Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Have you ever seen a Facebook ad for Chanel? Or an Instagram ad for Lamborghini? Me neither. That’s because luxury marketing strategies don’t follow the same rules as mass-market brands. Selling to high-end consumers requires a different approach. But that doesn’t mean popular digital channels are off-limits. SEO, PPC, even some social media sites can drive online sales for your luxury brand.
Hootsuite
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Content curation is a valuable strategy for all content marketers. More than simply re-sharing content, curation is a way to provide extra value to your followers while highlighting your own industry expertise. Bonus: Download our free, customizable social media calendar template to easily plan and schedule all your content in advance. What is curated content?
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Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Content marketers shouldn’t fear Google Analytics. It’s true it provides a lot of data, which can be overwhelming. But it has some amazing nuggets of wisdom for content teams to leverage. To help you navigate Google Analytics for content marketing , we’ve put together this handy guide you’ll want to bookmark. Quick Takeaways. Content marketers should embrace data to improve the performance of content.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Inclusive content doesn’t require your brand to take a big stand on a hot topic. It does require your team to think differently, recognize what you don’t know, and use words more purposefully. Here’s how to do it well. Continue reading → The post How to Do Inclusive Content That Helps Your Audience and Business appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Whether you care to admit it or not, the decisions you make today will be driven by your emotions. In emotional marketing, we talk a lot about using psychological triggers to get customers to click, convert, engage, etc. “By leveraging common psychological triggers all people have,” you might hear, “you can drive more sales.”. While it may feel like we make decisions with our minds, using logic and reasoning, the “mental triggers” we hear about are tied more to emotion than anything else.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In a pay-to-play game, social media advertising is a must for brands. Why is it so important? Paid social advertising helps your content get views without relying on organic platform algorithms and their ongoing changes. Social is now all about how you target your audience, build customer journeys and get people to your site to make a purchase. Paid social media strategies help with exactly that.
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Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
On this day devoted to gratitude in the United States, the CMI team shows their appreciation for some of the blog and social media posts, audio, and video that inspired us in this challenging year. Continue reading → The post 18 Blogs, Social Media Posts, Podcasts, and More We’re Thankful For This Year appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In these modern times of digital transformation, it may seem like most digital marketing strategies are designed for online businesses. So are there any digital marketing strategies for brick-and-mortar businesses? Yes, there are, and one of the most effective ones is hyperlocal marketing. What is Hyperlocal Marketing? As the name suggests, hyperlocal marketing is a marketing strategy that focuses on reaching customers in your vicinity.
Search Engine Journal
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Is content syndication right for you? Learn the basics of content syndication, what it is and isn’t good for, and some tips for getting started. The post Content Syndication Basics: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How via @alexanderkesler appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
WordPress plugins and themes are part of what makes the CMS so popular, as they allow the customization and optimization of the websites hosted on the platform. However, to take full advantage of these elements, it is important to know how to add and use jQuery scripts. But do you know what jQuery is? It is a JavaScript library created by John Resig in 2006.
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.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Executives and technical experts can hold the keys to uniquely powerful stories. But wrangling these apex collaborators is a challenge. Follow this advice to extract the wisdom from their brains and get it into your content. Continue reading → The post How to Convince Your Company’s Brain Trust to Collaborate on Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Suddenly you notice that none of your social media activity seems to be showing up at all. It’s like you don’t even exist on the site… Weird! Is it a bug? Every website suffers from them sometimes, and the interactive features can often be the first to go haywire. Server maintenance could also be the culprit. But another possibility is that you might have been “shadowbanned” (previously called ghostbanned).
Search Engine Journal
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
YouTube is a valuable marketing tool during the holidays. Watch some brands' holiday video ads and gain valuable SEO insights from them here. The post 20 of the Most Emotionally Engaging Christmas Ads of 2020 (So Far) via @gregjarboe appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Content Marketing is a powerful approach to expand your business’s organic reach, attracting potential consumers, and starting their journey in the sales funnel. Through blog posts, ebooks, and several other formats, you can deliver the right message to educate the public about your brand and solutions. One of the main characteristics of this type of strategy is the need for customization.
