Sat.Mar 04, 2017 - Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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YouTube Ads for Beginners: How to Launch & Optimize a YouTube Video Advertising Campaign

Hubspot Marketing

You've spent months perfecting the script, storyboarding, finding the right talent, shooting, and editing. The end result? A blockbuster brand or product video. With all that time invested, you can't stop at just embedding the video on a homepage or sharing it on social media and hoping someone watches. While great content is bound to be found, it's also important to be proactive about gaining the attention of and educating prospects and those unfamiliar with your brand.

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Marketing and Artificial Intelligence: Make Your Job Robot-Proof

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Jacob Shama “Hey, Siri! Find the nearest sushi restaurant.”. New technologies are emerging and showing up in our everyday lives at a rapid rate. Voice-recognition, like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, and image recognition in our Facebook and Google accounts are just two mainstream applications that leverage artificial intelligence (AI)—one of the newest technologies gaining widespread momentum today.

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How to Identify Your Social Media Influencers

Sprout Social

If you hang around a social media marketer long enough, you’re bound to hear the term social media influencers tossed around in conversation. Social media influencers are the bread and butter to marketing strategies and help brands build valuable relationships on social media platforms. Most social media managers prize their social media influencers because they can drive engagement and word-of-mouth communication to your brand at a higher rate than standard organic methods.

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Likability Matters: 4 Ways to Make People Like Your Brand

Marketing Insider Group

You know ‘that guy’? The one that everyone likes? He’s always fun to be around but never pushy. He’s calm, cool and collected when everyone else is stressed, sort of like he knows a secret about life that the rest of us will never figure out. And he always seems to have the answer – […]. The post Likability Matters: 4 Ways to Make People Like Your Brand appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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The Beginner's Guide to Small Business Marketing Online

Hubspot Marketing

According to Forbes , 80-90% of consumers research purchases online before buying. Whether you're in the process of launching a new business or already have one, having an strong online presence for your brand is extremely important. Small business owners looking for a way to track ROI and brand awareness need digital marketing. Not only is digital marketing a must-have for promoting your products or services, but optimizing your online assets is also critical to your business' overall success.

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3 Simple Presentation Techniques to Engage Your Audience

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Kyra Johanson I recently had the opportunity to watch Jamie Gutfreund, Global CMO at Wunderman, present. Needless to say, she’s incredible. As someone blessed with a short attention span (# millennials ), I can tell you that I was completely captivated the ENTIRE TIME… so I know she crushed it. Afterward, I was lucky to be able to pull her aside and get the scoop.

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6 Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn from March Madness

Marketing Insider Group

March Madness is one of the most exciting times of the year for sports fans, and it’s right around the corner. But even if you’re not that into sports, there are some key business lessons you can learn from the March Madness tournament. Let’s take a look at them: 1. It’s okay to be the […]. The post 6 Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn from March Madness appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Micro-Influencer Marketing: A Comprehensive Guide

Hubspot Marketing

Has a celebrity ever convinced you to buy something? It’s okay if the answer is yes -- we’ve all been there. In fact, just recently, a famous dog helped convince me to purchase a GoPro camera. For a creature who can’t speak, he’s a pretty effective marketer. Loki the Wolfdog’s Instagram post is a successful example of influencer marketing , which involves developing relationships with influential personalities to promote your brand to the influencer’s audience.

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Why It’s Time for SMBs to Implement ABM

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Mary Kate Francis ABM might be a new addition to the marketing buzzwords dictionary, but the concept is nothing new. Account-based marketing (ABM) has existed as a marketing strategy for decades. If you’re influencing more than one individual in an organization for a deal, then it’s likely that you’ve been practicing some form of ABM. So why has account-based marketing only recently gained widespread popularity and practice among B2B businesses?

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10 Twitter Tools You’ll Actually Use

Sprout Social

Twitter marketing involves a lot of moving parts. Engaging with your audience , managing your followers and creating content are just a few of the responsibilities marketers take on every day. As you can imagine, doing all of this within the native Twitter app can be frustrating, to say the least. But luckily there are tools you can use to make life a little easier.

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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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6 Tips to Help You Tell a Story with Your Content Like Ridley Scott

Marketing Insider Group

What is more motivating – reason or emotion? Marketing pro, Bill McKendry answers this question perfectly with a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood or assign them tasks. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Think about […]. The post 6 Tips to Help You Tell a Story with Your Content Like Ridley Scott appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Why Every Marketer Needs to Care About Content Strategy

Rock Content

It goes without saying that in this day of age, no successful marketing program can survive without content. And each year, the competition to grab the attention of consumers gets fiercer and fiercer. But it’s not about producing as much content as your budget can afford, even if that’s what your competitors are doing. Quality Over Quantity. The world doesn’t need any more unawesome content.

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How to Generate More Leads from Your Webinar Recordings

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Jon Spenceley Everyone loves attending webinars, right? They provide you with all the education from a conference session without having to leave your desk or change out of your pajamas. But for many marketers, webinars are a one-trick pony: running the webinar program , getting the leads, following up on questions, and then you’re done. Right?

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Benchmark Performance with the New Instagram Competitors Report

Sprout Social

Despite its in-the-moment nature, having a defined Instagram strategy is imperative for brands. In fact, research shows that 65% of the top performing posts feature products, and 7 out of 10 hashtags included in captions are branded. Monitoring some of the most inspirational brands on Instagram will likely reveal that strategic product promotion and hashtag usage results in better audience engagement and growth.

