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Top 4 Insights All C-Suite Leaders + Market Researchers Need To Be Aware Of In 2024

CMO Network

With consumers more in control than ever before, brands will need to create individualized, on-demand experiences that place the notion of equity for all at the heart.

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How to build better Black Friday emails: Knock Black Friday & Cyber Monday out of the park

Litmus

Hear that sound? It’s millions of clicks from shoppers hitting that “add to cart” button this holiday season. Black Friday emails (and their Cyber Monday counterparts) campaigns are some of the most high-stakes emails you’ll design this year. If you want to hit your Q4 goals, this is the most important series of the year. No pressure, right? You’re not just competing against other brands, but against your subscribers’ high expectations.

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How To Build a Content-Driven, Audience-Centric Content Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

What does it mean to build a truly audience-centric content strategy? For the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, it meant rethinking everything (in pursuit of a noble ultimate goal). Learn how they did it in this excerpt from Robert Rose’s new book.

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Best of the Bot: Identifying the latest trends in digital marketing

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with MarTech content.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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.

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6 LinkedIn Experts Gave Me Their Personal Branding Secrets — I Tried Them All

Buffer Marketing

I wanted to nail my personal brand on LinkedIn — but I had no idea where to start. Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the platform evolved from a job seekers' hub to a playground for entrepreneurs and creators looking to become industry authorities and drive sales. There’s no doubt doing so is incredibly powerful. LinkedIn is 277 percent more effective at generating leads than Facebook and Twitter.

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Most Engaging Content: Results in Marketing for 2024

Aspiration Marketing

So you're into content creation, but what you write doesn't resonate, isn't the most engaging content, and isn't interacting with your audience? We define "content engagement" as how people can interact with your content , e.g., in a comment section on your website, a chatbot, or a social media post. It's also engagement if visitors return to your blog to read the next post or if they subscribe to your newsletter.

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How To Write Headlines That Hook: 8 Questions To Ask

Content Marketing Institute

Headlines don’t just matter; they act as the life or death of your content. If you can answer yes to some or all of these questions, your headline is well positioned for a good life.

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The Power of Partnership: Using Sponsorships to Break Into New Markets

ConsumerTalk

Introduction How can your company break into new markets effectively? CPG sponsorships can help you expand your consumer reach. Sponsorships are mutually beneficial for both parties. By donating items or money or by promoting a business, your company can expand its CPG consumer reach, helping you grow into new markets.

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5 Content Marketing Ideas for Nov. 2023

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Black Friday, sandwiches, elections, board games, and aviation are a few tempting topics for November 2023. The post 5 Content Marketing Ideas for Nov. 2023 appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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How We Use HubSpot Marketing Hub for SEO

Aspiration Marketing

In today's digital landscape, SEO and Content Marketing reign supreme, but navigating its intricacies can be daunting. We've explored various tools and strategies and found a new favorite in our book—HubSpot Marketing Hub. With its versatile toolkit and automation capabilities, HubSpot makes mastering SEO and the associated content creation more effortless than ever.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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.

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Six Tips for Using A/B Testing to Transform Your Marketing Messaging

Trade Press Services Newsletter

No matter how much time and energy we put into our marketing efforts, not every campaign gets positive results. A/B testing is a simple yet effective technique to ensure you use the right messaging to reach your audience and drive desired outcomes. It can be used to evaluate anything from email copy to website content. A/B testing helps marketers determine the best-performing version of their messaging before launching a campaign that falls flat.

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Tropical Map for Music & Entertainment Industry

Calvyn Lee Blog

Creating a topical map for your website in the niche of entertainment and music is an excellent strategy to establish authority, improve user experience, and boost your visibility in search engine results. A topical map helps structure your content logically, making it easier for both users and search engines to navigate and understand your site. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to create a topical map effectively: Identify Main Topics and Sub-Topics Brainstorm : Begin by brainstorming t

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X (Twitter) partners with Google Display Network

Search Engine Land

X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.

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Tips for Hosting a Flawless Live Webinar

Aspiration Marketing

If you're hosting a webinar for the first time (or even the hundredth), you may think it's the same as hosting a simple meeting. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. More finesse is required to keep your audience engaged when hosting a live webinar. If that seems daunting, not to worry–we've got you covered. From prepping for your webinar to following up with attendees, here are the tips for hosting a flawless live webinar.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Meta launches genAI features for ads

Martech

This week, Meta announced it is beginning the rollout of generative AI capabilities in Ads Manager. These should be globally available by next year. These capabilities are: Background generation. The creation of multiple ad backgrounds allowing advertisers to choose relevant creative for their targeted audiences. Image expansion. Automates the adjustment of image assets to aspect ratios suitable for specific channels like Feed or Reels.

