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Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%

Search Engine Land

The number of Google Search queries without SGE increased last month from 25% to 65%. This is a surprisingly big drop, especially considering rumors that SGE could launch ahead of, or during, Google I/O next week. Search results without SGE increase. Why did this happen, starting in mid-April? The reduction of SGE can be traced to Google’s Opt-in results type (when users must request an AI-generated answer).

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LinkedIn SEO: How to Optimize Your Account in 2024

Buffer Marketing

Social media search is growing. Google search results are increasingly filled with results from social platforms. According to this study , 87 percent of social media marketers say social search is vital to their strategy. There’s even an industry inside joke that adding “reddit” or “pinterest” or, of course, "linkedin" at the end of your search terms will more likely deliver exactly what you need.

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Human + machine = marketing powerhouse: How AI empowers the marketing generalist

Martech

AI will soon be able to handle up to 95% of the work currently done by marketing agencies, creative professionals and specialists, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Here’s how this shift could lead to the rise of the “marketing generalist” — a new type of marketer who uses AI tools to rapidly execute campaigns across various disciplines, such as content, digital, branding and more.

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Google CEO on future of links, AI making Search quality worse

Search Engine Land

As Google Search continues to incorporate AI-generated answers into Search, links will live on, Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Bloomberg in a new interview. Here’s what you need to know from Pichai’s interview. Future of links. Unlike in previous statements, where Pichai indicated that the Search experience would evolve substantively in the next 10 years , in the Bloomberg interview he seemed to indicate that links to websites will continue to be an important part of Google S

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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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3 Persuasion Techniques You Should Know

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. I’ve spent 200 hours interviewing persuasion experts. In this blog, I share the persuasion tactics that actually work. You’ll learn why persuasion attempts work better if you ask for action in the future (rather than the present).

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Online reputation management: Top 10 hurdles and how to overcome them

Search Engine Land

Your online reputation is what users can learn about your brand within a few seconds. But today, it’s not only about what users might think. We also need to care about AI. In this article, you will learn: How to properly monitor what is said about your brand online across different platforms. Why not all Amazon mentions might lead to the ecommerce giant (and what it means for AI).

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Meta: Detailed targeting exclusions alert sent to advertisers was an error

Search Engine Land

Some Meta advertisers received an alert yesterday when they opened their accounts. A source from Meta confirmed this alert was sent in error. What was announced? The message said setting new detailed targeting exclusions would no longer be possible when creating campaigns after June 28. Existing exclusions would remain unless ad set targeting is modified.

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Is Our Focus on Branding Costing Us Sales? How To Balance Brand and Sales Goals

The LeadG2 Blog

Finding an equilibrium between brand-building and sales goals is crucial for businesses to achieve sustainable success in any industry. While brand goals focus on long-term growth and reputation, sales targets require immediate results. Striking the right balance between the two is no small feat, but the rewards are substantial. In this post, we will look at the challenges of balancing brand and sales goals and explore effective strategies to create a synergistic blend that helps you achieve bot

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HubSpot earnings stay hot amid reports of sale to Google

Martech

HubSpot’s earnings and revenue beat expectations for the ninth consecutive quarter amid more reports of a sale to Google’s parent company Alphabet. The Cambridge, Mass., digital marketing vendor reported earnings at $1.68 a share and revenue of $617.4 million for the first quarter of 2024. The earnings are up 40% from the same period last year and a 23% increase in revenue.

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Optimization beyond data: Design thinking for SEO

Search Engine Land

One of the things I love about SEO is its inherent duality. We get to leverage both sides of our brains: The right brain when it comes to on-page, content and even link building campaigns. The left brain when it comes to technical, data analysis, etc. However, it’s easy to think of SEO as predominantly left-brained. SEO tactics tend to rely heavily on data and numerical figures.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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How Google SGE Is Redefining Organic Traffic Across Industries

Rock Content

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is changing how people interact with search results. This new AI-driven feature, part of Search Labs, combines information from multiple sources to give detailed answers directly on the search results page, reducing the need for users to click on links. As marketing professionals at Rock Content, we’ve been following this shift to understand how it impacts organic traffic and marketing strategies across different industries.

