Hubspot Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

Everyone knows that ChatGPT can generate content on nearly any topic you can imagine (some information might be made up, but that’s a story for a different article). So, while I’m not a fan of using it to create articles, I must say that I’m impressed with how helpful it can be for SEO. In this post, I put together different ways you can use ChatGPT to improve your search rankings – whether it’s through keyword improvements, proper linking, or other tactics.

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Social Media Examiner

JULY 16, 2024

Want to create better video thumbnails without a graphic designer? Wondering if AI tools can help? In this article, we explore how to create great-looking YouTube thumbnails using AI tools. How to Create Visually Appealing Thumbnails With AI Custom YouTube thumbnails are crucial for getting people to click on your videos. But creating, testing, and […] The post How to Create Stunning AI Thumbnails for YouTube appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

Marketers continue to move money into digital video despite significant doubts about audience measurement, according to a new report from the IAB. Digital video ad spending is expected to be more than $62 billion this year, the IAB predicts. That is a 16% increase over last year and more than twice the $26 billion in 2020. Since that year ad spend share shifted nearly 20 percentage points from linear TV to digital video.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Major tech companies have been rushing to develop their own AI models, dramatically altering the digital landscape. Goldman Sachs predicts that the content creator industry will reach half a trillion dollars by 2027. The evolution of a new digital landscape can bring opportunities and challenges. Daron Acemoglu, an economics professor from MIT, has analyzed past industrial revolutions and highlighted that technological progress is not inherently beneficial; its impact depends on its direction an

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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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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

Accurate customer data is a marketer’s goldmine. It unlocks personalized experiences, fuels growth, and maximizes ROI. But the reality is, bad data is the norm. Outdated, inconsistent, or inaccurate information is sabotaging marketing efforts everywhere. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Join us for the webinar, Why Data Standards Are the Key to Your Data Success , where our industry experts will share actionable strategies for overcoming data challenges and achieving data excellence

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

In 2014, I was just a few months into my job as an executive creative director and head of Amazon’s internal creative agency – then known as D1 – when I found out we would be creating a global Amazon Prime Day advertising campaign promoting the world’s biggest single-day sales event across nine countries. It was equal parts exciting, overwhelming, and harrowing.

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SocialPilot

JULY 16, 2024

Twitter (now X) wants its users to post more because of its ephemeral nature. In fact, social media statistics reveal that 500 million posts are sent per day—that’s like 6,000 posts each second! Isn’t that overwhelming? How are you even going to cut through this noise and get more engagement and clicks on your Twitter timeline? Well, one of the contributing factors to getting maximum clicks and engagement is publishing witty and captivating content while your audience is online.

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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

Pipeline 360, Integrate’s B2B media business, today launched a purpose-built display advertising platform which will combine with its “write once, publish often” content syndication solution for an integrated “branded demand” offering, where demand generation is wrapped together with building brand awareness. Faced with Google’s ever-impending third-party cookie deprecation and increasingly stringent privacy regulations, the new platform de-emphasizes third-pa

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2024

A well-crafted business proposal can be the key to unlocking countless opportunities. Whether you’re aiming to secure funding, sell your business, or forge a new partnership, a business proposal is a crucial document that outlines your plans and persuades others to support your vision. Essentially, a business proposal is a formal document that presents your business idea, strategy, and financial projections to potential stakeholders.

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Aspiration Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

Recognizing your brand's strengths in the dynamic marketing landscape is pivotal in shaping a successful strategy. What distinguishes you from the competition? What exceptional qualities position your brand as the undeniable choice for your target audience? Understanding your company's areas of excellence empowers you to customize your messaging, captivate your ideal customers, and, ultimately, fulfill your marketing aspirations.

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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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Buffer Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

As a marketer, small business owner, or creator, you might be tempted to brush Reddit off as the domain of internet trolls and cat memes.  And while there is a fair bit of that on the platform, you can gain a huge amount of value from getting active in Reddit’s hundreds of thousands of niche communities.  With more than 82 million daily active users and 16 billion posts and comments (as of May 2024 ), the social media platform can be a powerhouse for brand reach and growth

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

Fractional CMO Services: Strategy Before Tactics an Interview with John Jantsch written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing In a recent interview on the Near Media podcast , I had the opportunity to discuss the growing trend of fractional CMO services and how they can benefit small to midsize businesses (SMBs). As the founder of Duct Tape Marketing, I’ve been working with SMBs for over 30 years, and I’ve found that many of these organizations face similar challenges when

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

In this article, you will learn how to leverage the eight main factors that will get your company (or yourself) explicitly recommended by Google’s knowledge algorithms in search. The target (and the key performance indicator) is that your named entity is included in the “best of” entity lists on Google search – a list of solutions Google explicitly recommends to users.

