Mon.Feb 05, 2024

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How to Make Seasonal Branding Work for Your Business

Aspiration Marketing

Seasonal branding is an integral part of any marketing strategy. Here's why you need to capitalize on this trend all year round. Every business owner knows that effective marketing techniques form the foundation of success. However, some forget that effective marketing relies on innovative and unique branding.

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Celebrating Black History Month: Best practices for celebrating on social media and beyond

Sprout Social

With budget cuts, resignations and layoffs in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) departments, professionals and consumers alike have noticed a trend in companies backtracking on their social justice commitments made in 2020. As more concerns of performative activism arise, consumers are watching to see if those same brands are staying true to their word or if they’ve already moved on and are investing less in their DEI efforts.

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Why it’s time to rethink your feedback emails and how to do it right

Martech

Which of the three statements below comes closest to your view when it comes to email surveys and review requests: A. Love ‘em! They’re useful, and we use the return data in our email program, customer profiles and product development B. Hate ‘em! We don’t get much helpful info from them and readers generally ignore them. C. Meh … They don’t do much for our email program, but we send them anyway to stay in the inbox and every once in a while, we get interesting comments.

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Google ‘cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation’

Search Engine Land

Google cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation until it resolves concerns raised by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The search engine needs to do more to address issues raised around its proposed Privacy Sandbox changes or else it will not be able to deprecate third-party cookies from Chrome in the second half of 2024 as planned.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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Instagram Analytics: 2024 Guide to Smarter Results Tracking

Hootsuite

Instagram analytics help you understand how your strategy is performing, both on an account and individual post level. And knowing what works (and what doesn’t) is the first step to growing your account and building an engaged following on the platform. Keep reading to find out how to get started with tracking Instagram analytics, learn which metrics matter the most, and get comfortable with reporting your Instagram results to your boss.

Analytics 131
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Diving Deep Into Marketing in Financial Services (My Takeaways)

Hubspot Marketing

? FLAMING HOT TAKE ALERT: Marketing can drive business goals, but it can’t save a bad product. One financial company that understands this well is Wise , an international money transfer service I use. According to Nilan Peiris , Chief Product Officer at Wise, the company aimed to build a product that “blows user’s socks off.” That intended feat has come to fruition because a whopping 70% of Wise’s user growth comes through word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM).

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300+ Digital Marketing Stats to Drive Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Navigating the digital marketing world is like surfing – you need to catch the right wave to successfully ride the trends. As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Curious about where things are heading? Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best?

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Does HTML structure matter for SEO?

Search Engine Land

In case you missed the latest podcast episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s Gary Ilyes stirred up some controversy when he made a comment about HTML structure not mattering much for SEO. He later clarified on Linkedin that “not mattering much” doesn’t mean “doesn’t matter at all.” Still, that didn’t stop any of the SEO controversy. Being unable to avoid controversy, I couldn’t help but jump in – in an attempt to clarify a few common points and misconceptions I keep seeing pop up.

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Make It to the Inbox With Litmus Spam Testing

Litmus

If you’re like the 41% of email marketing pros who responded to our 2023 State of Email survey , email marketing is your most effective marketing channels. But did you know over 14 of all emails never make it into the inbox? While email deliverability can feel like a bit of a mystery at times, you don’t have to cross your fingers and hope that your messages end up where you intend.

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How to Effectively Use Twitter Influencer Marketing?

SocialPilot

“Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” It is not a secret that approximately half of the world’s population uses social media. Among this vast landscape of social media platforms, Twitter stands out prominently. With nearly 556 million monthly active users, Twitter influencer marketing has emerged as a focal point for connecting brands with their audience.

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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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Dark Social: What You Need to Know

Buffer Marketing

A significant portion of our social interactions occurs in a realm unseen and untracked: welcome to the world of Dark Social. Chances are, you’ve copied a link and shared it in your group chat a thousand and one times. Or a friend has asked for a restaurant recommendation, and you share a link with them. That’s dark social. Despite its ominous name, dark social is just a fancy way of referring to untrackable conversations in online spaces.

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Can a programmatic approach bring efficiency, savings to B2B lead gen?

Martech

Unlike paid media, which is overwhelmingly purchased programmatically today, B2B lead generation remains full of manual processes and hampered by inefficiencies. Think about how your organization deploys its B2B marketing tactics. Running a paid media campaign is relatively easy for an experienced B2B marketing team. Search ads are efficient, but they’re not often scalable because they’re often targeting bottom-of-the-funnel leads.

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From Memes to Memories: Gen-Z’s Quest for Shared Experiences

Businesses Grow

Many universities use my books as assigned texts, and I do my best to pop in for a Zoom Q&A with students when time allows. Recently, one instructor asked me if there was anything they could do in return to help me. I said that I’d like to know, “other than environmental issues, what are students worried about?” The class gifted me with a set of essays, and the depth of the responses surprised me.

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Understanding YouTube Campaign Types

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Google Ads offers seven YouTube campaign subtypes, ranging from reaching users while browsing to driving conversions. The post Understanding YouTube Campaign Types appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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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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Black History Month: The mistakes waiting to be made

Martech

When it comes to marketing and Black History Month, remember the words of chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower as looked at an empty board, “The mistakes are all there, waiting to be made.” If you do not have a diverse marketing team and a real, long-term commitment to working with whichever marginalized group you are featuring, you’re riding a pogo stick across a minefield.

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Google ‘cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation’

Search Engine Land

Google cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation until it resolves concerns raised by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The search engine needs to do more to address issues raised around its proposed Privacy Sandbox changes or else it will not be able to deprecate third-party cookies from Chrome in the second half of 2024 as planned.

