November, 2015

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[Ebook] Have Your Lunch–And Have Time To Eat It—4 Reasons Why You Should Consider Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Heidi Bullock Let’s face it. As a marketer, your life is pretty great. You start the day at 10am greeted by a warm latte, a fruit basket, and your team singing ‘ this is my fight ’ song in acapella. Later in the day, there is a fresh grilled halibut lunch, engaging meetings, and then you are out of the office by 5pm to drink wine, work out, or chill with the fam.

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A Long List of Social Media Advertising Stats

Hootsuite

If you’re looking at the most common topics discussed by social media managers today, it’s probably a toss-up between two things: social media advertising and emojis. One if a collection of yellow faces, random symbols and tacos (finally!), while the other will probably greatly impact your marketing budget in 2016 and beyond. Not that we don’t appreciate a good emoji, but this post is going to tackle the other topic.

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15 SEO Tips And Tricks To Improve Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

On his Quicksprout blog, Neil Patel once compared content marketing and SEO to “peanut butter and jelly,” saying, “you can eat them on their own, and they are delicious… but what happens when you combine them? They complement each other, right?” Even if, for some unfathomable reason you don’t actually like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches […].

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INFOGRAPHIC: Marketers vs. Creatives

Rock Content

Great marketing requires a lot more than great ideas. The best strategy in the world won’t amount to much if marketers aren’t able to bring their concepts to life. Enter the creative team. Whether it’s in house, an agency, or a bunch of freelancers, creatives need to have a good relationship with marketers to produce effective content.

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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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In Order to Scale You Must Be Obsessed with Delegation

Duct Tape Marketing

In Order to Scale You Must Be Obsessed with Delegation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The difference between someone that thinks they are a business owner and someone that thinks they are an entrepreneur is one of mindset mostly. A business owner looks at the work to be done and asks – how can I get all of this done? An entrepreneur looks at the same work and ponders – how can I get someone else to do all of this?

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[Infographic] Back on the Yellow Brick Road: Getting Customers Who’ve Strayed To Re-engage

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Brian Glover The Wizard of Oz is one of the greatest journey movies of all time. In it, a heroine brings together a team of charming characters to help her overcome a series of obstacles that try to prevent her from getting to her goal—the Emerald City and then home to Kansas. And when she finally arrives, you discover that her journey is not *quite* over yet—she has to get the Wicked Witch of the West’s broomstick and bring it back to the Wizard of Oz.

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How to Build an All-Star Mobile Force

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Jeff Hasen It should go without saying: whether you run a mom-and-pop business or lead the digital team at a Fortune 500 company, mobile marketing should map to your business goals. Almost everything has changed in this wireless world, but at the end of the day we’re all still looking to sell more stuff. It’s just the how that is evolving. The mobile channel has become more important than ever to marketers.

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It’s Time to Charge Up Your Laser Guns for Digital ABM!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mike Telem Account-based marketing (ABM) may be the latest buzzword on every B2B marketer’s mind – but that doesn’t make it a new concept by any standard. For years, companies have realized the importance of adopting an account-centric approach , concentrating their efforts on attracting target accounts that have particularly high strategic or financial value.

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Why Marketers Are the New Wingmen

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Michael Powers Chances are if you’re in events marketing at a B2B company, your schedule is full of trade shows. As someone who’s traveled around the world to hundreds of events, I’ve learned some very important tricks of the trade (pun intended): always give away good swag, plan ahead like it’s your wedding, and, most importantly, bring your A-team.

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How to Avoid Sales Fatigue—The Hidden Productivity Killer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Chris Gillespie Fatigue can show up in a number of interesting ways and it’s up to both management and sales professionals to self-assess and realize when they’re overworking themselves. With my background in wilderness Search and Rescue, I liken this to going for a very long hike: You’d assume that by not stopping, you’d go faster and further.

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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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Self-Reliance Is the Name of the Game: How Marketing Automation Empowers Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Matt Zilli In many companies, the almighty tech resource—be it an engineer, developer, or IT expert—is a revered character whose time and attention can be hard to come by. Even companies that have a dedicated engineer—or even an entire team of them—may not be all that keen to devote their valuable time to carrying out the daily operations of other teams, like marketing.

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[Infographic] How to Form Your Digital Advertising Team

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Sesame Mish The most important part of any marketing team is its people. Without the right people—and the right combination of people—things like resources, processes, and strategy won’t be optimized. You need dynamic individuals at the helm, all working in areas of their strengths, banding together in unison to achieve company goals. All marketing teams should think of it this way—and digital advertising teams are no exception.

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Marketo Data Tells Us: Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Johnny Cheng In my role at Marketo over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of paging through mounds of enticing Marketo data. I have seen some absolutely outstanding stats from some of Marketo’s top customers—stats covering everything from email sends to opportunities sourced. Now, I want to share these stats with you so you can see the potential of what happens when smart marketers, the right technology and great campaigns come together.

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5 Tips for Making Your Customer Marketing Shine Bright During the Holidays

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Jignesh Shah Whether you’re trying to close Q4 deals or set the stage for 2016, you should start planning a holiday marketing campaign now. More than 80% of business in Q4 can occur during the last two weeks of December. Holiday campaigns are a great way to nurture the deals in the pipeline that you want to close. Holiday marketing can also help grow your pipeline into 2016 as it sets a solid foundation for sales and marketing plans as they head into the New Year.

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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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Keep Calm and Content On! 4 Ways to Write Compelling Content for Customer Nurturing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Elaine Ip Halloween has come and gone, but the fright isn’t over just yet. With its passing grows a sense of panic among consumer marketers everywhere. We are now in the busiest selling season of the year , with advertisements hitting consumers left to right. From those eagerly anticipated holiday sales to Black Friday or Cyber Monday, consumers are receiving floods of communication every day.

