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Return to Normalcy? Leading Marketing in a Post-Covid Era

The CMO Survey

The past three years have disrupted life and business as we know it. Now that the world is emerging from a pandemic, what’s next? For insight, let’s flash back to 1920. The U.S. has just come through a deadly influenza pandemic, a world war, and was experiencing both substantial labor unrest and race riots across the country. It was in this context that then presidential candidate Warren G.

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How to Increase CTR in Your Email Marketing Efforts

Litmus

Email marketing is foundational to any strong marketing strategy. It’s often the first communication people receive from your brand and it continues to build rapport throughout the customer journey. But getting in front of subscribers isn’t enough. They need to be engaged with your messaging and compelled to click and take action. Knowing how to measure and increase your CTR not only improves your email campaign performance, but keeps subscribers coming back for more.

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If Gen Z Changed the Game for Marketers, What Will Gen Alpha Be Like?

Hubspot Marketing

Right now, Gen Z is the main target audience for brands trying to stay relevant and attract new consumers. Gen Z's love for platforms like TikTok and Twitch caused many companies to switch up their marketing tactics —turning to strategies like influencer and social media marketing. However, there's a new generation that is expected to change the marketing landscape even more: Gen Alpha.

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6 Email Newsletter Examples to Keep Prospects Engaged

Litmus

Newsletters—recurring roundups of news, tips, or product updates—are the most popular type of emails that marketers send. In fact, more than 80% of respondents from our 2021 State of Email survey use them in their email marketing programs. Email newsletters are a highly popular tactic used by B2B and B2C marketers across verticals, including news outlets, non-profits, agencies, independent thought leaders, and more.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

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5 Examples of Top-Notch, Eco-Friendly Marketing

ConsumerTalk

The green marketplace has a total valuation of $2.65 trillion. Many people are more than willing to pay more for products they believe are eco-friendly. With so many consumers becoming more environmentally conscious, it's important to show how your product can help the planet, not hinder it. Here are some marketing tips to help you do this.

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2022 Marketing Alternatives to Event Marketing

Aspiration Marketing

There’s no debate that when it comes to creating a lasting impression and trusted relationship, a face-to-face approach is best. Whether it’s a pitch meeting, a conference, or a trade show, nothing replaces the human touch for getting a deal done. In fact, when it comes to the realm of event marketing, over 75% of content marketers say that it’s the single most effective marketing channel in their arsenal.

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Phone Photography 101: How to Take Good Pictures With Your Mobile Device

Hubspot Marketing

Before the days of smartphones — if you can remember such a time — taking a great photo was a labor-intensive process. Now, it’s easy to master how to take good photos with your phone — no fancy cameras or desktop editing software required. Brands are catching on, too — these kinds of visuals remain important to marketing. But make no mistake: Taking a great photo on your smartphone is not as simple as pointing and shooting.

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26 Ideas for a Twitter Bio That Makes a Great First Impression

Hootsuite

A Twitter bio is where your brand gets to introduce itself, offer an elevator pitch, and set the mood—all in 160 characters or less. What do all of the best Twitter bios have in common? They’re original. Some brands can do this with a single emoji. Others push it to the character limit. But the worst thing you can do is look like everybody else. The words (or emojis!

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Comment on How to Remove Penalties with Double 301 Redirects by Mark

Diggity Marketing

Thanks for the nice idea. One question: do i have to clone my site to both the middle and to the last destination as well? Having identical sites with 100% same content isn’t harmful for SEO?

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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Improve Your Sales and Marketing Knowledge

Aspiration Marketing

Anyone in the areas of marketing and sales, customer services, revenue operations, web design and others needs to get and keep their eyes on the moving cheese when it comes to leading-edge approaches and tools. We've compiled a list of free training courses and HubSpot certifications to benefit all of us who are looking to grow our businesses and ourselves.

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What will social media look like in the future? Here’s What The Data Suggests

Hubspot Marketing

With social media moving at an incredible pace, it always feels like there’s something new around the corner. Wondering where social media is headed in the next few years? Here are our guesses based on recent Gen-Z data and new features from the most popular social media platforms. Search on Social Media Instead of Engines. Nowadays, when I want to search for something – whether it’s a product, a recommendation, or a review, I go right to TikTok.

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Google Only Checks Your Homepage For The Favicon

Search Engine Roundtable

Google can show your favicon in the search results next to your search result snippet. Google's John Mueller said Google finds your favicon based on the favicon presented on your home page only.

