Tue.Jun 04, 2024

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Using AI to Speed Content Creation

Social Media Examiner

Want to speed the time it takes you to create content? Wondering how AI could help? In this article, you’ll discover how to use AI to speed your content planning and production. #1: Feed Your AI a Brand Identity Document Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable tool for content creators looking to elevate their […] The post Using AI to Speed Content Creation appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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How To Measure the Value of Your Audience (in Real Money)

Content Marketing Institute

You’ve heard how important audience building is again and again. It’s one of the arguments for a content-driven marketing approach, after all. But could you describe the value of your audience in dollars? And do you know which audience members are more valuable than others? Robert Rose can — and this article shows you how.

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Upgrading Your Website? Here's How to Generate Leads

Aspiration Marketing

Did you know that the vast majority of website visitors abandons your site after just one visit? When your lead generation isn't working, this isn't just a lost opportunity to connect; it's a potential customer walking right out the door! The solution? A website upgrade designed to capture those visitors and start generating leads. Imagine a website that informs and actively converts – that's the power of a lead-focused revamp.

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Gone in 30 seconds: Marketing in an increasingly distracted world

Martech

In the movie “Gone in 90 Seconds,” Nicolas Cage and his crew have to steal 50 cars in a night. The goal is to steal the car in less than a minute and a half to reduce the chances of getting caught. The car is there one minute and literally gone the next. It’s eerily similar to visitors on your website. They’re there, and then they’re gone. You just have to look no further than your Google Analytics report to see it.

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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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How to Use Threads: A Guide to Getting Started and Building a Following

Buffer Marketing

With its constant improvement and regular addition of new features, Instagram’s companion app, Threads, is speedily, steadily growing its user base.  In April 2024, almost a year on from its rocketship release , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared that the Meta-owned platform now has more than 150 million active users. That’s pretty impressive, but perhaps what’s especially notable is that the social media platform now has more active users in the U.S. daily than T

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Interesting Examples of Out-of-the-Box Marketing Ideas [Marketing Update]

Hubspot Marketing

This week on the Marketing Update on HubSpot.tv, Mike and Karen discussed a couple of crazy, out-of-the-box marketing campaigns. Domino's Goes Real Time The first example came from Domino's Pizza. Back in April 2009 on the Marketing Update, we talked about how Domino's was taken by surprise by an unfortunate YouTube video. We've also discussed the company's reinvention through a series of innovative marketing campaigns including a brand new pizza recipe.

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AI Content Generators: I Tested 5 of the Best, and Here's What I Found

Hubspot Marketing

I‘m going to be fully transparent here. As I write this blog post, I’m on a train to the other side of my state. If you're a busy marketer or content creator like I am, chances are you’re always on the go for your next project (figuratively or literally). You could probably use some tools to streamline or automate aspects of content marketing, saving you time and allowing you to move on to the next big thing on your to-do list. 67% of marketers say the biggest benefit of AI is its ability to cre

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Perplexity Pages showing in Google AI Overviews, featured snippets

Search Engine Land

AI-powered search engine Perplexity introduced a new product – Perplexity Pages – to select free and paid users on May 30. Content from these Pages has started appearing in Google’s AI Overviews and featured snippets. What are Perplexity Pages. Perplexity called it a way to share your knowledge with the world, via in-depth articles, detailed reports or informative guides.

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Demand gen vs. lead gen: Have we reached a final verdict?

Martech

If you spend any amount of time among the B2B marketers on LinkedIn, you’re familiar with the arguments for and against lead generation and demand generation. Lead generation is a well-entrenched growth strategy, especially among the marketers at large enterprise organizations. They’ve now spent decades gating content assets, conducting webinars and following up with those leads to drum up business.

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Google’s documentation leak: 12 big takeaways for link builders and digital PRs

Search Engine Land

Lots of insights and opinions have already been shared about last week’s leak of Google’s Content API Warehouse documentation, including the fantastic write-ups from: Rand Fishkin Mike King (on the iPullRank site and here on Search Engine Land ) Andrew Ansley But what can link builders and digital PRs learn from the documents? Since news of the leak broke, Liv Day , Digitaloft’s SEO Lead, and I have spent a lot of time investigating what the documentation tells us about links.

