Tiecas

APRIL 1, 2024

The challenges of B2B industrial marketing are unique and can frustrate even the most seasoned marketers. From complex sales cycles to niche audiences, understanding the hurdles facing manufacturers and industrial companies is the first step toward developing effective marketing strategies. To get a good overview of these hurdles and challenges, check out our post, “Struggling with B2B Industrial Marketing?

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Aspiration Marketing

APRIL 1, 2024

Getting your blog or website ranked among the top search engine results can provide multiple benefits. In 2024, SEO will play a significant role in achieving this. You can use some techniques to optimize your website for search engines. If you want to discover these techniques, keep reading until the end. We will discuss each one briefly and explain how each technique can help you rank higher in SERPs.

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Businesses Grow

APRIL 1, 2024

I was recently talking with a young influencer and I offered to send her one of my books. “I don’t read books,” she said. “OK, how about an audiobook?” “I don’t listen to books either. The only content I consume is YouTube. I have the ad-free version and that is all I watch all day long.” This story is not unusual.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s frustrating. You put time, energy and a lot of hope into a webpage. But it just won’t rank. Your competitors’ pages are ranking well, even though (subjectively) they’re worse. Yours deserves to be top of Google. So why isn’t it? Figuring out the levers to pull to get your content to the top of Google isn’t quick, but it can be done. Identifying the problem The key to identifying why your page isn’t ranking is to systematically rule out the other possibilities.

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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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Martech

APRIL 1, 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.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

ChatGPT now features “more prominent” links to sources in its responses for paid users, OpenAI announced. Links won’t appear in the free version of ChatGPT, however. Why we care. Brands, SEOs and content creators of all sizes have been extremely considered about the parasitic nature of generative AI. Large AI companies like OpenAI have consumed large amounts of web content and provided answers without attribution.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Meta launched new audience insight and targeting options within its Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns. These new capabilities allow you to generate reporting breakdowns of your audience and target individuals interested in your products or services who haven’t yet made a purchase. Why we care. Understanding your audience better enables more effective campaign optimization, while precise targeting capabilities help reach high-value consumers.

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Martech

APRIL 1, 2024

Left to right: Jayson Dubin, CEO, Playwire; Julie Piskin, head of global partner program, Roblox; Pete Basgen, director and global lead, gaming & esports, Wavemaker; Paul Chenier, EVP global sales, Playwire at IAB PlayFronts. Image: IAB. “We’ve been trying to compete for media dollars by talking about how gaming is mass entertainment for playing the ‘scale’ card,” said IAB’s vice president, Experience Center Zoe Soon, at IAB PlayFronts this week.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

User-generated content (UGC) has emerged as a powerful tool for enhancing search marketing. As Google prioritizes authentic, engaging content, brands can leverage UGC to foster genuine connections with their audiences, gather valuable insights and boost visibility across multiple platforms. In a previous Search Engine Land article , I highlighted the potential of UGC in SEO.

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Martech

APRIL 1, 2024

Events play a crucial role in fostering connections and driving growth in B2B marketing. However, traditional methods of measuring event success often fall short. Enter event-led growth (ELG) — a transformative strategy focused on win rates rather than mere attendance. This article tackles the limitations of traditional event metrics and how ELG is revolutionizing B2B marketing events.

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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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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is planning to introduce native advertising in related questions, according to Adweek. How it will work. Related questions, which include links to sources, account for 40% of Perplexity’s queries. So Perplexity plans to add relevant, related brand-sponsored questions along with organic questions. Brand safety.

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Martech

APRIL 1, 2024

Break-neck rates of change are inevitable as digital marketing responds to technological advancements, shifting consumer behavior and policy demands. For the past three decades, marketers have been leading the way on the web, adapting to constant changes. Despite this, progress isn’t slowing down. Projections show that digital marketing in the U.S. could increase by $100 billion in the next three years.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Walmart is expanding its retail media business to include small marketers and international suppliers. Additionally, it is opening up Walmart Connect to brands that have not traditionally sold their products in its stores, such as automotive and financial marketers – known as “no-endemic” marketers. What is Walmart Connect? Walmart Connect is the rebranded media group of Walmart, serving as the advertising division of the retail giant.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Google is investigating an issue causing incomplete data in Ad Manager Reach reports. Ad Manager Reach reports with dynamic date ranges like “Last week (Sun – Sat)” or “Last 93 days”, or fixed date ranges with start or end dates beyond March 20, 2024, will include incomplete reach reporting data for any Orders or Line items still actively delivering beyond March 20.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Vehicle Listing Ads (VLA) within Google Ads are now live and open for Beta-listing in the UK, Denmark, and France. Previously only available in open beta in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, VLA will also soon be rolled out to the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain by the end of the second quarter of the year. Why we care. If you are a business or marketer trying to sell vehicles in the UK, Denmark or Frances, VLA can help you reach high-value consumers actively looking for vehicles, increasing your c

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Do you work on an enterprise ecommerce site? If so, chances are you have to optimize massive amounts of product pages using a product information management (PIM) system. This article covers a step-by-step bulk product optimization process for SEO , highlighting some Excel formulas and third-party tools, including ChatGPT and Grammarly, to help make the process go faster for title tags, meta descriptions and product copy optimization.

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