Sat.Mar 02, 2019 - Fri.Mar 08, 2019

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The Plain-English Guide to Meta Tags & SEO

Hubspot Marketing

In 2018, HubSpot found 61% of marketers said improving SEO and growing their organic presence was their top inbound marketing priority. Undoubtedly, you already know the importance of SEO. SEO enables you to get on page one of Google, and helps you rank for the keywords that matter most for your business. Good SEO can get you in front of the potential customers who are searching for your products or services -- and great SEO can help those users become long-term customers, and even brand loyalis

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3 Next-Level Landing Page Best Practices for 2019

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Landing pages are Marketing 101—or at least they should be. Top-notch marketers must know how to build compelling landing pages specially designed to convince customers to engage and convert. They need to understand the importance of grabbing readers’ attention with catchy headlines, making text easier to consume with short paragraphs and bullet points, and using striking images that create emotional connections.

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7 Steps to Getting Brand Trust Right

Content Marketing Institute

There’s a crisis in consumer trust. Yet brand trust is one of the biggest factors for consumers’ purchasing decisions. Here’s how to address the pressure to not only secure brand trust but to let marketing own it. Continue reading → The post 7 Steps to Getting Brand Trust Right appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The complete guide to online social listening

Sprout Social

If you haven’t noticed by now, social listening is kind of a big deal for brands today. Why? Because we’re capable of learning more than ever by tracking our customers’ social behavior. What products are people digging? What’s got your industry buzzing? Through social listening, you can answer these questions and so much more in an instant. But while the importance of monitoring your mentions and conversations is a no-brainer, many brands are actually missing out on some crucial interactions bec

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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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Total Addressable Market (TAM): What It Is & How You Can Calculate It

Hubspot Marketing

In college, I interned at a MarTech company that sold email marketing optimization software. With their software, brands could finally gain visibility into their email program’s deliverability rate or inbox placement, which almost all email marketing software, like MailChimp and Constant Contact, can’t do. The business’ largest revenue stream was a channel partner program that enabled email marketing software companies to sell my old company’s software to their own customers.

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4 Ways Everyone Can Champion Women in Tech

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Women’s history month is always an opportunity to learn and grow—for every gender, not just women. It’s important to take time to reflect on how far we’ve come. When I started my first job nearly 20 years ago, I adhered to a dress code that required I wear a skirt and pantyhose to work every day. Just 55 years before that, my grandmother got her college degree in home economics as it was one of the few majors available for women.

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How I Grew My Declining Google Traffic

Neil Patel

When you look at the chart above, what do you see? A site that gets a ton of traffic, right? I am a marketer, so I should be somewhat decent at getting traffic… or so you would hope. But here is the thing, just because I am decent at marketing doesn’t mean my Google traffic keeps climbing up and to the right. Just like you, I face challenges. I have ups and downs, I can also get penalized, and I have to continually battle algorithm updates.

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7 of the Best AI Chatbots for 2019

Hubspot Marketing

Whether it’s on Facebook Messenger, their website, or even text messaging, more and more brands are leveraging chatbots to service their customers, market their brand, and even sell their products. But even though most chatbots can handle moderately sophisticated conversations, like welcome conversations and product discovery interactions, the if/then logic that powers their conversational capabilities can be limiting.

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Social Causes That Gen Z Cares About—and Why You Should Care, Too

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The kids are growing up. Believe it or not, the oldest of Generation Z ( those born between 1996 and 2010 , according to MDR) are starting to graduate from college. They’re making many of their own decisions and influencing their parents and society as a whole. For employers and marketers, this demographic can’t be ignored. Gen Z, bigger than Generation X, has an estimated population of more than 60 million, according to consulting firm BridgeWorks.

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5 Ways CMOs Could Tidy Up Their Marketing – The Marie Kondo Way

Marketing Insider Group

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard all the talk about Marie Kondo and her TV show “Tidying Up” on Netflix. Each episode of the show introduces us to someone who has a lot of clutter in their home. Marie guides the messy people to get rid of their clutter and “find […]. The post 5 Ways CMOs Could Tidy Up Their Marketing – The Marie Kondo Way 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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Tech Content Marketers Talk Content Creation Challenges, Tools, and Trends [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

Sixty-eighty percent of tech content marketers named creating content that appeals to multiple roles as their top challenge. Find out what else they had to say in Technology Content Marketing 2019: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends. Continue reading → The post Tech Content Marketers Talk Content Creation Challenges, Tools, and Trends [New Research] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The 19 Best Content Marketing Tools in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

While no content marketing tool can replace a solid strategy and talented humans, having the right tech stack can certainly help you get the job done better, easier, and more efficiently. There are hundreds of content marketing tools available, some free or cheap and some very expensive. They also serve tons of different purposes, from content ideation to production to promote, optimization, and more.

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Software engineering personalities: the Teslas and the Edisons

Sprout Social

In the history of inventions, the rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is one of the most famous. Their competition in the field of electricity is sometimes referred to as the “war of currents.” Live Science describes Tesla as having the ability to “accurately visualize intricate 3D objects” and “really work out his inventions in his imagination.

