June, 2017

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How to Make an iPhone Video: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hubspot Marketing

You might know that video is important, that your audience wants to see it, and you might even want to make it a part of your strategy. But you're still asking the big question: "How?". If you aren't producing video content because you don't think you have the ability, time, or resources to do it, we have some good news: Your answer to the video content question could be sitting in your pants pocket.

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How to Growth-Hack Your Way to Revenue Gains—Even if You’re Not A Startup

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Have your marketing efforts hit a plateau? Are you looking for an innovative way to reach new markets and solve new problems? If so, you may have considered growth hacking but run into snags if your company is beyond startup mode. As may already know, Sean Ellis, an experienced marketing leader, entrepreneur and angel investor, coined the term “growth hacker” to describe “a person whose true north is growth.

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6 Content Marketing Research Tools You’ll Fall in Love With

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to know how to create content that people are actually searching for, you need to become a content marketing research expert. But it doesn’t have to be that hard or expensive! To uncover the top trends and topics of interest within your industry, you just have to roll up your sleeves and […]. The post 6 Content Marketing Research Tools You’ll Fall in Love With appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Why You Must Refocus Your Message On Problems Not Solutions

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Refocus Your Message On Problems Not Solutions written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this post – 5 Steps to Restart, Recharge and Revive Your Marketing Right Now! – I introduced an aggressive initiative to help any business owner struggling to stay on plan with their marketing for the year. The idea is to take the mid-point of the year and get a fresh restart.

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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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Successful Guest Posting Strategy to Promote Your Business

Zumvu

Guest posting is one of the more unique aspects of online marketing, a strategy that has no historical equivalent.

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10 Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Replace (and 10 That Are Safe)

Hubspot Marketing

The other day at work, my colleague, HubSpot Marketing Director Ryan Bonnici, sent around a link on Slack -- to a website called “ Will Robots Take My Job ?”. We were thrilled to learn marketing managers had only a 1.4% chance of our jobs being automated or replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. And although I breathed a sigh of relief that writing has only a 3.8% chance of being automated, it made me think about job roles that weren’t so lucky.

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What Is Channel Strategy? What Marketers Should Know

Hubspot Marketing

Be honest. Do you know what your non-marketing colleagues do all day? Sure, you might have a general idea of what your co-workers in sales, finance, and HR do, at least categorically. But it seems that many of us -- myself included -- have those days, weeks, and months when we’re so bogged down in our own daily hustle, that we become a bit oblivious to what everyone else around us is working on.

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How Technology is Creating More Opportunities for the Modern Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The modern marketing landscape is not what it used to be. Creative thinkers and innovative “ideas people” are still at the heart of the department, but it has become a measurable, monitorable and data-driven discipline. To the most creative marketers this may sound like a negative thing; but in reality, it just means all of their ideas and innovations can be tracked, tweaked, improved and proven, making a real return on investment (ROI) demonstrable internally to the broader business (and especi

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How to Tap into the Power of Influencers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Influencer marketing has become a bit of a buzzword in the marketing industry as of late. Merriam-Webster defines influence as “the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect ways.” From my perspective, influence, as it relates to marketing, is someone who resonates with an audience, makes an impact and provides value. Why Should Marketers Invest in Influencer Marketing?

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

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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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How to Increase Conversions: 10 Tips to See Positive Results

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a marketer, many of your campaigns may be built around one primary objective: getting people to fill out a form. Often, designing a compelling advertisement isn’t enough to encourage people into handing over their details. Many factors can deter someone from submitting a form, including the unwillingness to provide contact information. Here are some content design strategies and tips that you can employ today to effectively nudge people toward conversion: Just Say ‘No’ to D

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Engage to Win, a Blueprint for Success in the Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In a blog post earlier this year, I introduced the concept of the Engagement Economy , which is the digitally connected world we live in that demands we, as marketers and brands, communicate with buyers in ways that resonate and are meaningful. In the Engagement Economy, our customers are in charge and they are more informed than ever because of the informational convenience and convergence of search, social, blogs, video, and hundreds more easily accessible digital touchpoints.

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How to Assess the Relevancy of 3rd Party Intent Data

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

At this point, most of us have realized that traditional, or “spray-and-pray” marketing approaches no longer work. We are now living in the Engagement Economy where buyers have more power than brands and expect personalized, relevant interactions at every touchpoint. As Steve Lucas, Marketo CEO, said, to win in the Engagement Economy, marketers must listen and learn before they engage.

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Videos for Lead Nurturing? They Can Do a Lot More Than You Think

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

According to SiriusDecisions, 80% of unqualified leads today—those understandably ignored by sales—will go on to buy from someone within the next 24 months. The solution is nurturing, buy how do you do that? Opportunistic Video. There are countless ways to put a brand in front of buyers, of course. But for B2B products and services, especially those with a long, complex buying process, the brand needs to be accompanied by information the buyer cares about.

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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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7 Ways to Increase Sales with Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You know the basics of marketing automation: it streamlines, automates, and monitors routine marketing tasks. But a good marketing automation platform is about more than making life easier for the marketing team—it should also help you close more deals. So, how can you tap into different aspects of marketing automation to increase sales? Check out these seven tips: 1.

