Adams & Knight Marketing
OCTOBER 8, 2019
CTRs. CPCs. ERs. CPMs. It's an alphabet soup of marketing analytics out there. Which ones should you pick to track the performance of your campaigns? CEO, Jill Adams gives sound guidance for marketers—and clears up confusion—in the Hartford Business Journal. Read the article here.
Hubspot Marketing
OCTOBER 9, 2019
If you're anything like me, you probably mainly consider Wikipedia a good source for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Game of Thrones , or a collection of random facts on Zebras. In short, you likely haven't given it much thought as a channel for brand awareness. But, if you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the best third-party sources for ranking on page one of Google.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2019
When it comes to marketing and sales, the more precise and specific you can get with every customer, the better. Customers want to feel important and be recognized by brands, which is exactly why strategies like personalization are so effective. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Who says you have to spend money to get more traffic? For today’s blog post, I thought it would be fun to break down all of the free SEO tools. Sure you may know of some, like Ubersuggest , but there are many more options than just my own tool. Now before I dive into the tools, I’ve broken them down into the following categories: Keyword Research Content Marketing Rank Tracking Link Building Technical SEO.
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.
Hootsuite
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Social media in higher education provides an indispensable resource to students and alumni — not to mention the school itself. But it’s not enough to just tweet out events happening at your school. You need to engage your audience. Doing so encourages more people to follow you, and increases your brand awareness. And yes, I mean brand awareness. Remember: Your school — like a business — is a brand.
Sprout Social
OCTOBER 10, 2019
With over 313 million monthly active users and a young demographic to boot, Twitter is a great platform for most marketers. Starting up a Twitter page for your company is easy. Anyone can come up with a Twitter handle, upload their profile photo, fill out their bio and send out their first Tweet. What’s not so simple, however, is growing your Twitter account and turning it into an actual tool that generates leads and builds up your brand.
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Search Engine Journal
OCTOBER 10, 2019
This marketing calendar includes a breakdown of all the holidays, big events, and inspiration campaigns for 2020. The post The Ultimate Holiday Marketing Calendar for 2020 [Free Templates] via @annaleacrowe appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Hootsuite
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Most brands usually have one of two goals when they post on Facebook: engagement or conversions. Both metrics matter, but depending on what your goals are, one will typically matter more. If your goal is to increase website traffic, a Facebook post with a high like count—while nice—isn’t necessarily helping. When do you want conversions? Basically, whenever you want someone to take a specific action after seeing your Facebook post.
Sprout Social
OCTOBER 10, 2019
LinkedIn has proven itself to be a powerhouse for over 500 million professionals looking to network and uncover new career opportunities. The platform has also a hub of activity for marketers looking to land talent, build authority and signal themselves as the go-to pro within their niches. For marketers looking to take full advantage of what LinkedIn has to offer, they should look at LinkedIn advertising not as a matter of “when” or “if,” but rather understand “how” to go about it.
Content Marketing Institute
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Does your brand’s site offer the equivalent of a dilapidated hotel in a beautiful vacation destination? Are some parts just OK (or worse), while other parts are brilliant? Here’s the remedy you need. Continue reading → The post 5 Techniques to Build a Better Content Platform appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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.
Search Engine Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Want to get a head start and create a content “advent” calendar of your own? Here’s how. The post How to Create a Holiday Content Strategy via @seocopychick appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Hootsuite
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Instagram Threads is Instagram’s new standalone messaging app for “close friends.”. Though it only recently launched (October 3, 2019), the hot takes are already rolling in: Threads is a nail in Snapchat’s coffin; Threads is the next step in Facebook’s “ pivot to privacy ” (and their domination of the messenger app market); Threads is pretty; Threads is creepy.
Sprout Social
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Welcome to the Social Spotlight, where we dive deep into what we love about a brand’s approach to a specific social campaign. From strategy through execution and results, we’ll examine what makes the best brands on social tick — and leave you with some key takeaways to consider for your own brand’s social strategy. The New York Times is considered by many to be the greatest general interest publication in the world, but until recently lagged behind its digital-first peers in terms of innovation
Content Marketing Institute
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Growth teams often include content creation and promotion in their actions. But how can content teams integrate the growth mindset in their daily routine? Here’s how to create a content idea pipeline. Continue reading → The post How to Adopt a Growth Mindset for Your Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Finding Stillness in the Modern World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Holiday. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday is the author of 10 books, including The Obstacle is the Way , Ego is the Enemy , and his latest, Stillness is the Key.
Hootsuite
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Your LinkedIn page and profile is your online billboard. It’s your chance to show and share your personal brand. That is, if you do things right—not wrong. Because too many people make too many mistakes when it comes to self-promoting on LinkedIn. You want to show up as your very best on LinkedIn—the most ‘professional’ of all networks. So you can look like a pro.
