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Twitter’s Rebrand Is A Cautionary Lesson For Marketers. Here’s Why

CMO Network

At the core, brands are identifiable signifiers that conjure thoughts and feelings in the minds and hearts of people with regard to a company, product, organization, o.

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Do You Know Your Branding Basics? Think Again

Digital Marketer

There is no topic in business and marketing bigger than the topic branding. When you Google the term “why is branding important,” you’ll find an abundance of resources that stress the importance of understanding and investing in branding for your success. In the majority of these resources, there are also vague references to terms like brand value, brand equity, and consumers’ minds and hearts.

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4 AI categories impacting marketing: Workflow automation and RPA

Martech

In this four-part series, we’re exploring four categories of artificial intelligence (AI), how they can meaningfully impact marketers and their customers and what to potentially avoid. So far, we’ve explored generative AI , predictive analytics and personalized customer journeys. The last article of the series will look at workflow automation or robotic process automation (RPA), or AI-based tools that enable repetitive tasks to be performed by software rather than humans.

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What to Prioritize With Content Marketing When You’re on a Budget

Influence & Co

With the right combination of content deployment cadence, content type, and content intent, you’ll make sure your content is a profit-producing asset.

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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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Meta’s new chatbots set to improve targeted ad capabilities

Search Engine Land

Meta is launching a range of AI-powered chatbots that could improve its targeted advertising capabilities. The chatbots, which could come as early as September, reportedly have the ability to collect large amounts of data regarding users’ interests. It’s expected that the new technology will also boost engagement across Meta’s platforms, as the chatbots, which all exhibit different personalities, will be able to have humanlike conversations with Meta’s 4 billion users, re

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3 Tips for How Marketers Can Partner With Industry Experts

Marketing Insider Group

The parameters that make an online resource “authoritative” are always changing. Google uses a variety of factors to decide what makes a source worth displaying on its search engine results pages (SERPs). The search engine’s developers also admit that online content is constantly changing, and “we continuously measure and assess the quality of our systems to ensure that we’re achieving the right balance of information relevance and authoritativeness.

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The Need To Be Heard: Why Sonic Branding Is Growing In Importance

CMO Network

The article discusses the growing importance of sonic branding. John Taite, EVP of Made Music Studio is interviewed.

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5 tips for a successful programmatic ad campaign

Search Engine Land

Programmatic advertising enables digital marketers to buy advertising space through automated technology and machine learning, typically using a demand-side platform (DSP). Leaning on automation is nothing new to most marketers. Programmatic advertising streamlines the process of buying ad inventory across a huge network of platforms. It also gives advertisers greater control and granularity over placements, budgets and creative assets.

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Why Learning GA4 Is So Hard – And What To Do About It

Content Marketing Institute

GA4 is here. It's weird. And you're gonna have to get used to it. Use this guide to finally figure out where to find the reports you need (and how to make sense of them).

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How to Design an AI Marketing Strategy

Businesses Grow

Today I’d like to move beyond the tips and tricks phase of AI and marketing (although that is still a lot of fun!) and provide something more advanced — how to design an AI marketing strategy. Let’s step back from the hype and take a more strategic view of how AI will be applied to strategy. The format of this post will be a little different from what you normally see from me.

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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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What is the HubSpot Operations Hub, and How Can I Use It?

Aspiration Marketing

Efficient operations are vital for businesses to thrive in today's competitive landscape. But, as businesses grow, they often face issues such as disconnected systems, data silos, and inefficient processes. Fortunately, HubSpot Operations Hub can help companies to overcome these challenges. The Operations Hub offers a centralized platform that synchronizes and unifies data, automates workflows, and provides robust reporting and analytics capabilities.

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Five Reasons Not to Trust AI to Write Your Content

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Individuals and businesses are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to improve productivity, streamline operations, and enhance customer service. In fact, research shows that more than half of organizations use some form of AI to automate various aspects of their companies. As artificial intelligence technology revolutionizes numerous sectors, content creation is no exception.

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The HubSpot Blog's 2023 Social Media Marketing Report: Data from 1200+ Global Marketers

Hubspot Marketing

Let’s face it - social media marketing in 2023 is harder than ever. Making good content isn’t even half the battle for brands today. Marketers also need to share it across a bunch of different apps and tweak it to fit the aesthetic and tone of each platform. With social media and the marketers who use it moving at the speed of light, keeping up with new platforms, trends, and algorithm updates isn’t easy.

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CMO Spotlight | John Ross - PosiGen

Set Up

The CMO Spotlight is a chance to get an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders. Set up CEO, Joe Koufman , virtually sat down with John Ross , the Vice President of Marketing at PosiGen to discuss his career journey, the benefits of continuous learning, and groundbreaking brands. WATCH + READ THE RECAP BELOW (SCROLL TO THE END FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW) Q1 | Is there any advice you’d like to share?

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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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Maximizing Your SEO Results with Google Analytics

Aspiration Marketing

SEO is a critical component of digital marketing for businesses of all sizes. Optimizing your website for search engines can improve your website's visibility and drive more traffic to your website, ultimately leading to increased sales and revenue. However, to effectively optimize your website for search engines, it is paramount to understand how it performs and what changes you can make to improve its performance.

