October, 2023

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AI in marketing: How to balance automation and the human touch

Martech

Marketing technology is progressing at such an accelerated pace that it’s hard to keep up and easy to let the tech do the driving. We now have machine learning and AI driving much of our marketing platforms. Whether it’s letting Google or Facebook make our ad decisions for us or asking ChatGPT to write all our content (a very bad idea), AI is making our job easier.

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Content Marketing Checklists To Maximize Reach (By Platform)

CopyBlogger

Assuming you are already creating valuable content, making a few basic optimizations can help it earn significantly more traffic and. Continue Reading The post Content Marketing Checklists To Maximize Reach (By Platform) appeared first on Copyblogger.

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6 LinkedIn Experts Gave Me Their Personal Branding Secrets — I Tried Them All

Buffer Marketing

I wanted to nail my personal brand on LinkedIn — but I had no idea where to start. Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the platform evolved from a job seekers' hub to a playground for entrepreneurs and creators looking to become industry authorities and drive sales. There’s no doubt doing so is incredibly powerful. LinkedIn is 277 percent more effective at generating leads than Facebook and Twitter.

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The science of how often to post on social media

Ariyh

New to Ariyh ? This is a 3min practical summary of a scientific study 🎓 Join 22,919 evidence-based marketers that grow using science, not opinions 📈 Subscribe here Today’s insight is brought to you by… HelpDesk Struggling with customer support requests? Are your customers frustrated? Maybe it’s time to upgrade your help desk software.

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Unlock the Secrets to Building Community

Unlock the secrets to building strong communities and sustaining growth with GrowthZone’s “5 Pillars of Community” ebook. In today's digital era, fostering a sense of belonging is more important than ever. GrowthZone’s informative ebook will help you transform your association’s community and discover new opportunities for growth. Explore the importance of personal and virtual communities, the ACHIEVE Model for success, and the key pillars including Direction, Shared Responsibility, Personal Val

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Should Brands Address Social Issues?

Hubspot Marketing

When it comes to social justice, what role do brands play? As conflict around the globe continues, marketers are put in a challenging position when it comes to making brand statements. It’s nearly impossible to make a perfectly neutral statement that will satisfy all points of view, which is what many brands try to do in an effort to avoid alienating potential customers.

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The email marketer’s guide to effective marketing automation

Martech

We email marketers are always searching for easier ways to do our jobs. We don’t want to skimp on quality, but we have had to learn how to do a lot with a little because we’re chronically understaffed and underfunded. Marketing automation gives you a way to have regular emails that focus on predictable behavior so we can send out an email when a customer achieves a goal or reaches a trigger or intent point.

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Google says mobile-first indexing is complete after almost 7 years

Search Engine Land

Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative that started just about seven years ago is now complete, according to Google. “It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google blog. History. As a reminder, Google started mobile-first indexing over 6.5 years ago , and eventually, after publishing deadline after deadline, Google removed the dea

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Madonna 2023: The Celebration Tour And The Power Of Nostalgia

CMO Network

As I was bombarded with Madonna's latest Celebration Tour posts on Insta, what I was truly witnessing was a seismic shift in her brand—a fierce embrace of nostalgia.

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9 New Instagram Features and How to Use Them

Buffer Marketing

Instagram is one social media platform that is evolving at a rate of knots. Remember when all you could do on Instagram was share oversaturated images of your food? (Love you, Lo-Fi filter.) Now the social network lets you do everything from broadcasting to your followers to creating your own stickers with AI , with a host of new features only hitting the Meta-owned app in the last few months.

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Top AI use cases in marketing to elevate your 2024 strategy

Sprout Social

As the digital market space rapidly evolves, customers are seeking authenticity and human connection from brands like never before. To meet this rising demand, your marketing team needs to be agile, think out of the box and keep up with deadlines—all while operating within limited budgets and constrained team bandwidths. Luckily, innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) offer long-term solutions to meet these challenges.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Meta launches genAI features for ads

Martech

This week, Meta announced it is beginning the rollout of generative AI capabilities in Ads Manager. These should be globally available by next year. These capabilities are: Background generation. The creation of multiple ad backgrounds allowing advertisers to choose relevant creative for their targeted audiences. Image expansion. Automates the adjustment of image assets to aspect ratios suitable for specific channels like Feed or Reels.

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Email Analytics [Research]: 8 Email Marketing Metrics You Should Track

Hubspot Marketing

Part of my marketing job is to send emails and track their progress, so I know a lot about the most crucial elements of optimizing an email , common marketing email mistakes , and what inspirational email marketing looks like. But at the end of the day, it doesn‘t matter how optimized my emails are if I can’t properly track my email analytics or if I'm unsure what metrics need my attention.

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Google October 2023 Core Update rollout is now complete

Search Engine Land

Google has confirmed that the October 2023 Core Update – the third core update this year – has completed rolling out. The update started on October 5, 2023, a day after the October 2023 spam update was released, and completed 14 days later on October 19, 2023. Lots of volatility. This update, like most previous core updates, felt big in terms of the number of sites that saw ranking volatility and the complaints from SEOs I spotted over the rollout.

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An Example Of How AI Is Changing Marketing

CMO Network

To learn more about how AI is impacting marketing, I talked with Ryan Coyne, CEO of Starboard, who has particularly rich insight on customization and marketing.

Marketing 139
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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.

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15+ Tips to Grow On YouTube Shorts

Buffer Marketing

The beauty of short-form video is that it allows anyone to become a creator. With a phone and the Internet, you can start growing a platform for yourself. The other side to this, however, is that the bar for quality has been reduced, and you’ll need to put in extra effort to see meaningful growth.  This is as true for YouTube Shorts as for any other platform.

