Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 29, 2019

I think you'll agree with me when I say digital marketing -- and all its sub-categories, including SEO, social media, content creation, email, and more -- is critical for any company's growth in 2019. With over four billion internet users globally, and more than 3.4 billion active social media users , it stands to reason digital marketing is vital for reaching a larger audience than you could through traditional methods alone.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2019

Landing pages. They’re the unsung heroes of B2B marketing. You won’t see them up for many awards, but their role in the buyer’s journey is critical. Without them, your database would be decidedly threadbare, and you’d have little idea what kind of content or offers your customers value most. Most marketers know the fundamentals of landing page best practices : compelling copy, top-right form placement, social proof.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 30, 2019

There’s a formula to SEO and as long as you follow it, you’ll get rankings. So, what’s this formula? Well, you write amazing content, optimize your code, create a great user experience, and you mix in some backlinks. Sounds simple, right? Well, the formula isn’t too complicated, but it does require hard work and patience. Now what makes SEO challenging isn’t the formula, or the time, or the patience.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 25, 2019

Cutting filler words bloating your online writing sharpens your point. It’s how you ratchet up your words’ value for readers. Clearer content is easier to understand. Here’s a list of common culprits you should get rid of. Continue reading → The post Get Rid of These 25 Phrases and Words From Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Sprout Social

APRIL 19, 2019

Despite efforts to unseat it, Facebook is still the reigning social media network. As of the end of 2018, it boasted over 2.32 billion monthly active users. The use of Facebook has evolved through the years so it’s important for marketers to be up to date on the newest statistics. Here are the important stats for marketers to know, categorized by topic and ready for you to use in your social media strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 8, 2019

Creating great content is obviously an important part of any content marketing plan, but your job doesn’t end as soon as you hit the publish button. If that content is going to bring you any benefits, people need to actually read it, and so your content promotion strategy is just as vital as the research […]. The post The Ultimate Guide To Content Promotion appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Today’s modern marketing department encompasses a variety of roles that blend expertise in both traditional and digital mediums. Hiring for SEO related roles, in particular, has increased by over 40% in the last year. Companies are injecting more dollars than ever into organic search and content marketing. This strategic shift calls on SEO and marketing teams to move in concert in order to achieve mutual campaign KPIs.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 17, 2019

Please note that you may have to clear your browser cache to see the latest version of Ubersuggest. Do you want to know how many people are linking to you? Do you want to find more link opportunities? Well, I created a free backlink tool that will allow you to do that (and much more). I decided to call it Backlinks. And, as you may have guessed, I integrated it within Ubersuggest so that way you can do more within one simple tool.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2019

Scrolling through social media platforms can be an irritating experience. Too many brands and individuals don’t use their digital megaphones effectively. What are they doing wrong? Read on for 22 of the biggest social media pet peeves. Continue reading → The post 22 Things You Wish Marketers Would Stop Doing on Social Media appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 15, 2019

If you have absolutely no idea how to approach your Facebook advertising strategy these days, you aren’t alone. It’s no secret that Facebook’s organic reach has taken a nosedive. Recent algorithm changes have basically forced businesses to invest in paid campaigns or abandon ship. But before you write off Facebook as a lost cause, think again. Facebook is still the preferred place for 97% of marketers to run paid ads for a reason.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Let’s face it, to the average business person, marketing equals promotion. Marketing is what you say and how you say it when you want to explain how awesome your product is and why people should buy it. Marketing is an ad. Marketing is a brochure. Marketing is a press release. And more recently, Marketing is […]. The post What Is Marketing?

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 2, 2019

Products are never just products, right? Coca-Cola is more than a soda. Starbucks is more than a coffee. Ray-Ban is more than a pair of sunglasses. Glossier is more than a tube of concealer. Interacting with these products provide experiences , and we buy them with that experience in mind. Better yet, the companies that create and market them know exactly the experience they want you to have when you make (or consider) a purchase.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Though agencies loudly tout the importance of transparency , ongoing federal probes show that clients—and the public—still struggle to trust advertising agencies. The ongoing industry conversation about media transparency was shocked into life by the Association of National Advertisers ‘ 58-page anonymously sourced 2016 report, detailing agencies’ widespread use of opaque business practices such as kickbacks.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 2, 2019

You already know it’s harder to get traffic from the social web unless you spend money ads. There’s nothing new with that fact… just look at the graph above: It breaks down how the average number of social shares per blog post has been dying year over year. But the reality is you can’t ignore platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or any other new contender that comes out and gains traction.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 8, 2019

Sure, we can learn from our mistakes. But we also can learn from others’ mistakes and avoid making them. To help you, we enlisted the help of some smart and wise people who share mistakes they’ve seen and how to fix them. Continue reading → The post 24 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid in Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Litmus

APRIL 11, 2019

Historically, choosing the right font for your email has never been too hard, considering the limited number of web safe fonts to choose from. But things have changed. More and more email designers are pushing the boundaries and embracing the same development techniques that web designers have been using for years—implementing web fonts in their emails.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In the world of content marketing, the lifeblood of your program is content. Much of that content is in blog form. Blogs help you attract new clients by answering questions and providing insights on their challenges. We believe strongly that blogging with consistency is necessary for content marketing to work. Frequency really does matter. But, […].