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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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Guide To The 9 Best Free Online SEO Courses

Marketing Insider Group

21st Century is awesome. All possible knowledge is available just from your home, no matter what you studied in college, you can learn any skill to get the job of your dreams and lead a lifestyle you always wanted. Like I did.

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How to Make Yourself a KNOWN Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Yourself a KNOWN Brand written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Schaefer. Podcast Transcript. Personal branding is not a new subject. In fact, I suggest that it’s moved to the level of fundamental marketing tactic. It’s never been easier to create a personal brand – that thing that gets you invited to speak, pitch and engage at a premium price.

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Summit or Bust: 5 Reasons You Can’t Miss Marketing Nation Summit

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Rick Siegfried Attending Marketing Nation Summit is almost a rite of passage. Have you really experienced digital marketing if you haven’t attended Summit? I’m not going to say you haven’t, but there really is only one industry event for anyone that’s marketing in this transformational age. This will be my 5 th Summit, and I’ve never felt a stronger desire to spread the good word as I do now.

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5 Twitter Campaigns Your Business Can Learn From

Sprout Social

If you’re a brand, you want to create engaging experiences for your community. More importantly you want your audience to remember you next time they need your product or service. To stand out in the crowd, your brand might’ve considered attempting a Twitter campaign. However, does your audience actually want to participate? Does your campaign have the longevity to highlight your brand in an effective way?

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Weekend Reading: “KNOWN” by Mark Schaefer

Marketing Insider Group

For the 113th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Mark Schaefer, author of “KNOWN: The handbook for building and unleashing your personal brand in the digital age.” In today’s world, there is a permanent advantage to becoming known in your field. Those who are known get the customers, the better jobs, and the […].

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Weekend Favs March 4

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs March 4 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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Engage At Scale: Customer Obsession Requires Customer-Defined Value ( Part 2)

Marketing Insider Group

This is a two-part series that explores an increasing understanding of the customer as technology and customer behavior evolves and what business must do to keep up with this evolution. For part 1: please go to Engage at Scale: Leverage Customer Micro-moments Customer value means how the Customer defines value NOT the business Direct marketing principles defined customer value […].

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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo. The post Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing appeared first on The Agile Marketer. The post Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Side Projects and the Quest to Create the Exceptional [Podcast]

Marketing Insider Group

Richard’s side project started with that familiar feeling when you just can’t wait to see people’s reactions. But in this case, it was his own reaction that surprised this serial side hustler. SUBSCRIBE at unthinkable.fm Channel Links: iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play FEEDBACK ON THE SHOW? – Email jay@unthinkable.fm – Tweet twitter.com/jayacunzo – Snap snapchat.com/add/jayacunzo – Insta instagram.com/jacunzo LINKS TO.

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#SproutChat Recap: Proving Return on Investment for Social

Sprout Social

Just like any digital marketing effort, proving social media return on investment is essential. Social marketers are held to an even higher standard since so much of their work is visible across social networks. So social media agencies often feel even more pressure to be able to show ROI to clients. This week at #SproutChat , social media agency Fifty & Five joined us to discuss how to equate engagement to ROI and the best metrics to monitor and measure social’s impact on your bottom line.

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Try Not To Read This Cartoon

Marketing Insider Group

I’m guessing you probably did, though. Cartoons are hard—maybe impossible- to resist. Content marketers want content that can be easily understood and shared and that has a strong visual component and single-panel cartoons fit the bill perfectly. They also have a unique aspect that makes them even more attractive, which is that readers don’t just […].

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Start Measuring Customer Satisfaction With Twitter Feedback by Sprout Social

Sprout Social

Twitter has become the go-to channel for many people to connect with a business or service provider. They turn to Twitter because its public, real-time and conversational nature means that many brands are available and ready to help—or at least they should be. Research shows that providing exceptional customer service on Twitter impacts the bottom line and has the potential to lead to customer satisfaction ratings of over 90%.

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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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Why You Must Create a Total Online Presence Right Now

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Create a Total Online Presence Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your website is the hub of your online presence and is clearly a must in this digital world. However, it’s only one piece of the marketing puzzle. It won’t return the results you need unless you optimize and integrate a what I’ve long been referring to as a total online presence.

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How to Perfect Your Content User’s Experience

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Perfect Your Content User’s Experience written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When it comes to the ways in which your users experience your site and content, you can’t afford to make any rookie mistakes. Follow the following guide in order to truly perfect your content user’s experience. A good marketer always remembers to keep in mind that loyal customers are worth up to 10 times as much as their first purchase, which is why preserving them is so important.

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Transcript of How to Make Yourself a KNOWN Brand with Mark Schaefer

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Make Yourself a KNOWN Brand with Mark Schaefer written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript: John: Most every business owner must become known for something. But how do you do that? Listen to this episode of the Duck Tape marketing podcast where I talk to Mark Schaefer, author of Known.

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3 Types of Content That Gets More Traffic, Links and Shares Than All the Others

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Types of Content That Gets More Traffic, Links and Shares Than All the Others written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Why waste time creating content that doesn’t get you traffic, links, and shares? The problem for many content creators is they aren’t sure what type of content to focus on, so they try creating everything and anything they feel like creating in the moment.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.