July, 2014

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How App Companies Can Increase Retention, Engagement and Customer Lifetime Value

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Mike Stocker Let’s face it: apps are a major new component of our digital lives. In an April 2014 study, Flurry found that the average American spends 162 minutes on their mobile device daily, 86% of which is spent in apps. Personally, I have at least 100 apps (five full screens) on my iPhone. Parallel to this, a new ecosystem of mobile app companies has emerged and come into their own.

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7 Skills To Look For When Hiring A Content Marketing Strategist

Marketing Insider Group

'Content marketing is hot! And so content marketers and content strategists are one of the hottest job titles in marketing. And with the shift away from paid promotion, through attempts at earned social media and into “owned” media approaches that require content marketing strategists, the demand for content marketing skills is far exceeding the supply.

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30 Tips for Great Digital Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

'30 Tips for Great Digital Marketing 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 Tara Banda – Enjoy! A man walks into a bar/restaurant/hotel/car repair shop. Chances are, he found it online. That’s because today’s consumers, 80% according to Google , rely more on the Web to find and choose local businesses.

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Summer Must-Reads: 10 Marketing Books to Throw in Your Beach Bag

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jessica Langensand There are three things that symbolize summer for me: watermelon, warm nights, and a very full Kindle. And while I’m not opposed to classic beach reads (murder mysteries, romance novels, etc.), I feel twice as proud of myself when I’m enjoying books I can apply back at work — it’s the best of both worlds.

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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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5 Reasons to Invest in Interactive Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dennis Shiao The first time I downloaded a white paper was in 2000. The first blog post I read was in 2004, my first SlideShare viewing was in 2009, and I scanned my first infographic in 2011. Since then, I’ve consumed more B2B content than I’ve read articles about my favorite sports teams or TV shows. As Mark Schaefer rightfully notes, we live in an age of content shock.

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Pin for the Win: How to Market Your Brand on Pinterest

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Noah Abelson If you’re marketing on social (and we hope you are!), your primary goal should be to connect with users. But this isn’t just for its own sake – ultimately, it’s so that when someone makes a purchase, your product or service is what they buy. Pinterest gives users a format to engage with your content and become brand advocates, but it also helps them connect directly to your products.

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10 Blogs to Bookmark: Content Marketing Edition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones Marketers love blogging, so it’s no surprise that there’s a huge number of blogs devoted to the art and science of all things marketing. Unfortunately, marketers with limited time on their hands (remind you of anyone?) are often intimidated by the sheer number of blogs to sort through. That’s why we’re compiling a list of our favorite marketing blogs — check them out, bookmark them, and let us know what you think!

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The 3-Step Guide to Better Blogging

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones Having a blog for your business used to be a “nice to have”– great if you needed a project for your summer intern, or a centralized location for SEO-boosting content. Today, blogs are practically required of companies who take their marketing seriously, and for good reason – they’re a relatively inexpensive, but highly effective investment of your money and time.

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5 Ways to Increase Revenue and Engagement with Mobile Apps

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Adam Marchick Convincing consumers to download your mobile app is difficult — but losing their engagement with that app is easy. Research from Flurry shows that after downloading any given app, 25% of people will use it only once, and over half of all users will stop using the app after three months. If a mobile app is part of your marketing mix, it’s critical to establish a strong path to conversion — one that users will adopt within the first few weeks.

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Real Marketer Stories: What Makes a Great Marketer?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones At Marketo, we spend a lot of time around marketers — and I’m not just talking about our own marketing department. Our customers are marketers, the partners in our LaunchPoint ecoystem are marketers, and the people we ask for advice/take out to lunch/share blog posts with/frantically retweet are marketers. So I might be slightly biased when I say that marketers are some of the most creative, clear-headed, artistic-yet-analytic people that I know.

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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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Content Marketing Mysteries – How to Find Your ROI Yeti!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Heidi Bullock Marketers at all kinds of companies – B2B and consumer-facing, old and new, big and small – are turning to content marketing as a top strategy, for driving thought leadership, establishing relationships with buyers, and fueling their inbound marketing. Marketers are dedicating more and more technology, headcount, and budget to content marketing.

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6 Ways to Make Social Measurable

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Frank Passantino Today, social media is responsible for driving a huge amount of marketing interactions. Through the numerous first- and second-degree connections social networking has made visible, businesses can leverage peer-to-peer influencing to create and maintain valuable relationships. But how can you measure your social marketing ?

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The 4 Things Digital Marketers are Missing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Bill Balderaz Today, the distinction between offline and digital marketing has become practically irrelevant. “Offline” marketing like TV and radio ads are likely to spark activity online (say Twitter, Facebook and Google+) which means that a well-executed radio ad could have a significant, if indirect, impact on your SEO. It also means that marketing has become so multi-channel and integrated that making a distinction is not only pointless – it’s restrictive.

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4 Ways to Invest in Your Marketing Career

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen As our recent ebook about marketing career paths proves, you don’t need an expensive MBA to become a great marketer. You don’t need to read a pile of career advancement books, or spend every weekend at seminars, or update your LinkedIn profile every day. As you invest in your marketing career, the important thing is to spend your time in the places it will count the most.

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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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Marketo Goes to College

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jesse Finn Good marketers are hard to find. In fact, many organizations today are facing huge gaps in their marketing team roster – there just aren’t enough people to do the job. Take Sears, for example. If you go on to their job listing page, you’ll see they’re currently looking for more than 250 marketing professionals alone. Run a quick search of “marketing automation manager” on popular job site Indeed.com – it yields over 3,700 openings!