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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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Microsoft adds video and CTV ads (including Netflix inventory) to Advertising Editor

Martech

Microsoft is expanding its advertising toolkit, now supporting Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads in its Advertising Editor. They are also including Netflix in its CTV network across 10 countries. Dig deeper: 3 reasons why digital video and CTV are booming in 2024 Why we care. This move allows advertisers to manage video campaigns in bulk, streamlining the process to reach audiences across highly engaged audiences watching Netflix’s popular content and more.

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Google AI Overviews visibility drops, only shows for 15% of queries

Search Engine Land

Google’s AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. Google’s AI Overviews (formerly known as Search Generative Experience when it was an opt-in experiment in Google Labs) at one time appeared on 84% of queries. That number of Google Search results without SGE jumped substantially starting in mid-April and continued into May before Google I/O, when Google announced the launch of AI Overviews in the U.S.

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Cut through inbox clutter with personalized, high-impact email by Edna Chavira

Martech

It’s harder than ever to capture your audience’s attention in an increasingly crowded inbox. With email volumes on the rise and click-through rates declining, creating personalized, engaging content that resonates with your audience is more important than ever. That’s where the power of CDP-ESP integration comes in. By leveraging the combined strength of your customer data platform (CDP) and email service provider (ESP), you can create targeted, high-impact emails that drive re

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Voicing out on voice-activated ads

illumin

Voice-enabled technology has steadily integrated itself into our everyday lives, even so in marketing. Learn more about how voice-enabled advertising is revolutionizing the user experience. “ Hey Siri! Set an alarm for 7AM. ” “ Hey Google, turn off the lights. ” “ Alexa, what’s the name of this song ?” You may have heard somebody utter these statements recently or something along these lines.

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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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SAP unveils new CX AI toolkit, consumer insights solution

Martech

Although it’s hardly surprising that SAP’s CX offering now includes an AI toolkit, the announcement could almost have been lost in the tidal wave of business AI announcements pouring out of SAP’s Sapphire conference this week. The conference showcases SAP’s main line of business which remains enterprise ERP software and the headline news is the extension of SAP’s AI copilot Joule throughout its enterprise platform and business applications.

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Ecommerce Marketing: 11 Strategies to Drive Traffic and Sales

Backlinko

Ecommerce marketing is the process of making potential customers aware of your online store and generating sales. Using channels like search engines, social media, blog content, and email. When you implement the right ecommerce marketing strategy, you can make a big impact on your business’s performance. For example, FilterKing.com skyrocketed from 0 to $460K in revenue with a solid ecommerce SEO strategy and Paid Ads, now attracting 100K monthly visitors.

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Will genAI turn off your core consumers?

Martech

In 2023, 57% of B2C martech leaders said they planned to deploy generative AI within 24 months. Seventeen percent said they already had. A lot of executives are very excited about it. But what if consumers hate it? That, in essence, is the question Kate Muhl, VP, analyst at Gartner and a consumer Insights expert, raised in her presentation to the Gartner Symposium.

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LinkedIn expands video ads, AI tools to help B2B marketers

Search Engine Land

LinkedIn is rolling out new features to help B2B marketers build their brands and engage with its community of 1 billion professionals. The Wire Program. The first initiative is the addition of in-stream video ads alongside publisher content. A LinkedIn spokesperson told Search Engine Land: “The Wire Program is available in all languages on mobile and desktop to global advertisers part of the pilot that negotiates content sponsorships with our select group of publishers, like Barron’s, Blo

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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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How LGBTQ+ Leaders Can Market Themselves and Their Unique Assets

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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36 Up-To-Date Ecommerce Statistics

Backlinko

Ecommerce has transformed the retail landscape. In fact, ecommerce is forecasted to capture 41% of retail sales worldwide by 2027, up from only 18% back in 2017. From the convenience of fast and free shipping to wide product choice, more consumers opt to shop online. To help you learn about the dynamic landscape of online shopping, we’ve curated a list of recent ecommerce statistics to know in 2024.

