March, 2019

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The Beginner's Guide to Editing YouTube Videos

Hubspot Marketing

As a video marketer, editing might be the most important part of post-production. If you can’t seamlessly weave your shots together or get your cut to hit the right frame, your video will seem unpolished and disengage your viewers. That said, if you’re operating on a shoestring budget, you might not be able to afford video editing software. So what’s a video marketer to do without editing software?

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8 Incredible App Landing Pages (and How You Can Create Your Own)

Unbounce

Have you looked at your iPhone’s App Store lately? How about Google Play? I’ve seen landfills with better curation. With more than two million apps available on each store, people have a much better chance of finding a pearl in an oyster than randomly stumbling upon your app. No matter how appealing it is—no matter how entertaining or even life-changing—most people won’t discover it without a robust marketing campaign.

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Why Big Data Means Big Responsibility for CMOs

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The CMO’s position in the C-suite hierarchy has been elevated significantly over the past several years, thanks in large part to the rise of big data. With the right data at their fingertips, modern marketers can now target customers with surgical precision, as well as provide CEOs with evidence that their initiatives are working. And get this: Big data isn’t even all that big yet.

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5 (More) Secrets of Great Storytellers

Content Marketing Institute

Here’s a secret: Even the most seemingly effortless storytellers work for it – formal training, study of storytellers they admire, perfection through retelling, etc. Get their best advice to improve your brand’s storytelling. Continue reading → The post 5 (More) Secrets of Great Storytellers appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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The importance of social media sentiment analysis (and how to conduct it)

Sprout Social

Today’s marketers are rightfully obsessed with metrics. But don’t forget that your customers are more than just data points. And yeah, it’s easy to overlook our customers’ feelings and emotions, which can be difficult to quantify. However, consider that emotions are the number one factor in making purchasing decisions. With so many consumers sharing their thoughts and feelings on social media, it quite literally pays for brands to have a pulse on how their products make people feel.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales and Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

Peanut butter and jelly. Puppies and the park. Beach days and ice cream. Some things just obviously go together -- but what if I put sales and marketing together in that list? Would you still think they worked better as a pair? More than likely, you haven't quite considered your sales and marketing to be the "peanut butter and jelly" of your company.

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How to Create a Global SEO Strategy

Neil Patel

As a child, I did everything that most kids did. I played outside with friends, I watched a lot of TV, I loved eating cereal for breakfast, and I went to school. My childhood wasn’t too much different than yours. But there was one thing that was a bit unique. I grew up watching Bloomberg before I went to school. Now, I don’t want you to think I was some child prodigy because I wasn’t.

SEO
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Why Email Marketing Still Rules (Plus 3 Tips to Increase Engagement)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Email marketing is like an old friend. It’s been around for years. It doesn’t surprise you much anymore. You may even find it a little boring sometimes. But at the end of the day, you know you can depend on it. Even with the emergence of more exciting engagement tactics, email marketing has remained a key method for reaching your audience. In fact, nearly 70% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 prefer companies communicate with them through email, according to MarketingSherpa research.

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57+ Tools, Tips, and Examples to Make Your Writing Better

Content Marketing Institute

To help you tackle the many challenges you face as a writer, we offer dozens and dozens of tips, tools, and examples. They’ll help you write content that stays on mission, wins readers over, and more. Continue reading → The post 57+ Tools, Tips, and Examples to Make Your Writing Better appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

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.

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How to use Quora for marketing

Sprout Social

Should you be using Quora for marketing? In 2019, Quora turned 10 years old. However, you might have missed that it can also be a powerful platform for reaching your brand’s audience. More than 300 million monthly users are scouring Quora at any given time and now marketers have a variety of ways to reach them. If you’re looking to develop your thought leadership presence, confirm your authority in your niche or simply spread brand awareness, Quora is the way to go.

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How to Develop a Content Marketing Strategy to Reach and Convert

Marketing Insider Group

Like every aspect of your overall marketing strategy, your content marketing strategy should have two goals: to reach and convert. Therein, however, lies the challenge. How can you develop content that will reach your target customers, engage them with content they will read, and eventually convert them to buy your products and services? Even more […].

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5 Essential SEO Tips That Have Helped HubSpot Become an Organic Powerhouse

Hubspot Marketing

In 2017, HubSpot experienced something that has never happened to us before -- our blog’s monthly traffic flattened. Even worse, it started to decline. So after months of stressing over the mysterious cause of our blog’s traffic plateau, we decided to sit down, chug a bunch of coffee, and find the culprit. What we discovered is that our strategy of brainstorming topics and relying on our intuition to determine our audience’s content preferences didn’t suffice anymore.

SEO
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How to Find the Right Keywords to Rank #1 on Google For

Neil Patel

Do you want more traffic? Well, who doesn’t? The reason you want more traffic is that you think more traffic equals more revenue. But here is what you’ll learn the hard way… as your traffic goes up, your revenue won’t increase at the same pace. And in many cases, as your traffic goes up, your revenue won’t increase one bit. In other words, if you get the wrong kind of traffic, you’ll find yourself spinning your wheels and becoming frustrated.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

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.

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How to Build Brand Loyalty on Your Landing Page

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Your landing page is your opportunity to make an impression on your target audience. If it connects on an emotional level and has a clear and transparent purpose, site visitors are more likely to identify with your brand. Building loyalty often takes a bit more time, but your landing page is a start to a long-term relationship with new customers. For most businesses, around 65% of their revenue comes from an existing customer base.

