June, 2014

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The World Cup of Marketing Part 1: Nike Vs. Adidas

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Stephanie Barnes After spending yesterday morning glued to the USA vs. Germany game , Marketo has officially contracted World Cup Fever. But we aren’t just in it for the team rivalry – we’ve also been fascinated by the ads. The FIFA World Cup is more than a sporting event; it’s a chance for brands to go head to head on our TVs, our mobile devices, and all over social media.

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More Than A Thousand Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling

Marketing Insider Group

'It’s no surprise that the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by one of the leading editors of the 20th century. Here in the 21st century, there is a battle for customer attention and the pressure to deliver meaning and business impact quickly is compounded by our always-on digital, social and mobile world.

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How to Be Everywhere Through Marketing Automation Magic

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Be Everywhere Through Marketing Automation Magic written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Jan Marciniak – Enjoy! photo credit: Jiuck cc. When marketing your business you have a lot of ends to meet. Your goal should always be to systemize your marketing campaigns in a way that their success is repeatable and the process can be carried out by almost anyone.

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Which Social Media Sites Really Matter and Why

Neil Patel

Social media is critical. I doubt anyone would argue with me about that. But social media is also misunderstood in some ways. One of those misunderstandings is which social media sites a business or individual should be on. If you read this article, you’re going to understand which social media sites are best for your brand or business. You won’t have to waste your time messing around on social media sites that have no ROI, and you even might do better at gaining leads on the social media sites

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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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What’s in a Hashtag? 4 Ways a Hashtag Can Drive Your Brand Story

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Stephanie Barnes So you just put together an amazing marketing campaign idea and you covered all the marketing elements except…the hashtag. How many times have you added a hashtag to a campaign simply because it’s a social marketing best practice? When done right, a hashtag is more than an add-on, or a way to listen in on consumer conversations.

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[IT Best Practices] Finding the Right Marketing Solution

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Johnny Cheng Back when I was in IT , my biggest fear was implementing a solution that no one liked – or worse, didn’t end up using. Being at a startup tech company, my IT budget was miniscule. This meant that aligning with other “well-funded” departments in my company, such as the marketing team, was always a challenge. If I’d had an unlimited budget, I would have always implemented complete turnkey solutions (for those not in IT, these are “off the shelf” ready to go soluti

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How Marketers Can Learn to Speak “IT”

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Johnny Cheng One of my first jobs was as an IT administrator at a tech company. I thought of myself as the technology sheriff. I policed the policies. I secured the security. But more importantly, I made life hard for people like you. And by “people like you,” I mean people who weren’t in IT. People in sales, people in marketing. You snuck in unauthorized smartphones.

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Facebook Stats that Every Social Marketer Should Know

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones With over 1.23 billion active users (including 71% of online adults in the United States), a 94% increase in shared content since 2012, and enough spending money to buy several small countries , it’s clear that Facebook isn’t going anywhere soon. Smart marketers are already using Facebook’s impressive reach to their own advantage, but the network is still relatively new and constantly evolving.

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How to Get In With the “In Crowd”: Digital Influencer Marketing for Brands [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dayna Rothman We have been hearing a lot lately about “digital influence marketing”, but what is it exactly? And how can you, as a brand, use this strategy? Digital influence is the ability to create an effect, change opinions and behaviors, and drive measureable outcomes online — largely as the result of social networking. Digital influencers are leaders within their communities, with powerful social networks and industry-wide credibility.

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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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4 Simple Ways to Make Automated Emails Feel Personal…AND On-Brand

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Rachel Kavanagh There’s no doubt about it: automating your marketing can bring incredible efficiencies to your business, allowing you to scale your efforts without losing precision. But you don’t want your automated messages to feel automated – you want your marketing to feel personal, to build connections, and you also want it to amplify your brand.

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Putting it to the Test: Never “Redesign” Your Website Again

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Chris Goward Are you planning to redesign your company’s website? Is your boss (or her boss) worried the website’s looking a little old and dated? Maybe they’re not happy with its performance and want a redesign to recharge sales? In that case, I’m glad you found this blog post before you started. Because I want to show you why the traditional website redesign process is a dangerous trap that can cause you pain and lost revenue.

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Social is Coming: If Social Networks Played the Game of Thrones [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones There’s only one episode left in the fourth season of Game of Thrones , but as fans of the HBO series know well, a lot can happen in a single night of viewing (Red Wedding, anyone?). This season has been a particularly riveting one, as the Lannisters, Tyrells, and Starks circle ever closer to the Iron Throne, Petyr Baelish makes some surprising plays for power, and rumors of Daenrys Targaryen’s dragons become credible even in distant King’s Landing.

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The Future of Digital Marketing is Already Here

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Mike Stocker Today, the needs of all marketers are converging, creating a common set of goals. As marketers, we now strive to: Build deep, enduring relationships with our customers at an individual, personalized level. Create engaging experiences tied together across channels and time at scale. Drive conversions and get insight into spend and effectiveness.

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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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4 Ways to Make Your Virtual Events Go Off Without A Hitch

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen Attending all day conferences is becoming less and less feasible, especially as your attendees have more to do. And virtual events are a great way for them to obtain all of the great information they can get from a traditional conference, but without the high cost. Plus, virtual events are often more convenient, as attendees don’t have to travel and be stuck in a convention center or hotel all day.

