Hubspot Marketing

JULY 28, 2017

We're on the cusp of a tectonic shift in digital marketing. The boom in IoT ( Internet of Things ) technology will soon allow us to analyze, predict, and respond to consumer behavior in almost every market possible. That sounds amazing. but what's the Internet of Things ? The Internet of Things is the connection of everyday products like cars, alarm clocks, and lights to computing devices via the internet.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2017

By now, you’ve probably seen how live content gets pushed to the top of every stream on your social media feeds. You probably even get push notifications on your apps when someone goes live. It’s not a coincidence, but more of a calculated effort from companies like Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , and Twitch to be the leaders of a space that is still in its infancy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 24, 2017

Demand generation is complex. 7,000-piece jigsaw puzzle complex. This dynamism is the root of demand gen’s power, as well as the seeds of its downfall. When marketers don’t get the whole puzzle to fit together, the result is a jumbled mess of marketing tactics rather than the masterpiece you get when every piece works in […]. The post Why Demand Generation Requires a Strategic Mindset appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Rock Content

JULY 31, 2017

Sales and marketing leaders within the B2B world are abuzz about account-based everything. From account-based marketing to account-based sales development to account-based social selling (ABSS), the excitement is palpable. Forrester identified key areas B2B companies should be focusing on in their 2017 B2B Predictions Report , and account-based marketing ranked #1.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2017

Do You Fascinate? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing podcast with Sally Hogshead. Why are you captivated by some people, but not others? Why do you recall some brands, yet forget the rest? In a distracted and overcrowded world, how do certain leaders, friends, and family members convince you to change your behavior? The answer, according to brand innovation consultant Sally Hogshead , fascination.

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Zumvu

JULY 21, 2017

Regardless of the total number of pages, nature and complexity of functionalities in a website, every live URL is at the risk of being hacked. You can't assume your site is less susceptible to wicked attempts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 25, 2017

The hottest ticket on Broadway, even after two years at Richard Rodgers Theatre, is still Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award winning Hamilton. Not only has the show attracted a stellar list of celebrity audience members and won 11 prestigious Tony Awards, but now with productions in New York, Chicago, and London, as well as not one but TWO National Tours with stops scheduled across the country we, “normal people,” finally have the chance to maybe snag a ($400) ticket, if we’re lucky.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 31, 2017

In both B2C and B2B marketing, about a third of the marketing budget is spent on content. Many successful brands invest even more. These numbers are predicted to keep going up. By 2019, experts believe we’re looking at a $300 billion dollar industry, which means dollars spent on content marketing will have doubled in less than four years. […].

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 24, 2017

The term ‘knowledge economy’ was coined and used sneeringly as a term to denote the monetization of education. In reality, the knowledge economy is so much more, and it is something many marketers can capitalize upon to drive growth for their business and better serve their customers. The modern knowledge economy is an economic state in which growth depends on information and data as much as physical products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 21, 2017

If you’re keeping up with the latest B2B trends, you’ve probably heard or read the term “Account Based” recently. Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. And, that’s where account-based marketing and sales come in.

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 19, 2017

Are you struggling to build a strong community for your business on Twitter? It’s easier than you think. You can be successful by making a plan, delivering quality content, organizing with Twitter lists, participating in active Twitter chats, and knowing your Twitter analytics. A company that successfully embraces Twitter and builds its community around it will move beyond likes and followers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 18, 2017

An effective SEO strategy leads to increased organic traffic, more qualified leads, better brand awareness, and—ultimately—increased revenue. If your SEO program isn’t providing all of these benefits, you may be allocating too much time to the wrong tasks. It’s time to revisit your strategy. Because SEO has changed a lot in recent years. Veterans of the early days will tell you horror stories about keyword density and link farms.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 14, 2017

It’s been a while since English class, and you might be a little out of practice when it comes to your writing skills. And yet, here you are, a business professional who relies on your communication skills to better market yourself and reach a wider audience. Whether you need to craft an email to a client, write a blog post , or simply atone for those past sins, here are four tips to refresh your writing skills. 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2017

In a time when our customers hold the power, when they don’t want to be marketed to, and when they want to be engaged with in a personal and authentic way , if you have a customer community, you already have an incredibly powerful tool at your fingertips with which to engage customers. In Steve Lucas’ preview of his book, Engage To Win , which will be available later this year, he talks about the three-step process to create and deliver the kind of engagement your audience expects—Listen, Learn,

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Communications

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

What type of client is the “right fit” for your business? Odds are your sales and marketing departments have spent a great deal of time and money answering this question. You probably have very detailed and accurate answers involving industry, company size, technology use and job title. But you know that your sales team can call someone who fits your buyer persona perfectly and still end up without a sale.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2017

