Fri.Jul 12, 2024

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The Impact of AI on Content Discovery

Scoop.it!

Keeping your audience interested is essential for any business and creator. But coming up with cool and fresh ideas constantly can be tough and take a lot of time. That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) comes in handy. AI can analyze vast amounts of information and provide invaluable insights. It’s a game-changer when it comes to brainstorming new content ideas.

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How to Prove the ROI of Community Management (According to Experts)

Hubspot Marketing

In a perfect world, my car would run on starlight and dreams, fries would taste good reheated, and we would never be asked to prove the ROI of community management. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in — so I reached out to 3 different community management experts and asked how they show the value of their community. Below, I’ll share their best tips for communicating ROI to your stakeholders.

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Why brand trust is declining and how marketers can earn it back

Martech

Brand trust is on the decline. The combination of rapidly emerging technologies, an abundance of misinformation and unethical data use have put consumers on edge. The trust metrics are proof. Only 30% of consumers trust companies highly, and only 61% trust business leaders to tell the truth. Trust is integral to long-term consumer loyalty. Without a relationship with a brand, what keeps customers returning or motivates them to advocate for your brand to their friends and family?

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Community Management Metrics That Actually Help [Expert Interviews]

Hubspot Marketing

They say if you can measure it, you can manage it. So how do you measure a community? That’s not a rhetorical question. If you want to manage a thriving community, you better figure out which community management metrics actually mean something about your work. I spoke with a panel of four experts — from CCOs and Directors to program managers in the trenches — and asked what metrics they use themselves.

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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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LinkedIn’s AI ad tool to launch globally this fall

Martech

LinkedIn is preparing to roll out Accelerate, its AI-driven campaign tool, to all advertisers globally by early fall. It was originally made available in October 2023 to selected North American advertisers, but by the time of Cannes Lions in June this year it had achieved a 50% global rollout in beta. By the numbers: According to LinkedIn , Accelerate: Cuts campaign creation time from 15 hours to 5 minutes.

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How to Build a Successful Online Community: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hubspot Marketing

Matthew Stibbe , CEO of Articulate Marketing , told me, "Community is not the cult of celebrity. It’s a reciprocal thing. It is about building connections, true connections, and developing those connections into relationships.” He’s exactly right: communities help you share your brand identity, engage with members to build and deepen relationships and help you share content with them so they have everything they need to succeed.

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Why is Community Management Important?

Hubspot Marketing

If you‘ve seen other posts I’ve written about community management, you know I used to manage a Facebook community for a TV station where I worked as a digital journalist. My experience gave me first-hand knowledge of why community management is important and why brands should invest in it. Don't believe me, well consider this: 86% of social media marketers believe having an active community is critical to brands’ success on social media in 2024.

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A Guide To Social Media Analytics: Measure Social Social Success

SocialPilot

Have you ever scrolled through your social media feed and wondered, “Is any of this actually working?” Yeah, us, too. In this age of content overload, creating and posting great stuff is no longer enough. You need to understand what resonates with your target audience and why. That is where the practice of social media analytics comes in. By analyzing the data collected behind your social media presence, you can unlock powerful and actionable insights to fine-tune your social media strategies an

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6 Community Management Trends To Know in 2024

Hubspot Marketing

Brands build online communities around their target audiences. As consumer preferences change and technological advances offer more and more opportunities, community management strategies change alongside them. In this piece, I’ll go over community management trends to be aware of in 2024 and how you can adapt them for yourself. Community Management Trends in 2024 1.

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How We're Preventing Breaking Changes in GraphQL APIs at Buffer — and Why It's Essential for Our Customers

Buffer Marketing

⚡ At Buffer, we’re committed to full transparency — which means building in public and sharing how our engineers work. You’ll find more content like this on our Open Blog here. We’ve all experienced it at some point — a change is deployed to an API and suddenly, clients stop working. User experience deteriorates, negative reviews start coming in, customer advocacy starts dealing with requests, multiple engineers start digging into the issue, and it quick

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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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6 Types of Online Communities Your Brand Should Consider Investing In This Year

Hubspot Marketing

When I started thinking about the different types of online communities that exist, I felt like the possibilities were endless. After all, new communities pop up every day. Some are free , some are paid. Some are public, some are exclusive. However, based on what I know about community management , there’s a smart way to categorize these communities based on your brand’s engagement goals.

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OpenAI is ‘going to build a search product’

Search Engine Land

OpenAI didn’t launch its heavily rumored search product earlier this year, but it’s coming. This was confirmed in a new interview with The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson. The quote. ChatGPT search could become “an important way that people navigate the internet,” so it would be “better for us to be in it than to not be in it, and also to help shape it than not help shape it,” Thompson told The Verge.

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7 Community Management Tools the Pros Actually Use [Expert Recommendations]

Hubspot Marketing

Having a hard time finding clear info on community management tools? I’m not even a little surprised. “Community management” covers a wide range of jobs, and they’re not going to have the same software needs. After all, if you’re running a B2B product support forum you need a different tech stack than someone modding a Bluey fandom on TikTok, right?

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Salesforce’s Summer 2024 release features time-saving enhancements

Martech

Salesforce’s Summer 2024 releases will help teams work smarter, with new product innovations built on data, AI, CRM and trust. This edition’s enhancements save time for businesses and improve the end-user experience with better search results, individualized personalization and more. Here’s a recap of what’s new with Salesforce this season. Activate and publish a store without a custom domain B2B Commerce Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) previously required you to purchase and configure a custom co

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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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.

