May, 2018

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NESHCo honors Adams & Knight with Gold Award wins

Adams & Knight Marketing

Adams & Knight, an integrated, digital marketing agency, was recently honored with two Gold Lamplighter Awards by the New England Society for Healthcare Communications (NESHCo). The agency won gold for its creative work with Hartford HealthCare’s Bone and Joint Institute Launch and Every Moment Matters campaigns which both emphasized the experience in innovative healthcare.

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How to Make a QR Code in 7 Easy Steps

Hubspot Marketing

How to Make a QR Code. Select a QR code generator. Choose the type of content you're promoting. Enter your data in the form that appears. Consider downloading a dynamic QR code. Customize it. Test the QR code to make sure it scans. Track and analyze performance. "Really? We're talking about QR codes?". Fair reaction. For several years now, QR codes have been at the center of the popular " is dead" trope we marketers love to argue when talking technology.

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Key Web Development Concepts for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

When I work with my marketing team, I know we have the same goal: to provide the users of our site with the best experience possible. Though as a developer I won’t typically be tasked with creating content, there are some key metrics and concepts that I keep in mind when developing that will help both the marketing team and me achieve our goals. Here are some fundamental concepts web developers focus on when building web pages , and what they mean for you as a marketer.

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Why Good Site Architecture Is The Only CRO You Need

Neil Patel

When you hear the words “site architecture,” the first thing that comes to mind is probably SEO. It doesn’t take much digging into SEO best practice to learn that Google loves a site with clearly defined architecture that’s easy to crawl and index. But if you stopped your site architecture planning with just your SEO, then you’ve missed out on the greater picture.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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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A Painless Guide to Social Media Marketing for Dentists

Sprout Social

By 2021 the dental industry is projected to be worth around $36.8 billion. That’s a lot of teeth for the tooth fairy. But if your practice wants a piece of the profit, it’s incredibly important to start a social media marketing plan for dentists and your specific industry. For decades, dentists relied almost exclusively on reputation and word of mouth marketing to help them build their practice.

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What to Do When Great Content Falls Short of Your Content Goals

Marketing Insider Group

There’s a lot of pressure on your content to perform. After all, brands who get content marketing right are known to get 7.8 times the website traffic of those who haven’t yet cracked the content nut. And, for every dollar spent, a content strategy generates three times as many leads as traditional marketing can. But, what do […]. The post What to Do When Great Content Falls Short of Your Content Goals appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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10 of the Best Public Relations Examples to Inspire Your Next Campaign

Hubspot Marketing

Sometimes, a press release about your company’s new product launch, significant hire, or acquisition fails to pick up the coverage you were expecting. Journalists crave juicy stories and viral marketing campaigns, but standing out in a sea of conventional pitches is one of the biggest challenges for any public relations professional. When you need a dose of inspiration, blogs like PR Examples are a great place to find the most compelling PR plays.

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The Fearless Girl Across Generations—Just How Fearless Are We?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Sometimes you look at something and know it’s a teachable moment. Maybe it’s because you are the mom of a 16-year-old boy, and there have been many teachable moments in his lifetime. Maybe it’s because you see yourself in your 21-year-old intern, or your Millennial PR manager who takes on any challenge with a smile. Maybe you just love the theme of Marketing Nation Summit, “The Fearless Marketer.

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25 Sales Questions to Qualify Your Leads Faster

Neil Patel

You can attribute a lot of great relationships to perfect timing. When you connect with the right person at the right time, everything seems to just fit. This is especially true for sales. Connecting with your lead too early means they won’t be ready to buy. But if you wait too long, they may have moved on to a competitor. Unfortunately, finding the perfect time to connect with a customer is complicated.

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#SproutChat Calendar: Upcoming Topics for May

Sprout Social

Summer is just around the corner and this month at #SproutChat there is no shortage of useful conversations to be had, even with the sun shining well into the evening. From social team structures, to personal branding to managing social on the go, we’ve got you covered when it comes to thoughtful conversations that touch social media marketing.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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The One-Person Marketing Plan for Startups

Marketing Insider Group

Struggling to devise a marketing strategy as a one-person startup? We’ve compiled the best advice to help you stop making excuses and create that perfect marketing plan for your startup today. There are well over 22 million one-person businesses in the U.S., and this figure is only expected to grow. Not all startups will get off the […].

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4 Paths to Better Content Management and Strategy [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

I’ve been in the content marketing space long enough to be familiar with the saying, “If you create all this great content and yet no one sees it, what’s the point?”. This simple question helps those starting in content marketing stay focused on the big picture. Today, though, that saying should go something like this: If you create all this great content and yet you’re not putting it in front of the right person at the right time on the right platform on the right device in the right format in

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How to Run a SWOT Analysis for Your Business [Template Included]

Hubspot Marketing

A SWOT analysis is a useful technique to evaluate a new project or objective your business faces, or your business as a whole. Essentially, a SWOT analysis is a roadmap for how you should move forward with your business, which opportunities you’re missing out on, and which challenges you should tackle. It’s an effective method to maximize opportunities while minimizing negative factors associated with a given project or objective.

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What Brand Colors Can Reveal About Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Your brand’s colors can tell more than you can imagine about your business. The psychology of color can help your business establish trust and familiarity by eliciting the right emotions. It’s no surprise that the most popular brands in the world have a strong association with their logos. Their colors tend to reflect their branding , even when they don’t involve any text on them.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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How The Body Shop Works With Influencers To Drive Social Change And Sales | Traackr

Traackr

How The Body Shop harnesses influencer marketing at scale to both promote its 1,000 products and push for a global ban on animal testing in cosmetics.