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Oracle Doubles Down On Generative AI Trend At CloudWorld 2023

CMO Network

This year at Oracle CloudWorld, the company advanced its generative AI strategy across its cloud infrastructure, apps, and platforms. Exploring this year's announcements.

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Google releases October 2023 broad core update

Search Engine Land

Google’s October 2023 core update is now rolling out and may take up to two weeks to complete. This is the third broad core algorithm update of 2023. the first core update of 2023 was the March 2023 core update , which started rolling out on March 15 and was completed on March 28. The second core update of 2023 was the August 2023 core update, which started rolling out on August 22 and was completed on September 7.

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How to Boost SEO With Voice Search Optimization

Aspiration Marketing

As technology continues to evolve, so do our search habits. With the rise of voice assistants, voice search is becoming increasingly popular among consumers. As a marketing expert, it's essential to understand the basics of voice search optimization, its impact on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and how it can impact a business's online visibility and success.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

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.

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3 ways MOps can bridge the gap in marketing analytics

Martech

Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement. New martech tools focus on measuring marketing impact, tracking customer journeys and analyzing sales funnels.

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The C-Suite Interview: Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor

CMO Network

Everette Taylor came to Kickstarter as an entrepreneur, influencer and one of the world's top marketers. A year in, he assesses how he's doing and what's next.

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Impact of the Google September 2023 helpful content was big for the SEO industry

Search Engine Land

Last Thursday, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update after a 14-day rollout. The update took 14 days to roll out, starting on September 14, 2023, and ending on September 28, 2022. It has been a few days since the rollout was completed, and we wanted to dig in a bit on the impact felt by this latest Google algorithm update.

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Is Blogging Dead? The Truth About Blogging for 2024

Aspiration Marketing

"News of my death has been greatly exaggerated." A blog is a tool, and as with any tool, in any toolbelt, the key is to know when to pull out the hammer and when to go with a screwdriver.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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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X (Twitter) partners with Google Ad Manager

Martech

X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.

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How 3 brands use a Tagging strategy for marketing to get better insights, faster

Sprout Social

What was the ROI of your influencer campaign? How does one topic perform on social compared to another? How are people responding to a campaign? In social media, the most important questions are often the most difficult to answer or quantify. But these are questions you have to answer; not just for your team and strategy, but for your leadership and teams beyond marketing.

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Google unleashes October 2023 spam update

Search Engine Land

Google has unleashed a new search update today, the October 2023 spam update. This spam update improves Google’s “coverage in many languages and spam types,” Google wrote. Types of spam. Google said the October 2023 spam update “aims to clean up several types of spam that our community members reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages.” Google said that update should “reduce the visible spam in search results, particularl

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Mitel Acquires Unify Becoming World’s Second Largest Unified Communications Company Worldwide

CMO Network

There has been some major news this week in the unified communications (UC) space with Mitel acquiring Unify becoming the world's second largest UC company.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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New GA4 features improve security and report accuracy

Martech

Google Analytics 4 has rolled out two new features to help improve data security and reporting accuracy. The new capabilities, which are available in GA4 now, enable marketers to redact client-side text and exclude Google data signals from reports and explorations. Data redaction. This new feature is designed to help minimize the risk of unintentionally transmitting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

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Using AI to Simplify Content Marketing Workflows

Social Media Examiner

Want to simplify your content creation process? Wondering how AI tools can help? In this article, you’ll discover how to use AI tools to enhance your content marketing workflows. Why Should Content Marketers Pay Attention to AI? In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of content marketing has never been more critical. Yet, to […] The post Using AI to Simplify Content Marketing Workflows appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Google Keyword Planner drops keyword forecasting

Search Engine Land

Google Ads is no longer maintaining individual and ad group keyword forecasting in Keyword Planner. Few advertisers were using these features so the platform decided to retire them, according to Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ad Liaison, on X (formerly known as Twitter). However, campaign-level forecasts and historical keyword-level data are still available.

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3 Questions To Help You Evolve Your Content and Marketing [CMWorld Recap]

Content Marketing Institute

The big Content Marketing World takeaway: You don’t need radical change to evolve your content marketing program (even in the age of AI). But you do need to make decisions that help you understand your mission better, find surprises in the familiar, and take a scientific approach to change. Ask these questions to get started.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission