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8 Writing Lessons from Everybody Writes by Ann Handley

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a marketer, you write—regardless of your specific role, or which company you work for. I’m a writer right now, as I write this blog. I’m a writer when I create session descriptions for my presenters at conferences. I’m a writer when I communicate with my sales team. I was a writer when I created the slides for my webinar, 8 Biggest Mistakes Field Marketers Make.

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How to Host an Instagram Takeover in 7 Easy Steps

Hubspot Marketing

Influencer marketing is a trendy topic these days, but it doesn't require a lot of work or a ton of money to harness the power of influencers on your brand's social media channels. One of the lowest-effort and most organic ways to work with another person or brand to advance your marketing goals is by hosting an Instagram takeover. Not sure what we're talking about?

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33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

When I first started in marketing, I used to write down what I thought were the best marketing quotes to inspire me to dream big and to do big things. A few years ago I gathered all these bits of paper and sticky notes and wrote down on one piece of paper my favorite marketing […]. The post 33 Of The Greatest Marketing Quotes To Inspire Your Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The WannaCry Ransomware Attack and Tips for Recovery

Zumvu

Ransomware encrypts files or the entire device and asks victims to pay a ransom to unlock their files or devices, or their files will be deleted permanently from their systems.

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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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3 Steps to Building an Employee Advocacy Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I recently had the pleasure of attending one of the biggest marketing conferences of the year— Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit. A gathering of hundreds of marketing executives, partners, and thought leaders from around the world came together to learn about the latest marketing trends and strategies in the new “Engagement Economy”. The “Engagement Economy” represents a clear shift in the way marketers communicate with customers.

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Can A Salesperson Really Think Like a Marketer?

Duct Tape Marketing

Can A Salesperson Really Think Like a Marketer? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scott Ingram. Podcast Transcript. I wrote a book titled Duct Tape Selling – Think like a marketer, sell like a superstar. Occasionally, I hear from salespeople who read the book and acted on the advice and the story is always the same – it’s a lot of work but the payoff is worth it.

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How to make the most of Facebook Messenger Marketing for your Business

Zumvu

If you have a business page on Facebook and you are yet to utilize the Messenger for marketing, you are certainly losing a large chunk of the market share.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Enterprise Ecosystems

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Plenty has been written about bringing products or services to market. Practices have been developed to manage both direct and indirect sales channels. Literature has been written about product development models versus customer development models. And, the traditional process of creating demand is now very well known. However, the exponential growth of products, solutions, and applications in the B2B space have created a new type of a sales channel—one that resembles, something we’re all famili

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How to Stay Top of Mind

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Stay Top of Mind written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Hall. Podcast Transcript. Guiding today’s customer journey means staying top of mind at every stage. Like so many things today that often involves content, but there’s so much more. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is John Hall.

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Is Culture The New Mandate For Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Digital has changed everything: how we interact with the world, how we learn, how we buy stuff, even how we date. For marketers, it has dramatically interrupted our marketing mix and the expectations from senior executives. This disruption has forced executives to put increasing pressure on CMOs to implement marketing strategies and programs that deliver […].

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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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12 Best Ways to Increase Domain Authority of Your Website

Zumvu

It requires a great strategy, planned working and good quality content to improve the Domain Authority of your website.

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Independent Contractor Engagement: Four Strategies to Keep in Mind

Rock Content

Four key strategies to keep in mind for successful independent contractor engagement.

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Weekend Favs May 27

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs May 27 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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4 Ways to Boost Content Marketing with Automation

Marketing Insider Group

Great content requires talent and skill to pull off; it requires a human touch, with a dash of artistry and a hefty serving of creative know-how. To put it simply, content is not something you can automate. However, that is not to say that our content strategies can’t benefit from a little automation. In fact, […]. The post 4 Ways to Boost Content Marketing with Automation appeared first on GetResponse Blog - Online Marketing Tips.

