November, 2018

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How to Use Instagram: A Beginner's Guide

Hubspot Marketing

Over the past few years, Instagram has seen exponential growth -- from one million users in December 2010, to over one billion in 2018. It's hard to remember a time before Instagram. "Do it for the 'gram" has become a common saying, which means, essentially, "Do something so we can take a picture and post it to Instagram." If you're not part of the one billion on Instagram, you might want to reconsider.

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Revenue Marketing Insights from 80 Marketing Leaders

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

What happens when 80 senior marketing leaders come together to talk about revenue marketing and ROI? Amazing insights, that’s what! At our Marketing Nation Engage event in London, we hosted a series of roundtable sessions with marketers around the region to discuss hot topics of the day. And nothing was hotter than revenue marketing and ROI. Each of the three roundtable sessions was hugely oversubscribed, and we had standing room only for each!

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How to efficiently set up your content planning for 2019

Sprout Social

Content marketing has been steadily growing for several years now. More and more businesses realize the long-term ROI of brand-owned content. 2018 was a big year for content, as recent studies have been showing: Content marketing revenue is projected to exceed $300 billion by 2019. 86% of B2C marketers think content marketing is a key marketing strategy.

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9 Font Hacks for Instagram Stories You Should Know

Content Marketing Institute

Without a doubt, Stories has been Instagram’s smartest invention yet. In fact, it’s hard to imagine the platform without Stories. Launched in August 2016, Stories has taken over, with over 400 million users sharing them every single day. This is great news if you’re an avid Stories user and bad news if you’re a brand trying to stand out in the crowd.

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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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Best Digital Marketing Tools for Small Businesses

Marketing Insider Group

One of the most exciting aspects of the world of digital marketing is how it levels the playing field for smaller businesses and solopreneurs. These are entities who are offering fantastic products and services which will be of huge benefit, but who may be short on the resources and budget required to market them. Gone are […]. The post Best Digital Marketing Tools for Small Businesses appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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A Guide to Animated GIFs in Email

Litmus

Email marketers are always trying to improve their campaigns—through the use of copy, design, and images. They are always on the lookout for something to set them apart from the rest of the inbox and draw attention to their emails—enticing readers to click through and care about their message. Many marketers are finding that adding animation is just the thing to increase subscriber engagement, and are increasingly turning to animated GIFs in email to provide that bit of extra interest.

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5 Trends that Will Define the Future of Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The evolution of marketing automation has had a profound influence on marketers and buyers alike. From the days of spray-and-pray email marketing and complicated database marketing, the technology and expertise of marketers have truly elevated marketing automation as a practice. Today, we use technology to analyze buyers’ digital body language to personalize, engage, and incite action on dozens of channels.

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10 Social Media Marketing Basics for Budding Businesses

Sprout Social

If you’re trying to wrap your head around modern social media, chances are you’re a bit overwhelmed. Hey, we totally get it. It’s a lot to take in, especially since the social space is almost unrecognizable from what it was a decade ago. Back then, you might see the occasional business profile. Fast forward to present day where a social presence is an expectation for businesses, with 80% of marketers relying on social media to raise brand awareness.

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How to Make Your Bland Content Strategy Delicious

Content Marketing Institute

It’s the scourge of effective marketing: content that caters to everyone and thus caters to no one. It’s plain old vanilla – ubiquitous, bland, and the default choice when you don’t really know what people want or care about and can’t be bothered to find out. When you follow a storytelling approach informed by data, it’s possible to be much more specific, and thus relevant, to your customers’ needs and interests.

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What Does 2019 Hold for Digital Marketing? 9 Agency Owners Bare Their Hearts

Marketing Insider Group

As 2018 draws to an end and the holiday shopping season picks up steam, marketers find themselves standing at crossroads yet again. Consumers are growing increasingly aware and doing a lot more research before they buy, regulatory authorities are closely watching what firms do with data, and technology continues to mold buyer behavior at breakneck […].

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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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Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising trends 2019

Bannerflow

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is developing at speed. Yet, like every advertising channel it is undergoing disruption. There are new players challenging established brands, and out-of-home (OOH) networks are expanding digital signage as fast as they can. The trends defined in this article are some of the most important. Building on the success of OOH. Out-of-home advertising offers a brand safe environment, with unparalleled viewability.

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How to Use WordPress: Ultimate Guide to Building a WordPress Website

Hubspot Marketing

The thought of creating your own website may seem overwhelming. You might even think this task would be impossible for anyone but a developer or a person with a background in web design. Well, I have good news for you — there’s a software out there that’s so easy to use, virtually anyone can successfully create a unique and professional-looking website for their business, blog, portfolio, and more.

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How to Create a Solid Strategy for Your VR Product

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

VR is fast becoming a reality. Only a few decades ago it seemed that virtual reality would never come to fruition. The necessary hardware was so extensive and the software so complex that it seemed like it would take eons for us to arrive at an affordable consumer product. As costs for expensive hardware have steadily decreased and development time for software has shortened, prices for commercial VR products have gone down, and consumer interest has gone up.