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Trivago blames profit drop on opting out of new Google Ads product

Search Engine Land

Trivago’s decision to opt out of Google’s new property promotion ads was apparently a costly mistake. Revenue was down 14% year-on-year to $137 million in the second quarter of 2023, following a decrease in website traffic, Trivago reported. Meanwhile, revenue for Expedia , which did advertise with on the search engine’s new ad unit, reported a record second quarter with revenue up 6%.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art launches Roblox augmented reality experience

Martech

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roblox. Visiting New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to get meta. The museum is launching Replica, a new hybrid experience that allows visitors to “capture” works of art from the collection and show off virtual versions of them on Roblox. The experience, which includes virtual and augmented reality elements, was designed by the multidisciplinary company UNIT9 and Verizon, in partnership with Roblox, strategy and production company Ode to Joy, and

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Show me your footer, I show you mine

Kevin Indig

Search Intelligence used Google Keyword Planner to land massive links for our Bingo client from: The Sun (DR 90) MSN, (DR92) Blackpool Gazette (DR 72) many other UK news publications Read how they did it In early June, I posted a snarky Tweet (Xeet?) that said, “ Show me your footer and I can tell you how good your SEO is.” Show me your footer and I can tell you how good your SEO is.

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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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How to Choose a Webinar Topic That Resonates with Your Audience

Aspiration Marketing

Webinars have emerged as a highly effective marketing tool, allowing businesses to connect with their audience more deeply. However, the success of a webinar hinges on choosing a topic that genuinely resonates with the target audience. In this comprehensive guide, we'll delve into selecting a webinar topic that captivates and engages your audience, enabling you to leave a lasting impact on your audience and drive valuable results for your business.

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Google releases Responsive Search Ads guide

Search Engine Land

Google has rolled out a Responsive Search Ads guide to help marketers improve their campaign performances. The new document includes advice on how to write ads for maximum conversions, how RSAs use Google AI to generate ad copy and how to evaluate a campaign’s effectiveness. Why we care. This brand new document is a great resource for marketers that work closely with RSAs.

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Monetize your blog: 11 Easy ways to turn your passion into profit

AWeber

These days, the opportunities for making money online are seemingly endless. One of the most tried-and-true methods for generating an online income, however, is that of monetizing your blog. Whether you’re looking to earn a healthy side income or make a living from blogging, there are plenty of opportunities worth exploring. So, just how much money can you make as a blogger—and how do you make money blogging, anyway?

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4 agile marketing metrics that really move the needle

Martech

It can be difficult to put our heads around what successful agile marketing looks like because it is about culture change, which is highly subjective. However, after seeing so many companies chasing after the wrong measurements (or none at all), I want to share with you how we measure success with our clients and why these are meaningful metrics. Understand your desired outcomes with agile Many companies lose sight of why they want to implement agile marketing in the first place.

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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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How I Optimized My Writing With 5 ChatGPT Prompts

Rock Content

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 reignited the debate on Artificial Intelligence. In marketing, one of the concerns is the impact of AI on content production. Will it be able to replace professionals with a broad repertoire and years of experience in producing coherent and creative content? Here at Rock Content, we’ve already discussed the risks and benefits of AI tools and their potential to make the daily life of marketers more efficient , without neglecting the creativity and adap

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YouTube Shorts launches six new features to improve content creation

Search Engine Land

YouTube Shorts has rolled out a range of new tools to encourage and inspire content creation. The six new features give creators a range of new capabilities on the platform, such as the ability to go live with Shorts, remix footage, add effects to videos and use stickers. In addition, the social platform is trialling a new mobile-first vertical live experience that aims to improve reach by giving visibility to live creators in the Shorts feed.

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Vertical Harvest: Cultivating Food, Futures, & Social Impact

CMO Network

Vertical Harvest, a pioneering commercial-scale greenhouse company, aims to revolutionize the agricultural landscape by growing food for communities, by communities, a.

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Sprout Social acquires Tagger Media

Martech

Social media management software company Sprout Social acquired Tagger Media, an influencer marketing and social intelligence platform, for $140 million. The acquisition adds the ability to discover influencers and plan campaigns around them to Sprout Social’s broad social media management and analytics offerings. Tagger Media offers a unified SaaS solution for brands and agencies that allows marketers to measure the impact of influencer campaigns through ROI and trends reports.

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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

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AI Marketing Assistants: How Virtual Assistants Are Changing The Game

Rock Content

Welcome to a world where AI virtual assistants like ChatGPT are ready to serve customers 24/7. These digital genies are making lives a whole lot easier for everyone. From automating routine tasks to delivering personalized marketing experiences, virtual assistants are helping companies achieve their marketing goals. In 2021, the global Virtual Digital Assistant (VDA) market was valued at $13.36 Billion.

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Google Analytics launches new Audience report

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 has rolled out a new Audience report. Marketers can use this new feature to identify their most engaged and profitable audiences. The report includes any audience that has at least one user in the specified time period. Why we care. Finding out who is engaging most with their campaigns and websites will enable marketers to better understand who their target audience is.

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5 Questions to Ask AI to Help Develop Marketing Personas

Marketing Insider Group

Learning about your audience to connect with them effectively requires extensive research. While interviews are a great way to gain insight into your target audience, they can be extremely time-consuming. Additionally, it can be difficult to get interviewees to open up and deliver the information you’re searching for. With the help of AI, you can gain powerful insights about your marketing segments to help cater your website strategy to your audience.

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Marketo’s July releases: A manager’s guide

Martech

Marketo released a native function for creating visualizations of Smart Campaigns. The feature, Engagement Map, lets users explain how smart campaigns work more efficiently. Another notable feature released last month is Web Services Error, which identifies API users responsible for creating an error. This will reduce the time needed to troubleshoot web services error notifications.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

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