Hubspot Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

In the last six months, economic trend surveys we've conducted revealed that 37% of marketers are reporting budget cuts – likely due to our changing economy. As a marketer, knowing where your leadership team might need to cut can help you prepare to pivot to strategies with less resourcing. And, if you lead a team, you're likely wondering how marketing leaders are navigating this time to my the best decisions for your staff and business in uncertain times.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 11, 2023

Webinars allow businesses to connect with audiences worldwide while providing valuable content that packs a punch. But, like any marketing tool, you need to keep certain do's and don'ts in mind if you want to be successful. From choosing a killer topic to promoting your event like a boss, we'll cover all the do's of webinar marketing. And, just like any savvy marketer, we'll also share the don'ts, including how to avoid being too salesy or boring your audience to tears.

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Chief Martec

MAY 10, 2023

I’m excited to announce a new book coming out this summer, The New Automation Mindset : The Leadership Blueprint For An Age When Anyone Can Automate Anything With AI. Written by Vijay Tella, CEO of Workato, with contributions by Massimo Pezzini and myself, it offers a framework for harnessing automation as an engine of innovation, not merely efficiency.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 10, 2023

A new template in Google’s Looker Studio creates a dashboard to see how your awareness, engagement, and conversion metrics relate in real-time. That information can help you adapt your initiatives to better achieve the content’s goals.

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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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Social Media Examiner

MAY 8, 2023

Wondering how to get advanced data from Instagram Insights? Want to see side-by-side performance metrics for reel vs. reel or story vs. carousel? In this article, you’ll learn how to use Instagram Insights to compare your content analytics to reveal which type of content performed best. How Comparative Metrics Improve Your Instagram Content On Instagram […] The post How to Use Instagram Insights to Develop a Content Plan appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Martech

MAY 8, 2023

Automated email is one of the biggest — and most under-utilized — growth opportunities in marketing. Brands in every vertical can benefit from strategic automation. Yet, repeatedly, we see incredibly juicy low-hanging fruit in the client onboarding stage. Our client portfolio is heavy in ecommerce, hospitality and food and beverage, which are particularly ripe verticals for email automation.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Jay Acunzo has been creating content on the Internet for a long time. His journey on social media began when, as a sports journalist in 2005, he started a blog while interning and writing for a student paper. When he moved into marketing, his sports blog called “Blog, Don’t Lie” (named after the infamous quote by NBA player Rasheed Wallace) shifted focus to writing about sports writing.

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AWeber

MAY 9, 2023

Generative AI is an artificial intelligence that can generate words, images, and more from a prompt. It’s already proving helpful for creators. I find it helpful for everything from coming up with new ideas, translating your own ideas into words on a page, and helping you explore tones or perspectives to communicate. This is why we’re building AI writing tools at AWeber, To be clear, our aim is not to replace human creators - I don't believe that's even possible.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2023

Organizations need a go-to-market (GTM) strategy that uses the right metrics and mix of tactics or “motions” to drive revenue and survive economic challenges, said Sangram Vajre, CEO of analyst firm GTM Partners, in his second-day keynote at The MarTech Conference. A go-to-market strategy is an organization’s plan to engage customers to buy a product or service and gain a competitive advantage.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 6, 2023

The traditional web design model is broken. Whether you're an agency or a business, it leaves you extremely vulnerable to several risks and often does not produce optimal results. Growth-Driven Design is the new gold standard for delivering results and bringing measurable business value through web design. It is a smarter, agile, and data-driven approach that minimizes the pitfalls of traditional web design and produces high-performing websites.

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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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Search Engine Journal

MAY 8, 2023

This guide is here to help you with the migration of your custom events, with a step-by-step on how to set up GA4 custom events. The post Google Analytics Event Tracking: How To Get Set Up appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Are you struggling to rank for featured snippets and missing out on valuable traffic? I used to spend countless hours trying to optimize my content, making educated guesses on how to win those elusive featured snippets. The process was time-consuming and very hit-or-miss. Now, I can harness ChatGPT – including its understanding of SEO and exceptional writing skills – to generate near-perfect optimized snippets, saving me time and boosting my traffic.

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Sprout Social

MAY 11, 2023

Operating on social media without brand safety tools is like browsing the internet without malware protection. Technically, you can do it—but it opens you up to unnecessary risks and incidents that can cause financial loss and permanent reputational damage. Brand safety has traditionally been relegated to just protecting brands from advertising on or near inappropriate content online.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 10, 2023

While SEO can initially seem daunting, it doesn't have to be. By creating and optimizing your blog post with SEO in mind, you can significantly boost the visibility of your content. In this blog, we'll dive into everything you need to know to ensure that your blog post is SEO-friendly, ensuring it ranks high on search engines.

