Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Buying a domain name is one of the first steps to launching a website. But finding the perfect domain for your site and registering that domain can feel like a tall task if you’ve never been through this process. Fortunately, domain registration isn’t that difficult—you just need to follow a few simple steps.
Hubspot Marketing
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Whether your focus group is there to give feedback on a product or service or help you assess how your brand stands out in your competitive landscape, thought-provoking, open-ended questions are essential to a productive discussion. However, it's easier said than done. What can you ask beyond " What do you think of our product?" that can provoke the most useful answers?
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Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Within the past 5-10 years, B2B marketing has undergone extensive amounts of change. Marketers have switched their focus from sales and cold calling to digital content marketing strategies and search engine optimization tactics to attract new customers to our business. Digital content is now the driving force of every B2B strategy and it is important for your business to stay ahead of the marketing curve in 2021.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
A winning meal on MasterChef must be so delicious, so tantalizing the judges would want to eat it every day. How can you do that to keep readers consuming your blog posts? Here’s a step-by-step recipe. Continue reading → The post Whip Up a Tantalizing Blog Post With These 9 Ingredients appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Let’s talk about meta tags — what they are, why they matter, and how to do them better. First things first — what made you click on this article to read it? Maybe the title caught your eye , or perhaps it was the short blurb you saw. You might have clicked simply because this article comes from a source you trust. If you found this article via a search engine, though, there’s a good chance you found and clicked this article because of meta tags.
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Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
When creating and sharing videos, you want to make sure your content can be consumed by as many people as possible. Whether they’re hard of hearing or simply in a setting where they can’t have their volume turned on, viewers should be able to enjoy your videos. This is why adding subtitles to videos is such an important step when publishing your content on YouTube.
Hootsuite
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Considering TikTok marketing for your business or organization? You’re not alone. We polled more than 800 professionals on LinkedIn, and the results reveal that many are still thinking about it. The video app may not be a good fit for every brand, especially if your customers and TikTok user demographics don’t overlap. But many businesses have found success marketing on TikTok—from Nike to Universal Pictures to the San Diego Zoo.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
No matter how great the content on your website is, your hard work could amount to nothing without proper technical SEO. Technical SEO gives your site structure, makes it super easy for search engine bots to crawl and index, and helps Google understand what each page is about. URL structuring, robots.txt, redirect codes, canonical tags,htaccess files, load time, and many others.
Hubspot Marketing
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Editor's Note: Spam filters have become much more sophisticated than the subject line triggers listed in this post. For a more up-to-date guide to email marketing, check out our free guide to creating email newsletters people actually read here. Writing the subject lines for your emails can be one of the most stressful steps of email marketing. Is it engaging?
Speaker: Karen Swim, APR
Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Can content marketing help or even drive your brand’s lead-generation and nurturing strategy? It sure can. Let’s see how. Continue reading → The post Make Content Integral to Your Lead Generation appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
How well do you know your audience? Audience research is a critical part of developing any marketing strategy but it’s not always given the time and attention it really needs. According to a survey of 1,600 marketers , a shocking 65% never or rarely conduct audience research. Source: [link]. But why is audience research so important? The same study showed that those that do research their audience are over 3x more likely to achieve their marketing goals.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
As a digital marketer, you know just how important the tone and message of your blog are to the overall success of your business. A cohesive approach to your digital content, especially the content on your blog, is critical to your brand. The best way to ensure your site is editorially cohesive is with an editorial style guide. This article will walk you through the basics of an editorial style guide.
Search Engine Journal
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
On-page SEO best practices are constantly evolving. Here are eight old-school SEO techniques that you should avoid – or else risk getting penalized. The post 8 On-Page Optimization Techniques That Google Hates via @kristen_vaughn appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead
Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
When it comes to establishing one’s brand as an authority, few resources get the job done like a data-driven white paper. Longer than your typical blog post and more in-depth than an ebook, a white paper is a well-researched piece of content designed to educate readers on a specific topic. It allows you to position your brand as an expert in your field and demonstrate you have a solution to your audience’s problems.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
A digital-first content marketing strategy doesn't mean digital only. That lesson comes from TD Ameritrade Institutional and its content agency, Imagination. Learn how they incorporated print into their award-winning strategy. Continue reading → The post How a Digital-First Content Strategy Can Help Print [Winning Example] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Every minute, 500 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. With that much competition, you might have counted yourself out and accepted that getting enough Youtube subscribers isn’t worth the effort. But what if you’re making a social media mistake ? What if you could break through the noise and become popular on YouTube? One of the best ways of measuring popularity on YouTube is by looking at the number of subscribers.
Search Engine Journal
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Better content starts with knowing what your audience cares about. Understanding these three key concepts will help keep you on the right track. The post 3 Steps to Better Content: Power up Your SEO with Audience Understanding via @marktraphagen appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing. One I enjoyed working with was Televerde , a company headquartered in Phoenix AZ that combines lead generation and corporate social responsibility with an outstanding business model with proven results.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
What’s in a name? In the data game, it could be a lot or nothing at all. Robert Rose sets the record straight on audience data origins, why it matters, and what it means for your content marketing future. Continue reading → The post What You Need to Know About the Data Party Game appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Pay-Per-Click ( PPC ) marketing can be one of the quickest and most effective ways to drive customers to your site. But it can be hard to make money through PPC ads. It’s all too easy to make common mistakes that can wreck your campaign. Luckily for you, I’ve got plenty of tips that can help. And there’s one strategy I’ve borrowed from my business analyst friends, which I’m going to share with you today.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Newsletters are the cornerstone of our email marketing strategy here at Litmus. They’re key to helping us build trust among our subscribers and customers. And, we have a lot of fun with them! But earlier this year, one of our once top-performing newsletters— Litmus Weekly —hit a bit of a slump. Engagement rates were dropping—open rates dipped by 29% and click-to-open rates (CTOR) had sunk by 44%.
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Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. And we have found that most small to midsize organizations can do all that and more by focusing on content marketing.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Engagement. This has been the keyword in the marketing world for some time. In the Digital Marketing context, the term refers to how consumers interact directly with the brand through different actions, such as clicks, likes, comments, and shares. This is important not only to increase the company’s reach and relevance in the Internet scenario but also to facilitate the creation of profitable relationships.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. And the investors? They feel the same way. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Getting everyone on board with a new initiative or tool is hard—even in the best of times. These days, many teams are now remote, and there are plenty of world distractions on top of normal business activities. But by knowing where to look and how to help your team, you can start realizing the value of tools like Litmus faster. Once you’ve learned the keys to using Litmus in your workflow, you might end up like VSP, who saves 100 hours per month building emails.
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.
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Content is the rallying point of every great event, and a top-notch assembly of great content and presenters is essential to delivering and amplifying the core message of your event. However, putting together great content for sessions at your event won’t come easily. It will require understanding the needs of the audience and curating a message that resonates with those needs.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Give your audience an interactive quiz for personalized content (a la Sherwin-Williams). Decide how to walk, run, jog, or sprint (thanks to Ubiquity Labs’ content marketing framework). Think through your content (unlike Warner Bros.). Continue reading → The post Personalized Palettes, a Content Exercise, and The Witches Lesson appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Getting verified on social media is one of the first steps to building a successful social media marketing strategy. Whether it’s your personal account, your business account, or both, getting that little checkmark next to the profile name is massively important. And not so that you look like one of the ‘cool kids.’ A verified social media account provides instant social proof and credibility when anyone looks up to you or your company online.
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