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Mistakes Small Business Owners Make When Scaling Their Services

Duct Tape Marketing

Mistakes Small Business Owners Make When Scaling Their Services written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. An increasingly global world means there is more competition than ever, and commoditization is a growing threat. Businesses that scale the right way, are going to be positioned to increase market share as weaker players are sifted out.

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7 Content Marketing ROI Templates and Tools

Marketing Insider Group

You know measuring the ROI of your content marketing is important. It’s the only way to quantitatively gauge the success and worth of your content. But, let’s face it. Without a workable content marketing ROI template and the right tools, getting the lucid insight you need from your analysis is tricky. This problem is, there’s no […]. The post 7 Content Marketing ROI Templates and Tools appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Is Your Blog a Golden Egg?

Content Marketing Institute

I opened a carton of eggs yesterday and one of them was gold. Solid gold. Crazy, right? Picture it. Eleven plain egg shells and one glorious dome of gold, glinting on my kitchen counter. I picked it up and, sure enough, it weighed a ton. I called the supermarket. Apparently, there was some mix-up with the department that supplies golden goose eggs to Jack and Beanstalk land or something.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

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.

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The Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Website

Hubspot Marketing

In 2017, 71% of small businesses had a website, and 92% of businesses without a website said they’d have one by the end of 2018. Today, having a website is as necessary for a company as having a phone number. Maybe you’re starting a new business venture or developing your personal brand. Or, maybe you’re looking to update your company’s outdated website.

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What We’ve Learned About Creating a Successful Digital Marketing Campaign

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Ready to take your digital marketing campaigns to the next level? Have you been Googling for examples, templates, and/or case studies of great digital marketing campaigns? Or maybe you’ve noticed a lag in your growth/performance numbers? You probably don’t need someone else’s creativity, but you might be able to benefit from a few expert pointers to help graduate your great idea to an outstanding digital marketing campaign.

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[Interview] How to Get Inside the Mind of a Blogger with Andy Crestodina | Traackr

Traackr

Traackr's interview with Andy Crestodina will help you to get inside the mind of a blogger (or 1,000) and understand how to work better with them.

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Cutting Through the Noise and Clutter in Marketing Today

Duct Tape Marketing

Cutting Through the Noise and Clutter in Marketing Today written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Alison Stratten. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Alison Stratten. She and her husband, Scott, are co-authors of 4 best-selling business books, co-owners of UnMarketing Inc and co-hosts of The UnPodcast.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Need a Better Marketing Strategy? Use a Digital Strategy Template

Marketing Insider Group

How strong is your organization’s digital marketing strategy?We all know how important a well-documented strategy is – only with a clear plan mapping out the pathway to your goals can you ever hope to achieve them.If your organization veers on the vague end of the strategic planning spectrum, you may want to take your digital […]. The post Need a Better Marketing Strategy?

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6 Time-Saving Apps and Tools Marketers Obsess Over

Content Marketing Institute

Finding a great app or tool sometimes can feel like winning the lottery – maybe not the Mega Millions, but at least a $20 scratch-off ticket. Here are some winning picks from some of our favorite sources. MotoRead – when you can’t or don’t want to read with your eyes. I’m always scouring Feedly, BuzzSumo, Twitter, and the blogs of super awesome folks for articles that are entertaining and useful.

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13 Free Personality Tests You Can Take Online Today

Hubspot Marketing

Personality tests are a great way to explore different aspects of who you are, and uncover layers you perhaps hadn’t recognized about yourself before. Being truly self-aware is hard -- while they might not be always 100% accurate, personality tests work well as a starting point for self-discovery by providing results you might not have concluded on your own.

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The Hardest Part About GDPR Isn’t What You Think

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This is the start of something big, and the end of selling bald men unnecessary combs. Let me explain…. May 25th, 2018 is being heralded as marketing’s “High Noon” or our collective Zero Hour as we approach the deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation measures for contacts in the European Union. GDPR affects not only European companies but any business around the world that does business in the EU, requiring organizations to process personalp data against a set of new criteria.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Traackr's unofficial funding story | Traackr

Traackr

With the announcement of a new round of investment, we wanted to reflect back on how Traackr has become a global influencer marketing solution.

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How to Optimize Your Website for Voice Search

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Website for Voice Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As we are all aware at this point, voice recognition technology is continuing to get better and better, in fact, it is now believed to be 95% accurate. As users, we’re adapting to this new voice revolution rather quickly (almost 1/4 of mobile search queries are voice search), yet marketers and SEO specialists seem to be lagging behind a bit when it comes to optimizing for this new way to

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What Tools Should Be in My Martech Stack?

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s get real. Every marketer on the planet is overwhelmed by the number and variety of marketing technology tools available today. What are the best automation platforms? How smart are your prescriptive analytics? Are you using the right technology to increase the impact of your organization’s social media campaigns? Did you know AI can already do that too?

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Digital Asset Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: The following is adapted from the author’s book, Digital & Marketing Asset Management: The Real Story of DAM Technology & Practice , published by Rosenfeld Media and copyright by Real Story Group. Since the turn of the millennium, digital media of all kinds have become an increasingly significant part of our everyday experience.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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.