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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.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Get a glimpse into the innovative ideas coming from Ford with the newest debut of the Bronco, Major League baseball with its fans at home, and more from Whole Foods, Pukka Herbs, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading → The post Brands Buck History, Give Home-Field Advantage, and More [Examples] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
With a net worth of $1.7 trillion , Amazon has dominated the e-commerce sector for years, leaving many of its competitors in the shade. But are there alternatives to Amazon? With an audience as vast as Amazon, small business start-ups and solo entrepreneurs flock to the site to sell the products, get established, and build their enterprises. Despite the audience Amazon offers, you may want to look for other online venues to list your items.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
You’ve seen your own inbox lately, right? Whew! Competition for subscribers’ attention has always been high, but 2020 has put email volume in overdrive. Unfortunately, “too many emails” is still the #1 reason people unsubscribe. No worries—there’s one ridiculously simple tip to avoid the email noise and make your subscribers happy. Why email volume is reaching new heights.
illumin
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Did you know that winter holidays, kicked off by Black Friday, are the highest spending season of the year? Here are digital advertising recommendations. The post Black Friday Strategies for Digital Ad Success appeared first on AcuityAds Inc.
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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.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
If you understand the importance of a functional and visually attractive website for your company and have heard of different tools to achieve this result, you certainly are wondering how to use Bootstrap to develop a WordPress theme. Both resources are important for their own reasons. If you know how to extract the best of them you will be able to develop a website for your company that will be interesting enough to attract more visitors, but most importantly, make them spend more your on platf
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The skincare space makes over $17 million in revenue each year, and it’s expected to grow by 5.3% annually. And as people stay home more, the desire for self-care products, including skincare, continues to expand. This may make it the perfect time for brands to take a hard look at their skincare marketing strategies and seize on this growth. That’s exactly what Skincare by Alana did.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
This week, the Cleveland Clinic asks for help, American Express teaches how to turn something small into something much bigger, and Zillow shows how someone else’s horoscope can catch people’s eye. Continue reading → The post A Small Saturday, a Horoscope Personalization, and a Community Request [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Like a lot of teams, we’ve been talking about some of the things we’re grateful for. Now, I’m not a sentimental person. I don’t hold on to old pictures. I don’t spend a ton of time thinking about the past. And I don’t have a gratitude journal (I’ve tried, but it never sticks). But 2020 has been a year. And, as the world has changed, I’ve found myself changing, too.
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.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
We often hear that WordPress hosting is the most straightforward and popular way to build a website. After all, this open-source Content Management System (CMS) powers over 455 million sites on the web. That is about 35% of all content on the internet. However, have you ever wondered how all those websites look to their visitors? Is it possible to know that they are built with WordPress ?
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Amazon reviews are a crucial part of customers’ decision-making process. Without the ability to touch, feel, and test a product in real life, consumers look to reviews to determine whether or not an item will fit their needs. In fact, a survey by Dimensional Research found that reviews impact the buying decisions of 90% of consumers. If you want to boost your e-commerce sales and you’re wondering how to get reviews on Amazon, then you need to make a strategic plan.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
How to Pass on a Family Business Successfully written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jonathan Goldhill . In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jonathan Goldhill, adviser, coach, consultant, trainer, facilitator, and business therapist with 30 years of experience in his craft. He has been guiding closely-held and family-owned businesses since 1987.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Changing conditions in 2020 prompted all of us to rethink strategy, alter workflows, and reduce budgets. But even with all of that, 78% of email teams said email is important to their company’s success. And with email being a prime channel to deliver empathetic, customer-centric messaging, this year proved it’s not always easy. So when 50% of marketers say optimizing email workflow is a priority, it makes total sense.
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
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
One of the factors that makes WordPress such a popular platform for creating and managing websites is its simplicity. The CMS ‘ open-source programming structure allows even the less experienced professionals to create websites that are fast, efficient, and visually appealing. . The websites built and hosted on the platform are written in PHP code, which is an extremely dynamic programming language with a wide community of developers.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Running an e-commerce store is a lot of work, but you already know that. You’re experiencing it every day, from marketing and communication to fulfillment and shipping, not to mention all the follow-up. And everything else in between. Sometimes it can feel like you’re doing so many little things just to keep the business going, so you don’t have time to focus on the big picture, taking your business to the next level.
Moz
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
Posted by KerryDuggan So we meet again, keyword research. Now more than ever, we’re depending on the online world for our day-to-day activities. We’re making use of the web for learning and studying, shopping, paying bills, and for the majority of our entertainment and social needs. This means the need for search engines to provide us with what we’re looking for has never been more relevant.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Weekend Favs November 28 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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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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