Martech

APRIL 2, 2024

What’s the key to B2B marketing success? Influencers. B2B influencer marketing involves collaborations between creators and brands to develop and share content that promotes the brand’s products or services. The same influencers you see on your personal social media feeds could be the missing link in your B2B marketing strategy. Whether you’re looking at big fish with millions of followers or investigating micro-influencers with fewer than a hundred thousand followers, the investment is worth it

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Aspiration Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

In today's digital era, the speed and reliability of website performance play a pivotal role in engaging online audiences. Users expect seamless interactions, and any delay can lead to frustration and abandonment. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a powerful solution to revolutionize how web content is delivered.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

It's no secret that more and more people are accessing the internet using their mobile devices in addition to or in place of desktop computers. In fact, there are almost 7 billion mobile users worldwide. (For reference, the world population is currently 7.8 billion. That’s a lot of mobile activity.) But what they're doing on those mobile devices is even more compelling for marketers like us. 40% of consumers use their mobile device to conduct research prior to making an in-person purchase.

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Social Media Examiner

APRIL 2, 2024

Are you up to date on changes from Facebook? Wondering which recent Facebook updates are important to marketers and business owners? In this article, we explore Facebook changes that affect your marketing. #1: Facebook Advantage+, Shops, Collaborative Ads, and Promotion Codes Meta has announced several new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and ad formats to help […] The post Facebook Updates: Ads, Promo Codes, Monetization, and More appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

This summer -- as countries reopened -- people who'd been stuck inside were finally breathing a cautious sigh of relief. At the same time, some company leaders were doing the opposite. Why? In past years, entire industries saw summer slumps -- or seasonal dips in sales or web traffic. This year, business leaders expected sharper dips as more consumers finally unplugged.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

Microsoft extended Maximum Conversion Value to all shopping and search campaigns. This bid strategy, which was previously exclusive to smart shopping campaigns, automatically adjusts your bids in real-time to maximize total conversion value within your budget. If you have specific ROI goals, you can opt to include a Target ROAS (return on ad spend).

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Buffer Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

I started dreaming of creating a tool for ice facials when I realized there was no easy and accessible tool out there. My mom and I were both obsessed with using cold temperatures to increase cellular turnover, reduce inflammation, and firm the skin, but I hated the experience of having to hold an ice cube in my hands for minutes at a time. I was shocked to find there were no solutions on the market, so asked my partner, Lewis Battersby, if we could use his 3D printer to test some ideas.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

Designing your company website can be a challenging proposition. You’ve got to juggle the expectations of many stakeholders, and you can often hit obstacles that prevent new ideas from emerging. I was the design manager for a large company website for nearly six years, and during that time, I found myself losing perspective of what our target audiences really needed.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

A successful SaaS onboarding experience does two things: Quickly helps new users overcome a product’s learning curve. Demonstrates how well the product meets the user’s needs. A poor experience, on the other hand, is like a bad first date. You might have a great product, but if the initial encounter is unpleasant, you won’t get a second chance. This article explores how SaaS companies can improve customer onboarding to retain customers and achieve product-led growth.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

Your pricing page is a prime opportunity to take control of the price conversation and make it even easier for people to buy. Searching for a product’s price is a natural part of a customer's buying decision. The majority of people who have made it down the funnel far enough to consider buying from you will likely look at your pricing page. What does a great pricing page look like?

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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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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

The customer data platform (CDP) is one of the fastest-growing categories of business technology today. To understand why, you have to look at some of the underlying challenges across many industries related to data, AI and personalization. Customers want an experience that’s more tailored to them. They gravitate to companies that understand who they are and what they need.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

If you want to curate others' content from social media or just make your own visual social media content work harder for your overall content strategy, you need to know how to embed HTML code onto your blog or website. But wait a second. before we get into the nitty-gritty of this tip, what the heck does "embed" mean? And what is HTML? If you don't know how to code at all, no worries — embedding external content is extremely easy.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

Gemini’s integration with Google Workspace can improve SEO operations and align activities with management priorities. Key insights: Leverage Gemini integrated with Google Workspace for Sheets, Docs and Gmail to analyze documents and create content. Use Google Docs to identify leadership priorities and turn them into SEO action plans, aligning SEO with leadership goals.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

Just like every building needs a foundation, every business needs brand architecture. It's the structure that allows you to organize your offerings, develop a brand identity , and gain brand equity. The right brand architecture provides clarity around your products or services and influences how your brands and sub-brands relate to one another. Without this framework, there's no connection between your brand's offerings, messaging, and identity.

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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.

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Set Up

APRIL 2, 2024

As marketing matchmakers, Set up hosts a variety of virtual (#MarketingMixer and In This Dame and Age) and in-person events (such as the famous #MarketersBreakfast ) to educate and connect client-side and agency-side marketers. The purpose of these events is to build community. Every so often, in addition to building the community, we have an opportunity to showcase the brilliant marketing talents of our agency partners (in a pitch-free environment, of course).