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The Easy A-to-Z Guide to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic]

Content Marketing Institute

If you like to scan content to pick up some helpful tips, this article and infographic are for you. Make your way through the alphabet for 26 nuggets to improve your headline-writing chops. Continue reading → The post The Easy A-to-Z Guide to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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6 Twitter analytics tools to amplify your Twitter strategy

Sprout Social

Twitter is an excellent platform to engage with friends and follow your favorite industry experts. But if you want to use it to promote your business or your personal brand, you have to do more than just broadcast tweets every once in a while. It’s not enough to blindly share your new blog posts and product updates either. A great Twitter strategy requires proper analytics to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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4 Ways to Make Your B2B Marketing Videos Social-Ready

Marketing Insider Group

B2B marketers are using video more and more. In fact, they reported 10% and 8% increases in their use of YouTube and Vimeo respectively in 2018 compared to 2017. Videos are primarily shared via social networks including LinkedIn and Facebook, which B2B marketers ranked as their top-used social media sites. So while an informative, entertaining […].

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

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.

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How to Edit Your Video Without YouTube's Retired Video Editor

Hubspot Marketing

Prior to September 2017, YouTube provided a built-in tool that allowed you to edit your videos before publishing to the platform. However, as of last September 20, 2017, YouTube's Video Editor tool is no longer an option. On YouTube's Help Forum , Community Manager Marissa explained, "We've seen limited usage of these features, so we've retired them to focus our efforts on building new tools and improving on other existing features.".

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How I Grew My Declining Google Traffic

Neil Patel

When you look at the chart above, what do you see? A site that gets a ton of traffic, right? I am a marketer, so I should be somewhat decent at getting traffic… or so you would hope. But here is the thing, just because I am decent at marketing doesn’t mean my Google traffic keeps climbing up and to the right. Just like you, I face challenges. I have ups and downs, I can also get penalized, and I have to continually battle algorithm updates.

SEO
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Treat Customer Data Like You’d Want Yours to Be Treated

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Last Christmas, I bought a friend of mine a subscription to a science and culture magazine. She had discovered the magazine during downtime at work, so she was delighted when they started showing up at her door. The gift was a hit, despite the fact that I’d misspelled her name. But then other magazines offers started to arrive in the mail. Then came requests for donations from charitable groups.

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Get to Your Audience’s Core: Know Their Content Intent

Content Marketing Institute

Your sales team finds four legit leads from 500 white paper downloads. What happened? Your audience wanted the info, it wasn’t interested in a transaction. Before you create and evaluate your content, think about audience intent. Continue reading → The post Get to Your Audience’s Core: Know Their Content Intent appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

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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How to conduct smarter social listening for consumer brands

Sprout Social

If you want to know exactly what your customers want in 2019, you don’t have to look very hard. Well, sort of. Consider that product-related posts are among the most popular across social media. Whether it’s a shout-out or call-out, consumers can’t stop talking about products. And on a related note, a staggering 60% of consumers actively seek out new products and services via social.

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11 Benefits of Outsourcing Your Content Creation

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to dip your toes in content marketing but don’t have the time or expertise to create your own content, outsourcing your content creation is an easy and effective way to reap the benefits without all the work. In fact, content marketing can be so profitable, over 70% of brands now hire someone to manage […]. The post 11 Benefits of Outsourcing Your Content Creation appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 YouTube Description Templates That Have Helped Our Videos Go Viral

Hubspot Marketing

YouTube is the second largest search engine, with over 1.8 billion users per month -- so it's an undeniably powerful channel for your marketing efforts. However, if you don't use YouTube for your current marketing strategy, you're not alone. In fact, only nine percent of U.S. small businesses use YouTube to reach their audience. In 2018, the HubSpot Academy team didn't take advantage of YouTube, either.

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Why You Shouldn’t Send Image-Only Emails

Litmus

We’ve all been there: your boss or client just asked you to set up an email that’s almost entirely made out of images. “Our industry peers also send emails that are one big image,” your client might say. “Images just make it easier to keep the design consistent. We can use our brands’ fonts, place copy on images, and more—all without coding,” you hear your design team argue.

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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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Demand Generation and Thought Leadership: Why You Need Both

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Demand generation and thought leadership are both terms you need to know if you’re a B2B marketer. But do you actually know what they mean and how they work, or are you using them in a “fake it till you make it” way? We’ve all been there, including me. When I first got into the marketing game, I can honestly say I didn’t know the difference between the two.

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Calculate Your Influencer Marketing ROI in 5 Steps

Content Marketing Institute

Almost 80% of brands say they’re investing in influencer marketing. But are they spending those dollars wisely? To determine the success of your influencer program, you must have a way to track ROI. Here’s how to do it step by step. Continue reading → The post Calculate Your Influencer Marketing ROI in 5 Steps appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The ultimate social media listening guide for marketers

Sprout Social

You’ve heard the talk about social media listening but now you want to know how to put it to use. Listening isn’t a fad and it’s not going away as long as there are online discussions to monitor. These conversations are a significant source of intelligence for your marketing efforts if you know how to incorporate them into your strategy. To review what social media listening is and how it’s different from monitoring, check out our thorough listening guide here.