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6 Creative Ways to Recycle Your Content

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s face it. Coming up with new ideas for content can be a struggle. We are so entrenched in our work and our specific industries that the topics that matter begin to fade from view and new concepts may start to feel like we’ve already been there, done that. Here’s a well-known secret: the content […]. The post 6 Creative Ways to Recycle Your Content 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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Instagram Marketing: Social Media Experts Share Top Tips

Content Marketing Institute

Instagram offers big bang for your social media buck and creative ways to build active, engaged communities. Learn how to get an edge on your competition with this new roundup of the best Instagram tips and tricks. Continue reading → The post Instagram Marketing: Social Media Experts Share Top Tips appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Why You Shouldn’t Send Image-Only Emails

Litmus

We’ve all been there: your boss or client just asked you to set up an email that’s almost entirely made out of images. “Our industry peers also send emails that are one big image,” your client might say. “Images just make it easier to keep the design consistent. We can use our brands’ fonts, place copy on images, and more—all without coding,” you hear your design team argue.

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Why Storytelling Can Help Your Business’ Bottom Line

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Storytelling Can Help Your Business’ Bottom Line written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you’re thinking about how to promote your business, it can be tempting to focus solely on your products and services. After all, when you boil any business down to its most essential element it is about getting consumers to purchase the product or service that’s being offered.

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Why You Need to Share Your Brand’s Story

Marketing Insider Group

Imagine that you’re on a first date. Okay, we know it can be a little nerve-wracking, but stay with us. Think of everything you do on a first date: There may be some nervous laughter, some playful banter, telling of jokes. But most importantly, it’s you divulging information about yourself. Your date leaning over the […]. The post Why You Need to Share Your Brand’s Story appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Branded Content, Native Ads, or Content Marketing?

Content Marketing Institute

Understanding the differences among content marketing, branded content, and native advertising can help you make a better business case for each and optimize your chance for success. Let the learning begin. Continue reading → The post Branded Content, Native Ads, or Content Marketing? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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What is BIMI and why should email marketers care?

Litmus

Email marketers are on a constant search for a silver bullet—the one trick that gives them better visibility in front of subscribers and gets their message opened. While no such solution exists (despite what many vendors will tell you), there’s a new standard that can help your brand stand out in the inbox. BIMI, or Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is a new standard created to make it easier to get your logo displayed next to your message in the inbox.

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Marrying Content with the Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Arnie Kuenn. Podcast Transcript. On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Prior to founding the digital marketing agency Vertical Measures in 2006, Kuenn founded several other businesses, including MediaChoice, an internet startup whose clients included the major television networks, plus

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How to Use Behavioral Data for Triggered B2B Emails

Marketing Insider Group

Aside from providing the necessary information about your products and services to drive the purchasing decision, several email marketing best practices can also build engagement and rapport with your clients. But not one single email message can work; you have to understand first what your prospects are doing on your site to be able to […]. The post How to Use Behavioral Data for Triggered B2B Emails 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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Don’t Let the Toddler Trap Torpedo Your Content Productivity

Content Marketing Institute

Toddlers have short attention spans, ultimately leaving in their wake a trail of orphaned blocks, half-eaten strawberries, and half-dressed dolls. Is that how your content team operates? Here’s how to grow up your project management. Continue reading → The post Don’t Let the Toddler Trap Torpedo Your Content Productivity appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Understanding Structured Data in Email Marketing

Litmus

The typical email marketing campaign includes a lot of information. From subject lines to unsubscribe links, hero images to headlines, copy and calls-to-action, it’s a lot for a subscriber to take in. With so much data floating around a campaign, why would email marketers send even more? One reason is that a specific type of data—structured data—provides new opportunities to get valuable information in front of subscribers.

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Producing dynamic travel display ads with a CMP

Bannerflow

Dynamic travel display campaigns are a must for the savvy travel marketer. In this blog, we explain how a creative management platform (CMP) makes using dynamic content simple by: Making it easy to add a data feed. Combining rich media and data feeds. Automating complex processes. Personalising large display campaigns. Hyper-relevant and engaging ads that convert.

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How Professional Service Firms Grow Through Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

As a business, you’re always looking for ways to sell your products or services. Content marketing is a great way to do so: When you generate informative, useful, and interesting content for your audience, you can also directly or indirectly sell your products or services to them. And for B2B marketing, it’s an absolute necessity. […]. The post How Professional Service Firms Grow Through Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Transcript of Marrying Content with the Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing.

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A Comprehensive Analysis of the New Domain Authority

Moz

Posted by rjonesx. Moz's Domain Authority is requested over 1,000,000,000 times per year, it's referenced millions of times on the web, and it has become a veritable household name among search engine optimizers for a variety of use cases, from determining the success of a link building campaign to qualifying domains for purchase. With the launch of Moz's entirely new, improved, and much larger link index, we recognized the opportunity to revisit Domain Authority with the same rigor as we did ke

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Programmatic advertising trends 2019

Bannerflow

Advertisers worldwide are ready to invest 65% of their digital ad spend in programmatic in 2019. In fact, programmatic channels are rapidly becoming the most important medium for digital marketers worldwide. What does this mean for advertisers? What does the future of the programmatic landscape look like? Read on to find out… Programmatic DOOH will explode into the mainstream.

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Technology Content Marketing Challenges Revealed [CMI Research]

Marketing Insider Group

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) released new research relating to technology content marketing. This in-depth report, Technology Content Marketing 2019: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends is based on responses from 364 content marketers in the technology industry. Most of the responses are from B2B brands, but perspectives from B2C marketers were also captured.

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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.