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How to Master Facebook for Small Business

Sprout Social

So you don’t have a marketing team with fancy titles like “Inbound Marketing Manager” or “Social Media Analyst.” That doesn’t mean that you cannot rock Facebook for small business. Did you know there are 1.04 billion daily active users on Facebook? That is daily active users. Imagine getting a piece of that action. The numbers are outstanding. If you are not taking advantage of this powerful network, you are missing out.

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3 Ways to Grow Your Business With User-Generated Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Joanna Alter Because of its ubiquity, buyers have grown wary of branded content, and so they easily tune it out. What they do respond to, however, is authentic content generated by your most valuable asset —your customers! User-generated content (UGC) is essentially any content related to your brand that is voluntarily produced by your customers.

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How to Win Influencers and Friend People

Marketing Insider Group

If this headline sounds familiar, it’s because Dale Carnegie wrote the bestselling book about social influence, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” in 1937. Even though digital influence wasn’t around back then, the basics of human connection remain the same: How you choose to connect with people (online or offline) influences your business. When […].

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7 Commandments For A Good Content Experience

Rock Content

It’s no secret that consumers are taking control of what content they choose to see. The makers of the ad blocking software Adblock Plus recently reported that it has over 100 million active users worldwide, and a study by Forbes revealed that only 1% of millennials surveyed would trust a brand based on a compelling advertisement. Marketing is getting tougher, and marketers need to do a better job of planning and creating content that hits the mark.

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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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Facebook Fan Page vs. Profile: Know the Difference

Sprout Social

A platform as massive as Facebook is bound to have some confusion around its features and functionality. And with so many moving parts, marketers may find it challenging to decipher which features are best for their business. One of the biggest sources of confusion for a business is whether to use a Facebook Profile or a Facebook Fan Page to represent yourself.

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7 Marketing Automation Predictions: A SiriusDecisions Roundup

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Charm Bianchini The 11 th annual SiriusDecisions Summit was held in Nashville last week and featured 30 new frameworks, customer ROI presentations, and multiple analyst and practitioner case studies. A key session that stood out and created a lot of buzz amongst the crowd: Marketing Automation: What the Future Holds. Most marketers are familiar with marketing automation; in fact, you may already use it.

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Local SEO Tips For Small Business Owners

Duct Tape Marketing

Local SEO Tips For Small Business Owners written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Phil Singleton. No matter what you are selling – hardware to legal services – people are looking online. When someone turns to a search engine to find a source locally they intend to buy – perhaps today! Any business that wants to thrive locally must get very, very good at local SEO.

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Social Media News You Can Use: Character Count, Customers & Content

Sprout Social

This week in social media, Twitter announced it was adding more flexibility to Tweets, Rebekah Radice shared how small businesses can market themselves on social media and Stephan Hovnanian dropped some knowledge on ways that brands can better appreciate their advocates. Twitter: Express Even More In 140 Characters. In the coming months we’ll make changes to simplify Tweets including what counts toward your 140 characters.

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How to Keep Your Cool and Put Out Fires at Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mary Kate Francis Even if you aren’t an event marketer, if you’ve ever planned a vacation or thrown a party, you know that things will happen that are out of your control. If you’ve ever planned an event, however big or small, then you have an idea of the sort of adaptability and resourcefulness that event marketers need. Many of the unforeseen circumstances that can happen at events–whether trade shows, conferences, or virtual events–are out of your control.

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How New SaaS Companies (& B2B Startups) Should Be Using Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

CMI’s 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Survey found that 88% of B2B companies are using content marketing. Why? Because it works. Content improves customer and brand relations. It can influence purchasing decisions. It can rank in the search results and drive qualified traffic to your site. It can encourage people to link back to […]. The post How New SaaS Companies (& B2B Startups) Should Be Using Content Marketing 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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Relationship Building : How to Expand Business Network

Duct Tape Marketing

Relationship Building : How to Expand Business Network written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. A relationship building activity in business is a far cry from building personal relationships. Yet, business relationships do have some similarities that clearly require good interpersonal skills and communication. When it is time to expand a business network, it takes a bit of planning and design to affect seamless relationship building activities.

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Should You Gamify Your Employee Advocacy Program?

Sprout Social

If your brand is serious about maximizing its message on social, you’re undoubtedly running an employee advocacy program. Such a program invites employees to connect their social profiles to a platform containing curated company news, which can then be shared across individual networks. Not only does this help increase an organization’s digital footprint, but it also positions members of a company’s workforce as trusted experts.

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3 Easy Tactics to Get Personal with Your Audience

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Renata Bell Yesterday, I received an email from a retailer suggesting that I purchase a product I already bought last month. Don’t they know me by now?! It’s amazing how we’ve gone from the transactional nature of shopping on the web to demanding a personalized experience. Small wonder, a recent Edelman report reveals that 87% percent of buyers demand meaningful, contextual, relevant experiences.

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Why Data-Driven Marketing Is The Next Big Thing

Marketing Insider Group

The average click through rates for display advertising is now at a disappointing 0.06%. And with the rise of social media and new technologies like ad blockers, more and more brands are finally embracing and shifting their investments to content marketing. More companies are realizing the need to become publishers to reach, engage and convert […].

