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How to Make an Instagram Post Template for Your Business or Brand

Hubspot Marketing

Instagram is an undeniably powerful marketing tool, but with over 25 million businesses on the platform today, it's critical you take the time to create well-designed and thoughtful Instagram posts to stand out. You'll need to apply a strategic design plan to your business's Instagram to attract a loyal following and find success on the app, long-term.

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Michael Brenner’s 5 Skills You Need to Become the Next CMO

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The marketing world today is a whole different ball game than it used to be. You have to come up with big ways to stand out to capture the attention of your customers and prospects. It is about knowing what content your customers and prospects want to consume. It’s also about knowing when to take action to engage them with those stories. This new era of marketing is all about storytelling and curating customer-centric content.

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Your guide to creating a social media policy

Sprout Social

Social media is officially part of the business environment. Your customers expect you to be active online and available to answer any questions they have and your employees are already visiting social channels on a daily basis. 47% of employees now use social networks to connect with customers. This is a number that’s consistently growing thanks to trends like omnichannel customer service and employee advocacy.

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3 Forces Shaping The Future Of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Many executives, particularly Chief Marketing Officers, are in constant pursuit of understanding changing buyer behaviors and markets. Which, for the most part, remains an elusive and challenging endeavor. In the past ten plus years, we have seen a tumultuous upheaval in both the world of buyers and how marketing is adapting. As business leaders and […].

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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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Email Sign Up Forms: How to Increase Email Sign Ups With Better Forms

Hubspot Marketing

In 2017, there were 3.7 billion email users across the globe. That number is expected to reach 4.3 billion by 2022. With half of the world’s population on email, and the ability to reach people at any time of day, email marketing remains a crucial technique to build a customer base. So how do you attract people to your email list? There are a few important steps, but it all starts with an email sign up forms.

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The complete guide to social media and the beauty industry

Sprout Social

Social media and the beauty industry go hand in hand. After all, beauty brands represent many of the most-followed, active accounts on Instagram in particular. And as it should come as no surprise, those same brands are making a killing having mastered the art of social selling. View this post on Instagram. Sunday plans: getting our skin together 🤗 You’re staring at @DrunkElephant 👀 💖 #OddlySatisfying.

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Why B2B Marketers Should Shift to a Conversational Voice and How To Do It

Marketing Insider Group

One of the biggest mistakes that B2B marketers make is thinking they sell to an entity rather than a person. B2B is certainly a different audience than B2C, but in the end, it’s people who make the decisions to buy your product or service. And people want to know that your brand is human and […]. The post Why B2B Marketers Should Shift to a Conversational Voice and How To Do It appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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15 Fun, Weird, & Unexpected Interview Questions (With Sample Answers)

Hubspot Marketing

As a hiring manager, you probably ask similar questions to most of your candidates -- "What's the greatest challenge you've overcome? What interests you in our company?". Most of these questions are standard and evoke similarly typical responses. In fact, if a candidate has plenty of experience interviewing, she can probably answer without much thought.

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The Art of Persuasion: How to Make Effective Creative

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here’s the truth: All marketers think their creative is “good” until it is tested. Ultimately, consumers will tell you how effective your creative is, and that realization can be harsh. Some marketers might lean on a flashy web page to reel in consumers’ interest. However, standing out only scratches the surface—what you do next with that attention can make or break your campaign.

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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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How to Make Your Content Powerful in Eyes of Searchers (and Google)

Content Marketing Institute

? ? ? The value of building SEO content is second to none. However, I’m not merely talking about properly optimized content that has the right meta information, links, keywords, and technical SEO. Instead, I’m talking about honing powerful content that speaks to readers irresistibly. It’s optimized, sure, but it’s also constructed to be the ultimate read.

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Perfecting Your Digital Call-To-Action (With Examples!)

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s face it, a digital call-to-action is needed if you want your audience to take the next step. Traditional content can certainly have a call-to-action (and often does). However, a digital call-to-action is arguably the most important factor when it comes to your online messaging. Your social media posts, online content, and digital forms must see some […].

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What is Website Architecture? A 3-Minute Rundown

Hubspot Marketing

Getting lost sucks. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a city or a corn maze, the ambiguity of not knowing where you are and what could happen next can make you break out in a cold sweat. This stress intensifies even more when you’re lost and you actually have to be somewhere, which is similar to how website visitors feel when they land on a jumbled website.

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Build a Business Around Your Website: How to Set Your Project & Team Up for Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The most critical part of cross-functional teams simultaneously executing on small and large projects is the right process. Proper setup and management include four key areas: team, time, tools, and process. Earlier in this blog series, we talked about the basics in building a website and how to turn your wishes into an actual plan. In this blog, I’ll cover the four key areas you should focus on to set your project and team up for success: team, time, tools, and process.

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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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11 Things to Do Every Month to Boost Your Conversion Rates

Content Marketing Institute

? ? Many marketers think once a reasonable conversion rate is achieved, status quo is acceptable. Don’t fall into the conversion complacency trap. How do you improve your conversion rates month after month? Do these 11 tasks regularly to keep upping the ante because even if your conversion rate outperforms every competitor you still want better numbers. 1.

