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9 Royalty-Free Music Sites to Help You Make the Perfect Video Soundtrack

Hubspot Marketing

In video marketing, choosing the right soundtrack can be the difference between a video that grips your audience from start to finish and one that they can barely get halfway through. Play a fitting soundtrack or jingle in your video, and you can grab your audience’s attention and evoke the specific emotions and feelings you want them to associate with your brand.

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Revenue Marketing Insights from 80 Marketing Leaders

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

What happens when 80 senior marketing leaders come together to talk about revenue marketing and ROI? Amazing insights, that’s what! At our Marketing Nation Engage event in London, we hosted a series of roundtable sessions with marketers around the region to discuss hot topics of the day. And nothing was hotter than revenue marketing and ROI. Each of the three roundtable sessions was hugely oversubscribed, and we had standing room only for each!

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How to efficiently set up your content planning for 2019

Sprout Social

Content marketing has been steadily growing for several years now. More and more businesses realize the long-term ROI of brand-owned content. 2018 was a big year for content, as recent studies have been showing: Content marketing revenue is projected to exceed $300 billion by 2019. 86% of B2C marketers think content marketing is a key marketing strategy.

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9 Font Hacks for Instagram Stories You Should Know

Content Marketing Institute

Without a doubt, Stories has been Instagram’s smartest invention yet. In fact, it’s hard to imagine the platform without Stories. Launched in August 2016, Stories has taken over, with over 400 million users sharing them every single day. This is great news if you’re an avid Stories user and bad news if you’re a brand trying to stand out in the crowd.

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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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5 Guaranteed Ways to Boost Job Satisfaction on Your Team

Hubspot Marketing

To improve your team's productivity, reduce turnover rates, and drive increased revenue for your company, it's critical you take the time to focus on your employees' job satisfaction. If you're wary about the tangible benefits of job satisfaction, consider this -- happiness has shown to increase employee productivity by at least 12%. Undoubtedly, your company will grow faster if you invest in your employees' happiness.

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5 Tips to Improve Your Omnichannel Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing continues to undergo rapid and major changes. Consumers are turned off by mass selling, and expect personalized, 1:1 communication across the many channels and devices they use. Unfortunately, when it comes to omnichannel marketing , many marketers are still behind. The impetus is on marketing to provide a seamless experience, regardless of channel or device.

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How to Make Your Bland Content Strategy Delicious

Content Marketing Institute

It’s the scourge of effective marketing: content that caters to everyone and thus caters to no one. It’s plain old vanilla – ubiquitous, bland, and the default choice when you don’t really know what people want or care about and can’t be bothered to find out. When you follow a storytelling approach informed by data, it’s possible to be much more specific, and thus relevant, to your customers’ needs and interests.

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15 of the Best WordPress Newspaper Themes in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

Whether you’re a blogger, editorial writer, journalist, or any other type of writer, there are a number of different WordPress themes that allow you to share your content with your visitors on your website. Newspaper WordPress themes — despite their name — work for all types of writing. No matter your content type, the layout you’re looking for, or the design you envision for your website, there are hundreds of newspaper themes to choose from.

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8 Journalism Concepts to Drive Better Engagement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

More and more these days, I find myself searching for “The Magic X.” “The Magic X,” of course, is the fastest way for me to skip all of the useless & irritating things that pop up and get between me and the content I came here to consume. To an advertiser, this is obviously unwanted behavior. But to the content marketer, this could be exactly the behavior you should hope your reader is doing every time they come to your site.

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10 Social Media Marketing Basics for Budding Businesses

Sprout Social

If you’re trying to wrap your head around modern social media, chances are you’re a bit overwhelmed. Hey, we totally get it. It’s a lot to take in, especially since the social space is almost unrecognizable from what it was a decade ago. Back then, you might see the occasional business profile. Fast forward to present day where a social presence is an expectation for businesses, with 80% of marketers relying on social media to raise brand awareness.

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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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Content Marketing Guidelines: Why and How To Create Them?

Marketing Insider Group

Brands with strong content marketing have a consistent voice, tone, and personality. The quality and style of your brand’s content can become as strong of a marker of your brand as your logo for dedicated readers. However, it can be difficult to preserve these qualities if you have a growing business with many writers who […]. The post Content Marketing Guidelines: Why and How To Create Them?

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Cook Up Email Marketing Automation With These 6 Recipes

Content Marketing Institute

Brands earn $38 for every $1 they invest in email marketing programs, according to Email Marketing ROI: The Factors That Lead to Better Returns, a research report published by Litmus. In other words, brands generate a 3,800% ROI on email marketing. Brands generate 3,800% ROI on #email marketing via @litmusapp #research. Click To Tweet. Yet, emfluence’s Email Marketing 2018 Benchmarks Report shares that organizations are slow to adopt email marketing automation – only 2% of emails sent by B2B org

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3 Ways to Bring Brick-and-Mortar Delights to the Digital World of Your Brand

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Over the past decade, brands have battled in a quest to digital dominion. But as the initial frenzy over internet real estate has calmed, the allure of brick and mortar is growing again. Brands that made their marks as ecommerce experts are now forging new territory, building physical stores to offer their customers a different kind of experience. Amazon is the standout example.

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From Transactional to Relational: Expectations for Influencer Marketing in 2019 I Traackr

Traackr

We attended the WWD Digital Forum event, and here are the different influencer marketing conclusions that we draw for the end of 2018.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

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.