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‘Tis the season: Retailers can expect 32% more social messages this holiday season

Sprout Social

Not only is shopping more digital than ever–it’s also more social. Mobile-first shopping grew by 20% from 2016 to 2017 and in 2018, consumers ranked social as their number one source of inspiration for purchases. To no one’s surprise, social buzz around shopping reaches its peak during the holiday season. And while Cyber Monday may have outpaced Black Friday as the largest shopping day of the year in 2017, shoppers are becoming increasingly accustomed to deals and specials that

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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 Build a Smart Yet Simple Social Media Marketing Plan [Template]

Content Marketing Institute

? ?. Editor’s note: Given the ongoing need for brands to use social media strategically, we are sharing this article updated from its original publication last year. Concerned about how Facebook’s latest algorithm updates might affect your brand’s performance on the platform? Questioning where your Facebook ads might appear across its network of sites, including on Instagram and Messenger ?

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The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

The digital marketing landscape changes so much and so frequently that it’s almost impossible to imagine what the future of digital marketing may offer in terms of opportunities. During the last year or two, we’ve seen new technologies, a backlash of sorts in social media, and influencer marketing maturing from its early days as a viable […]. The post The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Traackr Integrates Twitch Expanding Influencer Discovery & Analytics

Traackr

With the integration of Twitch, Traackr provides influencer discovery and influencer analytics for game developers seeking to build relatinoships with gamers.

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The 100 Best YouTube Channels in Every Category

Hubspot Marketing

Sometimes, taking a quick break from work to watch YouTube videos is the only way to stay sane during a stressful day. There’s just something about 20-minute long Vine compilations and brutally honest Chevy ad spoofs that can instantly lift your spirits, especially when you’re running on fumes towards the end of the work day. If you’re in the midst of an end-of-day lull and need a boost of mental energy, you’re in luck.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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Lead Tracking: 5 Best Practices for Marketing Operations

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s important to follow through on leads. Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team. Seems like a simple definition, right?

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Get to connection faster: social customer care powered by HubSpot and Sprout

Sprout Social

Social media has evolved from a nascent marketing channel to an integrated part of all business functions. It’s become critical for businesses to develop a sophisticated approach for how they find, communicate with and support their customers on social. Gone are the days when brands could broadcast discounts, deals and product information and “go dark” when a customer raised a complaint.

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100+ Tools Content Marketers Really Love

Content Marketing Institute

Want to be a better content marketer? Don’t overlook the importance of technology. Need convincing? Consider this: CMI’s 2019 B2B research found that 67% of the most successful content marketers rated their organization’s content tech proficiency as expert or advanced. Only 5% of the least successful content marketers rate their organizations as expert or advanced in content tech proficiency. 67% of most successful #content marketers say their org is advanced or expert in #tech proficiency.

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5 Real Estate Agent Digital Marketing Tips

Marketing Insider Group

The real estate industry is extremely competitive, and you have to be creative and always looking for new ways to keep your company in the forefront to survive. However, this is the exact reason why so many people get drawn into the real estate industry. They thrive on the challenge it presents and on finding […]. The post 5 Real Estate Agent Digital Marketing Tips appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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From Transactional to Relational: Expectations for Influencer Marketing in 2019 I Traackr

Traackr

We attended the WWD Digital Forum event, and here are the different influencer marketing conclusions that we draw for the end of 2018.

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6 Sample Business Plans to Help You Write Your Own

Hubspot Marketing

Ask any successful sports coach how they win so many games, and they’ll tell you they have a unique plan for every single game they coach. To have a fighting chance against any of their opponents, they need to prepare a specific game plan tailored to each of their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise, they’ll get crushed. The same logic applies to business.

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Increased Email Clicks Might Not Be Due to Your Marketing Prowess

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Email marketers are reporting an increase in click volumes. Is this because marketers are just that good now? Unfortunately, not so much. The most common were instances of user behavior where all the links within an email have been clicked. Often, these were narrowed down to specific business targets at the same corporate domain within a customer’s database.

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Sprout Social named a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace four years in a row

Sprout Social

Each year, the Chicago Tribune publishes a list of top workplaces based on thousands of employee reviews to determine the best employers in Chicago. Sprout Social is proud to be included on the list of midsize companies for the fourth consecutive year in a row for 2018! This continuous recognition is a result of employee feedback and a reflection of the inclusive culture we’ve built thus far. “Our people are at the center of everything we do here at Sprout,” said Maureen Calabr

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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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Want More Creative Content Ideas? Break These 6 ‘Rules’

Content Marketing Institute

? ? “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.”.

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Content Marketing Guidelines: Why and How To Create Them?

Marketing Insider Group

Brands with strong content marketing have a consistent voice, tone, and personality. The quality and style of your brand’s content can become as strong of a marker of your brand as your logo for dedicated readers. However, it can be difficult to preserve these qualities if you have a growing business with many writers who […]. The post Content Marketing Guidelines: Why and How To Create Them?

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Influencer Marketing Lessons from SEPHORiA | Traackr

Traackr

This post will take you behind the scenes of Sephora's first ever beauty event - Sephoria. Discover what happened IRL and what impact it had on social media.

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9 Royalty-Free Music Sites to Help You Make the Perfect Video Soundtrack

Hubspot Marketing

In video marketing, choosing the right soundtrack can be the difference between a video that grips your audience from start to finish and one that they can barely get halfway through. Play a fitting soundtrack or jingle in your video, and you can grab your audience’s attention and evoke the specific emotions and feelings you want them to associate with your brand.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.