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Don’t Hide — Mine Your Brand’s Flaws for Storytelling Gold

Content Marketing Institute

Your brand strives for perfection, whether it’s the company’s public image, a seamless campaign message, or flawless email distribution. But your brand has flaws, and that’s a lesson every brand storyteller must learn.

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Harnessing Custom Properties in HubSpot: A Deep Dive

Aspiration Marketing

Are you feeling frustrated by the limitations of default HubSpot data? Are you yearning for deeper insights and more targeted interactions with your audience? Well, prepare to meet your secret weapon: custom properties.

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How to transform customer experience with AI

Martech

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing force for revolutionizing customer experience (CX). With the ability to process vast amounts of data and drive automation at scale, AI empowers brands to deliver personalized, seamless CX journeys that foster loyalty and satisfaction. This article explores how leading companies leverage AI across three key areas — clear messaging, frictionless interactions and tailored experiences — to shape customer experience. 1.

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Google search revenue rises to $48 billion, total ad revenue up 11%

Search Engine Land

Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, reported record-breaking advertising revenue of $65.52 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, year on year. A 12.7% gain in search revenue was accompanied by a strong increase in revenue for YouTube ads by 15.5%. Google’s advertising network was slightly down 2.1%, however, this was an improvement on the 2.6% loss reported in the third quarter of 2023. “We ended 2023 with very strong fourth quarter financial results, with Q4 consolidated revenues of

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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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How one tech company is doing marketing without cookies

Martech

How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies. Sentry.io got rid of all advertising and tracking cookies last July.

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Gmail Inbox Insurance: Expert Advice for the Google Spam Update

Customers.ai

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the new Google bulk sender guidelines roll out on February 1st. As we’ve previously discussed , this is a big deal for email marketers and sales teams, especially those who tend to rely on cold outreach and ABM efforts. Meeting the 0.3% spam complaint threshold will be challenging for a lot of people and if teams don’t adjust, they are in big trouble.

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Email marketing is changing: Catch up with this master class

Martech

“Email marketing is continually changing — not because the technology is changing, but because of consumers, their expectations, and how they use email changes. As marketers, we need to adapt to that.” That’s the message Kath Pay will be hammering home, alongside fellow MarTech contributor Ryan Phelan , in the upcoming two-day master class, “Excelling in email marketing.” The master class is aimed at email marketers with one or two year’s experience under thei

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Google Analytics 4 launches additional instant support options and new video tutorials

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 introduced new instant support features to assist users in navigating the platform more effectively. Additionally, a set of new GA4 video tutorials was launched on YouTube, offering detailed guidance on extracting more meaningful insights from your website’s data. The additional support and guidance for navigating GA4 will prove particularly valuable for those still grappling with the platform, especially after the forced migration from Universal Analytics last summer.

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Marketing, the Applied Division of Psychology

Set Up

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. This Industry blog explores the ins and outs of the Professional Service industry.

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Microsoft Search and News Advertising revenue up 8%

Search Engine Land

Microsoft reported its strongest financial quarter to date after becoming a $3 trillion company. Search and news advertising revenue increased 8% year on year, excluding traffic acquisition costs that Microsoft pays to publishers. However, despite the rise in search and news advertising revenue marks a slowdown in growth in comparison to the previous quarter’s 10% increase.

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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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Have Google and Yahoo found email marketers’ Achilles heel?

illumin

Google and Yahoo will update their email policies in February 2024 to reduce spam and improve customers’ experience. But how will this impact email marketers? Will these changes add blockades to your email marketing strategy in 2024? The short answer is no, as long as you’ve followed email marketing best practices. The organizations the policies impact are the ones who’ve irresponsibly collected or bought email lists, and whose strategies rely on mass emailing rather than strategic, targeted co

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The fallacy of CTR as a KPI: Redefining PPC ad success

Search Engine Land

Click-through rate (CTR) is a cornerstone metric of PPC marketing. Calculated as the percentage of people who click on an ad after seeing it, CTR is often treated as a key performance indicator (KPI), commanding disproportionate attention and optimization efforts. Google search interest in the topic of CTR far exceeds that of conversion rate (CVR), even though conversions more directly align with the health and success of a business.

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Integrate launches new Performance Center

Martech

Integrate, the B2B demand gen and management platform, today announced the launch of a new Performance Center. The center is intended to accelerate and optimize marketing decision-making. The driver behind the innovation is the finding that 50% of U.S. and U.K. B2B marketers identify budget constraints as their main challenge. Brands are adapting to fewer resources by consolidating teams and job responsibilities (79%), cutting travel budgets (33%), and relying on agencies (33%).

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Yelp rolls out live support consultations for advertisers

Search Engine Land

Yelp is rolling out scheduled support consultations for advertisers to ensure their questions are answered in a “timely manner” While options like online FAQs, email and chat are effective for many queries, some advertisers prefer the value of speaking with a live representative for more personalized assistance, the platform told Search Engine Land.

