Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 9, 2019
If you really think about it, the content formats we rely on today have an uncanny resemblance to the content formats we relied on yesterday -- our blog posts look like print articles, our offers look like books, and our slide decks like look presentations. Relying on the content formats we used yesterday to educate and entertain our audience today is fine, though.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
APRIL 8, 2019
In a way, sales reps are like nurses or doctors. They take people’s temperatures to determine how they’re feeling. A “hot” prospect is ready to buy. A “cold” prospect is merely browsing inventory. Before the internet, this heat check was usually performed in person. Sales reps would get a good sense of how interested someone was in their company’s products or services by spending some time with them.
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Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 12, 2019
Don’t get overwhelmed by the data in Google Analytics. Four reports can give you most of the information you need for your content marketing. Learn which ones you should know, as well as the how to find and act on their data. Continue reading → The post How to Use the 4 Most Helpful Reports in Google Analytics appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 8, 2019
Creating great content is obviously an important part of any content marketing plan, but your job doesn’t end as soon as you hit the publish button. If that content is going to bring you any benefits, people need to actually read it, and so your content promotion strategy is just as vital as the research […]. The post The Ultimate Guide To Content Promotion appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 7, 2019
A crucial aspect of being a great marketer is being able to measure your success. No matter which metrics you use, you want to prove to your boss (and the company) that you're worth your salt. You deserve your budget -- and maybe need more of it -- and you deserve to dedicate time to the marketing activities that work. Building UTM codes that track your campaigns' success is the best way to prove it.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
APRIL 10, 2019
The Power of Relationships. Your product’s features and benefits matter. Often, however, they are not enough on their own to win new business. That’s because most markets are crowded with competitors that offer similar products, services, or solutions. So how do you compete in saturated markets with the competition nipping at your heels? It’s all about relationships—good old-fashioned human interactions that build trust.
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Litmus
APRIL 11, 2019
Historically, choosing the right font for your email has never been too hard, considering the limited number of web safe fonts to choose from. But things have changed. More and more email designers are pushing the boundaries and embracing the same development techniques that web designers have been using for years—implementing web fonts in their emails.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 12, 2019
As a baseball player turned blogger, my blogging platform is just as important to me as my bat was to me. If I went up to the plate with a quality bat that I personally preferred swinging, I would feel more confident, boosting my chances of getting a hit. If I didn’t, I would most likely tap a dribbler back to the pitcher. Similarly, when blogging eventually replaced baseball in my life, I discovered using a blogging platform I was comfortable with and liked enabled me to produce better work and
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
APRIL 12, 2019
Not to point any fingers, but how many marketers are guilty of asking designers something along the lines of “Can you just make it prettier?”. For many marketers, working with a designer can be one of the most challenging tasks they face while building a brand. Communicating their wants, needs, and visions can lead marketers into a minefield of misunderstandings.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 9, 2019
Written 82 years ago, Think and Grow Rich still inspires CMI founder Joe Pulizzi. He finds seven chapters speak powerfully about the characteristics possessed by a successful content marketer. Read on for Joe’s insight. Continue reading → The post Successful Content Marketers Have These 7 Traits 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.
Sprout Social
APRIL 10, 2019
From Publishing to Reporting, Sprout Social continues to develop new features designed to enhance your workflow. With all of the features available on Sprout, you might be overlooking a few easy opportunities to save time and gain greater insight into your social performance. To help you make the most of Sprout features, our experts on the Customer Support team created a list of 10 great Sprout tips that can help you get the most out of your social marketing.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 12, 2019
A majority of businesses are using some form of marketing automation nowadays -- in fact, studies cite around 51% of businesses currently use the technology, and that number continues to grow. According to a 2018 Forrester report , 55% of marketing decision-makers plan to increase their spending on technology, with one-fifth of the respondents expecting to increase by 10 percent or more.
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 11, 2019
The level of competition in B2B marketing is high. It is essential for marketers to develop strategies that make their products and services stand out, and in turn generate quality business leads. For many B2C firms, one of the most effective ways to capture prospects’ attention is through emotional or mood marketing. This refers to […]. The post 5 Ways to Connect with Your Audience on an Emotional Level appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 11, 2019
Prospects follow a messy path to buying. Does that mean you should give up on the straight path buyer-journey model? Nope. Organize your content so it’s ready for the mess, while keeping those stages in mind. Here’s how. Continue reading → The post Is Your Content Ready to Zig and Zag With Your Buyers? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 9, 2019
Tapping Into Existing Connections to Network Smarter written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Burkus. Podcast Transcript. Today’s podcast guest is best-selling author, speaker, and professor David Burkus. Burkus is an expert on leadership; he teaches leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University and has delivered keynote speeches and workshops for a variety of organizations, including Google, Microsoft, and the U.S.