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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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6 PPC Misconceptions You Need to Know for Success

Duct Tape Marketing

6 PPC Misconceptions You Need to Know for Success written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Free Digital Photos. PPC won’t make you wealthy overnight, spawn record-setting sales or turn your company into the ‘next big thing.’ Like any tool available to marketers, there are some quick wins, but the long-term gains are where you’ll excel.

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#SproutChat Recap: How to Get Scrappy with Digital Marketing

Sprout Social

Remaining scrappy is all about simplifying your marketing efforts down to what’s really important, executing your plan in the most effective way and always welcoming new ideas and inspiration. Sometimes, brand messaging and campaigns can be convoluted and messy. This week at #SproutChat , Nick Westergaard , Chief Brand Strategist at Brand Driven Digital and author of Get Scrappy , joined us to share his knowledge and insight on implementing a smarter, scrappier digital marketing strategy.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Content Syndication

Rock Content

Content syndication isn’t just for the local newspapers – it’s now an important piece in the content marketing framework. Last year 77% of B2C (and 76% of B2B companies) said they plan to step up their content production in 2016. But how do you produce a stream of quality content without maxing out your resources? Content syndication is a huge time saver for marketers struggling to feed the “content hungry beast.” It can fill in knowledge gaps where internal experti

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15+ Best Practices And Tools To Create Awesome Visual Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

When you hear visual marketing, does it make you want to scream and run away? As marketers, we all know that today’s audience needs more than just valuable content that educates and informs. They also want visual content to entertain and delight them. But for marketers who are design-phobes with limited resources, what should you […]. The post 15+ Best Practices And Tools To Create Awesome Visual Marketing 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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Why Social Media Isn’t Working and What to Do About It

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Social Media Isn’t Working and What to Do About It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Social media as a way of life is approaching ten. Already there have been proclamations of its supreme awesomeness accompanied by more recent claims of its demise. But look, here’s the deal – social media isn’t dead – it’s just fed up with how it’s being abused.

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The 10 Top Posts From Content Marketing World Speakers

Marketing Insider Group

Content Marketing World, the largest Content Marketing event on the planet, returns to Cleveland, Ohio for a 6th year! We’ll be there, and would love to see you! It takes place September 6-9, 2016, so mark your calendars. And, um, have you heard? Mark Hamill (aka THE Luke Skywalker) will be the main keynote! I’m […]. The post The 10 Top Posts From Content Marketing World Speakers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 Best Criteria to Segment Your Site Traffic and Personalize the Customer Journey

Marketing Insider Group

If every visitor to your website is funneled into the same pages, offered the same options, and given the same user experience, you could be cheating yourself out of conversions. This is because your user experience design is targeting a generic mishmash of your visitors. The result is often not particularly engaging for anybody. In […]. The post 5 Best Criteria to Segment Your Site Traffic and Personalize the Customer Journey appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Reframing Content ROI and the Case for B2B Content

Marketing Insider Group

Despite a plethora of articles recommending methods to determine content ROI, this continues to be a hot and confusing topic for many B2B marketers. Why is this? There are different purposes and uses for ROI. Content performance, at an asset or campaign level, is typically the way marketers think of content ROI. While difficult to measure, marketers […].

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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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Get Intelligent with your Inbound Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Producing good content and enabling prospects to easily find it is a great strategy for building top of the funnel leads. In fact, that is what inbound marketing is all about – bringing the leads in to engage with your content so you can build a relationship over time. You can drive these visitors to […]. The post Get Intelligent with your Inbound Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Understanding the True Cost of Content in B2B Organizations

Marketing Insider Group

There’s a familiar expression used to describe some people. They “know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.” When it customs to B2B marketing and selling content, it appears most organizations don’t know either. The rhetoric of “data driven decisions” has become a business imperative and key B2B competency. In addition to being […].

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Preparing Your Marketing Strategies For Chatbots

Marketing Insider Group

Chatbots are the newest hot topic in the world of tech and marketing. Facebook’s recent announcement about Messenger supporting chatbots and that they want to open a chatbot store shows how they view the future of social interactions. This could be a huge change in how businesses interact with consumers. As with every new […]. The post Preparing Your Marketing Strategies For Chatbots appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Analytics In The Age of Mobile: 5 Ideas To Track Your Success

Marketing Insider Group

Mobile analytics are the new focus point for marketing. We live in the age of mobile, there is no doubt about this. Within 2017 more than 63,4% of mobile phone users will access online content through their devices. Consumers, leads and prospects are using their smartphones to do pretty much everything – find information on […]. The post Analytics In The Age of Mobile: 5 Ideas To Track Your Success appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Measuring the Success of Virality

Marketing Insider Group

By Jennifer Johnson, Marketing Manager at Alexa Content marketing is no longer the new kid in town: Not only do 3 out of 4 marketers prioritize an inbound approach regardless of their size or budget, but companies plan to allocate nearly a third of their total marketing budget to content marketing this year. The good news […]. The post Measuring the Success of Virality appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.