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7 Amazing Sample Answers to "What Makes You Unique?"

Hubspot Marketing

There are plenty of things that make each one of us unique. For instance, here are a few quirks of mine -- I put my phone on airplane mode every night around 9 p.m. to avoid distractions, even though plenty of my friends have pointed out that the silence button works too. I can't sit still for long periods of time, so I regularly do laps around the office.

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How to Improve Your Conversion Rate with a Great UX

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

No marketing manager today is satisfied with his or her website. Whether the sticking point is usability or conversions, there is always room for improvement. When I’m presenting at a conference, I always say to the crowd, “Raise your hand if you’re satisfied with how your site converts.” And nobody ever raises his hand. Digital capabilities are becoming faster every day.

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Facebook Page publishing authorization: changes you need to know

Sprout Social

Businesses just can’t seem to catch a break from Facebook, can they? Kicking off 2018 with a reach-rocking algorithm shift , the social giant is now throwing some business owners for a loop with some recent changes to their Pages platform. That said, the new Facebook Page publishing authorization is something that brands of all shapes and sizes should be aware of.

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6 Examples of AI Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Technology is evolving and the world of online marketing is evolving along with it. Artificial intelligence and machine learning now make a wide variety of marketing tasks easy; even those which would have been impossible only a few years ago. We’re still in the very early stages of using AI in marketing but even so, there are some […]. The post 6 Examples of AI Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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The 15 Best WordPress Video Themes in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

If you’re someone who produces videos professionally, sells video content, or simply creates videos as a hobby, you need a place to share your work online. Not every WordPress theme is set up to house your artwork — you’ll need a video theme that will create the experience you want your visitors to have the moment they enter your website. With the variety of WordPress video themes available, finding just one to use on your website may feel time-consuming and tedious.

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Why a High Performing Product Marketing Team Is the Key to Growth

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Sales drives revenue. Demand gen creates leads. Customer success reduces churn. What does product marketing do? If you can’t answer, don’t worry. You’re not alone. Having built and led worldwide product marketing teams for over a decade, the question I most often got from employees across the business was, “what is it your team does again?”. It’s not a simple answer, and that’s likely what has led to the confusion.

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12 Expert Ideas to Improve Your Content Marketing for Better Leads

Content Marketing Institute

Many brands leverage content marketing to generate qualified leads and boost sales. In fact, content marketing generates over three times more leads as outbound marketing and costs 62% less. When your goal is to generate leads, you need to incorporate that objective into an effective content marketing strategy. To help, I’ve put together this expert roundup on the most effective content marketing practices to help you identify potential customers and nurture your relationships with them.

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5 Impressive Resume Objective Examples to Help You Craft Your Own

Hubspot Marketing

With only six seconds to grab a recruiter’s attention , conventional wisdom might tell you to cut right to the chase when you write your resume. A lot of people say a resume objective just waste precious space. But if you craft it in a way that highlights your qualifications, skills, and fit for a role, an objective can actually enhance your resume by giving recruiters a sneak peek of your background that prompts them to keep reading.

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Secrets for Leveraging Video on Lesser-Used Social Media Platforms

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The heavy hitters of social media get all the attention, but they’re far from the only players in the game. Facebook (and its photogenic friend, Instagram), Twitter, and YouTube dominate online discussions, but what about the not-so-little guys in the shadows? Sites like Reddit, Tumblr, Quora, and Pinterest offer plenty of opportunities for marketers savvy enough to spot it.

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How email marketing can amplify your social strategy

Sprout Social

It can seem like social media and email are completely separate things that have little to do with each other. They’re just different communication channels, right? Different ways to reach out to our audience. But what if email could actually help your social media presence? What if you could strategically use email to amplify your social strategy?

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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 6 Brands Stand Out and Get Results from Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

This post was co-written by Shopify’s Casandra Campbell. Imagine increasing revenue by 34.7% ($3.4 million in one year) from your FAQ section alone or growing conversion rates from your blog by 800%. These aren’t made-up numbers. These are real results from real companies shared in response to our request for examples of awesome content marketing via HARO and other channels.

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5 Popular Job Boards That Will Help You Hire The Most Qualified Candidates

Hubspot Marketing

As a recruiter, your job isn’t just limited to finding qualified candidates to fill your company’s new roles. You also have to promote these roles and convince the best applicants to join your company. In other words, you’re not just a recruiter -- you’re also a marketer and a sales person. As a marketer of your employer’s mission and culture, you need to think like a content strategist, especially during the digital age.

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The Definitive Guide to Holiday Conversations About Your Job

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It happens every year. After going back to the kitchen for thirds, you return to the dinner table. You top off your glass of wine, and prepare to eat like you haven’t tasted food in a week. The perfect forkful of food is loaded, you open your mouth like it’s the gate to Disneyland, and seconds before you jump on the gravy train, your Aunt Martha asks the question you feared from across the table: “So honey, what exactly do you do at work all day?”.

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11 copywriting tips for Facebook ads and chatbots

Sprout Social

Marketing and advertising have changed over the past decade or so. Television ads are muted; internet users can block advertising. And anyone who is willing to consider reading, watching, or listening to an online advertisement demands to be captured by a compelling and engaging ad or marketing campaign. This is the challenge for marketers – how to capture the attention of the right audience at the right time and be so compelling that viewers stop and take notice.

