Sat.Dec 09, 2017 - Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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Customer Engagement: How Well Do You Know Your Audience?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The results of our 2017 State of Engagement Report are in, and there’s good news and bad news. I’ll lead with the positive: 98% of marketers have customer engagement strategies. 82% believe they have a deep understanding of their audience. What that says is that our customers want to be engaged by brands in meaningful ways, and marketers have gotten the message.

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Are You Ready for Content Marketing in 2018? 60+ Predictions

Content Marketing Institute

It’s hard to believe that, after 10 years, this will be the last time I share my annual list of content marketing predictions for CMI. Not to get all sentimental or anything, but looking into the future of our industry and anticipating the content and media trends most likely to impact our businesses has always been a favorite part of the job … and it will be one of CMI’s content experiences I’ll miss the most as I retire from CMI this month. .

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How AI Will Make Marketing More Personalized in 2018

Marketing Insider Group

What’s tomorrow’s secret to better personalization? To more human content and more authentic brand-consumer relationships? Artificial intelligence. AI is making the customer experience more personalized than what most marketers would have ever thought to be possible. Companies are already using artificial intelligence to make their websites, emails, social media posts, video and other content better tailored […].

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10 Influential Female Developers to Know and Love on Stack Overflow | Traackr

Traackr

Based on the analysis of thousands of topics, discover the top contributors to Stack Overflow and learn what makes them leaders in various technical fields.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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B2B Lead Generation Strategies for 2018 Plus 5 Strategies to Kick to the Curb

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

With a new year fast approaching, now is the time to re-evaluate what lead gen strategies are worth keeping and which outdated habits should be kicked to the curb fast. Certain strategies, like content marketing and SEO , are enduring no-brainers that will continue to allow you to thrive in 2018. Others are pushing their way to prominence thanks largely due to shifts in how your audience desires to be engaged with on and offline.

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How to Better Understand the Size and Composition of Your B2B Audience

Content Marketing Institute

In my corporate days, I asked this question of the marketing team on a weekly basis: “Who are these 20,000 people in our email newsletter database? Do they even fit our ideal client profile?”. I’m embarrassed to admit, instead of pushing for the answer, we stayed on the hamster wheel churning out a weekly newsletter featuring one staffer blog post, two curated industry articles, and one marketing meme.

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9 Killer Social Selling Tips Straight from the Experts

Rock Content

Customer expectations continue to evolve. Empowered with information and technology, your buyers are far more informed than ever before. They are looking experts and for trusted advisors who can help them achieve their goals. Meeting customer expectations is one of the biggest challenges facing sales teams. Have a look at this chart from Salesforce’s State of Sales report : To understand how companies are dealing with customers’ autonomy and expectations, I have been interviewing som

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5 Factors to Consider When Segmenting Your Customers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Everyone knows all the usual suspects for customer segmentation. Easily collectible demographics data such as age, gender, and location, are easy wins for companies looking to personalize their marketing materials. In the next few years, the tools that we use for segmentation will give companies an even more significant understanding of each customer on an individual level.

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How Tom’s of Maine Found Success in Micro-Influencer Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Influencer marketing is about growing your audience and leveraging the voice of well-connected people … but using influencers with the biggest audiences isn’t always the answer. Tom’s of Maine uses a micro-influencer model to get the word out about its line of natural products. Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle.

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3 Tips (and a Bonus) for Writing a Better LinkedIn Profile

Marketing Insider Group

“Everyone’s in sales,” Chris said to me on a conference call. Chris and I have been friends for 20+ years and this is the first time our paths have crossed professionally. I know he’s a great sales professional by reputation, but having a front-row seat to watch the magic happen firsthand made me think about […]. The post 3 Tips (and a Bonus) for Writing a Better LinkedIn Profile appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Advertising Your Small Business: Small Budget, Big Results

Duct Tape Marketing

Advertising Your Small Business: Small Budget, Big Results written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re a small business owner with a modest budget, you may be wondering where to begin with advertising. Although the advertising world can be overwhelming, the good news is that you know your business better than anyone else.

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Three Tips to Create Sales Personalization at Scale

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a sales development representative, I am rejected on daily basis. Some leads are kinder than others and let me down easy. Others are short and direct in their response. Now, I get it, we have all experienced the unannounced sales call, interrupting our daily routing to sell us products we neither want nor need, thus making it easier to empathize with the frustration asserted by the voice on the other side of the phone line.

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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

Content Marketing Institute

I learned content distribution, syndication, and SEO very much by accident. Here’s the backstory: In 2005 I was firmly rooted in the world of documentaries. I worked on projects for ABC News, HBO, The New York Times and Frontline – always as a freelancer. I worked on films about terrorism in Europe, Abu Ghraib, Americans preparing for the apocalypse, and more.

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The Top 10 Digital Marketing Articles of 2017

Marketing Insider Group

Rounding the corner on 2018 – and what will likely be a more sophisticated and competitive digital marketing landscape – it’s time to look back at the highlights of 2017. There has been a lot of evolution in the past 12 months. User-generated content and a rainbow of influencer strategies have been changing the way brands […]. The post The Top 10 Digital Marketing Articles of 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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3 Steps to Create Content That Turns Readers into Subscribers Like Clockwork

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Steps to Create Content That Turns Readers into Subscribers Like Clockwork written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Subscribers are a goldmine of marketing potential. They share your content, heed your advice, buy your products, and tell their friends. They are easier to upsell, more profitable, and more loyal. They return again and again, not because they have to, but because they want to.