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8 Challenges of Scaling Community Management (and How Pros Solve Them)

Hubspot Marketing

You lost that lovin’ feelin’. Fun to hear on the oldies station. Not so fun to hear from your community members. But that’s the double-edged sword of scaling community management, isn’t it? The better you do, the bigger you get. And the bigger your group gets, the harder it is to do the things that made it so special. Below, 5 veterans of community management — from Square, Pocket CCO, HeyOrca, and HubSpot — share some challenges you’re likely to face.

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How to Do a Reverse Image Search: A Step-by-Step Guide

Backlinko

A reverse image search allows you to find more information about an image or topic by using the image itself—instead of text. This technique can help you find a high-resolution version of an image, locate similar images, or identify the original source of the image. You can also use a reverse image search to search for specific products across the internet by uploading a photo.

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Community Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them [Expert Tips]

Hubspot Marketing

A few years ago, I had to manage a Facebook community for a TV station I was working for as a digital journalist. It was a completely new experience, and there were definitely times I stumbled. Community management challenges are real and can be hard to navigate if you're new to the field. Fortunately, I gathered valuable information from experts, including a fellow HubSpotter, so you can be the best community manager you can be and avoid some of my blunders.

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Amazon’s AI shopping assistant Rufus is live for all U.S. customers

Search Engine Land

Amazon rolled out its AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus, to all U.S. customers in its mobile app. Why it matters. This move signals Amazon’s push into AI-assisted shopping, potentially transforming how consumers interact with ecommerce platforms. How it works. Rufus uses a specialized large language model (LLM) trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews and web data.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

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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.

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Free vs. Paid Online Communities: Which Is Right for You? [Expert Tips]

Hubspot Marketing

A key decision when creating an online community is whether it’ll be free for members to join or if they’ll have to pay to access it. And, the model you choose can have a significant impact on how you end up running your community. This piece will be all about free vs. paid communities — I’ll explain what each one is, the pros and cons to each model, and dive into expert tips for choosing between the two.

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Target audiences precisely to maximize reach and reduce spend by Edna Chavira

Martech

Imagine a world where your marketing message finds its perfect match. No wasted effort, no aimless casting of a net. Your ideal audience, captivated. This isn’t a dream. It’s Connected TV (CTV) advertising. Picture television’s massive reach, sharpened to a digital marketing laser. Join MNTN and MarTech for Everything You Need to Know About CTV Audience Targeting (in under 60 minutes) as they discuss everything there is to know about Connected TV audience targeting.

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6 Types of Community Management (+ Tips from the Experts Who Manage Them)

Hubspot Marketing

Jenny Sowyrda, manager of community strategy and operations at HubSpot, shared a great analogy with me about community management: “As the community manager, you’re hosting a party. At first you have to welcome everyone, take their jackets, and offer them food or a drink. But once more guests start to arrive, you can make connections amongst guests who have things in common, and you can slowly pull back … to just being in the background.

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How to remove court records from Google: 3 effective strategies

Search Engine Land

Legal issues can drag on for ages. That’s the simple, unfortunate truth. Worse, once a legal matter is filed in court, the case is highly likely to become visible on the web. Hundreds of websites now aggregate public court records and publish them for the world to see. The issue I commonly come across for clients is that court records tend to rank highly in Google search results for both individuals and businesses.

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The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More than Just a Website

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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.

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Surprising Search Behavior Teaches This Important Lesson

Content Marketing Institute

How’s 2024 going for organic search? From new algorithms to false starts and AI-generated overviews, it’s a jumbled mess. But SparkToro’s new Zero-Click Search Study may help you understand a good path for the rest of the year.

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Report: LinkedIn’s AI ad tool to launch globally this fall

Search Engine Land

LinkedIn is preparing to roll out Accelerate, its AI-driven campaign tool, to all advertisers globally by early fall. Why we care. By embracing Accelerate, advertisers can potentially improve their LinkedIn campaign performance while reducing time and resource investment, making it a tool worth exploring for B2B marketers. By the numbers: Cuts campaign creation time from 15 hours to 5 minutes.

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Ugly Ads Perform Best, Marketer Says

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Barry Hott recommends ugly ads, those that people won't skip over. First reactions to an ad largely determine its performance, he states. The post Ugly Ads Perform Best, Marketer Says appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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A HubSpot Elite Partner's Approach to Setting Up The Lead Object

Six & Flow

Learn how to optimise your sales pipeline with a HubSpot Elite Partner's approach to setting up the lead object inside HubSpot's Prospecting Workspace.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Black women founders have to keep pushing

Martech

Entrepreneur and author Octavia Goderema When it comes to securing funding for a tech startup, we all know the depressing statistics. Men do better than women, white men do better than Black men, they both do better than Black women, and if you’re a Black woman who openly identifies as lesbian or queer, you’re likely at the bottom of the pile.

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The rise of forums: Why Google prefers them and how to adapt

Search Engine Land

If you own a niche site, there’s a pretty good chance that you saw something like this happen between late 2023 and today. This is Semrush’s report for one of my own niche sites. There’s not much to brag about these days on my site, but in 2022, there was. Google loved it. I ranked in the top 10 on my niche keywords and a wide range of related head terms.

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35 SEO Interview Questions (Top Answers from the Experts)

Backlinko

We have one goal for this article: to help you land an SEO job. This isn’t a generic piece on SEO interview questions. Yes, we’ve broken the questions down by career stages and SEO types to help you prepare. But we’ve also spoken to people who actually hire talent in the SEO industry. To learn what hiring managers are looking for and the type of questions they might ask you.

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