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15 Cheat Sheets Every Successful Digital Marketer Needs

Marketing Insider Group

It’s not easy being a digital marketer today. You need to know and do everything from content strategy to writing and editing, SEO, social media marketing, analytics and so much more. So how do you stay on top of it all? Here are 15 cheat sheets that will make your life easier and help you […]. The post 15 Cheat Sheets Every Successful Digital Marketer Needs appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Successfully Mine Your Social Media Data

Sprout Social

In grade school, our math teachers constantly told us to “show our work.” That same sentiment still rings true for social media marketers and advertisers. Now we’re counted on to show our work when we prove social media has a strong return on investment (ROI). It’s sort of crazy to think some businesses still don’t trust social media as an ROI source.

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Attribution Matters: Demystifying Social ROI in B2B Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Aleece Germano As a digital marketer, you might be asking yourself this question: “Where’s my (social) ROI?” Your boss is asking you for it. You see ads following you on the web trying to help you calculate it. Your peers tell you it’s impossible: “You want to attribute revenue dollars to social? Good luck with that.” So what’s a data-driven marketer to do?

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Renew, Refresh, Rebrand: The Content-Centric ScribbleLive

Rock Content

ScribbleLive has been innovating since the company was founded in 2008. ScribbleLive was originally known as a live blogging platform but has evolved into one of the industry’s leading content marketing platforms. This evolution was natural. Marketing and technology rapidly change as a result of innovation. We enhanced our visual identity and branding to reflect our position in the marketplace as trailblazers that provide innovative marketing solutions.

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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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B2B Business Blogging Tips: How to Generate More Leads and Sales Opportunities

Marketing Insider Group

In the age of content marketing, blogging has fast become one of the most effective ways to market your brand. It’s simple, cost-efficient, and a nicer way to drive traffic to your website than traditional interruptive marketing tactics like email blasting. Some B2B companies still haven’t adopted blogging as a business function despite its obvious […].

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How to Get More Instagram Likes Through Customer Engagement

Sprout Social

More than 80 million photos are posted to Instagram daily by its 400 million users. As a business, it can be challenging to cut through all of that noise, but with a daily average of 40 billion likes, there’s plenty of engagement to be shared. Wondering how to get more Instagram likes? The answer is simple: audience engagement. One of the easiest forms of social media engagement is the “like.

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A Guide to Finding Your Brand Voice

Rock Content

How important is a brand’s voice? Very! Especially if you’re a content marketer. Your brand voice reflects your core values and communicates your organization’s personality, and is incredibly important when building a relationship with your audience. In fact, a study by Forbes revealed that 43% of millennials rank authenticity over content when consuming news.

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15 Must-Read Tweets from Top SaaS Marketing Influencers

Marketing Insider Group

Your Twitter timeline is flooded. If you’re like me, you probably follow several different people. Everyone serves a purpose. So, you’re consuming a little news, some sports, and lots of influencers in your industry. And despite your efforts to read every tweet, you simply can’t. But don’t worry. I’ve curated the best tweets from the […]. The post 15 Must-Read Tweets from Top SaaS Marketing Influencers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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10 Personal Branding Secrets to Use for Social Media

Sprout Social

Do your social media profiles scream promotion, promotion, promotion? If so, you could be missing out on the true personal branding power that social media holds. At its best, social media will allow you and your business to be seen and heard as an expert in your field. It allows you to measure your impact to see if your online campaigns are having the effect you desire.

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Target Your Best Prospects by Segmenting Your Best Customers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mike Nierengarten As marketers, we work hard to acquire and retain new customers, but not enough of us spend much time thinking about what type of new customers we want to acquire by looking at our existing customer base. The best customers are those that last a lifetime , and by segmenting your current customers and identifying which are the most profitable, stay the longest, expand service, and refer new customers, you can allocate more of your marketing dollars to acquiring similar pr

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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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The Local SEO Playbook – Your Guide to Local Rankings

Duct Tape Marketing

The Local SEO Playbook – Your Guide to Local Rankings written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Look, if you’re a local business, meaning most or all of your business comes from customers living in your community, you must get very serious about local SEO. Don’t worry, ranking locally for the kinds of things your prospects are looking for isn’t rocket science, but it does take a serious commitment to a handful of things.

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Who do B2B Tech Buyers Trust and What This Means for Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

By Mike Neumeier, APR, Principal at Arketi Group Recently we hit a generational milestone – millennials have officially become the largest generational group in America’s workforce. This got us thinking. We wanted to understand how this much-hyped group was impacting B2B enterprise tech purchasing. We looked around to see if anyone had studied this and […].

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Meet Team Sprout: Jordan, Product Education Specialist

Sprout Social

At Sprout, we want to ensure that both our customers and employees are confident in using our products as well as understanding its business and industry impact. Jordan Balkin, a Product Education Specialist, takes care of that. While she didn’t start out in this role, Jordan’s interest in education and training grew during her time at Sprout Social.

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Get Your Blog On: 4 Steps to Blogging Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Elaine Ip To blog or not to blog, there is no question. I remember when I started my own blog in 2003, when I was an oversharing, bright-eyed teenager. It was back when Xanga was all the rage, and my blog was an outlet for me to share my day-to-day musings—what I did that day, what I was looking forward to, and yes, embarrassingly enough, who my crushes were.