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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 These Unusual Sources Make Your Content Stand Out

Content Marketing Institute

If you want your content to stand out – and up – in the vast sea of content, you need to create something sufficiently novel and useful. You need to invest in research methods that will put you ahead of the pack. Here are seven methods that will help you do just that. 1. Peer-reviewed literature. Few things lend your content more authority than the inclusion of a scientific study or original research conducted by academic professionals.

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How to Give Yourself Profit-Building Clout with Blog Posts

Marketing Insider Group

“I should write a book,” said one exasperated pediatrician whose patients’ after-hours questions kept her up practically all night. She meant, perhaps, that she should chronicle her trials and tribulations with an autobiographical work—as British country veterinarian James Herriot (of All Creatures Great and Small) did with great success. As someone who specializes in marketing, I’d […].

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How to Utilize the Power of Gmail’s New Promotions Tab

Litmus

Heads-up, email geeks! The Gmail Promotions tab has gotten a major update that you shouldn’t miss. The new Promotions tab provides email marketers with brand new, more visual opportunities to deliver even more value to Gmail users—and makes it easier and faster for subscribers to see inspiring images and deals. . The new Gmail Promotions tab. strengthens the future of personal. email: amplifying the most valuable. parts of the best B2C email.

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Planning & executing social media for global brands

Sprout Social

When designing a social media strategy for a global brand, there are many things to take into consideration. Should you start a new profile for every country and build your presence up from scratch? Or would it be easier to manage a global account? This guide is divided into two parts: Planning : Think about your brand and the strategy you want to take.

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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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7 Content Marketing Tasks to Automate Right Now

Content Marketing Institute

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. It’s a mainstay of modern marketing. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. No matter how far AI advances go, software will never replace a human for crafting an insightful and meaningful blog post. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?

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What is Content Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is a strategic marketing and business process focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience, and ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. Good content resonates with the viewer because it fits with their goals or general interest. Great content maps to their desire, […].

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What’s on the Horizon for Outlook.com

Litmus

If you’ve been keeping an eye on Microsoft Outlook over the last few years, you’ll have noticed that the Outlook team has been making some great improvements. Along with improvements like adding media query support to mobile Outlook apps, the team has tackled issues like adding SVG support and fixing the Times New Roman font fallback issue. And, while not Outlook-specific, Microsoft has even added animated GIF support for Windows 10 Mail.

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#SproutChat Calendar: Upcoming Topics for December 2018

Sprout Social

‘Tis the season to focus, put all your 2019 planning into motion and get all your ducks in a row before the holiday interruptions. In December’s #SproutChat,we’ll be talking about two important topics: how to stay nimble in today’s digital paradigm and ways to make the most of the season’s social buzz. Interested in either chat?

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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 It’s Time to Embrace a Real CRM Tool for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Why It’s Time to Embrace a Real CRM Tool for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Using a spreadsheet or index cards to manage your clients may make sense when you’re first starting out: there aren’t that many to keep track of, and the clients you do have don’t have a long history with your business. However, as time goes on, your client list grows, your track record with existing clients becomes longer and more complex, and you need a better way to manage thes

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Make the Most of the Holiday Marketing Season (and Beyond)

Marketing Insider Group

By Steve Olenski In the middle of this holiday shopping season, there are some strong indications that it could be record-breaking for many companies. Amazon reported a Cyber Monday shopping record, surpassing its own previous record earlier this year on Prime Day. And for the five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, the retail giant […].

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Litmus Picks Our Favorite Talks at Litmus Live 2018

Litmus

Litmus Live 2018 wrapped about a month ago, but the ideas and talks are still swirling around our heads. While we’ve talked about the three mega-trends we saw come out of the conferences, we wanted to dig a little deeper into some of the talks themselves. Litmus Live featured over 50 different talks from some of the brightest minds in the email industry.

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Content Comprehensiveness - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by KameronJenkins When Google says they prefer comprehensive, complete content, what does that really mean? In this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins explores actionable ways to translate the demands of the search engines into valuable, quality content that should help you rank. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab!

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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 Favs December 1

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs December 1 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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Do You Need an Agile Marketing Certification?

Marketing Insider Group

Agile marketing certification: a waste of time and money, or a crucial stepping stone on the path to true agility? This question is part of a larger, ongoing debate in the larger Agile community. So this Agile Marketing Minute video attempts to tame the certification circus, at least for marketers. Agile Training Options Some members […]. The post Do You Need an Agile Marketing Certification?

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13 Email A/B Testing Mistakes that Limit Your Success

Litmus

“You have to test, otherwise you are just making an educated guess,” said Stuart Clark of Red C at Litmus Live London 2017. Email A/B testing was a recurring topic at all three Litmus Live events last year, as well as this year. That’s no surprise because it’s one of the most powerful opportunities for email marketers to iterate and improve their campaigns.

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7 reasons why in-house display advertising powers agile marketing

Bannerflow

Agile marketing and in-house display advertising are a perfect match. Moreover, you could even argue that by bringing display advertising in-house, brands adopt an agile strategy by default. Put simply, the same technologies enabling in-house display are revolutionising marketing. Whether it’s removing the mystery of digital advertising, or taking back control over budget and seeking a more transparent return on investment (ROI), in-house is opening the door for new strategies.

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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.