Sat.Mar 25, 2017 - Fri.Mar 31, 2017

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What’s Ahead for Social Media: Live Video, Influencers, and Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Lisa Marcyes Every year I look forward to the opportunity to travel to San Diego and attend Social Media Marketing World (SMMW) where I get to attend thought-provoking sessions, learn from top leaders in social media, and meet tons of brilliant marketers. This year was no exception, I found myself furiously jotting down key takeaways I could implement in my everyday strategy.

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Instagram vs. Snapchat: Which Is Best for Your Business?

Sprout Social

Since the launch of Instagram Stories in mid–2016, Snapchat and Instagram have been competing at break-neck speeds to release hot new features and keep customers on their own platform. Within the last year, we’ve seen Snapchat invest in their editing and camera filters. To compete, Instagram added Stories, stickers and Live streaming. As Instagram’s features become eerily similar to Snapchat, it becomes even more confusing for marketers to determine which platform to target.

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5 Bulletproof Tips and Tricks for Sales and Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Every time when you finally go into buying something, you want to end it up not with the value-priced product, you want to go with something wish-list product with all whistles and bells. Each marketer asks himself how to better work with sales and marketing. Sometimes the best way to achieve good results is to […]. The post 5 Bulletproof Tips and Tricks for Sales and Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chris Voss. Podcast Transcript. The idea that you might negotiate deals and jobs and even pay raises like a hostage negotiator might seem a little crazy, but when it comes down to it, understanding and dealing with human emotions in slightly charged environments is something most of us address daily.

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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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4 Big Mistakes You Might Be Making with Your Marketing Personas

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Hally Pinaud Creating and maintaining buyer personas has been an important task in every role I’ve held as a marketer. Why is that? Personas–when built and used correctly–are a very effective way to channel real empathy for your buyers. That empathy makes it easier to drive winning strategies across the customer lifecycle through campaigns, content, nurture paths, account plans, and sales collateral.

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Social Media & Government: Cutting Red Tape for Increased Citizen Engagement

Sprout Social

Social media isn’t just a way for us to send memes, find entertaining videos or keep up with the latest pop culture trends. It’s one of our primary forms of communication. In fact, social media was ranked as people’s top choice for customer care in our Q2 2016 Index. The use of social media to communicate extends to government as well.

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Weekend Favs March 25

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs March 25 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 Content Promotion Strategies to Increase Engagement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Alan Cassinelli There’s no doubt that inbound marketing has fundamentally changed demand generation. The strategy of attracting prospects through content, social media, search engine optimizatio n, and more has taken over the B2B world and for good reason: inbound marketing costs 61% less than traditional advertising and produces 54% more leads than outbound marketing.

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The 5-Step Guide: How to Be Successful on Instagram

Sprout Social

Let’s put this notion to rest before we even start–you don’t have to be Instagram famous for your brand to see the best results. Learning how to be successful on Instagram isn’t just about follower count. Instead, success comes from engaged audiences and great content. Creating a great Instagram campaign is like any other marketing strategy. It always takes more effort than you think and needs to be well thought out before you start.

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3 Tips to Get More Attention with Localized Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

There are a lot of SMBs looking for ways to diversify their content marketing strategies. And while many of these businesses look to new subject matter or ways of presentation, some often overlook one of the most fundamental and engaging strategies: localized content marketing. Localized content marketing is simply directing your efforts toward your local […].

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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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Emerging Career Opportunities in Digital Marketing

Zumvu

Those days are gone when kids used to dream of becoming doctor, engineer or firefighter. Now in the digital world, digital marketing is the way to go for everyone.

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How to Scale Your Marketing Strategy Without Sacrificing Engagement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Patrick Groover Companies are always looking for a new edge to capture mindshare and differentiate their solution within the marketplace. As people continue to diffuse their communication preferences across a growing number of channels, the role of the marketer can feel more and more like mission impossible. To keep pace with the proliferation of new touchpoints, marketers need a scalable strategy for managing programs and tracking revenue that tips the balance of campaign cost vs. resul

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Boutique Agency Experts Offer Tips on Finding Success on Social

Sprout Social

Small agencies are not immune to big challenges. They often don’t have a well-known name to rely on to back their reputation, nor large budgets or a team with diverse skillsets. Professionals on small agency teams, or solopreneurs need to be savvy, have a reliable toolset and stay in tuned with what the market wants. Not only do they need to be good at marketing, but often they are managing new business, operations, HR and more.

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Spring Has Sprung: 5 Content Creation Strategies to Grow Your Small Business [This Season]

Marketing Insider Group

Spring is a time for new beginnings – and what better place to start than with your marketing plan? Today we’re talking small business and setting forth the strategies that will help you market smarter, not harder in the saturated world of content. Small businesses are not few and far between – companies with less […]. The post Spring Has Sprung: 5 Content Creation Strategies to Grow Your Small Business [This Season] appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Best Online Appointment Scheduling Software - 2022

Zumvu

Appointment scheduling software helps the users to manage their meetings, appointments, clients, and more using the online calendars.