Buyers today expect engaging and personal brand experiences throughout their relationship with a company. They are used to connecting on social media, getting replies to tweets, having immediate access to customer service chats, and more—all in an instant. Your outbound marketing campaigns have to keep up. Consistently engaging leads and customers to stay relevant and build interest is critical, but having one-on-one conversations with every member of your audience is very difficult to scale.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 3, 2017

When measuring the effectiveness of paid advertising , you’re often presented with an overwhelming array of choices. Where do you start, and which metrics should you focus on? What is your true north? In this article, I segment key paid marketing metrics into three different categories. Each set of metrics contributes to the funnel differently and tells a much different story than the next.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2017

If you put email messages, Facebook posts, Tweets, and blog posts in a room and told them to duke it out, last man standing style, I guarantee you, email would win. Your email messages are far more powerful than your other digital channels when it comes to making a marketing impact. Blogs may generate leads […]. The post 4 Big Reasons Your Email Campaigns Are Being Ignored appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 17, 2017

The burning question on every marketing client’s lips. How to get more leads for my business? What can marketers do to invite more people into a brand experience? There are plenty of practical methods for generating quality leads. Blogging. Sharing and caring on social media. Strategic landing pages. Event marketing. Email. Most marketers are using […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2017

Every marketer needs to align their marketing plans to the strategic goals of their business – it’s a critical component of Marketing Performance Management. In fact, our research at Allocadia found that companies with strong growth are 2X more likely to align marketing KPIs directly to their contribution to the business, underscoring the need for all marketing […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2017

As we advance further into the into the age of constant connectedness, producing branded content is no longer a just nice touch. It is an absolute requirement for businesses to spread their messaging. A recent study by PQ Media noted that content marketing is forecasted to be a $300 billion industry by 2019. In order … Continue reading "5 Ways to Increase Efficiency in Content Production".

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 12, 2017

By Ayana Lage, The Daily Infographic Ever feel overloaded when you try to find informative articles about content marketing? That’s where visual content comes in––you’re able to digest a lot of information quickly, which makes it easier to sift through the massive number of content marketing resources on the Internet. Our team at The Daily […].

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 18, 2017

Let’s just admit it. Modern marketing has evolved so quickly over the past few years that we haven’t done the best job creating the constructive terminology to define what we’re doing. Our innovation first, figure-out-how-to-explain-what-we’re-doing-for-the-benefit-of-others second approach has caught up with the digital marketing world – or should I say demand generation?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 25, 2017

You need effective landing pages that convert as much as you need a worthwhile product or service. Without a great landing page, all your brilliant inbound work is generating website traffic for potential future buyers to visit, poke around, and leave. If you don’t want your hard earned web traffic to slip through your fingers […]. The post The Ultimate Guide for Creating Powerful Landing Pages for Your Brand appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 20, 2017

Have you made empathetic marketing part of your strategy in 2017? If not, you should. Let me explain. I interviewed Michael Brenner (@BrennerMichael) the CEO of MarketingInsiderGroup.com. Michael has received recognition across the Internet for his knowledge and role in shaping content marketing as we know it today. He’s a sought-after keynote speaker and co-author of The Content […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 5, 2017

Account-based marketing has been generating a lot of buzz over the last few years. And despite the fact that 90% of B2B marketers acknowledge the advantages of ABM, only 20% of companies are actively using this tactic. The wide gap can be attributed to skepticism due to misconceptions about ABM. Even if ABM proponents and. The post 5 Account-Based Marketing Misconceptions Clarified appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2017

What can you gain from growth hacking and how can you develop a mindset to be better at B2B marketing? To help answer this question, I interviewed Neil Patel (@neilpatel), co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and KISSmetrics. He also helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue. As marketers, we can reject […]. The post What Can B2B Marketers Gain from Growth Hacking?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 24, 2017

Social media is no longer just a fun, helpful supplement to a marketing mix. For many companies, it has become the primary vehicle for customer engagement. In fact, a report by LinkedIn found that 90% top performing sales representatives incorporate social media into their tactics. Using the right tools and data, you can find compelling […]. The post How to Ramp Up Your B2B Sales Lead Generation with Social Media appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 18, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you must have thought a lot about your marketing campaign and considered how to make it both effective and affordable. Or if you are about to venture into the world of entrepreneurship, it’s good to think about how you want your products to be represented to your potential customers. You must have […]. The post The State of Social Media Influencer Marketing in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 7, 2017

Last we spoke, we wondered why we don’t trust our intuition more. I mean, it’s with us at all times, telling us things. But we often feel like it’s a LEAP to listen to our intuition. This week, we wonder: How do we cross that chasm? To help make sense of this, we revisit the story of Alec Brownstein, the. Read More. The post How to Trust Your Intuition to Do Better Work appeared first on Unthinkable.

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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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