Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Brand storytelling isn’t a new concept, as Susan Gunelius wrote back in 2013. Brands of all sizes realize the need to entertain their customers and prospects via the age-old method of storytelling. And just as Gunelius wrote back in 2013, “the opportunities to tell stories as part of direct and indirect brand marketing initiatives have become a […].
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Author: Mike Tomita Stop the presses! Last week, it was reported by several sources, and confirmed by Google, that the AdWords ads that appear on the right hand-side of Google’s search engine results page will be removed from desktop searches in the near future. This change is arguably one of Google’s most significant changes to the AdWords platform since it first rolled out.
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Litmus
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
About a month ago, a friend and fellow Boston marketer and I got into a discussion about the merits of customer marketing, and more specifically, how email plays a role. Casey Hogan was frustrated, as she had just received her tenth— tenth! —upsell email from a brand that she had been using for four years. Obviously annoyed, she took to Twitter in search of empathy.
Rock Content
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
POLITICO recently ran a headline on its website titled, “The fury of Ben Carson.” In a news cycle that has been consumed with sensational stories about politicians of all stripes, it normally wouldn’t be noteworthy. At just five words, the headline’s not even a complete sentence. It doesn’t have an action verb. But the use of “fury” speaks volumes.
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
How and Why to Use SEO for Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Search Engine Optimization is one of the more shapeless marketing terms we get to wrestle with these days. It’s not that people don’t understand SEO, okay maybe it kind of is, it’s that the very nature of SEO seems to shift with each new pronouncement from Google.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Ask any marketer what they would like for their content or site, and they will likely tell you: more traffic and more leads. So how do you actually increase traffic to your website or blog? There are many ways you can do this, and while most of these strategies require some effort and time, you […]. The post 20 Simple Ways To Boost Your Website Traffic appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Author: Ellen Gomes As a marketer, what’s one way that you can quickly engage your audience and position your brand as friendly and relatable? Quick answer: Incorporate animals into your marketing. There’s a reason why each year some of the top Super Bowl ads feature animals, and that’s because it works to engage audiences. This year, some of the top ads included animals, for example, the Heinz’s wiener dog stampede , the already infamous Mountain Dew’s puppymonkeybaby , dogs trying to get Dorit
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Author: Renata Bell Everything I need to know about marketing metrics, I learned from Zoolander. Okay, maybe not everything , but I learned that you need to look past vanity metrics—things that just look pretty on the outside. While in the past marketing might have been less tied to hard numbers, today’s consumer marketers are faced with pressure from CEOs and CFOs who want to hear about growing revenue and profits.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Author: Anne Janzer Marketers love to launch things. In a way, we’re Mission Control for the business, launching products and campaigns with precision and flare. Yet beyond all of these high profile launches, hundreds or thousands of small, everyday lift-offs pass nearly unnoticed once a deal is signed or a payment clears. We’re talking about customers.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Author: Frank Passantino Ad Tech (paid media) has been around for quite some time—with advertising on social networks and popular ad platforms like Google AdWords—but it has historically been seen, and treated, as its own category. A big shift that we’ve seen over the last year or so is that Ad Tech and MarTech are gravitating closer and closer together as a response to the demand from the market for connecting these two technologies.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker
Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Author: Mike Tomita Return on investment (ROI) is an important part of digital marketing (and really, almost every part of marketing)—it tells you whether you’re getting your money’s worth from your marketing campaigns. And if you’re not, it’s critical to get to the bottom of it, and understand why so you can learn how to improve your campaigns.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Author: Chris Gillespie When your sales management team gathers to talk about their salespeople, they’re going to discuss two types: problems and stars. The problems get that way from being unreliable or unteachable. They’re viewed as a liability and management talks about mitigating their risks. The stars, on the other hand, are lauded with praise because they’re just the opposite: effective and reliable.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Author: Tyler Lessard Marketing technology took a lot of big steps forward in 2015. Predictive analytics, engagement marketing, and account-based marketing all took hold, and companies like Facebook announced that more than 8 billion videos are viewed every day on their social network. Whoa, wait a minute, WHAT?! Yes, that’s a ridiculously huge number and just one of the many stats that suggest video is one of the hottest trends that marketers need to watch for.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Author: Mike Madden Test everything. Does an orange button work better than a blue button in my email? Test it. What should I order at In-N-Out: two double doubles or one 4×4? Test it. Is this Tinder profile picture with my family better than me surfing an epic wave in Tahiti? Test it. Being an email marketer has taught me one critical thing: you never really know what works best until you test it and prove a rightful winner.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Author: Melanie Grant As Coco Chanel once said, “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” And that’s never been more true than in today’s consumer environment, where marketers face intense competition for the attention of customers, both online and offline. There’s always going to be another company that offers something similar to your product or service, so it’s important that your customers feel a strong tie to your brand.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Author: Koustubha Deshpande These are exciting times in the mobile app industry. Marketers have never had such an abundance of data and insights available to them–mountains of information to help support strategy and deliver success. But, in spite of this, one of the most common mistakes mobile app marketers make is that they treat their users as numbers or installs, rather than people.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Author: Patrick Groover Campaign management grows more dynamic each year as the volume and detail surrounding customer communications increases in complexity. Because of the number of channels being managed and rising expectations from buyers for immediate and personalized communication, automation is essential —but in order to keep up with the growing pace and volume of digital interactions, it must be simplified.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Author: Kylie Ora Lobell Great content should be at the core of your marketing initiatives, but to produce this content, you need to hire talented creators. If you own a small to medium-sized business, you may not have the budget to take on a staff of full-time writers, photographers, videographers, graphic designers, or developers. This is where freelance employees come into play.