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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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How to build customer trust through data privacy and security

Martech

Advancements in data and technology are meant to make our lives easier. Martech promises task automation, optimized workflows and improved digital experiences, but it also creates opportunities for bad actors and cybercriminals. Safeguarding consumer data is crucial for your business’s success and reputation in 2024. Data security is essential for building and preserving customer trust.

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Best of SearchBot: Create a monthly newsletter to generate more leads

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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Instagram Updates: Stories, Cutouts, Future Features, and More

Social Media Examiner

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 Stories Instagram Friends Story Sharing Instagram is testing a new collaborative Stories feature that allows users to create Stories for their […] The post Instagram Updates: Stories, Cutouts, Future Features, and More appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Diving Deep Into Marketing for Restaurants (My Takeaways)

Hubspot Marketing

I’m fortunate to live in a city that has a thriving restaurant scene (it’s most known for its barbecue and Tex-Mex, if that gives you any hint). And while I don’t consider myself a food connoisseur by any means, I was a food journalist in a past life, so I continue to stay on top of the latest stories and trends surrounding the restaurant industry. To do this, I follow a lot of restaurants on social media.

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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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Best practices for multicultural marketing

SmartBrief - Marketing

Multicultural marketing in the US is expected to grow 8% in 2024, per PQ Media , though it’ll still account for less than 6% of total marketing spending this year. While 8% growth is definitely not bad, it’s still underwhelming, considering the US Census Bureau expects the country to be “minority white” in about 20 years. And, you don’t have to wait that long for some age groups.

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Google launching Technical ad delivery support on AdMob inventory

Search Engine Land

Google AdMob is introducing Technical ad delivery to help publishers ensure that displayed ads adhere to regulations in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK). Technical ad delivery will be available by the end of March (an exact date was not confirmed). Why we care. Publishers that don’t fully comply with EU regulations could be blocked or suspended from the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF).

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The best ecommerce tools to boost profits and save time

AWeber

If you run an ecommerce business, you’re probably investing a lot of time trying to keep up with a never-ending list of responsibilities. From managing inventory to fulfilling and shipping orders, dealing with refunds and returns, directly communicating with customers, or optimizing your content for SEO, there’s a lot to juggle. Fortunately, the right ecommerce tools can help you get it all done with ease.

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Secrets of a $10 million SEO success story by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

In this webinar, set aside the complexities of SEO and link building as experts reveal the secrets that catapulted Page One Power into a $10 million SEO business. This session is not just for SEO specialists but anyone seeking to unlock the secrets to substantial business growth in the dynamic SEO space. Key takeaways: Transform your SEO strategies by embracing foundational business principles that can turn your agency into a $10 million powerhouse.

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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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How to Understand Your Audience and Tweak Your Content Strategy Accordingly

Marketing Insider Group

There’s something interesting you should know about B2B companies and their content strategies. Most of them are doing it at a basic, functional level. They’re focusing on what each part of their business needs, tailoring their content to these specific areas. But here’s the catch – not many have a strategy that covers the whole business.

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How to Use the COUNTIF Function in Excel

Hubspot Marketing

Excel can do more than just simple math. That's thanks to its bevy of built-in functions and min-formulas that simplify the creation of more complex formulas. In my decade-long experience with Excel, I’ve found that one of the more useful functions is the COUNTIF function. You can use COUNTIF to count the number of cells that contain a specific value or range of values.

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How to Get More Subscribers on YouTube in 2024

Buffer Marketing

While there’s no official number from YouTube, there are a reported 113 million active channels on the platform.  That might seem like a staggering number of YouTubers to compete with. But the good news: YouTube has more than two billion monthly active users — so there are plenty of subscribers to go around.  The trick is reaching them — and then creating high-quality content that resonates so much with them that they hit subscribe.

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Let’s get digital

SmartBrief - Marketing

Developments in IPTV standards from region to region Customers stereotypically change channels all the time, but TV channels have done a lot of changing themselves in the last few years. As streaming and linear programming converge, viewers want better audio and video quality, technology improves and climate change makes alert systems crucial, nations around the world have pursued upgrades to their digital TV standards.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

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.

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Simple Ways To Upgrade Your Website On A Budget

InTouch Marketing

Here are some of the simple ways that you can upgrade your website when your business is on a budget. First you will want to start blogging regularly and.

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Strategic Fitness: Elevate Your Acumen, Allocation and Action

Duct Tape Marketing

Strategic Fitness: Elevate Your Acumen, Allocation and Action written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Rich Howarth, a renowned business strategist, and CEO, known for his groundbreaking work in strategic thinking and leadership.

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The Future of Search: Will AI Replace SEO

Six & Flow

AI has been a hot topic for a while now, and it's about time we shared our take on it. At some point we've all wondered at the possibility of AI taking over our jobs, and we're right to be scared with the profound impact it has had, especially within digital and content marketing. In this blog we'll look back upon the rise of AI, what the future of AI and search looks like, and how Six & Flow plans to tackle the challenges being posed by AI.

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