Fri.Feb 23, 2024

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Marketing’s Musical Chairs: Why So Many Reorgs (and What It Means for You) 

Content Marketing Institute

Almost half of companies restructured their marketing teams in the past year, according to Marketing Week. About four in 10 restructured the year before that. Why? And how can you thrive despite it?

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How to speed up site migrations with AI-powered redirect mapping

Search Engine Land

Migrating a large website is always daunting. Big traffic is at stake among many moving parts, technical challenges and stakeholder management. Historically, one of the most onerous tasks in a migration plan has been redirect mapping. The painstaking process of matching URLs on your current site to the equivalent version on the new website. Fortunately, this task that previously could involve teams of people combing through thousands of URLs can be drastically sped up with modern AI models.

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Everything You Need to Know About Webinar Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

Webinars are a great way to teach customers about your offering or share helpful tips with your audience. They're low-cost and generate engagement. Plus, they provide your sales team with leads from your signup form. Everybody wins — that is if people actually attend. Webinar marketing is essential to getting those numbers up and your mission out. During my eight years in marketing, I learned several best practices for hosting a successful webinar.

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Google investigating Local Services Ads bug

Search Engine Land

Google is investigating a Local Services Ads bug that’s causing businesses to appear in search results for their competitors’ names. The issue comes just weeks after the platform started piloting branded Local Service Ads (LSA) called Direct Business Search. This new ad type allows brands to show up in search results when someone directly searches for a brand or business.

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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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If you’re marketing on ‘Email Island,’ don’t get yourself voted off

Martech

I’m not a fan of the television show “Survivor,” but let’s just say it gets viewed in our home and leave it at that. Like a significant portion of television programming, “Survivor” highlights the dark side of human existence. Contestants on the show make alliances, but as the number of contestants dwindles, allies are forced to turn against one another.

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Google: Don’t punish us for our success in Search

Search Engine Land

Google accused the U.S. government of wanting to punish it for being more successful than its competitors. The company made the comments in an unsealed post-trial brief submitted to a DC federal judge as part of its ongoing legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice, which has accused it of unlawfully monopolizing the search market. Within the legal documents, Google argued that its position as the world’s leading search engine results from its “unceasing hard work” and c

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LinkedIn publishes actionable steps before third-party cookie deprecation

Search Engine Land

LinkedIn released a new guide detailing actionable steps and tactics you can take now to maximize campaign performance in the absence of third-party cookies. Amid regulatory changes and reduced identifiers, the playbook offers advice on how to meet the demand for personalized ad experiences in a cookieless world. Why we care. As the deprecation of third-party cookies looms, LinkedIn’s insights could be valuable in guiding approaches, but it’s important to note that the advice is publ

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Tableau Pulse uses AI to make data more accessible

Martech

Tableau, the data visualization platform acquired by Salesforce in 2019, is beginning the roll-out of Tableau Pulse, an AI-driven experience designed to make data more accessible to everyone regardless of expertise with data visualization platforms. Pulse will also allow a user to create a custom metrics homepage based on KPIs relevant to that user.

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Project management for in-house SEO teams: 6 best practices

Search Engine Land

In-house teams constantly juggle a never-ending pipeline of SEO projects, from competitor analysis and technical maintenance to launching new products and website migrations. Without effective project management, this constant influx of work can quickly become overwhelming. This article explores the key elements of successful project management for in-house SEO teams, helping you navigate the constant project flow while supporting broader business goals and focusing strategically on improving or

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7 Marketing Questions Teams are Asking in 2024 (+Data & Insights)

Hubspot Marketing

In 2024, marketers have a lot on their minds. With the rapid adoption of AI, significant changes in the search landscape, and an uncertain economy ahead, knowing how to lead your team to success seems daunting. When I’m in these situations, I take a deep breath and go for a walk to clear my head. Once I have a steady mind, I start by asking myself questions that can help guide my marketing efforts.

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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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Best of SearchBot: Guide me through a technical SEO audit

Search Engine Land

Best of the SearchBot showcases Search Engine Land’s SearchBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers.

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16 Key Affiliate Marketing Statistics

Backlinko

This is a complete list of recent affiliate marketing statistics every marketer needs to know in 2024. So if you want to find data and facts on: Affiliate marketing spending Affiliate marketing adoption Affiliate marketing return on ad spend Popular affiliate networks You’ll love the list of up-to-date stats on this page. Here’s a summary of what you’ll learn: Affiliate Marketing Spending Statistics Affiliate Marketing Usage and Performance Statistics Affiliate Networks Statistics Affiliate Mark

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Google SGE testing and development ongoing and growing

Search Engine Land

It’s getting harder to find Google Search results that don’t include Search Generative Experience (SGE) results. In three industries (education, B2B tech and ecommerce), SGE appeared on 98% of queries over the past 30 days. Also, it appears SGE has become active in three new countries: Romania, Poland and Turkey – though Google hasn’t announced this expansion yet.

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I Asked ChatGPT to Write 3 Marketing Job Inquiry Emails — Here’s What I Got

Hubspot Marketing

As a full-time freelancer, I’ve sent out hundreds of job inquiry emails. While I also reply to freelance role ads, I know first-hand that you can win some of the best projects by being proactive and running outreach. In fact, that’s how I started cooperating with some of the world’s most renowned brands. Just because a company you’ve got your eyes on hasn’t advertised a role doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not open to bringing the right person on board.

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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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Unlocking Your Inner Copywriter: A non-wizard’s guide to spellbinding headlines

Marketing Sherpa

I’ve been a writer my entire adult life. But sometimes I feel that people see me as more of a magician.

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HubSpot Vs. Salesforce: Team Scalability in a Growing Business

Six & Flow

You’ve got a growing business - congratulations, that’s wonderful! However, with growth comes the challenge of increasing team size and personnel costs. As your company scales, the size of your CRM teams inevitably expands. But is the growth trajectory of teams similar for each CRM? We beg to differ! Our team has conducted a research report comparing Salesforce and HubSpot’s total cost of ownership , focusing on hiring for specific CRM roles and team structures.

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How social listening can be a B2B content marketing goldmine

Martech

Most content strategies for B2B often rely on a subject matter expert or skilled writer to generate ideas, schedule content to satisfy the CMO and write based on perceived market demands. However, you must take the guesswork out of the equation to create relevant, high-performing content. Rather than rely solely on hypothesizing what an audience may want to read, savvy B2B marketers tap into social listening.