Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2015
Author: Kimbe MacMaster B2B marketers, listen up. You’re focused on generating leads. It’s your M.O. It’s what you live and breathe. But, let me ask—are you utilizing videos to boost your lead generation efforts ? Video is a strong lead generation tool—a fact that is becoming more and more apparent to companies across all industries, from tech, to higher education, to healthcare.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Whether you’re thinking about launching a business in 2016 or you’re already working on growing one, you probably recognize and understand the importance and value of tools. The fact is, you can’t do it all on your own—no matter how savvy you think you might be or actually are. In order to build or grow a startup in 2016, you need to invest in tools that can help you optimize, automate, and improve every working part of your business—from sales and marketing, to employees and customers.
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Rock Content
OCTOBER 12, 2015
It’s no surprise that digital marketing is constantly evolving and adapting to the trends that appeal to our target audiences. Through testing different approaches, marketers can get a sense of what works best for their demographics. Because there is often a lot of content created off the heals of these trends, it can be difficult to get the full scope of what actually works.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 22, 2015
12 Tips to Improve Your SEO Ranking written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You could do several things if you want to improve the search engine rankings of your website. Below are some of the more important Do’s and Don’ts that you should consider if you want to improve the rankings on your website. DO’s. Write content that people find interesting and want to share.
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.
Traackr
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Preparing for an event takes effort on behalf of the entire marketing team. Event managers spearhead strategy and coordinate details, marketing automation managers prepare emails and uploads new leads, community managers live-tweet, and content managers blog about the event. But how does influencer marketing play into your event strategy? Trade shows, conferences and summits can be a huge opportunity to take your influencer marketing strategy to the next level.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Author: Katie Pope The two most dreaded words in the English language: public speaking. Some of us love it while some more of us hate it. But, speaking in front of your colleagues and peers is a great way to not only develop new skills but also advance your professional career. And, speaking in front of a greater audience, say at a conference, is a perfect way to not only share your expertise and story with others in your industry but it also serves as an opportunity to build your personal brand
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Author: Lauren McCrea “Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather than a strategy that is most efficient… The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.”. -Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Moneyball tells the story of how a new kind of data analysis turned baseball scouting and recruiting upside down, transforming the game overnight.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Author: Kristen Kaighn Last Tuesday was no doubt an exciting day to be in Chicago—the Cubs advanced to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2003 and boisterous cheers could be heard throughout every bar with a TV in the city. But Anthony Rizzo wasn’t the only heavy hitter in Chicago last week. Health insurance MVPs were also out and about attending AHIP’s Consumer Experience & Digital Experience conference.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Author: Lizzy Funk From National Ice Cream Day to Thanksgiving to New Year’s—each and every holiday is an opportunity for consumer marketers to create campaigns that generate amazing results. And, as some of the biggest holidays of the year are approaching quickly—now is the time to get your campaigns ready. If you want to capture your consumer’s attention, it’s vital that your marketing incorporates fun, relevant, and personal messages and offers.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Author: Nikita Ovtchinikov Does this situation sound familiar? —. You’re sitting at your desk. You’ve been waiting for your prospect to get back to you—phone call, email, visit to the office—anything! But nothing is happening. You’re raking your brain, trying to figure out what to do. You thought the sale was in the bag, but it’s becoming more and more clear that perhaps that wasn’t the case after all.
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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2015
Author: Renata Bell Not exactly sure what A/B testing is? Have you heard whispers around the office of “Let’s test this” or “Let’s test that,” but you’re not really sure what your peers are talking about—but wish you did? Well, you’ve come to the right place! I’m here to set the record straight. An A/B test is when you test a control group against another variable.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2015
Author: Yifat Mor According to Gartner, customer experience is the practice of designing for and reacting to customer interactions to meet and exceed customer expectations, to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. So, why, exactly, is customer service the ultimate marketing tool? Let’s explore just that. As technology evolves, the bar is being pushed higher for more intuitive user interactions and usability.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Author: Andrew Field We’ve always known that Canada produces delicious food, from maple syrup to poutine , and hilarious comedians, from John Candy to Mike Myers. Now, our friends to the north have made another important contribution, this time to the world of modern marketing. A new study commissioned by Canada Post explored how direct mail factors into the lives of today’s consumers and its influence on the purchase journey.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Author: Sanjay Dholakia Regardless of your company size or your role, as marketers, each of us wrestles with how to best set up our marketing organizations, and how we fit into the bigger picture. It is a challenge. Small, nimble teams? Scrums? You name it, we have researched or tried it. That is why Marketo has teamed up with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to try and figure out this multi-headed monster.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Author: Phillip Chen Are you ready to go big? At some point, a high-growth company will make the strategic decision to start marketing to the enterprise. This decision can’t, however, be made lightly as marketing to the enterprise can be a whole different animal from marketing to small-to-medium-size businesses (SMBs). At Marketo, enterprise companies are defined as companies that have 3,000+ employees and $500M+ in annual revenue.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Author: Divya Dutt As the search engine marketing and social paid programs manager at Marketo, I have always loved the fact that my work involves both number crunching and creativity on a daily basis. On that note, the best part of my job is probably that I have the opportunity to find new ways to increase click-through and conversions rates on our site.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2015
Author: Shyna Zhang In my work, I have had the pleasure of speaking with numerous enterprise marketers from around the world. And I’ve learned something crucial in the process—many companies seem to face the same woes when it comes to implementing their marketing automation solution , particularly those who are attempting it on a global scale. Why is this a common theme?