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

The results of the third annual State of Content Marketing Survey are now in -- the findings include victories, challenges, and trends. With three years of data behind us, we can see just how much growth the content marketing world has achieved. But we haven't reached perfection yet. Three years ago, only 6% of marketers felt they knew what a successful marketing campaign really looked like -- in 2019, that number has increased to more than a third of marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2019

Video ads are one of the most potent tools in a marketing arsenal. So why do so many event marketers ignore it? According to a 2018 Animoto report on social video trends, 93% of business score new customers from video marketing on social media. Eventbrite research shows that 94% of event creators who use video say it’s effective. While both reports highlight the power of video marketing, they also note that less than half of event marketers actually use this effective tool.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 2, 2019

If you’re familiar with #SproutSessions, you know it’s a free digital conference where we host a variety of marketing and social talent from your favorite brands to talk shop. We recently took that format and made it live as a half-day, traveling event with speakers and panels that explore what it means to foster real connection on social. Yep, we’re pretty excited about it.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 26, 2019

Your site sees a lot of traffic, but conversions are apathetic. Could your call to action be the blame? Look at these four before-and-after CTA examples to see what you could do better and improve your conversion rates. Continue reading → The post Can’t Get That Click? 5 Simple Strategies for CTAs That Convert [Examples] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Litmus

APRIL 25, 2019

To build a best-in-class email program, you need to constantly improve—and there’s no better way to learn fast than through testing and experimentation. Brands that make A/B testing and email experiments a priority are proven to see better results. Our research shows that companies that A/B test every email see email marketing returns that are 37% higher than those of brands that never include A/B tests.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 3, 2019

Marketing technology – or martech – has evolved in leaps and bounds in recent years. Whatever the marketing task you want to complete, you’re almost guaranteed to find software out there to help you complete that task. It’s also pretty certain that you’ll need more than one tool, which is where your martech stack comes […]. The post What Should Your Martech Stack Look Like?

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 7, 2019

A crucial aspect of being a great marketer is being able to measure your success. No matter which metrics you use, you want to prove to your boss (and the company) that you're worth your salt. You deserve your budget -- and maybe need more of it -- and you deserve to dedicate time to the marketing activities that work. Building UTM codes that track your campaigns' success is the best way to prove it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

In a way, sales reps are like nurses or doctors. They take people’s temperatures to determine how they’re feeling. A “hot” prospect is ready to buy. A “cold” prospect is merely browsing inventory. Before the internet, this heat check was usually performed in person. Sales reps would get a good sense of how interested someone was in their company’s products or services by spending some time with them.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 10, 2019

From Publishing to Reporting, Sprout Social continues to develop new features designed to enhance your workflow. With all of the features available on Sprout, you might be overlooking a few easy opportunities to save time and gain greater insight into your social performance. To help you make the most of Sprout features, our experts on the Customer Support team created a list of 10 great Sprout tips that can help you get the most out of your social marketing.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2019

Don’t get overwhelmed by the data in Google Analytics. Four reports can give you most of the information you need for your content marketing. Learn which ones you should know, as well as the how to find and act on their data. Continue reading → The post How to Use the 4 Most Helpful Reports in Google Analytics appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Litmus

APRIL 4, 2019

Whether email marketing is a new part of your business or an established component, building your budget for the year—and deciding how exactly you’ll spend it—can be a daunting task. Did you ever wonder how your peers spend their email marketing dollars? In our State of Email Survey, we asked thousands of marketers how their email marketing budget would change in 2019 and whether they’re looking to increase or decrease investments in omnichannel integration, their email marketing tech stack, the

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 2, 2019

In corporate media you must provide a steady stream of quality content that will interest, excite and, oh yes, engage your audience. In the past, social was seen as a “nice-to-have” component to the business. But now more than ever, these social networks play a major role. Think about this, close to half the world’s […]. The post How to Write For Corporate Social Media Channels (And Expand Social Reach) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

Pinterest is often undervalued by social media marketers, and considered an unnecessary component of a marketing strategy -- unfortunately, if this is true for your team, you could be missing out on a major source of traffic and income. Pinterest offers plenty of unique opportunities for marketers to reach leads and influence consumer purchasing behavior.

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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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