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Marketing: 4 Things You Should Do for Sales Development that Aren’t MQLs

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I’m lucky. Here at Marketo, I’ve had the pleasure of working with not one, but two (!) of the best sales development leaders out there. What makes them so great? Both are beloved captains who are awesome at finding talented people and developing them into great sellers. And, they’re just as skilled at cross-functional collaboration. Bottom line: my sales development leaders totally get that somewhere between MQL and SQL , their teams become the face of the brand in a major way.

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8 Writing Lessons from Everybody Writes by Ann Handley

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a marketer, you write—regardless of your specific role, or which company you work for. I’m a writer right now, as I write this blog. I’m a writer when I create session descriptions for my presenters at conferences. I’m a writer when I communicate with my sales team. I was a writer when I created the slides for my webinar, 8 Biggest Mistakes Field Marketers Make.

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GDPR: An Opportunity To ‘Play To Win’ In The Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Success in the Engagement Economy hinges on customer engagement. By creating experiences that feel personal and human, that are founded on trust, and delivered with care we will win the hearts and minds of our customers. To build and maintain that trust and care we, as marketers, need to be attuned to the how, when and why our customers want to be engaged and respect their preferences.

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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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Less Than 1% Churn? It’s Possible—Just Listen to Your Customers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A little about me: I enjoy cooking, so I go grocery shopping once a week. I regularly spent a considerable amount of cash at the nearest Regional Grocery Chain™ store, until I noticed their customer experience starting to slide. Fewer cashiers worked the registers. Lines swelled with dissatisfied patrons and I slowly realized I was spending as much time waiting to pay as I was actually shopping.

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Why Buying Stages Are Really Investment Stages

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Let’s take a quick poll. When was the last time your boss asked you to do something and you didn’t question why you needed to do it a specific way? You see, sometimes we just assume that the old way of doing things is the right way. But every so often, we forget to test what’s right under our noses. It all started with one simple question: What types of content resonate with what types of leads?

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3 Things You Can Learn About Marketing from Man’s Best Friend

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Sometimes there is no better feeling than coming home after a long day to your furry friend. Maybe this? No, wait! What about this? Gosh, I just love it when they do chores. You know what, my fluffy friend? Why don’t you just take a load off. You may not know it, but your dog is a marketer and a darn good one at that. Here are three marketing lessons you can learn from man’s best friend: 1.

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How to Convince Your Leaders to Invest in 10X Content (and Why You Should)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

First, a confession. I click-baited you a little (really, just a teeny bit). I haven’t had to actually convince my leaders to let me and my team invest in 10X content. From the moment I was invited through the Typeform doors to launch a blog, it was clear that spitting out a dozen 500-word articles about forms and surveys each week—just so Google would be nice enough to send us a few visitors—wasn’t to be the “Typeform way.”.

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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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B2C Marketing: What No One is Talking About 

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Using rich data is commonplace in the B2B world. It seems though that people have tended to shy away from applying those same data-driven marketing principles to the consumer marketing world or may not have even known that it’s possible. For the businesses that do, it’s a game changer. B2B marketers have the art of prospecting down to a science. They know exactly what their clients look like and use data insights to guide their ideal targets through the buyer’s journey.

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App Store Optimization: Why Creatives Lead to Successful Search Ads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Since Apple’s introduction of Search Ads last year, organizations with a mobile app are embracing Search Ads to improve their app’s conversion rate to become more discoverable in the App Store. Search Ads are created using an app’s store listing, including an app’s metadata and creative. While all the metadata is important for visibility, the creatives (icon, screenshots, and video), need to be visually appealing and relevant to users to improve conversion.

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CMO Update: SEO Updates and Insights for the Rest of 2017

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Google launched more than 1,600 changes to their algorithm last year. At that rate, it’s possible that 800 have already been implemented in the first half of 2017. Of course, that doesn’t mean there are 800 potential impacts to your SEO strategy. Really, only ten of the changes that have been noticed this year have clear implications on the future of SEO.

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5 Ways to Survive and Thrive in a New Job

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

“Here. This map is going to be your guide to North Shore. Now, where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial, because you got everybody there…” — Janis Ian, Mean Girls. I try not to go more than a day without quoting Mean Girls, slyly adding “I have a fifth sense” or “Whatever, I’m getting cheese fries” into everyday conversation. A prospect and I once dissolved into hysterical laughter during a demo because they asked about a feature in Marketo and—true story, cross my heart—I replied “The limit do

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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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How to Make Your Blog Posts Generate Serious Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Your blog either has that all important ‘it’ factor, or it doesn’t. You’re either generating significant leads from your posts or not. If you’re not, you’re also missing out on an exponentially beneficial competitive advantage that other businesses are enjoying. B2B marketers garner 67 percent more leads when they use a blog than when they […].

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How to Build A Business Plan That Actually Works [Free Template]

Hubspot Marketing

We're living in a golden age of startups and side hustles, where it seems like more people than ever before are striking out on their own with new business ventures. Whether you're just beginning to think about starting a business, or already drafting a formal document with your current business goals, it's crucial to clearly define the scope of every aspect of the company -- from mission, to target customers, to funding and finances, and beyond.

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33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

When I first started in marketing, I used to write down what I thought were the best marketing quotes to inspire me to dream big and to do big things. A few years ago I gathered all these bits of paper and sticky notes and wrote down on one piece of paper my favorite marketing […]. The post 33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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