Calvyn Lee Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

The digital advertising landscape is undergoing major changes that will impact how brands connect with their most valued customers. With Chrome announcing plans to deprecate third-party cookies by 2024, marketers need strategies to maintain effective re-engagement campaigns in this new environment. In this post, we will explore how Google is developing privacy-focused solutions for their ad platforms to support audience targeting and measurement after third-party cookies go away.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

Your mind is ready. Your body is ready. It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. And we’re here to say that we couldn’t be more proud of you. More than 4.95 billion people are social media users. Worldwide, social users spend almost two and a half hours on social platforms each day. No matter your industry—accounting, consulting, dog-food manufacturing, wig-weaving—this is a captive, active audience that your brand can’t afford to ignore. ( Find more eye-popping stats abou

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Martech

JANUARY 18, 2024

Does your organization’s martech stack resemble a disjointed patchwork of tools and platforms? This fragmentation will only create inefficiencies and hinder effective customer engagement. Let’s explore how integrating your martech platforms and tools can enhance your marketing strategy and drive meaningful business growth. Connecting disjointed martech tools and platforms Meet Emily, a marketing manager at a mid-sized ecommerce company.

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Orbit Media Studios

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Andy Crestodina It’s a website. You can put anything there. But should you? People add all kinds of crazy stuff to their sites, often without a thought for strategy or their visitors. It’s common to see websites that distract, confuse or worse. On this blog, we’ve published research showing which website features are standard and how some of those features don’t align with best practices.

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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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Social Media Examiner

JANUARY 18, 2024

Want to improve your marketing content? Looking for a proven, data-driven content strategy model that’s simple to apply? In this article, we’ll explore a social content strategy. Why is a Social Content Strategy so Important? In today's crowded online marketplace, simply having a social media presence is no guarantee of business success. While creators often […] The post Social Content Strategy: How to Build a Loyal and Profitable Audience appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Martech

JANUARY 17, 2024

“I’m actually shocked because I really just thought they were going to be regulated away, but yes, they started out with 32 million folks, so it’s happening.” Tara DeZao, product marketing director for adtech and martech at Pega, was reacting to the news that Google had finally begun phasing out third-party cookies. After multiple delays.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 18, 2024

Frustrated by executives who don’t “get” content marketing yet? Mix and match these six strategies to convert them into content champions (or at least get them clued in.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2024

Dry January. It sounds like the next scary impact of climate change. In reality, it’s part personal challenge and part social movement. Dry January refers to the growing trend of taking the month off from drinking alcohol. Consider it a four-week vacay for your liver. But it’s not meant to be a detox. Instead, the creators say the goal is to reframe your relationship with alcohol as “a conscious choice, not a default.

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Practical eCommerce - Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2024

Reddit posts reveal brand awareness, sentiment, and more. Increasingly they appear in Google search results. The post Reddit Is a Marketing Goldmine appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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SMEI

JANUARY 13, 2024

Willis Turner, President & CEO of SMEI This video was produced using an AI Avatar of Willis Turner and text to voice. “As a community, we can come together and learn to adopt AI tools to be better contributors as sales and marketing professionals. I hope you’ll join us on this exciting journey today!” -Willis Turner, President & CEO, SMEI Learn More About Sales & Marketing AI Vanguards!

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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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Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

Are you tired of chasing cold leads down dead-end alleys? Are appointment-setting services only getting you unqualified leads? Inbound marketing offers a different path, where prospects become loyal customers drawn in by valuable content and engaging experiences. By leveraging key inbound marketing services within your digital marketing strategy, you can upgrade your marketing efforts and better convert prospects into customers.

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OnPassive Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

The future of search is undergoing a significant transition in the rapidly changing digital world. Google is the industry powerhouse in the field of search engines. It is leading the drive with its AI-powered search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), which is destined to transform how we access information online. We’ll look into what SGE is in this blog article, discuss how it can affect organic traffic, and discuss how website owners can adjust to this major change in the digit

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 15, 2024

Copilot Pro, the most advanced and fastest version of Copilot, has been released today by Microsoft. Copilot , the new name for the new Bing Chat experience , now has a paid version that costs $20 per month per user. This brings “a new premium subscription for individuals that provides a higher tier of service for AI capabilities, brings Copilot AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, and new capabilities, such as the ability to create Copilot GPTs,” Microso

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SMEI

JANUARY 16, 2024

What is a GPT and how can it enhance my sales and marketing productivity? A GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence model designed for understanding and generating human-like text. GPT models, like ChatGPT, are trained on a wide range of internet text. They learn patterns and information from this training, which enables them to perform a variety of language-related tasks.

