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5 New Social Media Platforms Marketers Should Watch in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

When you visit the App Store or Google Play and search "social media," there are hundreds of apps to choose from. But, as the pool of social platforms grows, will any of them really change the game for marketers this year? The truth is, probably not. In fact, HubSpot's own social media experts say we should be paying attention to how older platforms evolve in 2019.

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10 Reasons to Drop What You Are Doing and Register For Marketing Nation Live—Now

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing Nation Live, a B2B Marketing virtual event, is bringing together marketers from all over the world on September 18 for a day full of inspiration, education, and social networking. The virtual event has a little bit of something for everyone. Here’s why we think you should register. 1. With two inspiring keynotes and 15 in-depth breakout sessions from Marketo Engage experts and customers, attendees will be empowered to unleash their full marketing potential in 2020. 2.

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How to Track and Improve Your Rankings Without Spending Money

Neil Patel

Can you guess how most people improve their rankings? Well, they either hire an SEO firm, which is expensive, or they do it themselves, which is time-consuming. There must be a better solution, right? One that still gets results, doesn’t take as much time and doesn’t cost any money. Well, I’m about to make a major upgrade to Ubersuggest in the next 30 days that will help you do just this.

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How to Bulk Schedule Social Media Posts (Up to 350!) and Save Time

Hootsuite

Scheduling social media messages in bulk saves you time to focus on important things like customer research, building engagement, and creating new memes to share on your office Slack channel. A good bulk schedule tool makes daily posting more efficient and takes the worry out of keeping up with your content calendar. Each day, you know exactly how many posts will go out and when.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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2020 Content Marketing: What’s Clear and What Needs to Be in Focus

Content Marketing Institute

If hindsight is 20/20, then this article offers both hindsight and foresight. Over 25 CMWorld 2019 speakers put on their 2020 content marketing glasses to see where marketers are passing the vision test – and what’s still blurry. Continue reading → The post 2020 Content Marketing: What’s Clear and What Needs to Be in Focus appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The Future of Marketing and the Changing Role of the CMO

Marketing Insider Group

According to a recent report by Forrester, 88% of organizations agree that the role of the CMO has changed in the last couple of years, and will continue to change over the next two years. In a world of rapidly advancing technology, changing customer attitudes, and unpredictable trends, marketing is evolving at lightning speed. The role […]. The post The Future of Marketing and the Changing Role of the CMO appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Delivering Episode 8: Voice Assistants and Email

Litmus

In this episode of Delivering, host Jason Rodriguez tests out the current state of voice assistants and email marketing. Do email marketers really need to worry about Alexa and friends? Be sure to subscribe to Delivering on iTunes or Spotify to listen to future episodes and join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #DeliveringPodcast. Show Transcript.

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For Better Results, Think of Content Marketing Like a Product

Content Marketing Institute

Your content marketing can’t achieve its potential if it’s structured as one project after another. Cleveland Clinic marketing leaders share how to give your content marketing a product-focused approach for bigger success. Continue reading → The post For Better Results, Think of Content Marketing Like a Product appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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4 Secrets to Activating Your Employees For Marketing ROI

Marketing Insider Group

While employee engagement was once thought of as just another “buzzword” or HR trend, it’s now a must. Organizations large and small are realizing the importance of engaging their employees at work for improved productivity and a better working environment. In fact, employee engagement in the US has increased to a high of 34% according […]. The post 4 Secrets to Activating Your Employees For Marketing ROI appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The Ultimate Guide to SEO Meta Tags

Moz

Posted by katemorris Editor's note: This post first appeared in April of 2017, but because SEO (and Google) changes so quickly, we figured it was time for a refresh! Meta tags represent the beginning of most SEO training, for better or for worse. I contemplated exactly how to introduce this topic because we always hear about the bad side of meta tags — namely, the keywords meta tag.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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To Niche, or Not to Niche in Your Business?

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on To Niche, or Not to Niche in Your Business? There’s a big movement today of people selling advice, programs, and courses about how to build your business that all sound like this: “Find a niche, run Facebook ads to this niche. Then become specialized, and get rich.” While I won’t go as far as to call this a marketing scam, I will say that I think it’s bad advice.

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Want to Scale Your Content Marketing? Get the Employees Involved

Content Marketing Institute

Every person has a story to tell. And if you are a smart content marketer, you know that every employee has a story that can sell your brand. If you want to scale your content marketing, you must look to the brand’s employees. Continue reading → The post Want to Scale Your Content Marketing? Get the Employees Involved appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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10 Simple Steps to Create a Great Event Marketing Plan

Marketing Insider Group

We’ll admit—it’s a challenge to put together an event. But, if you break down the process into simple steps, you can have an event marketing plan that will not only ease your own worries but will rock the socks off your attendees. Quick Takeaways Use your website as your online home base, augmenting it with […]. The post 10 Simple Steps to Create a Great Event Marketing Plan appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The ABCs of Video Content: How to Build a Video Marketing Strategy

Moz

Posted by getsprunk Take a moment to think about how you’ve used the internet today. Which posts made you stop scrolling through your Instagram feed? What webpages did you spend the most time on? What content did you enjoy? If you’re like most of us, there’s a good chance that videos played a factor in your answers to all three of those questions. So it’s no surprise that marketing experts have been encouraging brands to use more video for years now.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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How to Improve Customer Retention Through Paid Search

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Improve Customer Retention Through Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. A lot of marketers and business owners think of advertising as a tool to attract the attention of new customers. But the great thing about paid search is that it’s also a powerful way to improve customer retention. Once you go through all the trouble of winning over new business, it’s worth your while to put in the effort to keep them coming back.