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Author: Renata Bell While many players in the financial services industry often struggle with building customer loyalty, credit unions have some of the most loyal customers around. From the sense of community they instill, to having the best possible rates and fees, to the personalized nature of each employee-customer interaction, it goes without saying that credit unions have mastered customer engagement in the financial services sector.
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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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2015
Author: Michael Powers Last year I decided to take a leap of faith and move from Boston to San Francisco, not knowing anyone. Nearly 25, I thought to myself, when would there be a better time to disrupt my life and explore a new adventure? So, I packed up my bags and went for it. I am happy to say that leaving my home in Beantown and venturing out to the unknown West coast has been the best decision I’ve made for both my personal life and professional career.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Author: Jeanette Bordy Creating a good email is like baking a cake. If you add the right ingredients and the right amount of each ingredient, you will get the perfect outcome. But like baking, email marketing is an art and a science and so finding the perfect email is maybe more rare than finding that piece of cake that is so decadent and delicious that you’re willing to throw your diet right out the window.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Every minute 1,400 new blog posts are created. With so much content out there, how do you cut through the noise so people will see your content? Creating good content is simply not enough anymore, you need a solid promotion strategy to help people find your content. Influencers who can help amplify your content play an important role in the success of your content marketing efforts.
Rock Content
OCTOBER 27, 2015
As the digital landscape evolves, it can be hard to stay on top of the best ways to reach your target market. Whether you’re focused on a B2B or B2C audience, chances are you’re considering a shift toward content marketing. Display advertising is getting tougher, so many marketers are finding more fruitful ground through organic, social, email, and native advertising.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
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Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Well it’s that time of year again. Yes, it’s my birthday today! But that’s not what I’m going to write about. No, it’s time for content prognosticators and marketing futurists to get out their crystal balls and start predicting the biggest trends for content marketing for 2016. I have done my own predictions post every year as well.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 6, 2015
55% of B2B marketers say it is unclear what effective content marketing looks like at their organizations. Is your company one of them? This was one of the key highlights of the sixth annual B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released last week. Content marketing effectiveness emerged as the key theme for this year’s study.
Rock Content
OCTOBER 29, 2015
When I first got into the field of animation, the last place I thought I would ever find myself is the world of content marketing. Really, it’s mostly because the term was never used this frequently in the history of advertising, let alone as late as 2011. That’s when I stumbled into it accidentally… Before I knew it was a thing, let alone what it was.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 21, 2015
There are 1876 marketing technology companies according to chiefmartec. Of these, over 80, including NewsCred, are listed squarely in “Content Marketing.” It doesn’t take an expert to tell you that the content marketing software industry is exploding. Venture capital in this space is growing at an unprecedented rate. On the heels of our own investment announcement , we wanted to know how much investor money is actually in the content marketing industry?
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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
Rock Content
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Producing great content can take a lot of work from everyone involved. From having the right talent on hand to communicating well throughout the process, there are a lot of things to get right. And in order to get the final creative you really want, giving effective feedback is crucial. According to an ANA survey , agencies and their clients are less than satisfied with how the creative process works.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Content marketing strategy for startups and medium sized companies might not always seem manageable, especially in terms of scaling. But this doesn’t have to be the case. The truth is that startups and smaller companies can benefit greatly from content marketing, especially when you consider that inbound marketing offers 54% more leads over traditional outbound marketing — which you’re probably doing already.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Marketing executives must walk a fine line between building pipeline, meeting revenue expectations, managing customer experience, delivering new prospects and building and maintaining a productive team with the proper skill set. What does it take to make it all happen? That was the question at hand for a panel that Carlos Hidalgo, president of ANNUITAS hosted at Content Marketing World 2015 in Cleveland with Kathy Button Bell , CMO Emerson , Brian Kardon , CMO, Lattice Engines and Mark Wilson ,
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 23, 2015
This week my good friend Carlos Hidalgo released his first book called Driving Demand. According to Carlos: The book is a guide for B2B marketing organizations that want to transform, but simply are perplexed by how to change. Driving Demand discusses how to first change the marketing and sales culture as well as how to align people, process, content, technology, and KPIs to the buyer in order to effectively execute demand generation.
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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