Martech
JULY 22, 2024
To business executives and marketing professionals, everything is numbers. Watch the news and pay attention to when a broadcaster states a number. Reading, seeing or hearing numbers is easy. Blindly repeating them is easy. What’s hard is validating the data, understanding it and then putting it into a meaningful, useable format. Context matters in data analysis “Numbers out of context are just numbers!
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 22, 2024
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the latest version of Google’s powerful analytics platform. Its purpose is to provide deeper insights into user behavior and website performance, helping you make adjustments whenever necessary. Understanding engaged sessions within GA4 is crucial for anyone looking to optimize their online presence. These engaged sessions go beyond simple visit counts, revealing how users interact with your content, what captures their interest, and what drives them to take act
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Backlinko
JULY 22, 2024
If done well, SEO (search engine optimization) can send thousands of targeted visitors to your website every month. This turns your site from an afterthought into an asset that generates leads and sales. Backlinko started as a simple personal blog in 2012, publishing one or two posts per month. In the first two years, our traffic grew from a few hundred monthly visitors to several thousand.
Search Engine Land
JULY 22, 2024
Google is reversing course and won’t phase out third-party cookies in Chrome as previously planned, instead opting for a new approach that gives users more control, the company announced today. Why we care. This decision marks a significant shift in Google’s privacy strategy and will come as a relief to many in the advertising industry who have been scrambling to prepare for a cookieless future.
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.
Buffer Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Paid advertising on social media is an immediate way to boost the reach of your content — particularly when it comes to a power platform like Facebook. With over 3 billion monthly active users , it's little wonder that Facebook is the most popular social media platform for running ads. But the Facebook algorithm is a tough nut to crack, especially if you're just starting out — whether you're a small business owner, a creator, or a social media manager — so the
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
There’s no doubt that in the last few months, you’ve run into Google’s new AI search tool. Often, the tool provides a helpful summary (though sometimes it’s laughably wrong). While the tools themselves are evolving every day, it seems generative AI search engines aren’t going anywhere. Since Google launched its AI search, it’s already made leaps in relevance and accuracy.
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Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Developing a consistent brand starts with creating a brand style guide. These branding rule books help graphic designers, marketers, web developers, community managers, and even product packaging departments present a unified vision of the brand to the public. The best brands stick in our brains because their presence is defined by the repetition of the same logo, fonts, colors, and images.
Martech
JULY 22, 2024
Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? You should. Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on your budget for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing over the course of a year if you don't have a plan. To make your plan's creation easier, we've put together a list of what to include in your plan and a few different planning templates where you can easily fill in the blanks.
Search Engine Land
JULY 22, 2024
This year’s shopping season is unusually short. Instead of the normal four and a half to five weeks, we have just 27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. On top of that: Hanukkah starts on Christmas, and Kwanzaa is on the day after. Christmas and Hannukah are on Wednesdays, eliminating the ease of shopping retail over the weekend for last-minute gifts.
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.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
As a content creator , I know brand identity is everything. My audience wants to know what makes me different, why I create content, why they should trust the information I put out, and why I might promote a product or service. The same is true for companies. In addition to the information above, people who find your company online want to know about your mission, vision, and how you can help them solve their problems.
Martech
JULY 22, 2024
Netflix is phasing out its cheapest ad-free plan in Canada and the U.K., with plans to do the same in the U.S. and France. Netflix added eight million global subscribers in Q2, with its ad-supported plan gaining significant traction. The lower-priced tier now accounts for over 45% of new signups in markets where it’s available, signaling a potential shift in Netflix’s business model.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Over the last few weeks, I‘ve been writing extensively about community management , what it is, and why it’s essential. If, after reading my posts and doing your own research, you still need to figure out if it's worth investing in, perhaps a quick pros and cons list will help you come to a decision. Let's dive into the pros and cons of community management.