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 10, 2019
When most businesses forecast their revenue goals, they first calculate their total addressable market, which is the total market demand for their industry’s products or services. Put simply, it’s the maximum amount of revenue a business could generate if they captured their entire market. However, unless you're a monopoly, you most likely can’t capture the total addressable market for your products or services.
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 10, 2019
All good content marketers know that it’s vital to monitor and analyze the performance of individual pieces of content on a regular basis. This data will help to not only identify poor-performing content that can be improved, but also to find your best-performing content. Sometimes the content that you think is the best quality just […]. The post 6 Metrics to Measure Content Performance appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 10, 2019
Who’s to say your best content can’t be existing assets resurrected, repurposed, repackaged, and resurfaced? Not us. Here’s a three-step process to expand the opportunities to use your best content. Continue reading → The post Adopt a Curation Mindset to Get More From Your Top Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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Moz
APRIL 11, 2019
Posted by randfish We've arrived at one of the meatiest SEO topics in our series: technical SEO. In this fifth part of the One-Hour Guide to SEO, Rand covers essential technical topics from crawlability to internal link structure to subfolders and far more. Watch on for a firmer grasp of technical SEO fundamentals! Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 12, 2019
Nowadays, with so much critical information saved on our computer systems, we've learned to backup data regularly -- including our email inboxes, our Word documents, our photos, and entire folders of old work. It's typically a ton of data. And, since we usually backup and save our data on auto-pilot, we might not realize just how much has been re-copied and re-saved, time and time again.
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 10, 2019
When you master the concept of the service profit chain, you can unlock the secret to higher profits. This groundbreaking idea shows the irrefutable link between employee satisfaction, customer loyalty, and ultimately, profits. If you haven’t read the book of the same name yet, put it on your must-read list for this spring. The Service Profit […].
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 6, 2019
Weekend Favs April 6 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.
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.
Litmus
APRIL 12, 2019
When you sign up for an email conference, you probably expect your confirmation email to be nothing but perfect. So guess what email we messed up? As we’ve written about before when our live Twitter feed email imploded , email mistakes are not a matter of “if” but “when.” And Friday of last week was that “when” for us—we sent 150 people who had registered for Litmus Live this content shell instead of their actual attendee welcome email: One of the most frustrating things about email is that when
Hubspot Marketing
APRIL 11, 2019
Growing up, there was only one thing my mom knew how to do on the internet that I could never figure out -- creating an email group. What’s even more surprising is that I sent email blasts to my friends all the time, but I never asked my mom how to make an email group. I would just manually enter my friends’ email addresses into the recipients box. Gosh, I was such a rebel.
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 9, 2019
Do content marketing agencies follow their own advice when promoting their own companies? Author Nicholas Nassim Taleb says that you should never give advice. Instead, you should tell other people what you would do if you were in their situation. Ideally, you would tell them something you have done yourself. That’s why we were excited […]. The post How Content Agencies Are Marketing Themselves appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 10, 2019
How Giving Back Can Create Business Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sam Ashdown. Podcast Transcript. Today on the podcast I speak with real estate and marketing expert Sam Ashdown. Ashdown has built three successful real estate businesses: as a consultant to real estate agents ; a consultant to home sellers, called HomeTruths ; and a real estate agent, with her company AshdownJones.
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
Litmus
APRIL 10, 2019
There’s no better source of email inspiration than your inbox. Subscribing to leading brands from within and outside your industry can help you stay on top of email design trends, expose you to smart copywriting and campaign strategies, and provide you with ideas you can adapt for your own email program. Are you looking to make your own inbox a source of email inspiration?
Bannerflow
APRIL 12, 2019
Time and time again we hear the question ‘isn’t display advertising dead’? For years now, bloggers and writers have been declaring the end of this advertising format. Yet display advertising is not going away. Indeed, digital ad spend is actually increasing ! So why do brands think that display advertising is no longer effective? And how can they increase the effectiveness of their own ads?
Marketing Insider Group
APRIL 9, 2019
Okay, let’s face it: You are reading this post because of its title. It’s our human nature. People are lazy, so they crave for articles like this one to do less for more results. And that’s the first lifehack for content marketers: hook the audience by promise you’ll solve their problem. But there’s a catch: […]. The post Creating and Promoting Content That Brings 100+ Badass Links in a Month appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
illumin
APRIL 8, 2019
The top 10 Most Viewed Video Ads for this year’s March Madness tournament are IN! There were some great videos throughout the list from top brands in a wide array of industries. This year, the top ads relied on humor and NBA athletes to garner attention during “The Big Dance”. Geico. [link] class="__youtube_prefs__" title="YouTube player" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy="1" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll="">.
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