Rock Content
OCTOBER 10, 2019
When you’re creating a new piece of content, the possibilities seem endless. Your finished product could go viral, could inspire thousands of conversions, and could serve as the foundation for your next marketing campaign. On the other hand, it could fall flat. We’ve all been there. The fact of the matter is that content creation isn’t easy. With so many competing deadlines to consider, and often limited resources on a marketing or content team, it’s tough to justify a net-new content piece with
Content Marketing Institute
OCTOBER 9, 2019
How did a British nurse get a greenlight, while a Hungarian doctor got a red light for the same lifesaving remedy in the 1800s? It’s a lesson all marketers should heed for their smart, capable, and good audiences. Continue reading → The post Get the Audience Greenlight: A Lesson From a 19th Century Nurse appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The Most Useful Ways To Utilize Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Even if you don’t have much marketing experience, you understand how critical a presence on Google is to getting your business name out there. It’s the world’s largest search engine, and it’s often the place people go to discover new brands that can solve the problem they’re facing.
Moz
OCTOBER 6, 2019
Posted by DaisyQ As a digital content marketer, your job is to grow traffic that converts into leads and sales. Some of us in this field are lucky to work with companies that sell sexy products. It makes it a little easier. But that’s not always the case. This post is for the other marketers that work in the not-so-sexy fields. I can speak to this audience because up until the spring of this year, I was the Digital Content and Marketing Manager at a synthetic oil company.
Litmus
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Are you working hard to make your emails a little better every day? Us too. . One of the best ways to drive email performance and improve campaigns is to put a laser-focus on the emails that really worked—the grand slam emails that outperformed other emails by a long shot. If you understand why these superstar campaigns resonate with your audience, you can use similar techniques to drive future email success.
illumin
OCTOBER 7, 2019
We love this week's chart because it features 4 brand new videos!! Most importantly, there are robots. and has anyone not seen that Boston Dynamics video yet because if you haven't, prepare to be blown away! Our other favorite is the Luis Vuitton content series launch, since they obviously got the point with a 60-second video spot that is dominating this week's chart and we bet it'll be there for at least a few more weeks.
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 10, 2019
The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur Reading: October 10 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur – October 10. It’s time for another episode of The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. Once a week, I’m sharing a reading from my new book, due out in October 2019. The book is structured around 366 daily meditations for entrepreneurs.
Moz
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Posted by BritneyMuller Featured snippets are still the best way to take up primo SERP real estate, and they seem to be changing all the time. Today, Britney Muller shares the results of the latest Moz research into featured snippet trends and data, plus some fantastic tips and tricks for winning your own. (And we just can't resist — if this whets your appetite for all things featured snippet, save your spot in Britney's upcoming webinar with even more exclusive data and takeaways!).
Bannerflow
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Dynamic creative optimisation (DCO) is a practice that although many marketers are familiar with, very few actually apply to their digital marketing campaigns. There are many reasons for this. However, one of the most common barriers for marketers is the knowledge gap between idea and application. In fact, according to a recent study by Sizmek , 37% of 522 brand marketers in Europe and the US confessed to not having sufficient knowledge to apply DCO technology to their campaigns.
Litmus
OCTOBER 8, 2019
We’re proud that many of our Litmus team members are engaged with local charities and nonprofit organizations all over the world—and Litmus wants to support them in making a difference in their local communities. That’s why we’re offering volunteering time off (VTO)—that’s a paid day off work that every Litmus team member can use to volunteer at an organization of their choice.
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
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 9, 2019
How to Focus on High-Value Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Finkel. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with business coach and author David Finkel. He is the founder of Maui Mastermind and the author of several books, including his latest, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life.
Moz
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Posted by Cyrus-Shepard If you want a quick overview of top SEO metrics for any domain, today we're officially launching a new free tool for you: Domain Analysis. One thing Moz does extremely well is SEO data: data that consistently sets industry standards and is respected both for its size (35 trillion links, 500 million keyword corpus) and its accuracy.
Rock Content
OCTOBER 10, 2019
When you’re creating a new piece of content, the possibilities seem endless. Your finished product could go viral, could inspire thousands of conversions, and could serve as the foundation for your next marketing campaign. On the other hand, it could fall flat. We’ve all been there. The fact of the matter is that content creation isn’t easy. With so many competing deadlines to consider, and often limited resources on a marketing or content team, it’s tough to justify a net-new content piece with
illumin
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Welcome back to our “Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity” blog series as we break down how we decipher culture through technology. For our last post on this series, we tackle the final element that we use to decode a consumer’s culture: Affinity. The post Accessing Culture Beyond Ethnicity: Affinity appeared first on AcuityAds Inc.
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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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