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22 influencer marketing statistics to guide your brand’s strategy in 2023

Sprout Social

If you’re considering running an influencer marketing campaign, it’s a good idea to have a basic understanding of the industry, platforms to use, access to influencers and more. To help you get an idea of what to expect from the industry, we’ve put together 22 influencer marketing statistics across six different categories. From influencer marketing growth stats to data surrounding the top three influencer marketing platforms, learn more about the state of this marketing strate

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Best of the Bot: Identifying the latest trends in digital marketing

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with MarTech content.

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Which AI Tool Writes the Best Marketing Copy? [I Tested Several Different Tools]

Hubspot Marketing

As a marketing copywriter, I can tell you writing is critical to any successful marketing campaign, from emails to social media posts to blogs. Even the most seasoned writer can struggle to keep up with demand, so taking advantage of the AI tools available to streamline your process and boost your productivity is crucial. But what tool is best for you and the content you need to create?

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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How to fix unassigned traffic in GA4

Search Engine Land

Unassigned traffic in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a common headache for digital marketers. It’s like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces: your data is incomplete, making it hard to measure the success of your marketing efforts. This article covers the common causes of unassigned traffic in GA4 and tips to ensure your campaigns are accurately tracked and optimized.

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4 Ways AI Is Changing Marketing

CMO Network

How can AI be harnessed to drive more effective and efficient marketing? To learn more, I talked with Ryan Coyne, the CEO of a digital and marketing company.

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50 AI Prompts for Better Social Posts

Buffer Marketing

Most weeks, I stare blankly at my LinkedIn channel, wondering what on earth I should post. It's hard. Coming up with new content on a weekly or even daily basis isn’t just time-consuming, it can be infuriating. Fortunately, Buffer’s AI Assistant can help. But there’s a secret you need to know if you want to get the most out of it: adding the right prompts.

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7 examples of influencer marketing campaigns

Sprout Social

Social marketers rate influencer marketing as having a significant impact on their brand’s marketing efforts including customer loyalty (87%), awareness (89%) and reputation (87%), according to our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey of 307 social marketers in the United States. But influencer marketing isn’t as simple as picking any creator, creating one-off content and reaping the benefits of their loyal following—our report found 81% of social marketers describe influencer marketing as an essential part of

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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The Perfect Combination: GenAI and Persuasion Strategies for Unbeatable A/B Tests

Martech

In first part of a two-part article , Kath Pay takes a deep dive into writing prompts for a genAI-created campaign brief. In the second part, we’ll see how the LLM responded. Persuasion is at the heart of so much of what we do as marketers, no matter which channel we’re working in. As marketers, we can be most effective when we understand why we humans do what we do and use that information to help our customers make decisions others make on matters that concern us.

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Who’s responsible for social media addiction? Me and you.

Businesses Grow

Many times in my career, I’ve used a variation of this phrase: “I want this (product / content / service) to be so good people are addicted to it!” In a way, that’s the ultimate dream. Sergio Zyman , ex-CMO for Coca-Cola, used to tell me the goal of marketing was to “sell more stuff, to more people, more often, for more money.” The idea of being addicted to what you sell seems like an elegant goal that would make you strive to be the best at everything you do,

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Google-Extended does not stop Google Search Generative Experience from using your site’s content

Search Engine Land

Google-Extended , the new standalone product token, to tell Google through your robots.txt to not use your site content for Bard and Vertex AI and other AI projects does not work for the AI-answers and snapshots provided in the Search Generative Experience. Google told us that Google-Extended does not work for SGE. “SGE is a Search experiment so website administrators should continue to use the Googlebot user agent through robots.txt and the NOINDEX meta tag to manage their content in sear

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Oracle Doubles Down On Generative AI Trend At CloudWorld 2023

CMO Network

This year at Oracle CloudWorld, the company advanced its generative AI strategy across its cloud infrastructure, apps, and platforms. Exploring this year's announcements.

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The Best Times of Day to Contact Leads

Ensure you are contacting leads on their schedule with this report! In our study of over 754,000 leads, we looked at what time of day people are most likely to respond, as well as response rates and qualification rates during business hours and after-hours. Download now to learn more.

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How to Become a LinkedIn Top Voice or Community Top Voice

Buffer Marketing

Many social media platforms are rethinking the way they reward their top creators.  A blue tick or badge on social media used to mean you were someone to watch — whether that meant a creator with a growing following or a recognized public figure. But with Meta’s new verification subscription and X Premium , getting the social stamp of approval requires a lot less by way of expertise (if you’re willing to spend a bit of money every month, that is).

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Social media listening examples that will help you unearth better insights

Sprout Social

Social insights that give you a glimpse into the minds of your audience are often the hardest to access by traditional means. Insights like how audiences feel, an overall response to your brand’s events or campaign, your competitor performance—these are all critical findings that require digging deeper than surface level. And social listening can unearth these game-changing insights…if you know how to use it.

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3 ways MOps can bridge the gap in marketing analytics

Martech

Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement. New martech tools focus on measuring marketing impact, tracking customer journeys and analyzing sales funnels.

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CMO Spotlight | Matt Preschern - NTT

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, Joe Koufman , virtually sat down with Matt Preschern , the Chief Marketing and Demand Generation Officer at NTT, to talk about the importance of diversifying your marketing skills, the three quotes he lives by, and more. WATCH + READ THE RECAP BELOW (SCROLL TO THE END FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW) Q1 | Is there any advice you’d like to share?

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Do's and Don'ts: How to Pitch Your Press Release to Journalists

Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!