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The Marketing Nation Roadshow [Interactive Map]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones July is here, and our Marketing Nation Roadshow’s Summer of Innovation is well underway! Our team has already high-fived amazing marketers in Denver, Scottsdale, Toronto, Seattle, Austin, and Dallas — but we’re not done yet! As the summer goes on, we’ll be taking our show to Washington DC, Vancouver, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and more.

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Lessons on Locations From Our New Atlanta Office

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Bill Binch Lately, Marketo’s had Georgia on our minds — specifically, we’ve been thinking about Atlanta, where we’ve just opened a new office. With 40 employees, a great location, proximity to our customers, and an expert team of Marketo veterans, this marks an exciting moment for our company. But a lot happened between the first time we thought of Georgia and today’s grand opening in Atlanta.

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4 Ways a Longer Consumer Buying Cycle Can Work FOR You

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Maggie Jones Marketing consumer products with a long buying cycle can be a blessing and curse. On one hand, there’s a bigger lag between your marketing efforts and an actual purchase – if you’re marketing a car, for example, it might take weeks for a buyer to make her decision. It’s difficult to tell which of your past marketing efforts affected the sale, or to prove that your current efforts are worth the investment.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

Ever wonder what really makes B2B buyers tick? Spoiler alert: it’s not just logic. Join us for our next session of the B2B Growth Show, "Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices" with Grant C. Gooding, where science meets strategy. You'll get the insider scoop on how emotions secretly drive decisions and how you can tap into them to win buyers over.

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[Report] What Does Demand Generation Mean to You?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Raymond Coppinger Today, B2B marketers have many core objectives – brand building, customer communications, multi-channel coordination…the list goes on. But regardless of what else your marketing strategy needs to accomplish, demand generation (the process of generating promising buyers for the sales team) probably tops the list. At Marketo, demand generation is deep in the DNA of the whole marketing team – it’s not only a high-level objective, but also an on-going set of activities by

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12 Best Slideshares of 2014 (So Far)

Marketing Insider Group

'Late last year I shared the 25 best presentations of the year on slideshare. And the article continues to be one of my most popular articles of all time! And while I still believe Slideshare is one of the greatest opportunities , it looks like it might not be a huge secret any longer. I am see a much higher volume of brands using slideshare to create some great (and some not so great) presentations.

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Are You Ready For Marketing 2020?

Marketing Insider Group

'The explosion of channels we all use to gather, consume and share information is having a dramatic impact on the methods of modern marketers. We largely don’t answer cold calls, respond to unwanted emails, click on banner ads or appreciate disruptive marketing techniques. Evolving consumer habits and the pressures on marketers to help grow the business are re-defining marketing.

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Content Marketing? Just Deliver Content People Want

Marketing Insider Group

'I’ve recently participated in a number of interviews and one common question is asked repeatedly: what is content marketing ? I know there are a million ways to answer it, but to me the simplest reply is: just deliver content people want! One thing that I find really rewarding is seeing a young professional, with a ton of talent, and the courage to participate in the conversations we are all having around the changing nature of marketing.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Content Marketing ROI – More Than A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole

Marketing Insider Group

'In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice blindly jumps into the rabbit hole in striking similarity to the way many marketers today are jumping into content marketing. And like a foolish child struggling to understand the world of grown-ups, most marketers have failed to stop and ask what the rabbit hole really is, and why it exists? If the rabbit hole is content marketing, then the rabbit is the search for ROI.

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The World Cup of Marketing Part 2: Volkswagen vs. Hyundai

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Stephanie Barnes With only Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, and Germany left, many countries are mourning the end of the World Cup – but major brands are betting you aren’t over your futbol fever just yet. And if the ratings are any indication, we’re still runnin’ hot – in the U.S. alone, the Brazil/Colombia match pulled in more than 6.4 million viewers, making it the most-watched FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match across all U.S. networks to date.

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SEO Blended Copy: Dos and Don’ts for Boosting Your Website’s Organic Discoverability

Duct Tape Marketing

'SEO Blended Copy: Dos and Don’ts for Boosting Your Website’s Organic Discoverability 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 Maria Orozova – Enjoy! These days, it’s all about organic: organic produce, organic pressed-juice, holistic baby diapers made from all-organic materials – the list goes on.

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How to Incorporate Brand Advocates into Your Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Incorporate Brand Advocates into Your Marketing Strategy 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 Holly Cordner – Enjoy! photo credit: Intersection Consulting via photopin cc. When asked about how and why they make purchases, most people say that reviews and recommendations play a major role.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Social Media Marketing for Lead Generation

Duct Tape Marketing

'Social Media Marketing for Lead Generation 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 Michael Bird – Enjoy! photo credit: whoohoo120 on Flickr. Let’s say you’ve devised the perfect marketing strategy for your small business, a photograph business.

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Are Your Words Killing Your Brand?

Duct Tape Marketing

'Are Your Words Killing Your Brand? 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 Karon Thackston – Enjoy! photo credit: BigStock. While there are hundreds of definitions of the word “brand,” my favorites come from the World English Dictionary.

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5 Simple Acts to Take Right Now

Duct Tape Marketing

'5 Simple Acts to Take Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: UGArdener via photopin cc. The months of July and August can be slower ones for many small businesses in the U.S. While we’ve got a thing or two to learn from some other cultures about taking a “real” holiday, many business owners and their clients take vacations and spend less time thinking about business during the summer months.

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Bridging the Small Business Marketing Gap

Duct Tape Marketing

'Bridging the Small Business Marketing Gap 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 Dan Faggella – Enjoy! . photo credit: abdevlabs.com. Email marketing and marketing automation software often fails to achieve business goals of enhancing revenue and profitability, creating a “marketing gap” for businesses.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.