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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Author: Elaine Ip Whether you love or hate Valentine’s Day, there’s no denying that this weekend, people around the world will be celebrating with their loved ones. And marketers—we can’t help it—we’ve fallen for you. Remember those awesome Valentine’s Day cards that you passed around and received in grade school? The ones with the cartoons on them and a sweet (or silly) little message?
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Author: Ed King Does your MarTech stack look like your kitchen drawer? If so, think about what that means for your data as a B2B marketer. I recently realized how many gadgets are in my kitchen drawers and cabinets, particularly the ones sitting in the cabinet informally designated as the “kitchen graveyard.” It includes a few popcorn makers, juicers, and all kinds of widgets for chopping, slicing, dicing, squeezing, and other tasks that I can’t even recall.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
A huge chunk of what I talk about relates to content marketing. I talk about how to create it, how to optimize it, and how to help it go viral. What I don’t often touch on, is the distinction between content marketing in B2C industries and content marketing in B2B industries. This is because, despite sharing a […]. The post The Difference Between B2C and B2B Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Content marketing is nothing without good promotion. There are a lot of people furiously writing great blog posts, spending hours a day, hoping that an insane amount of new customers will magically find their content and purchase their app, solution, merchandise or something else. It doesn’t work that way. Promotion was important before content marketing […].
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
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Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Content marketing for SEO ranking is still a major priority for marketers across brands. It makes sense – think about it. When was the last time you searched for anything online, be it business insights or hotel reviews, without going to Google? According to the Content Marketing Institute’s B2C Content Marketing 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends, 62% […].
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
More than 90% of businesses maintain two or more social media channels. So, it’s no surprise that companies experience social media disasters. That’s when a post with insensitive comments (mostly due to ignorance or poor judgment) goes viral and destroys your brand’s message. Businesses aren’t usually prepared to handle the intensity of a full-scale online […].
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Every entrepreneur, blogger, and website owner is aware of the importance of social media content strategy. If you don’t make yourself visible for a greater audience, you won’t reap the benefits of your online presence. Without superb content, you won’t promote your brand in a good way. You realize you need high-quality articles, blog posts, […].
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
If there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that in 2016 marketers are increasingly moving away from a “Mad Men” advertising era to a digital marketing age focused on the customer experience and journey. So what strategies, technologies, and tactics do marketers need to understand and learn to better engage, entertain, and delight their […].
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Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
If 2015 was the year of video marketing, then 2016 is the year of digital marketing. According to a Gartner survey, 98% of marketers no longer see digital as a distinct approach from other marketing practices. Digital marketing is now the context for all marketing. For marketers and those who are new to the industry, […]. The post State Of Digital Marketing: 9 Key Trends You’ll Need To Know In 2016 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
The future of marketing is being debated by leaders in our industry. Some see a shift to more customer-focused content marketing. While others want to continue pushing product promotion content interruptions. Which side are you on? Ad Blocking Gets Serious There are approximately 200 million monthly active users of ad blockers globally, according to a […].
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
As technology continues to improve and we’re communicating quicker than ever, we’ll need to humanize our content, or we risk losing ourselves along the way. If you’re like many brands, you may think that you’re evolving by becoming “more robotic” with your marketing. And even though certain technologies do get you ahead, humanizing your content can get you even further.
Marketing Insider Group
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Content marketing is an intimidating, but necessary, part of raising brand awareness now. It’s easy to get lost in the whirlwind of SEO elements, content guidelines, audience interests and promotional strategies. But at the heart of it, content marketing has one simple central tenet: Deliver fresh, unique and informative content that taps into the interests […].
Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service
Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.
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