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The Marketing Tactic Your Company Is Most Likely Not Utilizing

Marketing Insider Group

Companies spend a lot of time and money investing in marketing tactics that can help them achieve a bigger reach with the audiences that care about their products or services. However, there is a very important tactic that is often overlooked by business leaders and marketers – encouraging employees to promote the company and their […]. The post The Marketing Tactic Your Company Is Most Likely Not Utilizing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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7 B2C Brands Offer Content Marketing Lessons and Inspiration

Content Marketing Institute

? ?. Though an astounding 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing, the successful ones represent a smaller percentage. That’s what prompted me to identify brands excelling at content marketing. These seven retail brands have committed, consistent, and differentiated content programs. Read on to see how they deliver what their audience wants. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Content Can Ring Up a Better Retail Experience.

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One Year Later: A CMO’s First Year in Retrospect

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Some say hindsight is 20/20. To me, hindsight, at least when it comes to the last year—my first year as the Chief Marketing Officer at Marketo—is not 20/20… it is a loud, colorful blur. This last year both flew & crawled depending on the week or the day. But the one constant throughout all of it? I was learning and growing every single day, as was my team and the company and product we love, all at lightspeed.

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Why You Should Focus on Designing an SEO-Friendly Website (And How to Do It)

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Should Focus on Designing an SEO-Friendly Website (And How to Do It) written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your website is the heart of your online marketing efforts. So it stands to reason that it should be built with marketing, rather than aesthetics, in mind. Yes, there is something to be said for having an appealing website, and you should certainly aim to design one that has both form and function.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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Events That Move Customers to Action

Marketing Insider Group

Events help you know your customers and potential customers face-to-face. Done well, they’ll move attendees to buy your products and services. ‘ Why Hold Events? People buy from people they know. That’s why word-of-mouth advertising, despite marketers’ best efforts to make their work the center of attention, remains the number one reason people buy.

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The Ultimate Guide to List-Unsubscribe

Litmus

Update. Yahoo! Mail introduced List-unsubscribe for its iOS and Android mobile clients on November 13, 2018. We’ve update this resource to reflect those changes. Popular inbox providers like iOS Mail and Gmail offer a native unsubscribe option—list-unsubscribe—to make it as easy as possible for users to keep their inboxes clean and unsubscribe from unwanted emails.

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What to Do with Your Old Blog Posts

Moz

Posted by -LaurelTaylor- Around 2005 or so, corporate blogs became the thing to do. Big players in the business world touted that such platforms could “drive swarms of traffic to your main website, generate more product sales” and even “create an additional stream of advertising income” ( Entrepreneur Magazine circa 2006). With promises like that, what marketer or exec wouldn’t jump on the blog bandwagon?

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Becoming a Great Leader, No Matter What Field You’re In

Duct Tape Marketing

Becoming a Great Leader, No Matter What Field You’re In written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jason Kander. Podcast Transcript. Since recording this interview, Jason Kander announced that he was taking a step back from political life to deal with depression and PTSD symptoms he was experiencing as a result of his tour in Afghanistan.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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Moving your Emerging Growth Company Past Infancy with Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Launching a B2B tech or healthcare brand from the ground up isn’t easy. It takes years of dedication and persistence. Once you’ve finally begun to create a digital footprint, you’ll soon realize you need more than a website to fuel growth – you’re going to need content that educates, informs, and engages. The foundation for this will […].

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Email Marketing KPIs: 3 Reasons Brands Are Overly Focused on Engagement

Litmus

Email success looks different to different kinds of companies because they don’t all have the same business models and goals. This was made clear when we asked nearly 400 marketers what their email marketing key performance indicators are. The vast majority indicated that clicks and opens are key. Half said conversions are. Then it fell off significantly, with only one-quarter saying email revenue overall is and less than 15% saying email marketing return on investment.

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Local Search Ranking Factors 2018: Local Today, Key Takeaways, and the Future

Moz

Posted by Whitespark In the past year, local SEO has run at a startling and near-constant pace of change. From an explosion of new Google My Business features to an ever-increasing emphasis on the importance of reviews, it's almost too much to keep up with. In today's Whiteboard Friday, we welcome our friend Darren Shaw to explain what local is like today, dive into the key takeaways from his 2018 Local Search Ranking Factors survey, and offer us a glimpse into the future according to the local

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Weekend Favs November 24

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs November 24 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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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How To Stun Your Audience With Amazing Audiovisuals

Marketing Insider Group

Recognition for the South American fine arts has been increasing worldwide in recent years. As more attention gets paid to the incredible art, music, and cinema coming out of South America, those hoping to make their mark on local art scenes must focus more on how to best connect with a potential audience. Whether you […]. The post How To Stun Your Audience With Amazing Audiovisuals appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How travel brands can tackle cart abandonment

Bannerflow

Cart abandonment is an issue facing many brands in the age of online purchasing. But nowhere is this more obvious than in the travel industry. In fact, travel marketers are facing many challenges linked to changes in consumer behaviour. With a longer sales cycle, numerous touchpoints, competition from emerging OTAs, D2Cs, and an oversaturated market – it’s a wonder that purchases are completed at all!

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The State of Local SEO: Industry Insights for a Successful 2019

Moz

Posted by MiriamEllis A thousand thanks to the 1,411 respondents who gave of their time and knowledge in contributing to this major survey! You’ve created a vivid image of what real-life, everyday local search marketers and local business owners are observing on a day-to-day basis, what strategies are working for them right now, and where some frankly stunning opportunities for improvement reside.

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What’s Next Beyond Viewability in 2019? Hint: We All Compete For It.

illumin

Last week, we released our game changing whitepaper, Attention: The New Media Currency. This content piece, intended to assist all digital marketers at better understanding the landscape of digital video advertising and the challenges being faced, revealed some very intriguing data. In particular, it helped us to confirm a preconceived notion regarding a digital advertising metric: viewability.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

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.