Ann Handley
AUGUST 28, 2021
Image credit: presentandcorrect. A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. * * *. Long before I wrote books and your favorite newsletter ??, I wrote for a financial newspaper about Federal Reserve regs and housing prices.
Neil Patel
AUGUST 31, 2021
SEO can be a brilliant strategy to increase your website traffic but it isn’t always enough. Imagine you rely on SEO for all your traffic. What happens when the Google algorithm changes ? You risk losing potential customers! That’s why diversifying your methods of increasing web traffic can offer better results. If you have multiple traffic sources, changing algorithms won’t completely halt your business.
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Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 30, 2021
We’ve been there: the next social media post or blog article is due, and you’ve been so busy that you’re just now looking for a great topic to cover. You feel the pressure as you work to get it done quickly, and once it’s published you can barely enjoy the sense of accomplishment before your next deadline arrives. When you understand what content marketing really is , you know that means sticking to a publishing schedule.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 30, 2021
When challenged to create, rejuvenate, or rethink what your content marketing team does, it’s time to connect for a good brainstorming session. Try one or more of these 13 techniques. Continue reading → The post 13 Brainstorming Techniques to Spur Creativity on Content Marketing Teams appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Speaker: Karen Swim, APR
Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.
Sprout Social
AUGUST 26, 2021
As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight. While focus groups are helpful to reference at the start of new product or campaign development, they’re less useful for gathering customer feedback once said post-launch.
Marketing Pro Pulse brings together the best content for consumer marketers from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Search Engine Journal
AUGUST 19, 2021
Calling SEO writers! When you prioritize the needs of your audience in your content, you’ll please your readers and rank in Google. Here’s your how-to. The post 15 Conversion Copy Tips Every SEO Writer Needs to Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Neil Patel
AUGUST 30, 2021
If you’re retailing products and want to reach the widest audience possible, having a well-optimized e-commerce website is an absolute must. Why? Well, there are several benefits. A great e-commerce website helps you understand the basics about your customers, for example, demographics like their locations, age groups, and how they found you. By using tracking, you can then use your visitor’s information for behavior analysis to get to know them even better.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 23, 2021
And you thought it was just a summer thing. Google has finally made it official: Content marketing is now its number one ranking factor. If your company has dragged its feet on making content marketing the hub around which all its other marketing efforts revolve, you need to do an abrupt about-face. This content marketing ranking factor is the one thing that can make or break your online success.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 24, 2021
Without a smart plan for hiring and working with freelancers, you might find they jump ship at the first sign of a higher rate or longer contract. Here’s some advice to help you identify, vet, and onboard the right outsourced team. Continue reading → The post Outsourcing Content Creators: The Complete How-To Guide appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA
The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.
Martech
AUGUST 17, 2021
In the 18 months since we added “COVID-19” and “pandemic” to our marketing lexicon, marketers like me have been thinking about how to revise our email programs, what our customers are experiencing and how much everything could change before we move into our next version of “normal.” Now we’ve gone through an entire marketing year calendar.
Hootsuite
AUGUST 10, 2021
Influencer marketing—also known as branded content or working with creators—is a surefire way to expand the reach of your brand on social media. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to making this strategy work, but with the right planning and research, just about every business can benefit. Let’s look at how to make a social media influencer program work for you.
Litmus
AUGUST 11, 2021
Email design is a moving target. Whether marketers like it or not, it’s impossible to create a single email design because the rendering of any individual email changes depending on the email client and screen size used to view it, on top of many other factors. Recent research shows up to 300,000 different potential renderings for each email you send.
Neil Patel
AUGUST 30, 2021
Article sponsored by PayPal. Gen Z’ers, which includes those born between 1996 and 2012, now make up 20 percent of the US population and account for $143 billion in direct spending. If you are still focused on millennials, it’s time to start paying attention to a new generation of consumers. Here are five ways to attract and keep Gen Z customers. 1.
