Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

If you are a marketer, you probably think of yourself as a creative person, and when you think legal, maybe you think…not so creative. But is this a fair assessment? As someone with experience in both marketing and legal departments, I can say both are driven by a determination help the customer succeed. In this blog, I’ll outline five tips to help your marketing and legal teams work better together.

Law

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

For the 162nd episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Anne Bahr Thompson, author of Do Good: Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit. For many businesses, success comes in unexpected ways. Toms grew into a $600 million company by giving away 35 million pair of shoes. Patagonia’s profits have climbed year […].

Branding

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

As an acquisition marketer, I hear questions like this all the time: "Is the PDF dead? Is the webinar dead now too? How should we continue generating leads for our sales team while continuing to innovate on the content formats we produce and gate behind a form?". It’s 2018, and the way our prospects and customers find and consume content has certainly changed.

Logistics

Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Remember when you could write an amazing blog post, paste the link with a featured image, and hit share on social to see your web traffic grow? The same old content promotion tactics don’t work anymore. With organic reach rapidly declining on social media, you need new ways to effectively promote blog content without paying for it. In this post, I’ll walk you through four effective and unconventional ways to promote your blog content on social media without paying for it.

Promotion

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

How to Remove Writers Block and Come Up with Awesome Content Ideas written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Seth Godin is often quoted as saying Content Marketing is the only marketing left. The real truth is this. Useful marketing is the only marketing people will tolerate and content marketing can be very, very useful. However, even when you have the time to produce the content , that doesn’t always mean your mind is right there with you.

Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Ask the CMO of any top-tier company about their tips for reaching business goals, and a robust digital marketing strategy will undoubtedly be slotted as number one. Digital marketing is more affordable, flexible, and engaging than traditional marketing methods. Even top-performing small and mid-sized companies are finding better competition, improved best practices, and increased engagement through digital marketing.

Digital Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Getting your content marketing analysis right isn’t just about finding out how successful your strategy is and validating it to stakeholders. It’s the only way you’ll be able to make your content marketing strategy better and use it for achieving business goals. Without the right metrics, you are making decisions in the dark, possibly without […].

Content Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

When marketers like us create landing pages, write email copy, or design call-to-action buttons, it can be tempting to use our intuition to predict what will make people click and convert. But basing marketing decisions off of a "feeling" can be pretty detrimental to results. Rather than relying on guesses or assumptions to make these decisions, you're much better off running conversion rate optimization (CRO) tests -- sometimes called A/B tests.

eBook

Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

More than 86 million blog posts are published on WordPress every month. 86 million. Every month. Even the most digital literate, attentive, and committed customer probably only has the bandwidth to scan about 10 headlines and read one to two articles a day – and that’s being generous. Where does that leave the millions and millions of other “content opportunities”?

Content Marketing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Using Content As Your Voice of Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’ve said it once (or twice) and I’ll say it again: content is no longer king, it’s air. It not only touches all aspects of your marketing these days but of your business as well. Your audience expects to find information about any product, service, or challenge they face simply by typing a keyword into Google.

Education

Traackr

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Social Tribe’s Megan Conley explains why a holistic approach to your influencer program can help you gain buy-in and scale an always-on strategy.

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Over the last decade, marketers’ opinions of events have gone up and down. To some, events can be a monumental waste of money. But to many others, there’s an increasing sense of value in running expos and conferences. They bring your best customers together and attract a wider audience from your target market. It’s what happens at the event that matters.

Event Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Where a lot of marketers fall short in developing a content marketing strategy is in understanding the importance of the strategy relative to tactics and plans. That all-important unifying force that should be both driving and pulling together every element of your content, from the design of your landing pages to the experience customers have […].

Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

Retail

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Here's a hypothetical for you: Let's say your company has decided to invest in a website redesign so you can improve lead generation, and you're responsible for managing the project. Naturally, one of the first questions you have is, “How much is this website redesign going to cost?”. The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Are you simply switching to a new template and adding some new CTAs, or are you migrating your entire website to a new platform?

Management

Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s obviously not enough to create an account on Instagram and start shooting photos to share. Successful content marketers on this social platform tailor their content to take advantage of the channel’s strengths, from hashtags and Stories to advertising and live video. Let’s explore how to use these features to maximize your content marketing strategy.

