration time is over. How much of that traffic is actually converting? SEOs don’t have the luxury of focusing only on transactional keywords and/or relying on direct response-focused landing pages.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Leveraging marketing data is key to continual optimization and driving growth. This article explains how feeding bottom-of-funnel analytics back into top-of-funnel activities boosts acquisition and reduces costs over time. Using bottom-of-funnel data as input to top-of-funnel activities I’ve written about how growth loops can be more helpful than funnels as they allow the loop’s output to be used back into the loop.
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Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As senior marketing leaders, you’re undoubtedly well-acquainted with the challenge of doing more with less. You’ve heard the standard guidance — prioritize, automate and use data. It’s good advice. But here are a few secrets that savvy marketing leaders should know to help deliver exceptional results despite resource constraints. Doing more with less has a natural end Both the productivity of humans and return on ad spend decrease when they reach saturation.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
More frequently than not, B2B buyers are vetting sellers based not only on product specifications, pricing and other traditional factors but on the digital experiences they deliver. Failing to adapt to these rising customer expectations can be costly. Deloitte Digital conducted a study of more than 500 B2B executives at U.S. companies and discovered that 77% of B2B executives agree that digital transformation is critical to their company’s success.
Social Media Examiner
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Are you up to date on changes from Instagram? Wondering which recent Instagram updates are important to marketers and business owners? In this article, we explore Instagram changes that affect your marketing. #1: Instagram Reels New Reels Creation and Editing Tools Instagram is releasing new Reels editing features like undo/redo, crop, scale, rotate, zoom, and […] The post Instagram Updates: Reels Tools, Ads Features, Shopping, and More appeared first on Social Media Examiner.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is hoping to turn OpenAI’s chaos to his advantage, offering to at least match the compensation of any AI experts willing to join the CRM giant. Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese.
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.
CMO Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Consumers have increasingly been searching for non-alcoholic alternatives. Hop Water has been one of the fastest growing categories, with sales up 200% in the past year.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As more companies adopt an omnichannel approach to engage with customers, keeping up with competitors can be challenging. What are they posting on social media? What’s their email marketing strategy? What kind of content are they publishing on their blog? Where are they getting most of their traffic from? You need to know it all. Competitive monitoring helps you stay on top of this data at all times.
CMO Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Elliot Kotek sheds light on the ethos behind his company and his compelling documentary, 'The Hidden Power of Purpose,' created in collaboration with AARP.
AWeber
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Event email marketing is a key strategy for building anticipation for your next event—whether online or offline. This post explores key event email marketing examples and strategies to help. When a survey asked event marketers their most effective strategy for getting the word out, the results were interesting: The best strategy wasn’t word-of-mouth.
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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.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
More frequently than not, B2B buyers are vetting sellers based not only on product specifications, pricing and other traditional factors but on the digital experiences they deliver. Failing to adapt to these rising customer expectations can be costly. Deloitte Digital conducted a study of more than 500 B2B executives at U.S. companies and discovered that 77% of B2B executives agree that digital transformation is critical to their company’s success.
Kuno Creative
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Not all failures in brand launch strategy are equal. Some flops fly under the radar barely causing a ripple, others make headlines. And some end up in the Museum of Failure. Yes, there is such a thing as the Museum of Failure. The touring exhibition has more than 150 failed products and services, from a horror movie-esque beauty mask that targets wrinkles with electricity (that never received FDA approval) to a line of Bic pens marketed exclusively to women.
Hootsuite
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
YouTube Shorts are bite-sized vertical videos that can supercharge engagement with your audience. Shorts are 15-60 seconds in length, and they’re just as addictive – and easy to create – as a TikTok or Instagram Reel. It’s quick and easy to upload YouTube Shorts, so what are you waiting for? Whether you want to upload your YouTube Short from desktop or mobile, we’ve got you covered.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Your email service provider (ESP) is essential to your email marketing workflow. Without it, you wouldn’t have a way to deliver the messages you work so hard to strategize, design, and test to your audience. While your relationship with your ESP can change over time, leaving one to move to another is bound to be an emotional time. Whether you can’t wait to make the switch or you’re overwhelmed by what lies ahead, this guide will walk you through: What is ESP migration?
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.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Getting your arms around the disruptions of generative AI presents an extreme challenge. A 20-year-old framework for self-reflection may help. Ask these three questions in proper succession.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system requires careful planning, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Making data the foundation of the DAM ensures it will be useful and adaptable to your business for years to come. “With content constantly changing and evolving, planning for a DAM system to track and store all your content reliably seems futile,” said John Horodyski, managing director for digital consultancy Salt Flats, in a session at The MarTech Conference.
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
How does a playing card company end up becoming one of the world’s most enduringly popular video game makers ? Or how does an online bookseller evolve into the most popular global marketplace ? Nintendo and Amazon understood the ageless principle that your product is not what you sell. If you’re struggling to get the revenue you desire or your marketing isn’t converting, you might be selling the wrong thing.
Hubspot Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The theory that we can only hold a finite number of stable social relationships has long been debated. That number, estimated to be 150 by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, has created a widespread belief that the brain has a cognitive limit to the size of social groups it maintains. Is there a cognitive limit to the number of connections we can navigate?
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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
Set Up
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
At Set up , we regularly interview marketing leaders from different industries ranging from Tourism to Packaging to Entertainment and Healthcare. Having periodic conversations with marketing leaders not only helps us keep a pulse on every industry, but reveals common trends and challenges that all marketers are facing. Although we have written about the Manufacturing industry in the past , we spoke with marketing leaders Andrea Arnold , the Senior Manager, Global Marketing, eMobility at Eaton, a
Customers.ai
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In the fast-paced realm of marketing, where every click holds the potential for a sale, sophisticated marketers face a formidable challenge— converting anonymous website visitors into loyal customers. Consider this: on average, nearly 98% of website visitors remain anonymous, navigating through product and offer pages, engaging with content, yet leaving no trace of their identity.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
It might be almost 2024, but content is still king for businesses hoping to reach, attract, and convert their ideal clients. However, since the pandemic, what customers want has changed dramatically. Yes, they still want great content at each stage of the sales funnel to help them make buying decisions. But they increasingly want to be able to contact businesses at any time of the day or night and by their preferred channel, whether that’s by social media (including private messaging and public
SMA Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Your Google Business Profile (GBP), formerly called a Google My Business profile, is an invaluable free tool for local businesses. That said, what can help your business visibility can also harm it. As a local business, it’s absolutely vital that you own and optimize your GBP. It often surprises our clients at SMA Marketing when they learn that your Google Business Profile (GBP) is not a “set it and forget it” digital entity.
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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.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The Software as a Service (SaaS) business model is maturing into one of the most sustainable. It offers companies a way to reduce or eliminate upfront costs like software licensing. From 2012 to 2018, subscription services saw a 300% growth rate – that’s five times faster than S&P-500 companies, according to the Harvard Business Review. However, SaaS brands face unique challenges when it comes to marketing.
Traackr
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Samantha Hofherr from ILIA Beauty and content creator, Tennille Jenkins share 3 top influencer marketing strategies.
David Meerman Scott
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The world wants to know who you are! And we’d like to learn about you in your own words.
Welcome Software
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Let’s set the scene: You’ve invested countless hours in understanding the nuances of your audience, dove deep into the depths of your performance analytics, obsessed over every tiny metric, all while keeping your eye on ever-changing SEO algorithms. Imagine auditing your entire content inventory, pinpointing gaps and populating your editorial calendar with fresh assets that support your business priorities.
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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.
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