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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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5 Reasons Why Your Brand Should Have a Following

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Reasons Why Your Brand Should Have a Following written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Very Pixel. Have you ever noticed how so many major corporations produce commercials that focus more on their brand name rather than an actual product? At first, this might lead to some head-scratching—after all, isn’t the product what they’re selling?

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5 Reasons Your Lead Generation Strategy is Not Working

Marketing Insider Group

In business, failure is always an option. This is especially true in B2B businesses that require a steady flow of leads to stay healthy. So it serves marketers well to know the ins and outs of lead management both for better and for worse. Here are the top five reasons your lead generation campaigns may […]. The post 5 Reasons Your Lead Generation Strategy is Not Working appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Add a Branded Content Tag to Verified Facebook Page Posts

Sprout Social

Facebook recently made updates to their Branded Content Policy , which requires verified Pages to apply a Branded Content Tag to posts featuring a third party product, brand or sponsor. Today, we’re pleased to announce that applying a Branded Content Tag to posts is now available when publishing to verified Facebook Pages from Sprout’s Compose window.

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Top Photo Sharing and Image Hosting Sites 2016

Zumvu

A collection of curated, hand-picked photo sharing and image hosting sites that are popularly used.

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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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Is it Possible to Eliminate the Need to Sell?

Duct Tape Marketing

Is it Possible to Eliminate the Need to Sell? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If the idea of leveraging your expertise to skyrocket your position in your industry while also virtually eliminating the need to sell ever again – all without spending big money – sounds appealing to you, then you need to read on. About six months ago I launched an initiative to help members of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network write and promote books they have written – this i

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Proof That CEOs Will No Longer Accept Marketing That Doesn’t Work

Marketing Insider Group

Brand advertising as we know it will completely disappear, according to Gabe Leydon, CEO of Machine Zone, one of the world’s largest gaming companies. And what’s killing it? Marketers, agencies, and publishers who can’t prove that their marketing investments work. CMOs always tell me that their biggest challenge is proving the ROI of their Marketing […].

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Twitter & Industry Experts Share Advice on Social Customer Care

Sprout Social

Customer care is an integral component of any social media marketing strategy but many brands don’t know where to start when it comes to developing a well-rounded approach. To help tackle the growing trend, we gathered a group of seasoned experts during our recent Sprout Social Hour in New York City. Special guest Jeff Lesser , Product Marketing Manager at Twitter, talked about the network’s focus on it and highlighted recent Twitter enhancements that help businesses easily reso

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Creative Ways to Promote your Business Using Snapchat

Zumvu

Snapchat became a vital avenue of global marketing strategies that can be used to increase engagement & brand awareness through innovative marketing campaigns.

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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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Maximizing Your Mobile Marketing Results with Search and Beacons

Duct Tape Marketing

Maximizing Your Mobile Marketing Results with Search and Beacons written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Shutterstock. In October, Google confirmed that mobile searches had passed desktop searches worldwide. An effective mobile strategy is now essential to effective marketing. Here are some ways marketers are adapting to the new mobile marketplace by implementing mobile search optimization and beacon marketing strategies.

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Marketers need to play a stronger sales enablement role on LinkedIn

Marketing Insider Group

Earlier this year, LinkedIn set out to determine which departments wield the most influence over B2B buyers across a number of different sectors. Their findings show that overall, marketing has 30% more sway than sales in a typical B2B buying decision and that marketing has 27% more sway than business development. Even though marketers have the […].

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Introducing Sprout’s Built-In Image Editor Powered by Adobe Creative SDK

Sprout Social

When it comes to creating engaging social posts, compelling visuals are more important than ever. The sheer volume of images being shared across social networks each day suggests that, in order to stand out, creating unique visuals that are optimized for their intended networks and audiences is paramount to social publishing success. Adobe has long been the leader in helping people create high quality visual content, so to help brands streamline and enhance their visual publishing efforts, we’re

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44% of US Population get their news via Facebook

Zumvu

After a research carried out by the Pew Research Centre in 2013, it was stated that 44% of the general US population get their news via Faceboook.

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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 Jaguar Land Rover Uses Luxury Content to Connect With Consumers

Contently B2C

In the modern media landscape, one of the biggest challenges for marketers lies in reaching consumers wherever they spend their time. Among luxury brands, few do that better than Jaguar Land Rover. Last fall, the British luxury automotive manufacturer released an original adventure novella written by famed British author William Boyd. The novella, called “ The Vanishing Game ,” lives on Tumblr and is a fully interactive digital experience with narration, ambient sound, and animated p

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7 reasons you’re not getting the most out of customer facing content

Marketing Insider Group

Missing or under-performing customer facing content has a significant impact on strategic business objectives: new customer acquisition and organic revenue growth, sales and marketing productivity and efficiency for lower selling costs, data acquisition and customer experience. B2B lead generation and conversion rates are universally below expectations.

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Pinterest Introduces New Powerful Targeting Tools

Sprout Social

Social marketers understand that data is power. That’s why, when Pinterest beefed up its targeting tools earlier this week, we noticed. Meanwhile, Brooke B. Sellas shared the secret behind “SeeSaw” data and explained how it can provide insights that will shine a spotlight on working smarter, not harder. New Pinterest Targeting Tools Make Ads Even More Effective.

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Global Digital Ad spend to hit $285 billion by 2020

Zumvu

Juniper Research predicts that Global Digital Advertising spends will soar high and hit $285 billion by 2020.

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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.