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OpenAI’s Drama Should Teach Marketers These 2 Lessons

Content Marketing Institute

Should you care about the C-suite drama at OpenAI? Only if you plan to integrate any brand’s generative AI tools into your marketing strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Backfires as Viewers Install Better Blockers

Calvyn Lee Blog

YouTube recently started cracking down on ad blockers, showing messages that threaten to disable video viewing for users who block ads. However, this plan appears to be backfiring. Rather than complying, viewers are installing enhanced ad blockers at higher rates. The Ad Blocker Crackdown In a recent video, a popular YouTuber discussed YouTube’s apparent “war” against ad blockers.

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6 ways to use generative AI for your marketing

Martech

Generative AI is revolutionizing digital marketing by altering how we create, analyze and optimize marketing strategies. This technology leverages artificial intelligence for tasks like content creation, data analysis and customer engagement. Understanding and harnessing its capabilities allows marketers to achieve new levels of efficiency and creativity.

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9 SEO tactics for the holiday period

Search Engine Land

The holiday season brings a surge of searches around gifts, events, recipes and more. Savvy marketers can capture this traffic spike with targeted SEO strategies. Below are nine ways to optimize your website for the holidays and make the most of this high-traffic period. 1. Capitalize on seasonal topics Using tools like Google Trends and Semrush, look for trending keywords related to the holidays.

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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 to Create a Lead Generation Website: 9 Simple Optimizations

Hubspot Marketing

Optimizing your website to generate leads is a no-brainer. However, it's not as simple as throwing a “Click Here” button on your home page and watching the leads pour in. Instead, marketers and designers need to take a more strategic approach. In this post, we'll go over some quick ways that actually work to optimize your website for lead generation.

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Why a content gap analysis should be part of your SEO strategy

Search Engine Land

A content gap analysis is a valuable type of market research, helping you to discover opportunities you may have missed and improve your content marketing. But what exactly is a content gap analysis, and how do you do it? And more importantly, why should you? What is a content gap analysis? Content gap analysis is the process of identifying and addressing missing or underperforming content on a website, compared to competitors or market standards.

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How to combine Google Ads with other channels to retarget, nurture and convert

Search Engine Land

Today’s buyers have thousands of options to choose from and hundreds of companies competing for their attention. Running an ad and expecting consumers to go directly to purchase isn’t a viable option. It’s entirely obsolete. A much more effective strategy is to retarget and nurture. The goal is to stay top of mind with your target audience until they’re ready to make a purchase.

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24 Best Free Marketing & Sales Icons for Your Website or App

Hubspot Marketing

I’ve abandoned numerous websites that were crammed with excessive text and bulky images due to their challenging navigation and overly bookish appearance. Being both a marketer and a customer in one, I naturally lean towards using icons. They are visually appealing, convey information and intent instantly, and make clicking effortless. But not all businesses use icons to their full potential.

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Google Merchant Center Next will soon support rules and supplemental feeds

Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center Next will support rules and supplemental feeds early next year. The predecessor version, Google Merchant Center, is still used by some advertisers and already supports these new features. Google Merchant Center Next (GMC Next), a simplified version of Merchant Center, was unveiled in May. Advertisers that haven’t transitioned to GMC Next and want access to the rules and feeds should not upgrade to GMC Next.

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Email Marketing vs. SEO: What You Need To Know for 2024 (New Research)

Hubspot Marketing

I’m willing to bet that you, as a marketer, you have experience with email marketing and SEO. If you’re a beginner, you’ve at least heard of both strategies and maybe done a bit of research into them. Regardless of your level of experience, you might still be wondering which is a more worthwhile investment for your business. In this post, I’ll discuss all things email marketing vs.

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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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Reddit launches new Conversation Placement ad formats

Search Engine Land

Reddit has launched two new ad formats within Conversation Placement: Carousel Ads and Product Ads. Conversation Placement sits within a Reddit conversation thread, appearing below the original post and above the first comment. The rollout of the new ad formats within this placement is intended to offer advertisers the opportunity to interact with high-value users in a high-focused environment.

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6 Social Selling Tools to Consider

Hubspot Marketing

If you're like many people, you've likely been tempted to impulsively buy a pull out your credit card for a product or service you saw in an Instagram Reel with an incredibly convenient link to shop. Today, most generations see social media as their preferred platform for product discovery, while 87% of social media marketers who sell on their channels say its effective.

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Meta to launch Threads in the EU within weeks

Search Engine Land

Meta is reportedly planning to launch Threads in the EU before the end of the year. The news comes after X’s biggest advertisers – including Disney, Paramount and Sony Pictures – boycotted the Elon Musk-owned platform following his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory Why we care. Although Threads isn’t serving ads just yet, brands can still grow their audiences on the platform through influencer partnerships.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Marketing

As part of my comprehensive Buffer onboarding — which had me up and running at full speed in a matter of weeks — I was tasked with setting up intro calls with the company executives.  The prospect of sitting down (even virtually) with our CEO and other senior Bufferoos was daunting for a newbie. I was pretty nervous (in hindsight, I really didn’t need to be!).

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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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AWS expands its martech competency program

Martech

AWS has announced an expansion to its program to help advertisers and marketers find competent partners with solutions built on AWS. Partners qualify for the program through demostrated technical competency and customer success. Previously known as the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency, the expanded AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency covers the following competencies in addition to digital CX: Audience & Customer Data Management.

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Beyoncé And Taylor Swift’s Premiere Appearances Signify The Power Of Collaboration

CMO Network

In the cutthroat world of stardom, the reciprocal support of each other's movie releases by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift is nothing short of extraordinary.

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10 Actionable Tips for Small Business Marketing in 2024

Sachs Marketing Group

There are many tips for small business marketing, but the key is to focus on building a strong organic presence through SEO, leveraging social media to connect with your audience, and deploying highly targeted PPC ads to reach your ideal customer demographic. For the best result, be sure to measure your efforts, track progress toward your goals, and stay nimble!

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Effective B2B Sales Coaching Via Situational Fluency

Marketing Insider Group

In the B2B selling world there is near universal appreciation for the value of sales coaching. Research indicates significant impact on forecasted deal win rates, revenue growth and other selling metrics. Research from The Sales Management Association show sales people believe it’s the most important, least supported sales resource. We are among many who believe how you sell is a primary way to create value for prospective buyers, and to differentiate from competitors.

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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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Beyoncé And Taylor Swift: The Collaborative Brilliance Of 2023

CMO Network

In the cutthroat world of stardom, the reciprocal support of each other's movie releases by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift is nothing short of extraordinary.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Marketing Efficiency

yorCMO

Crafting marketing success: Build strong teams & leverage expertise for dynamic growth. Explore insights now.

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How to optimize sales and marketing processes for efficient customer acquisition

Martech

There are two extremes when it comes to driving better customer acquisition results: Expanding the team, hiring more salespeople or business development representatives (BDRs). Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising. In some cases, each of these tactics may work. But strategically, cost-effective acquisition isn’t about spending less or increasing the team.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Marketing Efficiency

yorCMO

Crafting marketing success: Build strong teams & leverage expertise for dynamic growth. Explore insights now.

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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