September, 2019

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How to Write an Effective Communications Plan [+ Template]

Hubspot Marketing

Remember the “ Tide Pod Challenge ?” That horrendous time at the beginning of 2018 when adolescents filmed themselves ingesting laundry detergent? While it was a funny (albeit dangerous) start to the new year, this small boost of infamy was a PR mess for the detergent brand in question, Tide , whose crisis communication team had to figure out how to respond to America’s teens swallowing their toxic product.

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How to Use WeChat for Business: A Guide for Marketers

Hootsuite

Wondering how to use WeChat for your business? The super app is the single largest social network in China, and it’s gaining momentum elsewhere, too. In China, where the majority of WeChat users live, the platform is known as Weixin. Weixin was first released as a messaging app in 2011 by parent company Tencent. It quickly grew into an “everything app,” connecting users to gaming, ridesharing, shopping, and even government services, along with friends and family.

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How to Use Google Search Console to Increase Traffic to Your Site

Content Marketing Institute

Do you know what Google sees in your content? How would that knowledge help you boost traffic? Read on for a seven-step process that uses the free Google Search Console to make those discoveries and explore the opportunities. Continue reading → The post How to Use Google Search Console to Increase Traffic to Your Site appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How Branding Can Determine the Success of Your Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

If you’ve just begun working with a marketing agency , you’re probably excited…and a bit nervous. You’re eagerly anticipating the return on this new investment. You probably feel like the sooner your agency acts with marketing tactics like emails , blogs, and content offers, the sooner the marketing ROI will roll in. Even though you’re keen to see your agency put a strategy in place and begin implementing it with tactics, we want to encourage you to take a step back.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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How I Ranked For 636,363 Keywords Using This Simple Hack

Neil Patel

When I started doing SEO on NeilPatel.com I used this advanced formula. to rank for 477,000 keywords. Over time, my traffic started to flatline and I wasn’t ranking for many more keywords, even though I was continually creating more content. But then I figured out a simple hack that took me from 477,000 keywords to 636,363 keywords as you can see in the image above.

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How to do keyword research for SEO and beyond

Sprout Social

It’s common knowledge that keywords help you find a place in search engine results. But improving search engine visibility isn’t their only purpose. Keywords can also help you brainstorm intriguing content ideas, understand what your audience needs, optimize your social posts and more. With that said, not every keyword is going to make sense for your business, and not every query related to your niche is actually going to turn out to be a highly searched keyword.

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How to Become Instagram Famous: 17 Expert Tips from Real Influencers

Hootsuite

Looking for a listicle to show you how to become Instagram famous in 10 easy steps? You won’t find that here. While the life of an Instagram influencer may look easy, there’s a lot more to it than latte art and filtered sunsets. And if there’s one thing to learn from the burning trash fire that was Fyre Fest, Caroline Calloway’s ghostwriter takedown, or even Millie Bobby Brown’s skincare tutorial snafu , it’s that the social currency of faking-it-until-you-make-it is pretty much spent.

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Get More Traffic From Instagram With This Easy Content Plan

Content Marketing Institute

How do you get traffic from Instagram, which seems designed to keep users inside the platform forever? Follow the VALUE framework. And do it with your existing blog content. Here’s how to make the translation and grow your followers. Continue reading → The post Get More Traffic From Instagram With This Easy Content Plan appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Develop Your Own Content Marketing Roadmap

Marketing Insider Group

Think of content marketing as a journey. Like any journey, you need to know the destination. When you have a content marketing roadmap in hand, though, you can focus on where you want to go and the best way to get there. As Forbes ’ Brian Sutter puts it, “It’s really hard to hit a target when you don’t know what the target is.” But as he points out, there are quite a few of us who don’t know the destination.

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Google’s New Link Building Guidelines

Neil Patel

In case you missed it, Google has just changed up the rules for link building. It used to be that when people link to you, the link would either be a dofollow link or a nofollow link. Well, that’s now changed. They are now introducing 2 more link types that will affect SEOs. Now before we get into the 2 new link types, make sure you read the whole post.