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Information gain: Here’s what this new SEO ‘buzzword’ really means

Search Engine Land

The new buzzword in SEO is information gain. And like all new buzzwords, SEOs are throwing it around like we’ve just discovered fire. But there’s a massive problem. Information gain means different things to different people. In this article, you’ll learn about information gain and how to use it to your advantage. The 3 schools of information gain: Humans, machines and search engines Information gain can be used in three topics: Machine learning.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: May 9

Martech

This week saw the annual release of The Martech Landscape which has 14,106 “tools,” an increase of about 3,000 from last year. Please read Kim Davis’ excellent analysis of what that does and doesn’t mean. A closer look at the 3,000-ish new tools underlines that point. No fewer than 77% are genAI-based and more than half of those relate to content creation.

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Business Growth Redefined: Strategies for Scaling Your Operations

yorCMO

We’ll cover how we define an effective business growth strategy, ways to identify growth opportunities in your company. The post Business Growth Redefined: Strategies for Scaling Your Operations appeared first on yorCMO.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Ivan Ostojic: Looking forward with AI

Martech

Ivan Ostojic is Chief Business Officer at Infobip, the omnichannel marketing platform focused on communications, conversations, chat and messaging. When we spoke, he was driving to an airport in Croatia, but he was still able to address the “trough of disillusionment” that might be just around the corner for some — not all — uses of generative AI.

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Influencer marketing trends across industries

Sprout Social

When singer Shay Lia showed off her vivacious dance moves during Kaytrandas’ iconic Boiler Room set in 2013, she dazzled audiences and quickly became a meme. Over a decade later, people still reminisce and rave over the viral moment. As the creator economy grows, today’s landscape resembles a dance floor. The brands are the DJs, guiding the tone of the party with music (products) while consumers are the crowd.

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How to turn your ideal customer’s pain points into entry points

Martech

Understanding the “entry points” where your ideal customers first experience the acute pains your product or service can solve is critical for marketing success. An entry point is that pivotal moment when a prospective customer feels intense pain from a problem that your solution could instantly alleviate — if only they were aware it existed.

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13 Writing Side Hustles To Earn An Extra $1,000

CopyBlogger

This post will introduce you to 13 excellent writing side hustles you can pursue to make an additional $1,000 to. Continue Reading The post 13 Writing Side Hustles To Earn An Extra $1,000 appeared first on Copyblogger.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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CMO Spotlight | Rich Honiball - NEXCOM

Set Up

The CMO Spotlight is a chance to get an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders. Set up CEO + Founder, Joe Koufman , spoke with Rich Honiball , the EVP and the Global Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer for the Navy Exchange Service Command (which is also known as NEXCOM), about the power of taking risks and failing, true authenticity in a brand, and the importance of curiosity. “ When we truly start with the consumer and try to solve a need, I thi

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Brand lifts: does your advertising make an impact?

illumin

Brand lifts are a simple tool for measuring how effective your brand and advertising efforts are. Here’s a quick, handy guide on all about the power of brand lifts. With ongoing integrations of AI in advertising and advanced marketing tools like journey advertising platforms, marketers and brands worldwide are constantly innovating and getting ahead of the game.

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How to Master the Science of Learning: From Tetris to Teaching

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Master the Science of Learning: From Tetris to Teaching written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Scott Young. Through his extensive research and exploration into the science of learning, Scott Young has uncovered fascinating insights into how individuals can master the art of acquiring new skills effectively.

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How Ephemeral Content Can Boost Your Digital Marketing Efforts

Spiralytics

Remember those polls you had fun answering on Instagram? Or when you saw behind-the-scenes footage of your favorite brand’s photoshoot? You may not notice, but these bits of information are ephemeral content. The great thing about them is they work like a charm at reeling in customers and keeping audiences hooked. Ads on Instagram Stories have the potential to reach over 500 million individuals , given that half a billion users tune into Instagram Stories every day.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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5 Advanced Content Distribution Strategies and 7 Tips to Do It Right in 2024

Scoop.it!

“Content distribution” is a phrase that may seem mystifying to you. However, when it’s working well, it simplifies your content creation efforts. One piece of high-quality content can work for you repeatedly by simply breaking it into 5–7 pieces and distributing it across several different marketing channels. Here we’ll de-mystify content distribution, define what it is, best practices, and how to use some advanced content distribution strategies to get the most out of your marketing assets.

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How to Schedule and Auto-Publish Instagram Stories in 2024?

SocialPilot

Instagram Stories are the perfect tool if you work in social media and want to improve your online presence and engage effectively with your audience. Stories are a simple yet powerful way to update your followers and promote your brand. For marketers, sharing stories manually is another burden over planning. Up until 2021, Instagram Stories could not be scheduled.