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Marketing Lessons Learned from a Life of Swag Hoarding

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Caroline Ruggiero It’s 10:24 p.m. on Friday night after a long week on the road talking about the Engagement Economy. Instead of relaxing, I am attempting to chalk paint V-Bot, the mascot of Marketo’s LaunchPoint partner Vidyard , in time for my son’s 5 th birthday party tomorrow morning. So how on earth did I get here? Well, I have been swayed by good swag, which has taught me several great marketing lessons that I’ll share with you in this blog.

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#SproutChat Recap: The Future of Content Marketing

Sprout Social

There’s a plethora of information and options available to consumers. All of which can make it overwhelming for buyers to make a purchasing decision. Content marketing has enabled organizations to prove their expertise and point of difference through thought leadership articles, how-to’s and videos. While these marketing methods have proven successful for bringing in leads and converting consumers, crafting exceptional content isn’t easy.

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3 Steps Before Purchasing a Marketing Tool

Marketing Insider Group

Whether it’s content production, distribution, measurement, some form of strategic guidance, or a combination of it all, it seems that there is always a new marketing tool that promises to solve your current and ongoing marketing challenges. It can be tempting to add new tools to your marketing process or blame any current marketing deficiencies […].

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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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Top Business Networking Sites for Professionals

Zumvu

Business Networking is one of the most popular ways in modern times to reach out to people, contacts, and companies.

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7 Tips that Will Make You a Successful Content Marketer in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Tips that Will Make You a Successful Content Marketer in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In today’s marketing, content is king while many previously successful SEO techniques are irrelevant or even harmful. If you expect that keywords included in titles of publications, alt tags, and descriptions will bring your website to the top of Google, you’re behind the times!

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Di más en 140 caracteres: Los cambios en el conteo de caracteres de Twitter ahora están disponibles en Sprout

Sprout Social

Los especialistas en marketing y los editores saben que expresarse dentro de un límite de palabras o caracteres es todo un desafío. Y, ya que el panorama de las comunicaciones en las redes sociales evolucionó, muchas marcas recurrieron al contenido multimedia (GIF e imágenes) para expresar emociones, agregar personalidad a los mensajes e involucrarse con el público , tanto a la hora de componer mensajes, como de responder.

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How to Market E-Commerce in 2017

Marketing Insider Group

We’re three months into the New Year and do you know where your ecommerce marketing stands? Do you have a measurable strategy that is working for your brand? What do the stats and analytics tell you? Here’s a professional checklist to help you stay focused on the essentials that will boost your marketing efforts and […]. The post How to Market E-Commerce in 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Best Online Appointment Scheduling Software - 2022

Zumvu

Appointment scheduling software helps the users to manage their meetings, appointments, clients, and more using the online calendars.

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Transcript of How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: A lot of business is about negotiation, heck, life is about negotiation. We’re going to talk with Christopher Voss, former FBI negotiator and you’re going to learn some incredible negotiation skills.

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What’s Your Marketing Priority in 2017? Data, Social, or SEO?

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing is one of those industries where we are all constantly trying to do more, learn more, and come up with the buzz-building strategies that have never been done before. Like it or not, it’s just our nature not to settle or get too comfortable. Nor is it the nature of C-suite or our clients […]. The post What’s Your Marketing Priority in 2017?

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Yes We Kanban: 5 Goals of This Scrum Alternative for Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Pop quiz: when I say “Agile marketing,” what’s the first thing you think of? There’s no right or wrong answer, but chances are yours included some reference to Scrum or Sprints. While it’s true that Scrum is the most widely adopted Agile methodology around, it’s by no means the only way to practice Agility […].

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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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Is Broken Link Building Right for You?

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s talk link building – broken link building that is. Should you be doing it? Is it a magnificent and creative inbound marketing technique, or a waste of time? Earning quality links through the production of relevant, value-driven content is one of the best ways to improve your domain’s organic search traffic, while also: Boosting […]. The post Is Broken Link Building Right for You?

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Need More Customers? Get Happy Employees!

Marketing Insider Group

What if I told you that the best way to grow your business was to focus on the happiness of your existing employees? Happy employees create happy customers. Happy customers deliver referrals to your sales team. And happy employees deliver candidate referrals to your HR team. Sounds so simple right? So why do so many […]. The post Need More Customers?

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Why Your Business Needs Outbound Lead Generation

Marketing Insider Group

Brands are becoming increasingly dependent on the internet. Consumers have changed the way they shop for the things they need and want, and savvy businesses have taken notice. Customers are now in control of the information they receive and the channels through which they get their information. This is why inbound marketing strategies are so. The post Why Your Business Needs Outbound Lead Generation appeared first on PureB2B.

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How Travel Affects Creativity: An Exploration for Content Marketers [Podcast]

Marketing Insider Group

Subscribe to the show for automatic updates: iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Travel and creativity seem to go hand-in-hand (and then they go skipping down the street in some foreign land). Today we go exploring the topic of exploration: Why is travel linked to inspiration? Does travel help our work, or can it derail our productiveness? And how can we.

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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.