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How to Run an Effective Employee Advocacy Program on Social Media

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Lisa Marcyes You’ve probably heard it before: The best way to build a brand is to start within your own four walls. But how many companies truly take that advice to heart? Employees are a vital component in helping brands expand their reach. With over 2 billion active social media users , it only makes sense to encourage employees to chime in and share your brand updates with their social networks to increase visibility, share of voice, and exposure.

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47 Social Media Statistics to Bookmark for 2017

Sprout Social

Right when you think you’re getting a grasp on your demographics, buyer habits and trends on social media , something new changes and turns your data into old news. That’s why it’s absolutely critical for any marketer to stay up to date on the newest social media statistics. Don’t believe us? Statista recorded new Twitter users grew by 43 million year over year in 2014, but only by 9 million in 2016.

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2017 Budget Friendly Tools and Tips to Organize Your Content

Marketing Insider Group

It’s no secret that there are hundreds of tools, platforms, and outside resources that can help you improve your content marketing efforts. The challenge is understanding which tools you need, the appropriate time to fight for them, and how well they all play together to help you create quality content on a consistent basis. While […]. The post 2017 Budget Friendly Tools and Tips to Organize Your Content appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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10 Grammar and Proofreading Tools for Content Marketers

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Grammar and Proofreading Tools for Content Marketers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In creating online content for your business, you want to ensure it has several essential ingredients checked off before distributing it to your readers. Above all else, it needs to be interesting and engaging for them, or you’ll quickly lose their attention.

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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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5 Simple Ways to Shape Your Content Through Your Culture

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Josh Ritchie Many content marketers think they’re doing content right. They brainstorm. They monitor upcoming events. They plan their editorial calendar based on things like: New product releases and updates. Holidays. Company news. Current events. Trends. Conferences. They stick to their calendar and publish regularly. Yet their content fails.

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#SproutChat Recap: Listening vs. Monitoring on Social Media

Sprout Social

Sprout’s Smart Inbox is a great at ensuring you never miss a mention, important hashtag or branded keyword. As these inbound messages are coming in, is your brand monitoring or actually listening to the needs and requests of your customers? Monitoring focusing on observing and tracking patterns while listening entails insights from pervious conversations.

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Introducing the Content Marketing Maturity Map

Rock Content

Building a robust content marketing operation doesn’t happen instantaneously. It’s a journey, and we have identified the five different levels of maturity that are pit stops along the way. In our Content Marketing Maturity Map, we refer to these five levels of maturity as “landmarks” – and they’re all represented by familiar architectural icons: Stonehenge represents the initial, beginner level of maturity – reactive content marketing – because the cobbled-togetherness of the landmark reflects a

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How Marketers Should Think About Customer Marketing in the Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Chandar Pattabhiram I frequently cite the statistic that only 13% of marketing leaders are working to retain and grow customer relationships through improved customer experiences. But now, we exist in the Engagement Economy—a new era, a digital world where everyone and everything is connected—and keeping customers is quickly becoming more important than acquiring them.

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8 Reasons Your Instagram Followers Aren’t Buying

Sprout Social

Are you investing time, money and resources into Instagram, and only getting a handful of Likes and followers in return? While comments, Likes and new followers are great, they don’t always equate to new customers. Although Instagram is mostly known as a great tool for branding and engagement , it can also be a direct source of new customers. The challenge is figuring out how to turn casual followers into leads and buyers.

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How Personalization Affects Lead Nurturing

Marketing Insider Group

The lead nurturing process walks a prospect through the stages of the sales funnel and continues through the sale. Proper execution requires knowing what to send when and ensuring that you’re adequately meeting your target market’s needs. This involves a variety of marketing strategies that require a thorough understanding of your target market’s characteristics and.

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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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How to Make Story Your Core Message

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Story Your Core Message written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’ve been writing about the use of story in marketing for years, and here’s what I know. A great story has many significant elements, and to have the greatest impact, each of these elements must be built in a certain order. The good news is that there’s a framework that any business can adopt to create an amazing story and grab their ideal customers’ attention.

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The Marketo Approach: 3 Ways to Invest in Your Customers Through Education

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Toby Emerson It’s a given that any company should want its customers to succeed. After all, customer success translates into company success. But it’s one thing to want customer success and another to invest in it. What does an investment in customer success look like? It starts with education. This blog covers three ways to ensure your education program empowers your customers: 1.

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#SproutChat Calendar: Upcoming Topics for March 2017

Sprout Social

The first quarter of the year is coming to a close and here at #SproutChat, we’re just getting started. As we gear up for Q2, we can’t help reflect and ask: What have you learned so far this year? How many connections have you made? This month, we’re trying to answer the questions that directly impact our team’s marketing strategy.

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Is Influencer Marketing 2017’s Most Trendy Trend?

Marketing Insider Group

What is the most powerful trend in marketing right now? That would be influencer marketing according to one recent survey which says influencer marketing is providing a 960% return on investment. How has this type of marketing proved to be so wildly successful, so quickly? How many companies are able to mimic these returns or is […]. The post Is Influencer Marketing 2017’s Most Trendy Trend?