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Guide to Understanding Pinterest Analytics

Sprout Social

The key to confirming that your new social content strategy works is through understanding your analytics reports. Without careful evaluation of what type of content performs well, you only have anecdotal evidence. You don’t want to spend all that time Pinning away only to have nothing to show for it. In this Pinterest guide, we’ll walk through how to read the networks’ analytics.

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How Well is Your Content Performing? (Industry Benchmark)

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to beef up your content marketing strategy, it’s not enough to rely on the same techniques over and over again. You want to make sure that you are continually improving, reaching the right people, and hitting (maybe even surpassing) industry benchmarks. Industry benchmarking is a powerful way to help you distinguish which […]. The post How Well is Your Content Performing?

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Industry Spotlight: Email Marketing at Nonprofits

Litmus

Every industry does email marketing a little differently. They have different goals, different business models, different conversion channels, different offers, and on and on. That’s definitely the case with nonprofits. Nonprofits tend to be fairly small compared to businesses in other industries. Their organizations are usually driven primarily by donations, and therefore the end of the year is a key time period for them.

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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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How to Write a Great Creative Brief

Content Marketing Institute

Every day content programs aimed at consumers, kids, influencers, specialists and business people launch. And all too often this content is developed, distributed, and promoted with no strategic planning; there is little articulation of its intent, its core messages, or of the intended goals. As a result, the internet is awash in content that does not speak to a particular audience, does not provide useful or relevant information, and often delivers mixed and confusing messages.

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Publishing & advocacy: the power of social amplification

Sprout Social

One way that brands can overcome this content distribution problem is through advocacy. This means leveraging the networks of individuals who like you and are invested in your continued success. Advocacy can take on many forms. When many people hear advocacy, they tend to think major influencers: celebrities and individuals with large social followings.

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Are You Using Influencers To Market Your Next Event?

Marketing Insider Group

Influencer marketing and event promotion are like a match made in heaven. When you have the right influencers talking about your upcoming event, you can drive substantial interest, fast. This is just what you need when marketing for your event. You need to build up the momentum in a short span of time – short […]. The post Are You Using Influencers To Market Your Next Event?

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Mark?Schaefer?in?Conversation?with?Amanda?Duncan?of?Microsoft I Traackr

Traackr

Learn how Influencer marketing has become a mainstream marketing channel and its growth at Microsoft has increased rapidly.

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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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A Primer to Boost Your Content’s Readability

Content Marketing Institute

Our content was too academic and didn’t resonate with our audience. When we focused on making it more readable for our audience, business grew. What about you? Is your brand deliberately centered on readability? At its purest, readability is about keeping things simple. It’s about explaining things in as straightforward terms as possible. Content marketers deliver a wealth of ideas and information, but it’s not always presented in the best way.

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What Are Referral Champions and How Do You Create Them?

Duct Tape Marketing

What Are Referral Champions and How Do You Create Them? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Every business owner knows that the key to generating referrals is creating a positive customer experience. When someone has a great interaction with your brand, they’re more likely to go and recommend you to their friends or colleagues.

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Storytelling in the Age of the Connected Customer

Marketing Insider Group

How content with a focus on experiences and emotional marketing can keep customers connected and create advocates for your brand. Today’s healthcare landscape is rapidly changing. Factors such as wavering legislation, value-based care’s impact on the physician model, pressure on pharmaceutical companies to reduce costs, the introduction of wearables to the market and informed consumers […].

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Litmus Works Where You Work: Powerful Integrations with Your Favorite Email Tools

Litmus

When it comes to email workflows, each team is unique—and so are the tools that help teams get their emails out the door. Marketers can choose between hundreds of email service providers (ESPs) and dozens of code editors, localhosts, and task runners—and our research shows that many teams even use multiple of each of these tools. No matter which tools your team uses, we want to make sure that you can utilize Litmus to improve your campaigns.

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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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Fundamentals Are Essential for Content Success

Content Marketing Institute

“That guy is gonna kill us.”. I was 19, just starting to find my rhythm – as a man and, more importantly to my ego, as a basketball player. I watched as a 6-foot-2-inch chiseled dude strode onto the court at Trinity College in Hartford. We were playing pickup like we always did after classes, just around 4. Nine of us had been casually shooting and Muscles McGee made it a perfect 10.

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Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results

Duct Tape Marketing

Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema. Podcast Transcript. My guest this week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Louis Gudema. He is the founder and president of Revenue & Associates and the author of the book Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster.

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Building a Great B2B Loyalty Program to Prevent Churn

Marketing Insider Group

We know how valuable loyal customers are. They’re five times more likely to make a purchase, five times more likely to forgive mistakes and seven times easier to upsell.1 In the B2B landscape existing customers are even more vital. There are far less available customers than in the B2C marketplace, plus there’s a far higher […]. The post Building a Great B2B Loyalty Program to Prevent Churn appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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