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Social Media Marketing Tools: The Complete 2022 Guide

Hootsuite

To succeed in a social media, you need the right skills, the right knowledge, the right training — and the right social media marketing tools. Each social media platform operates as a silo. So without third-party social media marketing tools, you’ll waste an incredible amount of time just switching tabs, logging in and out of different social accounts.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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10 Ideas To Help Your Content Marketing Team Achieve Business Goals

Content Marketing Institute

Teamwork makes the dream work. But how does your team do that? Ten experts share how to make your content marketing teams achieve your brand’s goals.

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15+ Organizational Skills Every Leader Needs [+ Ways to Develop Them]

Hubspot Marketing

Having organizational skills means that you can meet deadlines and be efficient in your workflow management. In fact, organizational skills can be synonymous with energy and time management in most cases. All of these skills are very important in the workplace and potential employers want to make sure you can stay on top of things. In this post, we'll dive deep into what organizational skills are, specific examples of what they look like in action, and how to develop organizational skills in the

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Google Removes datePublished Property From Fact Check Structured Data

Search Engine Roundtable

Google has removed the datePublished "recommended" property from the fact check structured data documentation. Google said, "Currently, date information isn't used in the Fact Check rich result.

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Content marketing: What it is and why marketers should care

Martech

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. But these days, a more accurate statement is probably: customer experience is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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14 TikTok tools to amplify your social video strategy

Sprout Social

The days of using fancy filming equipment to create video content for your brand are gone. TikTok has made it as simple as having a smartphone, the TikTok app and sometimes, a tripod or ring light—your call. But that also means you have to step up your social video strategy. After all, half of TikTok users buy from brands they see on the platform. And with 1 billion active users in TikTok , there’s a good chance your future customers are on the platform.

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The Best Free Business Budget Templates

Hubspot Marketing

Business budgets are a source of truth for your income and expenses. That includes all the money you spend — from A/B testing your marketing campaigns to your monthly office rent. While organizing the numbers may sound difficult, using a business budget template makes the process simple. Plus, there are thousands of business budget templates for you to choose from.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 12, 2022

Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. There was a core update announced today.

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How Allied Beverage is transforming customer experience

Martech

At the beginning of the pandemic, with restaurants and entertainment venues shut down, New Jersey liquor distributor Allied Beverage saw an opportunity to transform its customer experience, service and e-commerce. Transformation at scale. Allied Beverage is the largest liquor distributor in New Jersey, with annual sales well in excess of $1 billion.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

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Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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How to post a video on YouTube: The complete guide

Sprout Social

The latest Sprout Social Index™? found that YouTube is the second-most popular social platform (behind Facebook). Google says that 90% of people use it to check out brands and products. This makes YouTube a powerful search engine that can help brands increase their reach and realize significant business value. Even as TikTok continues to grow in popularity, brands should still invest in the original social video platform, YouTube.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting A Podcast [Checklist]

Hubspot Marketing

Want to launch your own podcast (or a podcast for your company) but don’t know where to start? I’ve got you – starting a podcast is simpler than it seems. I was an avid podcast listener for years before deciding to start my own show in 2018. I took my podcast from idea to launch in 10 days with no audio experience — and if I can do it, you can too. In fact, starting a podcast is easier than ever as the medium has increased in popularity and profitability.

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Reciprocal Links: Do They Help Or Hurt Your SEO? via @sejournal, @JuliaEMcCoy

Search Engine Journal

Link-building strategies should enhance your customer’s experience on your site. Find out whether reciprocal links are good for SEO. The post Reciprocal Links: Do They Help Or Hurt Your SEO? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Amazon to allow merchants to email customers directly

Martech

Amazon is launching Tailored Audiences, a tool that will enable sellers to send free emails to customers and monitor results. The announcement came at Amazon’s Accelerate conference this week. In the past, Amazon has been reluctant to allow third-party merchants to directly contact Amazon customers. Merchants will be able to target recent, repeat and high spending shoppers.

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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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The 12 Best Chatbot Examples for Businesses

Hootsuite

Looking for chatbot examples for your business? Business use cases range from automating your customer service to helping customers further along the sales funnel. We’ve got you covered with the top chatbots 2022 has to offer. We’ve compiled a list of the best chatbot examples, categorized by use case. You’ll see the three best chatbot examples in customer service, sales, marketing, and conversational AI.

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Audio is Popular Among Gen Z: Are Audio Chats Worth It for Marketers?

Hubspot Marketing

A 2022 study by Spotify found that 80% of Gen Z consumers enjoy audio content because it allows them to express their individuality and "explore different sides of their personalities." Though Spotify didn't clarify what it meant by audio content, such as podcasts or audio chats, it's no secret that audio chatrooms have become increasingly popular over the years.

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Google Tests Featured Snippet Yellow & Blue Highlights

Search Engine Roundtable

Google is now testing highlighting portions of the featured snippets they show in the Google search results page. I am seeing the highlights both in yellow and blue format, as well as no highlights at all.