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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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GDPR: An Opportunity To ‘Play To Win’ In The Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Success in the Engagement Economy hinges on customer engagement. By creating experiences that feel personal and human, that are founded on trust, and delivered with care we will win the hearts and minds of our customers. To build and maintain that trust and care we, as marketers, need to be attuned to the how, when and why our customers want to be engaged and respect their preferences.

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10 Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Replace (and 10 That Are Safe)

Hubspot Marketing

The other day at work, my colleague, HubSpot Marketing Director Ryan Bonnici, sent around a link on Slack -- to a website called “ Will Robots Take My Job ?”. We were thrilled to learn marketing managers had only a 1.4% chance of our jobs being automated or replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. And although I breathed a sigh of relief that writing has only a 3.8% chance of being automated, it made me think about job roles that weren’t so lucky.

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Transcript of How to Stay Top of Mind

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Stay Top of Mind written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: Staying top of mind is how you generate leads, it’s how you increase profits, it’s how you get referrals. So we’re going to talk to the author of Top of Mind, John Hall.

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5 Ways to Achieve a Human Touch With Automated Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

There is something about the phrase “marketing automation” that could be considered alarming. For many of us, the connotations of automation are not positive; instead they represent a cold, clinical, robotic approach to business. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Marketing automation doesn’t have to be cold or inhuman; in fact, it can […].

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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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Artificial Intelligence is the Panacea to Today’s Marketing Challenges

Marketing Insider Group

My foray into understanding, and more importantly, applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to current business practices has forced me to throw everything I ever knew out the window. Experience, best practices, preconceived notions, the tried and true – all these rules become obsolete and irrelevant because the world has changed. Media consumption has changed.

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SEO for Events – How to Rank in Google Events Search Results

Marketing Insider Group

Google sees millions and millions of queries each day related to local events and activities. The issue they observed was that most users were turning to external apps and websites to find the information they need – eliminating Google from the equation. As we all know, Google prides itself on being a platform that answers […]. The post SEO for Events – How to Rank in Google Events Search Results appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Why Quality Leads are Expensive

Marketing Insider Group

Getting more leads at a lower cost is always at the top of lead generation objectives, especially for startups and small businesses. In fact, a HubSpot survey revealed that 65% of B2B marketers claim that generating traffic and leads is their top priority. While generating a high volume of leads is a good thing, it. The post Why Quality Leads are Expensive appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Weekend Reading: “The Customer Loyalty Loop” by Noah Fleming

Marketing Insider Group

For the 125th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Noah Fleming, author of The Customer Loyalty Loop: The Science Behind Creating Great Experiences and Lasting Impressions. In The Customer Loyalty Loop, Noah Fleming affirms not only that your customer’s experience with your product or service is the most powerful marketing you have, but […].

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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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Transcript of Can a Sales Person Really Think Like a Marketer?

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Can a Sales Person Really Think Like a Marketer? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: So can a salesperson really think like a marketer? On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast I talk with Scott Ingram and he has started two podcasts, he’s written a book, he is rocking it as a salesperson thinking like a marketer, check it out.

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Proof Email Marketing Converts Leads Into Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

Proof Email Marketing Converts Leads Into Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a small business, lead conversion can mean a lot of things to different people. Most likely you can think of a handful of things yourself. Someone signed up for your newsletter, clicked on a call-to-action, opened an email, visited your website, filled out a form or downloaded an ebook….

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How to minimize customer acquisition costs

Duct Tape Marketing

How to minimize customer acquisition costs written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If it costs too much to bring in customers, you’re quickly going to find yourself treading water. You congratulate your staff on the sale (keep it going!), yet your marketing spends translates into zero net gain–or even a loss in some cases. Continue treading these waters and you’ll need a life vest.

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The Enduring Power of Content in Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

The Enduring Power of Content in Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I know, I know, if somebody writes one more thing about content you’re going to lose it, but hear me out, I actually think I can make you change your mind about content. Inbound marketing is a powerful approach that businesses need to be using today, and if you aren’t implementing the tactics and strategies involved, you’ll find yourself at a serious disadvantage.

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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