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Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2024

Review web accessibility facts, risks, and the benefits it provides to businesses and users. Learn why and how to implement web accessibility effectively.

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Martech

JANUARY 19, 2024

Email marketing is ubiquitous in both B2B and B2C marketing today. Despite the development of new channels and the dynamic preferences of customers and prospects, email remains the best tactic for staying in touch with consumers. But email marketing is not without its challenges. Today’s consumers receive a lot of email across their personal and business email accounts.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is having an “extreme” impact on healthcare queries and a high impact on ecommerce, B2B tech, insurance and education. That’s according to new data released by enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge and the company’s new-ish technology, BrightEdge Generative Parser. It’s surprising to see healthcare at the top of the list here, where many queries would fall under what Google would consider Your Money or Your Life (YMYL)

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Buffer Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2024

Buffer, as a company, closes the last week of the year every year, and historically, as an engineering team, we’d do a code freeze for the week before we’re closed so nothing broke heading into the holidays. (Pretty smart of us.)  This year, we did something different, and it still worked out. We used the last week of the year as a “fixathon” for our whole engineering team.

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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.

Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2024

Are you feeling swamped by marketing tasks? Email blasts, lead nurturing, data analysis – it can get overwhelming. Fortunately, marketing automation platforms like HubSpot and Marketo can streamline your efforts and boost results. But which platform best suits your business needs?

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SMEI

JANUARY 16, 2024

GPT Library Our library of GPTs that can assist you be more productive as a sales and marketing professional. Come back regularly for new additions! Price Pitch Assists salespeople in handling price objections with tailored advice. The post Library of Sales and Marketing GPTS appeared first on SMEI.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2024

LinkedIn has introduced sponsored articles, providing marketers with an additional tool that may contribute to enhancing brand awareness, increasing engagement, and driving lead generation. Why we care. As LinkedIn users will not have the hassle or inconvenience of having to leave the platform to read the sponsored content, this could result in higher engagement.

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Customers.ai

JANUARY 19, 2024

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: B2B Marketers Aren’t Ready for Google’s New Email Guidelines [Report] appeared first on Customers.ai.

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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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Businesses Grow

JANUARY 15, 2024

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the most famous blog post I’ve written, and arguably one of the most well-known blog posts in marketing history. I am not one to reminisce or grow crazy over anniversaries, but publishing this post ten years ago was a unique, unexpected life experience and cultural moment worthy of explanation. Today, we’ll look at the impact of Content Shock and lessons from one of the most widely shared business blog posts in history.

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Martech

JANUARY 16, 2024

Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to marketers. From incorrect account suspensions to sales calls “aggressively” pushing automation to confusion over the platform’s products, advertisers are exasperated by the lack of help from Google. And the problem only seems to be getting worse. A ‘brutal’ process Mike Kelley, chief marketing officer at Sylvan Learning, has been working in marketing for almost 20 years.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ever reminisce about the days when sprinkling a few keywords on a page was like hitting the SEO jackpot in the search results? In 2024, the world of SEO is the exact opposite of easy. However, for those of us who love to solve SEO puzzles, it’s an exciting time when we’re faced with new challenges and massive opportunities. This year, it’s all about diving deep into the techy side of SEO, getting cozy with AI tools for content and figuring out how to manage rising costs without breaking th

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 17, 2024

Developing content requires you to think about the audience. You use demographic data. But have you considered the personality of your audience? Exploring personality types can enhance your marketing strategy.

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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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Buffer Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ? Tough question. With Google promising to prioritize "helpful content" going into 2024 and studies showing that as little as 5 percent of all content assets generate 90 percent of customer engagement

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Martech

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jay Mandel spent about 20 years in corporate America with brands like MasterCard and IBM. “I was about to turn 40 and I didn’t believe that corporate America could give me what I needed.” Instead, he built a new career around speaking, authorship, teaching and what he calls “consulting in a coaching way.” His message? Use AI but don’t let it chip away at your respect for the skills of marketing.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) has the potential to revolutionize PPC, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and challenges for marketers. A roundtable of experts examined how our industry might change at SMX Next. Brad Geddes , co-founder of Adalysis, spoke with Jyll Saskin Gales , marketing Consultant at Jyll.ca, Greg Kohler , senior digital marketing manager at ServiceMaster Brands, and Aaron Levy , VP of paid search at Tinuiti.

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Customers.ai

JANUARY 18, 2024

Last month we officially launched our Semrush integration and we are happy to say we’re already seeing some exciting results! If you’re one of the people who made the very smart decision to install the Website Visitor ID X-Ray pixel , then we have some tips to help you take your marketing to the next level. If you have yet to install the pixel, then we suggest you head over the Semrush App Center right now.

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