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Rethinking your keyword strategy: Why optimizing for search intent matters

Search Engine Land

Search engines continue to evolve, but SEO strategies have failed to keep up. For years, we have relied on keyword research to choose specific searches to target. However, keyword research often prioritizes the wrong goals. Executed well, keyword research helps you craft a balanced keyword strategy for your target market and personas. It prioritizes keywords that attract traffic that converts into customers.

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ChatGPT / OpenAI Statistics: How Many People Use ChatGPT?

Backlinko

OpenAI is an AI research organization behind the popular ChatGPT. Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT gained 1 million users within the first 5 days since launch. In 3 months since its launch, the chatbot from OpenAI already had 100 million monthly active users. From the number of ChatGPT users to OpenAI revenue, we’ll cover up-to-date stats about the leading AI product on this page.

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Incrementality testing in advertising: Who are the winners and losers?

Search Engine Land

Incrementality testing in digital advertising measures the true impact of ad campaigns by comparing the behavior of users exposed to ads versus those who were not. This helps you understand whether your ads are actually driving additional conversions or if those conversions would have occurred anyway. From analytics companies to previously undervalued prospecting campaigns, incrementality testing benefits a range of people, campaign types and ad formats (we’ll call them the winners) and exposes

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Is Your B2B Website Working For You?

InTouch Marketing

If the answer to this question, “Is your B2B website working for you?” is “I’m not sure,” “I don’t know,” or “I think so,” then the real answer is “no, it’s not.

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Microsoft brings video and CTV ads (including Netflix inventory) to Advertising Editor

Search Engine Land

Microsoft is expanding its advertising toolkit, now supporting Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads in its Advertising Editor. They are also including Netflix in its CTV network across 10 countries. Why we care. This move allows advertisers to manage video campaigns in bulk, streamlining the process of reaching audiences across highly engaged audiences watching Netflix’s award-winning content, and more.

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Urgency Without Panic: Strategizing for Immediate Marketing Needs – Done In 5 Steps

The LeadG2 Blog

In marketing, immediate needs and last-minute requests are inevitable. Whether it's a sudden service launch, a PR crisis, or a time-sensitive campaign, responding quickly without causing chaos is a hallmark of an effective marketing leader. Here's how you can plan, streamline, and produce impactful results without panic.

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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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Microsoft Copilot expands AI power to Display Ads

Search Engine Land

Microsoft is broadening its AI-driven advertising tools, now offering generative AI capabilities for creating display ad banners through its Copilot feature. Why we care. This expansion makes Microsoft Advertising’s AI assistant even more versatile, automating asset creation across nearly all ad types and saving marketers significant time. What’s new: Generative AI now creates banner assets for display ads Feature launched this week, joining other AI-assisted ad types Video ad suppor

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The Broken Agency Search Model: How to Make It Right

Set Up

In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, finding the right Agency often becomes entangled in the high costs and complexities introduced by traditional Agency searches. At Set up , founded by Joe Koufman, a veteran of fostering pivotal business connections, we are pioneering a transformative approach prioritizing efficiency, transparency, and alignment.

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Google’s link reporting tool is now fixed

Search Engine Land

Google has fixed the issues with the link report within Google Search Console. Last week, we reported a bug with that link report that Google was investigating. As of early this morning, the bug seemed to have been resolved , and the link counts in that tool seem to be back to where they were. What happened. Last week, many SEOs noticed the link report showing a fraction of their reported links in that tool.

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B2B PPC: The ultimate guide to B2B paid search strategy

Unbounce

/ Pay per click B2B PPC: The ultimate guide to B2B paid search strategy By Josh Gallant and Jacob Baadsgaard. Updated on June 4, 2024. 21 min read Do paid search and social ads actually work in B2B when deal cycles are long, or is it still just a game of referrals, handshakes, and trade shows? That’s the question we’re here to answer today. Spoiler: Yes, it absolutely can work.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.