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How to Avoid the “Not Secure” Warning with Google Chrome Browser Changes

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Earlier this year we all saw the first of a series of planned changes to how Google’s Chrome browser will display HTTP web pages without TLS/SSL encryption. To move towards a safer web, Chrome began displaying a “not secure” warning in the address bar of websites that collect passwords or credit card information. Now, the second step of Chrome’s changes is upon us.

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Stock 2.0: What Savvy Marketers Need to Know About the Changing Rules of Visual Content

Content Marketing Institute

SPONSORED BY STORYBLOCKS. Back in 2015, Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, and Tom Wilkinson were featured in a series of parody stock photos to promote their upcoming movie Unfinished Business. The film has a 10% rating on RottenTomatoes.com, so don’t worry if you never saw it. The faux stock photos were the best part anyway. This series of images inserted the three actors’ heads into existing photos, creating a hilarious mockery of the genre.

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Capitalizing on Healthcare SEO and Content Marketing When the Niche Calls for It

Marketing Insider Group

If you work on behalf of a healthcare professional, like a physician, dentist, or other types of healthcare professional, you probably have an idea of the nature of customer service and especially as it relates to the specific clientele of the medical industry (a.k.a. patients). Possibly you know first-hand because you are the healthcare professional […].

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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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AdWords for Local Businesses

Duct Tape Marketing

AdWords for Local Businesses written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We all want to grow our business, and no matter what industry you’re in, the truth of the matter is that digital space matters. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t care about providing an excellent experience in the real world. Obviously, that should be at the core of everything you do because that’s what’s going to turn a one-time customer into a long-term champion.

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How AI Will Impact Content Discovery And Ad Placements

Rock Content

As search engines like Google, Bing, Facebook and Pinterest increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to surface the most relevant content and ensure advertisements don’t appear next to objectionable content, it’s clear AI still has a lot to learn. But even as AI gets better, what does more AI-based content surveillance mean for brands and marketers?

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How to keep employees from leaving

Lusha

Have you ever considered the money lost from new hire turnover? We tend to mostly just focus on annual turnover rates, but new hire turnover (employees leaving within the first 6 months) is costly, both in time and money lost. So, its extremelyimportant that you make sure you are doing everything you can to minimize the number of new hires leaving. After much research and in talking to industry professionals, we have found that there are three very important things you should always keep in mind

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7 Ways to Get Creative with Email Subject Lines

Marketing Insider Group

Email is still king in digital marketing, but with all the marketing emails, personal, and work messages that people get in their inbox, it’s hard for any brand to stand out. There’s nothing more frustrating than creating a great email campaign only to get abysmal email open rates. Did you know that a third of […]. The post 7 Ways to Get Creative with Email Subject Lines appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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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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How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Matt Watson. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Matt Watson. He has been a developer for over 15 years and is the founder and CEO of Stackify. He started the company to solve the biggest challenge he had at his first company, VinSolutions , which he sold for $150 million.

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How to Robot-Proof Your Job as a Content Creator

Content Marketing Institute

Artificial intelligence is all around us. As I shared in Content Creation Robots Are Here , billions of AI-created pieces of content are published yearly. What does this mean for humans who create content? Are you in danger of losing a job? Not quite. Despite the growth in artificial intelligence capabilities, the human content writer is needed more than ever.

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Content Planning: Lessons From B2B Marketing Leaders

Marketing Insider Group

What do the leading content marketing experts in financial, professional services and technology firms do differently when it comes to content planning? Last year we published the Value of B2B Thought Leadership Survey, which unearthed some real surprises in how C-suite executives view and use thought leadership content. This year’s survey ‘Best practice content marketing: Lessons […].

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Weekend Reading: “Psyched Up” by Daniel McGinn

Marketing Insider Group

For the 153rd episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Daniel McGinn, author of Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed. In Psyched Up, Harvard Business Review Senior Editor Daniel McGinn dives into the latest psychological research and interviews athletes, soldiers, entertainers, and others who, despite years of practice […].

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

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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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Capitalizing on Healthcare SEO and Content Marketing When the Niche Calls for It

Marketing Insider Group

If you work on behalf of a healthcare professional, like a physician, dentist, or other types of healthcare professional, you probably have an idea of the nature of customer service and especially as it relates to the specific clientele of the medical industry (a.k.a. patients). Possibly you know first-hand because you are the healthcare professional […].

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Why You Must Increase Your Negative Reviews

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Increase Your Negative Reviews written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jay Baer. Okay, I’ll admit, the headline for this post probably seems a little odd, so let me explain. No one likes or wants negative reviews, but the fact is, that’s how you get better. In a perfect world, everything your business does makes the customer smile, but I don’t know too many businesses that live in that world.

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Weekend Favs December 16

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs December 16 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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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, podcastbookers.com. Podcast are really hot, right? But you know what’s also really hot? Appearing as a guest on one of the many many podcast out there.

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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.