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Everything We've Discovered About Instagram's Secret Shadowban

Hubspot Marketing

When you're trying to grow a following on Instagram, you depend on hashtags and engagement to expand your audience and reach. So it can feel more than a little disheartening when it suddenly seems like your content isn't showing up anywhere. If you feel like your posts are receiving fewer likes and comments, or aren't appearing for certain hashtags, you might be shadowbanned.

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8 of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools of 2018

Sprout Social

What are your top performing Tweets? What time of day do your Instagram posts get the most engagement? Is your Facebook marketing strategy translating to traffic and leads? If you’re not using social media analytics tools, you’ll probably have a hard time answering these questions. By now, most marketers understand the need for tools to measure their efforts.

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30 Experts Identify Biggest Mistakes in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

More than once, I’ve had to stop reading a poorly edited book because I couldn’t take off my editor’s hat. Professionals in any industry observe others’ work and silently critique it. That analysis often leads you to one of two results: insight into what you could do better or a welcome relief because you are doing it better. Some of the presenters at Content Marketing World offer their out-loud critiques of what could be done better in content marketing.

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Why CMOs Should Care About Psychology

Marketing Insider Group

Human brains are hard-wired to seek connection with other humans. Here are a few ways to utilize this principle and bring consumers to your brand. Have you ever wondered why, for decades upon decades of marketing, we still see images of families or friends bonding with each other in our ads? It’s fairly simple, really. […]. The post Why CMOs Should Care About Psychology appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

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.

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11 of the Best Mind Mapping Software to Brainstorm Better Ideas

Hubspot Marketing

One of the worst feelings in the world is forgetting a great idea. All you had to do was write it down, but you were confident that you’d never be able to forget such a compelling idea. When the idea slid out of your mind, though, the easy loss of such an insightful thought nearly crushed your soul. Taking the time to jot down your ideas right when they pop into in your head is one of the best ways to remember them and, ultimately, bring them to life.

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The No-Longer-Secret Formula for Selecting the Right Influencers for Your Brand

Traackr

Identifying which influencers to partner with can be challenging, but making the right choices is essential for successful influencer marketing results.

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10 Simple Tricks to Accelerate Your Sales Pipeline

Marketing Insider Group

It’s said that it takes around 84 days to convert a lead into an opportunity, and another 18 days to turn it into a deal—all of which may only have a 6% success rate regardless of how long you’ve worked on it. The sales cycle is composed of phases required to sell a product or […]. The post 10 Simple Tricks to Accelerate Your Sales Pipeline appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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12 Stunning Instagram Themes (& How to Borrow Them for Your Own Feed)

Hubspot Marketing

Nowadays, Instagram is often someone's initial contact with a brand, and at least 30% of Instagram users have purchased a product they first discovered on the platform. If it's the entryway for one third of your potential sales, don't you want it to look clean and inviting? Taking the time to create an engaging Instagram feed aesthetic is one of the most effective ways to persuade someone to follow your business's Instagram account, or peruse your posts.

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Ok, Google: How Do I Optimize My Content for Featured Snippets?

Content Marketing Institute

More people are making their voices heard when they need to search for something. They’re ditching their keyboards for the convenience of “OK, Google.”. For brands, this raises an important question: How do you become the default answer for a voice search query? You know the recent buzz around “ featured snippets ” – the boxes that appear at the top of some Google search result pages, providing a brief answer that, brands hope, leads the user to click for more detail.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

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.

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The True Value of Becoming a Certified Marketing Automation Expert

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Will getting a marketing automation certification help advance your career? Will you make more money? Promoted faster? What is the quickest way to get certified? I’ll answer these questions and more in this blog post. Supply and Demand. Are recruiters and hiring managers looking for certified marketing automation experts? Marketing automation certifications are among the premier skill qualifications in the MarTech industry.

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How to Create an Effective Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Build a plan. Create your content. Publish, measure, refine, repeat. Seems straightforward enough. But this is the bare bones of content marketing. It’s creating a plan, not a strategy and it’s missing out on the impact potential of a goal-focused, personalized, purposeful approach to your brand’s content. It’s one thing to have an appealing, educational lineup of […].

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The Ultimate Guide to RPFs

Hubspot Marketing

Have you been tasked with the job of creating a request for proposal, or an RFP? Whether you have no idea what that is or haven’t written one in awhile, today’s guide can help. We’re diving into the specifics of what an RFP actually is, why you might need one, and how to create your very first one today. To start, you should understand what all these letters even mean.

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No Celebrities Required: How to Create Great Influencer Content

Content Marketing Institute

While the Content Marketing Institute doesn’t have that Kardashian/soda brand relationship or actor/automobile manufacturer combo, we use influencers to create an e-book to market Content Marketing World. While you may not be promoting a live event, you likely can learn more about how to create an influencer-based piece of content from the lessons we’ve learned producing this e-book over the years, including the 2018 Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

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.