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3 Ways for B2B Marketers to Invest in Customer Retention

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Chris Gillespie Marketing automation is a lot like investing—the smart money is in a long-term strategy. And just like investing, it’s extremely easy to get caught up in the exciting day-to-day fluctuations while neglecting the long-term picture. For marketers, that often means focusing on highly visible activities like social media, email, event management, and web personalization while forgetting to plant the seeds for long-term lead nurturing.

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[Cheat Sheet] How a “Good Enough” Marketing Automation Solution Can Hurt You

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Neha Shah “I am fine with a good enough solution,” said no great leader ever. Whether you’re a startup company with a marketing team of one or a larger enterprise, you’re always looking for ways to increase your team’s productivity. But choose wisely–settling for a “good enough” solution could do more harm than good. In the short-term, it actually hinders your productivity.

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Join the Big League: 7 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Advertising

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mike Tomita It’s time to join the big league and go digital! Digital advertising is now the new norm—it’s the fastest growing marketing channel with no signs of slowing down, according to Strategy Analytics. In fact, most companies spent more on digital marketing in 2015 than they did in 2014, and plan to increase spending in 2016. This shouldn’t come as a surprise—marketing has always been about three things: location, location, location.

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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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The Lost Art Of Marketing? 25 Ways To Retain Your Customers

Marketing Insider Group

What does it take to retain your customers month after month? Is it as simple as offering a cutting-edge, market-leading product? Some people still seem to believe that “if you build it, they will come” (or, in this case, stay). But that’s not enough. Often, the market-leading products aren’t the “best” products – they’re just […]. The post The Lost Art Of Marketing?

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B2B Marketing Insider Is Now Marketing Insider Group

Marketing Insider Group

Almost exactly five and a half years ago, I launched the B2B Marketing Insider blog with an introduction on “Why Am I In Marketing?” I talked about how I thought Marketers were too focused on selling stuff and how we often forget to simply focus on helping customers. I also talked about how I was […]. The post B2B Marketing Insider Is Now Marketing Insider Group appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How To Be Seen Online

Marketing Insider Group

You’re sharing silly memes and scratching your head wondering how to drive profitable, targeted traffic to your brand. You want to be seen online – but not for the sake of being seen. You want to show that you’re making a huge impact. Here’s how to get there (no side eye required): 1. Build a strong […]. The post How to Be Seen Online appeared first on Jessica Ann Media.

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Effective B2B Marketing Leaders Do This

Marketing Insider Group

Technology plays a critical role in the success of today’s marketers. Marketers use technology to help us make smarter decisions, execute more effective campaigns, and drive more revenue. But with so many new technologies rising up every day, how does a marketer decide which tools, channels, and metrics to focus on to improve marketing performance […].

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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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10 Key Ingredients To Insanely Shareable Content

Marketing Insider Group

Ever wonder why some people’s content goes viral and gets tons of social shares? Is there some content marketing secret sauce you don’t know about? To try to answer this million-dollar question, for a period of eight months BuzzSumo analyzed over 100 million articles, and this is what they found out. Obviously the prerequisite to […]. The post 10 Key Ingredients To Insanely Shareable Content appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Are You Missing The Most Important Audience For Your Content Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare A few years ago I worked with a telecom company that struggled to get traction with its audience. “We have […]. The post Are You Missing The Most Important Audience For Your Content Marketing?

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How to Reuse and Recycle Your Best Content

Rock Content

Big pieces of visual content that takes weeks or months to create are a big investment. When you put a ton of resources into an infographic, interactive site, video or data visualization, you’re making a big mistake if you only wind up with one piece of content–however amazing it may be. Bottom line, your audience isn’t in one place, so you can’t expect one piece of content to reach them.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Improve Their Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

While many brands use content marketing to drive conversions , nonprofits have different goals in mind. Nonprofits use content marketing to educate and inspire their audiences with the hopes of fundraising and gathering donations. Although the end game is a different result, content marketing can be just as effective for this purpose, if done properly.

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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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NEW REPORT: How Marketers and Creative Teams Can Collaborate Better

Rock Content

Producing good content can be hard. That’s why we’re really excited to be sharing new survey research about how marketers and their creative teams can work better together. We did this study because we want to help marketers find better ways to stand out. Only 30% of B2B marketers think their content programs are effective–down from 38% last year, according to another great survey (the 2016 B2B Content Marketing Report by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute).

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Inside Out: Why Sadness Is The Key to Happy Shareable Content

Marketing Insider Group

Are you a content marketer but you haven’t watched Inside Out yet? Shame on you. It’s all about five core emotions – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust – and their attempts to control the mind of an 11-year-old girl. And if you think it has nothing to do with content marketing in general and […]. The post Inside Out: Why Sadness Is The Key to Happy Shareable Content appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Improve Their Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

While many brands use content marketing to drive conversions, nonprofits have different goals in mind.Nonprofits use content marketing to educate and inspire their audiences with the hopes of fundraising and gathering donations. Although the end game is a different result, content marketing can be just as effective for this purpose, if done properly.

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Top 5 social media video tutorials available online

Rock Content

If you think of the Internet as a giant school, video represents the ultimate classroom experience. The one where you brought an apple for the teacher and everybody else forgot. The one where you got an A+ and everyone else eked by with a B. That’s especially true for content managers, who are constantly trying to stay abreast of the latest trends in social media marketing—not to mention a variety of other categories.

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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.