Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Author: Ellen Gomes You’ve probably heard of account-based marketing (ABM) by now…and you may be considering if it’s right for your organization, or already be implementing an ABM strategy. But whether you’re just starting to evaluate ABM or are a well-trained expert, you still have to drive awareness and engagement with today’s bombarded buyers.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Marketers and publishers know that expressing yourself within a confined word count is challenging. And, as the social communication landscape has evolved, many brands have turned to multimedia content—like GIFs and images—to express emotion, add personality and engage with their audiences. For the past decade, Twitter’s 140 character limit has challenged brands and people to communicate and express themselves in new, creative ways.
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Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Every year you read new reports about how visual content is more engaging to readers than text-based content. The data is pretty compelling, actually. Especially when it comes to infographics. Colored visuals increase people’s motivation to read a piece of content by 80%. Infographics are liked and shared on social media 3 times more than […].
Rock Content
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Some writers wait for inspiration to strike before they take pen to paper – or keyboard to word processor. Must be nice. As content marketers, we don’t have the luxury of waiting around for the magic to happen; and we definitely cannot let writer’s block – the dreaded ailment/productivity-killer – stop us from meeting the never-ending deadlines that blog posts, whitepapers, newsletters, and all of the other formats demand from us on a daily basis.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Author: Elaine Ip So much to do, so little time. As San Francisco emerges from its summertime fog into crisp fall days, it’s also getting ready for hundreds of thousands people to descend on it for Dreamforce—a week full of fresh insights, entertainment (hello, afterparty), and tourism (you can fit it in!). If you’re in town for Dreamforce, make sure you make the most out of your time, especially if you’ll be dealing with the crazy commute.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Social media outreach is one of the best ways to form new relationships, increase engagement and get more eyes on your content. Executing a successful outreach campaign can be difficult, tedious and even frustrating sometimes. But the results you can get from it make your efforts more than worth it. What is Social Media Outreach? Social media outreach is the process of using social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to raise awareness for your brand, content, or to build new relationsh
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Rock Content
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
The term data-driven marketing is a popular buzzword used to reinforce how strategy and planning are critical to developing great content. David Welch, former VP of Marketing Insights & Operations, once summarized the future of marketing in six words. “Creative thrills but data pays the bills.” Is it that simple? In regards to a strategic planning perspective, absolutely!
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Author: Tanya Chu What does it mean to be a data-driven marketer? How do you even get started? Everyone talks about the importance of tracking data and making decisions based on it, but no one tells you how to do it and what a data-driven marketing organization looks like. First, let’s talk about data. Clean and accurate data is always top-of-mind for B2B marketers because without it, your demand generation team can’t send relevant content to leads and your sales team can’t tailor th
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
What if there was a powerful way to boost your Facebook marketing efforts? What if you could offer your followers gated content to encourage signups and generate leads all from within Facebook? You can do this and more with Facebook Lead Generation Ads. What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is a marketing process where you capture interest in your products and services.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
The marketing field is always evolving and to succeed, every marketing professional needs to keep up with the latest in industry trends, including its ever-expanding glossary. Marketers are naturally good at talking the talk; it’s kind of in our job description. Fortunately, these terms are pretty straightforward, you just need a little context to get […].
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
How to Create a Compelling Six-Second Brand Story? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. With the proliferation of media and the rapid adoption of digital channels, consumers are bombarded with thousands of brand messages every day. In fact, marketing experts estimate that, on average, people are exposed to over 5,000 advertisements each day, making it harder than ever to gain the customer’s attention.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Author: Ellen Gomes While the beginning of September marks the end of summer (womp, womp), it also means that Content Marketing World (CMW) is upon us. Every year, this amazing gathering of content’s top minds offers a ton of learnings and conversations, and orange everything. For three days, content marketers from around the world take Cleveland by storm.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
With a 140-character limit, it’s easy to think of Twitter as a basic platform. But the fact of the matter is numerous marketers see success in their social media marketing strategies by paying closer attention to Twitter data. Whether it’s Tweets, impressions, engagements or clicks, there are several metrics that give you additional insights into how well you’re resonating with your audience.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Producing content isn’t hard. With all the free blogging platforms, social media channels and visual marketing tools out there, anyone can create videos, infographics, blogs or ebooks in a few hours. But what’s hard for many marketers today is getting their content seen by their target audience. With 76% of marketers planning to produce more […].