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Marketo’s January 2024 updates include on-demand webinars, email bot filters and more

Martech

Let’s kick off 2024 with a look at Adobe Marketo’s January updates, which cover all areas of the Marketo platform, from bulk lead imports to a jQuery update for Marketo Engage forms. Interactive webinars add on-demand functionality Our schedules can get in the way of attending live events, but this is no longer a blocker for interactive webinars. Thanks to the January updates, on-demand webinar functionality is now available.

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Yandex search engine sold in $5.2 billion deal

Search Engine Land

Yandex, N.V. has agreed to sell its Russian assets – including the Yandex search engine – as part of a deal worth 475 billion rubles (roughly $5.2 billion). Reports of a coming sale emerged in November. The sale still will need regulatory and shareholder approval. About the sale. Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the Yandex Group, agreed to sell all of its Russia-based assets, including Search, to a consortium made up of: Members of the senior management team of its Russian businesses.

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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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How to protect against and benefit from generative AI hallucinations by Optimove

Martech

As marketers start using ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Meta AI or their own large language models (LLM), they must concern themselves with “hallucinations” and how to prevent them. IBM provides the following definition for hallucinations: “AI hallucination is a phenomenon wherein a large language model—often a generative AI chatbot or computer vision tool—perceives patterns or objects that are nonexistent or imperceptible to human observers, creating outputs that are

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Overcoming the Challenges of Industrial Marketing for Manufacturers: Strategies for Lead Generation and Growing Sales

Tiecas

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Let’s look at this problem from the perspective of an owner of a small to mid-sized manufacturing company, the Sales Manager, or the VP of Business Development, and finally, from the point of view of the Marketing Manager to understand why s/he needs outsourced help to improve t

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Amazon strikes landmark deal in response to Google’s third-party cookie deprecation

Search Engine Land

Amazon has secured a landmark deal with Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, to access customer data for targeted advertising. The agreement, one of the first of its kind in Europe, comes in response to Google’s plans to deprecate third-party cookies later this year. Why we care. As advertisers explore options beyond third-party cookies for targeted ads, this deal offers inspiration for alternative approaches to reach high-value consumers online.

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Unlocking Success: The Journey to Achieving Full Brand Potential

yorCMO

Recognizing it’s time for a change is something all companies will have to contend with at some point. One of our clients had outgrown its initial brand but they weren’t sure how to actually move forward. This is how we helped them. The post Unlocking Success: The Journey to Achieving Full Brand Potential appeared first on yorCMO.

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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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Rocking on Instagram: Your 2024 Guide to the Latest Updates!

Rock Content

Instagram is turning up the volume in 2024, and you don’t want to miss the beat. Whether you’re a brand owner, marketer, or part of the dynamic B2B and SaaS world, these updates are set to make your Instagram game stronger than ever. 1. Broadcast Channels: Engage at Scale! Imagine having your own stage to connect with followers on a massive scale.

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Google will face a new U.S. antitrust jury trial in September

Search Engine Land

Google will face allegations of using underhanded tactics to secure its position as the world’s leading search engine in a jury trial set for September 9, brought by the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states. The tech giant, which owns a 90% market share in search, is accused of paying massive sums to companies like Apple to make it the default search engine on products like the iPhone.

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The Cost of Social Media Advertising in the Philippines

Spiralytics

When a social media platform gains popularity, it’s almost a guarantee that Filipinos will flock to it. Known as the Social Media Capital of the World , the Philippines was home to 84.45 million social media users in January 2023, around 72.5% of the country’s total population. With numbers like that, it’s no wonder many local companies try to boost their social media presence, especially on Facebook.

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How to protect against and benefit from generative AI hallucinations by Optimove

Search Engine Land

As marketers start using ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Meta AI or their own large language models (LLM), they must concern themselves with “hallucinations” and how to prevent them. IBM provides the following definition for hallucinations: “AI hallucination is a phenomenon wherein a large language model—often a generative AI chatbot or computer vision tool—perceives patterns or objects that are nonexistent or imperceptible to human observers, creating outputs that are

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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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Why SEO Is Important for Small Businesses

Sachs Marketing Group

SEO is a cornerstone for small businesses aiming to stand out in the vast digital marketplace. It’s not just about being visible; it’s about being found by the right people at the right time. Through strategic optimization, businesses can attract more targeted traffic, enhance user experience, and increase conversion rates, laying the foundation for sustainable growth and competitiveness.

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Key Considerations When Writing a HubSpot RFI/RFP

Six & Flow

When it comes to sourcing CRM information for a powerhouse like HubSpot, RFIs and RFPs can be a resource heavy activity —after all, who doesn't want to be thorough when scouting for the perfect digital Swiss Army knife?

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Apple Vision Pro: Is This Really “The Era Of Spatial Computing”?

David Meerman Scott

I took this photo at 11:30 in the morning on February 2, the first day that the much-hyped Apple Vision Pro headset was available for sale in USA Apple stores. My local store in the tech company heavy Boston suburbs was expecting substantial crowds that didn’t materialize.

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Setup Pulse - 2.5.24

Set Up

Welcome to Set up Pulse for Brands and Agency marketers alike! Every other week, we’ll provide three trending topics in the Marketing industry, as well as a new story that you will want to get your eyes on. Read about what’s being talked about this week! Trending Topics Less Screen Time In 2024? If one of your goals is to have less screen time at night, Instagram is helping you out.

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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.