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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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How to Use Content Upgrades and Capture More Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use Content Upgrades and Capture More Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Without a content upgrade, every time someone reads your post, something terrible happens… Nothing. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you get. It doesn’t matter how many shares or comments. Unless that traffic is converting, it’s worthless.

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How Digital Connectivity Impacts Marketing Teams

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Nina Brakel-Schutt In a 21st-century buzzword tournament, “connect” would make the finals. It’s the de-facto relationship verb of digital life, and it seems to take on new meanings every year: “We connected yesterday.”. “I’m losing connectivity.”. “Can we connect these software platforms?”. “Stay connected on the move!”. “Connect with us on Facebook.”.

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7 Tips to Launch Successful Twitter Promotions

Sprout Social

Whether you’re trying to promote a blog post, upcoming event or your products, Twitter is a great option. Despite increased competition on the platform and the move to an algorithm based feed, Twitter promotions can still be effective if well executed. With over 300 million monthly active users , there’s no shortage of people to market to on Twitter.

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How to Grow Your Start Up Safely and Quickly from a Flexible Office

Marketing Insider Group

Each year, the number of ‘digital’ enterprises increases. These days, you do not have to be bound to a brick and mortar location to be successful. Plenty of brands operate exclusively via the internet and scores more run their operations from flexible, coworking environments. Nevertheless, while business models may change, the power of an impressive […].

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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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The Relationship Between Branding and Emotion

Duct Tape Marketing

The Relationship Between Branding and Emotion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Javier Sanchez Lamelas. I think most small businesses have trouble relating to some of the best practices of very large organizations. Things like branding and storytelling seem like vague concepts rather than concrete tactics.

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Best Tools to create Instagram Widgets for your Website

Zumvu

Instagram is one of the most effective, fun and simple way to capture, edit and share photos, videos and messages with friends and family.

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Building the Bambu Mobile App in React Native

Sprout Social

Write once, run on iOS and Android. It’s a goal many developers have set out to accomplish. Early solutions tried to bring web resources to mobile, but never had the experience users expected. Later solutions ditched the web development but were based on proprietary technology. This often led to a lack of a strong community, and much like before, these solutions lost momentum.

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Lead Nurturing’s Biggest Challenges

Marketing Insider Group

Lead nurturing is a vital part of B2B marketing because it‘s a key strategy in driving prospective customers towards a purchase decision. When done right, it can eventually turn prospects into loyal customers who can contribute to sustainable revenue for the long run. While they might not be customers from the get-go, prospects turn. The post Lead Nurturing’s Biggest Challenges appeared first on PureB2B.

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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 Top Apps Are Leveraging Referral Marketing to Boost Downloads

Duct Tape Marketing

How Top Apps Are Leveraging Referral Marketing to Boost Downloads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Customer trust is a commodity that’s remarkably in short supply. Lack of trust is one of the reasons why businesses fail to persuade customers to buy a product or service though they may have handsome rewards or gift coupons on offer.

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6 Content Curation Tools Every Writer Should Know About!

Zumvu

Nowadays, content curation provides content creators an easier and simpler way to produce interesting content.

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The Best (and Worst) of Times: Why Digital Marketing Needs Agility ASAP

Marketing Insider Group

When Charles Dickens wrote the immortal line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” I suspect he might have been living through a time of digital disruption much like the one marketers are experiencing now. Ok, maybe it wasn’t the rapid evolution of the Victorian publishing industry that inspired those […]. The post The Best (and Worst) of Times: Why Digital Marketing Needs Agility ASAP appeared first on The Agile Marketer.

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Make Your Content Marketing Influential by Understanding the Influencers

Marketing Insider Group

There is another benefit on top of the Influencer Marketing ROI we discussed earlier this week.potential when used for your marketing campaigns. Information. Influencers offer gallons of fuel to keep your marketing fire burning in the form of invaluable insights and knowledge about your customer base and about where your brand’s industry is heading.

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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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Weekend Reading: “Ask More” by Frank Sesno

Marketing Insider Group

For the 112th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Frank Sesno, author of “Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change.” You may already know Frank Sesno. He is a former CNN anchor, White House correspondent, and Washington bureau chief. He has interviewed numerous world leaders, including […].

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Is Agile Marketing a Productivity Booster or Buzzword?

Marketing Insider Group

It’s likely you’ve heard the term ‘agile marketing’ at least once today (especially if you’re a member of our MVP Squad). It’s a hot topic in marketing circles and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere soon; either you’re using it, thinking of using it, or perhaps, you’re in that group who just doesn’t quite […].

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Great Content Creators Find Meaning in the Day-to-Day [Podcast]

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketers put creativity up on a pedestal. But when you actually create for a living, you know something far simpler, and you see something hidden in plain sight: brilliance. SUBSCRIBE at [link] Channel Links: iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play FEEDBACK ON THE SHOW? – Email jay@unthinkable.fm – Tweet [link] – Snap [link] LINKS TO KNOW: Joe Lazauskas: https://twitter.com/JoeLazauskas Cara.

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Weekend Favs February 25

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs February 25 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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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.