Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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5 Books Reveal Online Business Models That Are Changing The World [Part 4 of 5]

Jeff Bullas

Subscription businesses are growing at 500% to 800% faster than traditional businesses and are estimated to be worth well over $200 billion at the end of 2022. Why it matters. Making money online isn’t just about having a good idea, how much venture capital you have raised, or how hard you work. It’s about how good your timing is. . Launching a new business into a fading and failing trend is a surefire way to lose a lot of money (Hint: You wouldn’t want to be starting a video rental store)

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Content ideas may be coming to Google Search Console

Search Engine Land

Google Search Console is experimenting with a new feature named “content ideas.” Content ideas give the content creator, publisher, SEO, webmaster, etc., some tips and advice on what new topics they can write about on their site. Experimental feature. This feature is not live for me in my verified Search Console profiles, but Nicolas Ockier noticed it and posted about it on Mastodon sharing this screenshot: Looks like Question Hub.

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26 Quotes to Inspire Your Job Search

Hubspot Marketing

As a job seeker, you’ll face ups and downs. Motivational job search quotes can inspire you on the days you feel like giving up. Between preparing for interviews and sending out resumes, you may not have time to find these quotes yourself. That’s why our team gathered 26 of our favorite quotes from people who were in your shoes and nailed the job search.

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What Marketing Automation Campaigns You Need to Start Doing ASAP

Neil Patel

There are only so many hours in a day. 24, to be exact. And if you’re like me, you have a list of seemingly never-ending tasks to fill those hours. Social media posts, blog posts, SEO, PPC, financials, processes – you name it. But when you’re scaling and growing your small business, you need to start cutting time from as many tedious tasks as possible.

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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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8 Facebook Marketing Tips To Revitalize A Boring Page via @sejournal, @rio_seo

Search Engine Journal

You've created your Facebook business page a while back, but losing engagement? Keep updating your page as Facebook features evolve with these 8 top tips. The post 8 Facebook Marketing Tips To Revitalize A Boring Page appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Google's John Mueller Says HTML Sitemaps Should Never Be Needed

Search Engine Roundtable

John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much. On Mastodon the other day he really showed his dissatisfaction of HTML sitemaps by saying that HTML sitemaps "should never be needed.

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Google 2022 Year In Search - Top Searches

Search Engine Roundtable

It is that time of the year again when Google publishes its top searches for the year. Not going to lie, it is getting tiring, but Google does put a lot of effort into making it inspirational with the embedded video.

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Salesforce: The trends underlying a record-breaking Cyber Week

Martech

In 2021, the Javits Center in New York city completed construction of a $1.5 billion expansion on the north side of its campus, adding over one million square feet spread over five floors — with a working rooftop farm. This week, the Salesforce World Tour took over the behemoth space for one day. It had previously touched down in Boston and Tokyo. We took the opportunity to sit down with Rob Garf, VP and GM retail, to talk about prospects for retail and ecommerce coming off of a booming Cyber We

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Google Tests +Topic Search Bar Refinements On Desktop After Launching On Mobile

Search Engine Roundtable

Earlier this week, Google announced it has begun to roll out the new topics + sign refinement options in the English/US on mobile search results. But it seems Google is also testing them. They are not fully live on the desktop search results.

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Before Deciding Where Your Content Team Reports, Pay Attention to This [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Content Marketing Institute

Before you get deep into where the content team reports or which function handles a content project, recognize that the decision-making process – not the actual decisions – will set you up for success. Robert Rose explains the why and how.

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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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2023 Edition: Google Says Only Update The Date When Significantly Updating The Content

Search Engine Roundtable

It is that time of year when content creators take their content that has been performing well and updates it from the 2022 edition to the 2023 edition. But updating the references of 2022 to 2023 is not enough, and Google says only do that when you make a significant update to that content.

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Intuitive Web Design: How to Make Your Website Intuitive to Use

CXL

The easier your website is to use, the more people use it. An essential part of “easy to use” is intuitiveness. Intuitive design means that when a user sees it, they know exactly what to do. Intuitive design is invisible. Design is intuitive when users can focus on a task at hand without stopping, even for a second. Intuitive designs direct people’s attention to tasks that are important.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2022

Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today.

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Airbnb’s search marketing shift: Should advertisers follow suit?