Fashion

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

How to Create Effective Content Without Adding More to Your To-Do List written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Content influences not only all aspects of our marketing but of our entire business as well. Content is not something you can take lightly. It needs to be front and center of your strategy and it needs to be done well. The only issue is, it’s time-consuming.

Market Trends

Rock Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Every piece of content should be written in a language and tone befitting your audience. But do you know how to create content that speaks to them? Take Rosetta Stone for instance, they grew from a model that was all about language learning and moved into education technology. With millions of learners worldwide, the company has expanded its offerings and propelled the learning of a second language for native english speakers.

Global Marketing

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

Event Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers, we spend vast amounts of time, effort, and sometimes money producing content and campaigns that speak to our prospects and customers to convince them to move to the next step of the customer journey. But there are ways in which our content and campaigns fall short for our audiences. In this blog, I’ll show you the four reasons your content isn’t working and what you can do to improve. 1.

Thought Leadership

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Few terms raise the ire of the buzzword police more than thought leadership. But what is thought leadership? When should you consider using it, and how do you balance the talent and experience of your team with the humility and authenticity today’s audiences demand? Let’s start by getting on the same page. What Is Thought […]. The post What Is Thought Leadership?

Thought Leadership

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Wouldn't it be great if creating infographics was as simple as writing regular ol' text-based blog posts? Unfortunately, the reality is that making visual content like this usually takes a lot more time, effort, and let's face it -- skill -- than the written word. Usually. But considering the popularity and effectiveness of visual content in marketing today, you can't just afford to throw in the towel.

Inbound Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Anyone who has learned about the fundamentals of content marketing knows the concept isn’t all that complicated – consistently provide something of relevant value to your target audience in the hope it will ultimately return the favor in kind. Serving the needs of your audience with valuable, high-quality content in this way is an admirable goal for any company.

Marketing Strategy

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CRM

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Content Marketing is About Customers, Not Keywords written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Content Marketing for Small Business. I’ve had content marketing for small business on the brain recently so I thought I’d write about it today. “ Boy, there is a topic that hasn’t been covered recently,” said nobody in a long time.

Content Marketing

Lusha

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My name is Lusha, and I’m here to spread the word on the latest tools and techniques that can help sales professionals. Today, I’ll be looking at how to get the most from one of the most powerful platforms out there for sales reps: LinkedIn. Historically, LinkedIn was perceived as a job hunting and recruitment platform. However, it is now the go-to business networking venue and is an extremely effective lead generation tool.

Transform

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Metrics, metrics, metrics! You can’t avoid them. Did you know that when it comes to tracking your social media metrics, there are millions that you could be analyzing to reach your KPIs? ( Well maybe not millions, but there are really quite a few to choose from. ) KPIs of course, are the values used by marketing and social media teams to measure the performance of your social media campaigns.

Social Media Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Predictive analytics fuel growth. Research shows, B2B marketers that use predictive analytics to develop their marketing strategies are 2.9 times more likely to experience above industry average revenue growth rates. Their organizations are 2.1 times more likely to be positioned as an industry leader. Prescriptive analytics defines it. By 2015, the vast majority of B2B marketers, about […].

Analytics

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.

Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Today’s B2B buyers rely on digital channels through every stage of their journeys -- even long after in-person sales interactions with reps. As a result, commercial organizations’ efforts to identify, nurture, and pursue opportunities “serially” -- first through digital engagement via marketing, followed by a hand-off to sales for in-person interaction -- is failing to support the way customers actually buy.

Customer

Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Sitting in a staff meeting, my boss asked if there were any questions. I mentioned seeing a job posting online for the marketing department and wondered if the team was expanding. Several co-workers quickly interjected, “Why were you reading that? Are you looking for a new job?”. “No,” I replied. “I just like to keep tabs on what’s happening in the marketplace.”.

Branding

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facebook Advertising and Engagement for Small Businesses written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Facebook Advertising. Facebook advertising for small business is a hot topic, and it’s gotten even hotter since Facebook’s been in the news lately talking about limiting people’s organic reach.

Advertising