Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2017

Author: Ellen Gomes As we kick off 2017 with the fresh energy and optimism that a new year brings, like me, I bet many of you have made some achievable (and not so achievable) New Year’s resolutions. This year, one at the very top of my list is to more actively consume industry news and trends and apply them to my own marketing. At Marketo, we finished the year by running a social countdown, called #marketocountdown , that highlighted some of the top influencers to follow so you can stay u

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2017

To hit revenue and growth goals, your company needs customers. To get customers in an inbound world, your marketing team is responsible for generating leads and funneling them over to your sales team. The question is. how many leads? When your boss asks you what your lead goal is, don't just pull an answer out of thin air. Your projections need to be based on math and rooted in your company's larger goals.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 3, 2017

If you are looking for the The Best Marketing Conferences of 2017, you’ve come to the right place. 2016 was jam-packed with great marketing events. Now, as we look ahead to 2017, many of us are starting to think about which events we want to attend to connect with our fellow marketers, and to learn the […]. The post The Ultimate Guide to The Best Marketing Conferences of 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Rock Content

JANUARY 4, 2017

Content marketing can’t happen in a silo – well, effective content marketing can’t happen in a silo. Previously, we’ve highlighted why a content team should be tight with product marketing and demand generation – now, we’re tackling how overall organizational silos can negatively impact content marketing. It’s not in an organization’s best interest for a content team to work independently from other marketing functions, sales and customer success – all three use content in their daily jobs and c

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 4, 2017

Author: Mike Madden “Don’t you just love when all of your images get blocked by ISPs?”–said no email marketer ever (unless it was sarcastic). Luckily, we have ALT tags, which are alternative text tags for images. What is an ALT Tag in Email Marketing? A n ALT tag is coded text that is visible to the user when an image cannot be displayed. Think of ALT tags as your backup plan.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 5, 2017

For one week each December, all of us at Sprout take a break from our usual jobs and take part in Hack Week. During this week, we try our hands at new skills; we brush up on old ones; we make new friends and new discoveries. We rediscover what it’s like to have no boundaries but time and our own ingenuity. We embody a core Sprout value: We stay scrappy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2017

Why Your Website Needs a Storyteller Instead of a Designer written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your website is the hub of your online presence – period. (Well, maybe that’s not exactly true from you right now, but it must be!). As such, it has to do some heavy lifting and that heavy lifting must extend far beyond the interactive brochure still built today by many business owners.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Author: Elaine Ip Every time the new year comes around, I clean. That’s not to say I don’t clean on a regular basis throughout the year, but there’s something about getting a fresh start that makes you want to clean all the nooks and crannies that get ignored on your busiest days (which, let’s face it, is almost every day). Plus, I know future me will appreciate it when those busy days roll around again in the new year.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2017

Cheers to 2017! We’re excited to get this year started with #SproutChat. Check out the topics for January and join in on the conversation on Twitter. Simply follow the hashtag every Wednesday from 2—3 p.m. CST to engage with Team Sprout and our broader Sprout Community. Join our Facebook community for weekly notifications or take note on the topics and dates below.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Josh Bernoff writes the blog Without B t. Fundamentally, he writes about writing. But despite thousands of competitor sites and a handful of friends telling Josh to write about something else, he’s succeeding. Why? What causes one blog to stand out among the noise in a crowded niche? What causes any one piece or project to break from the […]. The post How to Stand Out in a Noisy Niche: Use a Hook appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2017

6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: Shutterstock. Anybody can create a website, but not everybody can create a conversion machine. Your website should be a mechanism in your business that allows you to convert prospective visitors into interested leads who will later become customers and advocates for the products and services that you sell.

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Zumvu

JANUARY 4, 2017

Landing Pages are today an indispensable part of your Digital Marketing. Find some of the popular landing page creation tools that can make your task easier.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2017

Author: Lisa Marcyes When you hear the term lead generation, social media probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind…but maybe it should be. With 75% of B2B buyers and 84% of C-level/Vice President (VP) executives incorporating social media as a key part of their decision-making process according to IDC , social channels are becoming essential to building relationships with prospects and customers throughout every stage of the customer lifecycle.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2017

When we talk about interactive marketing content, we often use the word dialogue. The thinking goes that if traditional, static content is a monologue, delivering information to an audience without needing or even asking for their input, then interactive content is instead a dialogue since it requires the users to actively participate. The post How Personalization Takes Interactive Content to the Next Level appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2017

Getting Found Online Depends on You Doing These Five Things written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Serious entrepreneurs know that the key to scaling a company is having a strong online presence. But the thought of competing for attention online sounds about as easy as getting the attention of your friend across the room at a Justin Bieber concert.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2017

One of the biggest features to hit social media in 2016 was the launch of Instagram Stories. Early reports showed nearly 100 million daily active users engaging with the feature that closely resembles Snapchat’s own stories function. Both work as a 24-hour timeline to post videos and images where users can share with all of their followers. After the 24-hour period, the content vanishes, acting as an “in the moment” social media channel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Author: Steve Lucas Well hello everyone—it’s time for my annual predictions blog where I get to prognosticate a little about where I see technology going in the new year! First, a brief reflection back on 2016, as it was a dynamic year for the technology market and a year of change for me personally as well. On the personal side, I left one of the greatest companies in the world, SAP, to join Marketo—an equally exciting company—as the new CEO.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2017

‘We uncovered a bug in page insights. The bug has been live since May.’ The update on metrics by Facebook showed erroneous measurements of how people interacted with content on the platform. A statistical error undermined the trust of advertisers and publishers on Facebook, and the social media giant agreed to provide a third party […]. The post Which Content Marketing Metrics Matter?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2017

The Importance of Choosing Yourself written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with James Altucher. Choosing Yourself sounds a tad selfish for some, but the fact is, it’s the only choice that allows you to be of service to others. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is James Altucher.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 4, 2017

There was no shortage of changes to the social media industry in 2016, which included several new features, consumer preferences and brand opportunities. Looking toward 2017, social media trends will continue to evolve and surprise us. While it’s impossible to predict how the social media marketing landscape will change over the course of a year, we’re here to provide six social media trends marketers should keep an eye on in 2017: Jump to the Social Media Trends 2017 Infographic. 1.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 3, 2017

I thought it would be interesting to revisit some content marketing predictions […]. The post Revisiting Content Marketing Predictions in 2016 appeared first on Annuitas. The post Revisiting Content Marketing Predictions For 2016 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 6, 2017

For the 104th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Rohit Bhargava, author of “Non-Obvious 2017 Edition: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future” featuring 15 new trends and updated ratings of over 60 previously predicted trends For the past 7 years, Rohit Bhargava has curated his best-selling list of non-obvious trends by […].

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2017

The post B2B Content Marketing Technology Is An Enabler, Not A Panacea appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2017

Coming up with an idea is the easy part. But it’s only one small piece of the pie. The biggest challenge is often taking that brilliant concept and turning it into content. You’ve been there. I know you have, because we all have. You get a brilliant, game-changing idea for a piece of content that will shoot you (and your company) into content-marketing superstardom.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Weekend Favs December 31 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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Sprout Social

JANUARY 5, 2017

All those “Likes” your business has on Facebook? All that traffic you’re generating with News Feed ads? It’s worthless if you don’t have an end-goal in mind. To turn Facebook traffic into sales , businesses are increasingly looking to powerful marketing tools called Facebook landing pages. What is a Facebook Landing Page? A Facebook landing page is a standalone web page, disconnected from your website’s main navigation.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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