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Martech

JULY 16, 2024

AI dominates trade shows, boardrooms and sales conversations. It’s mentioned at nearly every event or webinar. With the potential of generative AI anbd other advanced AI models, this excitement is understandable. Customer data platforms (CDPs) are not immune from this hype and excitement. Since a CDP can collect and consolidate customer data from many sources, AI’s role in CDPs certainly doesn’t go unnoticed.

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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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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Google Business Profile chat feature will no longer initiate new chats, with existing chats to stop working on July 31st. Plus, Google Business Profiles will remove call history at the end of this month. This is not new, we told you this was coming a few months ago when we wrote – Google Business Profile chat and call history going away. New chats gone.

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Animalz blog

JULY 16, 2024

We’ll need new ways to reach people if an exponential increase in copycat content makes existing channels less effective (thanks, AI). PR could be one of those ways. Not necessarily in the traditional sense like getting your brand on TV or in national newspapers, but by getting your content placed in newsletters and your team on podcasts. Jess Cook is creating this playbook at Island , where she’s the Head of Content and Comms.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Accurate customer data is a marketer’s goldmine. It unlocks personalized experiences, fuels growth, and maximizes ROI. But the reality is, bad data is the norm. Outdated, inconsistent, or inaccurate information is sabotaging marketing efforts everywhere. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Join this MarTech webinar, Why Data Standards Are the Key to Your Data Success , where industry experts will share actionable strategies for overcoming data challenges and achieving data excellence.

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illumin

JULY 16, 2024

The advertising world gets together at the Cannes Lions Festival every year to meet and celebrate the industry’s best and brightest. This year the festival was held from the 17 to the 21 of June and like every year before, the week was filled with a showcase of 2024’s most innovative ad campaigns alongside insightful discussions. The Cannes Lions Festival has inspiration around every corner as the marketing community raises its glass to its most creative members.

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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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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Loyalty programs significantly enhance your company’s financial well-being. Beyond simply rewarding returning customers, a strategically designed loyalty program can unlock multiple revenue streams that greatly benefit your brand. So, how do these programs actually generate income? Let’s delve into the key methods they employ to engage customers, boost sales, and ultimately increase your profitability.

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Practical eCommerce - Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

Aligning content with each phase of a buying journey helps drive shoppers to a purchase. The post Content Mapping for Customer Journeys appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Search marketers earn between $85,000 to nearly $200,000 in annual compensation (salary and bonuses), on average, according to a new Search Engine Land survey. Why we care. Although the last year has been challenging for a variety of reasons (Google, the economy, the rise of generative AI, etc.) it continues to be a good time to be a search marketer.

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The LeadG2 Blog

JULY 16, 2024

If you’re a small business owner diving into the world of digital marketing, you've probably heard of HubSpot —a powerful suite of tools that can elevate your marketing, sales, and customer service game. But with so many options, how do you choose the right plan for your business without feeling overwhelmed? LeadG2 is one of only 3% of global Solutions Partners who have achieved HubSpot’s Diamond tier.

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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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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Google is encouraging merchants to try out its new “Merchant Center Next” platform, promising enhanced features and simplified product management. However advertisers are citing issues with this evolution of Merchant Center. Why we care. Even though the old version of Merchant Center can still be used, advertisers have seen prompts for advertisers to upgrade to Google Merchant Centre Next (GMC Next).

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Zumvu

JULY 16, 2024

SEO is a crucial factor current in the digital world that can help businesses boost their exposure to clients online. SEO refers to the process of ensuring your website and its pages are well placed within SERPs so that potential customers can easily locate you.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Google said the next Google core update may be released “in the coming weeks.” Google does not yet have a date for when that core update will start to roll out because Google does not know until the core update is tested, evaluated and approved to be incorporated into Google Search – and that has not happened yet. What Google said.

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Rock Content

JULY 16, 2024

Have you ever searched Google for a really specific question and weren’t quite confident that it would have an answer? The last time I did that was with something like, “What’s the history behind the sign ‘Every second counts’ in the kitchen in the series ‘The Bear’? I don’t remember because I watched the entire last season in one afternoon and forgot everything.” With no surprise, I must confess, I stumbled upon a subreddit brimming with comments

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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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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Google Notes , which launched in Search and Discover as a labs feature 8 months ago is officially ending today. “We’re excited to continue testing new ways to connect people to authentic, relatable voices and look forward to bringing some of our learnings from Notes into future product experiences,” Google told 9to5Google. What was Notes.

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Zumvu

JULY 16, 2024

Voice search has become an essential aspect of local SEO, changing how people seek information and find local companies. Furthermore, virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa have become commonplace.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 16, 2024

Apple updated the App Store’s Search tab, removing the Discover section and placing suggested apps, including ads, more prominently below the search bar. Why it matters. Advertisers will now have their apps showing at the top of the Search tab potentially increasing their ad exposure as well as leading to higher click-through rates for app install ads.

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ConsumerTalk

JULY 16, 2024

Consumer feedback helps us create products and campaigns that truly resonate with our audience, foster loyalty, and succeed in the market.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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