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

Creating a productive workplace for yourself is tough enough, but doing it for the entire team? That's a whole different ball game. As a marketing team leader for many years, I learned firsthand the importance — and the challenges — of building a productive workplace. But wherever I worked, my goal was the same: to inspire my team and help them break through barriers to achieve their best.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

I’ve worked in the field of marketing analytics for nearly two decades. Lately, more and more programs are investing in more complicated and arcane measurement strategies. This is ultimately a net positive for programs and the industry in general, but an incomplete understanding of analytics leads to ripe ground for getting deceived. Whether it’s auditing accounts run by other agencies or hearing marketing partners give poor advice on joint client calls, I’ve seen plenty of instances where plat

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

You're out with friends, laughing, having a grand old time -- when someone asks the group a total brainteaser: "Why don't 'B' batteries exist?" You're stumped. Your friends are stumped. You whip out your smartphone and type the question into the Google machine. And boom: Up pops a battery company's blog post on the nationally uniform specifications for the size of battery cells.

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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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Search Engine Land

APRIL 2, 2024

Instagram released a series of tips and tricks to help creators enhance engagement for their Stories. The latest guidance from Instagram doesn’t introduce any new features but does offer presentation tips, along with a couple of sharing notes to create more impactful Stories. Why we care. When you get more people engaged with your stories, you increase your chances of turning viewers into potential customers.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

WYSIWYG. No, this isn't another one of those newfangled acronyms the kids are using these days -- it's actually been around for quite some time. "What You See Is What You Get," or WYSIWYG for short, refers to an HTML editor in which the content on a blog or web page appears as it would when it's live. In contrast to traditional editors, a WYSIWYG editor focuses on the end result, allowing you to get a clearer sense of what you're creating as you're creating it.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 2, 2024

Imagine your website is a sleek, high-performance sports car. Now, what good is all that speed and style if the engine’s not working right or it’s missing a wheel? That’s where technical SEO comes into play—think of it as the engine tune-up, the oil check, and the tire inflation ensuring your site races smoothly down the digital highway, catching the eyes of search engines and users alike.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

Premium Pricing for Professional Services written by Shawna Salinger read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you tired of the race to the bottom in pricing your professional services? Pricing is tough and it pushes many to commoditization. There’s a better route: premium pricing. Charging a premium elevates your services above the price wars but also transforms the very nature of your client relationships.

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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

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Buffer Marketing

APRIL 2, 2024

How do you know the number of likes, comments, and shares you’re getting is good enough? Your social media results don’t exist in a silo. To get the full picture, you need to compare your metrics to other businesses that look like yours. This article will delve into social media benchmarks for various industries and platforms. I’ve used data from the following reports: Buffer’s best times to post on social media — which analyzed one million posts sent through B

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DirectMail2.0

APRIL 2, 2024

Direct mail continues to hold its ground as a powerful tool for reaching and engaging target audiences. However, in order to truly maximize the effectiveness of direct mail campaigns, it’s crucial to explore innovative strategies that go beyond traditional mail delivery. One such strategy that has been gaining traction in recent years is harnessing the power of USPS Informed Delivery.

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illumin

APRIL 2, 2024

Canva made a name for itself in the world of technology and digital design; with its new acquisition of Affinity, it may be unstoppable. The web-based platform known for its accessible features and easy-to-use design tools is bringing award-winning software producer Affinity under its helm. On March 26, 2024, the two companies announced the deal with significant excitement.

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Exposure Ninja

APRIL 2, 2024

Ranking in local search results is crucial for driving online traffic to your website and foot traffic to your brick-and-mortar stores. However, optimising your SEO for multiple locations can be tricky. You essentially need to create a local SEO strategy for each location you want to target. Doing keyword research, creating content, and building links for 10, 20 or even 100+ locations can sound overwhelming.

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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.

The LeadG2 Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Having a strong social media presence is essential for businesses of all sizes. Social media platforms offer a direct line of communication with customers, provide valuable insights into market trends, and help build brand loyalty. For business leaders looking to harness the power of social media, here's a comprehensive starter kit to get you started on platforms that truly matter.

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ConsumerTalk

APRIL 2, 2024

Unlock the future of consumer goods with insights from Natural Products Expo West 2024: trends, innovation, and sustainability efforts.

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Product 59

Zumvu

APRIL 2, 2024

As consumer behaviors shift and technology continues to advance, the future of marketing is being shaped by a myriad of emerging technologies and trends.

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Fractional CMO

APRIL 2, 2024

The key p illars of Marketing Operations : Campaign Operations Project Management Process Management Tech stack Management Marketing intelligence Strategy Operations (StratOps ) Brand Management Content Management Data Management Customer Experience Management

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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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