Search Engine Land

A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that Airbnb’s “strategy of slashing advertising spending, investing in brand marketing and lessening its reliance on search-engine marketing is continuing to pay off.”. This remark has sparked discussions among many advertisers, wondering if a similar strategy may work for them. In 2019, Airbnb started to move budget away from search marketing in favor of broader marketing initiatives.

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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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Google: Using A CDN Or Cloud Hosting, Set Up Routine Tests To Ensure Googlebot Is Not Blocked

Search Engine Roundtable

Gary Illyes from Google loves posting his PSAs on Mastodon. His next PSA is that if you are using a CDN or cloud hosting service, then make sure to test up a routine test to ensure that the service is not blocking Googlebot or other search engine crawlers that you want to crawl and index your site.

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Value, agents and apps: Three trends for travel marketers adapting to ongoing challenges

Econsultancy

It’s been a tumultuous few years for the travel industry, with staff shortages, strikes, and supply chain woes creating mass disruption following on from Covid. Despite a resurgence in consumer travel during the summer – with nearly twice as many people travelling abroad in the six months from March to August 2022 than the previous six months – the cost-of-living crisis is once again putting.

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Arches At The Google Carpenter Chicago Office

Search Engine Roundtable

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WordPress & Full Site Editing: How To Create A Child Theme & Block Theme via @sejournal, @JuliaGeekPack

Search Engine Journal

Create your own custom theme that you can export and use again. Learn how to easily create a child page for your new fonts here. The post WordPress & Full Site Editing: How To Create A Child Theme & Block Theme appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content System Update, Continuous Scroll On Desktop & Topic Refinements

Search Engine Roundtable

This week we had another confirmed update to the Google helpful content system; it is now global. Google also had a lot of volatility over the previous week, unrelated to this confirmed update. Google officially rolled out continuous scroll on desktop.

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JavaScript rendering and indexing: Cautionary tales and how to avoid them

Search Engine Land

I recently read Ziemek Bucko’s fascinating article, Rendering Queue: Google Needs 9X More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML , on the Onely blog. Bucko described a test they did showing significant delays by Googlebot following links in JavaScript-reliant pages compared to links in plain-text HTML. While it isn’t a good idea to rely on only one test like this, their experience matches up with my own.

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What We Shipped: Email Address Validator, Popup Builder, Social Element Improvements and More

GrowMatik

It’s time once again for Growmatik to be updated with new features and improvements. Our latest round of updates includes an email validator for deliverability, a popup builder, social element improvements, new support and knowledge base and more. Let’s take a look at what we’ve achieved since September 2022. Popup Builder Improvements. The new features added to Growmatik’s popup builder enable you to build even richer popups with new options and capabilities.

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Data Drop: Black Friday – Cyber Monday 2022

Power Digital Marketing

Holiday promotions – can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) is the most wonderful time of the year for brands to get down to business. With the week of glorious deals behind us, Power Digital took a look under the hood to see how brands in our portfolio performed this BFCM season. . Using our proprietary technology, nova , we uncovered compelling insights across swaths of advertiser data.

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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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What We Shipped: Email Content Analyzer, Email Address Validator, Popup Builder, Social Element Improvements and More

GrowMatik

It’s time once again for Growmatik to be updated with new features and improvements. Our latest round of updates includes an email content analyzer for spam, an email validator for deliverability, a popup builder, social element improvements, new support and knowledge base and more. Let’s take a look at what we’ve achieved since September 2022.

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What is Influencer Marketing?

Power Digital Marketing

Influencer marketing has unequivocally proved it isn’t just a passing trend. . The marketing tactic—a collaboration between a company and an influencer to boost brand awareness and sell a product or service—has skyrocketed in popularity. By 2025, it’s projected to expand to a $24.1 billion industry. 1. As consumers increasingly turn to influencers to make their purchasing decisions, even a cursory glimpse at our social media feeds reveals an influencer marketing strategy’s range and power.

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Why prioritizing business continuity in martech is a must

Martech

In the second half of 2019, I made a presentation to Western Governors University’s marketing department. There I discussed a project that involved working with an IT colleague. We were documenting business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans for the department. . Business continuity planning means working out how an organization will function after a major blocker to normal operation suddenly occurs.

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