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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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Search Engine Journal

MAY 11, 2023

YouTube experiments with blocking ad blockers amid declining ad revenue, pushing for more Premium subscriptions. The post YouTube Blocks Ad Blockers Amid Declining Ad Revenue appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Finding the right influencer for a brand campaign can feel like dating. You want someone who shares your values, aligns with your goals, and will make a great impression on your friends and family — or followers, in your brand's case. The same can be said if you're an influencer looking for a brand that will take your career to the next level. Whether you're a brand or an influencer, this article will help you find the perfect match by showing you the top channels for influencer marketing.

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Martech

MAY 8, 2023

Generative AI has taken marketing by storm: 73% of B2B and B2C marketing executives say their companies are using it to help create text, images, videos or other content, according to a new survey. Not holding out for long. Thirty-one percent of those not using it expect to do so within a year and 46% within two years, according to the report from Botco.AI.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 10, 2023

In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core Web Vitals to provide quality signals for web pages. Today, the Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web Vitals better to evaluate the quality of a web page's user experience. This article explores this change and its meaning for Google Search and site owners.

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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.

Search Engine Land

MAY 12, 2023

Google is now rolling out the related topics search filter feature on desktop search results. The related topics filter first launched on mobile search last December. Now Google is bringing it fully to desktop search. What it looks like. Here’s a screenshot of the new filter menu, compared to the old version. Old version: New version: Here is what it looks like when you filter on these “explore topic” related topic filters: Here is how the mobile version launched back in Decemb

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 11, 2023

SEO isn’t easy — it often requires an entire team of people who solely focus on SEO within your marketing department to get it right. That’s why many companies choose to outsource their SEO to an SEO agency/service. But where do you start? And how much will it cost? These are some of the first questions businesses may have when thinking about hiring externally.

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Martech

MAY 11, 2023

Data clean rooms (DCRs) are a relatively new technology that marketers are using to enhance their use of data in a privacy-compliant way. Ana Milicevic, principal and co-founder of management consultancy Sparrow Advisers, recently gave The MarTech Conference some answers to pressing questions marketers have about how DCRs can power their stack. “If you are in a decision-making role you are probably tasked with at least evaluating whether this is a technology that you need to pay attention to,” s

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 11, 2023

Over half of marketers say they need more budget to get better-than-average results from their video content. But that financial boost may not be necessary with these tips to shoot quality video from a mobile phone.

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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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Search Engine Land

MAY 10, 2023

ChatGPT – and its numerous use cases – has been widely covered in the last few months. It can be used for writing (everything from essays and poems to blog articles and even music), coding and debugging, translating text, finding data sets, answering complex questions, solving math equations, and more. As with all new technologies, the AI chatbot has pros and cons.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Optimizing your content to rank high in search engines can be tedious, especially when there are many factors to consider. Page load times, keywords, content quality, and videos are all things that can affect SEO. Fortunately, AI SEO tools are available to streamline SEO optimization and boost your website's rankings. In this article, we'll explore the various AI tools available to you, but first, let's dive into how marketers use AI and the definition of AI SEO.

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Martech

MAY 12, 2023

Are you looking for inspiration to improve your organization’s marketing performance? Well, there’s plenty of inspiration if you keep your eyes and ears open. This may seem obvious, but sometimes I have to remind myself of this fact and of all the opportunities out there. As marketing-oriented professionals, we’re all responsible for contributing ideas, regardless of where we sit on the organizational chart.

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Search Engine Journal

MAY 11, 2023

Your Meta or Twitter content simply won't work for Reddit. Drive respect, appreciation, and loyalty of customers by better understanding how ads on Reddit work. The post Reddit Marketing: A Guide To Getting It Right appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2023

Your hard work providing an excellent product or service goes to waste if no one knows about it. How can a digital marketing agency help you stand out in a crowded market? A digital marketing agency can help you gain visibility or, at a minimum, keep up with your competitors. Statistics show that most companies are increasing their marketing budget because of a demonstrable return on investment.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence is being introduced to more users every day — using it to shuffle through music, write strategic plans, make images or art, and improve our lives and business. But many people don't entirely trust it. Lack of transparency and discrepancies in results could prevent the tech from improving, and the implementation of an AI ethical framework can reform that.

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Martech

MAY 12, 2023

Facebook parent Meta dipped its toe into generative AI this week by announcing AI Sandbox. Advertisers can use it to create alternative ad versions, use text prompts to generate backgrounds and crop images for Facebook or Instagram ads. Dig deeper: Facebook agrees to revamp adtech over discrimination charges What it does. It lets advertisers: Create different versions of the same ad copy for different target groups, while maintaining the main message.

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Search Engine Journal

MAY 10, 2023

Keyword research is an integral part of your SEO strategy. Learn more about the best free keyword research tools you can use. The post 15 Free Keyword Research Tools For 2023 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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