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The 13 Types of Landing Pages & How to Pick One for a Campaign

Hubspot Marketing

You know them, you love them, you lay awake late at night thinking of them. Yes, marketers, we’re talking about landing pages. Those lovable lead drivers we optimize, tweak, update, and test. Whether you’re a blogger, social media marketer, or paid marketer -- you have a healthy relationship with the landing page. Sometimes, you might go through rough patches where you wonder why landing pages exist.

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What CMOs Need to Know About Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Furthermore, the greatest benefits that business leaders expect to see from digital adoption include saving time and money by automating tasks and reducing the need for human involvement.

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How to Rank New Content Faster

Neil Patel

If I write a blog post on any topic, what do you think happens? It typically gets indexed by Google the same day I publish the content and within a week it tends to rank high on Google. Then again, I have a domain score of 94 and I have 633,791 backlinks. Just look at the image above. (If you are curious what your link count or domain score is, put in your URL here.).

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Why Your Audience Needs Stories: It’s a Brain Thing

Content Marketing Institute

Ever wondered why one piece of content leaves you cold while another hooks you to the end? Joe Lazauskas explains how the right story taps deep into the brain in this article from the new all-digital CCO magazine. Continue reading → The post Why Your Audience Needs Stories: It’s a Brain Thing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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How Benefit Segmentation Will Take Your Marketing Campaigns to the Next Level

Hubspot Marketing

If you're a fan of HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Methodology , you probably understand the importance of customer success. If you don't, just know that 70% of businesses with growing revenue prioritize customer success as "very important." We can compare that to companies with decreasing revenue where only 49% believe it's important. So, if you want your business to succeed you must make sure your customers do, too.

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Why Digital Marketing KPIs Keep Your Demand Generation Campaign Relevant

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. For our final blog in this series, let’s talk about KPIs—because the cold, hard truth is without metrics, no other aspects of your campaign matter. Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return.

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Stop Thinking About Personalized Content as an Extra

Content Marketing Institute

Personalization is not a detail or an add-on when it comes to your content. It should be an integral part of your content marketing strategy so you can build the sort of audience loyalty we all dream of. Continue reading → The post Stop Thinking About Personalized Content as an Extra appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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12 Gantt Chart Examples You'll Want to Copy

Hubspot Marketing

Gantt charts. Love ‘em, hate ‘em, or can’t live without ‘em, they’re a reality of a marketer’s life. But how do you make yours stand out from the rest? I’ve gathered some of the best examples around, along with some free templates to get you started. Dive in below and find your favorite. But first. What is a Gantt Chart? Gantt charts provide a way to track and manage project timelines, progress, and deliverables.

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ReMeet Traackr: Introducing our new brand identity I Traackr

Traackr

Traackr introduces the new purpose-driven brand identity as we approach our 10th year in business. Discover our new logo and the top reasons for the refresh.

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Using Content Lead Scoring to Link Content Marketing and Sales

Marketing Insider Group

This scenario is a familiar, and probably a daily, occurrence if you live in a big city: You’re walking down the block, headed to work or out to lunch, or maybe zig-zagging your way through a two-way crowd, and you see someone standing smack dab in the middle of it all, and they happen to […]. The post Using Content Lead Scoring to Link Content Marketing and Sales appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Forget Inspiration: Try These 6 Strategies to Fill Your Editorial Calendar

Content Marketing Institute

Your editorial calendar has holes, and ideas seem just out of reach. You have two choices: Wait for inspiration or develop a system to find stellar ideas. This post is for those who choose not to hold out for a flash of creative lightning. Continue reading → The post Forget Inspiration: Try These 6 Strategies to Fill Your Editorial Calendar appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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In-house display advertising and DCO with Casumo

Bannerflow

Through design, technology, and innovation Casumo have aimed to consistently disrupt the iGaming industry. In this article, we interview Casumo’s in-house display advertising team, learning how they stay at forefront of in-house display production and use dynamic creative optimisation (DCO). Scaling up personalised content with Casumo. Bannerflow has been Casumo’s chosen display advertising production platform since 2012.

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Best Practices for Keeping Your Email List Nice and Clean

Duct Tape Marketing

Best Practices for Keeping Your Email List Nice and Clean written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ve likely built up a quite a long email list. Email remains a convenient, effective way to reach prospects and customers, so it’s great to have a lot of names to send offers and updates to. However, if your marketing emails are getting low engagement, it may start to raise eyebrows with internet service providers (ISPs).

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How Employee Activation Delivers Higher Awareness and Better Talent

Marketing Insider Group

Employee activation may be the secret ingredient that’s missing from your organization. To run a successful business you need more from your employees than the bare minimum. And yet the majority of people working in the US don’t fully commit their time, energy, and talent to the organization they’re working for. Gallup research shows that […].