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Introducing Marketo’s Email Lookbook for Spring/Summer 2014

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dayna Rothman A really good email is often the difference between a click-through and a direct route into the spam folder. And with new advancements in email inbox organization, such as Gmail’s new tabs , it is becoming even more difficult to stay in the coveted inbox. Today’s marketers need a combination of eye-catching design, clever text, and attention-grabbing headlines to engage and be top-of-mind for today’s consumers.

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Why Sports Websites Don’t Get Me: An Open Letter

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Carl Boehm Dear sports websites, We spend a lot of time together. A lot. You are the first websites that I visit in the morning and the last websites I check at night. I bookmark you, share your stories on my Facebook page, and compulsively consult you on my phone all day. Some of my friends and loved ones feel jealous of the time that I spend with you, but they realize nothing will drive us apart.

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Mobile Experiences Have a Long Way to Go…How’s Yours?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen As you’ve probably noticed, an increasing percentage of customer engagement, and ultimately purchases, now happen on mobile devices. But because this transformation happened so quickly, many marketers are still playing catch-up when it comes to optimizing mobile experiences for their customers. And so, to help marketers improve the quality of their audience’s mobile interactions, I decided to put together a list of my own most pivotal mobile experiences from a consumer sta

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

Speaker: Speakers:

Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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On Amy Adams, or, Why You Must Post Blogs You Hate

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Scott Yates In the office of BlogMutt, where I work, we have this disagreement about Amy Adams. Half of us love her. We think that she elevates so-so movies (like Man of Steel or Julie & Julia ) and she makes good movies great. We identify with her even when she portrays someone we know nothing about in real life. And looking into her eyes in movies like Junebug or Sunshine Cleaning gets us a little misty-eyed.

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IT…Marketing’s Friend, or Foe?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phil Fernandez So is the IT department a friend of the marketer, or not? It is frankly surprising that I have been working in technology for more than two decades, and as I travel around and meet with customers – big and small – I hear nearly every CMO or head of marketing say nearly the same thing: “Our IT department only gets in the way.” At some point – this has to change.

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How Predictive Lead Scoring Takes The Guesswork Out Of Identifying The Leads Most Likely To Buy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Tony Yang It was 2007 and I had just finished business school and joined my first startup — a small bootstrapped SaaS company that offered a large file transfer solution. At that time, I was the only marketer and employee #5 in the company, and we were starting to get some real traction in customer acquisition. Our basic value proposition was all about making it easy to send large files without having to deal with email attachment size limits or using FTP clients that are too co

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The 10 Internet Trend Charts You Need To See From Mary Meeker

Marketing Insider Group

'Every year around this time Mary Meeker puts out her famous Internet Trend Charts. I cover them every year because I think she has found a way to show all the amazing change the web has brought to our lives, the world of business and especially for us marketers trying to reach the digital consumer. There’s 164 slides in her latest deck, so I have pulled out the 9 internet trend charts you need to see… Mobile Still Has A Ton Of Growth.

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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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Digital Innovation – 5 Conclusions From The NYTimes Digital Innovation Report

Marketing Insider Group

'By now, you’ve likely heard about the New York Times Digital Innovation Report. The nearly-100 page report was leaked by Buzzfeed last month and became more than the talk of the town in New York city right before Internet Week where I presented on the content marketing imperative. The NYT’s analysis of its own Digital Innovation also became one of the most talked about reports in digital media, marketing, and even in technology circles.

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Keys To Leadership Success? Candor And Trust

Marketing Insider Group

'Right now I am reading one of the most amazing business books I have ever read and it isn’t even a book about business. The book is called “ Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming The Unforeseen Forces That Stand In The Way Of True Inspiration” by Ed Catmull. Ed Catmull is the President and Co-Founder (along with Steve Jobs) of Pixar and also President of Disney Animation Studios.

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4 Steps To Success In The New Demand Generation World

Marketing Insider Group

'Today’s post is another guest post from Rob Krekstein, Sr. Director of Lead Generation at Ventyx. Rob is a good friend and my former colleague. He sends us these Demand Generation tips every few weeks to keep us grounded in one of the main focus areas of B2B Marketing: delivering quantifiable value to the business and leads for sales. 10+ years ago, Demand Generation was a phrase people rarely used, and even rarer were the people who understood it.

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My Next Adventure In Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

'I am very excited to announce today that after nearly 7 years at SAP , I am taking a big step in my journey. When I moved from sales into marketing, my aim was to help more customers – more than one at a time. I have talked about how I believe marketing has a marketing problem. And so I am leaving one amazing company and joining another with the goal of helping more brands create content that customers actually want, to engage with new potential buyers, to build trust and to forge new rel

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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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Marketing Automation: What is it and Why Should I Care?

Duct Tape Marketing

'Marketing Automation: What is it and Why Should I Care? written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Scott Thomas – Enjoy! . Marketers, meet your secret weapon: marketing automation. Only recently, has this underutilized method of demand generation been brought to the forefront of public attention.

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The Benefits of Building, Joining or Growing a Mastermind Group

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Benefits of Building, Joining or Growing a Mastermind Group written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bill Hibbler. photo credit: learningexecutive via photopin cc. Anyone who has read Napoleon Hill’s often cited business classic, Think and Grow Rich will be familiar with the business use of something called a Mastermind Group.

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Why Teaching Is Such a Sexy Way to Sell

Duct Tape Marketing

'Why Teaching Is Such a Sexy Way to Sell written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Okay, I’ll admit it, I was trying to get your attention with the inclusion of the word sexy in the title of this post, but before you cry foul, sexy as an adjective simply means desirable, interesting, appealing – all good things when it comes to attracting clients. photo credit: theirhistory via photopin cc.

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