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5 Steps to Creating Personalized Content Experiences for ABM

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s something you may not even realize, but as a consumer, you’re getting served personalized experiences left and right. From your Netflix recommendations to your suggested Spotify playlists, nearly everything we interact with online has some kind of personalization attached to it. Until recently, this high level of personalization has existed almost exclusively in the B2C world, and it’s really only been within the past couple of years that personalization in the form of account-based marketi

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CMO Insights: How to Use Emotional Marketing in Every Step of the Customer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

Guest post by Mark Nardone, PAN Communications “We would like to believe we’re logical creatures. But it turns out we’re not. It turns out like 95% of our decision making is actually emotional,” says Alicia Hatch, CMO, Deloitte Digital. Marketers have been working to appeal directly to their customers’ emotional states, needs and aspirations since […].

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How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Benjamin Spall. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Benjamin Spall. Spall is co-author of the book My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired and co-founder of the website by the same name.

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How Content Takes the Stage to Change Brand Perception [Example]

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Beverly Jackson is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. When was the last time you went to a casino? When was the last time you went to Las Vegas just for the gambling? Though plenty of people do, a much larger set of people don’t put gambling or Las Vegas at the top of their what-to-do-for-fun lists.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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Why You Should Be Your Company’s Next CEO

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

First came the inventors and founders, fueled by steam and created with cast iron, changing society from agrarian to industrial. Then came electricity, steel, and oil and the rise of the company, followed by the move from analog to digital. Now we’re at the start of the fourth industrial revolution; a revolution that’s being powered by data. And who’s in control of data?

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4 Steps to Scaled Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Getting Agile to scale is tricky in any context, and scaled Agile marketing is no different. Complex models like SAFe feel overwhelming and impossible to marketers who are still struggling to translate the core components of Agile practices to their unique environments. I mean, just look at this diagram: Recently, however, one of the co-creators […].

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Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search

Duct Tape Marketing

Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. These two tech giants dominate the online advertising market, and their reach is so incredibly broad (both have billions of users each month) that to leave them out of your strategy is to not have an online strategy at all.

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How to build responsive banner ads with HTML5

Bannerflow

In this article we explain why HTML5 responsive banner ads are a must for all digital advertisers. From designers to digital specialists, from agencies to in-house teams, HTML5 display advertising is now the the default banner format. In particular, with an ever greater number of devices, and platforms to cater for, being able to adapt to the behaviours of viewers is crucial.

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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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How to Generate Revenue with Your Interactive Content

Rock Content

HubSpot reports that the less companies know about their KPIs, the less likely they are to meet their revenue goals. Seventy four percent of companies that weren’t exceeding revenue goals did not know their visitor, lead, MQL, or sales opportunities. That’s an alarming statistic—and one that can be combated with the adoption of interactive content.

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How to Create a Digital Newsletter That Really Generates New Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Although we live in the world of social media, email isn’t going anywhere. It’s still one of the most popular forms of online communication, and there’s no reason to believe this will change. For marketers, this is exciting news. A digital newsletter is an excellent opportunity for you to connect with your audience to drive […]. The post How to Create a Digital Newsletter That Really Generates New Sales appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How Can You Transform Your Business With The Latest Marketing Trends?

Zumvu

The essence of starting any business at all is to see it thrive and yield profit. It is important to have a proposed business plan which contains in detail the business objectives, both long and short term.

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Why build a creative management platform?

Bannerflow

Building a creative management platform , or CMP, is easy right? Especially if it hasn’t been invented, nor conceived of as an idea? Indeed, every company has an origin tale and Bannerflow is no different. Each component of our CMP is a direct solution to a problem encountered by frustrated digital marketers. If not for the thoughts and frustrations, of countless designers, marketing managers, translators, developers – a whole list too long to mention – Bannerflow’s platform simply wouldn’

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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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Weekend Favs August 25

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs August 25 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.

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Digital Marketing Requires Mastery of Multiple Skills

Marketing Insider Group

Digital marketing has really come a long way in the last decade. Once, it was merely banner advertising and social media, digital marketing is now an integrated set of tactics requiring a diverse skill set, making it distinctly different from marketing that came before it. Marketing before the Internet In the prehistoric age before the […]. The post Digital Marketing Requires Mastery of Multiple Skills appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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3 Up-and-Coming Social Media Platforms to Watch in 2019

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The age of Myspace is long gone. People claim Twitter is dying. Facebook is under scrutiny by the government, and Instagram has quickly become overrun with advertisements, scams, and an algorithm to overcome. As a marketer, it’s up to you to know what’s out there in the digital world, what your competition is doing, and how you can utilize the tools and technology available to reach your customers and prospects where they are.