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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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24 Marketing Thought Leaders You May Have Missed

Content Marketing Institute

Many claim to be marketing thought leaders, yet few genuinely are. That’s what led to this list of 103 authentic thought leaders. Read on to learn about 24 of them who may not be as familiar to you (and get the other 79 names too). Continue reading → The post 24 Marketing Thought Leaders You May Have Missed appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Are you regularly reviewing your transactional emails? Here’s why you should.

Litmus

Almost every brand relies on transactional emails like shipping confirmations, payment reminders, or password resets to keep their business running. And, emails that are triggered by certain events or customer behavior—such as birthday promotions or cart abandonment emails—are among the most powerful tools in a marketer’s toolkit. Automated emails like these are a crucial component of your subscriber experience—and they often generate a significant share of a brand’s email revenue. 33% of brands

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Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic

Duct Tape Marketing

Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brad Sugars. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with Brad Sugars. He is the founder, chairman, and president of ActionCOACH and the co-author of the book Pulling Profits Out of a Hat: Adding Zeros to Your Company Isn’t Magic.

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2019 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report for Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

by David Fortino, SVP of Product & Audience at Netline Optimize buyer engagement with 1st party content consumption data Every year, we dig into our vast repository of content consumption data. A product of billions of buyer-oriented content recommendations, across 300+ industries, we analyzed four million downloads and consolidated that data in a way that […].

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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 Create a Successful Native Advertising Campaign for Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

Native advertising can be a valuable tool in a marketer's arsenal to help distribute your content, but only if you do it right. And a lot goes into that – all revolving around these six pillars. Continue reading → The post How to Create a Successful Native Advertising Campaign for Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Best E-commerce Practices to Boost Your Conversions

Zumvu

As a business owner, it is not realistic to expect that everyone who'll visit your site is going to buy something. Chances are, a majority of users that will visit your site is going to leave without making a purchase.

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Finding Hope and Happiness in a Pessimistic World

Duct Tape Marketing

Finding Hope and Happiness in a Pessimistic World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Manson. Podcast Transcript. This week on the podcast, I chat with best-selling author, blogger, and internet entrepreneur Mark Manson. Manson is the author of the New York Times’ best-seller, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

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What’s the Question Behind the Question: Search Intent Optimization

Marketing Insider Group

In a previous article on understanding search intent, we explored search engine optimization and keywords. At the early stages of search engine optimization, the focus was on researching keywords that are the most competitive and drawing traffic to our sites. Today, keywords are still important, but there are so many more factors that come into […].

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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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Building Real Relationships for Pride Month

illumin

Pride kickoff is in full swing. According to Forbes , LGBTQ audiences represent more than a whopping $1 trillion dollars in spending power. New research from Hornet.com and Kantar Consulting shows that this market is currently the fastest-growing market right now, and is only expected to grow. However, the study also found a surprising 66% of LGBTQ+ individuals saying “I don’t see my lifestyle represented in advertising” and 51% saying, “I wish I could see more advertising with families like min

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What CMOs Need to Know About Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Furthermore, the greatest benefits that business leaders expect to see from digital adoption include saving time and money by automating tasks and reducing the need for human involvement.

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Transcript of Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing broadcast is brought to you by Gusto, modern easy payroll benefits for small businesses across the country. And because you’re a listener you get three months free when you run your first payroll.

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10 Content Promotion Tools You Need To Consider

Marketing Insider Group

As any content marketer knows, creating high-quality, engaging content is actually only one part of the puzzle. To achieve success with content marketing, you also need to master content promotion. Remember – if nobody sees your content, it doesn’t matter how good it is. In 2019 there are many content promotion tools available that systematize […].

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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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Most Viewed Video Ads: Mother’s Day

illumin

How are brands approaching the trials and tribulations of parenthood? There may be no better barometer than the plethora of ads that come out around Mother’s Day. Every year, thousands of Mother’s Day ads tug at our heartstrings to encourage gift-giving. And this year, a number of non-retail brands jumped on Mother’s Day mania too. Touching campaigns looked at the bumpy journey of parenthood and reminded us that there are no instruction manuals for many of life’s difficult events.

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Why Digital Marketing KPIs Keep Your Demand Generation Campaign Relevant

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. For our final blog in this series, let’s talk about KPIs—because the cold, hard truth is without metrics, no other aspects of your campaign matter. Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return.

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Weekend Favs June 1

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs June 1 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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The Complete Agile Marketing Guide to Your Managing Your Backlog

Marketing Insider Group

Few things are more important to an effective Agile marketing team than a functioning marketing backlog, yet this particular practice is hard to get right. Many teams struggle with prioritization, scope, and sizing the work in backlog. These difficulties often lead to frustration and considerable lag time in updating the team’s to-do list. The marketing […].

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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