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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 take good Instagram photos: 5 tips to try now

Sprout Social

When Instagram first began in 2010, smartphone cameras were still lacking in features and quality. Instagram photos were taken with the in-app camera and on today’s screens, those old posts look blurry and pixelated. Now, the feed is a mix of smartphone photos and professionally processed photos. The smartphone camera is good enough now that it’s possible to use it on the fly and some won’t even know the difference.

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How to Write a SMART Goal [+ Free SMART Goal Template]

Hubspot Marketing

There's almost nothing more gratifying than the feeling you get when you accomplish a goal. Whether you're pressing "Publish" on a blog post or collecting initial analytics on a campaign months in the making, it's undeniably satisfying to know you've successfully finished a task. When you're not chasing a clear goal, though, work can feel like a never-ending grind.

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17 Instagram Marketing Tips You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Hootsuite

The number of brands incorporating Instagram marketing into their business strategy has surged in recent years. While just over half of U.S. marketers used Instagram in 2016, more than 75% will do so by 2020. It’s no wonder: Instagram has a billion monthly active users , and an advertising audience of more than 849 million. This Instagram marketing tips for 2020 cheat sheet will help rev up your Instagram strategy, whether you’re just getting started or you’re already a seasoned pro.

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How to Develop a Content Strategy: Start With These 3 Questions

Content Marketing Institute

If your content doesn’t connect with an audience, success isn’t an option. But to get the audience, you first must answer these three essential questions. And use these resources to create an effective content marketing strategy. Continue reading → The post How to Develop a Content Strategy: Start With These 3 Questions appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Why Documenting Your Content Marketing Strategy Is So Important

Marketing Insider Group

Do you have a content strategy? If you’re reading this, you probably have a working interest in content marketing, and so your answer is probably “yes”: you have some kind of method for producing and publicizing content. But do you have a documented content strategy? If you answered “no” to the second question, you’re not alone. According to research by the Content Marketing Institute , over 60% of B2B marketers don’t have a documented content strategy.

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7 Advanced SEO Strategies I’m Trying to Implement Before 2020

Neil Patel

Google makes over 3,200 algorithm changes per year. That’s a lot of changes. Just think about that for a minute… and let that sink in. It’s roughly 9 changes per day. So how can you beat this gigantic company at their own game and rank high? Especially when you consider that they generate over $100 billion+ per year in ad revenue? You could follow their advice on how to rank well but that won’t do much for you.

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10 Call to action phrase examples that increase clicks and conversions

Sprout Social

Creating social media content is much more than simply writing clever captions to accompany your photos and blog posts. While that’s still important to up your social media engagement , there’s more to it than that when it comes to getting your potential customers to take action. What’s equally important is getting people to click on your links, submit inquiries and ultimately become customers.

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How to Use TikTok: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hubspot Marketing

With more than 500 million monthly active users , TikTok is taking app stores by storm and serving as a worthy competitor to apps like Snapchat and Instagram. While Gen-Z has flocked to the app , brands like Chipotle and The Washington Post are also starting to experiment with TikTok's video marketing opportunities. The best way to learn more about the app, its user base, and the type of content that engages audiences is to start producing your own posts on a personal or business account.

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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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How to Use Instagram Live to Grow and Engage Your Followers

Hootsuite

Instagram Live lets users stream live videos to their followers through their Instagram Stories. It’s great for building engagement, connecting directly with your users, sharing news, and establishing your brand. But maybe you’re thinking, “Isn’t live streaming just a passing fad?” Well, let’s look at the numbers (Source: New York Magazine and Livestream.com ): 80% of audiences would rather watch a livestream than read a blog post. 82% of audiences would rather watch a livestream than see a soci

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The Most Important Lesson Learned at Content Marketing World