Buffer Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Organic social media marketing is a long game. You need to abide by a social media calendar and post consistently, hop on trends, and have a lot of patience before you see tangible results. But what if you want some quick wins under your belt? Enter: Social media advertising. It’s an arm of social media marketing where you spend money to reach the right audience.
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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.
Search Engine Land
JULY 22, 2024
Conversion rate (CVR) is one of the top performance drivers when it comes to PPC campaigns. This article outlines key factors that can influence PPC conversion rates so you can squeeze as much revenue from your paid campaigns as possible. Optimizing for PPC conversion rates A common conversion rate optimization (CRO) methodology involves three steps: Step 1: Investigation.
Lusha
JULY 22, 2024
Despite the digital age, cold calling remains a powerhouse in sales. A well-crafted script is your secret weapon , providing a strategic framework to guide interactions. Think of it as your roadmap to navigate cold calls , be equipped to build rapport, overcome objections, and secure appointments. This guide covers everything about cold-calling scripts in 2024: the anatomy of a high-converting script, tailored templates, expert tips for delivery, and objection-handling techniques.
Content Marketing Institute
JULY 22, 2024
Stop treating GA4 reports and ChatGPT prompts as separate processes. Combine the two with these step-by-step instructions and identify falling search traffic, learn how to improve rankings, and deliver more effective newsletters.
Lusha
JULY 22, 2024
Closing deals is challenging, but a well-defined sales process simplifies it. It’s about understanding buyer psychology , mastering negotiation , and using the right tools. In this guide, we break down the sales process into 8 easy steps , each backed by research and real-world examples. From identifying your ideal customer to measuring success , we offer actionable advice and insights.
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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.
The Marketing Operations Leader
JULY 22, 2024
In this edition: Best MOPs Career Event of the Quarter When to Speed Up or Slow Down in Marketing Operations POLL: Marketing Ops Biggest Pain Point For Paid Subscribers: Our job as managers is to confront the real issues Get your career or marketing questions answered: Ask the Marketing Operations Leader questions here to be answered in future issues.
Kuno Creative
JULY 22, 2024
Unless you’re brand new to the internet, you’re probably aware content marketing is the weapon of choice among businesses with an online presence. But while creating material for your website or social media channels may sound simple, developing a comprehensive content marketing strategy can be a difficult, complicated process.
Buffer Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
One of the best aspects of social media is being able to share something with your followers, but other social media platforms make reposting a bit easier. On Twitter/X, you can retweet. On Facebook, there’s the option to share a post. And on Instagram, you can repost, which is essentially a way to share a picture from another Instagram user with your followers.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
Graza. Fishwife. Brightland. If you’ve never heard of them, just walk into a local specialty store — you’re guaranteed to spot some of these brands, with packaging so aesthetically pleasing they make you feel like walking inside an Instagram feed. Gander helped build the Graza brand from scratch, an olive oil that comes in a squeeze bottle. Source: GoPuff Marked by bright colors, bold fonts, and creative illustrations, this style of packaging is now moving beyond specialty stores and into big re
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Discover why a traditional website is no longer enough to meet B2B buyer expectations in our must-attend session of The B2B Growth Show, The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More Than Just a Website. Learn how cutting-edge AI tools can transform your B2B website into a results-driven powerhouse that delivers the right message to the right visitor, every time.
David Meerman Scott
JULY 22, 2024
Seeing my favorite band at the most technologically advanced music venue in the world was an exhilarating, fascinating, exciting, and just a little frustrating experience. Bobby Weir and Mickey Hart are cementing their legacy by continuing to innovate while performing a Grateful Dead songbook that was mostly written over 50 years ago.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 22, 2024
When considering who to learn from in the marketing space, one brand stands out: Liquid Death. They've mastered the art of turning healthy beverages into a sought-after brand, making them ideal marketing mentors. But they've done more than reinvent water — in many ways, they've reinvented marketing, as well. I spoke with Greg Fass , Liquid Death's VP of Marketing, to learn how he's cultivated an anti-marketing approach, why some of his favorite campaigns involve Tony Hawk and Martha Stewart, and
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