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
YOU Are the Message: 4 Ways Branding Impacts Your Bottom Line written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Media MogulsPR.com. Branding. You’re either one of the few businesses doing it right, or you revere it as some mythical marketing tactic that you’ve never quite been able to master. If you fall into the latter category, it’s time to stop procrastinating and hop on the branding bandwagon.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Author: Jim Kowalski A few weeks ago, I participated in a great meeting with one of our customers. But it didn’t start out that way. It started slowly and our content was missing the mark. Fortunately for our team, we were able to “read the room” and discern from our customers’ behaviors and postures which direction we should take the discussion. Based on those cues, we altered the content of our presentation and even the order in which we presented, and we turned what could have been an unsucce
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Brooke B. Sellas is the founder of @HelloBSquared , which specializes in “done-for-you” social media management. Brooke is a marketing and social media consultant, and an adjunct for consumer behavior at CUNY. Brooke recently spoke with Sprout about what it takes to start your own social media agency , the done-for-you social approach, and the importance of scaling when launching a business.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
One of the biggest mistakes marketers make overall is to think about marketing investments in the form of a campaign – a short-term effort, offering very little opportunity to test content or creative, to optimize, or to prove ROI. Account-Based and Content Marketing Programs are similar in many ways. In our last article, we talked […]. The post Account-Based And Content Marketing Programs Are Not Campaigns appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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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.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
The Science of Pre-Suasion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Robert Cialdini. Like so many others in marketing, one of the first books I read was Influence. Today this is required reading for anyone trying to persuade through writing, messaging, speaking – pretty much any form of communication. The principles outlined in this book have stood the test of time.
Contently B2C
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Some people tend to think of gaming as a niche hobby. But I always felt otherwise. Video games have consistently out-earned Hollywood. Most people probably have at least one gaming app on their phone. And “gamification” is a term that’s been used so much in reference to UX design that it’s become blasé. In fact, over the past few years, you could track changes in media by following trends in gaming culture.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Staying organized and on-task is essential for any professional. This is especially true for social media managers. For social and editorial content, a tool like Trello is essential to track posts and maintain your sanity. This week at #SproutChat , Sprout All Star Erica Moss from Trello joined us for a valuable chat around managing a content or editorial calendar with the visual collaboration tool.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
In my last post, I started to show how even the most recognized social media and social selling authors, experts, and consultants are getting LinkedIn wrong. I started this provocative series not because I am looking to bash my competitors, but because I’m looking to start a real movement to help business, sales, and marketing […]. The post How even social media & social selling experts are getting LinkedIn wrong – Part 2 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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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.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Weekend Favs September 17 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.
Rock Content
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
The end of 2016 is sneaking up on us, and you’re probably preparing your editorial calendar and campaign strategy for 2017. It’s not always easy to prep and plan content for the future, but we’ve gathered a panel of experienced marketers that know how to build robust and sustainable content engines. We’re making them available to you – via a panel discussion – so that you can pick their brains and learn how to create an effective content marketing plan for 2017.
Sprout Social
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Instagram is one of the most effective platforms a business can use to target its consumers. But in order to be successful building a strong community is essential. A dedication to social media engagement , integrating existing communities and using analytics tools are three ways that brands can ensure their Instagram presence remains robust. Leading manufacturer of grooming products, Wahl Professional , applied these strategic tactics to grow its Instagram community by 56% and, in the process,
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
With all the tools and technology we now have at-hand, it’s a great time to be a demand-generation marketer. Demand-gen is the umbrella under which all other customer-attention and early funnel efforts find their footing. With strong demand-gen leadership, many other marketing specialties can thrive. Reaching new markets, building buzz, promoting new offerings, and initiating […].
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Contently B2C
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Flying 2,500 feet over Lake Michigan in a two-seater airplane, GE Reports Editor-in-Chief Tomas Kellner had some tough choices to make. Should he keep his Periscope live stream going for his captivated audience, or use his phone to switch over to GE’s Snapchat? Would his signal hold? Should he switch over to his DSLR camera to snap photos for the GE Reports blog?
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
The generation known as “millennials” is a mysterious enigma to businesses and marketers alike. They hunt for solutions to connect with this emerging age group on social media and on the web in general. The problem is that the media and marketers have painted “millennials” into a singular demographic consisting of teens and young adults […]. The post Marketing To Millennials Is A Mistake appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
As you know, our show is dedicated to helping more people trust their intuition. But when it comes to creating something, we’ve been struggling with one question lately: Why do so many people struggle to start? In today’s episode, we hypothesize that those who follow their intuition all have one trait in common: the bias to […]. The post Why Your Desire to Be Creative Actually Conflicts with Your Craft appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
If you want the best B2B marketing news, there’s one place to go. Inbound.org. The marketing community -slash- news site is the brainchild of Moz founder Rand Fishkin and HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Today it’s a one-stop-shop for the best of the best content about content marketing. Though founded by marketing wunderkind, it’s Inbound.org’s users […].
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.
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