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.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 2, 2021
We’ve all learned over the past year that uncertainty can arrive at any time and make massive impacts on markets, companies, and consumer behaviors. Was your business prepared? If you’re still here reading this article, it’s likely that you’ve survived what’s been a really tough year (congrats!) and are looking to the future, which looks brighter but still quite uncertain.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 5, 2021
After a year with few IRL options, many find their eyes glazing over when it comes to digital content. Can your content reignite the spark of interest? Content Marketing World speakers say it can – and share ideas for how to make it happen. Continue reading → The post 26 Eye-Opening Ideas for Putting an End to Digital Content Fatigue appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Martech
AUGUST 13, 2021
A new report packed with data describes the state of MOPs today — who they are, where they sit in their respective organizations, the technology and tools they use, and the future of MOPs. Here’s the current state of play: “With constant requests for reports, growing responsibilities, and being siloed from other departments, ops professionals don’t have the support and resources they need to scale and empower others with data.” But that doesn’t mean the outlook is gloomy:
Hootsuite
AUGUST 12, 2021
Learn the essentials of great Instagram ad design, and how to make your dream ad a reality. There are more ways than ever to place an ad on Instagram, but sometimes advertising on social media can feel like yelling into a void. To make ads that lead to conversions and generate engagement, it pays to plan your Instagram ad design strategy before you pull the trigger on an ad buy.
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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.
Sprout Social
AUGUST 30, 2021
Brands today have more options available than ever when launching multichannel marketing campaigns—which may be both a blessing and a curse, considering over half of marketing leaders say they struggle to effectively execute them. The benefits of multichannel marketing are clear. It creates more opportunities to: Expand brand awareness. Reach prospects and returning customers.
Neil Patel
AUGUST 30, 2021
Let’s face it: a picture really is worth a thousand words, but an image you made yourself? Priceless. Compelling images create a connection between you and your audience and help you build on that relationship. They encourage discussion and shares. In short, images convert. According to Venngage, 64 percent of marketers say images are “very important” or “essential” to their marketing strategy.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 10, 2021
Calls-to-Action (CTAs) are everything in B2B marketing. They direct your audiences’ next step in the buyer’s journey and determine the success of your campaign. Well-crafted CTAs encourage prospects to click and convert to a marketing qualified lead (MQL), or possibly to a sales qualified lead (SQL), depending on which type of CTA you present. The first step in developing any marketing campaign is to determine its goal and this includes pinning down the action we want our audience to take.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 2, 2021
You don’t have to follow all those school-taught English lessons in your writing. But you do have to make sure your content is good. Here’s some thoughts to help you write for reader and brand success. Continue reading → The post 7+ Content Marketing Writing Tips That You Didn’t Learn in School appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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Litmus
AUGUST 24, 2021
Your email’s preview text in the inbox shows at least as many characters as your subject line—and in some cases, much more. That’s valuable real estate you can use to convince subscribers that opening your emails is worthwhile. It can be difficult to optimize, however, because email clients always pull in enough characters to fill all available preview text space (up to 5 lines!).
Hootsuite
AUGUST 5, 2021
You might know your favorite Instagram influencers’s preferred brand of dog food, the messy details of their last breakup or what’s in their medicine cabinet. But there’s one piece of information that rarely makes it into an Instagram story: how much that influencer is being paid. The global influencer market is a $13.8 billion global industry. But what cut of that is your average, non-Kylie Jenner influencer getting per post?
Sprout Social
AUGUST 4, 2021
To some, the social media manager title is a step in the pathway to becoming CMO. To a frustrating amount of others, it’s an intern job reserved for recent or soon-to-be grads. The incredibly public nature of the role has led many to believe they know what it takes to be good at it. Now, as the field gains more executive buy-in , inquiring minds are asking: should the position require a master’s degree?
Neil Patel
AUGUST 26, 2021
If you’re looking to increase your organic SEO rankings, meta descriptions might be the answer. That is, if they are written well! A great meta description should compel users to click on your page in the search results to learn more. It should also contain keywords to boost your SEO. Below, we’ll explain the best practices for creating meta descriptions to help you dominate Google search results.
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.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 24, 2021
Statistics in content marketing? Isn’t the whole goal of content to not be boring? That’s true, but what if we told you that statistics actually have the power to make your content more engaging and compelling ? When you use them the right way, statistics can help you tell an even better story than you could with words alone. Let’s learn how. Quick Takeaways.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 4, 2021
One-size-fits-all video content is no longer enough to gain attention, let alone compel people to act on what they’re watching. That’s why the next revolution in video will center on personalization. Let’s explore. Continue reading → The post The What, Why, and How of Video’s Next Revolution in Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Martech
AUGUST 25, 2021
“I was just being selfish. I wanted a way to talk to people who understood what I was doing — which is the entire ethos of community.” “A lot of people feel isolated and wonder why they can’t find someone that gets them — and you can find that online in the right places.” The first comment came from Mike Rizzo, telling me how the MO Pros community of marketing operations professionals started out as a Slack channel.
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