Content Marketing Institute

The motivation for Content Marketing World’s headliner keynotes – Henry Rollins and Mindy Kaling – are vastly different. But these two high-profile, highly successful creatives possess the same essential ingredient for success. Continue reading → The post The Most Important Lesson Learned at Content Marketing World appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Why CMOs Should Care About Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

This article is based on my forthcoming book, Mastering Marketing Agility (Berrett-Koehler, June 2020). . When a CMO is hired, somewhere an hourglass flips over. Grains of sand begin plummeting from the upper half, piling up inexorably in the bottom until time runs out and the CMO is politely asked to leave. It’s a grim picture, and it turns out it’s not even a very big hourglass compared to those measuring out the lifespan of other executives.

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Ubersuggest 6.0: Track and Improve Your Rankings Without Learning SEO

Neil Patel

I’ve been an SEO for roughly 17 years now. And one thing that has remained constant, no matter how much you know about SEO, there is just too much to do. So much so, that most SEOs don’t even optimize their own websites anymore. And if they do, you’ll find that their site doesn’t rank for many competitive terms. Why? Because it is a lot of work! That’s why I’m excited to announce Ubersuggest 6.0.

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

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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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The guide to winning social media for law firms

Sprout Social

For years, social media has been a popular marketing channel for consumer brands. You see companies like Wendy’s, Airbnb and MoonPie dominating the landscape with their exceptional social media marketing strategies. With the immense popularity of these consumer brands, it may sometimes seem like certain industries like the legal industry are ignoring social media as a marketing channel.

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Everything You Need to Know About Billboard Advertising

Hubspot Marketing

I don’t own a car in Chicago, but I do take the train (referred to as the “L” here). On the L, most of my commuting companions pass the time by looking at their phones. But, my motion sickness prevents that, so I typically find myself watching the world — and many, many billboards — go by. And I must say: Some billboards can be very, very entertaining.

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11 Important Skills for Social Media Managers (Free Resume Template!)

Hootsuite

Social media managers own the skills that brands need in order to succeed on social. With 3.5 billion people using social media —and a million more joining every day—we all know that no marketing strategy can survive without a social component. Case in point: 90% of brands use social media now, and 77% of them expect their usage to increase. Whether you’re an aspiring social pro, or an HR manager looking to hire one, we’ve laid out the fundamentals of the job below.

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Get a Refresh on the What, Why, Where, and How of Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

It’s always a good time to revisit the fundamentals of successful content marketing. The guide is a nice refresh of the core content marketing elements – and helpful resources – essential to a successful program. Continue reading → The post Get a Refresh on the What, Why, Where, and How of Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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SEO Content Writing vs. SEO Copywriting: Is There a Difference? via @seocopychick

Search Engine Journal

What is SEO copywriting? Is there a difference between content writing and copywriting? Find out here. The post SEO Content Writing vs. SEO Copywriting: Is There a Difference? via @seocopychick appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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8 Steps to Create a Great Marketing Plan for Your Event

Marketing Insider Group

Event planning is hard work, but that doesn’t mean you can kick back and relax once you’ve booked your venue and organized your guest speakers. Unless you’re planning a unique event in a very popular industry, your event is not going to market itself. You need a great event marketing plan to get the word out, build buzz, and get people excited about attending.

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UTM tracking & URL shortening for social media marketers

Sprout Social

Every social media marketer is different. They have their own methods, practices and sets of skills. But there’s one thing that every social media marketer has in common–they all want to keep track of how they’re doing and if possible, optimize their performance. This usually means measuring the value of the links they’re sharing on social media. How many link clicks are they generating?

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The 11 Best Abandoned Cart Emails To Win Back Customers

Hubspot Marketing

It was a Saturday night, around 11 PM, and I was innocently scrolling on Amazon to look for a gift for my best friend’s birthday. But then, it happened. I had an impulse to purchase everything. The female empowerment mug? The wine tumbler? The pillow that said "Nap Queen"? I wanted it all. I added everything I liked to my cart. $200. Let’s be honest, $200 was going to be hard to pull off.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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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.