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Agencies: How to Set Your Clients’ Content Marketing Expectations

Content Marketing Institute

Knowing how to apply content marketing, branded content, and native advertising is different than being able to clearly explain their value to your clients. Use this primer to align expectations and deliver better results. Continue reading → The post Agencies: How to Set Your Clients’ Content Marketing Expectations appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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5 Steps to Align Your Influencer and Content Marketing Strategies

Marketing Insider Group

Imagine going grocery shopping not for you, but for each kitchen appliance. You might get ice cream for the freezer, a turkey for the oven, and ramen for the stovetop. Sure, you’ve made use of your resources — but is the meal one you’d truly want to serve? That may sound ridiculous, but it’s exactly […]. The post 5 Steps to Align Your Influencer and Content Marketing Strategies appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 Troubling Signs of a Broken Email Process

Litmus

From the first campaign idea to hitting send, getting an email out the door involves a multitude of steps, tools, and stakeholders. But what’s the secret to keeping the moving pieces together to shape a well-oiled email marketing machine? It’s building a bulletproof process! . It’s easy to underestimate the power of process. Sure, “process optimization” doesn’t sound all that exciting.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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9 Tips to Integrate Organic, Paid, and Content - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by HeatherPhysioc Search can't live in a silo. If you want to see success, cross-collaboration across your organic, content, and paid teams is absolutely key. But that takes a huge amount of effort, from untangling communication to cross-training to getting buy-in from everyone involved. What's a search marketer to do? If you missed her talk this year at MozCon 2019 , here's your chance to make up for it!

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Smart Content Strategist Goes Way Beyond ‘Dummies’ for Salesforce (B2B CMY Finalist)

Content Marketing Institute

Heike Young creates content reflecting a research-driven, customer focus that fits in a cross-platform plan supported by employee engagement. Learn more about why this Salesforce content leader is a Content Marketer of the Year finalist. Continue reading → The post Smart Content Strategist Goes Way Beyond ‘Dummies’ for Salesforce (B2B CMY Finalist) appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Intent Data in your Marketing Funnel: The Challenges and Strategies

Marketing Insider Group

Technology has changed the way consumers behave, requiring companies to overhaul their sales and marketing strategies. Clients and prospects do not only expect premium products and services, they expect an outstanding customer experience throughout the whole process. The role of marketing and sales are intertwined – their work is complimentary and leads to collective revenue […].

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10 Reasons to Drop What You Are Doing and Register For Marketing Nation Live—Now

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing Nation Live, a B2B Marketing virtual event, is bringing together marketers from all over the world on September 18 for a day full of inspiration, education, and social networking. The virtual event has a little bit of something for everyone. Here’s why we think you should register. 1. With two inspiring keynotes and 15 in-depth breakout sessions from Marketo Engage experts and customers, attendees will be empowered to unleash their full marketing potential in 2020. 2.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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How the Raptors Redefined Fan Engagement During the 2019 NBA Playoffs

Rock Content

When the Toronto Raptors took the 2019 NBA Championship to Game 6 against the Golden State Warriors, it was an epic moment. Not only was it Toronto’s first NBA title, but it was also the first time that the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy came North of the US border. And while that’s history-making on its own; it’s eclipsed by how the team, the owners, the media, and an entire country won the title for best fan engagement.

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Weekend Favs July 20

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs July 20 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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Most Viewed Video Ads: Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Tops the Chart

illumin

Last week, Google made another strong showing on the chart with three campaigns taking spots in the top 10 with Samsung leading the way! The week also includes food and beverage brands like Bacardi and Taco Bell. Take a look at some of the top ads below: Samsung. Coming in first place is Samsung with it’s 1-Click Shift for the Galaxy S10. The 10-second spot showcases just how easy it is to go from listening to music on your phone to pushing the music seamlessly to the TV with just one clic

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Drive Innovation, Scale Your Program, Improve Performance: Elevate your Email Skills at Litmus Live 2019

Litmus

Litmus Live is right around the corner. The London conference is less than a month away and tickets for Boston and San Francisco are selling fast ( so get yours today )! The agendas for all three cities are live, and we are so excited about some of the themes cropping up in this year’s conferences that we just had to write a post highlighting them. Curious what you’ll learn about at Litmus Live 2019?

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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How the Raptors Redefined Fan Engagement During the 2019 NBA Playoffs

Rock Content

When the Toronto Raptors took the 2019 NBA Championship to Game 6 against the Golden State Warriors, it was an epic moment. Not only was it Toronto’s first NBA title, but it was also the first time that the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy came North of the US border. And while that’s history-making on its own; it’s eclipsed by how the team, the owners, the media, and an entire country won the title for best fan engagement.

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16 of the Best Facebook Ad Examples to Inspire Your Next Campaign

Hootsuite

As of April 2019, Facebook’s potential advertising reach globally is 1.887 billion people. That represents 32% of everyone over the age of 13. Statistics also show that people continue to interact with Facebook ads. The average Facebook user clicks on 11 ads in 30 days. But there’s a lot of competition out there, so only the best Facebook ad examples will get one of those coveted 11 clicks.

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Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity: Passions

illumin

We’re back with our Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity series where we’re taking a deep dive into our approach to using technology to access multicultural audiences for digital advertisers. One of the most important changes to advertising in the last twenty years has been the shift of power from the brand, to the consumer. Consumers are smarter, more particular, and they research and buy across a wide range of channels and devices.

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What are fake influencers and how can you spot them?

Sprout Social

As consumers, we’re often swayed by the opinions of people we consider as experts in the field. We seek out reliable review videos and blog posts from influential figures as we research products or services. A study by Olapic even found that 31% of respondents have purchased a product or service after seeing it in an influencer’s social media post. So it’s no surprise that brands have been embracing the power of influencer marketing to increase brand awareness and trust.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission